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(Schiff)—After setting a record through the first half of the year, central banks continued to gobble up gold in the third quarter.
Globally, central banks added a net 337 tons of gold in Q3, the second-highest third-quarter total on record behind 2022.
Through the first nine months of the year, central banks bought a net of 800 tons of gold. That’s 14% more than through the same period in 2022.
The People’s Bank of China led the way, adding another 78 tons of gold to its holdings in the quarter. The Chinese central bank has bought gold for 11 straight months. Since the beginning of the year, the People’s Bank of China has increased its reserves by 181 tons, and it has added 232 tons since it resumed official purchases in November 2022. As of the end of September, China officially held 2,192 tons of gold, making up 4% of its total reserves.
China has a history of adding to reserves and then going silent.
The People’s Bank of China accumulated 1,448 tons of gold between 2002 and 2019, and then reported nothing for more than two years before resuming reporting last fall. Many speculate that the Chinese continued to add gold to its holdings off the books during those silent years.
In fact, there has always been speculation that China holds far more gold than it officially reveals. As Jim Rickards pointed out on Mises Daily back in 2015, many people speculate that China keeps several thousand tons of gold “off the books” in a separate entity called the State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
Last year, there were large unreported increases in central bank gold holdings. Central banks that often fail to report purchases include China and Russia. Many analysts believe China is the mystery buyer stockpiling gold to minimize exposure to the dollar.
The National Bank of Poland continued its buying spree in Q3 with a 57-ton increase to its gold reserves. That’s in addition to the 48 tons it bought in the second quarter. Year-to-date, Poland has bought 105 tons of gold, in line with a plan to add 100 tons to its reserves Bank of Poland President Adam Glapiński announced in 2021. The country currently holds about 11% of its reserves in gold. Glapiński recently indicated the buying will likely continue.
“This makes Poland a more credible country, we have a better standing in all ratings, we are a very serious partner and we will continue to buy gold. The dream is to reach 20 percent,” Glapiński said.
When he announced the plan to expand its gold reserves, Glapiński said holding gold was a matter of financial security and stability.
Gold will retain its value even when someone cuts off the power to the global financial system, destroying traditional assets based on electronic accounting records. Of course, we do not assume that this will happen. But as the saying goes – forewarned is always insured. And the central bank is required to be prepared for even the most unfavorable circumstances. That is why we see a special place for gold in our foreign exchange management process.”
Turkey sold 160 tons of gold last spring but returned to buying in the third quarter. The Turkish central bank bought 39 tons of gold in Q3, and its total reserves recovered to 668 tons.
According to the World Gold Council, the big gold sale earlier this year was a specific response to local market dynamics and didn’t likely reflect a change in the Turkish central bank’s long-term gold strategy. Although the Turkish government reinstated gold import quotas in early August, so far we haven’t seen a repeat of sales into the local market to meet elevated demand.
Eight more central banks made purchases of at least a ton during the quarter.
- India – 9 tons
- Uzbekistan – 7 tons
- The Czech Republic – 6 tons
- Singapore – 4 tons
- Qatar – 3 tons
- Russia – 3 tons
- The Philippines – 2 tons
- The Kyrgyz Republic – 1 ton
Russia announced plans to recommence buying foreign currency and gold in early August, but the government did not indicate the size or timing of future gold purchases.
The only seller of note was Kazakhstan. The country’s central bank reported a 4-ton decline in its reserves for the quarter. It is not uncommon for banks that buy from domestic production – such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan – to switch between buying and selling.
Looking at the entire year, China, Poland and Singapore bought the most gold.
The World Gold Council said it’s “all but certain that central banks are on course for another colossal year of buying,” after a record-setting 2022.
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The strength of buying has, to some degree, exceeded our expectations. While we were confident that central banks would remain net purchasers in 2022, we thought it unlikely that it would match last year’s record buying volume. Should buying continue to be strong in Q4, the full-year total could get closer than we anticipated. Nevertheless, the historically high level of buying in Q4 2022 may be difficult to top.”
Total central bank gold buying in 2022 came in at 1,136 tons. It was the highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971. It was the 13th straight year of net central bank gold purchases.
According to the 2023 Central Bank Gold Reserve Survey recently released by the World Gold Council, 24% of central banks plan to add more gold to their reserves in the next 12 months. Seventy-one percent of central banks surveyed believe the overall level of global reserves will increase in the next 12 months. That was a 10-point increase over last year.
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Further fabrication work has taken place today and this view shows the trial fitting of a cab door (borrowed off Balloon car 704) to test the critical shape of the offside corner. The door from 704 has been used to get the gentle slope of the lower portion of the cab frame and the windscreen rake. From this critical section, the nearside pillar can be fabricated.
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Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The assembly of the EE Railcoach end profile has commenced on 279 today, recreating an appearance last seen on this car in 1960 and that disappeared from the tramway in 1973 after car 615 was withdrawn for rebuild in OMO car 11. Steel is being used for "crash-worthiness" in common with Blackpool Transport's own Balloon car rebuilds.
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(1)(a) There is created a rate committee that consists of:
(i) the executive director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget, or the executive director's designee; and
(ii) the executive directors of six state agencies that use or are likely to use services and pay rates to the Office of the Attorney General's internal service fund, appointed by the governor for a two-year term, or the executive directors' designees.
(b) The rate committee shall elect a chair from the rate committee's members.
(2) Each member of the rate committee who is a state government employee and does not receive salary, per diem, or expenses from the member's agency for the member's service on the rate committee shall receive no compensation, benefits, per diem, or expenses for the member's service on the rate committee.
(3) The Office of the Attorney General shall provide staff services to the rate committee.
(4) The Office of the Attorney General shall submit to the rate committee a proposed rate and fee schedule for legal services rendered by the Office of the Attorney General to an agency.
(5)(a) The rate committee shall:
(i) conduct meetings in accordance with Title 52, Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act;
(ii) review the proposed rate and fee schedules and, at the rate committee's discretion, approve, increase, or decrease the rate and fee schedules;
(iii) recommend a proposed rate and fee schedule for the internal service fund to:
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(B) each legislative appropriations subcommittee that, in accordance with Section 63J-1-410, approves the internal service fund rates, fees, and budget; and
(iv) review and approve, increase or decrease an interim rate, fee, or amount when the office begins a new service or introduces a new product between annual general sessions of the Legislature.
(b) The committee may, in accordance with Subsection 63J-1-410(4), decrease a rate, fee, or amount that has been approved by the Legislature.
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A Brownian dynamics simulation technique is presented where a Fourier-based N log N approach is used to calculate hydrodynamic interactions in confined flowing polymer systems between two parallel walls. A self-consistent coarse-grained Langevin description of the polymer dynamics is adopted in which the polymer beads are treated as point forces. Hydrodynamic interactions are therefore included in the diffusion tensor through a Green's function formalism. The calculation of Green's function is based on a generalization of a method developed for sedimenting particles by Mucha [J. Fluid Mech. 501, 71 (2004)]. A Fourier series representation of the Stokeslet that satisfies no-slip boundary conditions at the walls is adopted; this representation is arranged in such a way that the total O(N-2) contribution of bead-bead interactions is calculated in an O(N log N) algorithm. Brownian terms are calculated using the Chebyshev polynomial approximation proposed by Fixman [Macromolecules 19, 1195 (1986); 19, 1204 (1986)] for the square root of the diffusion tensor. The proposed Brownian dynamics simulation methodology scales as O(N-1.25 log N). Results for infinitely dilute systems of dumbbells are presented to verify past predictions and to examine the performance and numerical consistency of the proposed method. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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Southcliff: Your Urban Living Mountain Retreat
Housing affordability, according to the National Association of Homebuilders, is at a 20-year high in Asheville and Buncombe County. This comes as no surprise to Southcliff, a debt-free, award winning community known for its panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Parkway and its convenience to downtown Asheville. Southcliff is located on the south face of Cedar Cliff Mountain in a natural setting offering panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and only seven miles from vibrant, artsy downtown Asheville.
“The housing market in Buncombe County and the areas closest to Asheville are recovering,” says Neal Hanks, President of Beverly-Hanks & Associates Realtors, the exclusive sales and marketing partner for Southcliff.
“The Asheville housing market is improving much faster than anyone anticipated in 2012,” says Mike Romero, Southcliff’s onsite sales representative for BeverlyHanks & Associates’ Community Marketing Group. “We hoped the market wasimproving when we sold six developer lots during the last four months of 2011, and by March 2012 we had 7 lots under contract and our closed transactions for Southcliff were up in the first quarter of 2012 by almost 25%. Consumer confidence has definitely improved. Many families are moving forward to get a little slice of Southcliff.”
Location Is Everything
At Southcliff, there is no need to choose between a private, mountain retreat nestled in nature and enjoying a fun, social life in downtown Asheville. You can easily enjoy the serenity of nature and the vibrancy of downtown, both within minutes of your front door. Southcliff amenities are for the outdoor lover: over 6 miles of private hiking trails, five parks for gathering with family, friends and neighbors, and open-air pavilions to enjoy the nearly 10 months a year of beautiful weather in Asheville. Take a family hike, cookout by the fire pits and grills, enjoy the playgrounds with your children, gather for a picnic, and stop to take in a breathtaking, scenic overlook on the way - all without leaving the community.
In a short, seven-minute drive, find yourself in the middle of downtown Asheville eating incredible gourmet food, drinking locally made beer, and taking in an array of art, culture and shopping experiences. At Southcliff, you feel like you’re 40-50 miles outside the city when you’re at home, but feel like you live in the center of it all when you’re out and about. Urban living is at your fingertips: culinary delights, arts, music and the enjoyment of an active, downtown lifestyle.
Two New Model Homes
Southcliff is in the process of building 2 new model homes. The first is in the East Owl section of Southcliff. This model home has 3 bedrooms, a bonus room, 3 bathrooms, and offers 2,200 total square feet. It is priced in the mid $400‘s and will be ready for viewing in September.
The second model is a slightly larger model home in the Elk Mont area of Southcliff, offering 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, an office and 2,800 square feet. This model will be available for viewing in October of this year and prices fall near the high $600’s.
“Sales are up and supply is down,” says Hanks. “Many people in the industry believe that the bottom of the housing market is behind us and we have to agree. We’re seeing quite a bit of renewed consumer confidence. People are starting to buy real estate in Western North Carolina again. And Southcliff, with so much to offer so close to Asheville, is rebounding much quicker than the surrounding areas.“
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Remember how Equifax exposed 143 million people to what might be the worst security breach ever? Of course you do. I’ve been saying all along that Equifax has been kind of shady about telling folks about this. Equifax knew about this breach back in July, but we just found out about it last week. Well, there’s something that Equifax has been keeping from us, and I’m not exactly surprised. Equifax learned that the hackers took advantage of a security flaw in the Apache Struts Web Framework. It was this that allowed the hackers to remotely execute code onto Equifax’s system. The bug was revealed in March, along with recommended patches to fix it. Clearly, Equifax didn’t move quickly enough on this, and the result might be catastrophic for some.
I’ve used that word a lot lately. Mostly to describe the impacts of the recent hurricane’s that we’ve been seeing in the south. I think the term is typically used when referring to a physical threat. However, the impacts from the Equifax breach may not be physical, but they could have a negative impact on people. And not just some people, possibly 143 million people. Equifax had the following to say:
Equifax has been intensely investigating the scope of the intrusion with the assistance of a leading, independent cybersecurity firm to determine what information was accessed and who has been impacted. We know that criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability. The vulnerability was Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638. We continue to work with law enforcement as part of our criminal investigation, and have shared indicators of compromise with law enforcement.
Another interesting piece to all of this, Ars Technica reported that Apache Struts is a “framework for developing Java-based apps that run both front-end and back-end Web servers”, which are extremely popular with financial institutions. Which leads me to wonder how many other institutions are potentially at risk because of this? To clarify, Equifax found out about the possible issue in March, and they did apply a patch at the time. But it wasn’t long until hackers began exposing that vulnerability, and it wasn’t until May that Equifax officially learned about this breach. What’s incredible to me is that this was two full months after they knew about the breach. AND, it had an easy fix.
So what does this actually mean? I guess nothing at this point. There isn’t anything that you can do, other than file a lawsuit. What I’m getting at is that not only did Equifax expose millions of Americans to this leak, but it did so kind of intentionally. Don’t you think? If I get a notification on my computer that says I need to update something. And if said update exposes me to a virus, I have options. The first being that I can apply the update to save my information from being exposed in someway. Or I can choose not to and then I run the risk of getting a virus or whatever the case may be. But that’s my risk, one that I get to choose to take or not to take.
This is a really simple example, but what I’m trying to get at is this idea of risk. Equifax took a huge risk, and not with their own data necessarily. But with the data of millions of Americans. And data that is extremely sensitive. Social Security numbers, names, addresses and even Drivers License data. All made available to hackers, which they knew about. They knew that this was an issue, and they chose to take that risk. I’ve mentioned this several times, but what about the executives that were allowed to sell shares at the end of July? How does that look now? I would say worse. Worse because now we know that they had at least two months to make the decision to sell. As opposed to just days. Which appears more calculated to me.


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Harris, a former textbook author turned popular writer, dives right in, sharpening her focus by looking at identical twins. After subtracting the share contributed by their mutual genesabout 45 percentstudies show that adult identical twins are no more alike in personality than people plucked at random from a crowd, even though the siblings were raised in the same home, by the same parents, with identical schooling.
Where, then, do personality differences come from? Harris begins, in a savage fashion familiar to readers of her Nurture Assumption, by recounting factors that do not contribute to personality differences. She debunks dozens of studies by psychologistsespecially the "developmentalists" and "interventionists" who believe that better parenting or school environments can affect how children turn outby pointing out where they have fudged numbers and twisted results. She rejects the basis of psychoanalysis, stating there is no evidence that talking about childhood experiences has therapeutic value. She also maintains that learned behaviors do not readily transfer from one situation to another, noting that even babies behave differently to fit different environments.
To answer her opening questions, Harris then develops a complex scheme based on "the modular mind," a framework set forth by Harvard University evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker and others. (Harris herself has no doctorate and is housebound by systemic sclerosis and lupus, two autoimmune disorders.) She describes three modulesthe relationship system, the socialization system and the status systemand explains how each contributes its part to making us who we are. The relationship system starts in the cradle as infants study and learn the faces and voices of the people around them, collecting information that helps form personality. The socialization system adapts people to their culture. The status system takes all the information collected during childhood and adolescence and shapes and modifies our personalities in accord with our environments.
Harriss last chapter lays out her theory in tabular form, explaining how each module interacts with the others to produce our distinct personalities. It is lavishly footnoted, like the rest of the book, shoring up her strategy of pointing out the failings of other models and then proposing her own. Her goal, she writes, is to explain the variations in personality that cannot be attributed to variations in peoples genes. After saying she believes she has succeeded, she throws down her gauntlet: "I will leave it to other people to test my theory."
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it is awesome. I would like recommend for everyone who is educating or starting to college education. It is about human nature and nurture. Read morePublished 18 days ago by Ichinkhorloo
A thorough presentation of a controversial proposition, well supported with scientific evidence, excellently analyzed and presented in a clear, witty manner. Read morePublished 2 months ago by John
Not convinced by the authors premise that most personalities, behaviors and preferences are genetically based. Read morePublished 9 months ago by Cristina
Being something of an iconoclast myself, I enjoyed Harris's outsider's approach to her subject. Not being a member of the academe, she is good at detecting problems in accepted... Read morePublished 9 months ago by William H. DuBay
Great reading. She spends a little too much time responding to critics of her other book: "Nurture Assumption."Published 11 months ago by Political Enthusiast
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I ordered this book for school, it was very informative regarding determinism and biology. I would recommend it for anyone interested in biological determinism.Published on July 19, 2013 by Marc Richard Adams
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This is PDP’s $50 Afterglow Wireless Deluxe Controller for the Nintendo Switch. I have many third-party game pads for the Nintendo Switch, with all sorts of special features. While the Afterglow has a couple of neat customization features, its main draw is glowing. That’s why I am using it. Glowing is great.
Many PC peripherals glow. PC hardware and accessory maker Razer has made glowing one of the fundamental features of its products, creating an entire ecosystem of game-, sound-, and video-reactive LED-strobing doohickeys. I have a mouse pad with an LED border that cycles in time with my keyboard, mouse, headset, and headset stand. That’s the PC gaming glow advantage. Meanwhile, on consoles, we get this.
The LEDs in the Afterglow Wireless Deluxe Controller do not react to my on-screen actions. They don’t flash when Scorbunny evolves into Raboot. They don’t dim when I am approaching a trainer battle. They do cycle, and they can be set to any number of colors using the unit’s function and shoulder buttons. They can even be switched off, revealing a lovely, well-built, translucent skeleton of a controller.
Unlike many third-party wireless controllers for the Switch, the Afterglow supports motion control, though not any sort of rumble. The back of the unit features a pair of programmable paddles, additional buttons that can be quickly mapped to any other button on the controller on the fly. The controller’s 20-hour battery life means I can have a randomly glowing piece of hardware on my desk for a nice long time before having to plug it in for more hot glowing action.
But really, I’m just here for the glow. PDP has been making the Afterglow line of controllers for years now, with models for nearly every console just a-glowing away like an old glow-dog. Between the Afterglow line and its Rock Candy series of translucent plastic controllers, PDP has made console gaming a great deal more colorful.
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Martin Doutre’s – Stealing from New Zealanders.
Martin Doutre is one of our most genuinely knowledgeable historians, researchers and writers on treaty issues. New Zealanders are now beginning to appreciate that this an area far too long captured by highly politicized, well-paid academics whose often inadequate research has apparently to a large extent been because of their links to, and psychological capture by, manipulative tribal spokespersons. The I-like-to-be-liked syndrome is by no means uncommon.
We all know that the radicalised iwi move to incrementally undermine the foundations of democracy in this country, in favour of a supposed “power sharing” constitutionally, is well under way.
The majority of part-Maori (all Maori are now only part-Maori, one of the most important points of all to remember) are family men and women, busy, as we all are, in jobs, trades, professions, in all walks of life and with other inherited family backgrounds, like those of us who may have English, French, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Dalmatian, Croatian, German, Italian, Swiss, Vietnamese, Chinese, Turkish, Jewish, and other mixed inheritances.
However, a tiny minority of radicalised Maoridom has its roots in a perennial and unappeasable alienation which has been deliberately fostered, particularly by the neo-Marxist training and indoctrination that specially selected young Maori received overseas in the 60s. This highly focused activist grouping has seen the formation of the Maori Party, which demonstrably does not speak for majority Maori – it received less than 3% of the vote in the last election.
And yet…this didn’t stop the very cool-minded and dictatorial, but oh, so media-charismatic John Key from controlling his National Party parliamentary members to steer them to a betrayal of National’s promise to remove that focus of separation, the unnecessary and democratically unrepresentative Maori seats. He has also largely ignored his own undertaking to abandon what was the foreshore and seabed Bill – if the majority of New Zealanders did not want it.
The majority didn’t. Is John Key a man of honour? Can he be relied upon to keep his word? What does the evidence indicate?
So too, Minister Chris Finlayson showed not even ill-concealed contempt for those with the courage to oppose this incredibly undemocratic legislation while, on the other hand, being visibly responsive to those iwi who are always obligingly tearful when a government delegation visits. Either Finlayson’s naivety is astonishing, or he has a different agenda which is deeply troubling. He cannot possibly be unaware that Maori activists have no intention whatsoever (as the supremely manipulative Tariana Turia did forewarn us) of being content with the inroads made upon the liberty and purse of all other New Zealanders by the deeply flawed, ill-considered Marine and Coastal Area legislation which Parliament recently and disgracefully passed. Allowing two hours only for the assessment of a 500 page report is arguably corrupt.
New Zealanders have become fed up by the major parties’ venality in vying for the radicalised Maori vote to enable them to form coalition governments.
This highly compromised legislation is simply the beginning of a widening division between radicalized iwi, and the rest of the country – and it has been encouraged by a National Party now apparently operating without principle.
The Key-led government is pretending to believe that this is yet another full and final settlement – one of those many now, of course, that never were…
We were indeed forewarned. An extraordinary and historic claim was made on the Holmes Show on September 24, 1992 when Maori elder, Ngati Porou’s Apirina Mahuika, objecting to the proposed fisheries deal which gifted to Maoridom-only a considerable proportion of New Zealand’s commercial fisheries, stated that “We can’t bind future generations to this deal or anything like it.”
How ironic that the deal itself was made by politicians pressured by Maori activists, claiming that our own generation had no right not to be bound by a deal made not by us – but by another generation of New Zealanders nearly 200 years ago. What is sauce for the goose is obviously not sauce for the gander. Inconsistency never worries those on the make.
And yet if Mahuika was right, and Maori activists’ claim that future generations of Maori cannot be bound by contractual arrangements made in our time is correct, then why are we making them at all? The whole essence of contractual law is rendered worthless by such claims. And for political parties to be selling us out on the pretence that such legislation would endure, is completely unacceptable – and utterly cynical.
The obvious conclusion is that we should long have wiped the slate clean in connection with opportunistic Maori claims – when we have been told that any present settlement will inevitably give rise to future disputes.
Martin Doutre’s excellent article – Stealing New Zealand from New Zealanders –War of Words, will shock many readers into a far greater reality of what exactly has been happening to this country, and for how long we have simply been taken for a ride by the power-seekers, the opportunists, the fantasists and the greedy – so unfairly contributing to a backlash against the majority of part-Maori who, well aware of what is happening, do not support them.
Neither the National nor Labour parties can claim that they, and we, were not warned.
There cannot possibly be any genuine parliamentary and political reform in this country until we New Zealanders withhold what they most need from these now corrupt politicised party power groups, themselves compelled by dictatorial leaders to do as they are told.
It is the initiative launched by our 100 days – Claiming Back New Zealand movement, which holds out the only real hope for our future, so that we can win back democracy. The steps laid out in the recent post – Strategies for the Way Forward – show how to withhold from the political parties what they most want, in order to control us. Don’t miss it!
Do support us! Our movement is non-political, nor affiliated to any party, but represents those very many New Zealanders who do not know for whom to vote in the next election, some of whom may well prefer not to vote at all.
There is a way forward. Please subscribe to get new postings, and find at least one other person to tell! We are spreading this movement around the country to reach all New Zealanders.
And on no account miss Martin Doutre’s brilliant article – found on the articles page – Stealing New Zealand from New Zealanders – War of Words.


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Colson Whitehead and Lev Grossman Headline 2017 Festival
More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide Includes $10,000 awarded to Fall for the Book Fairfax, Virginia—National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement […]
Read On with our awesome 2017 design by Jacob Scheyder Fall for the Book is excited to reveal our 2017 festival poster design created by Jacob Scheyder, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer with a degree in film production. His work can be found in movies, on t-shirts, in educational materials and in children’s books. He […]
Fall for the Book has given me memorable moments, conversations and reads: Khaled Hosseini speaking to a packed Concert Hall about The Kite Runner; Roger Wilkins and Doris Kearns Goodwin discussing LBJ's presidency at the Harris Theater, a conversation with author Thomas Mallon at the Sandy Spring tent. This year it was author Tom Gjelten and his eye-opening book, "A Nation of Nations," close by at the Burke Library. Thank you!!
Every year one of my resolutions is to read more and think about what I've read. Thank heaven for Fall for the Book! This festival inspires me, introduces me to new authors, and gives me important insights. I am happy every year to have a reading resolution and to support the Fall for the Book festival."
Fall for the Book gives everyone, readers and writers alike, the opportunity to meet the storytellers who've introduced us to other worlds and sparked our imaginations in amazing ways. I support Fall for the Book because I believe in the power of story and its potential to better the world. Fall for the Book embraces the story while celebrating the storyteller and the reader. I'm proud to be a very small part of that.
Fall for the Book allows me to see and hear working writers explain their craft in an intimate setting. I believe the pulse of our society can be measured by the people who are creating excellent writing.
We contribute because we support and value the work that FFTB does in promoting authors and reading. We also really enjoy the speakers at the festival and have spent a little extra to get extra tickets to the speakers’ presentations as well as access to the VIP reception beforehand where we have had an opportunity to engage the speakers personally.Steve L.

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British vocalist Neon Hitch makes edgy dance-pop with an arty flair that hints at her Bohemian upbringing. Raised in a family of circus performers, Hitch had performed as a trapeze artist and fire swinger all over Europe by the time she was in her teens. After leaving home at age 15, Hitch traveled before settling in London to focus on her music career. Hitch cites a wide array of influences from hip-hop artists, to rock bands, electro-pop music, and world sounds. She was signed to the Streets frontman Mike Skinner's label The Beats before it folded in 2007 and has posted several songs her MySpace page.


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Man, do we have a lot of tunes that missed the Hot 100 during chart week thirty in the 80s. We’re just gonna focus on the Bubbler, the near misses from 1980, 1981, and (some of) 1982.
France Joli – This Time (I’m Giving All I’ve Got) (debuted 7/26/1980, peaked #103)
From her debut album, sixteen-year-old France Joli had a Top 20 hit in 1979, Come To Me. So she thought it best to alienate her fans and put out a ballad when she released her follow-up, Tonight. Needless to say, Pop radio didn’t bite. Luckily for her, the fanbase forgave her, so long as she churned out danceable singles, none of which would crossover.
Grace Slick – Dreams (debuted 7/26/1980, peaked #104)
The Chrome Nun released her second solo album during a brief hiatus from Jefferson Starship, with no help from her current band members. The album garnered her a Best Rock Female Vocalist Grammy nomination and reached #32 on the Billboard Top Albums chart. The lead single, Seasons, only climbed to #95 while its follow-up, the title track, remained as a Bubbler.
Spyro Gyra – Percolator (debuted 7/26/1980, peaked #105)
Here’s the fusion pride of Buffalo, a jazz quintet whose music has entertained us many times during the Weather on the 8s segments of the Weather Channel. Their third album, Catching The Sun, hit #1 on the Jazz charts, and the title track had already reached #68. This peppy follow-up didn’t even get any Maxwell House endorsements.
Stephen Bishop & Yvonne Elliman – Your Precious Love (debuted 7/26/1980, peaked #105)
And now, from the soundtrack of the absolute mess of a film starring Meat Loaf called Roadie comes a yachty version of the Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 1967 classic from two artists who released a lot of movie songs between them. Bishop still had a Tootsie left in him, but Elliman was done as the decade turned as her career felt the love pains.
Exile – You’re Good For Me (debuted 7/26/1980, peaked #105)
After hitting the top of the charts in late 1978 with Kiss You All Over, this sextet had no idea what they wanted to be or sound like for years. Here we find them in their Westcoast phase, ripping off a Roger Voudouris tune. By 1983, they fully commit to Nashville and rack up ten Country #1s.
RCR – Give It To You (debuted 7/26/1980, peaked #108)
RCR is short for Rhodes, Chalmers, and Rhodes, a two-women (sisters), one-man trio of background session singers. They got their chance at fame with their 1980 LP, Scandal, whose title track clipped the Hot 100 at #94. This funky follow-up pop tune was probably deemed to Disco for Top 40 playlists. If it sounds like a Bee Gees outtake, it’s because Bee Gee keyboardist Blue Weaver co-produced the track.
Van Halen – So This Is Love? (debuted 8/1/1981, peaked #110)
Van Halen started off their career with a few Top 40 hits in the late 70s. Then Pop programmers went soft, and VH’s singles didn’t get much chance for Top 40 airplay. This was the only single from their fourth album, Fair Warning, to sniff the Hot 100, even though four of its tracks got lots of Rock airplay. It’s easy to forget how great a band they were, and songs that can swing easy and rock hard can only be mastered by a few.
Stacy Lattisaw – Don’t Throw It All Away (debuted 7/31/1982, peaked #101)
And now we’ve reached the Soul portion of the Bubblers, the 80s R&B that was continuously kicked to the curb. The D.C. teenager had a few Top 30 hits in 1981 but then got locked out in 1982 with the release of her Narada Michael Walden-produced LP, Sneakin’ Out. This 60’s styled ballad would reach the R&B Top 10.
Stephanie Mills – Last Night (debuted 7/31/1982, peaked #101)
The production team behind her 1980 smash – James Mtume & Reggie Lucas – produced this track from her sixth album, Tantalizingly Hot. This would be her fourth and last collaboration with the duo. #14 on the R&B charts will be the peak for this slab of synth-funk.
Deniece Williams – Waiting By The Hotline (debuted 7/31/1982, peaked #103)
Niecy follows her up Top Ten cover of the Royalettes’ It’s Gonna Take a Miracle with this sweet midtempo ballad co-written and produced by Thom Bell. Released from her sixth album titled after her nickname, this track will rise to #29 on the Soul charts.
Nazareth – Love Leads To Madness (debuted 7/31/1982, peaked #105)
Sweet Jesus. It’s Nazareth, still trying to shake off their one-hit-wonder label. The Scottish lads had released their thirteenth album, 2XS, in 1982. This was the lead single and, in my opinion, good enough to break the curse. But alas, it ends up as a Bubbler even as it reached #3 in South Africa.
The second half shall be forthcoming. Until then, here’s Prince.

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GLASGOW — Coming off the 2018 season which saw the Lady Scotties finish 11-10 and advance to the 4th region semifinals, they have hopes of tak…
GLASGOW — The Glasgow Lady Scotties achieved a program milestone last season when they won the school's first girls' soccer region tournament game.
GLASGOW — Glasgow High School senior Addie Johnson is the Glasgow Daily Times Scholar Athlete of the Week. She played soccer while keeping a 4.0 GPA.
GLASGOW — The scoreboard showed the Lady Scotties lost their final game of the year, but it was a season to remember for Glasgow.
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We used to take rifles and shotguns to school so that we could hunt on the way home or do some plinking. And I’m not as old as you think.
We used to take rifles and shotguns to school
Was pretty common in the 50s. We’d see long guns and pistols in holsters being carried and worn by high school kids leaving school or walking down a road on their way to a friendly ranch or a nearby canyon. This was in Monterey, California.
The only interest was from a friendly police officer who wanted to check out the various guns the kids had and remind them of gun safety, not to shoot toward the highway or cattle etc.
In Chicago, you could take the North Ave. bus straight west to the open fields/farms carrying a shotgun as a youngster in the 50s and 60s...or so I am told. ;-]
Our local High School still has its own gun range. Of course, our state lets teachers Conceal Carry on campus.
Hunted the railroad tracks from school to home...
Ha not long ago they had Rifle Teams as a lettermans sport in high schools, and rifles were regularly carried back and forth to schools and some schools even had indoor rifle ranges.
Wait a minute. I AM as old as you think! Or was it plink?


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Idaho’s Favorite Fast Food Spots Surprised Us
Fast food is handy and easy in our busy lives from time to time, or for some all the time. Top Agency studied the most popular fast food restaurants in every state. Idaho was pretty in line with the rest of the country. For me personally the number one spot in Idaho, which also happened to be the number one most popular fast food spot in the United States surprised me. Here are the top 5 for Idaho:
5. McDonald’s - Not a big surprise that McDonalds would make the top 5 in any states list considering it is one of the most well known and most popular fast food companies in the world. According to Idaho Business Review (circa 2016), "The first McDonald’s restaurant in the Gem State was built adjacent to today’s modern McDonald’s located at 510 North Orchard Street in Boise. It opened on June 13, 1961 and was the 249th McDonald’s in the country. Today there are 64 McDonald’s throughout Idaho with more than 30 restaurants in the Treasure Valley." The first McDonalds in the country opened in 1955 in San Bernardino California.
4. Taco Bell - Every time I drive by the Taco Bell near downtown Meridian there is always a massive line for the drive through. I am sure other Idaho Taco Bells are similar. There are currently 33 Taco Bells in Idaho and 15 in the Treasure Valley according to the location finder on the Taco Bell website. Taco Bell first opened in 1962 in San Bernardino, California. (Same city that McDonalds got its start)
3. Subway - My 8 year old son LOVES Subway so I have become quite used to the Treasure Valley locations. There are a whopping (not to be confused with Whopper) 125 locations all over Idaho. Even tiny towns seem to have a Subway. Subway started in 1965, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
2. Burger King - With 32 Idaho locations Burger King is still making a massive impact on the gem state. According to the company, Burger King was started in 1954 by James W. McLamore and David Edgerton in Miami.
1. Sonic - Yup Sonic is the number one most visited, and most popular fast food restaurant in Idaho. This is suprising since it also has the least locations in Idaho with only 21. Sonic got its start in 1953 in Shawnee Oklahoma. Sonic was the top fast food choice for 14 out of 50 states and was in the top five for more than half.
Top 3 Best Fast Food French Fries Spots in Boise, Ranked
Fast Food or Quick & Clean Cuisine? 10 Eateries That Won't Wreck Your Diet
What's the BEST Restaurant in Each of The Treasure Valley Towns?

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The machine itself (IS-M) is better known as the IS-2Sh and was first introduced in WoT Blitz. The heavy tank IS-2SH is a proposal for the modernization of IS-2, proposed by N.F. Shashmurin at the factory number 100 in early 1944. The project provided for the relocation of the combat compartment, as well as the installation of a 122-mm long barrel gun. The project did not receive further development, as the development of the IS-6 tank (Object 252) began.
Here we have Renders, Armor layouts and stat screen shots with English overlay.
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This looks like a really good armored tank. Cant wait to test this on the pts.
very soon we will have the entire kubinka in the game
That would be cool.
Inb4 Russian biased/not another Russian tier 8 heavy
Hey… it might be just a regular tier VIII Heavy. I heard people mention a rear-turret Soviet line
That makes me moist
IS-2sh? you mean its called… Is 2 shit?
It should painted black and be called “Stalin’s K-Tank.”
“Depression | 5”
Where did the -12 gun depression come from on the last post about this?
There are no Elevation / Depression figures in the first post. The -12 is reverse speed.
Yeah…. time to buff KV-4
Is this a joke?? Can they focus on british lights, swedish meds/artillaty. Or just conpleat any faction tree…
I’m pretty sure the Swedish line is dead at this point. They said months ago that with the release of the Swedish premium medium would be the last thing they do with the nation.
Does anybody know where this line is going to break off at in the TT?
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Oli Mooney, who is part of the club’s media team, provides his take on covering matches during lockdown…
We as part of the football club and the media have always been privileged to witness the sporting world from behind the scenes and up close; never has this been truer than now.
Covering the Spireites home and away – like at every club across the land – has its highs and lows, but the loyal and ever-vocal supporters were always there in the flesh to lift spirits when times were tough and the journey home seemed that extra bit longer.
This season we witnessed a historic change as, for the first time, the semantics of ‘behind-closed-doors’ shifted from common practice for the occasional mid-season friendly to an enforced rule spanning what almost certainly will be the vast majority of the league and cup campaign.
Granted, thanks to the great efforts of staff and volunteers, elite football continues to be played as it always had done, but the absence of supporters has taken away much of the natural excitement and energy that whizzed around a football stadium on matchday.
With just one Spireites league game played in front of spectators this season, a 1-0 victory at Sutton United, to this day there isn’t a single member of the staff, media or squad who has become truly accustomed to such a bizarre way of working.
Whilst the roar of the fans can be a vital injection of energy to tired legs on the pitch when the clock is running down, the media team and the press have that similar feeling of loneliness when not immersed in a bustling crowd and rather in an echoey skeleton of a football stadium.
Waking up on matchday morning during the time of COVID-19 is the same as any: excited and optimistic for the day ahead, with the prospect of a winning performance and more points on the board lingering in the back of one’s mind… And when the team is on a good run, there is an extra spring in our step as we hit the road.
By the time of arrival, however, reality begins to rear its ugly head once more. Stadiums are deserted, vending stalls and bars are caged away in steel chains; nothing remains but an eerie silence, and then the music pouring from the tannoy is powerless in its attempt to fill the void as players warm up in front of abandoned plastic seats.
It is certainly both a fascinating and frustrating era in football’s long history. Come the end of 90 minutes, regardless of the result, it is almost guaranteed that at least one member of the media team will mutter the words “if only the fans were here”.
What is even more peculiar to imagine is that James Rowe, along with his many new arrivals who have since driven the club up the National League table and have lost just two in 16 outings, is yet to manage a single fixture in front of Blues supporters.
The pandemic has also challenged us as a media team to adapt. We have put together our very first live streaming service and, to the very best of our ability, we have looked to cover the club in as thorough and open way as possible, to keep the supporters close to the action without being physically here.
The end appears to be in sight, though, with the government announcing plans to begin reopening the country and its stadia before the season’s end. Should we be lucky enough, come May 22, we will have a sea of Spireites flooding through the turnstiles once more, ready to back James Rowe and his men.


Even if Samsung are not participating in the ongoing Computex 2013, they certainly are making themselves heard this week. Fresh from the announcement of the new Galaxy Tab 3 Android tablets, the Korean giants have just taken the wraps off its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4 Active.
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Featuring a ruggedized exterior with IP67 rating for dust and water resistance, the new Samsung Galaxy S4 brings all the goodness of the flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone into a package that is suited for those with more active lifestyles. The IP67 rating on this device means that that the device is fully sealed, protecting the internals against dust particles and water from seeping in, even allowing it to be submerged 1 meter underwater for up to 30 minutes. The Galaxy S4 Active is also equipped with a water-resistant earphone jack, allowing users to use their earphones with the smartphone in “more adventurous conditions”.
Powered by a 1.9GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM, Galaxy S4 Active sports a 5-inch Full HD TFT LCD screen, with Glove Touch enhancements that allow users to interact with the phone even when wearing gloves. The camera has been reduced to an 8MP rear shooter from the 13MP module found in the Galaxy S4, while the front-facing camera remains the same 2MP module. Inside, there’s 16GB of storage that can be expanded with up to 64GB microSD cards supported. This 151g rugged device also sports a healthy 2600mAh battery, while still staying relatively slim at 9.1mm. Like the Galaxy S4, there’s a plethora of sensors on the new Galaxy S4 Active: accelerometer, proximity, gyro, digital compass, barometer, gesture sensor, finger hovering sensor, and finally an ambient light sensor.
Software wise, the new Galaxy S4 Active is pretty much the same as Samsung’s current flagship. It runs on the latest Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, and comes with everything the latest TouchWiz UI has to offer, such as Dual Shot, Group Play, S Health and many others. There’s also an “Aqua Mode” camera feature, which presumably allows for camera use under water.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 Active will be available from this summer, and will initially retail in the US and Sweden. It will be available in three colours: Urban Grey, Dive Blue and Orange Flare, and will make its official debut at the Samsung Premiere event in London later this month. Pricing details, however, were not yet revealed.


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Namibia - History
The history of this land can be found carved into rock paintings found to the south and in Twyfelfontein, some dating back to 26,000 BC. A long lineage of various groups including San Bushmen, Bantu herdsmen and finally the Himba, Herero and Nama tribes among others have been making this rugged land home for thousands of years.
A wide variety of rock paintings and rock engravings dating from about 29 000 to 1 500 years ago are the most persistent evidence of early human habitation in the area currently known as Namibia. Although there is some agreement that the first traces of the Bantu-speaking communities appear in the north between 2 000 and 1 500 years ago, it is generally accepted that the Khoisan speaking people, known as San or Bushmen were the first to arrive in the area. Later inhabitants include the Nama and the Damara or Berg Dama. The Bantu-speaking Ovambo and Herero migrated from the north in about the 14th century AD.
The first Europeans to set foot in modern day Namibia was the Portuguese explorers Diego Cao who landed at today's Cape Cross in 1486 and Bartholomew Diaz who erected a cross at today's Luderitz. Further European explorations were kept at bay by the forbidding desert coast until the 18th century.
West of the Kalahari the extensive countries of the Nama Hottentots and of the Damara reach over the hilly border lands of the continent down to the arid shores of the Atlantic. Namaqualand is in general a dreary region, with scanty vegetation of grasses and prickly shrubs, furrowed by water channels which flow only for a short time after the scanty showers. The coast-land is sandy and waterless, overhung by an almost constant haze.
Damaraland, farther north, is a little more favoured in aspect in its hill slopes, but is also deprived of any permanently flowing waters. Cattle and ostriches seem, however, to be numerous, considerable deposits of copper had been found, and the presence of gold was suspected.
The people of Damaraland were distinguished as the Ova Herero, or Cattle Damaras, a tribe which migrated hither probably from the Zambezi valley; and the Houquain, a black or negro-like people, supposed to be aboriginal, who had previously been enslaved by the Namaquas, and who had adopted the Hottentot language. A few Bushmen, Griquas, and Europeans, chiefly members of the Rhenish mission, were found here also.
The discovery of huge amounts of guano on the islands scattered along the Namibian coast around 1840 led to the first European settlement in Namibia at Angra Pequena, today known as Luderitz. Angra Pequena became a bustling port for ships on the way to Europe from the Cape of Good Hope, but even then the Namib Desert kept the early Europeans from moving inland.
Prior to European annexation, clans of Nama-speaking tribes calling themselves Orlams moved into Namibia to escape from colonial oppression at the Cape of Good Hope. These tribes moved into Namibia with guns and mounted soldiers and spread through the south to areas north of present day Windhoek, thus becoming the first conquerors of large parts of Namibia.
The strongest group of the Orlam was the Afrikaner clan under the leadership of Jonker Afrikaner, a man who was to become the dominant figure in the south and center of the country after his alliance with the Herero chief Tjamuaha. After the death of the two leaders in 1861 internal dissent amongst the feuding Herero and Nama clans led to continuous warfare between Tjamuaha's successor, Maherero and Jonker Afrikaner's successor, Jan Jonker Afrikaner.
The inhospitable Namib Desert constituted a formidable barrier to European exploration until the late 18th century, when successions of travelers, traders, hunters, and missionaries explored the area.
The demands for guns and ammunition, driven by the continuous feuds between the different tribal alliances eventually created a trade between central and southern Namibia and the Cape of Good Hope. In 1870 a community of mixed race Cape Colony families calling themselves Basters created the Rehoboth Gebied south of Windhoek after a purchase agreement with the Nama and Herero Chiefs. The increasing trade with the Cape, coupled with the lobbying of the missionaries, eventually aroused the interest of the European powers in the area and ultimately led to its colonisation.
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The European Shippers’ Council (ESC), The Asian Shippers’ Association (ASA) and the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) have signed a memorandum of understanding which calls for cooperation in air freight, maritime transport and trade facilitation. The joint body which aims to represent shippers’ interests worldwide will be called the Global Shippers’ Alliance.
According to a statement, the Global Shippers’ Alliance plans to engage in constructive dialogue with national governments, supranational bodies, NGO’s, transport organizations and logistic
service providers and strive for better cooperation so international trade can thrive, economies can grow and society can benefit.
Subjects that are important to shippers are, amongst others, fair pricing of transport including surcharges in maritime and air transport, proper competition, security and customs regulations, standardization to facilitate data exchange, terminal handling charges and service levels in international transport.
U.S., New Zealand Challenge Indonesia's Import Restrictions
Meanwhile, the U.S. and New Zealand have requested a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel over Indonesian import restrictions, saying barriers to agricultural goods, ranging from potatoes to poultry breached international trade obligations. Their request kicks off a process that could lead to sanctions.
Announcing the request, U.S. trade representative, Michael Froman, asserted that Indonesia is banning the import of a variety of U.S. agricultural products and imposes several other import restrictions on everything from potatoes to beef, and apples to grapes, and poultry. Froman added that such restrictions "run afoul of Indonesia’s obligations under the WTO and infringe U.S. trading rights.”
Froman noted that the U.S. has been working together with New Zealand on this issue, which is also pursuing the establishment of a WTO panel to examine Indonesia’s import restrictions.
Prohibitive policies act as a brake on trade
According to U.S. estimates, nearly US$200 million worth of U.S. exports to Indonesia either transported by air or ship were affected by import licensing regimes in 2014, including $122 million of fruit and vegetables, and other temperature sensitive horticultural products. “If it weren’t for Indonesia’s prohibitive policies, we would expect to have sold far more than that," Mr Froman stated.
The request to involve the WTO in this case, comes at a time when the U.S. endeavors’ to unlock economic opportunities for U.S. agricultural exporters across the Asia-Pacific region through the Trans-Pacific Partnership. TPP is a trade agreement that will grant Americans access to the rapidly growing economies of that part of the world.
"Apart from access to those markets, the TPP also aims to lift labour, environmental protections and strengthen intellectual property rights, and other standards in the region to levels that are appropriate for the 21st century," Mr Froman stated.
Indonesia is an important trading partner for the U.S., it is a top-ten market for U.S. agricultural products and within the top 30 overall markets for U.S. exports.
It is the fifth WTO case the U.S. has brought against Indonesia, and New Zealand's second. Indonesia also has two cases against the United States.
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A maintenance mode for hosts is implemented in ADCM. This mode is designed to stop the implementation of any cluster- or service-related operations for a host. You also can’t add any components to the host that is in maintenance mode. This is useful if the host is turned off, has malfunctioned, or is not ready to participate in ADCM actions for some reason.
Consider using maintenance mode when you perform hardware or software maintenance, change configuration settings, perform troubleshooting, decommissioning, or removing cluster nodes.
Not every cluster, service, or component action is possible if one of cluster hosts is in maintenance mode. This depends on if the action affects all cluster hosts, as well as on action’s logic.
To switch a host to maintenance mode, you should perform the following steps:
Locate the host you wish to switch to maintenance mode in ADCM interface. For instance, you can use the Hosts subsection of the CLUSTERS tab.Choosing a host
Click the maintenance mode icon . The icon turns red. The host is now in maintenance mode.Switch on the maintenance mode
To switch off the maintenance mode, click the maintenance mode icon again.
While you can’t perform any operations with components on a host that is in maintenance mode, you can still remove a component from this host on the logical level. Generally speaking, the maintenance mode prevents bulk operations being performed on a host, yet you may explicitly start and stop a component on a host while in maintenance mode (for example, by connecting via SSH).


Hello all. Any help regarding how to disassemble the front forks on my 1970 T350 is appreciated. The Haynes manual appears to be incorrect as it describes the 1969 model and the forks are different. It appears that the lower leg screws off and that the oil seal is replaceable. Would appreciate your comments and help before I screw it up. Thanks.


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DNA is packaged in a chromosome.
Roger Kornberg explains his work with Aaron Klug on histones, which bind DNA to form chromatin.
Hi, I'm Roger Kornberg. Aaron Klug and I were interested in a class of proteins called histones and how they interact with DNA. There are five different kinds of histones. Aaron Klug and I were interested in a class of proteins called histones and how they interact with DNA. There are five different kinds of histones. Histones bind to DNA to form the chromatin ("colored material") in the nucleus of higher cells. In non-dividing cells, the chromatin is dispersed throughout the nucleus. Histones bind to DNA to form the chromatin ("colored material") in the nucleus of higher cells. In non-dividing cells, the chromatin is dispersed throughout the nucleus. During prophase of cell division, the chromatin condenses into the visible structures we know as chromosomes. This electron micrograph shows a cell in metaphase; the chromosomes are lined up in the middle of the cell. The presence of histone proteins in the nucleus of higher cells was part of a debate in the 1940s about which molecule, DNA or proteins, is the hereditary material. Of course, DNA turned out to have that distinction. However, X-ray diffraction studies later showed that histones play an important role in providing structure for the DNA helix. Remember Maurice Wilkins? In 1964, he and Vittorio Luzzati noticed that chromatin has a repeating pattern with intervals of about 100 angstroms (1Å = 10 -10m). This repeat is different from the repeating patterns of DNA itself. Aaron Klug also saw similar X-ray diffraction patterns in chromatin. This repeat suggested that histones play a role in "packaging" DNA. I'm Dean Hewish. I'm Leigh Burgoyne. In 1973, while we were at Flinders University in South Australia, we got a result that supported the idea of DNA packaging. We isolated the enzyme DNA nuclease from rat liver cells and used it to digest chromatin. We electrophoresed the digested chromatin material ... ...and we saw a regular pattern of bands on the gel.This is a photo of the gel we ran in 1973. We figured out that the bands were multiples of the smallest size fragment, later determined to be about 200 base pairs (bp). So these repeated bands corresponded to 200 bp, 400 bp, 600 bp, 800 bp, and so on. We concluded that the histones are distributed evenly on the DNA and, at the points where they bind, protect the DNA from nuclease digestion. This is completely different from the digestion pattern of "naked" DNA without histones. Naked DNA digested with nuclease produces a smear of thousands of different-sized fragments. Based on the X-ray diffraction patterns and the nuclease experiments, chromatin was proposed to be DNA and the histone cores it wrapped around. The 200 bp repeat observed after nuclease digestion corresponds to 200 bp of DNA wrapped around each histone core. The 100Å measurement from X-ray diffraction patterns is the width of the histone core and the DNA. My colleagues and I did experiments that confirmed this model, and we also figured out the arrangement of the histones in the core. We individually purified the histones from the DNA. We found that H2A and H2B tend to stick together, as do H3 and H4. If we mixed the H2A/H2B complex with the H3/H4 complex, and then added naked DNA, we got the same X-ray pattern as for chromatin. More analysis revealed that each histone core has eight proteins -- two copies each of the H2A/H2B and H3/H4 complexes. This histone core with wrapped DNA is called a nucleosome. This is an electron micrograph of chromatin. The "string" is called the 10-nm fiber. The "beads" are the nucleosomes. But where is the H1 histone? It turns out H1 is not part of the histone core. Instead, it binds between nucleosomes to give even more structure to chromatin. H1 sits just outside of each nucleosome and interacts with the H1 in the next nucleosome. At higher salt concentrations, the 10-nm fiber is further compacted into the 30-nm fiber. The DNA helix is already twisted. By adding twists to make these nucleosomes and solenoid structures, the DNA is supercoiled. Even more organization is involved in maintaining the condensed chromosome. Loops of DNA are attached to a protein scaffold made up of several non-histone proteins. This scaffold maintains the shape of a chromosome -- even in the absence of histones. Chromosomes are really one continuous piece of DNA. In this electron micrograph you can see the DNA strand from one chromosome after the histones have been removed. Up to six feet of DNA is packaged to fit into the nucleus of one cell. The DNA is first wrapped around histone cores to form nucleosomes and the 10-nm fiber. The 10-nm fiber is further coiled into the 30-nm fiber, where six nucleosomes make one turn. The 30-nm fiber is then looped onto protein scaffolds when chromosomes condense.
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DNA is coiled around proteins and packaged as chromatin within the nucleus of cells. Aaron Klug and Roger Kornberg figured out the structure of chromatin. It has been proposed that the coiling (or rather uncoiling) of DNA is a way of controlling the pro
Electron micrograph of the DNA and the protein scaffold left over from one chromosome (insert) with all the histone stripped out.
Electron micrograph of the 10-nm fiber.
Maurice Wilkins obtained some of the first X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA from which dimensions could be calculated.
Electron micrograph of the 30-nm fiber.
Maurice Wilkins talks about obtaining an X-ray diffraction pattern.
In 1974, Roger Kornberg worked out the importance of histones to chromatin structure.
Photo of chromatin digested by nuclease, from Hewish and Burgoyne's 1973 experiment.
A chromosome is a package for DNA.
DNA packaging, 3D animation with sound effects only

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History of The Tip
For the last 20 years of his life, Adam Grant had used the Tip as a private men’s club, with membership limited to 100 of his nearest and dearest. After the restoration, Adam Grant’s heirs sold the building, and the Tip remained a private gathering place for the new owners, a somewhat shadowy group about whom history records very little — except that they were Masons. In any case, if anyone had wanted to recapture the glory days of the bar, the Volstead Act arrived in 1919 to put a stop to it.
A Langhorne or a Grant would have turned the inconveniences of Prohibition into a brand new excuse to party. But the Masons evidently lacked such instincts. Accordingly, the Tip went dry. Over the next three decades, the one-story elevator was bricked over, and the room itself left to the city’s soot and spiders. And the Tip went mostly forgotten by all.
Except for one guy.
The year was 1950. Birth of the Cool. Opening days of post-war prosperity. In music, Big Bands were done, and the heppest of the hep had turned their attention to the West Coast, where players like Stan Getz and Ernie Fathom had picked up the gauntlet of cool jazz, as thrown down in the Big Apple by Miles Davis, and run with it. Big time.
One of those fans was named Mickey Haff. And when he bought the Adam Grant Building off the stolid Masons, for him it was all about the Tip. Not only did Mickey know at least some of the history, not to mention the legend, he was excited about extending that legend into the modern era. Mickey’s vision was of a semi-private club, with a membership culled from friends, fellow jazz fans or anyone else he thought was fun, hosting semi-private performances by Miles, Bird, Getz, Fathom and Antell — the cream of contemporary (mostly cool, mostly west coast) jazz. Like so many of the super-fans, Mickey didn’t play an instrument himself. And like so many of the super-rich, Mickey, California’s biggest Cadillac dealer, had more or less lost touch with reality.
According to an exhaustive profile in Downbeat magazine, Mickey poured money into the Tip — $110,000 (in 1950 dollars; $27.9 million in 2008 dough) — adding a spectacular tufted-leather bar, four chandeliers, a giant antique mirror edged in silver, a “wine cellar in the sky” filled with the finest of France, Italy and Spain, handmade flocked wallpaper from Belgium, an eye-popping black-and-white floor and a “moonroof to let in the stars.” He restored the Tip’s famed silver-tin ceiling and got the crazy, little one-floor elevator to work again. The room shone like a jewel, like the legend it deserved to be.
And then Mickey caught a Constellation to New York to personally book Miles for the opening.
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