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Album Review: Cartoon Bar Fight ‘Reincarnate’ In Music November 21, 2012 by Amulya Datla Tweet Album Artwork: 'A Beautiful Death' by Terry Fan. For five years, Cartoon Bar Fight has gone through lineup changes, with only two of the founding members left: Kendall Sallay and Dirk Milotz. Despite the instability, they’ve mastered a few songs along the way. Following their release of their debut EP, Tell All The Children, almost exactly last year to date ( Nov. 18th), the San Jose band presents a full album showcasing songs they have long waited to present. Beautiful, haunting melodies create a surreal, peaceful mood on CBF’s Reincarnate. Starting fresh after a previous life seems to be the theme for CBF, from their original formation to now. In a sense they have reincarnated themselves in the process of releasing this album. The album starts with an eerie organ-like movement, “A Beautiful Death” (the same title as the album artwork by Terry Fan), and into “Dear Victoria,” a solemn song almost styled as a shanty. “Circus” continues in the same vein with a cry for change as the ending chant repeats the lyrics “I sleep too often, when will I awake?” and “I know I’ve fallen away.” The title track, “Reincarnate,” helps close the album with much more hopeful lyrics for life and change as heard in the chorus, “in life and death, disappear, change your shape, reappear, reincarnate” before the final song “A Beautiful Life.” The album really shows a much darker and reflective side of CBF not present in Tell All The Children, with more musical development, instrumentation depth and richness to their songs. Highlight Tracks: The Marquee, Reincarnate, The Kingdom Of Tags: A Beautiful Death, Album Review, Cartoon Bar Fight, Local Music, Reincarnate, San Jose, Terry Fan

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joeressen+kessner: Semantic Mapping Bettina Pelz October 7, 2017 _ joeressen+kessner engender site-specific interventions that allow to perceive, to understand and to categorize a site in a new quality. Preferred, they work with historically charged sites to which they respond with transmedia interventions. Their works are digitals systems that interfere with the analog status quo via image and sound applications. They generate data systems that control audiovisual projections which are applied in real-time to a chosen environment. Their transmedia compositions are based on dialogic principles ranging from between the two artists, between to two spheres “audio” and “visual”, between analog and digital architecture, between light and sound waves, between the material and immaterial dimension. In their research on a site, they cover architectural concepts and structures, emblematic qualities and acoustic patterns. They ponder on function and use, history and memory, experiences and associations as well as culture-historical, scientific or theoretical aspects. The process of exploring and developing constantly shifts between concrete and universal, specific and fundamental, practice and theory. They collect and sort, reflect and experiment with their finding to develop a semantic map that serves as the foundation of their compositions. In the development process, joeressen+kessner focus on the transition of how coding content leads to a character, on how the hosting medium influences the appearance and on how space and time alter a digital figuration – in general as well as on the site in particular. They consider a character an abstract unit where a formative framework and associated meaning, significance and representation are in constant, reciprocal negotiation. They develop set of characters as an artistic system that allows expression, that can be read as a language, and that allow hosting knowledge in a new way. Their works come as digital character sets that drive image and sound projections that interfere with the appearance of the space. Their encodings instruct self-organizing processes, and these develop as autonomous patterns in which the intentional and the non-intentional engender a performative play. This leads to rhizome of influences that are too complex to be fully analyzed and which can only be understood by extended observation of the interaction. The unpredictable part of this approach links to them to artistic approaches based on generative processing but to ensure their artistic autonomy, joeressen+kessner work without pre-programmed standards as well as without any form of presets and plug-ins. They form a network of interconnected paths and tracks which overlap each other and branch out repeatedly as a real-time environment. Unlike image systems as known from film, video, and animation which are generated separately, illuminated, reckoned, reworked and cut before they are broadcasted, real-time processing is a high performative system in which rendering and display coincide and which reinvent itself while performing. By coding open systems, a continuous change between analysis, instruction, and expression takes place. The traditional separation between development, production, and performance is abolished and notation, recording, and display are modulated in real time. Complexity, incomprehensibility, and incompleteness are part of this kind of artistic research. The formatting of these processes is the composition process of joeressen+kessner. The implementation of the digital dimension in an analog space via projection allows to disintegrate found settings and limitations and permits a redesign of references, reference sets, and reference qualities. The physical space with its architectural, spatial and temporal ratios turns into a media system. Light as primary media of the analog sphere and as the media of display of the digital sphere serves as the interface and permits the linkage. With their transmedia interventions, joeressen+kessner further a development that altered the canon of fine arts in the middle of the 20th century. The first electronic-spatial environment that combines architecture, film, light, and music into a fusion of space and time is the Philips-Pavilion, that was realized 1958 in Brussels. The artistic direction was at Le Corbusier in co-operation with Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varèse. Compositions of acoustic space and architecture, light behavior and image generation, aesthetic qualities and perception properties and digital technologies led to a new synthesis. Golo Föllmer describes the Philips Pavilion: “Two tape compositions were created for this: “Poème électronique” by Edgard Varèse which aimed at an intensive fusion of space and sound experience. The used synthetic and concrete sounds were shown to Le Corbusier ‘s film or light projection with the help of elaborate loudspeaker technology as lines and volumes in the space.” In the 21st century, the transmedia interplay was expanded by generative data systems by artists like joeressen+kessner. Since 2001, Eva-Maria Joeressen and Klaus Kessner have been working together developing transmedia compositions as spatial interventions. Both are professional artists since the 1980s and both are active teachers: Klaus Kessner has been visiting lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf and the Peter-Behrens-School of Arts and Eva-Maria Joeressen holds a professorship at the Peter-Behrens-School of Arts in Duesseldorf. In addition, she is involved in the German “Light in Fine Arts (LIFA)” – network to strengthen research and discourse on light in fine arts in higher educations. Text: Bettina Pelz, October 7, 2017 Posted in All, ArtistTagged Conditional Art, Projection Mapping Mischa Kuball: Based On Conversation Cuppetelli and Mendoza: The Art of Interference ARS PHOTONICA > All > joeressen+kessner: Semantic Mapping

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Assembly (2017) : The Rising Series Activistar's first Assembly Series of 5 cities (2011-2016) features Hanoi, Iskandar Malaysia, Yangon, Manila and Jakarta. These are populous epicentres of commerce, of historical significance, hold political legacies and significant in their own period. The second Assembly Series of the next 5 cities begins with Phnom Penh (2017), and will offer all participants a fresh look of South East Asia. The new Phnom Penh Masterplan (since 1954) presents much opportunity for commerce and economic revitalisation. Formerly the Paris of the East, the city has previously degenerated into the dark ages of civil war, political unrest and revolution, literally wiping out much of it's Indochina legacy. Nonetheless, there is a resurgence in optimism and enterprise, judging by the new gleaming and still climbing residential towers on Diamond Island, new airport terminal, road improvements and more. Phnom Penh still has it's fair share of bullet scarred art deco buildings, old markets and heritage districts. Phnom Penh is not a sprawling metropolis, it is easy to orientate and has a compact low-rise/high-density urban plan. Somehow, it's intersections, roundabouts and arterial road system conjure up a tight urban fabric - creating a very balanced scale. It is a city to be experienced at the human scale, it is safer than western cities at night and it is definitely Rising! Posted by Daniel at 08:30 No comments: Big Thank You to The Embassy of The Republic of Indonesia! Judging Panel : Young Mayor Competition 2016 ROUND 3: Model Making Round 2: coats in arms Round 2: Pre-launch prep work Garuda Indonesia: Jakarta Illustrated! ROUND 2 : PRESENTATION Q&A Round 2: Presentation (10-10-10 GOLDEN RULES) Send in your presentation powerpoint to our Competition official Jeslyn email: jes_seow@yahoo.com Your team would have to dress formal and follow these 10-10-10 rules, which is that your powerpoint cannot be more than 10mb and has to be sent to us by 30 March, 10 short points only to present, talk, answer questions within 10 minutes or less. Bonus points will be awarded for keeping to the rules. National Design Center, 111 Middle Road, Auditorium 2nd Floor Squatters Relocation in Jakarta (ongoing) Children at the Marunda housing complex in North Jakarta. About one-third of the estimated 3,000 people living in the Kalijodo red-light district were moved to two of 27 blocks of government flats in Marunda. Yesterday, some 5,000 soldiers, police officers and public service officers cleared out the remaining occupants in Kalijodo. The police helped some residents to move their belongings in a police truck.ST PHOTO: ARLINA ARSHAD source: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/a-hint-of-hdb-in-jakartas-new-estates 2003,2009,2015 - Heightened Secuirty in Jakarta They are everywhere, checkpoints and searches and more due to threats and incidents. Security is big and serious business in Jakarta, kudo's to the Men & Women in Uniform keeping the streets safe! Indonesian policewoman, Brigadier Handayani (R), reports on the traffic situation for a program by the Indonesian National Traffic Management Center (NTMC), a unit belonging to Indonesia's National Police in Jakarta on February 27, 2012. AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY February 27, 2012| Credit: ADEK BERRY REMINDER: IMPORTANT DATES Team leaders training ! Summary of session: State your plans/ Ideas then use facts and information to back it up! Jakarta Old Town Revitalization (Dutch Architecture) source: http://www.jeforah.org/home Jakarta MRT progress source: http://www.jakartamrt.com/ Getting around Jakarta traffic jams! Source: http://www.go-jek.com/ New Jakarta Port Source: http://www.indonesia-investments.com/projects/public-projects/new-priok-port/item319 Big Thank You to The Embassy of The Republic of In... Jakarta Old Town Revitalization (Dutch Architectur...

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Tower Shines Bright for Student Supercomputing Win By Julia Bunch in 40 Acres, Research, Special on December 3, 2013 at 4:12 pm | No Comments Many a sports fan hopes the UT Tower will glow orange after a game on the football field. But last night, the Tower was lit for another kind of win: A student team was crowned champion of a global supercomputing competition. Team Texas took home the top prize at the 8th-annual Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing Conference in Denver. The 72-hour battle requires students to build, optimize, and run the most efficient predesigned cluster computing system, along with a couple surprise assignments, all with a strict power budget. Teams are then awarded points based on workload completion, benchmark performance, conference attendance, and interviews. Junior biology major Eric Dawson was one of six student members of Team Texas, along with Jim Given, Reid McKenzie, Julian Michael, Suvamsh Shivaprasad, and Zachary Tschirchart. The team also includes three coaches from the Texas Advanced Computing Center and two former team members who acted as student advisors. “The Supercomputing Conference is a collection of industries, academics, and research coming together to share ideas for high-performance computing,” Dawson says. “The competition is friendly. Everyone shows up with blood in their eyes, but by the end of the week we got to know the other eight teams.” The teams worked constantly during the three-day competition, apart from taking occasional naps on the exhibit floor. But fatigue didn’t stop the Texas Team from reveling in its win. UT’s team walked away winners for the second year in a row, with a score of 67 points, 11 higher than second place. “It’s cool to show that UT has a strong HPC program and it’s not just a fluke or super team,” Dawson says. “We’ll see about next year. I think we have Xs on our backs now.” Next year’s Supercomputing Competition will be held in New Orleans. But until then, Dawson is still enjoying this year’s win. “Turning the Tower orange is a crowning thing I’ve wanted to do since I got to UT,” Dawson says. “I got lots of pictures with my horns up in front of it.” Photo courtesy Faith Singer-Villalobos. Tags: High performance computing, supercomputing, tacc, ut tower

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Especially in this day when so much is being made available online, but that really is just a matter of scale when there are plenty of historical examples of similar things, such as Aleister Crowley revealing the initiatory rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as serialized in the pages of the Equinox, the varied publication and exposé of so much Freemasonic ritual, and so forth. There are still some pretty legitimately secret societies, which while well-known to exist are not revealed, such as the Skull and Bones society, and recently breaking the Copiale cipher seemed to tantalizingly promise that there might be still some complex and completely unknown societies, at least until it was revealed the material was pretty clearly Freemasonic in nature. But for the most part, I object that when people talk about secret societies they are engaged in flights of fancy about group about which not only their existence but much of their particulars are known. Quite often, of course, such wild imaginings are part and parcel with an agenda of fear mongering, but even still there are otherwise sane and rational people talking about certain societies as if they were actually not completely or almost completely public. Certainly Freemasonic tradition and ritual cannot rationally be called secret anymore, and the membership is in the habit of parading around, not to mention things like having decals on their cars and fobs on their keychains, and thus it cannot be called a secret society. Even traditional boogeymen like Aleister Crowley and Ordo Templi Orientis can only by the slimmest margin come anywhere near being called a secret society, with websites, public spaces, public event calendars, and so forth. There may indeed be legitimately unavailable secrets still, for example within A∴A∴, but that’s not enough to call these fraternal orders by the name of a secret society. In these cases there’s perhaps some legitimate secrets, but there must also be a practical recognition that most material related to these groups is available, outside the structured system of the society itself, somewhere, if one wants to find it. Of course, just as much as one can avoid spoilers for movies and books and other things sequentially revealed, it is possible to avoid, for the most part, much of that material. It is not that there are no spoilers. Rather that spoilers do very much exist. Which is to say, the existence of spoilers requires one to decide to avoid the spoilers in order to fully enjoy the reveal. This is quite different from a society that pretends it doesn’t exist to outsiders, or a known society with things that it keeps secret. There are modern examples of working with secrets within esoteric systems, and there’s clearly something interesting going on around secrets. There is smoke pointing to something important and useful at the source. There’s a tension, perhaps much as it ever was, between the urge to make information available and the various efficacies of secrets. T Thorn Coyle wrote a bit about the division in Feri between what had been called the “Mystery tradition” and the “public religion” factions, at “The Sundering of Feri“. Thorn, of course, also runs an online Mystery School. I was trying to find a quote where I recall her saying something about how paganism needed to have a Mystery tradition as part of it, but can’t find that right now. Generally, when I talk about such things to people who ask, I suggest that initiation ritual, especially, is like a good book or movie with a savoury plot twist or two. You will only ever get a single chance to experience the participatory drama without knowing how it develops; that’s if one goes through it the first time not having read the materials. One and only one chance. Ever. So why throw that away by reading ahead? One can always read the materials afterward, as many times as one likes; but to read the spoilers is to waste a wonderful opportunity that cannot ever, barring soap opera amnesia tropes, be experienced once the reveal has been spoiled. Whether one “gets” it or not (either initially or on subsequent viewings of a ritual or readings, of material) is another question entirely. And, it seems to me, in my experience, what constitutes “getting it” will likely evolve and change over time no matter what else is a consideration. When given the opportunity, I like to point out that one can go to many stagings of a play by Shakespeare and get new things, new depth of understanding and new enjoyment, as well as savour slightly different interpretations, so to me the re-play value depth of meaning of a work or body of work is something that is a different question to the idea of seeing something for the first time without spoilers. But, still, people freak about things unknown, and try to minimize and control things by figuring things out ahead instead of being comfortable with being uncomfortable as a thing itself. Seems to me the still prevalent modern desire to conquer Nature and the pervaisive post-modern existential nausea about information overload and slavish ‘inbox zero’ mania are examples, perhaps symptoms, of where the ability to just relax about not knowing, not being in control, would be useful for people to practice in specific so they can have skill in applying it in general. Another aspect that always comes up around secrets is the idea that somehow no matter what is revealed, the real secrets are impervious to such petty concerns. Seems to me blather about mystery being unspoilable is semantically empty jazz hands (or worse self deception (or worse-worse deception of others) about “spiritual” exceptionalism), and misses the point of initiation as orchestrated stressful situation intended to create a kind of imprint vulnerability, an altered state, in the initiate, and attempts to diffuse that stress and that experience before experiencing it is an attempt mitigate and in some form to not have the experience at all. The efficacy of secrets in a system are not just about the information, true, but the information is interwoven into an experience, and the experience is changed by the quality and obscurity of the information on which the experience is built. If one knows the rollercoaster has a blind drop at the end, one still experiences the drop in and of itself, but the surprise in and of itself is changed into anticipation, and that’s a different thing entirely which not only changes the experience of the drop but distracts from the experience of what occurs before. For me, when I talk about “reading ahead” (spoiling) I mean that as a placeholder for activity the diffuses the effectiveness of initiation and mystery, whether written down and read or spoken and heard or whatever and whatevered. For me, being a candidate in initiation and mystery is to be an improv actor stumbling into a rehearsed stage play, and both savoury and exciting. One tends to think all kinds of things about structure and likely scenarios, if nothing else than a rite of passage (exit normal, experience liminal, re-enter normal changed) but it is the actuality, specifics and plot twists, the things that can be spoiled, which I think should be avoided and, yes, allowed as a personal experience. To bring it around, my point of wondering about classification of societies is that there is a kind of society which is not itself attempting to pretend it doesn’t exist, and which has essentially much of its material revealed or potentially could be in future somewhere, but that points out there is a reason not to “read” ahead as a practice of discipline in and of itself; that there is a place for not knowing as a thing, and experience, to be embodied through ritual, especially dramatic ritual like initiation. The trick of improv is to have characters and bits of business prepared and figure out ways to fit those into any circumstances, so perhaps the corollary is to become good at mystery and a good initiate prepared by building the foundation of skills, whatever those are in one’s tradition, that make the personal experience of the unknown richer. If an initiatory working is in some form or another purely ecstatic, then perhaps more than one person will have no prior exposure. That seems quite different than a mystery tradition where something is being revealed. But, whether there is an actual script or not, a mystery tradition will have participants who have experienced or developed a relationship with the mystery who are inducting others. If those others have exposed themselves or been exposed prior to some element meant to be revealed, then they have failed to avoid spoilers, they have whatevered the whatever. Maps certainly won’t always apply, especial when applied outside their intended scope. Just add as given to any structural approach “except where this doesn’t apply”. But, to be clear, there are other structures, but I’m primarily talking about a mystery tradition where something is being revealed. But, whether there is an actual script or not, a mystery tradition will have participants who have experienced or developed a relationship with the mystery who are inducting others. Here the word ‘mystery’ in a religious sense comes from Greek mysterion “secret rite or doctrine,” as in a thing to be revealed to initiates, whether, additionally as previously stated, those are “written down and read or spoken and heard or whatever and whatevered”, a secret doctrine passed on or a secret rite enacted. Which begs the question: without a mystery (neither secret rite or secret doctrine) to be revealed, whither the mystery cult? Further, without a mystery, one might even be tempted to ask how can there actually be an initiation at all? Perhaps, one might say of a modern non-mystery that an “impromptu ecstatic divinatory rite” took place which offered UPG, such that a previously unknown rite is enacted or previously unknown doctrine is developed. But without the secret rite or secret doctrine, which would have to have previously existed to those initiated few inducting others, there’s nothing to pass on that was previously held sacred, no previously held in secret doctrine or rite, tautologically. “Nothing to pass on that was previously held sacred” may offer another name, perhaps more tripping, instead of “society without spoilers”: a “sacred society”, a society with things held sacred as in separate, something bound, enclosed and protected. Unfortunately, one can follow the etymology of ‘secret’ to essentially the same place, the difference being one implies holiness and the other does not, I suppose, which “holiness” seems, to my mind, just a special case of any of the others three terms I suggested. I suspect the apparent failure of the modality of a “mystery cult” in the modern world has to do with modernity, modernism and existentialism, and the lack of acceptance of shared concrete and coherent gnosis, thus the ground on which a modern mystery cult would be built is unsuitable for lavish neo-romantic structures, except for those already conditioned to such things, such as lapsed Catholics and such. Which is to say, perhaps any mystery cult would seem too superficial to a modern person to have the same religious and social impacts, simply because the assumed rich foundation is missing. So, the feeling one might have that a mystery cult or tradition in the modern age has lost its luster is due not to the mystery cult but rather due to the overall modern age. There is still a lingering notion that something may be missing for rootless moderns which a mystery cult can offer by way of a more structured ritual, initiations, and a focused mythic basis for ritual; more robust spiritual meaning which then, in turn, offers deeper experience of life in general. But, I find myself wondering if the project of modern mystery traditions is undermined by a general lack of cultural foundation, those foundations of community and cohesion being so efficiently eroded in our public, political and even private lives. Not to mention the lack of what is still called a “classical education” with the broad base of and relationship of familiarity with languages, myths, archetypes and so on. This, then becomes a chicken and egg, which can only be resolved by realizing the false dichotomy that one must be completed before the other, and that the development in general is aided by development in specific, and visa versa, synergistically. One possible route out of the morass, for moderns and post-moderns, I sometimes come to is the suggestion that situational certainty is a tool for meta-cognition. By this I mean, that the ground on which a mystery cult could be built, the solid ground of structured ritual, initiations, and a focused mythic basis for ritual is sufficient when internally consistent for its purpose and held to be true for the time that it is necessary. But, that threatens what is perhaps an entirely different discussion. But, to bring it back around again, a ‘mystery cult’ is a cult with a mystery. A ‘cult’ is the external activity enacting a religious metaphor, a ritual behaviour. A ‘mystery’ is a secret rite or secret doctrine (to be revealed). Therefore, a ‘mystery cult’ is specifically ritual behaviour that involves a secret rite or secret doctrine. ‘Tradition’ is shared belief or behaviour through time. Therefore, ‘mystery tradition’ is belief and ritual behaviour that involves a secret rite or secret doctrine shared through time. I’m so strongly reminded by this of something. I believe it was something by Karl Kereny (but it might be form Van Gennep or Turner, I can’t recall right now) which I paraphrase: “Ritual enacts Myth and Myth explains Ritual.” It seems possible to conflate a general meaning of “mystery” as more of a kind of ‘gnosis’ or noetic experience with how I understand it is used in the specific sense within the term “mystery cult” which is more what I am talking about here. When speaking of the idea of whether a ‘mystery cult’ within modern systems would be useful in order to ground the work in structured behaviour, I’m assuming that we’re actually talking about ‘mystery cult’ not general unspecific noetic experience or so forth. This of course somewhat ironically points out a possible initial critique of paganism as a generalized, syncretic, eclectic system which lacks the benefit of what a mystery cult offers and hence the possible utility of that structured influence, offering specific external ritual behaviour around a secret rite or secret doctrine. If you want mystery without mystery cult, that already exists in various forms of wild and wishy-washy moments of gnosis within the ecstatic traditions of modern life; but, why not try adding an actual ‘mystery cult’ back into the cultural mix? In fact, I could easily argue that there already is ‘mystery cult’ in various places within neopaganism, with a facile example being initiatory orders like OTO and others, which are perfect examples of mysteries for which spoilers exist and which spoilers therefore can be intentionally avoided. A very salient point for this modern information age is the value an experience of not knowing, so that one can and must do less thinking prior to events, not more. Perhaps the suggestion contained within the experience of not knowing is that one should do one’s thinking after: praxis before theory, so that theory is informed by praxis without prejudice. If this is the case, why not work toward maximizing the possible experience instead of minimizing the probable damage of knowing by seeking after spoilers of any kind, even the mundane accidents surrounding specific quanta and quality? Indeed, I would suggest that one approach an initiatory experience within an mystery tradition not as a result of successful prior thinking or a seal on attainment, like we are so often familiar with from diplomas, certificates and honors; but an invitation to view the world through a particular lens for a particular period of time, determined by the particulars of the ritual and tradition in which the initiation takes place. In other words, the initiation is really the beginning, suggested by the word itself, of an pervasive life experience. The full experience of a mystery event intended to involve surprises, plot twists or situations unknown can be self-evidently spoiled by prior knowledge of those circumstances. Especially if part of the trigger for the full experience is the stress of not knowing. Certainly, I don’t mean that these things are binary (and it may be possible to salvage some part of the experience even if spoiled, but why not go for the whole thing instead of the tatters?), but that avoiding spoilers is a discipline that seems worthy if one is serious about that experience, and looking to have it be as rich as possible. And, that this, in specific, will inform one’s general life as well. And yes, one can point out that for completely ecstatic visceral events and such that are not within a mystery tradition, there’s mostly nothing to spoil by prior knowledge, per se. Except that maybe even still, for example, having that ecstatic visceral experience is based on a not knowing, in some fashion; for example, there’s only one time for the first such experience. All subsequent such experiences are informed by prior such similar events; but also, there may be circumstances around how the experience is induced that involve some fashion of not-knowing the mechanisms being used, which after the initial experience become less effective in themselves and experienced practitioners then rely on other means more, such as anchoring past experience to ease induction subsequently. Also, for purely personal experience based on involvement in a mystery cultic practice, the former requires the latter, so saying the former can’t be spoiled is only true on the former level but it’s a logical typing fallacy to presume that spoiling the more primary function of mystery cultic practice can’t spoil the dependent personal experience of it. Mystery rituals are built around some kind of surprise, a revealing of the secret practice or doctrine at least. One could try to criticize the practices of mystery traditions by bringing up features of non-surprise ritual is not a feature of surprise ritual merely because they participate in the prior category of ritual. But, still the one is not the other. Noetic mystery is not mystery cult merely because the English word mystery is in both. But these are mostly different topics than suggesting the efficacy a mystery cult with structured ritual behaviour involving a secret doctrine or secret rite to a previous practice of generalized, syncretic, eclectic practice. So, for my own part, I have come to prefer the discipline of having structured ritual events with their reveals unspoiled so that I can experience them with as little prior knowledge as possible, because it’s the only time I will ever get that experience in that way, ever. Of course, you go about your experiences however you like, but I suspect if the initial spoiler free experience is not preserved you’re not actually experiencing ‘mystery cult’ anymore, but rather just, one might say, an extended re-enactment of a transcript of someone else’s dramatized experience. And, if you want that, just watch reruns of some reality television program, or another, instead. Posted on Feb 8, 2013 Sep 10, 2016 Categories Esoterica, Freemasonry, Myth, Ordo Templi Orientis, Philosophy, ReligionTags aleister crowley, Arnold van Gennep, belief, certainty, Cognition, critique, equinox, esoteric systems, factions, feri, freemasonry, Greco-Roman mysteries, hermetic order of the golden dawn, in other words, initiation ritual, Karl Kereny, mechanisms, metaphor, mind, mysteries, mystery school, mystery tradition, outsiders, paganism, public religion, Reality, Ritual, rituals, secret societies, secrets, self deception, T Thorn Coyle, The Equinox, Victor Turner1 Comment on Secret societies, societies with secrets, and societies with spoilers

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By Deborah Engle Busy little children swarmed all about, but 16-month-old Benny only had eyes for his blue blankie. Somehow, it had found its way to the other side of the room. That wasn’t good because, now that he had caught sight of it, he wanted it. No, he needed it, and he needed it now. For most youngsters his age, this would not have been a problem. It would have been a simple matter to take a few steps and grab that blankie up, but most 16-month-olds have been walking for ages. Benny, though, refused to yield to that tradition. In reality, on more than one occasion, he had been spotted taking a step or two, but only when he was alone, and as if to deny it ever happened, had dropped to his knees as soon as he realized he was being watched. His resistance to walking was so complete that if someone tried to make him stand up, he would hold his legs straight out in front of him as if he were sitting on the floor, making him look like Aladdin on an invisible flying carpet. At any rate, for an experienced crawler like Benny, getting to his blankie wouldn’t normally be a problem, but the activity surrounding him had been escalating over the past hour and could legitimately be described as chaotic. He unconsciously flexed his dimpled fingers, remembering the weight of Laura’s foot tromping on them as she pranced into the room earlier. After that, Benny had found a secluded place to play at the end of the couch. He leaned against it now, his gaze intent on the precious blankie which seemed to be calling his name. Though not anxious to enter the fray, his need was strong. He began to lower himself to the floor, then stopped. Amid the swirling forest of legs and bodies, Joy was hopping toward him. Benny’s eyes widened in alarm. Only half an hour ago Joy had decided he would make a fine pony and had plopped herself down on his back as he was crawling toward the toy-box. Now, seeing her heading his way, he pulled himself back up against the couch. Shaking his head, he pointed and waved one arm towards her, declaring, “No! Go!” Benny didn’t like being Joy’s pony. But he did need his blankie. His consternation produced a bit of drool that momentarily perched on his lip, then reluctantly slid down and was gone. With it went his distraction. Once more, his eyes found the spot of blue. Once more, he knelt down, and this time he moved out… closer, then closer. “Unh!” Bump! Thump! “Ow!” “Oops! Are you okay? I didn’t see you down there!” Ronnie was six, and big enough to lift Benny up and give him a comforting hug. Tender-hearted Ronnie hadn’t meant to hurt him, but when all was said and done, Benny was back against the couch and his little blue blankie was still across the room. If ever a little one looked like he could use a cuddle with his blankie, it was Benny. Tears welled up in those blue eyes, his lip quivered, and his body sagged against the couch. But then he grew still, as if fighting an internal battle. For the next few minutes, more than one emotion flitted across his face. When at last he blinked, his expression was transformed. A junior-sized portion of resolve and determination were etched into his baby face. His eyes darted around the room then settled on his blankie. With quickened breath, he stood up tall and moved one foot forward. The other one followed, hesitantly, and both arms worked to keep his balance. Then again… five, nine, fifteen… each step deliberate. Within seconds, the cherished prize was clutched in his hands, and with those steps, Benny had become the victor, in more ways than he knew. DEBORAH ENGLE’s interest in writing was awakened during her time at community college, and she later honed her skills at Faithwriter’s.com. Several Editors’ Choice awards, as well as a first place finish in Journezine.com’s 2009 Christmas Story Competition, have inspired her in her journey. You can read more by Deborah at FaithWriters 2 comments on “If at First…” Rita Garcia on January 15, 2013 at 2:22 am said: Love Benny’s determination. A fun and delightful read! Lisa Mikitarian on January 15, 2013 at 2:26 am said: My goodness–you’ve captured every struggle in Benny’s. Excellent.

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Be TenderPregnancy 'Female intuition comes from lower testosterone exposure in womb' Intuitive thought is characterized by processing information automatically and unconsciously, requiring little cognitive effort. This way of thinking is frequently ascribed to women under the title of so-called "female intuition," and now, researchers suggest this could have a biological influence, rooted in lower prenatal exposure to testosterone in the womb. The researchers, from the University of Granada, the Barcelona Pompeu Fabra University - both in Spain - and the Middlesex University of London in the UK, publish their study in the journalPsychoneuroendocrinology. They note that previous studies have suggested prenatal exposure to testosteroneinfluences developments in the brain, which determine behaviors and tendencies throughout an individual's life. For example, researchers have suggested that higher testosterone exposure in the womb for males influences them to take more risks than females. Contrary to intuitive thought, reflexive thought takes greater cognitive effort and conscious analysis. But both thought processes can be useful in different contexts; for example, in some situations, allowing intuition to guide choices may be better than stopping to think, the team says. To investigate the relationship between testosterone exposure and thought processes, the researchers carried out a study on more than 600 students from the University of Granada Faculty of Economics and Studies. Digital ratio determines testosterone exposure Results of their study show that men did better on the CRT test than women. However, women who showed a more "masculine" digital ratio answered equally as well as the men. Image credit: Antonio M. Espin, et al. The team used what is now a widely studied and accepted marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, called the second-to-fourth digit ratio, which is determined by dividing the length of the forefinger by the length of the ring finger on the same hand. Lead author Antonio Manuel Espin, lecturer at the University of Granada, explains: "The lower the ratio, the greater the prenatal testosterone received and, therefore, the more 'masculine' the cerebral disposition, regardless of the person's gender." He adds that, compared with women, men naturally have a lower average digital ratio. Study participants responded to several questionnaires, one of which contained the cognitive reflection test (CRT). This test is designed to measure the ability to override an incorrect intuitive response and further reflect, leading to the correct answer. In short, the test measures the difference between intuition and reflection, and in order to get the right answer, subjects must stop, reflect and recognize that the first answer to jump into his or her head was incorrect. After administering the tests, the team measured the participants' hands so they could calculate their digital ratio. Women with more 'masculine' digital ratio did as well as men on CRT test "What is most important here," says Espin, "is that women tend to give more intuitive answers, whilst men respond in a more reflexive way. In other words, in this specific test, which penalizes intuitive thought, men generally do better than women." Results of their study show that - predictably - men did better on the CRT test than women. However, women who showed a more "masculine" digital ratio answered equally as well as the men. Espin says: "To be more specific, what we found was an indication that prenatal exposure to testosterone predisposes people to adopt a more reflexive and less intuitive mindset. Furthermore, this effect seems to be stronger among women." Though interesting, it is important to note that the study does have some limitations. The research team admits that "trying to pin down differences in the CRT answers to one single factor, prenatal testosterone/estrogens ratio, is simplistic." They add that this simplicity could lead to "conflicting, erratic or inconclusive results." Still, the researchers say their findings should prompt future controlled experiments to investigate why individuals exposed to larger amounts of testosterone in the womb "offer better, more reasoned, solutions in the CRT 20 years after the fact." Medical News Today recently reported on a study that suggested pain reduces sex drive in women, but not in men. Written by Marie Ellis Lower birth weight, less breastfeeding linked to adult inflammation and disease Life stressors trigger neurological disorders in offspring, researchers find How to choose best babies names in 2015

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Boccia UK Athletes Great Britain Squad Honours About Boccia About us Governance Board Profiles Resources Anti-Doping Safeguarding World Class Programme Athletes/ Great Britain Squad About Boccia/ World Class Programme National Governing Body for Paralympic Boccia in the UK Scots top the table at the UK Boccia Championships June 20, 2019 / Viv N A gold medal apiece for Scotland’s Scott McCowan (BC3) and Stephen McGuire (BC4) ensured it was their country on top of the medal table when the two-day UK Boccia Championships came to a close in Antrim Northern Ireland on Sunday (16 June). In the BC3 category, two-time Paralympian McCowan had finished second in his pool which meant that in the semi-final he was pitted against his brother Jamie who had topped his. In a tight match, Scott edged out his younger brother, winning 4-3 and setting up a Scotland v England final against Matt Berry. Berry had recently taken the silver medal at the Boccia England Cup in Sheffield in May and was hoping to take home a different colour this time. However, even though he forced a tie-break, it was the more experienced Scott McCowan who claimed gold, giving his father Gary, who is his ramp assistant, the perfect Fathers’ Day present. It was Scotland v England again in both medal matches in the BC4 category. Scotland’s Stephen McGuire beat England’s Louis Saunders 7-2 in the Gold medal match, maintaining his 100% record in these championships. The battle for bronze also went Scotland’s way with Ross Munro beating Evie Edwards 6-3. However, the standings were reversed in the BC1 category with reigning World and Paralympic Champion David Smith MBE in commanding form, winning his semi-final 11-0 against fellow English player Dan Bentley, a score which he repeated in the final against Scotland’s Reegan Stevenson. In the all-England bronze medal match, it was Daniel Wain who came out on top, beating Dan Bentley 6-4. But it was Northern Ireland’s Claire Taggart who got the biggest cheer from the home crowd when she beat England’s James Clowes 4-0 in the Gold medal match. The home crowd were also hoping that their countryman Scott Cromie could also bag a medal in the bronze medal match but it wasn’t to be as England’s Reshad Saraj finished on top 3-2. Commenting on the event and the results, Boccia UK Performance Director Helen Nicholls said: ”We have seen some outstanding Boccia played here this weekend and I’ve been really impressed with the performances and the attitude of all the players. Playing against the world ranked players has been a great experience for the pathway players and they have shown that they are pushing hard to improve. With just over a year to go to Tokyo, being tested on home soil is great for the World Class Programme athletes too. “The Championships were played in a great spirit so a huge thank you to the volunteers and Disability Sport Northern Ireland for all their hard work in making it such a success and enjoyable weekend.” The championships were hosted by Disability Sport Northern Ireland (DSNI) were sponsored by Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council and TBC Conversions. June 20, 2019 / Viv N/ Comment Viv N UK Boccia Championships 2019 to get ... United Kingdom Boccia Federation, 1st Floor, 85 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7LT

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Home›CES ALL›CES 2013›LG CES 2013 HDTV lineup to include 84-inch Ultra HD and 55-inch OLED TVs LG CES 2013 HDTV lineup to include 84-inch Ultra HD and 55-inch OLED TVs CES 2013, HDTV, Tech by Hakan Can The new 2013 models embody LG’s minimalist CINEMA SCREEN Design. The bezels have been significantly reduced to provide a greater sense of immersion and streamlined style. The Magic Stand further enhances the effect, enabling the screen to appear as if it were floating. Both elegant and functional, the stand complements the screen without creating any visual distraction. This sleek formation effortlessly blends into any modern interior design scheme. The stand also features a convenient swivel and roller function, allowing the TV to be repositioned with ease. The CINEMA 3D Smart TV line-up received another award in December when the 55LA6900 model earned an Environmental Product Declaration Show Press Release (1,124 More Words) LG BOLSTERS SMART TV FOR 2013 LG Provides Simple, Intuitive Smart TV User Experience with Enhanced Magic Remote, Expanded Search and Share Capabilities ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Dec. 31, 2012 – Offering a host of new applications and easy access to content, the 2013 Smart TV line from LG Electronics (LG) will include an updated Magic Remote for a simplified, intuitive user experience (UX). – The wide variety of new models and sizes – including LG’s awe-inspiring 84-inch Ultra HD and 55-inch OLED TVs – will be highlighted at next week’s 2013 International CES®. “LG strives to provide the most engaging and convenient user experience to consumers all over the globe,” said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of the LG Home Entertainment Company. “We have an uncompromising attitude when it comes to both developing and improving the LG Smart TV platform. As a result, we are confident the user experience of our 2013 models will shatter all expectations and demonstrate that LG is one of the leaders of the Smart TV movement.” Easy to Use, Share and Enjoy LG offers Smart Control with its enhanced Home Dashboard and Magic Remote. The new Home Dashboard interface features My Interest Cards – special folders for apps and other content –providing seamless access to what is trending on news sites. My Interest Cards can be customized according to the needs and preferences of the user. The Magic Remote has been redesigned to fine-tune content and menu navigation, making interaction simple and intuitive. The device still incorporates the fundamental control capabilities of past versions – point, wheel, gesture and voice recognition. At CES, LG will demonstrate Voice Mate, an enhanced version of the company’s voice control technology, capable of recognizing the natural flow of language. The Voice Mate feature offers a new voice search option that simultaneously filters search results across the LG Smart TV platform – Video-on-Demand (VoD) services, websites, external devices and more. The enhanced SmartShareTM feature offers users the ability to mirror or transfer content from smart devices to LG Smart TVs with various connectivity options, including WiDi and Miracast. The 2013 line-up will enhance sharing between devices by implementing Near Field Communication (NFC), which offers wireless and seamless content mirroring from smartphones and other compatible external devices. This feature immediately connects two devices for quick media sharing. To use “Tag On” as LG calls it, users simply hold a smartphone or other NFC-enabled device against the NFC sticker on LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV. The 2013 line-up also supports LG Cloud, which allows the user to stream high-quality content remotely. Smarter Discovery in Sea of Content Smart TV users have a steadily growing selection of content from which to choose. To allow users to easily find what they want within VoD and live broadcasts from multiple sources, the LG Smart TV offers an advanced recommendation function called On Now; this convenient service suggests trending VoD and broadcast content. Results pop-up with handy thumbnail images, making it faster and easier for viewers to select content. With a vast array of movie, lifestyle, gaming and 3D viewing options, consumers looking for international or local content can quickly find what they want on their LG Smart TVs. Partnerships with a growing list of providers from around the world, including local broadcast stations and subscription programming services, allow LG to keep its content offerings relevant and fresh. The Improved User Experience LG Smart TVs deliver a smooth user experience and excellent picture quality because of a central processing unit (CPU) and graphic processing unit (GPU) that have been upgraded over those of prior generations. CPU speeds are now 120 percent faster in several premium CINEMA 3D Smart TV models. Even more impressive, GPU speeds are now 300 percent faster, which translates into clearer images that enhance gaming, viewing and multitasking capabilities. LG’s Smart TVs include CINEMA 3D technology, which employs Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology for superior 3D viewing comfort. This technology uses lightweight glasses to create a comfortable 3D viewing experience without the distracting flicker or crosstalk of active shutter-style glasses. The new 2013 models embody LG’s minimalist CINEMA SCREEN Design. The bezels have been significantly reduced to provide a greater sense of immersion and streamlined style. The Magic Stand further enhances the effect, enabling the screen to appear as if it were floating. Both elegant and functional, the stand complements the screen without creating any visual distraction. This sleek formation effortlessly blends into any modern interior design scheme. The stand also features a convenient swivel and roller function, allowing the TV to be repositioned with ease. LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV has won many CES Innovations Awards for its superiority in hardware and software, the latest being the 2013 Innovations Awards. The CINEMA 3D Smart TV line-up received another award in December when the 55LA6900 model earned an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) from Underwriters Laboratories Inc. This model was recognized for its remarkable energy efficiency and eco-friendly qualities. Full details on LG’s full 2013 TV line-up are below: (see accompanying chart) *No “ultra high definition” or “4K” video content is currently available. No broadcast or other standard currently exists for “4K” or “ultra high definition” television, and the 84LM9600 may or may not be compatible with such standards if and when developed. *Internet connection and certain subscriptions required and sold separately. Content and services vary by product and are subject to change without notice. *For a small percentage of the population, the viewing of stereoscopic 3D video may cause discomfort such as dizziness or nausea. If you experience any of these symptoms, discontinue using the 3D functionality and contact your health care provider. *Designs, features and specifications subject to change without notice. LG LED TVs are LCD TVs with LED backlighting. Miracast™, is trademarks of the Wi-Fi Alliance. About LG Electronics USA LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $49 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. In the United States, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG’s “Life’s Good” marketing theme. For more information, please visit www.lg.com. About LG Electronics, Inc. LG Electronics, Inc. (KSE: 066570.KS) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances. With 117 operations around the world, LG achieved global sales of USD 49 billion (KRW 54.26 trillion) in 2011. LG comprises four business units – Home Entertainment, Mobile Communica-tions, Home Appliance, and Air Conditioning & Energy Solution – and is one of the world’s leading producers of flat panel TVs, mobile devices, air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators. LG Electronics is a 2012 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. For more news and information on LG Electronics, please visit www.LGnewsroom.com. Technorati Tags: Tech,HDTV,CES 2013,Ultra HD,OLED,TV TagsCES2013hdtvLEDTVOLEDTVULTRAHD Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 with Windows 8- The ... Samsung announces two Windows 8 Series 7 ... CES 2010- LG Ultra Thin LEDTV (6.9mm Thick) NVIDIA Brings a New Dimension to PC Gaming with NVIDIA 3DTV Play for the Big Screen

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A Crawl on Salisbury Plain Having great trust in a friend, I left Bristol at 8am on April 1st, to meet him in a church on Salisbury Plain. I guess JF invested similar trust in me on this, All Fools' Day. The weather was bright, following some heavy overnight rain; the forecast was for a typical April day of sunshine and showers. As I arrived in the village, JF's car was in evidence outside of our agreed meeting point. ALL SAINTS, CHITTERNE At a quick glance looks medieval. However you quickly spot how wrong it looks because it is a Victorian building on a new site, replacing two medieval churches at either end of the village, St Mary to the west and All Saints to the east. Wrong, the west doorway into the tower and no porch, wrong the regular appearance of walls and stonework (flint and rubble chequer pattern), and very wrong the churchyard, a grassed garden without a single tombstone. The architect was T H Wyatt, the Salisbury diocesan architect, who brutally restored many Wiltshire churches, and designed a few exceptional churches and many very ordinary dull churches. All Saints is somewhere in between, supposed to fool, large and spacious but not quite first rate. The chancel has an east apse, the windows rather small, and probably the weakest part of the design. From the other churches several monuments are gathered under the tower, the best unfortunately skied making enjoyment difficult of the intricate naval battle scene. The font came from St Mary, Norman circular, the cover from All Saints C17 octagonal. The low stone screens to the chancel are dissimilar and incorporate medieval tracery from St Mary. The pulpit is Jacobean also from St Mary and the stalls incorporate C17 carved panels, two with birds and foliage and the other two with figures (Moses and possibly Faith). The epitaph to Robert Michell d1779 records how he was most miraculous preserv'd when ten chimneys fell onto his bed in Lincoln's Inn at 6am in the morning leaving him exposed (!) during the Violent Storm of Wind on 2nd December 1763. [Open] The original All Saints has disappeared but ST MARY, CHITTERNE Survives in part, that part being the chancel. Not a great deal to see, but the south windows are rather pretty, depressed two light Perp windows in a square headed frame. Inside the north window incorporates the ogee canopy arch of a former tomb, arranged thus probably by Wyatt. There was an uncommon gravestone in the churchyard of 1850, to a husband a wife with two carved hands one pointing to the left and the other to the right. Also a line of music is incised on the stone. [open] Leaving Chitterne we espied a large modern-looking village not on the map. When it was built there was a flurry of enquiries to local estate agents from people wanting to live there. It is in fact a replica East German village, built for training purposes for the British army who occupy large tracts of Salisbury Plain for military manoeuvres! ST THOMAS A BECKET, TILSHEAD has appeared on the ChurchCrawling group before when Mr Neil and I tried to get inside unsuccessfully a few years back. Today it was open, which it is apparently during British Summertime months. The long low church is grouped around a central tower and is of some antiquity. Inside Norman arcades with the plainest semi-circular arches, but it all seems a little too regular for me and I wonder how much of this is early Wyatt work who restored the church in 1845-6. The clerestory of quatrefoils is probably his work to and the roofs definitely are by him. We wondered what had happened to the cleaner, a vac was lying in the centre of the nave and one rubber glove was placed on a pew near the vestry. Had she spontaneously combusted JF wondered? Nope - she had gone for coffee leaving the vestry floor to dry. She was interested in what we were doing but on hearing the word internet rang her husband unbeknown to us and he appeared to ask further questions. We must have passed the test, which was done in ever-so-friendly a manner! [open] ST MARY, ORCHESTON Like Chitterne, Orcheston is a village that has two churches, one at either end of the village. St Mary's lies to the west and is extremely picturesque outside thanks to its saddleback SW tower and the early C19 pinnacles flanking the gables of the nave, chancel and the porch. It is kept locked but the Cat Hotel next door has the key, or they should have had. A lady had checked it out but not returned it, yet the church was locked. I set off in pursuit and whilst I followed her around the village she retuned to the church and let JF in! Cats talked to us everywhere we went. And on the way out I noticed that the stained glass memorial in the porch was a - er - cat. [locked with keyholder notice] ST GEORGE, ORCHESTON is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT). It is not large, a nave and chancel, with a medley of windows. Added since a C19 vestry (which hides the Norman north doorway) and an ashlar built west tower of some pretension, although barely rising above the nave roofline. Inside it has a fine panelled arch. The vestry is kept locked and therefore it is difficult to see the doorway apart from glimpses through the vestry windows. Pretty fittings in the chancel, probably of c1833. The church also has some very high quality stained glass, the best seen so far today (and a couple of poor windows too!) [locked with keyholder notice] (Lunch taken at a local's recommendation "The George" which looked less inviting than the Plume of Feathers opposite but the food was excellent and good value.) ST MARY, SHREWTON Shrewton is an odd place, really what seems to be main-road Shrewton is Maddington village. You would be forgiven for thinking the church to be a Victorian rebuilding, against a medieval tower, indeed I said as much to JF as we approached. A dog was tied to the outside gates of the porch, and a friendly lady was just locking the church as we arrived. She was only too pleased to let us inside and thank goodness she did as here was some of the best architecture of the day. Transitional Norman north and south arcades, built slowly, so that by the time the chancel arch was reached the style merged from upright leaf decoration on the south capital to full stiff leaf on the north, yet both with trumpet scallops. This chancel arch has three detached shafts to both responds, a sophisticated design. The rest looks C19, clerestory, aisles and chancel - yes Mr Wyatt again. His too the Norman font with upright leaf design, too perfect to fool anyone but quite nice. On a sill in the south aisle is a piece of sculpture, carved on all four sides, including a crucifixion, and was probably the head of a churchyard cross. [usually locked, no keyholder] ST MARY, MADDINGTON on a hill in the centre of Shrewton, surrounded by new executive housing to the west, the Old Vicarage to the north and the Manor House to the south. Another CCT church, and one which owes much of its appearance to the C17 and of course the indefatigable Wyatt. The original nave and chancel was extended in the C14 by a chantry chapel, which was extended west by an aisle in the C17, and to the south by a transept of the early C19. The nave roof is of 1603 (date on a corbel), and the west wall of the nave has plasterwork with a large date 1637, reckoned to be the date a west gallery was added of which no trace now remains. The oddest thing inside was a length of battlements and one pinnacle which used to be on top of the tower but now stand underneath it along with the parish bier. [locked with keyholder notice] ST ANDREW, ROLLESTONE is yet another CCT church. Bizarrely three churches out of five in a very small area have been vested, and although I am not complaining it does seem odd or lucky. This one is a delight, no more than a nave and chancel, reached by a grassy track from the main road to Stonehenge and just outside of Shrewton. The C19 restoration (suspect is Wyatt) provided a bellcote and built a porch to shelter the Norman doorway which they also mutilated in the process. [open] ST PETER, WINTERBOURNE STOKE is delightful outside, massed around a C13 crossing added on to a Norman nave. The tower was completed in the C15 and the nave west front is also from this time. Norman N & S doorways, the south blocked and weathered badly, the north doorway, harshly and yet incompletely restored. Some amusing external carvings all add to the anticipation on opening the door. What a disappointment! The dullest interior of the day, largely the fault of the very poor and oppressive roofs of the C19. I cannot blame Wyatt for these a W Crook was responsible - and to his credit Wyatt would have done better. In more recent times the chancel has been emptied of the expected furniture and carpeted and given comfy upholstered chairs. The north transept is screened off for a vestry, and the south transept is separated from the crossing from very heavy curtains, and now equipped with kitchen cabinets, sink etc. If you visit here and don't get in don't be too disappointed. The two features you might want to see can be seen by looking through the two westernmost side windows at the other, glass dated 1835, four saints and a overly pious depiction of the BVM, and the plain Norman font with its exotic Jacobean crown cover. We returned to Chitterne and parted on our separate ways, agreeing that this was yet another successful day out. We both I suspect snuck a 10th church visit in, mine was at NORTON BAVANT (All Saints) which I found locked. The key hanging in the porch did not unlock the door sadly yet looked like it should have! This was an odd shaped church with an unusual roofed low burial extension south of the south transept. I will be returning here when there is better light left in the day (it stands in trees) and I have more time to track down a key if one is needed at a more respectable hour!

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Changes To Partnership Returns “There are two changes in this revised version of T5013 that are worth noting..” New Disclosure Requirements In February 2012, the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) issued a revised version of its Partnership Information Return (Form T5013) to reflect new information that the CRA requires. There are two changes in this revised version of T5013 that are worth noting: The adjusted cost base (ACB) and “at-risk amount” for each partner are to be reported on the revised version of Schedule 50 of Form T5013, entitled “Partner’s Ownership and Account Activity”. Persons affiliated with the partnership must be listed on new Schedule 9 of Form T5013, entitled “Affiliated Corporations, Partnerships, Partners or Trusts”. Effective Date and Transitional Relief These new requirements apply to filings beginning February 2012. However, the CRA, recognizing that these new requirements significantly increase the compliance burden for many partnerships, has provided transitional administrative relief. On February 29, 2012, the CRA announced that it will accept returns containing either the 2010 or 2011 version of Form T5013 Schedule 50 if the return meets the following conditions: It is filed on time; and It contains complete information on partner identification and annual transactions between partners and the partnership. The CRA recognizes the increased demands imposed by new Schedule 9, and recommends that this schedule be prepared based on the best knowledge and ability of the partnership and preparer. The CRA has announced that it will not impose penalties for incomplete Form T5013 returns, filed for 2011 fiscal periods, that have been prepared, to the best knowledge and ability of the partnership and preparers, and submitted by the filing deadline. While transitional relief is available, preparers and their clients should start early to gather the information needed to support the new requirements. This may be an onerous task for partners who have not maintained the required ACB and at-risk amounts calculations historically, especially for partnerships that have not been preparing and filing T5013 returns previously because of the exemption for partnerships with less than five partners (see Tax Tip 10-25). Additional information with respect to partnership and information return filing requirements can be found on the CRA website at www.cra.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/slprtnr/prtnrshp. The professionals in the TSG will be happy to assist you with questions regarding the preparation of Form T5013 returns and the revised disclosure requirements.

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Home » Car sales Europe » Car sales by segment » Midsized SUV segment Car sales statistics for the midsized SUV / crossover segment segment in Europe, updated every quarter. May 19, 2019 by Bart Demandt 5 Comments The compact crossovers segment in Europe has been growing briskly in recent years, but in the first quarter of 2019 that growth has stalled as the segment grew by just 1% to 476.000 sales. That means it now makes up 11,7% of the total Euorpean car market, up from 11,1% in 2018. We’ve separated the tables of the compact and midsized crossover segments but still feature them in one post and in one graph as the models in these classes are so close to each other in size and there are so many different opinions on which models belong in which of these segments. Combined, sales in these segments are down 1,5% to 14,2% of the total European car market, and VW Group improves its share of these segments to 23,7% while Renault-Nissan is down to 20,6% and PSA grows to 18,8% of these segments combined, for a whopping 63,1% share by just three manufacturers. The traditional class leader Nissan Qashqai loses a significant chunk of its advantage over its rivals with a loss of 18% and almost 3 percentage points of share. The Volkswagen Tiguan in 2nd place is also down, but by just 4% while the #3 Peugeot 3008 sees stable sales and therefore closes in on its two rivals. The Ford Kuga loses more than a fifth of its sales and is knocked off its 4th place by the Toyota C-HR, up 13%. The C-HR also passes the two South-Korean players Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage, both down by double digits. The Renault Kadjar, freshly facelifted, is down 4% and feels the Skoda Karoq and Opel/Vauxhall Grandland X breathing down its neck. Midsized SUV segment 2019, Citroën C4 Aircross, Citroën C5 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel Grandland X, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Q1, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota C-HR, Toyota RAV4, Vauxhall Grandland X, Volkswagen Tiguan European sales 2018 compact & midsized crossover segments February 16, 2019 by Bart Demandt 7 Comments Sales of compact crossovers continue to surge in Europe, with a 15% gain in 2018 to over 1,7 million sales or 11,1% of the overall market, up from 9,6% in 2017 and 7,7% in 2016. Most of the growth comes from newly launched or very recent models. We’ve decided to separate the tables of the compact and midsized crossover segments but still feature them in one post and in one graph as the models in these classes are so close to each other in size and there are so many different opinions on which models belong in which of these segments. Combined, sales in these segments are up 15% to 13,7% of the total European car market, and VW Group and Renault-Nissan each control 22% and PSA another 17% of these segments combined, for a whopping 61% share by just three manufacturers. The Nissan Qashqai is still the best selling crossover in Europe, despite losing 7% on its record volume of 2017. Its closest rival is still the Volkswagen Tiguan, down 9% although its figures are estimates, as we don’t have official split figures from the 7-seater Tiguan Allspace and we estimate a 15% take rate for that version, which is featured in the midsized crossover segment. The Peugeot 3008 continues its impressive run and also crosses the 200.000 sales threshold thanks to a 20% increase on last year. When combining these segments, the 3008/5008 duo would be on top of the charts, just ahead of the Qashqai/X-Trail, with the Tiguan trailing at a distance. By any standard an impressive performance from the French brand, and we’re curious to see how the all-new Citroën C5 Aircross will perform once its deliveries start to show its true potential. Midsized SUV segment 2018, Citroën C4 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel Grandland X, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota C-HR, Toyota RAV4, Vauxhall Grandland X, Volkswagen Tiguan February 16, 2018 by Bart Demandt 10 Comments Sales of compact crossovers continue to surge in Europe, with a 30% gain in 2017 to nearly 1,5 million sales or 9,6% of the overall market, up from 7,7% in 2016. The entire top-5 has set new sales records in 2017. We’ve decided to separate the tables of the compact and midsized crossover segments but still feature them in one post and in one graph as the models in these classes are so close to each other in size and there are so many different opinions on which models belong in which of these segments. Combined, sales in these segments are up 32% to 11,9% of the total European car market, of which Renault-Nissan controls 26% and VW Group 20%. The Nissan Qashqai is still the best selling crossover in Europe, despite adding just 6% to its record volume of 2016 to close in on a quarter million sales. Its closest rival is still the Volkswagen Tiguan, up 31% to become the second nameplate in this segment to top 200.000 sales and to close the gap with the top spot to less than 14.000 sales. The new Peugeot 3008 immediately jumps onto the segment podium with nearly 170.000 sales in its first full year, an impressive performance against any standard. It beats the two South-Korean rivals that have fought for the segment podium for years as well as the Ford Kuga which shows an impressive 27% growth despite being 5 years old already, apart from a facelift in 2016. Midsized SUV segment Citroën C4 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel Grandland X, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota C-HR, Toyota RAV4, Vauxhall Grandland X, Volkswagen Tiguan European sales 2017 Q1-Q3 compact & midsized crossover segments November 14, 2017 by Bart Demandt 3 Comments The growth of the compact crossover segment in Europe slows down slightly in Q3 of 2017, but it’s still the second-fastest growing mainstream segment at +25% in the third quarter and +32% year-to-date. Almost 1,13 million compact crossovers have already been sold so far this year, virtually the same number as the small crossover segment whose growth curve has flattened. The Nissan Qashqai still tops the ranking and continues to win sales, but it’s losing share of the segment as it increased by just 8% both in Q3 and YTD. Its main rival Volkswagen Tiguan gained just 4% in the third quarter, as the new generation had just reached its full potential in the same period last year. Behind these two leaders, three players are having a pretty close race, selling within 2.000 units of each other in the third quarter. The Peugeot 3008 holds the final step of the segment podium and behind it, the Hyundai Tucson feels the Ford Kuga breathing down its neck in the third quarter as the Ford improves 11% while the Tucson sees stable sales. This top-5 holds almost two thirds of the segment with the rest of the top-10 holding nearly the other third as the remaining models make up just 2,6% of the segment. [Read more…] European sales 2017 first half: compact & midsized crossover segments August 12, 2017 by Bart Demandt 6 Comments Sales of compact crossovers in Europe maintain their explosive growth rate, jumping 29% in Q2 and 33% in the first half, to 720.194 units. This is 8,6% of the total European market, almost 2 percentage points up from the 6,7% in the first half of 2016. The Nissan Qashqai holds on to its top spot for the first half, but sales were up only 2% in the second quarter as it was outsold by the Volkswagen Tiguan by 300 sales. It seems like the Qashqai will keep its crown of the segment for yet another year, extending its streak to 11 years as the compact crossover champion. The all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV storms up the charts to third place, up from #6 in the first quarter, proving it is an instant hit for the French brand. It’s unlikely to be able to challenge the two top players in this segment, considering it was still at only 75% of their volume in the second quarter, but nonetheless an impressive performance for a newcomer to the segment. It also manages to outsell the two South-Korean models which have been around for a few generations now and have built up quite some recognition and a customer base over the years. [Read more…] Midsized SUV segment Citroën C4 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan May 9, 2017 by Bart Demandt 12 Comments The midsized crossover segment remains one of the fastest growing segments in Europe, even faster than the small crossover segment at +28% in the first quarter of 2017, to 371.500 sales. The Nissan Qashqai holds on to its top spot, thanks to sales up 13% on its already impressive score last year, but the Volkswagen Tiguan is closing in quickly with a gain of 78% to come within 10.000 sales. Considering the Tiguan outsold the Qashqai in the second half of last year, this is actually a bit of a disappointment for the model, than may suffer from a bit of cannibalization from the Seat Ateca and to a lesser degree the Skoda Kodiaq. In third place we find the Hyundai Tucson, similar to the full year 2016 ranking, but the facelifted Ford Kuga is growing at double its rate and is not far behind in 4th, up from 6th last year. European sales 2016 midsized crossover segment Sales of midsized crossovers are growing even faster than their smaller rivals, at +26,8% in Q4 and +22% in the full year 2016, compared to +16% for the small crossover segment and +6,2% for the overall market. And while the growth is fueled by newcomers and updated existing models, the segment leader and the model that started the popularity of this segment Nissan Qashqai maintains its leadership of the segment, even though its volume is stable on last year. However, its dominance of the segment will be challenged in 2017, as the new generation Volkswagen Tiguan already outsold its British-Japanese rival in Q4, by 2.600 sales and will fight for the segment lead for the first time ever. In third place we find another relative fresh model: the Hyundai Tucson, knocking down its sibling Kia Sportage off the podium for the first time since 2012. Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan European sales 2016 Q1-Q3 midsized crossover segment Sales of midsized crossovers in Europe have grown at more than double the speed of the overall market in the first three quarters of 2016: +18% vs. +7,5% as new brands and models keep entering this highly competitive class. After being outsold by the small crossover segment in Q2, the midsized models rebound in Q3 and also pass the 1 million sales mark in the first nine months, a figure it took all twelve months as recently as 2014. In a sign of consolidation, all top-8 models gain volume, of which only two with less than 2 digits, while the following 9 modles all lose volume, #9 to #12 with single digits and #13 to #17 with double digits. The Nissan Qashqai is stable, which means it loses share of the segment, from 19,4% last year to 16,6% this year, but 2016 will be the 9th consecutive year the Qashqai leads the segment. However, next year may offer a change of guard, as the Volkswagen Tiguan was only 4.200 units behind in Q3 and even outsold the Nissan in August. Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Niro, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, MG GS, midsized suv, Mitsubishi ASX, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, q3, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Kodiaq, Skoda Yeti, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Suzuki S-Cross, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan European sales 2016 first half midsized crossover segment August 18, 2016 by Bart Demandt 13 Comments The midsized crossover segment in Europe has grown at double the speed of the overall market in the first half of 2016: +17% vs. +8,8%, but it was still outsold by the small crossover segment for the first time ever in Q2. Nonetheless, sales of midsized crossovers are expected to continue increasing, as new brands and models keep entering this highly competitive class. The increased competition takes away some share from the segment leader Nissan Qashqai, but so far no other model can come close to challenging its leadership. Its closest rival of last year, the Volkswagen Tiguan suffered from a model changeover and has dropped to 4th place, making room for the two South-Korean sister models to step onto the podium. Even the all-new Renault Kadjar outsold the Tiguan in Q2, but the VW is likely to strike back in the second half, when deliveries of the new generation gain traction. As a result of these new or updated models, the Ford Kuga loses two spots on last year to become a distant #6 despite growing 22%. Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, H1, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Niro, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, MG GS, midsized suv, Mitsubishi ASX, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, Q2, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Yeti, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Suzuki S-Cross, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan European sales 2016 Q1 midsized crossover segment May 6, 2016 by Bart Demandt 6 Comments Sales of midsized crossovers and SUVs in Europe grew by twice the speed of the overall market in Q1 of 2016, at +17%. And that growth is very likely to continue, as new players keep entering the segment. Due in the next 18 months are the Tiguan-based Seat Ateca and the slightly larger Skoda version of those cars, Peugeot will enter the segment with crossover-like replacements of the 3008 and 5008, Renault has just revealed the Koleos in China which will start sales here next year and MG may bring the GS to the UK. So far, no model has been able to come even close to the Nissan Qashqai, the undisputed segment leader since 2008. Sales of the Qashqai are stable at +2% despite new generations of its closest rivals and also despite its partner Renault successfully launching a Qq derivative with the Kadjar. And don’t forget the 7-seater Qashqai+2 has been replaced by the X-Trail as well. In fact, the share of Renault-Nissan in this segment has grown from 23,8% last year to 31,7%. Last year’s #2 Volkswagen Tiguan loses just 1% of its volume right before the new generation is launched. As result, the model is outsold by the new generation Kia Sportage and under heavy attack from the all-new Hyundai Tucson. The two South-Korean brands grow their share of the segment from 17,9% to 21,4%. The Tiguan was outsold by the Tuscon in January and February and both were outsold by the Kadjar in March, indicating it will be an interesting fight for the podium this year. That’s unlikely to include the Ford Kuga, which loses a position despite adding almost a quarter to its volume of last year. Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, midsized suv, Mitsubishi ASX, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Skoda Yeti, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Suzuki S-Cross, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan

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Baaro Fansubs Recently in Detective Conan Category Detective Conan 153-154 By buricco on November 19, 2018 4:29 AM | " " Comments | No TrackBacks Took a bit longer than planned. Torrent: Download, Magnet A clarification about the source of our Detective Conan videos By buricco on October 29, 2018 3:21 PM | " Usually I don't entertain people who try to spam the site to promote their own encodes or whatever, but I got a comment in my spam filter that I felt merited attention (although the commenting engine wouldn't let me delete the link and then post the comment with edits, so my only choice was to leave it in the trap). This person says he checked the Baaro XDCC bot and found "just TV rips with pretty low quality". Apparently he has a vision problem: apart from the "remastered" episodes, none of our episodes prior to 453 (and we have subbed many episodes prior to 453--in fact almost all our Conan subs are from that period) are DVD rips at a minimum. Although episodes 453 and up are, in fact, TV rips, they are HDTV rips, and come from the best available sources, and are encoded to the same standards as the DVD rips. They should be higher quality than DVD rips, and they are certainly higher resolution. In all cases the raws are from as close to source as possible - the original DVDs, the original VOD streams, the original broadcast transport streams - and are never taken from publicly available encodes (unless said encodes come from our own staff, or those of our sister groups on Hoshinet). I suspect the real reason for the comment was that the poster merely wished to pump his own raws. As, again, I could not delete part of the comment and let the remainder stand, I had to leave the comment unapproved; as there was no way to make this post make sense in a thread, I felt it necessary to create a separate post on the blog to clarify matters, in case someone else thinks we use substandard public raws on our releases. Detective Conan 474 So I banged out a quick resub over the past few days to prove that I was still alive. I was originally going to do it as part of the DCHD project but decided to start from scratch (or rather, from the English manga) instead. Torrent: Download or Magnet So a funny thing happened... By buricco on February 19, 2018 7:45 AM | " I wound up getting involved with Kienai Fansubs on Detective Conan: Episode "ONE", and now I'm part of the group... This doesn't mean that Baaro will cease to exist, but we'll be working together on improving some of the older episodes of Detective Conan, which had in the past 5 years been my bread and butter. It's also why there's been a bit of radio silence on my end as of late. Detective Conan 72 Remastered By buricco on November 1, 2016 3:20 PM | " BT: Torrent Detective Conan 101 Remastered By buricco on August 28, 2016 6:15 PM | " By buricco on August 22, 2016 4:32 AM | " Of course there was no doubt that we were going to do this case, although I didn't place a high priority on getting 100' out until 101' was released -- that is, until someone who didn't know what he was doing (to be fair, he admitted as much - which is more than we usually deal with) decided to do a speedsub. (Thankfully, using the ColdFusion/Baaro subs, and thus mostly the official translation, instead of some ancient fansub. :P) This of course means I had to put it on top priority to get an actual Baaro sub out. By the way, something you won't get with a public raw, but you will get with our encodes: I cleaned up a lot of the earthquake news flash *by hand* before resorting to a second source to get rid of the rest. Detective Conan 468, or What's Project DCHD? By buricco on July 5, 2016 6:06 PM | " Back in November 2014, I started getting raw rips of Detective Conan in HD, starting from the first episode when they switched to widescreen, from satellite TV in Japan. I hung on to these rips, and did encodes from them, but I really wanted to use them to make subtitles - especially for episodes which were originally not available to the subbers in HD, and which were only released in the measly resolution (standard at the time) of 704x396. For a while, I didn't do anything with the opportunity. Making bad blood with DCTP is not something I want to do, even now. But here was this chance - to make bad subs good and to make good subs better - and I didn't want to let it pass by. The idea of Project DCHD is to take DCTP's subs which were originally released only in 396p, give them a coat of paint, and put them on new 720p raws. I will credit them as completely as possible. Here's some improvements I intend to make: The song translations are completely redone, mostly by bluesun (of The Moonlighters). Other boilerplate translations are generally edited to match The Moonlighters and Baaro Fansubs conventions. Timing and typesetting completely redone from scratch out of necessity. This also means sometimes, line breaks are changed. As far as ability and/or availability permits, additional editing and TLC is done. Some of these episodes, let's be honest, really need it. You occasionally find a line that's a complete howler. I would like to emphasize that these are not official DCTP releases, they're Baaro releases adapted from DCTP's work. Detective Conan 744-745v2 By buricco on June 15, 2016 3:18 PM | " Replacement video track with different logo mask for the second half. No other changes. Torrent: Nyaa By buricco on June 9, 2016 4:15 AM | " So here's the basic deal: The Moonlighters had 6 episodes which were sitting around unfinished for almost 2 years, and Puto asked me if I could get them done by any means necessary. And so I did--and the biggest gaping hole in competent fansubs of Conan going back all the way to the beginning of the HD era is now filled, even though to be fair, these 6 eps could certainly still use some work. These are the last 2 episodes of the aforementioned 6; the previous 2 Baaro releases are the other 4 episodes. « Lupin III | Main Index | Archives | Baaro Fansubs » Getting Releases The Conan 132-134 Question We're Recruiting! Dragon Ball Kai (42) Saint Tail (2) Nanoha (1) Lupin III (5) Detective Conan (41) Baaro Fansubs (13) Subscribe to this website's feed This page is an archive of recent entries in the Detective Conan category. Lupin III is the previous category. Baaro Fansubs is the next category.

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Home Business Computers & Technology Lero fellowship to attract global software researchers Lero fellowship to attract global software researchers By Webmaster - Professor Brian Fitzgerald, chief scientist, Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, with David Parnas. Lero, the UL-based Software Research Centre, has announced a new fellowship which will attract world leading software researchers to Ireland on a short term basis. Under the Parnas Fellowship, global leaders in software will consult with industry clients, staff and students across Lero partner third level institutions during their stay in Ireland. For the first time anywhere in the world, Canadian software engineering pioneer David Parnas has allowed his name to be used in a sponsorship of this kind. To mark the launch of the fellowship, he will visit the University of Limerick on 31st May to present a paper on software engineering. The first recipient of the Lero Parnas Fellowship award, Dr Axel Legay, will also deliver his inaugural address on Statistical Model Checking (SMC) which is used across robotics, automotive and systems biology. “We are honoured that Dave Parnas, one of the fathers of software engineering, has agreed to lend his name to this fellowship. As reflected in the calibre of the first recipient, Dr Axel Legay, the fellowship will add to the knowledge of the Irish software sector,” commented Professor Brian Fitzgerald, chief scientist, Lero. “We welcome anyone who would like to hear these distinguished speakers on May 31st,” he added. For further details on the presentations contact: adminsh@lero.ie Dr Legay is a research scientist at Microsoft Research-Inria which was founded by Inria (the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics), Microsoft Corporation and the Microsoft Research Laboratory Cambridge. The centre’s objective is to pursue research in computer science with a particular emphasis on formal methods and machine learning applications. Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, is Ireland’s national software research centre. Established in 2005, it recently received significant recent direct grant funding in excess of €30m from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and industry partners. Lero is headquartered at the University of Limerick and involves all universities in Ireland, with partner institutions in Cork, Dublin, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick and Maynooth. University of Limerick Christmas safety message from Coast Guard and RNLI Bus Éireann Route 350 returns for summer Team for NHL relegation playoff confirmed Killaloe Coast Guard involved in Galway search Hard-fought win for Clare against Dublin Shannon needs to get same treatment as Dublin Fitzgerald appointed as new head of Lero Explosive demand across industries causing software crisis Coast Guard issues Christmas safety warning

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Home Business Major award for Clare building contractor Major award for Clare building contractor A Co Clare building contractor has been awarded the prestigious Civil Engineering Project of the Year award for their work on the design & construction of Cape Clear Island – Harbour Development & Storm Gates. The accolade is the Civil Engineering Industry’s most prestigious award. It was awarded at the Civil Engineering Contractor’s Association annual dinner held at the Double Tree, Ballsbridge by Hilton which was compered by Síle Seoige. Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief Mr. Sean Canney TD was also in attendance. The awards honour the passionate work of civil engineering contractors and professional across all aspects of the industry. They recognise the most exciting innovations, advances in safety and quality excellence over the period from 2011 to 2016. The Cape Clear Island project received the category award in the €2-5M euro value and the overall award. This project, although small in value was one of the company’s most challenging marine projects to date, Cape Clear Island Storm Gates. For this project, L&M Keating offered a totally bespoke innovative contractor designed solution. The company chose to precast the largest element, the concrete lock chamber off-site on the mainland. The 15x15x9m high, 1000t concrete structure was cast and successfully floated from Verolme Drydock, Cobh over 130km to Cape Clear Island. It was then sunk into position on foundations 7m below water. The team then installed a set of sophisticated computer controlled mitre storm gates which includes two 30t gate leaves each operated by 140t hydraulic rams. This novel solution ensured that the harbour and vital link to the mainland remained accessible throughout the construction programme and improved safety by minimising underwater construction works. Design & project coordination of the project was carried out by Project Director, Richard Browne. Richard, who was selected as Chartered Engineer of the Year, 2015/6 said: “This was a highly technical jigsaw which took the efforts of our crews and over 14 separate design specialists to put it together. The largest component of which had to arrive in a 2hr slot at the right stage of the right tide with the right weather conditions.” Accepting the award, Louis Keating said: “We are overjoyed with the win. We have been in the business for 30 years and now have over 100 of the best people delivering some of the most innovative, technically challenging building and marine projects in the country. This project had it all, technical challenges, off shore logistics and cutting edge design. It’s humbling to have our project voted best in the country by such an esteemed panel of judges.” The project has proved to be a great success and today provides protection to the critical harbour infrastructure and safety to the islanders fishing boats and passenger ferry. L&M Keating, Building & Civil Engineering Contractors have developed a name for delivering the most technically challenging marine civil engineering projects, particularly in the design and build sector. The company is currently working on a number of marine projects such as Rossaveel Harbour and Dublin Port Redevelopment. Cape Clear Island Civil Engineering Contractor’s Association Kilmilhl L&M Keating New chair of CIF Mid-West takes office Clare connection with new Carlingford ferry Clare company director shortlisted for business award Clare firm increases Merlo fleet

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Tag Archive | "Taco" The little Mexican restaurant that could Posted on 09 December 2010. Tags: besant, coqui, coqui mexicano, diego, Food, nazario, pearson, Taco, tacos, third avenue Co-owner and chef Alfredo Diego welcomes customers with a smile. Photo: Alexander Besant On any weekday morning, Alfredo Diego, co-owner of Coqui Mexicano restaurant, is busy cooking slivers of chicken for tacos, spooning out avocados for guacamole, and chopping onions, lettuce and tomatoes for garnish. He then wipes down the counters, sits near the window overlooking a bleak strand of Third Avenue near 161st Street in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, and waits for customers to come. Sometimes he waits for hours. Diego and his girlfriend, Danisha Nazario, 37, moved to the area in 2001 and have owned and run their small Mexican-Puerto Rican fusion restaurant and deli for just over two years. The restaurant, which serves tacos alongside black beans, rice and other regional cuisine in a stripped down bodega with just three tables, is just one of a handful of restaurants in the area – and one of the only ones that does not specialize in fried chicken. “We try to make healthy food here,” said Danisha. “The area needs more healthy places.” But two years after its opening, Coqui Mexicano has yet to break even. Nazario said the restaurant is getting closer to reaching the $5,000 necessary to stay out of debt each month, but so far, their sales have not turned a profit. Diego estimates that the restaurant serves about 30 customers per day, mostly regulars and mostly those coming for lunch from other local businesses. The couple is not sure how much longer they can last at the current rate. In many ways, the couple may be two fragile steps ahead of the expected resurgence in this neighborhood. “This is a place where people are just starting to play,” Nazario said. “But there is no foot traffic at night.” Both remain remain hopeful. The restaurant lies at heart of a revitalization that is expected to include new housing units and restaurants surrounded the recently completed satellite campus of Boricua College. Construction has begun to attract hundreds of new residents, those who Nazario and Diego hope will become frequent customers. However, according to Nazario, currently, the new population seems to prefer Manhattan for its nightlife, so far. Construction is slow, and the hints of revitalization she and Diego saw years earlier has not yet panned out. Born in Puerto Rico, Nazario has lived most of her life in the United States. She graduated in International Marketing from Baruch College and later worked at Dallas BBQ, the New York City food chain where she met Diego. Later, she took a position in the business center of the Essex Hotel in midtown Manhattan where she continues to head to work at 5:30 a.m. every weekday. “I still go to work ‘till the business can hold itself,” said Nazario. Diego, who now works full-time at the restaurant, was born in Acapulco, Mexico. Though he remains coy about his life story, he says that he learned to cook at home in Mexico where, as a boy, he would often make meals for his siblings to help his mother – an experience that put him off cooking for years. He arrived in the United States some 20 years ago and has worked all over Manhattan in food stores, restaurants and bodegas, finally ending up at Dallas BBQ. Diego and Nazario began renting the Bronx storefront in the spring of 2008 on the site of a former grocery store that, according to the couple, was a drug den that housed a brothel in a back room. “The woman who owned it lived in New Jersey,” said Nazario. “She didn’t care about what her business was doing to the neighborhood.” It took the couple three months to clean out the store, which was in abysmal shape, full of decaying food products and garbage. During the cleaning, Diego developed a lung infection from the noxious fumes that emanated from the debris found in the store. “It was horrible,” said Nazario. “The store was disgusting.” Though the couple had readied the restaurant for business in mid-summer, they were not given the go ahead by the city for another few months until Nazario went downtown and caused what she called, “a scene,” in the department that issues restaurant permits. They were awarded a license to serve food in September, after having spent $10,000 for five months rent without making a dollar. The couple faced another obstacle just after opening: discrimination from the local community. “There has also been a lot of controversy because I am Puerto Rican and Diego is Mexican,” said Nazario. “A lot of people in the community did not accept this. We would get racist remarks and everyday lots of people telling us to get out of the neighborhood.” The couple’s problems went beyond neighborhood xenophobia, as they recognized that overhead costs climbed higher than expected and that the neighborhood had not changed as fast as they had hoped – many of the buildings around them were just being constructed with potential customers not moving into the area soon enough. In that first year, business was slow. In desperation Nazario got on the Internet and searched for cheap ways to promote the business. She joined Facebook and began randomly contacting residents of the area, asking them to come out and try the restaurant. “I had never used anything like it before,” she said. “Facebook really saved my ass.” She even began sending e-mail messages to local U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano, tempting him with homemade guava cake. To get word out to the community, Nazario also helped to create an informal neighborhood pact whereby area business owners agreed to patronize one another’s stores to help support local commerce. The pact includes a local bodega, a community college and a nearby Chinese restaurant owned by a husband and wife team who have experienced similar problems to Nazario and Diego. “She and I have a lot in common,” said Nazario. “We tell each other our problems and about how business is going.” Yet her efforts were still not enough to make the bills stop piling up and in March of this year, the couple was handed an eviction notice for having not made rent payments to the landlord. At that point, they were eating soup every day to save money for rent. But just before their scheduled court date to fight the eviction, their luck changed. The couple received an email from Agnes Rodriguez, 31, an arraignment clerk at the Bronx Defenders inviting them to a fundraiser at their restaurant. Rodriguez had organized the fundraiser after hearing that the restaurant, where many Bronx Defenders’ staff eat lunch, was struggling. “We love them dearly at the Bronx Defenders,” said Rodriguez. “And I always want to support Latino businesses in the area.” The couple was touched by Rodriquez’s gesture, which raised hundreds of dollars for the restaurant – money they needed to keep Coqui Mexicano alive. On top of that, Rep. Serrano, who had finally come in to taste the guava cake almost a year before, helped Nazario negotiate a payment plan with the landlord, which came to an end this month. “Even if we hadn’t survived it would be worth it because we made so many friends,” said Nazario. These days, the couple is trying to build on their positive momentum, however slight, by generating a more solid customer base. They have established a small lending library in the form of stuffed bookshelf near the front door that they hope will bring more people in, even if they don’t want to eat. And they have hosted concerts by local musicians, too, hoping to generate buzz around the restaurant. Nazario admits that the difficulties of keeping the restaurant open have put a strain on her relationship. She and Diego take their problems from work home with them at night. Yet she is adamant that they are not ready to give up. The couple plans to keep the business alive for as long as they can. “We’ve been through so much,” Nazario said. “But we’ll pull through.” Posted in Bronx Life, Food, Food and Beyond, Money, Special ReportsComments (0) Gourmet Tacos in a Truck Posted on 05 November 2009. Tags: Bronx, health, Matthew Huisman, Soundview, Taco, Taqueria Guadalupe, Westchester Avenue by Matthew Huisman Medardo Florencio of Taqueria Guadalupe cooks up tacos for residents living in Soundview. Photo by Matthew Huisman It’s lunchtime on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx and my stomatch growls, reminding me that I haven’t eaten since 9 a.m. Instead of grabbing a greasy slice of pizza, or stopping in at one of the many fast food joints that litter the area, I opt instead for Taqueria Guadalupe. The chrome taco truck sits where Manor and Westchester Avenues meet, a shining, silver oasis of food. Medardo Florencio–owner, chef and cashier–greets me at the window. There is no table, no cash register, no building–only Florencio’s truck converted into a mobile kitchen. The sole concessions to traditional dining are two lonely chairs leaning against the brick wall of D&G Fashions, a store that sells ladies wear and plus sizes. Florencio didn’t ask what I’m ordering, only how many. “Tres, por favor,” I said, as I was feeling particularly hungry. Florencio immediately goes to work, dicing onion and pineapple. Together with a fistful of flavored pork, Florencio tosses the mixture on the grill. The meat sizzles, wafting the smell of al pastor tacos to the street curb. The reaction causes my mouth to water like one of Pavlov’s dogs. By this time I am not alone. Jenny Cosme walks up to the window, glancess briefly at the menu and orders one bistec and one chicken taco and waits patiently. “Their food is good, and it’s healthy too,” says Cosme. “It’s healthier than the fast food because it’s on a grill.” Cosme likes crema y pico de gallo, a mixture of raw onion, tomato and cilantro, on her tacos. “They cut everything daily,” Coseme said while piling on the pico. Taqueria Guadalupe at the corner of Manor and Westchester Avenues in Soundview. Photo by Matthew Huisman Florencio has been feeding his hungry neighbors in the Soundview neighborhood for more than seven years. He arrived in this country 20 years ago from Guerrero, a state in southwest Mexico known for its tourism and silver. Florencio says he has about 80 customers a day, enough to support his wife and four kids. A fifth is on the way. But on the streets of the Bronx, where good, cheap and healthy food can be as scarce as a Phillies fan, Taqueria Guadalupe is one of the few places that offer a healthier alternative. “It’s all fresh,” Florencio says in Spanish pointing to a tray of toppings. “We make it fresh every day.” Spicy red salsa, avacado puree, pico de gallo and fresh lime are a few of the extras that Florencio offers his customers. In a few minutes my order is up. I pay the $7.50 and walk back to the chairs. Steam rises from the plate in the cold air. The first bite is packed with pineapple. The sweet juice runs down my chin and I lap it up with a lick of my tongue. “No sense in being proper when you’re on the sidewalk,” I muse, plowing through the first taco. I had no problem with the second and third. The spicy pork, tangy lime and crisp onion make a heavenly treat wrapped in two corn tortillas. Sidewalk dining at its finest. Posted in Bronx Blog, Bronx Neighborhoods, FoodComments (0)

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On the Valley Line Today. . . in 1949 "RAIL ACTIVITY INCREASED BY DERAILMENT Two Long Freight Trains Pass Through Town During Day Rocky Hill - Early Wednesday morning (August 17, 1949) a 50-car freight train drawn by two diesel engines passed through Rocky Hill as a result of the derailment of a freight train at Bolton. Traffic had to be rerouted through Middletown and Rocky Hill to Hartford for the Boston to Hartford run. A second train equally as long, but drawn by only one engine, went through Rocky Hill shortly before noon. The unusual activity on the line caused considerable comment as only three trains a week with few cars pass through the town normally. Station Agent James W. Whitty announced that effective September 1, the freight office hours will be changed from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m Monday through Friday." And that's the News on the Valley Line, August 17, 1949 (Makes me wonder whether the trains left the Midland in Willimantic and came down the Air Line to Middletown. If they did, they would have had to back down that sharp quadrant track at the diamond to then be able to go north through Rocky Hill to Hartford. Wow! Though I suppose they could have gone down the Norwich & Worcester to New London, then west to Old Saybrook and then north. Either way, it was quite a detour!) (Special thanks to Bob Belletzkie for the article - and if you want to know ANYthing about stations on the New Haven Railroad, RUN don't walk to his website at http://www.tylercitystation.info/) Posted by Chris Adams at 4:00 PM Labels: News, Operations Chris Adams August 28, 2014 at 12:48 PM John Wallace says: Just a thought. I suspect this was the Boston to Hartford Midland Div. freight (BA-1 ?) which usually arrived in Hartford between 4 and 7 am. The second train was, probably, the second half of the original train which had been split in Putnam or Willimatic to facilitate the difficult move at Middletown. The RR probably thought it better to route them over the Valley than fuss around at Cedar Hill which would have caused a longer delay. Some road foremen and trainmasters were probably rousted out of bed early in the AM to shepherd these moves to Hartford over territory unfamiliar to the crews. Also, the derailment possibly involved AB-2 which usually went through Bolton at 10pm or thereabouts. This may be totally wrong, but it's fun to speculate. Thanks for weighing in John! I still don't know whether they'd go up the Valley via New London/Old Saybrook or come down the AirLine to Middletown from Willimantic. Good arguments either way, course. airline route would be much more complicated and the track was probably not the greatest. But going via New London would likely have taken longer and might foul up the busy Shoreline. But yes, fun to speculate. Too bad nobody's still around that we could ask about that detour. And the Form 19s for those moves are lost to history I suspect. My guess would be the Airline. The route is much shorter than New London and some of the light rail and ballast still in use on the lower Valley could be a negative for that option. Beyond that, if they were east [west, ed.] of Putnam when they heard about the problem in Bolton, New London would not have been an option. The airline track conditions were substantially better than the Valley tracks at that time. On fan trips of that era the ride was swift and smooth. The Midland and Airline was used regularly during steam years to break-in New Haven based engines that were overhauled at Readville They could run them at 20mph break-in speeds without fowling up Shoreline traffic. The Airline track with its heavier rails was good for all engines. Research Resources: Hurricane Damage Photos A Few Words About Wordless Wednesday #32 Middletown Tower: Roof, Windows, Painting On the Valley Line Today - Amtrak Farewell On the Valley Line - Today pt2 (Steam Pulls Diesel... On the Valley Line - Today Middletown Tower: Walls Done, Trim to Come More Middletown Tower: 15 minutes really IS long e... Progress does not always equal Accomplishment Middletown Tower Project: "Scrapbuilding" Walls Research Resources: Aerial Photos A Few Words on Wordless Wednesday #30 Tuesday Tip: Time Travel with Maps Spreadsheets & Switchlists: It's How I Roll (my tr... What's On My Workbench Modeling on vacation and/or in a small space

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All categories 27th Street Bridge 7th Street Project Accessory Dwelling Unit Building Department Fire Dept. General Questions Fire Permits Fire Prevention & Public Education Grand Avenue Bridge Sewer System Use Transportation Tax Savings Zoning 27th Street Bridge 7th Street Project Accessory Dwelling Unit Fire Dept. General Questions Fire Prevention & Public Education Grand Avenue Bridge Sewer System Use Transportation Tax Savings 1. What is the project schedule? We are currently awaiting a final baseline schedule from the contractor. Because much of the timeline depends on weather and delivery times, the schedule will likely fluctuate throughout the project, but we will advertise and publish any significant closures or delays ahead of time so that the public can plan for them. Generically, the timeline looks like this: Winter-Spring 2019: Begin soil nail walls for abutment Summer 2019: Pedestrian bridge set Late Summer 2019: Traffic Bridge closure and installation of new bridge Late Summer - Fall 2019: Pier removal from Roaring Fork Fall 2019: Aesthetic applications, landscaping Winter 2019: Substantial completion 2. What traffic impacts will I see as a commuter? As with any construction there will be delays. People want to see what is going on in the area, it is a neat project and people may slow to look at the project. In order to reduce these delays, the City is asking that drivers stay off their phones, pay attention to the signage, and follow the direction of our personnel who are on site directing traffic. At this time, the City anticipates these closures and delays: Night closures (detour to 8th Street) during girder and pedestrian bridge sets (Late Spring through Summer 2019) Full Closure and detour to 8th Street during the traffic bridge removal and slide operation. This will be a long weekend during late summer 2019. Periodic holds for the ingress and egress of construction equipment. The City hopes to limit these to outside high traffic times. Periodic holds on the river and trail when critical overhead work takes place. (Limited) 3. How will this impact river use on the Roaring Fork? The City intends to limit river closures with adequate notification. Most full closures will take place overnight, excluding the full closure for the bridge replacement. Temporary holds may be necessary during critical overhead work and during the in-water dates (August 15 – October 15) when the piers are being removed from the river. Please reach out to City staff with any concerns. The City intends to keep full contact with the River Users during this project and hope to minimize our impacts. 4. Why isn't South Bridge being built before the 27th Street Bridge replacement? The City has received a large amount of grant funding for the 27th Street Bridge that must be used in a specific time frame so that money is not lost. Also, the 27th Street Bridge is rated as the worst rated bridge in Colorado. Even though this is not currently a safety concern, this bridge is a critical connection and it is in a condition that does not allow the City to wait until South Bridge is completed. One reason that the South Bridge project isn’t underway yet is because of the project’s cost. Prior to a recent agreement with RFTA regarding the intersection at Highway 82 – the cost was in the $60 million -$65 million range. With the agreement in place, the project’s cost has been reduced to the $35 million -$40 million range. The City has bonding capacity remaining from the voter approved bonding measure for A&I sales tax and is applying for grants to help fund the remaining amount of the project. The City is working to finalize the Environmental Assessment for the South Bridge Project and will begin the right-of-way acquisition process once the assessment is complete. 5. How much traffic goes over the bridge? 2016 counts included in the 2017 Traffic Analysis show the average daily traffic amounted to 13,360 vehicles. In recent counts, the City estimates that more than 14,000 vehicles a day use the 27th Street Bridge. To give further perspective, Highway 82 near Wal-Mart facilitates 23,000 to 28,000 vehicles per day. 6. How much will this project cost? Let’s break this down for full project transparency: Design (Completed): Contract with Wood: $1,202,854 FHWA Off-System Bridge Grant: $620,828 Total Cost to the City: $582,026 For the completion of the bridge design. Right of Way Acquisition (Completed): Total Spent: $57,100.66 For the acquisition of Right of Way, permanent easements for utilities, and temporary easements during construction. Design Services during Construction (Under Contract): Contract with Wood: $162,420 For answering Requests for Information (RFI) and design support during construction. Construction Management (Under Contract): Contract with HDR: $1,249,996.10 Department of Local Affairs Grant: $475,000.00 Total Cost to the City: $774,996.10 For project inspection, management of CDOT paperwork, and contractor management. Construction Contract (Under Contract): Contract with Ralph L. Wadsworth: $9,835,123.35 FHWA Off-System Bridge Grant: $1,616,132.00 Federal Mineral Lease District Grant: $500,000.00 Total Cost to the City: $7,243,991.35 7. What is a pier? A support designed to sustain vertical load. In this instance, the existing bridge has two piers in the Roaring Fork River, near the bank in order to help support the bridge girders and deck. The new bridge will be a single span from abutment to abutment, removing any obstruction in the water. 8. What is an abutment? A structure built to support the lateral load of a span (bridge) at the ends of the bridge. With the limited space we have to construct, the abutments for the new, single span bridge, are being constructed in place in front of the existing bridge abutments with a combination of soil nails and micropiles. This allows the existing bridge to remain functional through most of the construction. 9. What is a micropile? A micropile is a small diameter drilled and grouted pile used to reinforce a foundation. In many instances micropiles are used in this area to gain friction for the stabilization of a foundation when bedrock cannot be reached. The project will use micropiles for the new bridge because a pile machine is quite large. If there were used, they City would not be able to construct the new bridge in place while keeping the existing bridge open. This also makes the construction footprint much smaller with less impacts. Recently the City used these on the Midland Avenue Pedestrian Bridge and the 14th Street Pedestrian Bridge. 10. What is a soil nail? A soil nail is a type of slope reinforcement. It allows steeper slopes by installing reinforcing bars that are drilled into the ground face and a concrete (shotcrete) installed to stabilize the soil. In this instance, the soil nail wall will be installed behind the abutment face to remove the lateral load on the abutment and allow for the installation of micropiles to support the bridge rather than full piles. Recently, the City has seen this application at the new Lofts development, 6th Street Station Development, and the teacher housing at Cardiff Mesa.

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The Comely Banking Crisis »It's all about art, film, excitement, tedium and politics in Edinburgh The Chilean Mars Landing Main Posts — Tags: Camp Hope, Carlos Mamani, Catholic Church, Chile, Euronews, Evo Morales, Latin America, Lilian Ramírez, Mario Gomez, Mars, miners, nationalism, news, Pakistan, Phoenix 2, Pinochet, religion, rescue, Sebastian Pinera, Television — comelybankingcrisis @ 10:49 am Why all the fuss about the Chilean Miners? What a bizarre few days we’ve had in the news. The rescue of 33 Chilean miners has caused such euphoria and excitement across the globe that we seem to have lost all sense of proportion of the event, picking over every possible angle and ultimately telling a story of 33 people who were simply in danger and now are not. Should this be globally significant news? Not on the face on it. Compare this with flooded Pakistan, where families have despaired, suffered typhoid and cholera, been just as patient, and finally rescued from the jaws of death not unlike the miners, but where so many thousands of others have perished. Surely there were scores of such hopeful narratives in that tragic set of events? Or do we prefer the hope without the tragedy? In spite of this perspective, the Chilean miners’ rescue has undoubtedly been a wonderful story. But it would be foolish to think that we were only concerned with the welfare of 33 workers, that we watched them being rescued one by one, embrace their families, be joyfully rushed to hospital, only because we hoped that those 33 men would survive fit and well. There is clearly much deeper significance to this story. No doubt the most obvious broad narrative in which the story has been told and received is Chilean nationalism. Images of Camp Hope – the temporary settlement around the rescue operation – awash with Chilean flags have become commonplace on evening television around the world, whether flying from poles or lately draped around the shoulders of the rescued heroes. This certainly seems to be a theme which has been embraced by the Chilean public, chanting the name of their country as they greet each newly rescued miner. Somewhat more bizarrely, news networks on Thursday morning published footage of rescuers still in the mine, having completed their mission, pausing for a moment of jubilation centred on the flag and again chanting that now familiar “Chi Chi Chi, lay lay lay” before they began their own ascent. As appealing as it has been, the nationalistic side of the story has by no means been an accidental outcome of the rescue. The presence of Chile’s president Sebastian Pinera in the centre of the story would suggest a certain amount of deliberate staging. He has his own national agenda too, which he’s not afraid to share: “the country is not the same after this”, he remarked in the midst of celebrations, Chile is “more united and stronger than ever”, surely the image any world leader would pursue for their voters and an international audience. He seems at pains to distance Chile from the image of military coups and the Pinochet years. Pinera is also demonstrating considerable political astuteness both by his presence and by his encouraging of the national significance of the event. A billionaire, he is a right-wing leader on a continent where left wing parties, including in his own country, have the potential to become prominent. There is no doubt that his opponents home and abroad will attempt to capitalise on this story of workers’ struggle. Left-wing president of Bolivia Evo Morales has already promised Carlos Mamani, a national of Bolivia and the only non-Chilean miner, a house and guaranteed job on his return. But Pinera has so far marginalised these voices. For better or worse, that this has become a national event in Chile is beyond doubt. The significant church involvement in Camp Hope suggests that this is also a story of good Catholics and Christian cooperation. This has likely broadened the story’s appeal in largely Catholic Latin America and globally. The implied narrative is not only one of a nation uniting to rescue its sons, but also one of prayers answered and religious fervour legitimated. Lilian Ramírez, wife of rescued miner Mario Gomez was unequivocal: “I want a shrine to stay here, a lovely big shrine where people can come and where the families can give thanks to God, the Virgin Mary and all the other saints who gave us our families back. That they are doing well and all alive is a remarkable miracle.” (Source: Euronews) And miracle is a word we’ve heard a lot recently, hinting that the events have already been interpreted by many as an act of God. Mars Landing But perhaps this story’s deepest meaning relates to the general human struggle behind the event. It’s a story of human frailty and of human inventiveness, technology and cooperation. The nightmare of being trapped so far underground for so long is perhaps only matched by the awe and fear of space travel, which is the ultimate conquering of human physical limitations. There is a certain irony that the miners were given guidance from space travel experts and even provided with “bio-harnesses”, designed for astronauts, to monitor vital signs. Essential as this aid may have been, the comparison with astronauts doesn’t stop there. The miners have been afforded the status of pioneers and national heroes, and the grainy footage of the kitted out rescuees climbing into a rocket-shaped rescue capsule emblazoned with the Chilean flag surely recalls television coverage of manned space missions. The capsule is named “Phoenix 2” after the mythical bird, but the name surely also recalls the spacecraft of the same name which landed on Mars on 25th May 2008, incidentally humanity’s most ambitious space destination today. Humanity has in this case overcome the odds with ingenuity and technology and the world celebrates. This truly has been Chile’s Mars landing. 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Kim Koopersmith Chair of Akin Gump will be presented with the 2018 Flex Leader Award Flex Impact Award Flex Leader Award Flex Success® Award Flex Success® Award Nominations Flex Success® Framework Flex Advisor Workshop Flex Success® Institute Signature Seminar Series Spotlight on Flex Bright Spots Diversity & Flexibility Alliance to Recognize Akin Gump Chair Kim Koopersmith For Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Flexibility Award to be presented at Conference on September 27 Washington, DC – September 6, 2018 – The Diversity and Flexibility Alliance has announced that Kim Koopersmith, chairperson of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, will receive its 2018 Flex Leader Award. The Flex Leader Award recognizes an executive who is moving his or her organization toward a more inclusive workplace through holistic flexibility. The Award will be presented on Thursday, September 27, 2018 at the Alliance’s annual conference, Diversity + Flexibility = Embracing Change, in Washington, DC. This conference was originally scheduled for March, but was postponed due to the snowstorm in DC. Registration is available here. Ms. Koopersmith is being recognized for her unwavering commitment to the advancement of women, attorneys of color and flexible work options for all. She has been instrumental in the success of Akin Gump’s Reduced Work Schedule and Agile Work Policies, which have consistently adapted to the needs of the firm’s employees and changes in technology, family dynamics, practice models and cultural norms. “Kim is the perfect example of a leader who is committed to ensuring that flexible work options are available to everyone,” said Manar Morales, President & CEO of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. “She understands the value of flexibility to individuals, as well as to the firm in its recruitment and retention of top diverse talent. She is dedicated to providing outstanding client service while offering forward-thinking policies to employees worldwide,” she added. “I want to make sure I use my voice and experience as a lawyer, working mother and firm leader to address and advocate for diversity and flexibility,” said Ms. Koopersmith. “I truly believe that our success originates from our talent, and one of the best ways we can support our employees is to provide the flexibility that they require,” she notes. “Equally as important, flexibility allows us to be in sync with our clients who also value diversity and flexibility,” she emphasized. In her role as chairperson of Akin Gump, Ms. Koopersmith heads the firm’s management committee and has been instrumental in the firm’s continued commitment to diversity, pro bono work and attorney excellence. She is involved in numerous community, civic and charitable activities, including serving on the board of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Pro Bono Institute Law Firm Committee and Her Justice, an organization dedicated to assisting victims of domestic violence. The Diversity and Flexibility Alliance is a think tank that collaborates with organizations to develop non-stigmatized flexible work policies that promote inclusive work cultures and help to advance more women into leadership positions. The Alliance provides practical research-based solutions, training workshops, and strategic advisory services that increase organizational effectiveness through diversity and flexibility. Manar Morales manar@dfalliance.com in Press Releases Post tagsflex leaderkim koopersmith Results of New Partner Report Underscore Need for Increased Focus on Retention and Advancement of Women Attorneys September 27 Conference to Showcase Innovative Best Practices, Latest Trends, Cutting-edge Research on Diversity & Flexibility Groundbreaking Flexibility Initiatives To Be Recognized for Their Impact on Industries Alliance Members Copyright © 2018 Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. All Rights Reserved. This material does not constitute legal advice.

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New Boho Interactive website blind Uncategorized Jack Lloyd and Mick Bailey at TEDx Canberra. Image by Gavin Tapp. This year, science-theatre ensemble Boho Interactive (Mick Bailey, Jack Lloyd and myself) was invited to talk at the Canberra TEDx Conference. On Saturday 24 September, Mick and Jack presented a performance-lecture discussing Boho’s work in communicating ideas from complex systems science through interactive theatre. Following the talk (which will soon be online), Boho has launched a new website with a swathe of new content. As it says on the front page: Following our performance at TEDxCanberra 2011, which was kind of a pilot for us in combining lecture and storytelling with interactivity, we’re working on formalising our work over the last few years, categorising it, and considering where various techniques are most effective. Figuring that others might find this useful too, over the next few months we will be posting regular articles on interactive performance styles and tech, looking at ways that audience members can contribute to their own appreciation of a work, resulting in a richer artistic experience. To kick things off, we’ve posted up several articles sharing some key lessons we’ve learned through our experiences making interactive work. First of all, Jack discusses the Treasure Hunt model, which Boho has used on a few occasions: The Treasure Hunt is a scene we love using because it gets the audience working directly with the environment, so it’s great to break down walls. Depending on what you want to achieve, there are good ways to get story content out at the same time… The focus is on exploration, experimentation, puzzle solving and discovery. Improvisation is generally not necessary, the scene itself is kind of the star anyway so performance elements can be quite minimal. Secondly, I’ve scribbled a little bit about failure – what it means when an interactive sequence falls apart in performance, or when the audience completely fails to understand or solve the activity you’ve created for them. In True Logic of the Future, we had a puzzle built around the Logic Piano (a replica of WS Jevons’ 19th century early computer construct). In this sequence, two scenes played out simultaneously – one set in a hospital, and one set at the scene of a crime by the city’s dam. The audience used the logic piano to separate out the two scenes, filtering the messy sequence into its constituent parts. Most audiences ran through the sequence between 5 and 8 times before hitting on a correct combination of keys. Some audiences got it within 2 or 3 goes, making the whole thing seem quite easily. During one performance, though, the players ran through the scene 13 times without hitting on the correct combination. As a performer, that’s desperate. You can feel the frustration mounting as the audience are trapped in this same section of the play, and the concern of the players as they fear that they might not be able to solve it. And when a sequence of the show that normally runs for 8 minutes runs on to 16, you begin to freak out that the show is going to run hugely over time, and everyone will be upset. Have a butcher’s at the site, and feel free to drop us a line or comment if you have anything to add (or dispute). A shot from probably the best Boho sequence in our whole company history: Flying Dudes. Image by ‘pling. be the assassin serious theatre – Void Without Void

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I just wanted to bring this post to your attention about character generation across the editions. It's great. If character generation can't be done under 10 minutes that's a serious, serious impediment to the hobby. Chargen needs to be old school, insofar as you are up and playing immediately. Trash powers, feats, proficiencies, specializations, etc. Let role-players role-play. It reminds me of a conversation I had with my family doctor. I was contemplating a surgical procedure and his advice was, paraphrasing, unless it's life or death beware of surgeons bearing knives. Indeed, they do like cutting people open. Similarly, guess what game designers like to do? Make rules, and rules, and more rules. Monte Cook. Take notes. scottsz October 25, 2011 at 4:08 PM We should start a betting pool as to how many hundred pages the 5E players handbook will be. Tim Brannan October 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM My 11 year old son made 4 characters in about 20 mins using just a pencil, character sheets and the D&D 4e Essentials book. That is about 5 min per character. So really, it is what you are used to doing. Kiltedyaksman October 25, 2011 at 8:04 PM If I were 11, with enough time on my hands, I'm sure I could make characters that quick too. Your comment serves to underscore the point, you need chargen that can be applied across the gamer population. Not just the kids, but the people who play infrequently. Actually, I love 4E - it's a big part of the reason why the OSR is thriving. Ozreth October 26, 2011 at 12:30 AM I play infrequently and work full time. I haven't taken longer than 10 minutes to make a 3e character in years. Once you do it a few times it's just at matter of how quickly you can write. I don't get these posts. They are typically biased and unproductive across the OSR blogs. In contrast, I sat down to make a 2e character for the first time in a loongg time and couldn't even figure out where to get half of the information that the character sheet asked for. As somebody above me said, whatever you are used to, whether it BASIC or your own 2e/3e/4e/5e/WoD hybrid, is what you are going to be the most proficient at creating characters for. Once you know the info you know the info, it's that simple. Von October 26, 2011 at 2:23 AM @Kiltedyaksman - I'm not sure what you're getting at. 'Enough time' would appear to be quantified as 'five minutes per character', which doesn't strike me as very long at all - or are you implying that the Essentials chargen process demands prep time spent in studying the system before you can achieve that five minutes? Not knowing 4e from a hole in the ground, I'm genuinely curious... Jeff Rients October 26, 2011 at 5:52 AM "I don't get these posts." Man. There is ALWAYS one guy who says "It only takes me 10 minutes". Always. Every damn time. I'm glad that you've mastered 3e sufficiently that you can construct a character so quickly, Ozreth. The rest of us don't have tables full of Ozreths. We have casual players who aren't that in to learning the rules. We have newbies. We have players who fret over every decision, especially in games like 3e where picking the wrong feat now will screw you at level 10. -C October 26, 2011 at 7:41 AM @Jeff Rients Fucking A. Ozreth October 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM @JeffRients I haven't mastered the rules by any means. I DM and disregard %60 of the rules anyways because I never cared to learn them. Roll 6 stats, copy down race/class features, pick a handfull of skills that seem relevant to you, pick one feat, roll gold, buy armor and weapons, add up AC after buying armor. It's seriously simple. My girlfriend was showing people how to do it after making one or two characters of her own. Maybe you've just let yourself believe that its something spectacular between the big book and all of the internet mumbo jumbo. Brendan October 26, 2011 at 12:05 PM @Ozreth But how do you know what all those skills and feats do without reading them all, and comparing them? In games with simple chargen, there is only one choice that has anything close to that problem, and that is selecting a spell, and that choice is only required if you are playing a magic-using class. And even then, there are only about 10-12 choices. I guess you could add choice of weapon to that as well (an argument for OD&D-style d6 damage?). How many feats and skills are there? I think it is way more than 10-12, even restricting options to core rulebooks. And then some classes have additional power lists as well. anarkeith October 26, 2011 at 2:06 PM I wonder if the issue of games "where picking the wrong feat now will screw you at level 10" is more about the players than the rules? The attitude that your character should be an idealized construction of optimal statistics seems to pervade the current RPG community. Why is this? Must you succeed at every challenge you face? Yes, much of the immediate satisfaction in playing an RPG comes from success. But there is a larger story to be told. Most of us acquire expertise through practice and repeated failure. This isn't always fun, but it leads us to try new things, and master new techniques. What if you took the same approach to character generation? In my opinion, your character should evolve over time. It shouldn't leap out of the box, fully and perfectly formed. I suppose the whole good/poor feat selection thing just depends on the group. My group just picks the first feat that sounds cool and relevant, it's as simple as that. I'm not optimizing monsters and they aren't optimizing characters. Most of the feat choices were designed to be balanced (whether they are or arent is a different discussion entirely) so going based on that you can't really go "wrong". Anyways, I understand and agree that earlier edition chargen is easier on paper, but that dosen't make 3e+ complicated. -C October 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM Good/Poor feat selection has nothing to do with the group. There *are* pages and pages of feats (just the lists!) and whole page of skills. A new player either has to have someone select those for them, or /without having played the game/ understand what those feats do, because once selected the choice is irrevocable. There are clearly feat selections that will make you unable to perform as well as you 'should' be performing, meaning that the decision can't be handwaved - it matters, and if ignored, forces more work upon the DM as he now has to balance disparate power levels. Feats were (per, oh, i don't know, the _designers_) explicitly not designed to be balanced, with many choices better than others. Meaning you can go wrong. earlier character creation is not just easier 'on paper', it's actually in every measurable way easier. 3e, with it's thousands of builds is in every measurable metric more complicated. Your denial or misunderstanding of reality doesn't change any of the facts.

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Cognitive neuropsychiatric analysis of an additional large Capgras delusion case series Currell, EA; Werbeloff, N; Hayes, JF; Bell, V; (2019) Cognitive neuropsychiatric analysis of an additional large Capgras delusion case series. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 10.1080/13546805.2019.1584098. (In press). Cognitive neuropsychiatric analysis of an additional large Capgras delusion case series.pdf - ["content_typename_Published version" not defined] Introduction:: Although important to cognitive neuropsychiatry and theories of delusions, Capgras delusion has largely been reported in single case studies. Bell et al. [2017. Uncovering Capgras delusion using a large scale medical records database. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 3(4), 179–185] previously deployed computational and clinical case identification on a largescale medical records database to report a case series of 84 individuals with Capgras delusion. We replicated this approach on a new database from a different mental health service provider while additionally examining instances of violence, given previous claims that Capgras is a forensic risk. Methods:: We identified 34 additional cases of Capgras. Delusion phenomenology, clinical characteristics, and presence of lesions detected by neuroimaging were extracted. Results:: Although most cases involved misidentification of family members or partners, a notable minority (20.6%) included the misidentification of others. Capgras typically did not present as a monothematic delusion. Few cases had identifiable lesions with no evidence of right-hemisphere bias. There was no evidence of physical violence associated with Capgras. Conclusions:: Findings closely replicate Bell et al. (2017). The majority of Capgras delusion phenomenology conforms to the “dual route” model although a significant minority of cases cannot be explained by this framework. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2019.1584098 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Delusional misidentification; psychosis; schizophrenia; neuropsychiatry; forensic UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry

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Home Extension Indiana Crops and Livestock (Purdue University. Ag. Extension Service) Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942) Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942) No. 199 April 1, 1942 INDIANA CROPS AND LIVESTOCK U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE COOPERATING WITH AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA The winter wheat crop has come through the winter in good condition. Light to ample snow cover protected the plants during the coldest weather and the period of alternate freezing and thawing was not prolonged. The April 1 prospect was for a yield of 18.0 bushels per seeded acre and a total production of 22,950,000 bushels. The seeded acreage is smaller than last year or than average. Production forecast is only 66 per cent of last year when an exceptionally high yield was secured, and 76 per cent of average. The condition of rye is reported at 86 per cent of normal or 2 points above average. Pasture condition is reported at 83 per cent of normal or 6 points higher than average. This probably results from the plentiful moisture and March temperatures somewhat higher than average. Stocks of corn on Indiana farms are estimated as 42 per cent of last year's crop or 71,744,000 bushels. The amount of corn on hand is 37 per cent larger than last year and 29 per cent larger than average. It is only 85 per cent as much as was held in April, Stocks of wheat are estimated as 4,853,000 bushels or 24 per cent more than last year and 13 per cent more than the 1930-39 average. The amount of oats remaining from the second successive large crop is 17,318,000 bushels or 2,500,000 more than last year and 4,000,000 more than average of April 1 for the 10 years 1930-39. The farm labor supply in relation to demand is apparently much as it has been since last July. Wages however are rising rather sharply and are now at about the levels of 1924 for day wages and of 1919 for monthly wages. They are still below the peak reached after the previous world war. On farms having no more than 390 hens and pullets of laying age the average number of layers is reported as 108 or 8 more than last year and 1 above aveage. Eggs produced per 100 layers on April 1 is reported at 61.3 where last year there were 58.4 and the average for 1931-40 is 57.1. Crop reporters were milking 70.8 per cent of the cows in their herds on April 1. Last year they milked 71.0 per cent and the 1932-41 average is 70.8. The cows milked produced 20.7 pounds each the same as last year, while the 1932-41 average is 19.1 pounds. Farmers have been delayed by adverse weather and are behind with spring work in much of the Nation; many complain of difficulty in securing competent help and some have been handicapped by lack of supplies. On the other hand, moisture conditions this spring are better than usual and the great majority of farm families are exerting themselves to increase production of crops and livestock products. The acreage of crops is expected to be the largest since 1933 and prospects for good yields per acre seem as favorable as at this season in any recent year. Livestock numbers, exclusive of work stock, are now above pre-drought peaks and still increasing, feed reserves are large, stocks of grain on farms are the largest on record for this season of the year, pastures and range prospects are promising and the production of meat, lard, milk and eggs is currently running at levels that provide fully the usual per capita supply in addition to the present volume of Lend-Lease purchases. The Corn Belt and the North Atlantic States had adequate rain and some warm weather and while little stock was on pasture in these areas on April 1 prospects for Title Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942) Purdue Identification Number UA14-13-crops0199 Subjects (LCSH) Crops--Indiana--Statistics Livestock--Indiana--Statistics Agriculture--Indiana--Statistics Collection Title Extension Indiana Crops and Livestock (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) URI UA14-13-crops0199.tif Transcript No. 199 April 1, 1942 INDIANA CROPS AND LIVESTOCK U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE COOPERATING WITH PURDUE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA INDIANA The winter wheat crop has come through the winter in good condition. Light to ample snow cover protected the plants during the coldest weather and the period of alternate freezing and thawing was not prolonged. The April 1 prospect was for a yield of 18.0 bushels per seeded acre and a total production of 22,950,000 bushels. The seeded acreage is smaller than last year or than average. Production forecast is only 66 per cent of last year when an exceptionally high yield was secured, and 76 per cent of average. The condition of rye is reported at 86 per cent of normal or 2 points above average. Pasture condition is reported at 83 per cent of normal or 6 points higher than average. This probably results from the plentiful moisture and March temperatures somewhat higher than average. Stocks of corn on Indiana farms are estimated as 42 per cent of last year's crop or 71,744,000 bushels. The amount of corn on hand is 37 per cent larger than last year and 29 per cent larger than average. It is only 85 per cent as much as was held in April, 1940. Stocks of wheat are estimated as 4,853,000 bushels or 24 per cent more than last year and 13 per cent more than the 1930-39 average. The amount of oats remaining from the second successive large crop is 17,318,000 bushels or 2,500,000 more than last year and 4,000,000 more than average of April 1 for the 10 years 1930-39. The farm labor supply in relation to demand is apparently much as it has been since last July. Wages however are rising rather sharply and are now at about the levels of 1924 for day wages and of 1919 for monthly wages. They are still below the peak reached after the previous world war. On farms having no more than 390 hens and pullets of laying age the average number of layers is reported as 108 or 8 more than last year and 1 above aveage. Eggs produced per 100 layers on April 1 is reported at 61.3 where last year there were 58.4 and the average for 1931-40 is 57.1. Crop reporters were milking 70.8 per cent of the cows in their herds on April 1. Last year they milked 71.0 per cent and the 1932-41 average is 70.8. The cows milked produced 20.7 pounds each the same as last year, while the 1932-41 average is 19.1 pounds. UNITED STATES Farmers have been delayed by adverse weather and are behind with spring work in much of the Nation; many complain of difficulty in securing competent help and some have been handicapped by lack of supplies. On the other hand, moisture conditions this spring are better than usual and the great majority of farm families are exerting themselves to increase production of crops and livestock products. The acreage of crops is expected to be the largest since 1933 and prospects for good yields per acre seem as favorable as at this season in any recent year. Livestock numbers, exclusive of work stock, are now above pre-drought peaks and still increasing, feed reserves are large, stocks of grain on farms are the largest on record for this season of the year, pastures and range prospects are promising and the production of meat, lard, milk and eggs is currently running at levels that provide fully the usual per capita supply in addition to the present volume of Lend-Lease purchases. The Corn Belt and the North Atlantic States had adequate rain and some warm weather and while little stock was on pasture in these areas on April 1 prospects for Add tags for Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942) Post a Comment for Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942)

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16 hours ago in Art & Culture 16 hours ago in North Africa Russia and Turkey’s Iran problem in Syria By Chris Doyle Thursday, 5 January 2017 “All foreign fighters need to leave Syria. Hezbollah needs to return to Lebanon.” So proclaimed the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, on 29 December. This is quite some cheek given that Turkey sent troops into Syria many times and for over five years, employed a semi-open border policy to foreign fighters, even those heading into the arms of ISIS and al-Qaeda.The Hezbollah response was predictably icy. “We are not present in Syria at the request of Turkey, Saudi Arabia or the United States, we are there as part of our cooperation with the Syrian state.” Contained within this more than fanciful Turkish ambition might lie the core of the behind-the-scenes struggle over Syria for 2017 and beyond. Having seen the US and Europe sidelined, many powers would love the same for Iran. Iran has embedded itself inside Syria with its support for the regime but more tellingly for a hodgepodge of militias. For most actors inside Syria now, Iran cannot be allowed to dominate the scene as it may desire. This includes Russia, Turkey, and other Gulf actors, and arguably elements of the Syrian regime as well as other actors such as the US, Israel and the EU. Iran is exposed by its lack of genuine allies. Russia portrays itself as the powerbroker in Syria now but such hubris is short-sighted. It has managed to rub along with the Iranians so far but it is not an easy relationship afflicted by mutual distrust and united largely by an antipathy to the United States. Iran and its proxies have already acted as a spoiler on numerous occasions including the evacuation of Aleppo and the current ceasefire. The major assault in the Wadi Barada to the west of Damascus that has seen major water shortages in the Syrian capital serves both to secure strategic locations for Hezbollah’s access to Lebanon as well as demonstrate that Iran cannot be ignored. Iran bristles at the burgeoning Russia-Turkish alliance suspicious of being squeezed out of its winnings in Syria. For Russia, diminishing Iranian influence in Syria could appease major Arab powers and perhaps calm some of the outrage over Russia’s orgy of destruction in Aleppo and Idlib. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, may see an opportunity to pocket support from an incoming Trump administration that will be probably far more hostile towards Iran than the outgoing Obama one. What is clear is that most Syrians resent the Iranian presence even more than the Russian. Regime loyalists often raise the Russian flag but hardly ever the Iranian Chris Doyle Fragmentation of Syria Crucially Russia prefers unity and Iran veers toward fragmentation of Syria. Russia craves a strong central authoritarian state. This does not accord with Iranian ambitions of creating non-state actors that are influenced by Iran and less desirous of a powerful Syrian state that might be able to stand up to it. Turkey has done an incredible U-turn on its Syria policy. For sure President Erdogan is not about to have a love-in with the Syrian regime, but gone is the entrenched support for the Syrian armed opposition who feel betrayed as their former patron falls into the Moscow camp. Turkey’s demands have shifted from regime change to thwarting Kurdish ambitions and ousting ISIS as well as a security belt in northern Syria. What does the Syrian regime want? Ultimately Bashar al-Assad has made it clear that the regime will want full restoration of control overall of Syria. For the time being, however, the Syrian regime has a manpower crisis not least in the army so can hardly afford the loss of foreign militias. But can Assad continue to play his patrons off against each other or does he have to choose one? Which would be his choice? Russia may be less of an intrusive partner but is too big to ignore its demands. Iran is less powerful but far more invasive in terms of its ambitions to control ley elements of the Syrian state and territory. What is clear is that most Syrians resent the Iranian presence even more than the Russian. Regime loyalists often raise the Russian flag but hardly ever the Iranian. Iran and Hezbollah are not just going to give up and walk out. Blood and treasure have been expended in considerable quantities since Iran first acknowledged a fatality in Syria in January 2012. Hedging bets Iran has ensured that the Syrian regime depends on its support as much as Russia’s. Hence, Iran increased its military deployment at the same time as the Russians. Iran hedges its bets, both by supporting the regime but other militias at the same time. If the regime flounders, Iranian influence is designed to continue by other means. For the last few years Syrians have waited in vain for Russia and the US to work together and to impose a political solution to end the crisis. Now their patience will be tested further as Russia, Turkey and Iran jostle to gain the upper hand as the dominant external regional player. A Russia-Iran-Turkey axis is still a possibility and may be sought after by many within their respective governments. Yet the underlying deep-seated tensions may well see the “victors” in the regional Syrian power play unable to divide up the spoils. As the United States, Europe and the Gulf are side-lined for the foreseeable future (though their funding for reconstruction and development will be required), do not be surprised by anything in Syria not least an ever worsening spat between the sponsors of the new Syrian political arrangement. Yet Iran, Hezbollah and other Shiite militias will be near impossible to dislodge from Syria in the near future. Russia will still have its hands full to mastermind any form of successful exit from the country it now co-owns. Chris Doyle is the director of CAABU (the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding). He has worked with the Council since 1993 after graduating with a first class honors degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. As the lead spokesperson for Caabu and as an acknowledged expert on the region, Chris is a frequent commentator on TV and Radio and gives numerous talks around the country on issues such as the Arab Spring, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Islamophobia and the Arabs in Britain. He has had numerous articles published in the British and international media. He has travelled to nearly every country in the Middle East. He has organized and accompanied numerous British Parliamentary delegations to Arab countries. He tweets @Doylech. Last Update: Thursday, 5 January 2017 KSA 09:29 - GMT 06:29 Turkish foreign minister calls on Iran to stop truce violations in Syria Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Iran to exert pressure on Shiite-backed militias and the Syrian ... Iran’s catch 22: Syria and the Aleppo offensive The number of Iranian troops in Syria is more than 70,000 and some estimate that it’s over 140,000. These troops ... Did Iran’s ‘tactical gains’ in Syria end after Russia takeover? The recent three-party conference held in Moscow with the participation of Russia, Turkey and Iran came to a significant ... Implications of the growing Iran-Syria economic relations A considerable amount of analysis has been dedicated to Iran’s geopolitical, strategic, and military relationships ... For most actors inside Syria now, Iran cannot be allowed to dominate the scene as it may desire

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EppsNet Archive: Thomas Paine The Saints Went Marching In by Paul Epps on 17 Nov 2018 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. — Matthew 27:51-53 It is an easy thing to tell a lie, but it is difficult to support the lie after it is told. The writer of the book of Matthew should have told us who the saints were who came to life again and went into the city. and what became of them afterward, and who it was that saw them — for he is not hardy enough to say that he saw them himself; whether they came out naked and all in natural buff, he-saints and she-saints; or whether… Read more → “Creating Jobs” and Other Fallacies by Thomas Jefferson on 3 Oct 2012 Almost everything appertaining to the circumstances of a nation, has been absorbed and confounded under the general and mysterious word government. Though it avoids taking to its account the errors it commits, and the mischiefs it occasions, it fails not to arrogate to itself whatever has the appearance of prosperity. It robs industry of its honours, by pedantically making itself the cause of its effects; and purloins from the general character of man, the merits that appertain to him as a social being. — Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1792) My fellow Americans — I’m hearing in the pre-debate analysis that voters are looking for the candidate who’ll help them have a better life. Speaking as someone who was there at the beginning, I can tell you that helping you have a better life was not America’s original value proposition. Everyone was welcome to come here and try to make… Read more → Thomas Jefferson on “You Didn’t Build That” by Thomas Jefferson on 8 Sep 2012 Almost everything appertaining to the circumstances of a nation, has been absorbed and confounded under the general and mysterious word government. Though it avoids taking to its account the errors it commits, and the mischiefs it occasions, it fails not to arrogate to itself whatever has the appearance of prosperity. It robs industry of its honours, by pedantically making itself the cause of its effects; and purloins from the general character of man, the merits that appertain to him as a social being. — Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1792) My fellow Americans — You see how my friend Tom Paine, 220 years ago, perfectly anticipated — and rejected — your President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” quote. Oh yes, we were aware of the “progressive” philosophy — that everything good comes from government — even then and we wanted no part of it. By the way, I notice that… Read more → Thomas Jefferson on Healthcare Reform by Paul Epps on 9 Sep 2009 My fellow Americans — Did you watch President Obama’s healthcare speech tonight? Neither did I. But I did learn from msnbc.com’s First Read that he hoped in his speech to explain to ordinary American voters — “call them Joe and Jane from Kansas City” — that his health-care reform will 1) cover nearly everyone and 2) cut costs in the long run. So let me get this straight — we’re going to spend money to save money! Does he think everyone in Kansas City is that stupid or just Joe and Jane? What — you don’t believe we can insure 50 million more people and cut costs at the same time? Well then, you’re an uninformed kook! You’re scared that those cost savings will come from drastically rationing access to care, particularly for people who are chronically ill and/or near the end of their lives? You’re un-American! Probably a Nazi!… Read more → Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one you have. — Emile-Auguste Chartier

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SC Press: Suspects in snake snatching arrested [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ The Viperidae Forum ] Posted by W von Papine�u on January 09, 2003 at 20:36:18: THE HERALD (Rock Hill, S Carolina) 09 January 03 Suspects in snake snatching arrested (Tim Eberly) York County authorities arrested two Rock Hill men Wednesday in connection with the theft of a deadly African snake from a local pet shop. Stephen G. Hefley, 24, of 1734-207 India Hook Road was charged with third-degree burglary and petty larceny after investigators found the snake in his home. Hefley's friend, 21-year-old Randolph Scott Coley of Rock Hill, is facing the same charges. Wednes-day night, both men were awaiting bond at the York County Detention Center. At 4:30 p.m., Rock Hill police forwarded an anonymous tip to the York County Sheriff's Office about the venomous Gaboon viper, which was taken from Herp-Aqua on Tuesday afternoon. An anonymous caller told police a man named "Craig" -- Hefley's middle name is Graig -- who lived in the Village Station Apartments had a snake that fit the Gaboon's description, Lt. Rusty Helms said. Maggart and Helms went to the complex at 5:30 p.m. and located Hefley's apartment. The suspect answered the door, and told officers he had recently purchased a snake. The investigators found the snake, valued at $200, on a nightstand in Hefley's bedroom. It was still in a small acrylic box, and a lamp and digital clock were sitting on top of the box. Though their investigation, the officers determined the two men went to the salt water fish and reptile store about 3 p.m. Tuesday. The store is closed Monday through Wednesday, but the door was open because a store employee had left for a brief period. The suspects realized the store was closed and went to their vehicle. After sitting in the parking lot, they decided to return. They found a key in the store that unlocked a room where the 10-inch snake was held, Helms said. Wednesday night, the snake was safe and being held at the detention center. Officers planned to return it to the store this morning. Though Hefley fed the snake a mouse Tuesday night, Helms said the suspects did realize it was venomous. "They didn't handle it," he said. "They were afraid to handle it." The store's owner, Adamm Smith, offered a monetary reward Tuesday night for any information leading to the recovery of the snake. Suspects in snake snatching arrested [ Follow Ups ] [ The Viperidae Forum ]

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