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In just a few hours, one of my bestest tweeps will be IN THE HOUSE, so this morning I needed to clean the house and push aside some of the craft room overflow. So the first thing I did when I got out of bed, after catching up on my email, doing some work on my Google Reader backlog, and tweeting a bit, I made a card. This card:
Several factors pushed me into The Captain's Quarters, aside from the creative avoidance forces from all the impending cleaning. Most importantly this card totally inspired me, and it only caught my eye because I have a piece of A*Muse wood-grain card stock in The Heaplet, and I have yet to figure out what to do with it, given that putting it away was not an option.
Please excuse all the incorrect word tenses in that last sentence.
Since even the card base came from The Heaplet, this card is 100% remnants, and yes, I am very proud.
Here's the owl, up close and personal:
I added a cranberry circle under the cream layer, because it looked like it needed something. Speaking of which, check out the washi tape I snuck in under the sentiment:
In other news, I did finally clean. Well, I cleaned everything that's going to get cleaned, and now I need a nap. Maybe I'll go stamp some more and work on this new stack of sketches I've printed off. I'm telling you, a crafter's work is never done!
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A new twin road Forth Road Bridge was proposed by Scottish ministers. The present Bridge will be retained and used for public transport only.
This would help travellers in Perth and Fife by dualling the A9 between Perth and Inverness. It will also provide a relief road to the north of Dundee.
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Off-duty L.A. County sheriff’s deputy killed in fiery motorcycle crash
An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was killed in a fiery motorcycle crash in Corona, authorities said Sunday.
Deputy Philip Borja, 25, was pronounced dead at a Riverside hospital after the Friday afternoon crash that involved two cars and two motorcycles, according to the Corona Police Department. A resident of Upland, Borja was assigned to the Sheriff’s Department’s station in Norwalk.
Borja and a 24-year-old man were each riding motorcycles eastbound on Hidden Valley Parkway, just east of the 15 Freeway, police said.
Shortly before 4:30 p.m., a 57-year-old woman exited a shopping center in a white Ford sedan and came into the path of the two motorcycles.
Borja’s motorcycle struck the sedan before crashing into a Volkswagen Beetle in a westbound lane, police said. The other motorcycle swerved and avoided the Ford sedan but also struck the Beetle.
The Beetle and Borja’s motorcycle burst into flames, police said.
Borja and the other motorcyclist were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The other motorcyclist was treated and released Saturday, police said.
The driver of the Beetle, a 22-year-old woman, and the driver of the Ford sedan were not injured. The crash is under investigation by Corona police, and authorities have not arrested or cited anyone in connection with it.
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Caitlin has been a writer since elementary school. In that time, she's explored all kinds of writing, particularly poetry and fiction, but her favorite kind of writing is memoir, which she discovered while in graduate school at Utah State University. She loves that memoir gives voice to both the small and big moments in life and that it can help writers discover the meaning to the memories they've been holding onto for years. Caitlin is delighted to be at Lifelong Learning and to introduce students to a genre that is complex, challenging, and rewarding.
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After what has been quite a dry and generally anticyclonic last fortnight across much of the UK, we must be to an absolute drought in some parts of the country, which is very surprising as many parts of England where covered in flood waters less than seven weeks ago. The definition for absolute drought was introduced by the British Rainfall Organisation back in 1887 but is frowned upon now by the Met Office for some reason, and I had to dig back to find a reference to it. I can’t guarantee that I’ve captured all the SYNOPs for the last 14 days, and so I can’t guarantee that the above chart is complete, but I do my best with SYNOP observations that I download from the wonderful OGIMET site.
Drought: Dryness due to lack of RAINFALL. Certain definitions have been adopted inMeteorological Glossary 1963
order to obtain comparable statistical information on the subject of droughts.
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We spend a lot of time scrutinizing the factors and financial decisions that affect our credit scores, but we realize it’s important to educate consumers what WON’T hurt their credit scores. But as you go down this list, remember that there are different credit agencies and scoring models that treat things differently, and we always advocate paying all of your bills and debts on time. That being said, here are 15 things that WON’T hurt your credit score:
1. Debit cards
Some people get confused because debit cards might have a Visa or MasterCard logo on them, but in fact they have nothing to do with loans and therefore don’t affect your credit score.
While you may be asked how much money you make every time you fill out a loan or credit card application to determine your debt-to-income ratio, your income is not reported to the credit bureaus and has no bearing on your score.
3. Where you live or work
Where you live, where you work, and for whom is not a factor in your credit scoring, although you will find that information on your credit report.
4. Your age, race, religion, marital status, or sex
It’s against federal law to consider age, race, religion, marital status, or sex when making lending decisions – and that includes all credit scoring models. One distinction is that the federal CARD Act of 2009 does make it harder for people less than 21 years of age to obtain a credit card, as they were trying to curb rampant advertising and targeting of college kids.
5. Checking your credit report
So many people are reticent to check their own credit report because they’re worried about their score going down, but that’s an absolute myth. In fact, an inquiry made by the consumer is a soft inquiry, and doesn’t factor into their score at all. Side note – you also don’t have to pay for your credit report, as each of the three big credit bureaus, TransUnion, Experian and Equifax, allow you to access a free credit report once a year.
6. Your taxes
How much you owe the Internal Revenue service - and even if you pay your taxes late - won't damage your credit. However, if you are so delinquent that the IRS files a tax lien, it will wreak havoc on your credit score (and probably your life!)
7. Going to jail
We certainly hope you don’t land behind bars, but it’s worth noting that incarceration has no affect on credit scoring. But remember that civil judgments of any kind – including bankruptcies, judgments, and other liens do show up on your credit report.
8. Public assistance and welfare
Receiving food stamps, disability, welfare, or any other form of public assistance is not reported to the credit bureaus and won’t impact your scores.
9. Paying rent
Sending a big check to your landlord on time the first of every month makes you a responsible tenant – but it doesn’t make your credit score better. However, like many of the items on this list, if you fail to pay your rent and get sued by a landlord or creditor, or the debt is sent to collections, it will show up on your report and sink your score.
10. Utility payments
The same applies for utility payments of electricity, heat, water, etc. – they don’t report to the credit bureaus unless you don’t pay and they go to collections.
The same is true for cell phones, insurance premiums, and other common bills.
11. Your net worth
Your income isn’t reported to the bureaus, and neither is your net worth. That means that you could hypothetically have a million dollars cash in the bank but it makes no difference at all to your credit score (but it will help you immeasurably when applying for new loans!)
12. Shopping for a loan in a short time frame
The credit bureaus realize that when consumers are looking to buy a home, car, applying for student loans, etc. they will most likely “shop around,” filling out applications with multiple lenders to get the best rate and terms. But as long as you do this responsible in short time frames, it won’t hurt your score. That window is reportedly 45-days for the new FICO scoring model, but only 14 days for VantageScore.
13. Small debts
The latest version of FICO doesn’t factor in debts less than $100, and with VantageScore 3.0, even collections less than $250 won’t hurt your score.
14. Bank account overdrafts
Did you bounce a check or overdraft your bank account? Don’t panic because it typically doesn’t affect your credit score at all (unless you were making a loan payment with that bank account, in which case you’ll have a late payment!)
15. Child support and alimony
According to both FICO and VantageScore, any obligation reporting as child or family support does not factor into credit score calculations. But of course you have to pay on time to avoid liens, collections, and your score dropping accordingly.

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Spanish Courses in Oaxaca, Mexico
The city of Oaxaca, located in the central valley of the state, is surrounded by the states of Puebla, Veracruz and Chiapas and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. With its ethnic, cultural and historic richness, Oaxaca is an ideal place to experience the beauty of Mexico and its people. Due to Oaxaca’s appreciation for ancestral traditions and its colonial architecture, UNESCO has named the city a patrimony of humanity. Oaxaca is known for its creative, talented artists and many different types of artisans. The artists use everything from clay and fabrics to leather, iron and jewelry, making Oaxaca one of the main producers of these goods.
Spanish Courses in Oaxaca at the International House Spanish Language Center
International House Oaxaca, is a member of the International House World organization, set up in collaboration with International House Alegre Schools to offer Full Immersion Spanish Courses in Mexico to students from all over the world.
The International House World Organization, founded in 1953, is a network of more than 150 schools around the world, all committed to the highest standards in education and business. A key aim of International House is to raise the standards of language teaching around the world. One important way in which they do this is through Teacher Training courses for which International House has a world-wide reputation. They train our own (as well as many other schools’) teachers to enable language students to learn the language of their choice simply, quickly and efficiently in a rich linguistic and cultural environment. To ensure that every school maintains the high standards that are specified in the Affiliation Agreement, an external assessor visits each school every two years and conducts a thorough investigation into all aspects of the school’s activities. These visits ensure that the unparalleled reputation International House enjoys for the quality of its services is safeguarded.
The International House Spanish Language Center is located in the heart of Oaxaca’s Historical Center, 4 blocks from Oaxaca’s “Zocalo” (downtown square), in a lively neighborhood surrounded by cafés, restaurants, shops, and art galleries. The Spanish school in Oaxaca offers students a warm, welcoming learning environment in the heart of the city. Our colorful classrooms are situated around a sunny central patio that’s perfect for relaxing and chatting with other international students between classes. The 16th-century colonial building with modern interior has 5 bright classrooms. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the school. There is a beautiful outdoor patio where students gather at shaded tables to study together, and an on-campus restaurant for coffee between classes or a traditional Mexican lunch. Museums near our School: Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Cathedral of Oaxaca, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Plaza de la Constitución or Zócalo (main square). International House Alegre Schools offer an additional destination for Spanish Language courses in Mexico: Playa del Carmen. Students can combine courses at any of these two locations. Please click on the following tabs for more information on our Spanish Courses in Oaxaca:
International House – Spanish courses in Oaxaca
Minimum enrollment age: 16. Prices include registration fee, number of lessons as listed below, language level testing on arrival, certificate of completion and a social and cultural program (entrance fees and transportation not included). Each lesson is 55 minutes long.
Intensive Spanish Courses: 20 Spanish Lessons per week. Maximum of 8 students per class (average 4-5). Course consists of 20 lessons per week (4 Spanish lessons per day from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM, Monday through Friday). A program of social activities is included in the prices.
Private Spanish Courses: 15, 20 or 30 private Spanish lessons per week, One-to-one Spanish Language Training, all levels from Beginner to Advanced. With private lessons the content of the course as well as the tempo is personalized according to the student‘s needs and wishes. Therefore students are afforded the maximum amount of flexibility and individual support. Private Spanish courses start every Monday for all levels from Beginner to Advanced.
Spanish Courses in Oaxaca, Mexico – Prices 2023:
(All programs: NO application fee. A non-refundable USD 100.00 deposit is required at the time of enrollment. Deposit will be subtracted from final program invoice. See Application Procedures)
|1 week||2 weeks||3 weeks||4 weeks||Extra Weeks||12 Weeks||24 Weeks|
|Intensive Spanish Course 20 Lessons per week||$240||$480||$720||$960||$220||$2,640||$4,680|
|Private Course 10 Lessons per week||$320||$640||$960||$1,280||$320|
|Private Course 20 Lessons per week||$660||$1,320||$660|
All prices listed in US Dollars
2023 Starting Dates – International House Oaxaca Spanish Courses: Intermediate and advanced students may start any Monday. Complete beginners MUST start on the following dates: 9 or 23 January / 7 or 20 February / 6 or 21 March / 3 or 17 April / 2, 15 or 29 May / 12 or 26 June / 10 or 24 July / 7 or 21 August / 4 or 18 September / 2, 16 or 30 October / 13 or 27 November / 11 or 26 December. Notes: When a holiday falls on a Monday, classes will start on Tuesday. Notes: When a holiday falls on a Monday, classes will start on Tuesday.
Starting Dates for all Private Spanish Courses in Oaxaca: Every Monday year-round.
Holidays 2023: No classes will be held on the following days: 1 January, 6 February, 20 March, 6-7 April, 1 May, 16 September, 20 November, and 25 December. Group classes missed due to holidays are NOT made up, except when two holidays fall on the same week, in which case one day will receive a discount for that week. One-to-one classes are always made up during the rest of the week.
Additional Spanish Courses in Oaxaca:
Business Spanish Courses:
International House offers Business Spanish courses designed to help students who need to use the language in a working environment. The aim of these courses is to help improve the student’s level of competence in many typical work-related activities such as participating in meetings, using the telephone for business, negotiating and selling, making presentations, etc. Students are also introduced to a wide range of business vocabulary and given an insight into the sort of cultural differences that they may encounter while doing business in Mexico. This course combines the Intensive Group Spanish Course (20 lessons per week) with 10 one-to-one lessons per week which focus on Business Spanish.
Starting dates: Same as the Intensive Courses (see above). Price 2023: USD 560.00 per week
Medical Spanish Courses:
This course combines the Intensive Group Spanish Course (20 lessons per week) with 10 one-to-one lessons per week which focus on Medical Spanish and it is geared towards students in all types of medical professions (doctors, nurses, home care-workers, etc.). Optional visits to observe and meet Spanish speaking doctors or nurses in a healthcare center are available.
Starting dates: Same as the Intensive Courses (see above). Price 2023: USD 560.00 per week
Combination Spanish Courses:
Students may combine their Spanish course with activities such as Cooking or Dancing. These courses must be booked in conjunction with a Spanish course.
Spanish and Cooking: Learn to make the food we all know and love, the true Mexican way. Five afternoons per week. Price: USD 170.00 per week (in addition to the Spanish course).
Spanish and Dancing: Put on your dancing shoes and learn from some of the best Latin dance teachers around. Five afternoons per week Price: USD 170.00 per week (in addition to the Spanish course).
International House – Oaxaca Accommodations
International House offers students several housing options.
Host Family: Carefully selected host families provide a home away from home. This gives students the opportunity to further appreciate the beauty of Mexico and its people. The majority of our Mexican host families live in relatively new, one or two-story houses, although some live in apartments. A typical house will have a living room/dining room, a kitchen and bathroom and 3 or 4 bedrooms. There is often a yard outside which people use as an extension of the house. Most families live within a 20 minute walk from the school.
Apartments and Shared Apartments: There is a number of furnished apartments available for rent, which you can share with other students, or rent for your own, exclusive use. The normal minimum period for renting an apartment is 2 weeks, although shorter rentals can sometimes be arranged on request. These apartments are entirely self-catering, which means that no meals are provided. Apartments are centrally located and are therefore between 5-20 minutes from the school on foot or by public transport. The school also has a small number of apartments on-site (see below for details). School Residence: Students that desire more independence may choose to stay at the school residence. The small residence is located within easy walking distance from the school. There are 4 shared double rooms. Each room has a desk where students can do their homework or read, and there is wireless Internet available for those who bring laptops. You can choose bed and breakfast or half board (which includes dinner). Please note that all meals are served in the residence itself. If you prefer, you can have the option “no meals”.
Accommodation Prices 2023:
|Housing Description||One week||Two weeks||Three weeks||Four weeks||Extra week||Extra day|
|Host Families: Private room / breakfast||$268||$536||$804||$1,072||$268||$44|
|Host Families: Private room / 2 meals a day||$298||$596||$894||$1,192||$298||$49|
|Shared Apartment: Private room / no meals||$258||$516||$774||--||$258||$43|
|Shared Apartment: Double room** / no meals||$180||$360||$540||--||$180||$36|
|1 Bedroom Apartment: no meals||$420||$840||$1,1260||--||$420||$70|
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** Double rooms can only be booked by two students traveling together. Prices are per person.
International House – Activities
(Excursions and activities are optional ant NOT included in academic fees). Students can take part in other activities, such as trips to neighboring towns, visits to archaeological zones, mountain biking tours, rappelling, hiking, rock climbing or paragliding. You can enjoy a great variety of cultural and recreational activities. They offer one-day excursions to Monte Alban, Hierve el Agua, “el Tule” tree, Mezcal distilleries, and beautiful churches and convents. One Day Excursions:
- Monte Albán is the most important of the Meso-American archaeological zones. There is a museum on the grounds providing a detailed look into the Zapotecan culture. 10-minute drive.
- “El Tule” tree is located in the town of Santa María. It is considered the widest tree in the world and is over 2000 years old. 20-minute drive.
- Hierve el Agua is a beautiful waterfall that cascades over a mountain and offers an amazing view. Students can spend the day enjoying the view and swimming in the natural pools fed by the falls. There are cabañas available for those who wish to stay the night. 1 1/2 hour drive.
- We will visit several mezcal distilleries to learn about the fermentation process in which Mezcal is made and taste the different flavors of this Mexican liquor. 30 minute drive
- Students will explore one of Mexico’s most beautiful churches, Santo Domingo, walk through its botanical garden and tour the Mexican History Museum found in the restored ex-convent. 5 minutes walking from the school.
Excursions and activities are optional and NOT included in academic fees.
Airport transfers: available at additional cost: USD 100 each way.


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Stevens and Frost were profoundly different poets, and in Key West, where both men wintered during the 1930s, they quarreled.
For the modernist Stevens, Frost was “too academic.” For Frost, Stevens’s “poetry of the mind in the act of finding” was mere “bric-a-brac.”
But the two agreed about Richard Wilbur, in whose work each recognized the promise of a major American poet.
In Key West January 7-10, 2010, The Key West Literary Seminar celebrates 60 years of American poetry with compelling discussions, candid conversations, and insightful readings.

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Litigation abuse is a challenge as Florida continues hurricane recovery
Florida’s personal lines insurance market is still under stress from lawsuit abuse and hurricane recovery. One year since category 5 Hurricane Michael, packing 155-mile-per-hour winds, threw the people, land and economy of northwest Florida into disarray, the wounds are still fresh. Recovery is ongoing. Floridians are not only paying their share of the cost of recovery but also the cost of abusive litigation — attorneys in Florida are exploiting the one-way fee law and a “contingency fee multiplier” that continue to drive up the volume and costs of litigation.
Following years of litigation abuse and one of the worst storms in Florida’s history, the Personal Insurance Federation of Florida (PIFF) is working with lawmakers in 2020 to promote policies that address the cost of claims, protect consumers and prevent harm to a recovering insurance marketplace.
“The residents and communities in Hurricane Michael-affected areas need our continued help,” said Michael Carlson, president and CEO of PIFF. “If there is some good news, the numbers show most insurance claims are resolved. But as claims continue to come in, we must be mindful of ongoing litigation challenges in both the auto and property insurance markets. We need to address these stressors and will continue to promote policies that can reduce insurance rates.”
PIFF’s 2020 Legislative Focus:
TORT REFORM: Fighting for a consumer-friendly marketplace.
Contingency Fee Multiplier – SB 914 by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg
This year, PIFF is working with legislators to restore balance in the civil justice system by limiting the application of the attorney “contingency fee multiplier” to rare and exceptional cases. Attorneys are exploiting an outdated and unnecessary legal tactic to enrich themselves at the expense of insurance consumers. This is no longer allowed at the Federal level, yet today in Florida, attorneys taking on routine residential property claims are asking to be paid twice or even three times their hourly rate, not because they deserve it but because they can. And those costs are passed on to insurance consumers. It’s time to end the abuse of the attorney fee multiplier.
Senate Bill 914 allows the fee multiplier to apply in rare and exceptional cases where it is difficult to find competent counsel. This law will have a very positive effect on the cost of claims in the property market over the long term.
Accuracy in Damages
SB 1668 by Senate President Pro Tempore David Simmons, R-Longwood, and HB 9 by Rep. Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach
These bills create a new standard for determining medical damages arising from a personal injury or wrongful death case that reflects the true cost of such damages and prevents attorneys from inflating such damages in order to seek a greater recovery. The bills use a standard based on usual and customary charges or the amount that a commercial or governmental health insurer would pay for medical services and treatment. This way, juries will know what is usually paid for medical care. This will reduce the cost of personal injury and wrongful death claims.
SB 1828 by Sen. Doug Broxson, R-Pensacola, and HB 7041 by Rep. Tom Leek, R-Ormond Beach
These bills create a new regulatory scheme for litigation financing entities, with a goal of protecting plaintiffs who take loans from these entities during the pendency of a lawsuit. They will require consumer litigation financing entities to register with the state and provide increased disclosures to plaintiffs/consumers who take on high-interest loans to cover expenses incurred while they are involved in a lawsuit. Our ultimate goal is to prevent unnecessary lawsuits that could otherwise be settled but for the need for these exploited consumers to pay off debts using funds from any court judgment.
SB 1288 by Sen. Tom Wright, R-Port Orange
Senate Bill 1288 creates a new legal framework for lawyer advertising under the Florida Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act, requiring additional disclosures and prohibiting the use of misleading terms or images. It is intended to protect consumers by making clear that lawyer solicitation advertisements are just that — solicitations — reducing consumer confusion.
SB 924 by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg
This bill includes several fixes to the insurer bad faith law. Florida has one of the worst judicial environments in the U.S., due in large part to its unregulated third-party bad faith system. Under Florida law, there is a strong incentive for claimants to game the insurance claim process in order to set up an insurance company for a bad faith lawsuit. In such suits, which are based on the assertion that the insurer acted in “bad faith” in handling a claim, there are unlimited damages. Recent court decisions have weakened the definition of “bad faith” to the point that simple errors by insurers can lead to multimillion-dollar judgments. The threat of a bad faith suit often leads insurers to pay more on claims than is warranted, and these costs are passed on to consumers.
To learn more about the Personal Insurance Federation of Florida, visit PIFF.net.
The Personal Insurance Federation of Florida, Inc. (PIFF), is a leading voice for the personal lines property and casualty insurance industry in Florida. PIFF represents national insurance carriers and their subsidiaries, including many of the state’s top writers of private passenger auto and homeowners multiperil insurance. Together, PIFF members write more than $13 billion in premium in the state. PIFF advocates for a healthy and competitive insurance marketplace for the benefit of Florida consumers. Follow us @PIFFNews. Visit PIFF.net to learn more.


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We visited the Buckhorn Inn about twenty years ago when it was under different ownership. It was lovely then, but I'll have to admit, it was exquisite this time around. The owners have kept the charm of the old inn but added many amenities that blend the old with the new. The rooms are so roomy with a cozy fireplace, jacuzzi and small kitchenette. Our small balcony had the most incredible view of Mt. LeConte, with the view changing every few minutes as clouds and mist moved in and out. The scrumptious breakfasts allowed choices that many inns don't offer. The four-course dinners were equally fabulous (we purchased three cookbooks to take to family and friends). The service was impeccable and the owners, John and Lee, were hospitable and knowledgeable about area attractions. Our stay was over a rainy weekend, but the library, the game room and covered porch downstairs gave us plenty of room to stretch and relax. The nature trails and gardens are well-maintained and the two beautiful swans were an intriguing extra to observe as they made ready their spring nest. Without a doubt, we will not wait another 20 years to return. We plan to try a winter weekend and hope to get snowed in. It was truly and anniversary to remember.
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- Beauty, peace, and solitude emanate from the pine and hemlock forest surrounding Buckhorn Inn, while the ever-changing view of the Great Smoky Mountains across mountain meadows of wild flowers never fails to inspire the visitor. We offer a range of Gatlinburg accommodations, from full, private guesthouses to private cottages to traditional inn rooms. Pick the Smoky Mountain lodging that fits your style and length of stay and plan your Tennesee vacation today! East Tennesee's classic country inn, The Buckhorn offers the grandest Smoky Mountain views of any Gatlinburg bed and breakfast. Elegance and period charm mix with the inn's friendly, romantic atmosphere of a Smoky Mountain lodge. Buckhorn has been a favorite destination for visitors to Gatlinburg, Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains since 1938. Situated less than a mile from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Buckhorn Inn is convenient to all activities and attractions in the area including hiking, arts and crafts, musical theaters, and the Pigeon Forge Outlets. ... more less
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Danger Wears a Lederhosen
"CupBoy" made this wonderful little ditty:
"FairyMeat" brings intense monkey smashing action into our hearts.
When "Avatar" makes the peanut butter expansion, I'll buy it.
"King Vitamin" puts action in the mix:
"Gromit" is a canine conquistador of fun!
It's not much to look at, but this "TheMFer" image offers a lot to think about.
Something Awful is in the process of changing hands to a new owner. In the meantime we're pausing all updates and halting production on our propaganda comic partnership with Northrop Grumman.
Dear god this was an embarrassment to not only this site, but to all mankind
Yes, there are finally enough games for a new round of One Sentence Reviews
Photoshop Phriday showcases the tremendous image manipulation talents of the Something Awful Forum Goons. Each week they tackle a new theme, parodying movies, video games, comics, history, and anything else you can think of. If you want in on the action, join us on the Something Awful Forums!

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text: These two have such an incredible love story! Rita and Humberto met by chance at an Upper East Side bar 17 years ago, and fell in love immediately. As a team, they've made it through some harrowing sickness and finally got married in 2015, and they are expecting twins this year! I've never seen two people more connected than they are. They decided to have an intimate elopement with just their mothers present, at a quiet spot in Battery Park, lit by the setting sun. We got the opportunity to photograph at some lovely spots around Manhattan before the ceremony.


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The analysis of a framed building with shear walls subjected to horizontal and vertical load is essentially a three-dimensional problem. With the proliferation of computer programs available a three-dimensional analysis presents no great difficulty provided the modeling techniques fully reflect the behavior of the structure. The only penalty is time. Sometimes, especially where a dynamic analysis is required, it is the only method that can be used.
However, in many cases, the problem can be simplified into several two-dimensional components, thus resulting the amount of work. But to do this, the designer must understand fully the behaviour of the structure.
The intention to discuss is:
- The behaviour of combined shear wall and framed structures,
- Methods of apportioning loads, and
- Failure modes of shear walls.
Load sharing of shear wall:
The load attracted to each component (shear wall, core, frame) is a function of position and relative stiffness.
It is assumed that the floors are rigid in-plane and that the stiffness of each component, j is represented by a single parameter, Kj. The centre of rotation can be determined statically, thus,
The force per component, Fj resulting from the total force on the wall, Ft is given by
The torsional stiffness, Kj can be ignored except for core walls without substantial openings. This simplified approach is valid where the centre of rotation is close to the centre of building.
It may be assumed that Kj is directly related to the in-plane inertia of the components when the horizontal deflections are due predominantly to the effects of flexure.
Frame and Shear Wall Behaviour:
Rigid frames and short shear walls subjected to horizontal load mainly deform in a pure shear manner that is with concave in the upper part. Cantilever shear walls deform in a flexural manner, that is convex curvature throughout the height of the wall. Squat and coupled shear walls deform in a shear-flexure manner, exhibiting a combination of the two extreme deflection shapes.
A symmetrical arrangement of walls and frame will deflect in the direction of the horizontal load. The high in-plane stiffness of the floors forces the walls and frame to adopt identical deflection profiles.
Frames and walls do not simply attract a fixed percentage of the load throughout their height. The shapes of the deflection curves show that a rigid frame can attract a high proportion of the load at the top of the structure, but will attract very little at its base where it is more flexible.
Non-symmetrical arrangements of shear walls cause the structure to rotate about a vertical axis. The centre of rotation will vary from floor to floor and the rotation will not increase continuously in one direction over the height of the structure. A three-dimensional analysis is required.
Coupled Shear Walls:
A coupled shear wall structure consists of two or more shear walls in a single place connected by beams or slabs at each floor level. Generally they are a single pierced shear wall.
If the flexural stiffness of the beam is small compared to that of the shear wall, or the stiffness of the beam-wall connection is small such that it behaves like a hinge, then the structure acts as individual cantilever walls linked by a member which transmits only axial load (i.e. it behaves like a truss member). This results in the individual walls developing similar deflection profiles (they will not be identical because the tension in the ties increases with height and this puts restraining forces on the walls).
It the beam-wall connection is moment resisting then the structure behaves partly as individual cantilever walls, and partly as a single wall bending about a common neutral axis. The proportion of each action depends on the degree of moment connection.
Failure Modes of Shear Walls:
Possible shear wall failure modes due to horizontal loads are:\
- Horizontal shear
- Vertical shear
The figure below shows the failure modes of the shear walls:


We’re experimenting with ModKit and slowly getting there. One question is on our driver control program. We are using the “E” buttons to raise or lower a lift. When we raise it, and let go of the button the lift immediately falls back down. So the motor isn’t locking where we stop pressing the button. It seems the only motors to lock are are the wheels. Is there a way to fix this?


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Norton PR has launched a new digital marketing division, offering clients digital campaigning options as the industry’s approach to PR continues to evolve.
Following 25 years in the business, Norton has taken the step to assemble a digital and creative marketing team in order to keep up with the shift in trends such as social media engagement.
“The most forward thinking companies are recognising the benfits of working within a more integrated marketing communications framework, offering a 360 degree PR solution and reaching a more diverse network of consumer touchpoints,” said Tony Norton, chairman of Norton PR.
“As the way consumers digest and process information evolves, so must the way PR touches them and influences their purchasing decisions. Whether that is at retail, through brand partnerships, via social media engagement or tried and trusted traditional PR routes to editorial, agencies should be able to adapt.
“We are now in a position to offer companies large and small the opportunity to speak directly to their consumers via a multitude of PR methods with tangible and measurable results.”

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(Four day weekend)…It starts this evening. Motorists be aware.
Law Enforcement will be conducting special patrols over the Independence Day Weekend. Starting at 6:00 this evening the California Highway Patrol will begin their Maximum Enforcement Period. It will continue through 11:59 Sunday night. During the period the CHP will have as many officers as possible on the local roadways. They will be enforcing all traffic laws, with a special eye out for impaired drivers and seatbelt violations. The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting a DUI enforcement detail over the 4th of July weekend in an effort to detect, stop and arrest alcohol and drug impaired drivers. The Sheriff’s office will increase patrols throughout Yuma County, especially targeting areas with a high rate of recurrences for DUI related collisions and arrests.


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Advaita of Art, The
Harsha V. Dehejia, Kapila Vatsyayan
This inquiry is an undertaking to demonstrate that aesthetic experience in the classical Indian tradition, on its own merit, without being subordinated to rituals and practices commonly held under the rubric of religion, is capable of providing a transcendent experience to a prepared aesthete. Dr. Dehejia examines the dynamics of two aesthetics processes, that stemming from aesthetic emotion or rasa and from aesthetic form or rupa, and cogently underpins them within the advaitic epistemology of Kasmir Saivism. The Advaita of Art, Dr. Dehejia argues, is a joyous celebration of affirmation and assertion and not negation.
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You've eaten the company's cereal hundreds of times -- but here are 20 things we bet you didn't know about The Kellogg Company. Kellog's products include not only popular cereal brands, but also crackers, cookies, frozen waffles and other snacks.
This vendor spotlight features Charmin toilet paper, a product from Proctor and Gamble and some fascinating facts about a popular...and necessary... item! Here are 15 surprising things to learn about your toilet paper.
International monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe reached the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site on Thursday for the first time in almost a week, the OSCE mission said.


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April 10, 2018
Twenty years ago, the host of the CCAA National Hockey Championship earned a berth in the gold medal game only to lose in overtime.
The defending OCAA & CCAA champion Cambrian Golden Shield finished first in the 1997-98 regular season with a record of 13 wins, three losses and one tie.
In the OCAA playoffs, the Golden Shield dropped a 10-2 decision to the Sir Sandford Fleming College Knights before rebounding with an 11-3 victory over the Conestoga College Condors in the bronze medal game.
Meanwhile, the Mount Royal College Cougars of Calgary placed first in the 1997-98 ACAC hockey standings for an unprecedented sixth consecutive season. The Cougars posted their best record in a quarter of a century -- 19 wins, 3 losses and 2 ties.
The Red Deer College Kings faced the Cougars in one ACAC semi final. The two teams traded home wins as Ryan Barrett tallied twice in Mount Royal's 4-3 victory and Kent Baumbach blocked 39 shots in the Red Deer's 3-0 shutout win. The Cougars ended the series at home with a 10-4 triumph. Dion Hagan of MRC and Nolan Weir of RDC each tallied twice in the contest.
The ACAC championship final series saw the Cougars face their crosstown rival, the SAIT Trojans. The MRC powerplay notched four goals and Ryan Barrett completed the hat trick in a 7-3 win over SAIT to open series. Matt Holmes notched the winner with 1:25 left in regulation as the Cougars ended the reign of the Trojans with a 4-3 victory. Mike Pozzo, Ryan Barrett, and Brad Bagu also tallied for MRC in the season finale while Jamie Kuntz, Josh Erdman, and Gary Banerd replied for SAIT. For Mount Royal, it was their 8th league title and first since the 1994-95 campaign.
At the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association Hockey Championships in Sudbury, the Shield tripled the OCAA champion Seneca College Braves 6-2 in the event opener. Derek Descoteau, Matt Holmes and Pat Spring each tallied twice for the Cougars as MRC humbled Cambrian 9-1. Ryan Bechard's two goals paced the Cougars to a 9-3 triumph over the Seneca College Braves. With 4:56 elapsed in the first overtime, forward Mike Pozzo's backhand shot bent the twine to give the Cougars a 4-3 victory over the Golden Shield in the winner take all finale and their first national crown since the 1987-88 campaign.


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In humankind’s history there have been many ages of discovery, but few that surmise the arduousness and strength of human endurance than Antarctica. Yet Antarctica, much as the race to the Moon, has its forgotten heroes, and it is here that John Harrison redresses this balance in Forgotten Footprints.
For those looking for a concise and detailed history of the discovery of Antarctica then Forgotten Footprints is much more. John Harrison has compiled a breathtaking account not only of some of those whose names are household names, namely James Ross and Ernest Shackleton but celebrated those who we’ve left behind, the unknowns in the discovery of this vast landscape which captured not just the imagination of explorers but also increased our scientific understanding of our natural world. Indeed, we owe these brave adventurers a great deal.
However, not all of this history is a celebration of daring deeds, as wherever humans enter there is inevitably bloodshed, and the effects of our exploitation of the whale and seal industries are still being felt today, even after decades since these industries have been banned and received worldwide condemnation, the damage to our natural world heals very slowly.
However, explorers such as Thaddeus Bellinghausen, Nathaniel Palmer, James Weddell, Jules Durmont D’Urville and Jean Baptiste Charcot are just some of the names that have been long forgotten in our transient age of temporary information, much like those who joined the space program before the launch of Apollo 11, many of the names have been forgotten to the outside world, yet it is these intrepid explorers who dared push further to lead the way to our current knowledge of the world around us.
In Forgotten Footprints, John Harrison weaves a rich tapestry of history and adventure, with each page being as immediate as the last, made all the more authentic with Harrison has himself spent a fair amount of the time travelling in and around Antarctica, making Forgotten Footprints a compelling book for our twenty-first century and onwards.
- Forgotten Footprints by John Harrison is published by Parthian Book (£15.99). To order a copy go to www.parthianbooks.com
Founder and Editor of Pilgrim House, currently undertaking a research degree at Bangor University and working on a book on Folklore and early Welsh Christianity. Tom’s other work on music, poetry, health along other writings and images can be found at tomasstanger.com

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Kerry Katona said she has been left "in bits" after her eldest daughter went to Ireland following months of lockdown.
Kerry, 39, said it felt like her right arm had been "ripped off" when Molly, 18, went to see her dad Brian McFadden for the first time in months.
Writing for her column in new! magazine, Kerry explained that Molly is her best friend and the separation had been hard.
But mum-of-five Kerry - who is at home with Lily-Sue, 17, Heidi, 13, Maxwell, 12 and Dylan-Jorge, six - is excited to celebrate Father's Day with her boyfriend Ryan Mahoney.
The former Atomic Kitten star said: "I've been in bits all week because our Molly has gone back to Ireland after months of staying with us during lockdown.
"Her dad came to get her so she could spend a couple of days with him and then she headed back so she could resume her routine.
"That girl is my best friend and we're completely inseparable, so for me it's like having my right arm ripped off."
In a touching message nod to her long-term partner Ryan, Kerry also commended her boyfriend for looking after the kids in the run up to Father's Day.
She said: "Luckily I have the rest of the gang with me and we'll be celebrating Ryan on Father's Day. When I go off to work he looks after the kids so he's a real father figure in their lives.
"We're going to shower him with presents!"
Kerry recently celebrated her two-year anniversary with Ryan as she said she had "got it right" with him.
Sharing a series of intimate selfies of the couple for their anniversary, the former Atomic Kitten singer wrote: "2 years ago today I went on a date with @ryanmahoney_7 and my life changed for the better!!!
"I mean come on people it’s been two years and I’m not pregnant, engaged, married or divorced [we're] definitely doing something right this time! He’s definitely a keeper!
"Love you so much babe thank you for always encouraging me to be the best I can be! [You're] amazing".
Kerry has been married three times before finding love with Ryan.


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UPDATE TO THE UPDATE:
Monday, March 20
4:30 - JV baseball vs Sherando at BHS
5:00 - V Softball vs Sherando at BHS
7:00 -V baseball vs Sherando at BHS
JV Softball at Sherando has been postponed.
Tuesday - March 21
5:30 - JV Softball at Wilson Memorial
6:00 - V baseball @ Sherando
6:00 - V softball @ Sherando
JV Baseball @ Sherando has been postponed.
4:30 - Outdoor Track at HHS - Co-ED Relays - Note the date change
We are looking at possible dates to make up the JV baseball and softball games.
Traditionally, 1000 cranes signified good fortune and wealth, but took on a new meaning when Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the radiation at Hiroshima, had the goal of making the traditional 1000 origami cranes. Her schoolmates had to help her to finish the project before she succumbed to leukemia. Since then, the cranes symbolize love, healing, and care that her classmates showed for her. According to tradition, you are to hang the mobile outside after a time, when you are ready, and let the wind and rain release them back into the world. In the 9/11 museum you can see Japan's gift of a 1000 origami cranes to the United States after 9/11.
World Languages Honor Society began our work to make 1000 after we learned how to make them and of their cultural significance from Jemma, a BHS alumna. Soon after, we learned of fellow classmates who suffered an unspeakable loss. We wanted to finish 1000 paper cranes to give to as a symbol of our love and care for them. We put the call out to all of BHS, and students and staff made and collected many more than 1000 cranes in three days, and threaded them together with the help of many caring folks on a beautiful, sunny February day.
We are Broadway.
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Dean Cox has urged Australian Football Hall of Fame selectors to overlook Ben Cousins’ off-field indiscretions, claiming he should have been an “automatic walk-up” when eligible four years ago.
There’s no denying the 2005 Brownlow medallist, six-time All-Australian and four-time John Worsfold medallist’s on-field contribution to the game.
But Cousins’ life spiralled out of control towards the end of his 270-game AFL career, as a well-publicised battle with drug addiction saw him dumped by the Eagles and banned for 12 months for bringing the game into disrepute.
The 41-year-old’s fall from grace has been a heartbreaking tale, with several stints behind bars for various drug and stalking offences since retiring from the game in 2010.
He is in custody on remand after pleading not guilty to his latest charges. His bail was denied and his case was adjourned for six months.
Cox, who was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame during the week, said his West Coast premiership teammate’s on-field achievements were more than worthy enough to earn the elite honour.
“I’d love to see Benny (inducted), from a footy perspective he should be an automatic walk-up as soon as he was eligible for what he did on the football field,” he said on ABC Grandstand.
“Hopefully they can see that at the end of the day and hopefully get him in as soon as possible because unfortunately some decisions off the field haven’t been the best for Ben but he was unbelievable on it.”
The towering ruckman and West Coast games-record holder formed one of the greatest on-ball brigades the game has ever seen alongside midfield superstars Cousins, Chris Judd and Daniel Kerr.
They were a huge part of West Coast’s dominant era which included back-to-back grand final appearances and a flag in 2006.
Cousins played the 238 games of his career as an Eagle before a lifeline at Richmond, where he spent two seasons.
But the “integrity” and “character” criteria appear to have kept him out of hall-of-fame contention.
“I think it’s been like that for a little bit, where some off-field indiscretions has probably restricted them and Ben is another example of that,” Cox told ABC Grandstand.
Dual Brownlow medallist Chris Judd is almost certain to be the next former Eagle to be inducted into the hall of fame when he is eligible next year.
Two-time premiership captain and flag-winning coach John Worsfold and champion defender/long-serving skipper Darren Glass are also among the club’s strongest contenders.

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TRANSFER GUIDELINES OF KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN 2021
Transfer Guidelines – 2021 for Teachers up to PGTs & up to Assistant Section Officer
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No matter who ended up winning the White House, there was bound to be heated political commentary and debate. But no one could have foreseen how sore of losers Crooked Hillary’s supporters would turn out to be. Or just how much reporters would place emphasis on protests and lies over legitimate government business.
President Trump has been in office for less than two weeks, yet it feels like snowflake protests have been going on forever.
Don’t these people have jobs?
Every time I turn on the TV or radio there’s another anti-Trump protest. The irony is that these people are protesting a man who they feel represents violence. Yet, nearly every single protest breaks out in violence, rioting, and looting – with violence as protesters target Trump fans just for being Trump fans. So much for their “Let Love Unite Us” approach.
But I don’t blame these poor simpletons


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Hook & Hunting: Michigan Arctic Grayling Initiative Hopes to Reintroduce Fish to Native Waters
The Michigan Arctic Grayling Initiative is a collaboration of 40 organizations working to bring Arctic Grayling back to the state.
One of the organizations involved in the initiative is the Michigan DNR.
“We’ve just been raising them for a month, month and a half now trying to get them on starter feed and slowly grow them,” said Kevin Duby, Fisheries Technician at the Oden State Fish Hatchery.
The fish, currently housed at the Oden State Fish Hatchery, made their way from Alaska.
“The fish there have a lot of genetic diversity,” said Dan Sampson, Regional Manager of the DNR Fisheries. “It allows us to start off on good firm footing.
That journey was pretty unique.
“A researcher from MSU that we work with flew up to Fairbanks and brought them back as her carry-on luggage,” said Sampson.
Their home at the Hatchery not only protects the fish, but also the local water from any diseases brought from Alaska.
“What we did was install filtration for the water to pull out particulates,” said Duby. “Then we essentially kind of nuke the water with ultraviolet and that will sterilize the water.
This is the second class of Arctic Grayling. The first group was brought to Michigan in 2019, and they expect a third class to come in June 2022.
They have a pretty special job.
“The current plans is to have the fish we’re raising for future brood lots, they’re the future adults to produce eggs at the hatchery,” said Duby.
The Arctic Grayling will be moved to the Marquette State Fish Hatchery when they grow to about 4-5 inches.
“That’s where they’ll be raised until they’re adults and they’ll produce eggs for future,” said Duby.
While it will be a few years before the fish are released, those involved are proud of what’s been done so far.
“I’m honored to be a part of this project,” said Duby. “It’s a very big responsibility, there’s a lot of eyes on it, and a lot of pressure, but we’re up for the task.”

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The Executive Secretary of Kaduna State Pension Bureau, Professor Salamatu Isah has said that payment for outstanding pensions, gratuities and death benefits of retired civil servants under the Defined Benefit Scheme will commence today.
Professor Isah said that Kaduna State Government has released the sum of N1.2 billion for both state and local government retirees for batches 12 and 13 respectively.
It will be recalled that the Malam Nasir El Rufai administration inherited Defined Benefit Scheme pension liabilities of over N15 billion from the previous government and has paid over N13 billion.
In addition, the present government has paid over N13 billion benefits to the beneficiaries of the current Contributory Pension Scheme.
Speaking on today’s payment, the Executive Secretary further said that the notices had already been passed on to the Overseers of all the 23 local government areas in the state and the Pension Desk Officers.
According to her, the list of beneficiaries has also been widely circulated both on the mainstream and social media, adding that beneficiaries are aware of the payment which will commence today.
Prof Isah said that the bureau will also publish list of unclaimed benefits for those whose next-of-kins are not aware of the exercise.
Kaduna State Pension Bureau advised the retirees and representatives of the deceased to come along with vital documents for verification.
Professor Isah said that the required documents include Death Certificate for the deceased and Next of kin affidavit, adding that these document are for deceased retirees only.
The beneficiaries should also come with valid means of identification like drivers’ license, National Identity Card or International Passport and other acceptable documents, she added.
According to the Executive Secretary, the pensioners are expected to also present their employment letter, affirmation of retirement, Personal Sub-Head Number (PSN) and Bank Details as well as passport photographs.

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Virginia -- Richmond
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
A newsletter about the debt in the Presbyterian Church from the Woman's Missionary Union of East Hanover.
This file consists of correspondence from Staurt to his parents and family. At this time he was living in Richmond and working for his uncle at Sanders Brothers Company.
Stuart writes to his parents with news of work and church in Richmond. He also writes of Irwin's trip back to America.
Stuart writes about work, church, and his dating life. He also writes about the passing of his cousin Lorraine.
This folder contains letters written by and to members of the Shields family.
This folder contains letters written by and to the Shields family.
This collection consists of three letters written by E. M. Walden from various Confederate States of America camps (near Wilmington, NC; Kinston, NC; and Richmond, VA) to his sister. He provides her with updates on CSA military activities and mentions General Sherman's raid in Georgia. The letters are dated June 13, 1863, Dec. 3, 1864, and Jan. 20, 1865.
Advertisement for Edgeworth Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco on ink blotter paper. The company was based in Richmond, Virginia. The item is undated.
This collection contains a copy of 'Organization of the Lee Monument Association, and the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, Richmond, Va., Nov. 3rd and 4th, 1870'. A second copy is cataloged under E547 .L47 in Special Collections Rare. The printed invitation to the unveiling of the Robert E. Lee statue on May 29, 1890 in Richmond, VA is also included, in two pieces.
This collection consists of a photograph of a river scene of 'Great Falls' of James River at Richmond, Virginia. There is a stone wall on the far side of the river in the background, which is evidence of a former canal. The second photograph is of the ca. 1833 engraving of the painting 'Richmond, from the hill above the waterworks' by George Cooke.
The program for 'Captain Swift' was for three nights, commencing Monday, April 14 (no year given).
S. P. Cunningham of Kentucky wants to obtain Washington College catalogues for Fairview Academy students wanting to attend.
Autograph is dated Washington, July 25 [no year]. Ritchie wrote the letter to 'Martin' asking for his aid in communication in Richmond, Virginia.
This file consists of Virginia State Insurance Company policy for household furniture for Lucy Scott West.
This a a collection of diaries of William Couch Davis, Jr., and his wife, Mary Anderson Davis, including accounts of William's jobs in France (1917-19), Cuba, Savannah, and Norfolk. They include many details about the Davis family of West Point, Virginia. One of Mary's diaries covers their first married year (1924-25) in Cuba and others cover their trips (1935-1959) out west in Canada and to Central America and Europe.


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It's Thursday, and of course that means that you get another featured animation from around the world. And since I just finished up my Animation Production class, today's featured animation is from none other than yours truly.
For our class this month, we worked in teams of two to create a short (extremely short) tennis match. Each person was to animate two shots, the first animating the serve and one return, and the other person animating two returns. All of the models, rigs and textures were provided for us, we were to concentrate on just the animations.
"Two tennis shots? That's like... 4 seconds Dan. Tops. Sounds pretty easy."
Well it's not exactly Toy Story, but we were to try and make these animations look as close to "production quality" as possible. We weren't going for absolute realism, just something that's believable and entertaining to watch. Also, if we wanted to be an "Animator" for our demo reel, we needed to score a 90% or better in this class. So the pressure's on.
"Ok enough yammering. Let's see some animation!"
Woah there bud. Not so fast. First, we start with some real life reference. This will be used as a starting point for our animation. Here are the references for my two shots.
APR Forehand Reference - The best video clips are here
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After we do some rough thumb nails (hand sketched storyboard type things) of what we think the action will be like, we go into our first animation pass. This early on, we basically block in the important poses, just enough to "tell the story."
At this point we're trying to match poses between the real life reference and our scene.
Here's a few screen grabs for comparison.
Continuing on from there, we'll block in some of the "in betweens" - basically filling in the gaps and hammering out the details of what's going to happen.
Keep in mind, at this point the animation is just skipping from pose to pose. Even though it might look somewhat "fluid" it's just a slide show. Your mind is filling in the gaps. Between that pass and the final animation the computer will fill in some of those gaps, although I'll have to make a lot of adjustments to the way it does things to make it look better than just moving from point A to point B.
At this point in my animation career, it's very much trial and error. If something doesn't look right, you tweak it a little bit, try to find a better pose, and create another quick "playblast" (real time video to see the animation as it will look full speed), and assess if the changes you made are working or not. After any series of changes I'd make another video like this one, then watch to see if what I had done made things better or worse.
As the animation progresses, you start to move away from the reference a little bit, exaggerating certain areas and completely overhauling others. For example, in the Andy Roddick reference he kind of shorts the shot - he was in too close to the ball - so when he swings his arm is kind of crammed up against his body. In my animation, I chose to pull his arm out further away from his body so that it would look like a more powerful swing. That's just one example of the many eventually differences between the reference and my final scenes.
Also for this final pass, I have to go in and tweak all of the different animation curves. For this particular model, there were approximately 20 different controls (elbows, hands, feet, hips, etc), each with anywhere from 6 to 20 different variables that could be adjusted for any moment in time (translate x, y, z, rotate x, y, z, etc.) In the Graph Editor, you go into each curve and smooth out things, adjust the timing, add or remove keyframes, and so on. Here's a picture of all of the curves for each of the two shots.
You can isolate the different curves of course, and zoom in and out to concentrate on particular areas. I'm not working with that mess as is!
All of that leads to the final animation. There's certainly more to be done here, (there's no facial animation for example), but with the time constraints of the class this was where I had to leave it.
Once the animation was finalized, I rendered out the final image. This is when all the textures are applied and and motion blur is added (to make things FEEL faster). Each frame (at 24 frames per second) took about 5 minutes to render. To give you an idea of how simple this is, one frame of Transformers, if rendered on a single machine, would take 38 hours.
That's why they use more than just a single Macbook Pro for rendering over at ILM.
Once my partner and I had rendered out our separate scenes, we combined them to form "A Tennis Game." Enjoy!!
(Jose animated the blue tennis player, while I animated the red clad guy).
So that's it. A combined two months of work for 18 seconds, most of which was credits or titles. Still, I really enjoyed working on it, and hopefully you found the breakdown of the process at least a little interesting.
If you just came here just wanting a comic, come back Monday. I'll have one for ya. But in the meantime, the boys over at Enliv have switched to a Monday / Thursday schedule. What's today again...?


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Animas: Disaster, Data, and the Resonance of a River
In this paper, I discuss the conceptual framework and development of Animas, an artwork which links sounding materials to the Animas River in Colorado. The Animas River is heavily contaminated by leakage from abandoned gold mines, including a 2015 spill in which three million gallons of wastewater were accidentally released into the river by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), turning the water a bright orange and threatening agriculture, tourism, and an already “disturbed” alpine ecology. Animas draws on precedents in sound art and explores transduction as a means of relating to more-than-human agencies and avoiding over-simplified representations of environmental degradation. Changes in the clarity of the water, invisible indicators of the dissolved metals within it, and the dynamics of its daily and seasonal flows all become sound in the gallery, producing timbral "color" from the river's continually changing composition—these data are provided by the Southern Ute Water Quality Program and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The piece acknowledges how our limited temporal sensibilities are challenged by the imbrication of the geologic time of minerals, the historical time of extractive industries, and the immediate urgency of equitable responses to ecological change.
The Murmur of the Crowd
Public assembly and mass protest are increasingly common features of our political landscape. The recent women’s marches, the mass protesting of President Trump’s so called ‘travel ban,’ Black Lives Matter, the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement are centred on the bodies in crowds in the streets. This paper examines the sound of the crowd, arguing that the sonic offers a productive framework for attending to the collective yet heterogeneous nature of public assemblies. Considering the sonic materiality of the crowd, I argue that the collection of voices that coalesce to produce the sound of the crowd can be understood through the sonic figure of the murmur. Drawing on Michel Serres’ formulation of noise, I suggest that the hum of a collective murmur foregrounds multiplicity and resists fixity. The murmur cannot be reduced to a singular voice or clean transmission but rather is always registered as a multiple. An attentiveness to the sonic dimension of the crowd allows us to develop an understanding of public assemblies as collectivities that enable and cultivate dissensus. I argue that the crowd can be read—or rather heard—as a social body that activates what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney refer to as an undercommon sociality. This paper proposes a form of micropolitical listening that attends to the materiality of a murmuring crowd and suggests that such an embodied listening practice might offer us a way to listen to a politics in process, a politics that is yet to cohere into a rigid and stratified form. Listening to the murmur of the crowd offers us a way of conceptualising collective politics anew.
Beyond the Azhan: Abu Dhabi’s Cacophonous Soundscape
In Abu Dhabi, a city where the adhan, (The Islamic Call to Prayer), is recited five times daily, mapping the cacophony of its sounds can provide insight into its built environment and the lived experiences of the people in it. By considering the urban ambiance of the city through the acoustical mappings of both the uniform and pre- recorded natures of the adhan in Abu Dhabi City, I will offer a perspective of how live recordings can participate in a discourse on the aesthetic and temporal landscape of the city. What is it about the process of recording what we hear that allows the sonic content of the recording to become live, and does this impact our understanding of place? What do recordings reveal about urban spaces, and how do we “listen back” to them?
Eroding Together: Mattering Processes of Sound
I probe the complexity of material entanglements in situated sound art through an examination of the production and presentation of a recent project on the remote archipelago of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada. The work, Compositional Routes of the Magdalen Islands (Thulin 2016), investigates the archipelago through sound, directly informed by the material processes that shape the islands, both physically and socially. In particular the project engages processes of erosion at the meeting point of wind, land, and sea, following the shifting contours of the littoral zone as sandstone cliffs turn to wandering dune formations. Sound here operates not only as material, or the voicing of materials, but as a mattering process that offers an opportunity to consider how different forms of material break apart and fold together. Drawing especially on work from science and technology studies, geography, and sound studies, I argue for a situated understanding of how sound matters and use the particularities of erosion on the Îles-de-la-Madeline as a way of understanding these processes.
Materials of Sound II
This is the second issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies focused on the Materials of Sound (see issue no. 16). At the heart of these two issues is something of a twist in sonic thinking that sees the authors thinking about sound as more than sound, the opposite of Cage’s dictum of letting sound be itself – as hearing sound as sound. Instead, the materials that produce the sounds under investigation are understood as being more than the sounds that they create. Sound is not heard as innocent, pure, or transparent but rather as a part of a political ecology in which it is deeply linked to various histories and ecologies that form and hold the materials of any sound’s making.
The Failed Assemblage of Batroun Concrète: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Post-acousmatic Composition
Batroun Concrète 2.1 - 2.9 is a sound work by the composer Seth Ayyaz. Comprised of a score for live performances interleaved with electroacoustic parts, it emerged from a residency at the Batroun Projects art space in the north of Lebanon. The performance intended for 2012 was disrupted by the early cross-border resonances of the Syrian civil war. While it failed to materialize in a final form, its conceptual design and theoretical underpinnings are relevant to thinking the complicities of composition with its material conditions, specifically regarding site-specificity, live improvisation, field recordings, and studio-based practice. The work investigated how body-related cognitive scripts might speculatively structure sonic thinking.
Wilfred Sellars’ philosophical distinction between contrasting “manifest” and “scientific” images of humankind, as discussed by thinkers such as Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier, is applied here to sonic discourse. The proposed “biopsychosocial” image rejects notions of the givenness of a human listener-composer subject in favor of a de-subjectified symbiont contingently implicated in complex systems dynamics. This is also illustrated in relation to Keith Rowe’s free improvisation practices. The paper discusses how Batroun Concrète 2.1 - 2.9 leverages the notion of assemblage as compositional method; how materiality both informs and develops the composer’s biopsychosocial approach to post-acousmatic composition; and introduces key concepts relevant to issues at stake in the work: post-acousmatic, not-knowing listening stance, reflexive-reflective, interiority-exteriority, and reception-interpretation-action helix. By harnessing a specific assemblage of concepts, subpersonal and transpersonal processes, agentive objects, and acoustics found at the derelict site, the graphic score composed open-ended non-determinate structural couplings between elements that investigated the material specificities of the site.