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THE burgeoning tourism industry in the Yorkshire Wolds could soon have more assets under plans to create a heritage railway and visitor centre on the former Malton to Driffield line.
Yorkshire Wolds Railway is seeking planning permission to lay just under a mile of track and create a visitor centre on the B1248 near Wetwang, close to the old Sledmere and Fimber station.
The group has already secured £40,000 from the European Union Leader Fund towards the £80,000 cost of the centre, which would include a wooden railway platform, a car park, and exhibitions about the history of the line and plans for its future.
The centre could be built by the end of March next year, paving the way for the operational track to be costed and financed.
The plans are subject to public consultation until March 16, and the group is urging supporters to write to East Riding Council to back the scheme.
The tourism potential of the unspoilt Wolds is only just being realised.
Artist David Hockney has generated international interest in the area and is working with Welcome to Yorkshire to create a Hockney Trail to guide visitors through the landscapes he painted.


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The debate about the mega-hospital has focused on many issues.
They include social concerns around access, costs associated with the proposed urban expansion and the environmental concerns surrounding the development of farmland.
The community has been pitted against each other on the location, but it would seem the issue of climate change was not greatly considered by those crafting the plan, an issue that affects all residents within our region. While most people understand the immediate need to take action against climate change, as a society we often find it difficult to make impactful changes to our daily lives.
It is the proposed location of the new hospital that is the issue here. The location not only requires us to pave over hundreds of acres of prime fertile farmland, but it’s very location, in relation to the densest, most populated areas in our region, is such that, for all intents and purposes, every user is required to arrive via personal automobile.
The problem with such an automobile-dependent development is not only the burning of fossil fuels within the combustion engines that drive our vehicles, but the energy and material that goes into the construction and maintenance of roadways, parking infrastructure, and even the manufacturer of automobiles.
All the infrastructure needed for us to drive our vehicles is a major contributor to climate change. It may not be easy for us to make personal sacrifices, but our motoring culture needs to change in order to slow climate change. This means we need to start building towns and cities that allow us to walk, cycle or use public transit more effectively.
It’s not about creating a car-free society, but a car-optional one. As a result, we will reduce automobile emissions from every kilometre not driven.
Shane Mitchell, Windsor
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I removed the spring from my XR100 damper, and then trimmed the bottom stop rubber back so the shock can easily move through it’s normal range of travel. (As a side note, I learned that this shock is utter crap, with no discernible compression damping.)
This morning before work, I started mocking up some rough patterns for my rear suspension linkages out of HDPE sheet. I still have to mock up dogbones linking the bottom of the vertical linkages to the original shock mounts on the swingarm.
PREEMPTIVE DISCLAIMER: I know the shock is bolted to some fairly wimpy frame brackets. At this point I am working strictly on determining the proper geometry — figuring out the proper means of attachment comes later. What I’m mocking up is not at all what the final mounting hardware will be.
I plan to drill several sets of shock mounting holes (high to low) on these linkages, so I can experiment with different linkage ratios. I’ll then move the rear wheel through it suspension travel in regular increments, measuring the amount of shock compression each time. By comparing damper compression to wheel movement, I can graph the ratio and see what the relationship is. I’d like to come up with a slightly progressive rate. Also, I will be able to calculate how much total wheel travel I get out of a particular amount of shock travel, which will help me choose what shock to use for real.


Here is an example of what the Apple brand looks like in the mind of a specific 50 year old. It probably has a lot in common with other people of a similar age. It will also have some elements in common with people from different generations but the overlap will be less. Great brands create strong, positive associations in the minds of people from successive generations by developing fresh advertising that is consistent with the past but keeps the brand feeling relevant as society and culture evolves over time.
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Boston Link's UK office is located in one of England's finest towns, Cheltenham. With shopping, restaurants, Regency architecture and fantastic bars, it really is a great place to be. The UK office recruits for the Financial Services and iGaming sectors in UK, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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In 2017 we started our initiative with The President's Trust, using our expertise to help underprivileged teenagers gain access to the workplace.
The Malta office is Boston Link HQ and the largest office in the Group. We are based in bustling St Julians near St George's Bay - walking to a client meeting next to the sparkling Mediterranean beats the District Line any day! Malta is one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe and arguably the global centre for both iGaming and Trust & Fiduciary services. It is also a centre of excellence for Cryptocurrency and Blockchain investment. It's a fantastic place to live and work - less than 3 hours flight time from UK with great beaches, restaurants and year-round sunshine.
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Tremors is a 1990 cult monster film that stars Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward as local handymen who work small jobs in a desert town of Perfection, Nevada. They along with their fellow citizens find that their town now is in danger from monsters who come from underneath the ground. The film's cast includes Reba McEntire and Michael Gross as Heather and Burt Gummer, a doomsday survivalist couple. The film would subsequently become a cult hit, spawning a franchise that includes six direct-to-video films and a television series, the majority of them having Gross reprising his role as Burt. Universal and Blumhouse Pictures was looking to revive Tremors as a new series for SyFy with Kevin Bacon returning to star and a pilot episode was shot, but ultimately was not picked up.
The following weapons were used in the film Tremors (1990):
William Moore & Co. 8 gauge shotgun
Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) owns an "Elephant Gun" that is a Belgian-made William Moore & Co. 8-gauge firing solid slugs. The shotgun was provided by Ellis Mercantile for the Tremors film. When it was thrown from the truck to the rock, it was dropped and the stock shattered at the wrist due to the 12.5 pounds that the shotgun weighs.
Burt (Michael Gross) uses a Remington 870 to fire multiple shots at the Graboid in the rec room and then uses it to break the glass on the case containing the elephant gun.
Winchester 1200 Defender (with pistol grip)
Heather (Reba McEntire) uses this pistol-gripped Winchester 1200 shotgun in Defender Configuration, to shoot off the tentacle of the Graboid attacking Burt in the rec room. The angled pistol grip attached to the back of the receiver makes it a Winchester.
Heckler & Koch HK91A2
Burt (Michael Gross) opens fire with the Heckler & Koch HK91A2 on the Graboid to no avail.
Colt AR-15 Sporter II
Heather (Reba McEntire) fires several magazines from a Colt AR-15 Sporter II at the attacking Graboid that breaks into the rec room. When abandoning his home, Burt pauses to ask Heather whether he should take a .458 rifle or an M16A2 Rifle, Heather advising him to take the .458 since it would have "better penetration". However, the weapon is not an M16A2; if you look closely at the rifle while it's on the wall, it has an M16A1-style upper receiver and slab-side lower receiver, which indicate it's an AR-15 Sporter II. None of the firearms used in the film were full auto guns. During this time in the 1980s, so called 'assault weapons' were easy to get from movie armories and you could walk out the door with them, the same as older weapons like WW2 rifles. You did not need a specially licensed armorer on set like movies had to get after the California AW ban.
Winchester Model 1894
The Winchester Model 1894 30-30 caliber lever-action rifle is found on the body of Edgar (Sunshine Parker), who had died of dehydration on a tower. Val (Kevin Bacon) later uses it in the first encounter with the Graboids but ditches it when they're being chased.
Winchester Model 70
Heather (Reba McEntire) has one of these Winchester Model 70s chambered in .375 H&H Mag with a scope in her possession and passes it off to Earl (Fred Ward) when he and Val are about to ride off to Bixby by horseback, he loses it however when his horse is attacked. Heather (Reba McEntire) later totes another chambered in .458 Win Mag at the start of the rec room scene, she carries it again later as the town escapes to the mountains and fires a few rounds at some Graboid dirtmounds. She even says in the film it's a .458 and Burt should bring it due to its better penetration and less ammo to carry.
Steyr-Mannlicher SSG-PII Rifle
Burt (Michael Gross) is mostly seen carrying a Steyr-Mannlicher SSG-PII Rifle in the film. When the Graboid first breaks into his and Heather's basement, he uses this rifle to attack the worm before running empty and moving to the gun wall for more firepower.
IMI Micro Uzi
A Micro Uzi can be seen near the finale, when Val (Kevin Bacon) fires it over the side of the trailer at a Graboid under the dirt. It could be just a semi auto pistol version.
Colt Single Action Army
Earl (Fred Ward) pulls a Colt Single Action Army from the glove compartment of the truck upon discovering the two road crew workers dead. It is later seen again in his possession when He and Val are about to ride off to Bixby.
Smith & Wesson Model 28
Earl (Fred Ward) has a Smith & Wesson Model 28 in his possession near the end of the film and fires multiple shots over the side of the old semi trailer as the Graboids attack.
Heather Gummer (Reba McEntire) also takes a nickel SIG-Sauer P226 off the wall to fire at the Graboid along with the Redhawk. She later appears to keep the SIG in her holster.
Burt (Michael Gross) hands a Ruger Redhawk revolver with a 5.5" barrel and rubber Pachmayr grips off to Melvin (Robert Jayne) to get him motivated to run to the rocks. Melvin is mad once he finds out the revolver is unloaded when he attempts to fire it at the approaching Graboid dirt mounds. Burt also checks the revolver to make sure it's still empty after retrieving it from Melvin.
Magnum Research Inc. Mark I Desert Eagle
Burt (Michael Gross) wears a Desert Eagle Mark I in a hip holster finished in Brushed Chrome for the remainder of the movie after the Graboid broke into his rec room in which it can also be seen on the gun wall in that scene and at one point Burt fires a few shots into the air from it from the rock in an attempt to distract a Graboid from the others. One was also see on the wall of the rec room.
M8 Flare Pistol
An M8 Flare Pistol is taken off the gun wall by Heather (Reba McEntire) and fired into the mouth of an attacking Graboid.
The Gummers' Wall of Guns
As the Gummers reach for more firepower, the camera pulls back to reveal a massive wall of guns, most of them pistols and shotguns. Several times, the guns on the wall changes position. This scene was filmed over several days and (unfortunately) several locations which meant that the wall had to be re-built from scratch more than once.


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He’s baaaaaack. We first introduced you to YouTube favorite Mike Tompkins in October. Tompkins recreates some of AMP Radio’s favorite songs by only using the sounds he can make with his voice and mouth.
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|Publication number||US2348347 A|
|Publication date||May 9, 1944|
|Filing date||Sep 5, 1942|
|Priority date||Sep 5, 1942|
|Publication number||US 2348347 A, US 2348347A, US-A-2348347, US2348347 A, US2348347A|
|Inventors||Koob Bernard H|
|Original Assignee||Hartford Empire Co|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Referenced by (8), Classifications (18)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1 B. H. KOOB PASTE MOLD MACHINE FORFORMING HoLLow GLASS May 9', 1944.
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May 9, 1944. y B. H. Koos 2,348,347 PASTE M D MACHINE FOR FORMING HOLLOW GLASS BLA INTO FINALL LOWN ARTICLES Filed Sept. 1942 4 Sheets-.Sheet 3 12294. @65a Y 7/ '70 l l 7a4 46, l /9 ,6 //4 7:"' 2' /sa Q y /6 /4L y l/ /7 I /7a /aa l a 73 YvzYZ/'a y omfi B. H. KOOB PASTE MOLD MACHINE 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 FOR FORMING HOLLOW GLASS Filed Sept. 5, 1942 BLANKS INTO FINALLY BLOWN ARTICLES May 9, 1944.
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Patented May9, 1944 4 PASTE MOLD MACHINE FOR FORMING HOL- LOW GLASS BLANKS INTO FINALLY "BLoWN ARTICLES Bernard IL Koob, West Hartford, Conn., assigner f to Hartford-Empire Company, Hartford, Conn., Ia"'corporation of Delaware Application September 5, 1942, Serial No. 457,414
` y (Cl. 413-18) 12 Claims.
This invention relates to the manufacture `f hollow glass articles, and more particularly to the manufacture of such 'articles as jars, bowls; tumblers and the like by the use of a machine which includes means for blowing hollow blanksor parisons to final form in a paste mold and for effecting relative rotation between the paste moldand the blank or parison therein during the blowing operation.
An Object of the invention is to provide an eiicient machine of lrelatively simple construction for acting upon hollow blanks orv parisons which may have been-producedby the blankI or parison forming mechanismr of a glass forming machine of the hot mol type, such, -for example, as the wellrknown Hartford l.A S.1 forming machine, `and for forming -such `hollow blanks or parisons in a blow mold `or blow molds of the paste mold type to form theglass article or articles desired. f
A further object of the invention is the provision in a machine of the character described of a novel means for iirmly holding a slightly protruding `open end or iinish portion 'ot a hollow blank or parisonina pastemold and for-.rotating such blank or -parison in the'mold during the blowing of the blank or parison to final form.
A further object of the invention is to provide a machine 'of the character described having. a novel means adapted to grip the open endlor iinish portion'of a hollow glass blank or parison in a vpaste mold and to rotate such blank or parison in the mold without marring the portionfof the blank or parison that has been gripped whereby such portion matr forma part of the iin'ally blown article and need not be cracked off or otherwise removed as is usual in, the `manufacturing of paste mold ware.
A further object of the invention is the provision of a machine of the character described havin'gapaste mold comprising openable and closable halves and a cooperative means for gripping a protruding portion .of and rotating a. hollow glass blank or parison in the paste mold, such means including a' clamping ring mounted on-ithe closed paste. mold` around the protruding portion ofthe blank or parison and made of openableand closable halves together with means :for rotating them on the paste mold when they are closed and for permitting them to be opened by the mold halves when the latter are opened.
.l-.A.,further object of the invention is theipro- `vision-of `a .machine 'of the', character described having a. novel means'forlg'ripping aprotruding open' erld orniinishl portion: of a hollow blank or parison in a paste mold and for rotating the blank or parison and having a novel cooperative means for applying blowing air to the interior of the rotating hollow blank or parison in the mold.
` Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter be pointed out or will become apparent from the following description of two illustrative practical embodiments of the invention as shown in the accompanying drawings, in
Figure l is a vertical section through a machine embodying the invention and including a` paste mold and one form of means for rotating a hollow blank or parison in the paste mold and for blowing such blank or parison to nal form therein;
Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through ythe machine of Fig. 1, substantially along the line 2--2 of Fig. l, with a portion of the underlying struc-r ture broken away;
Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through the paste mold and adjacent parts of the machine, the view being generally on a plane extending substantially at a right angle to that of Fig. 1 but showing in section certain parts which would not appear in a true section on that plane;
Fig. 4 is a vertical section through a second embodiment of the same invention, including the paste mold and a dilerent structural arrangement for rotating a hollow blank or parison in the paste mold and for applying blowing air thereto; and
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the paste mold unit and of parts of the associate blank or parison gripping and rotating means of the form of device shown in Fig. 4 as they appear in open positions.
`A machine of the invention either in the form shown in Fig. 1 or that shown in Fig. 4 may include a paste mold generally designated IIJ which may comprise a pair of halves Ina carried by holders Ib. These holders may be `pivotally connected to a vertical support Il, Figs. 1 and 2, or lla, Figs. 4 and 5, to be swung about the axis of their vertical support to open and close their supported paste mold halves. A bottoni plate l2 may be associated with the paste mold to close the cavity thereof at its bottom when the paste mold is closed. The bottom plate may be supported in any suitable known manner for cooperation with the paste mold halves as intended. Any suitable means for swinging the holders for the halves of the paste mold about their pivotal axis to open and `close the mold at thepropertimes in the operation ofthe machine may beemployed. g The paste mold assembly, comprising the open- Vable Vand closable mold halves and av cooperative bottom plate, may be suitably located for the delivery thereto from a parison forming mechanism (not shown) of a hollow glass blank or parison suitable to be blown in the paste mold to form a hollow glass article of the shape desired. Thus, a hollow glass blank or parison such as that shown in part in dot-and-dash lines at I3in each of Figs. 1, 3 and 4, may have been delivered to the paste mold assembly shown in each of these views and blown therein to form an article I3a of the iinal form desired. ,The particular articleA shown is suitable for use asia coffee maker but it may be formed to have a different shape and to be adapted for a different use.
The blank or parison formingmechanism ,may be that of any suitable known or preferred forming machine. I prefer to use the parison forming mechanism of a forming machine of the Hartvford. I. S. type, an example of which is shown in the Ingle Patent 1,911,119, of May 23, 1933. The blank or parison forming mechanism of such a machine may include .or have associated therewith a suitable transfer mechanism for transferring the hollow glass blank or parison to the paste mold assembly. The hollow blank or parison may have an outwardly turned or externally beaded open end, rim or finish portion, represented by thatshown at |312 in Figs. l, 3 and 4, by which the hollow'blank or parison may be suspended within the paste mold assembly'for blowing out against the walls or the molding cavity and forA rotation about its vertical axis by mechanism of the present invention as hereinafter will be further explained.V The portion |31) of the hollow blank or parison lhas already been formed to have substantially the shape and size desired for the finally blown article.. This' portion may protrude slightly above the cavity of the paste mold when the main body portion of the blank or parison depends within such cavity, substantially as shown.
The` present invention provides two cooperative clamping members of annular or ring form for clamping between themselves the protruding open end or finish portion of the hollow glass blankor parisonin the paste mold. Y One of these clamping members, indicated generally at I4 in the drawings, is rotatably mounted upon the paste mold so as to encircle and contact at its inner periphery with the protruding open end or finish portion of the hollow blank or parison in the paste mold,` as beneath the externally beadedy or aring extremity of that portion of the blank or parison as indicated at llla in Figs. 1, 3 and 4. A novel feature of the clamping member I4 is that it is made in h alves, like the paste mold, and `that while it maybe rotated o n the paste mold when the latterV is closed, its rotation is controlled so that stoppage thereof will leave the halves Ythereof suitably positioned for opening and closing movements with the halves of the paste mold and the mounting of the member I4 on the paste mold is such that opening and closing of the halves'of the latter will also open and close the halves of the former. A further novel feature Vof the clamping member I4 is that the inner or glass engaging portion of .each
of the halves thereof is detachably secured, as by cap bolts I5, Figs. 2, 3 and 5, to the remainder of that half and` maybe removed and replaced by an inneror glass engaging portion having a different shape and/or size at its inner or vglass contact edge. Byvsubstituting/ inner portions of the halves thereof as` required, the clamping of. Freely rotatable rollers I1, Figs. 2, 3 and 4,
'are suitably supported by radial pins or axles vI'Ia carried bythe mold holders I'Ilb so that their upper peripheral portions extend into the groove or channel I6 against the bottom of the latter. By this arrangement, the closed halves of the member I4 may turn or rotate in unison on the closed halves of the paste mold I0 about the vertical axis of the latter. The means just described for mounting the clamping member I4 member. |14 may Ibe adapted lto encircle and-closely 75 on the paste mold is of the anti-friction bearing type so that the rotation of the former on the latter may be effected easily and without substantial friction. At the same time, the mounting-is such as to prevent accidental lateral bodily movement of the member I4 as an entity relative to the paste mold when the latter is closed or radial movement of either of the halves of the member I4 relative to its supporting half of the paste mold when rotation ofthe member I4 has been stopped. The rollers I 1 may be of the frusto-oonical type, in which event the bottom of the groove or channel I 6 will be appropriately inclined in a radial direction to match the slope of the peripheries of the rollers.
The second clamping member of the blank or parison neck clamping device of the present invention as hereinbefore generally described may be a one piece ring such as that indicated at I8 in Figs. 1, 3 and 4. It is contemplated that the clamping member I8 will be carried by a suitably operated movable carrier by which it will be brought at the proper time to bear againstthe open end or nish portion of a hollow blank or parison in the paste mold at a surface of thelatter that is opposite the surface in contact with the annular member I4. When, as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, the member I4 encircles .the neck of the hollowblank or parison beneath an outwardly haring or enlarged extreme upper` end portion thereof, the member I8 may bear at its lower surface, as at I8a, against the upper surface of such extreme upper end portion of the hollow blank or parison. If the shape of the open upper end or nish portion of a hollow blank or parison in a pastemold of a machine of the presentinvention should require or make desirable, the members I4v and I 8v may bear against opposed` outer andk inner surfaces of such upper end or finish portion of the blank or parison. 1
In each of the illustrative embodiments of the invention shown in the drawings, the clamping ring I8. is carried by an assemblyof structural elements which together constitute a movable blow head mechanism by which blowing airis supplied to the interior of the hollow blankor parison in the paste mold at'thespropertlmefto blow out the walls of the blank or parison against the paste mold walls. While these'blowhead mechanisms are alike in the main, they ihave some cliiferences and hence will be. separately described. i c
f Referringrst tov the structurer of Vth'e;;form of the machine shown in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, it will be noted' that the clamping .ring'IB is partiallyrset'into a. groove inthe lowersurface of` a carrying ring I9, see Figs. 1 and 3, which constitutes the bottom member of thefblowhe'ad mechanism. The clamping ring I8 depends below the lower surface of the carrying ring I9 so as to seat firmly against the upper surface of the outwardly flaring open upper end portion of the hollow blank orparison in the paste mold when the blow headl mechanism has been lowered from a higher out-of-the-way position (not shown) to its blowing position as shown. A
The annular bottom member I9 ofthe blow head structure is connected'by an annular coupling 2l) to the lower end of a vertically expansible and contractile flexible tube 2|. The latter may be made of thin spring metal that has been suitably formed to provide peripheral corrugations, substantially as shown. The tube 2I is connected at its upper end by an upper coupling 22 to a driven friction clutch plate-23. The lat-` ter lis in frictional contact at its" upper surface with a driving `friction clutchplate 24 that is driven continuously by means presently to be described.
As shown, the friction clutch plate 24 has an upwardly extending tubular stem 25 mounted anti-frictionally within a vertical bearing sleeve 26 at the outer end of an arm 21. The arm 21 may be carried by a vertical rod 28 which may be-appropriately moved by suitable means (not shown) to effect theV desired blow head in relation to the paste mold for the glasswareforming operations to be performed. The means for moving the rod 28 may be like that disclosed -in the aforesaid Ingle Patent 1,911,119 for operatingthe nal blow head arm supporting rod "26| ofthe forming machine of that patent. The driven friction clutch plate 23 has an upwardly extending tubular stem 29 journaled in the tubular stem 25 and projecting upwardly beyond the upper end of the latter. A drivenrepresented by the sprocket chain 30 is operatively connected to the stem 25, as through the sprocket wheel 3|, to rotate the stem 25 and the friction drive plate 24 continuously, as aforesaid. f 1 i f A` coil spring 32 is disposed between an annular bearing unit 33 on a nut 34 that is carried by the upper end portion of the stem 25 and anut 35 that is carried by the upper end portion of .the inner stem 29 and tends to maintain the driven friction clutch plate 23` in good frictional contact with the driving friction plate 24. The pressure applied by the spring 32 may be adjusted by adjustment of the nut 35 to increase or diminish the compression ofthe spring 32. Y.
A vertical rod 36 extends through the assembly of parts of the blow head mechanismasso far described. A tubular coupling 31 is in threaded engagement at 38 with an upper portion ofthe,
rod 36` and at 39 with the stem 29 and thus suspends the rod 36 in the blow head assembly. `The rod extends downwardly ythrough the longitudif nally expansible and contractile tube 2I4 and through acentral opening 40 in the coupling member 20, being provided at its lower extremity with a head or enlarged portion 4I. When the blow head structure is raised to lift the clamping member I8 from itsclamping position, the tubular member 2| may be expanded longitudinallyuntil the coupling member 20 strikes thehead 4Ioftherod36. i
A blowing air supply pipe 42 may be connected to the arm 21 in communication with a passage 43 therein., This passagefcommunicates withla peripheralgrooveMin the stem 25. The groove movements of the 44 communicates through radial passages 45m the stem 25 with passages indicated at 46 in the stem 29 and thence with passages indicated at 41 in the inner tubular member31 so that pressure fluid supplied by thel pipe 42V tothe blow head assembly may pass downwardly therein to and through a discharge passage 48 in the lower coupling member 20 and thence to the interior of the glass blank or parison in the paste mold; A coil spring 49 may be disposed around the lower end of the rod 36 between the lower end of the tubular member 31 and the lower coupling member 2D and may exert pressure on the latter so as to tend to maintain the clamping ring I3 pressed firmly against its seat on the upper end portion of the glass blank or parison in the paste mold `when the blow head mechanism is in its lowered blowin-g position as shown.
In the machine of the Fig. 1 form of construe# tion, the clamping member I4 is rotated by a final driving member 50, Fig. 3, that is rotated by the driven friction member 23. The member 50 has an annular head portion 5I, Figs. liand 3, adjustably connected by screw threads 52 to the friction member 23. The head 5I carries a pair of depending legs 53, Fig..3,having outturned lower end portions 53a carrying depending coupling elements 54 adapted to lit into suitably shaped recesses 55 in the halves of the clamping member I4 when the blow head assembly has been lowered toits blowing position as shown. The coupling elements 54 are shown as being downwardly tapering heads at the lower ends of pins carried by the parts 53a and the recesses 55 as being shaped to accommodate this type of coupling element. The member 50 may be turned on the driven member 23 if required to assure proper engagement of the coupling elements 54 with the walls of the` recesses 55 to effect rotation of the clamping member I4 in unison with the driven member 23.
A means for breaking the driving connection between the continuously rotating friction meniber 24 and the clamping member I4 so that the rotation of the latter will be stopped when desired will now be described. Such a means may comprise a pair of pawls 56 which arepivotally mounted on horizontally disposed short shafts or pins 51 carried by upturned lugs or ears 5S on the holders Ib for the halves of the paste mold. See Figs. 2 and 3. The pawls 56 are acted on continuously by torsion springs 59 which tend to maintain the working Vorlatching ends 59a of the pawls continuously engaged with notches or recesses 66 in the respective `halves of the clamping member I4. The notches 69 are located suitably to cause the rotation of the clamping member I4 to be stopped when the parting line between the halves of such member is parallel or nearly parallel with the parting line between the halves of the paste mold or in other words, so that the halves of the member I4 can open with the halves of the paste mold. The engagement of the pawls with the notched or recessed portions lof the halves of the member I4 will hold these halves against rotation firmly enough to overcome the friction between the continuously rotating driving member 2f: and the associate driven member 23. i, A means for disengaging the pawls from the halves of the member I4 and for holding the pawls in their raised, inactive position may coinprise a vertically disposed pneumatic cylinder-.61,- carried by the varm 21 and, in the present instance, formed inpart in thatarm'. A piston 62 vertically fa depending piston lrodfl3, the lower end portion oft/which carries across barv 64,
. Figs. 1 and 2. The cross bar 64 has depending pawl-actuating contact members S5 which,
as best seen inFig. 2, are located over tail pieces 56h of the `pivoted pawls 5t; Thus, when the piston 62 is moved from the upper end of its stroke in the cylinder Vtl to the'lower end of such cylinder', the consequent lowering of the crossl ybar 54 and of the contact members 65 carriedthereby will force the tail pieces 5622 of the pivoted pawls 56 downwardly, the working or latching ends 56a of such pawls thereby being raised out of engagement with the notches 6U in the halves of the clamping member I4. A coil spring 65 may be provided within the cylinder around the piston rod to urge the piston 60 continuously towardv the upper end of its cylinder, as to the position-shown inFig. l. A fixed guiding pin 61 .may be provided to work in a longitudinal slot 68 in the piston rod 53 .to prevent accidental turning. of the'piston rod about its vertical axis from :the position desired. This of course is the positionin which the cross bar 64 is supported 'with the cont-act members 65 directly abovethe tail pieces of the pivoted pawls. The downward stroke ofthe piston E2 in the cylinder 6I may be caused aty the proper time in the cycle -of operations of the machine by supplying a lpressure fluid to the cylinder above the piston 62, as from a pipe 59, to drive the piston downwardly against the resistance of the coil springv 66.
The operation of the form of machine that has been described in detail will be readily understood. Assuming that this machine has been located suitablyv for cooperation with the hollow blank or parison forming mechanism of a selected forming machina such, foi example, as the Hartford I. S. forming machine hereinbefore referred to, the halves of the paste mold and the halves of the clamping plate I4 may be closed while the blow head. mechanism is in a raised position out of the way of the means (not shown) by which a hollow blank or parison is to be delivered to thepaste mold. Such a hollow blank or parison, when delivered, will hang pendant within the paste mold from the closed clamping ring I4. Lowering of the blow head mechanism will position the clamping ring I8 in cooperative relation with the clamping ring I4 so that the protruding open upper end or finish portion of the glass blank or parison will be rmly held between these two clamping members. The lowering of the blow head mechanism to its blowing position will also establish the driving connection between the clamping member I4 and the continuously rotating driving member 24. The pawls then may be actuated to release the halves4 of the clamping member I4 so thaty this member, together with the rotatably mounted parts of the blow head and the glass blank or parison will rbe rotated in unison. This rotation maytake place duringl the application of blowing pressure through the blow head structure Vto the interior of the hollow blank or parison to blow it to final form in the blow mold. Thereafter, the pawls may be released so that they will engage the notches in the halves of the clamping member I4, thereby stopping rotation ofthe latter when the halves of such clamping member are in positions to be opened by the opening of the halves of the paste mold; The blow head structure'may have been 75 raised concurrently with or just before the opening ofthe` halves of the paste mold and the flnally Vformed article maybe removed from the bottom plate of the blow mold assembly by any suitable means.
In the-embodiment ofthe-invention shown in Figa-4 and `5, the clamping member I4 is kdirectly'driven; The blow head mechanism of this form of the device therefore need not include driving means but may otherwise be substantially like thehereinbefore particularly described blow head mechanism of the Fig. l form of construction. It is intended that the clamping ring I8 shall be moved relative to the clamping member VI4 and rotated in unison therewith about the same axis when these clamping members are clamped against opposite surfaces ofv the protruding open endfor neck portion of a hollow blank or parison -in the paste mold and any blow `head mechanism suitable for the `accomplishment of thesegresults may be used to carry the clamping ring I8 in the Fig. 4 form of machine. The blow head mechanism of this form of machine is shown only in part in the drawings, the illustrated members thereof being indicated by the same reference numerals as were used for like parts of the blow head mechanism of the Fig. l form of construction.
The means for rotating the clamping member I4 of the machine of Figs. 4 and 5 may comprise a driving gear 1I) carried by a vertical shaft 1I and having teeth 1lla in mesh with teeth 12 in the outer edges of the halves of the clamping member I4. `The vertical shaft 1I is anti-frictionally mounted in a vertical tubular bearing 13 in the aforesaid vertical column I Ia on which the holders .for the halves of the paste mold are pivotally mounted. The shaft 1I carries, at its lower end, a friction driven disk 14. A cooperative continuously rotating friction drive disk 'I5 is carried by a sleeve 18 which is feathered to a short vertical shaft 11 that is disposed below and in axial alignment with the4 shaft 1 I. A, coil spring 18, located between an anti-friction bearing unit 19 and the driving disk 15, urges the latter continuously against the driven disk 14. The shaft 11 is driven continuously byv a suitable prime mover, such as the motor 8D.
A pneumatic cylinder 8| is located at one side of and vadjacent to the driven disk 14. A piston 82 is reciprocable in the cylinder BI for operating a piston rod 83. The latter carries a detent 84 adapted to enter and engage with a notch 85 in the edge of the disk 14 when the piston 82 is at the end of its stroke in the cylinder 8| toward the disk 14. A compression spring 86 may be providedin the cylinder 8l between the end of the cylinder remote from the disk 14 and the piston ,to urge the piston 82 constantly toward the disk 14. When the detent 84 is in engagement with the notch in the edge portion of the driven disk 14, the*4 rotation of the disk 14 will be stopped. The notch 85 is suitably located in the edge of the disk 14 to stop rotation of the shaft 1I and hence of theY halves of the closed clamping member I4 sothat vthese halves can open with the halves of the paste mold, as to the positions shown in Fig. 5. When it isdesired to permit rotation of the closed clamping member I4, air may be applied to the cylinder 8| between the piston B2V and the end of the cylinder next to the disk 14 to drive the piston 82 toward the .opposite end of the cylinder against thezresistance ofthe spring 86 and tomaintain the..piston^in`that position while the rotation of the clamping member I4 is taking yi- I claim:
place. 'Release of thiszair, which may be 'supplied'and exhausted through suitable connections,
*The invention is not limitedtothe detailsof the illustrative embodiments thereof shown in the drawings and hereinbefore described as many modifications thereof and changes therein will readily occur to those skilled in the art'.
1. In a glassware formmg machine; the combination with a blow mold havinga cavity therein open atone end of the mold,of-clamping1means 4.mounted `to rotate at said endof the mold inde' pendently of the latter about the extendedaxial line Aof the mold cavity, said fclamping 'means comprising a vplurality of members movable relatively to each other to and from positions at which l they cooperate to grip the openend or finish por-'E l tion of 'a hollow glass blank or parison having a body portion located within said mold cavity so as to rotate said blank or'parison in said m'old cavity when said clamping means is rotated as aforesaid, meansincluding a continuously rotatf4 ing driving member to rotate said clamping means when the relatively movable members "thereof are in their cooperative postionslas'aforesaid, and means operable to automatically stop rotation of said clamping lmeans after a predetermined period of rotation thereof whilelsaid driving member continues to rotate. l 'A 2. In a glassware forming machine, the combination with a blow mold having a cavity open, at one end of the mold, an annular clamping" member rotatably mounted adjacent to said end of said mold in position to encircle land contact at its inner edge with the neck portion of Aa hollow glass blank or parisonhaving a body'portion disposed within said cavity of the mcld, a second clamping member movable axially toward and `from said end of said mold to and from position to seat against a surface of said neck portionof said hollow blank or parison opposite that in,4 contact with said first named clamping member, 'means for rotating said clamping members in unison relative to said blow mold to rotate said hollow blank or parison in said blow mold, and means for introducing blowing air into said hollow blank or parison during its rotation in said blow mold.
3. In a glassware forming machine, the combination with an upright blow mold made in two openable and closable halves and having a cavity therein open at the upper end of-the'mold when said halves are closed, an annular clamping member havingan inner edgeformed to encircle and contact with the outer surface of the neck portion of a hollow blank or parison to support thebodyof said blank or parison within the cavity'f of said'blow mold when said clamping member is located in a'position adjacent to the upper end of said mold and in axial alignment therewith,
4means for rotatably supporting `said annular clamping member in its ysaid position relative `to said blow mold, a vertically movable-blow head mechanism for supplying blowing air to the interior of said hollow blank or parison in said blow mold, and a rotatable clamping ring carried by said blow-head mechanism in position to be seated on a surface of the neck portion of said hollow blank or parison opposite to that encircled by said rst-named clamping member when said blow head structure is in position to apply blowing air -alignment therewith, said clamping ring being adapted to encircle the neck portion of a hollow glass blank or parison to support the body of the blank or parison within said blow mold, means for rotating said clamping ring relative to said blow mold to rotate the blank or parison in -the mold, and means for controlling the rotation -of said clamping ring to stop automatically each cycle of rotation thereof` whenthe halves ofthe clamping ring are in positions to'perrnit opening movements of the halves of `the blow mold.v
5. In a glassware forming machine, al blow mold comprising a pair of openable and closable halves, 'a clamping ring comprising a pair of openable `and closable halves, means for mounting said clamping ring on one end of said blow mold-to rotate relative to said blow mold in axalalignment therewith,- said clamping ring being adapted to encircletheneck portion of a hollow glassfblank or parison to` support the body of the blank or parison within said blow mold, means for rotating said clamping ring relative to said blow mold to rotate the blank or parison in the mold, and means for controlling the rotation of said clamping ring to stop automatically each cycle of rotation thereof when the halves of the clamping ring. are in positions to permit opening-movements of the halves of the blow mold, the' means for mounting said clamping ring on said-mold being constructed 6. In a glassware forming machine, a blow mold comprising a pair of 4openable and closable halves, a'clamping ring comprising a pair of halves, a clamping ring comprising a pair of openable and closable halves, means for mounting said clamping ring on one end of said blow mold to rotate `relative to'said blow mold in axial alignment therewith, -said clamping ring being adapted to encircle the neck portion of a hollow glass blank or parison to supportthe body of the blank or parison within said blow mold, means for rotating said clamping ring relative to said blow mold to rotate the blank l orparison in the moldmeans for controlling the rotation of said clamping ring to stop automatically veach cycle of rotation thereof when the halves of the clamping ring are in positions Vto permit opening movements of the halves of .the blow'mold, a spring pressed member adapted to bear against a surface of the neck portion cf said blank or parison opposite to .that in contact with `said clamping ring, and means fcr mounting said spring pressed member for rotation withsaid blank or parison when said member is in ,position to bear againstsaid surface and for moving the spring pressed member to and from said position.
7. In a glassware forming machine, a blow mold comprising a pair of openable and closable openable and closable halves, means for mounting said clamping ring on one end of said blow mold to rotate relative to said blow mold in axial alignment therewith, said clamping ring being adapted to encircle the neck portion of' a hollow glass blank or parison toy support the body of the blank or parison within said blow mold, means for rotating said clamping ring relative to said blow mold to rotate the blank or parison in the mold, means for controlling the rotation of said clamping ring to stop auto- 'matically each cycle of rotation thereof when the halves of the clamping ring are in positions to permit opening movements of the halves of the blow mold, a second clamping ring adapted to seat against a surface of the neck portion of the hollow blank or parison supported by said first-named clamping ring in opposing elation to the latter, andl means to move said c amping ring axially relative to said mold to and from said seat and for mounting such-clamping ring to rotate with the hollow blank or parison when seated thereagainst.
8. In a glassware forming machine, an upright blow mold having a cavity therein open at the top of the mold, said blow mold comprising a pair of openable and closable halves, a clamping ring comprising a pair of openable and closable halves, means for rotatably supporting said clamping ring at the upper end'of said blow mold for rotation relative to said blow mold, means for rotating said clamping ring on the mold when the halves of both the mold and the clamping ring are closed, and means eiective automatically to stop the rotation of said clamping ring at a time in its cycle of rotation when the parting line between the halves of the clamping ring will approximately match the `parting line between the halves of the blow mold.
9. In a glassware forming machine, the combination of an upright blow mold having a cavity open at the upper end of the mold, means for supporting a hollow blank or parison in position to depend within the mold and to project at its open upper end above the mold cavity, a clamping ring, a vertically movable blow head mechanism cooperative with the mold and oomprising an assembly of connected annular members defining an internal passage for blowing air and including an intermediately located tubular body member of flexible and longitudinally expansible and contractile construction and a ring carrier connected to the lower end of said tubular body member and carrying said clamping ring, and spring means tending to maintain said tubular body expanded to yieldingly press said clamping ring against the open upper end portion of said hollow blank or parison when said blow head mechanism has been lowered to position to apply blowing air to the hollow blank or parison in the mold.
10. In a glassware forming machine, the combination with an upright paste mold having a cavity open at the top of the mold and comprising a pair of separable halves, a hollow blank or parison neck encircling annular clamping plate comprising a pair of separable halves to match the halves of said mold, means for rotatably mounting said clamping plate at the upper end of said mold in position to suspend said hollow blank or parison in said mold, a cooperative clamping ring adapted to be seated against the neck end portion of said hollow blank or parison in cooperative relation with said annular clamping plate, means for moving saidcooperative clampingring to and from its seated position, for yieldingly pressing it against its seat at that position and for permitting it to rotate in unison with the hollow blank orV parison, meansfor rotating said annular clamping plate, comprising a continuously rotating friction disk and motion transmitting connections between said continuously rotating disk and said annular clamping plate, including a disk to be driven by frictional contact with said continuously rotating disk, and means adapted to be actuated to stop the rotation of said annular clamping plate by said motion transmitting connections when the halves of the annular clamping plate are in predetermined positions in respect to the halves of said mold and while said rst named disk continues to rotate.
11. In a glassware forming machine, an upright blow mold open at its upper end and comprising a pair of separable halves, a hollow blank or parison neck encircling annular clamping plate comprising a pair of separable halves to match the halves of the blow mold, means for rotatably mounting said clamping plate on said mold in position to suspend a hollow blank or parison in the mold, means for rotating said clamping plate, comprising a vertically movable blow head mechanism located above the mold and adapted for cooperation with the hollow blank or parison in the mold, said blow head mechanism including a continuously rotating friction disk, a rotatably mounted friction disk in contact with the first disk, and a motion transmitting member carried by the second disk and having portions engageable with the halves of said clamping plate when the blow head .mechanism is in' a lowered position in respect 40 to the mold to rotate said clamping plate, and latching means having elements movable from positions out of contact with the halves` of the clamping plate to positions in engagement therewith to stop the rotation of the clamping plate when the halves thereof are in positions to be separated from each other with the halves of the blow mold.
12. In a glassware forming machine, an 11pright blow mold open at its upper end and comprising a pair of separable halves, a hollow blank or parison neckv encircling annular clamping plate comprising a pair. of separable halves to match the halves of the blow mold, means for rotatably mounting said clamping plate on said mold in position to suspend a hollowblank or parison in the mold, means for rotating Asaid clamping plate, comprising a, continuously rotating friction disk, a friction disk driven `by the rst disk, a pinionoperatively connected to the second disk to rotate therewith, said pinion being geared to the halves of said clamping plate, a movable latching element, and means for moving said latching element from a position out of contact with the second disk to position to engage therewith to stop its rotation to cause the rotation of the clamping plate to stop when the halves of said plate are in positions to open with the halves of said mold.
BERNARD H. KOOB.
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For the New Critic a work of great literature is “an independent entity with [an objective] stable meaning of its own” (Tyson 148). The literary work needs to be examined by itself, without regard to authorial intent, reader response, or cultural and historical considerations. The measure of great literature is in its organic unity- its ability to bring together the formal elements of the text and universal meaning, and together the writing becomes “like a complex living organism whose parts cannot be separated from the whole” (138). Lois Tyson argues the universal theme in The Great Gatsby is unfulfilled longing (150). She defends her claim brilliantly that the novel uses lyric imagery to create unfulfilled longing in “(1) as nostalgia for the lost past; (2) as dreams of future fulfillment; and (3) as vague, undefined longing that has no specific goal” (152). But isn’t “unfulfilled longing” really just a romantic way of saying “wants”?
Don’t we all want, at some level, what we used to have in the past? Don’t we all have hopes and wants for our future? It seems there is always a sense of something missing in the present; we are never truly satisfied, always torn between memories and future hopes. Tyson says “No matter who we are or what we have, we cannot be long content” (161). It’s really the unfulfilled present, our never ending human wants, that is the universal theme of The Great Gatsby. And for a novel to have lasting importance it must have a universal theme and mirror the complexity and order of the human experience, which the novel does elegantly.
Regardless of the material possessions, luxuriant lifestyle, or romantic connection Tom has with Daisy he’s still not satisfied, always wanting more- more wealth, more power, more possessions, and more love. Okay, sure, it can be argued that cheating on Daisy with Myrtle and other women isn’t love, but, isn’t it? Shallow at best, but love or emotional and physical gratification at some level nonetheless. And at face value who can blame him or the other characters in the novel for wanting nice things; people, whether right or wrong, envy opulence and power.
Being less than satisfied with the present and wanting what you used to have or hope to have is universal. In this way the theme of The Great Gatsby and its use of “images, symbols, metaphors, rhyme, meter, point of view, setting, characterization, [and] plot” shares a connection to the human experience, and therefore, achieves greatness.
Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.
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Language: English Genre: Action/Thriller MPAA rating: PG-13 Director: Christopher McQuarrie Actors: Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner Plot: Ethan Hunt and his team face their biggest and most dangerous threat yet - The Syndicate, an international rogue group that are as skilled as they are deadly - and their number one goal is to eliminate the IMF.
Language: English Genre: Drama MPAA rating: R Director: James Ponsoldt Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Chlumsky, Jason Segel Plot: Rolling Stone magazine writer David Lipsky interviews author David Foster Wallace for an upcoming article. As the two talk and bond, Wallace opens up and shines a light on his method to writing.
Language: English Genre: Documentary MPAA rating: G Director: Kief Davidson, Daniel Junge Actors: Jason Bateman Plot: From toys to TV, movies and video games and even a theme park, the LEGO brand has become a worldwide cultural touchstone. Brickumentary takes a look at the many ways the ubiquitous building block is celebrated.

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2 Door Console Table With Cane
CONSOLE TABLE FOR YOUR HOME
The color of an Console -tables can vary widely based on the chosen material and style. It can be anything from natural wood tones to painted finishes in various colors to match the overall color scheme of the space.
Console -tables is a stylish and functional piece of furniture that adds character and utility to the entryway or hallway of a home. It offers a surface for decoration, storage solutions, and can reflect the homeowner’s personal style and interior design preferences.

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I like how you used the brass driven theme from the Gears of War ost and morphed into something of your own. I'm sure you know which musical phrase I am referring to.
Breaks my heart...
To see a performance like this rated below 4. It realy just goes to show you what kind of people hang around this site when a performance like this has a "low" score like that. But hey, at least its over 4 now that I gave it a 5. I can only give you a 9/10 though, since my head didnt totally implode with musical goodness. Just almost ;)
Good to see that you're becoming better. Add vocals and its a 10 for sure! btw what are you using for the drums? They sound a lot better now;)
Hi man! Thanks a lot for your review!
Well the vocals may come one day, cuz as I said this song was made for my band and so it is the singer's job to do the vocals :p
And I use Ezdrummer for the drums! :)
But each time I hear the slayer guitar synth, if thats the one you are using, I feel like puking all over my keyboard. Apart from that, great tune
Nope, it's not slayer. Slayer feels a lot grittier. xD
Not too shabby
although your guitarsound is not to my tastes. Sounds like your strings are kinda sloppy too. Not too bad apart from that. But for the love of god, please liven up those drums a bit please? The drums are incredibly boring. Let the bass drum rest now and then;P I givez you a 4.
You see, I'm not a drummer, so when I compose a song, well, drums don't sound very great.
Also, the drumkit I used in this song wasn't a very good one...
But thanks a lot for your advices and review, I'll surely make better next time! ;)
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Born and raised in Brazil, I´ve been dancing professionally for 10 years. During all these years, I´m learning and sharing the art of belly dance.
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Babcock has secured a contract extension from General Dynamics Electric Boat to manufacture 18 tactical Missile Tube Assemblies (MTAs).
The missile tubes are part of the Common Missile Compartment (CMC) project that ties together the UK’s Dreadnought-class and the US Columbia-class submarine programmes, both of which will carry the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile (SBLM).
In a press release, Babcock said the contract would support up to ‘200 advanced manufacturing jobs’ at the company’s sites in Rosyth and in Bristol.
Commenting on the contract, defence minister Jeremy Quin said: “This is a prime example of the capability of our defence industry to deliver specialised and complex manufacturing in support of an internationally significant programme. The contract extension will support 200 highly-skilled jobs in Bristol and Rosyth, building next-generation technology for our vital nuclear deterrent.”
Since 2014, Babcock has secured contracts from General Dynamics Electric Boat to build 57 MTAs; the new contract brings that total to 75. Under the contract extension, the company’s work will transition from making missile tubes for Dreadnought to the Columbia submarines.
Babcock chief executive of Marine said: “We’re delighted to be awarded this contract extension, which is testament to the skills and capability of our workforce, as well as the quality of product we are delivering. This work will help support more than 200 cutting-edge manufacturing roles at Rosyth and Bristol until at least 2026.”


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6 pet-friendly bars and restaurants in Athens
Pet-friendly establishments that actively encourage you to socialize with your pet were few and far between in the city. That is changing now with a few pet-loving restaurateurs urging you to bring your cute little furry friend in tow. Athens Insider lists the best bars and restaurants to paint the town red with your four-legged companion right by your feet, or even right next to you, at the table!
- Burger Joint – A classic for many Athenians with incredible burgers, and the only place where your dog can sit right next to you and enjoy a specialized meal for him/her in their own bowl. There are special dog treats, even when you order in a meal! https://www.burgerjoint.gr/en/
- BlePapagalos – Brightly coloured, polite people, with impeccable hospitality for our furry friends. Go for a coffee and a retro photo-shoot! https://web.facebook.com/BlePapagalos/?_rdc=1&_rdr
- Bartesera – in Kolokotronis, a beautiful place that shows special love to your pets and even takes care of the neighbourhood strays. https://web.facebook.com/bartesera/?_rdc=1&_rdr
- Rantevou – an authentic taverna in Petralona’s bustling square serves delicious Greek mezes and welcome dogs of all shapes and sizes. https://rantevou.cityofathens.gr/
- Chelsea Hotel – Described by pet-owners as the most dog-friendly bar in Athens, its atmosphere is cosy and the staff extremely friendly. https://el-gr.facebook.com/pages/Hotel-Chelsea/423670701079639
- Six d.o.g.s – Discover this secret garden in Monastiraki with your pet while enjoying the wide range of food and drinks. The image below is pre-Covid, but you get the drift! https://sixdogs.gr/

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Right now, the non-profit organization, Life Centers doing just that, they're holding their annual school supply drive, “Tools For School”.
Today and tomorrow they're collecting supplies for students in need so when they head back in August they're backpacks are stocked and ready to go.
What's needed, everything from pencils, to notebooks, to gym-shoes, and glue.
You can drop off supplies at any Member Alliance Credit Union or Rockford Fire Station.
For other locations head to www.rockfordlifecenter.org

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Italian vehicle customizer Aznom had earlier launched the Ram 1500-based Palladium luxury sedan, but is now trying to make it a little greener.
The company unveiled an electric mini restomado called the Mini E-Classic at the 2022 Top Marquez Monaco Show last weekend. The first customer example will roll out of Aznom’s store this summer, “full production” will begin in September, Aznom said in a press release.
The conversion includes a 14-kilowatt battery pack that Aznom says will provide a range of up to 87 miles. For reference, the modern Mini Cooper SE gets a 110 mile range from a 32.6-kwh pack. Three driving modes — Eco, Normal and Sport are available. An upgraded interior with LED lighting and digital instrumentation and leather upholstery is also part of the package.
Ajanam Mini E-Classic
In addition to these hardtops, Ajnam says it is planning a second version, called the Cote d’Azur, which the company described as a “British open” roof. It’s not a golf tournament, it looks like a big fabric sunroof attached to some classic mini.
Aznom says its electrical conversion has been compatible with the Mini model since 1982, but the hardware will also be adapted for other vintage vehicles in the future.
Aznom is not the only company offering an electrical conversion of the classic Minis. Sweden Powertrain announced its own electric conversion kit in 2020, and Mini itself announced a conversion program earlier this year, which will be operated at a mini factory in the UK. The Mini plans to go all-electric by the end of the decade, with temporary plans to launch its final combustion-engine car in 2025.


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The acorn was collected in September and filmed in an underground set using a 2 hour interval between exposures. The acorn split soon after it was planted and continued to split during the winter months. In January the first sign of root growing could be seen followed in February by the emergence of shoot. In March the shoot broke through the soil surface. The leaves formed between March and April. This is an example of hypogeal germination.
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Probably the best ending to a movie I ever seen.
Ever wonder what it would be like if DMX rode the sling shot?
It's a basic human desire to destroy an OREO cookie with a pump action gun. Some men simply love neither cookie nor creme, so sometimes a man just needs to invent a badass gun to do the hard work of shooting the two from a powerful homemade weapon.
The swat team moves in and takes out this nut case.
Nerf Gun vs Bald Head, Not a single f*ck was given that day.
Thing-Thing Arena is back with a whole new game mode. You must complete various goals in each of the levels and survive the onslaught of enemies set to stop you.
15 Levels + 15 much harder Bonus Levels
Lots and lots of Bosses & Mini-bosses. Massive Combinations of Upgrades. Deep Scoring System. Tons of Intense Bullet Patterns. A modifier system and 5 ships to customise your destruction.
In the shooting game Shoot Pixels you have to attack your enemies each wave. You can buy and design new weapons and upgrade your tank as you like.

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Varadkar reassures public after Wexford Hospital confirms patient recall
Update 10.20am: Leo Varadkar has today moved to reassure the public after it was confirmed that hundreds of bowel screening patients have been recalled by Wexford General Hospital.
“What I can reassure people [of] is that we have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that this has occurred anywhere else,” he said.
“I want to extend my sympathies to the dozen or so people effected, their families, particularly [the] probable death that might have been avoided had this been picked up much sooner.
“What’s now being done is the recall of all of the 600 patients, that’s almost complete, there’s only one more patient to be retested.
“What we now need to do, which is the most important thing, is quality assurance and assistance review.”
Earlier: A statement on behalf of Wexford General Hospital has confirmed a recall of patients who had undergone bowel screening.
Around 600 patients had undergone bowel screening at the facility during the period between April 2013 to November 2014, which is being "thoroughly and comprehensively" investigated.
Analysis: Fergal Bowers on the review of bowel screening cases at Wexford General Hospital https://t.co/Wj10BFxfZt— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 17, 2016
The Ireland East Hospitals Group - which manages Wexford General - said that the recall was managed in accordance with HSE policy.
It said last night: “The recall of patients that arose from a recheck of Bowel Screen colonoscopies at Wexford General Hospital in 2014 has been thoroughly and comprehensively investigated.
“Throughout the process, patients and their families have been provided with full information, appropriate follow up and treatment as needed in a timely manner.
“The subsequent report and its findings are now in the final stages of preparation.”

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Socialist Alternative’s Socialism conference, held at the University of Sydney over the weekend 18-20 August, attracted more than 500 participants.
In the wake of the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the toppling of Confederate statues and sizeable anti-fascist mobilisations in the United States, hundreds packed out the opening night panel on “Racism and resistance in the Trump Era”. Headlining the panel was Haley Pessin, Black Lives Matter activist and member of the International Socialist Organization, who travelled from New York to speak at the conference.
Pessin said of the far right resurgence: “It is not just a phenomenon of the US alone. It has been an international polarisation where we’ve seen the rise of the right … and we’ve also seen the rise of the left but not on the level of organisation that is necessary. That is the cause and the call that we have everywhere in the world today”.
The opening session also heard from National Union of Students LGBTI officer Chris Di Pasquale, who spoke on the challenges and opportunities presented by the urgent campaign for a Yes vote for marriage equality.
Discussions on developments in the United States continued throughout the conference, with sessions on “The struggle for socialism in the United States” again presented by Pessin and a discussion on “Six months of the Trump presidency” introduced by Red Flag editor Corey Oakley.
There were sessions concerned with the political polarisation internationally, including “From Blair to Corbyn: the rebirth of social democracy?” and “Catalyst or cure? The role of the centre in the rise of the populist right”. Escalating military tensions between the United States and China also brought large turnouts for the sessions on “Making sense of a multi-polar world: understanding imperialism today” and “Can the United Nations be a force for global peace?”
As with previous years, the conference was an opportunity for those new to socialist politics to get an introduction to key ideas in the “Marxism 101” stream. Topics included “Does the working class even exist any more?”, gender and sexuality, the roots of racism and “individual vs. collective action”. With the exception of the opening and closing panels, the session on the history of the Russian revolution was the largest at the conference, drawing more than 150 people.
The conference also featured a number of special panel discussions: “How to rebuild the union movement: case studies from the past”, “30 years on from the Palestinian intifada” and “Class struggle and women’s liberation”. More than 130 people attended a vibrant panel discussion on refugee rights with Rebecca Barrigos and former Nauru social worker, whistleblower and author Mark Isaacs.
The Socialism conference has become an annual highlight on Sydney’s political calendar and will return in 2018.

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This Novel Takes You Inside LA’s Explosive Seventies Feminist Artwork Scene
There’s a recurring joke in Heidi Sopinka’s new novel Utopia: Paz, a younger artist working in LA within the late Seventies, explains that she is quitting smoking and ingesting “as a result of girls artists don’t make it till they’re outdated”. Her gag is barbed with contempt for the artwork world’s misogyny, but it surely additionally incorporates a tragic fact: Romy, her idol, has simply died beneath mysterious circumstances, abandoning an unfinished and missed physique of labor. Paz finds ghostly traces of Romy all over the place – first, she discovers her journals, after which postcards together with her sketches are delivered to associates across the metropolis. As she retraces Romy’s footsteps, Paz sees how the artwork world has by no means actually made house for both of them. (Simply as Paz tells her personal “girls artist bit,” the boys in her circle have one too – “Riddle: why haven’t girls made nice artworks? Reply: as a result of they’re nice artworks.”)
Just like the real-life feminist artists Ana Mendieta, Hannah Wilke, Adrian Piper or Judy Chicago, Paz learns to rejoice making work outdoors of the system – work that can’t be commodified and that rejects the capitalist, patriarchal organisation of the artwork world. For Sopinka, a author and designer who additionally wrote about girls and artwork in her debut e book The Dictionary of Animal Languages (2018), these artists used their our bodies “as a instrument or a cloth, and so having nothing on the market made it by nature anti-capitalist and feminist consequently.”
From her studio in Toronto, Sopinka spoke to AnOther about paying homage to the feminist artwork motion and galvanising creativity for one thing collective, indignant, and hopeful – for worlds not but realised.
Tia Glista: The novel is devoted to the feminist artists of the Seventies, like Ana Mendieta, Judy Chicago and Hannah Wilke, and lots of the characters’ work or lives bear similarities to those real-life counterparts. What do you suppose it’s about their work from that interval that also speaks to many people so strongly?
HS: There’s one thing that’s so the other of what we’re in, in a way. Being in a digital age, we’re so disembodied, you realize? When it comes to their work, it’s simply so visceral, uncooked, bloody, bodily. It additionally really seems like work from a pre-digital period.
TG: How did you undertake the analysis on this era? Was it all the time supposed as fiction?
Heidi Sopinka: I did a tonne of studying and I watched some documentaries. I used to be in contact with Ana Mendieta’s niece who’s attempting to complete a documentary. I all the time knew that I’m not the most effective historian, so I’m in all probability not the most effective individual to write down a definitive e book about them, however I actually liked the notion of circumnavigating the legacies of males in relation to artwork. I assumed, if I take advantage of and am impressed by these girls’s work and lives, then I’d add a degree of creativeness and fiction to it to posit them in a narrative that I might grapple with myself.
“Being in a digital age, we’re so disembodied, you realize? When it comes to their work, it’s simply so visceral, uncooked, bloody, bodily. It additionally really seems like work from a pre-digital period” – Heidi Sopinka
TG: Talking of embodiment, Romy usually expresses her ambivalence about gender, and afterward, there’s an implication of gender nonconformity. Are you able to speak about writing her fascinating relationship to the physique?
HS: The epigraph of the e book is “the physique is just not a factor, it’s a scenario,” which is Simone de Beauvoir. Now we’ve all this language round gender identification however on the time [of second-wave feminism] it was actually restricted, and the motion itself was such an essentialist factor that restricted girls in so some ways as a result of the definition of lady was so restricted. Gender is such a societal assemble and Romy’s actually conscious of that however doesn’t actually have the language for it, she simply has the sensation of it … and he or she’s additionally conscious that we don’t all carry the identical expertise of inhabiting our our bodies, and everyone seems to be managing a special degree of threat. I believe by nature of doing physique works, you simply completely begin to actually query what a physique is, and your individual relationship along with your physique, I suppose.
TG: I used to be actually drawn to the way you write in regards to the need to lose the fabric physique, of ladies courting ghostliness and dissolution. It looks like an impact of being erased by the male gaze, but in addition eager to evade it. And it’s additionally a few want to hand over the bodily type, too – to turn into boundaryless. Is that this a sense that you simply relate to?
HS: All of these themes are so near me! After I was penning this e book, I went by means of early menopause in my early forties and on the identical time, my eldest youngster is a transgender individual. And so I’ve been considering so much about gender abolition and gender anarchy and the constraints of the physique. My youngster simply desires to kind of dwell within the cloud and never have a physique and oddly, I’ve this related sensation. I really feel like males get to kind of really feel like they don’t have a physique, however girls, or the class of people who find themselves assigned the fabric circumstances of ladies, are all the time reminded of their physique. It was an enormous a part of my considering and I tapped into it, additionally round physique works and, as you talked about, ghosts. I suppose I don’t consider that on one facet there are ghosts and on the opposite facet there’s the undead, kind of just like the darkish matter within the e book that will get introduced up by the Romy character – the whole lot exists all over the place all of sudden. It’s just like the notion of not having to dwell in a physique could be this kind of genderless, borderless place that I wished to trace at and go into somewhat bit.
TG: I really feel like this additionally extends to Romy and Paz’s shared love of flying, after which I discovered that you simply have been as soon as a pilot? Is that this true? What made you wish to convey it into the e book?
HS: I weirdly obtained my pilot’s license after I completed college. I labored as a bush prepare dinner on forest fires within the Yukon-Alaska border, and we obtained flown in in helicopters, and I keep in mind I simply had this sense like going off a cliff – similar to, “That is an unbelievable feeling.” And I began to speak to the pilots and understood that they did kind of six weeks or eight weeks of actually intense, harmful work after which that was their pay for the entire yr. I assumed, “That is the right factor to have as a author!” You might simply do that after which write bizarre stuff that didn’t must generate profits for the remainder of the yr! It’s additionally an area the place, although it’s a closely male scenario by way of flying and being round planes and mechanics and the whole lot, when you’re up within the air, it’s simply so liberating, in a approach that simply sounds so cliched, but it surely really is simply you and the controls and the air.
TG: Talking of freedom, at one level, you write: “With [the baby] Flea on her lap, [Paz] feels a shift from the assumption that freedom and duty are opposites. Her need for freedom, she now sees, has been the will for a distinctly male sort of energy that has all the time been unavailable to her.” What’s Paz – or the e book – saying about freedom?
HS: For these girls within the e book and in that point – and admittedly, nonetheless in our time – it was kind of about discovering methods to dwell with out being restricted, broken, and even destroyed, actually, by the violent reinforcement of concepts of what’s potential for the sort of physique you need to dwell inside. Significantly, I wished to discover motherhood, artwork, and freedom as a result of I believe that being a mom and nonetheless making artwork entails completely reverse components of your mind: one is the egocentric half, and the opposite is completely selfless.
I believe the characters are realising too, as you talked about in that passage, that they’re outlined by a male definition of freedom and that girls won’t ever be free if the time period of freedom is embedded within the patriarchy – it must be a special model, it has to kind of be a disruption of that. The notion that really being dedicated to a different human or to your work is a sort of freedom, it’s kind of self-defined, I believe … spending time with a child, the patriarchy says, is just not the stuff of artwork. However I just like the notion of considering, “Nicely, perhaps it’s.” I don’t actually have a solution per se, however extra simply an exploration of the notion that we’ve to kind of self-define our personal freedoms as a result of it’s been given to us in a really specific approach that doesn’t work for ladies.
“I really feel like males get to kind of really feel like they don’t have a physique, however girls, or the class of people who find themselves assigned the fabric circumstances of ladies, are all the time reminded of their physique” – Heidi Sopinka
TG: The e book is known as Utopia, clearly. Are you able to speak extra about that concept – what does feminist utopia imply to you? What can writing about it do?
HS: I used to be actually taken with utopias as a result of we’re so in a dystopia, and the entire pandemic has been a dystopia, and I actually liked the notion of trying again at a time of second-wave feminism and first-generation efficiency artwork when something appeared potential. Due to efficiency being new in that interval, it wasn’t male-dominated, which meant once more, that there was not the limitation or restrictions or competitors with the previous – which implies with males’s work. So I liked the notion of ladies making work freely and exploring what that might seem like. After which however, it’s kind of a bit couched within the notion that it was a failed utopia – proper after that have been the Nineteen Eighties, which couldn’t have gotten additional away from all of the issues that the ladies have been preventing for then … failed revolutions nonetheless have good concepts, even when a number of it would not make for everlasting change. I wished to attract the throughline from the Seventies to now in some methods, within the hopes of exhibiting that girls and many individuals have finished a number of this work for us.
Utopia by Heidi Sopinka is printed by Scribe and is out now.


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The Community Assessment of Military Transitions study will be examining service member and military family experiences during the post-deployment transition.
A recent multi-site study published in Radiology was designed to gauge the difference in imaging quality for prostate MRI by looking retrospectively at performance across 26 institutions. They found that the positive predictive value of the test for prostate cancer was highly variable at different sites.
Nicholas Levinson, PhD, in the Department of Pharmacology, leads a laboratory using unique methods to better understand how protein kinases promote cancer cell growth and how to design more selective drugs to target and block their functions.
Christina Camell, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, leads a study to uncover the role of immune cells in age-related metabolic dysfunction.
Led by Mustafa al’Absi, PhD, the Stress and Resilience Laboratories launched a global study to map out the behavioral and socioeconomic dynamics of how people have adjusted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mark R. Schleiss, MD, American Legion and Auxiliary Research Foundation Chair and professor in the Department of Pediatrics, will tap into saliva samples, originally collected from days-old infants to study CMV, to answer two questions—does mother-to-baby transmission of COVID-19 exist, and did the virus arrive in Minnesota earlier than March 2020?
Christine Conelea, PhD, LP, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been researching how transcranial magnetic stimulation, combined with current methods, may improve the treatment of tics for patients with Tourette Syndrome.
The Healthy Youth Development - Prevention Research Center (HYD-PRC) attributes the rise in STI rates to a combination of factors, including barriers to prevention, screening and treatment services, education, transportation, cost, concerns about confidentiality and peer and media influences.
Motohiro Nakajima, PhD, leads a team studying psychosocial factors and cultural beliefs that block East African men who immigrated to the United States from seeking the cancer screenings they need to prevent the disease.
Drs. Alexandra Zachwieja, Kendra Nordgren, and Cathy McCarty on the Medical School’s Duluth campus are leading the way to develop a virtual course addressing the social determinants of health during COVID-19.


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