The Henry Repeating Rifle in reenacting makes for an awesome display of firepower when used in the correct battle and time frame. At Franklin in 2004 we had 10 Henrys with each having over 500 rounds for the weekend with some bringing 1000 rounds for the 3 days. We "shoot" down a lot of Rebs that reenactment. The 66th Illinois Western Sharp Shooters were armed with the Henry in the Fall of 1863. These were purchased with their own money as was the ammunition for them.


Disney Shifting Film Animation to Linux
Martin O'Donnell pointed out that today's New York Times is reporting that Disney's film animation division is migrating its workstations to Linux. This is not a surprise because many film production businesses in Hollywood have made the switch to Linux in the last two years. What is interesting, however, is the fact that the Times chose to initially refer to the operating system as "GNU Linux". We wonder if the writers and editors fully appreciate the political connotations of doing that.


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Mending the tiniest of hearts
London is a vivacious toddler who speaks in full sentences and loves macaroni and cheese.
"I mostly forget that she has a problem with her heart," says Chelsey, London's mom.
An overwhelming diagnosis
When Chelsey went to a routine ultrasound to find out the gender, instead the sonographer delivered heartbreaking news. London had several heart defects.
Overwhelmed by the diagnosis, Chelsey was referred to Children's Health℠ for a fetal echo and to meet with the team in The Heart Center. They explained her defects – tricuspid valve atresia, sub-aortic stenosis and coarctation of the aorta.
"It was definitely the most devastating appointment we've ever been to as we discussed what would take place," Chelsey says. "But we felt confident in the hospital and skill level and decided to move forward."
‘The team carried us through'
The family moved from Oklahoma City to a small condo close to Children's Health to entrust them with London's only chance at life.
London was born and immediately transported to Children's Health. She would undergo three surgeries. The first procedure, the Norwood, was performed when London was only 7 days old. She stayed in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for eight weeks with challenges of feeding and gaining weight.
"The time between the first and second surgery was extremely difficult for us, but our nurses and doctors completely carried us through," Chelsey says. "They were there for all our questions and stopped at nothing to intercede for us."
London underwent her second surgery, the Glenn procedure, at 6 months old. She excelled through that recovery and went home 10 days later. Matthew Lemler, M.D., Pediatric Cardiologist at Children's Health, checks London's saturation levels and performs an ultrasound on her heart every four to six months.
"Dr. Lemler is a very thorough and skilled doctor," Chelsey says. "We would have no other be her cardiologist. If something were to go wrong, he will catch it first."
A typical toddler
Dr. Lemler says that London has a very good prognosis.
"Other than experiencing lower saturations compared to other children, she is a normal little girl," Dr. Lemler says.
London will have her third surgery, the Fontan, when she is around 4 years old. Chelsey says that she is thankful for the Children's Health team every day that she watches her rambunctious toddler grow and thrive.
"Our experience with the team is second to none. They became family and friends we will keep forever."
The nationally renowned team of pediatric cardiologists and subspecialists in the Heart Center at Children's Health treat the whole spectrum of heart problems, with a commitment to excellence. Learn more about our treatments and services.

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“Following these unprecedented times, and as we begin a phased reopening of our resorts, we look to the future with optimism and gratitude for all we have learned and how we can evolve. Taking all appropriate steps in line with guidelines from the World Health Organisation and government authorities according to each location, Aman is poised to welcome guests who, when the time is right, will return to our serene hideaways which have been adapted in practice, but unchanged in spirit,” the release issued by the company stated.
Aman was founded in 1988 with the vision of building a collection of intimate retreats – each with the unassuming, warm hospitality of a gracious private home. The first, Amanpuri (meaning place of peace) in Phuket, Thailand, established the concept, and since then Aman has grown to encompass 32 unique hotels and resorts in 20 inspiring destinations across the world, with a further eight coming soon, taking the brand to 40 resorts in 22 countries.
When reassessing travel in a post-Covid-19 world, it is important to go back to Aman’s roots as the pioneer in this ultra-luxury and niche segment of hideaway resorts. In numerous ways, the generosity of space and efforts to slow down time, have always been firmly ingrained in Aman’s DNA, from the architecture and design of standalone pavilions with private pools, to the low room count and subtle service which now makes the brand a blueprint for the future of travel, the release said.
In navigating this new world, we will continue to place our guests and staff at the centre of everything that we do and feel safe in the knowledge that guests will find their sanctuary, a sense of calm and familiarity in our ‘places of peace’. That is the enduring spirit of Aman, it added.


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Namasankirtana is a beautiful group chant done in a call and response fashion, with musical accompaniment.
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Warming to the idea
“Americans’ belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes, according to a new university poll,” Associated Press reports. “The survey by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College says 62 per cent of those asked last December think the Earth is getting warmer. That’s up from 55 per cent in the spring of that year and 58 per cent in December, 2010. It’s the highest proportion in two years. Nearly half the people who say they believe in global warming base that on personal observations of the weather. Climate researchers say that’s reaching the correct conclusion for reasons that aren’t quite right.”
Ancient tree destroyed
The Senator was the largest pond cypress in the United States and, at 3,500 years old, the fifth-oldest individual tree in the world, says Grist.org. “[O] Jan. 16, the Florida tree burned from the inside out. Authorities initially ruled out arson, saying that friction or smouldering lightning damage may have started the fire.” They later arrested a 26-year-old woman “for lighting the Senator on fire while sitting inside it doing meth. Police became suspicious when they found that [the woman]had taken cellphone pictures of the tree fire in progress and uploaded them to her laptop. … When police confiscated her phone and computer, [she]told investigators that she and a friend had been getting high inside the hollow tree and ‘lit a fire so they could see better.’ The fire then destroyed the tree in a matter of hours.”
Too many cars?
“His family made its fortune selling cars to the masses, but now Bill Ford Jr. is fretting about selling too many,” Associated Press reports. “The great-grandson of Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford has been thinking ahead to a time when there will be too much traffic in the world’s major cities. Already there is congestion that only will get worse as the world population grows by another two billion people to nine billion in 40 years. … He says technology is moving so fast that solutions are already starting to happen. In five or so years, more cars will have radar-based cruise control that automatically stops them from running into each other. More will have blind spot monitoring systems that stop cars from changing lanes if something’s in the way. By 2025, he sees cars using these features to communicate with each other, perhaps even taking over the driving in a traffic jam to find the best way out.”
“In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared to its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly an inch long,” reports Associated Press. “New fossils found in China are evidence of the oldest fleas – from 125 million to 165 million years ago, said Diying Huang of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology. Their disproportionately long proboscis, or straw-like mouth, had sharp weapon-like serrated edges that helped them bite and feed from their supersized hosts, he and other researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. Scientists figure about eight or more of today’s fleas would fit on the burly back of their ancient ancestor.”
“Neanderthals may have taken to the seas to become ancient mariners centuries before modern humans managed the same trick, researchers in Greece say,” United Press International reports. “Archeological evidence suggests our extinct cousins may have made voyages in the Mediterranean in boats at least 100,000 years ago. Neanderthals lived around the Mediterranean beginning 300,000 years ago, and now their distinctive ‘Mousterian’ stone tools have been found on both the Greek mainland and, intriguingly, on the Greek islands of Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos, NewScientist.com reported. … [M]dern humans are thought to have taken to the seas just 50,000 years ago.
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10 Fruits and Vegetables to Treat Liquid Retention
To treat liquid retention, it's important that you consume fruits with a high water content so that you stimulate urine production and can get rid of waste.
If you suffer from liquid retention, taking care of your diet is extremely important for treating this problem.
Some fruits and vegetables are made up of a large amount of water, which helps to eliminate excess liquids through urination.
Continue reading this article to learn more!
How do diuretic foods work?
Elements that have the ability to increase urine production, and therefore help to eliminate some of the body’s water, are known as diuretics. They’re recommended for people who suffer from excess water retention.
The good news is that, in addition to helping release accumulated water, these foods also stimulate the functions of the kidneys. These organs are in charge of filtering the blood and eliminating toxins.
Excess liquids are not good for the body since they can increase blood pressure and affect your cardiac health.
Fortunately, however, you can enjoy the diuretic advantages of many fruits and vegetables without having to use medication.
Don’t miss this article: Try This Incredible 14-Day Plan for Full-Body Detox
Fruits and Vegetables that Help Reduce Liquid Retention
The best diuretic that exists, without a doubt, is water. You’ve probably heard about the importance of drinking enough water water a day.
Also, you can include natural liquids and nourish yourself in the process.
Through natural foods like fruits and vegetables.
If you have a problem with liquid retention, don’t hesitate to add these to your diet:
This delicious yellow fruit contains many nutrients that not only help to eliminate liquids, but also strengthen your body:
- Pineapple provides vitamins (A, B6, B9, C, and K) and minerals (sodium, potassium, iron, calcium, and magnesium).
- As if that wasn’t enough, along with its diuretic properties, it’s also a laxative and helps if you’re suffering from constipation.
It is, without a doubt, a potent purifier and detoxifier for the body.
Don’t hesitate to eat a slice of pineapple a day, whether for breakfast, mid-morning or as a dessert at other meals.
This fruit helps with the elimination of excess liquids and provides a large amount of potassium. This helps to counteract the action of sodium (one of the causes of fluid retention).
Tomato also has vitamin C that helps the kidneys work to increase diuresis (urine production). It’s also low in calories.
You should eat it raw to get all of the benefits.
Read more: Powerful Health Benefits of Tomatoes
Watermelon is made up of a very high percentage of water.
Plus, ti’s very low in calories and therefore is very recommendable for diets when trying to lose weight. It detoxifies and eliminates liquids.
Watermelon also has a lot of vitamin A and potassium.
Plus, nothing is more refreshing than a slice of watermelon on a summer afternoon!
Not only does it give us Popeye-like strength, but this leafy vegetable is also rich in magnesium, vitamin B and has very interesting diuretic properties.
At the same time, spinach provides the necessary fibers to stimulate the intestinal tract and stop constipation.
Eat it raw in salads to be able to get all of its benefits.
This is another fruit that’s made up mostly of water and that we definitely recommend when dealing with liquid retention.
It stimulates the production and expulsion of urine which clears the body of waste and toxins.
Plus, melon barely has any calories and is very filling.
It also provides you with potassium to help control the balance of liquids in the body.
This is a vegetable with depurative and diuretic properties that you should definitely take advantage of.
Artichokes can be eaten a hundred different ways, and the best part is that they provide the body with the potassium that it needs to eliminate excess liquids.
When you take a bite of a delicious red or green apple, you may realize the amount of liquid it has inside. That’s why it is so refreshing in the summer.
Also, it’s a fruit with incredible depurative properties. Apples contain fiber, which improves the intestinal tract, and the necessary nutrients to help eliminate liquids through urination.
Rich in excellent quality essential fatty acids, this fruit can help to replace mayonnaise or other similar condiments in foods.
Also, it provides vitamin C, magnesium, and potassium.
In reality, all of the citric fruits have a large amount of water and can help those suffering from liquid retention. Also, they provide vitamin C. Many times, the cause of water retention is a lack of it.
Along with grapefruit, we recommend you eat oranges at any time throughout the day. The best time would be for breakfast to give your body these nutrients right away.
It is a fruit with a lot of properties (among them are anti-inflammatory, astringents, digestive, and diuretic).
Pears also help to purify the blood and provide soluble fiber that regulates the functions of the intestines and helps reduce cholesterol.
As if that wasn’t enough, pears are made up of a lot of water and provide vitamin C.
Other fruits and vegetables that also help to reduce water retention are papayas, asparagus, bananas, parsley, purple grapes, and celery.

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I wrote an article sometime back about the must have tools for a wood-shop. This is a list of about 29 must-have woodworking tools ( at the time of writing this), and includes everything from the basic tools to start with, to the advanced woodworking machines to acquire as one progresses along their woodworking business……
Woodworkers speak on the subject of hand tools and their place today in the workshops. Here is an article looking at the role that some important hand tools still play and how you can include a few essential ones to strike a balance in your woodworking, enhance creativity, getter better results and improve the overall workflow, all by using some woodworking hand tools.
If you didn’t know it, hand planes are an absolute must for woodworking. They are an absolute boon to have regardless of what power tools you use. Hand planes make common jobs easier in a workshop, and save you time and effort. As long as you take the time and practise to learn to them, these are the 3 must have hand planes you need to buy first for your woodworking workshop.
A table saw is one of the first major power tool a commercial woodworker buys. The advice most commonly given is to buy the best you can afford. Even so your new table saw might need a few checks to make sure there are no defects and a few tuneups to set it up for accurate cuts. Here are a few important checks as well as maintenance tips for your high utility power tool that will keep it delivering accurate cuts for a long time.
What is a CNC router is, how it works and how you can get one for your wood-shop. CNC woodworking is an enthralling way to do woodwork with equally thrilling results. The only caveat is that you learn how to operate the CNC router. Once you do you amazing designs and possibilities open for you.
Your power tool batteries can probably last longer than they usually do. Since the performance of your cordless tools is directly linked to the battery condition, it makes sense to know a few things about elongating battery life. Also, since they are expensive to replace, it’s very useful to learn how to recondition degraded batteries to restore their power.
Battery performance affects the functioning of every cordless power tool. Find out if lithium-based batteries are right choice for your intended usage or do nickel-based batteries present a better solution.
There are a few simple things you can do to make your batteries in any device last much longer before their capacity and performance decreases to the extent that you have to replace them or even discard the device altogether. Batteries are susceptible to how they are used and charged. Learn these simple tricks to keep your batteries performing at peak capacity for longer.
Woodworking jigs are very useful little contraptions that make doing a particular process easier like cutting drilling holes of a specific depth, making dovetails etc. They allow you to get uniform results every time you repeat the process. Jigs can be simple or complex structures. You can purchase ready made ones and also make a lot of them yourself. These are a few simple jigs you can make yourself for common woodworking functions.
No wood working project is finished without sanding. In order to get the right finish you almost always have to sand the wood surface and then apply a coat of polish/varnish if you choose to. In this post we will look at two kinds of power sanders and how to use them. The Belt Sander……

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Oh, Jimmy Kimmel, you're too much.
The late-night TV host recently returned from honeymooning in Italy after marrying his new wife Molly McNearney earlier this month, and the celeb decided to talk about his marriage with the Jimmy Kimmel Live! audience.
And by talk, we mean deliver one wise crack after another, of course.
"We are back from a two-week vacation. I have a beard. I got married…Which I guess means I have two beards!" Kimmel started.
Then he added, "The reason I got married is I needed a Panini maker and it seemed like the cheapest way to get it."
And if you had any interest in knowing just how fancy and expensive his wedding was, the host shared that, "weddings are very expensive. First, you have to ship the bride in from Russia. Then, there's the reception—you know how much 300 Lean Cuisine dinners cost? A lot."
Gourmet lifestyle, folks.
Jimmy and Molly said I do on July 13 in Ojai, Calif.
Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stanley Tucci and Howard Stern were among all on the star-studded guests to attend. Gabourey Sidibe even managed to pull a prank on the funnyman himself when she showed up to the ceremony in a white wedding dress.
Guess Jimmy Kimmel's not the only one with jokes.


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Poultry is a category of domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of collecting of their eggs, or killing for their meat or feathers. These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails and turkeys) and the family Anatidae (in order Anseriformes), commonly known as "waterfowl" (e.g. domestic ducks and domestic geese). Poultry also includes other birds which are killed for their meat, such as pigeons or doves or birds considered to be game, such as pheasants. Poultry comes from the French/Norman word poule, itself derived from the Latin word pullus, which means small animal.
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The meatiest parts of a bird are the flight muscles on its chest, called breast meat, and the walking muscles on the first and second segments of its legs, called the thigh and drumstick, respectively. The wings are also eaten, usually (in the United States) without separating them, as in Buffalo wings; the first and second segment of the wings are referred to as drumette (meatier) and wingette (or flat) when these need to be distinguished, though these are technical terms. In Japan, the wing is frequently separated, and these parts are referred to as 手羽元 (teba-moto "wing base") and 手羽先 (teba-saki "wing tip").
Dark meat, which avian myologists refer to as "red muscle," is used for sustained activity—chiefly walking, in the case of a chicken. The dark color comes from the protein myoglobin, which plays a key role in oxygen uptake within cells. White muscle, in contrast, is suitable only for short, ineffectual bursts of activity such as, for chickens, flying. Thus the chicken's leg and thigh meat are dark while its breast meat (which makes up the primary flight muscles) is white. Other birds with breast muscle more suitable for sustained flight, such as ducks and geese, have red muscle (and therefore dark meat) throughout.
Chicken meat contains about two to three times as much polyunsaturated fat as most types of red meat when measured by weight. However, for boneless, skinless chicken breast, the amount is much lower. A 100g serving of baked chicken breast contains 4 grams of fat and 31 grams of protein, compared to 10 grams of fat and 27 grams of protein for the same portion of broiled, lean skirt steak.
A recent study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute showed that 47% of the meat and poultry in U.S. grocery stores were contaminated with S. aureus, and 52% of those bacteria were resistant to antibiotics.

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The helicopter move is more of a trick than tricky; while this hula hoop move gives the appearance of a rapid spin, the effect is created by simply half-turning the hand while rotating the arm around the body. Safire, expert hula hoop dancer, walks through the simple steps of doing this stunt, breaking down each movement to exact body positions and also thoroughly explaining any of the hula hoop choreography terminology she uses. Watch this video hula hoop tutorial and learn how to perform the helicopter move.
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Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack (Hairy Maclary and Friends) [Board book]
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A board book editon of this bestelling Hairy Maclary story. Hairy Maclary is looking for some peace and quiet for his afternoon doze. But everywhere he goes he's followed by an irrepressible yellow duckling, Zachary Quack, who wants to footle and frolic and play. Hairy Maclary keeps trying to skedaddle away only to be followed by the pittery pattery duck! Eventually Hairy Maclary realises that he can't shake off Zachary Quack and they curl up together for a doze in the sun!
About the Author
Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the memorable Hairy Maclary, Schnitzel Von Krumm - and enemies! She worked as a teacher before beginning to write her own books in 1974. Lynley lives in New Zealand.
PreS-Gr 2-Hairy's back, this time leading Zachary Quack through garden and woods for a merry game of hide-and-seek, with each posture a picture of bliss. If the sight of Hairy's black fur askew as he plunges into the river does not get a chuckle, prepare at least for unabashed sighs at the end when dog and duck cuddle for a nap. Delicate lines and an amazing range of shades dress up the rhyming text, and amusing onomatopoeia captures the duck's frolic.-Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
A duckling convinces the pooch hero to play. "The pictures are amiably animated and suitably silly, but watch those wonderful waggish words," wrote PW of the earlier Hairy Maclary books. Ages 2-5. (Apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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AbstractNatural organic matter (NOM) is a key parameter in aquatic biogeochemical processes. Part of the NOM pool exhibits optical properties, namely absorption and fluorescence. The latter is frequently utilized in laboratory measurements of its dissolved fraction (fluorescent dissolved organic matter, FDOM) through excitation–emission matrix spectroscopy (EEMS). We present the design and field application of a novel EEMS sensor system applicable in situ, the ‘Kallemeter’. Observations are based on a field campaign, starting in Norwegian coastal waters entering the Trondheimsfjord. Comparison against the bulk fluorescence of two commercial FDOM sensors exhibited a good correspondence of the different methods and the ability to resolve gradients and dynamics along the transect. Complementary laboratory EEM spectra measurements of surface water samples and their subsequent PARAFAC analysis revealed three dominant components while the ‘Kallemeter’ EEMS sensor system was able to produce reasonable EEM spectra in high DOM concentrated water bodies, yet high noise levels must be addressed in order to provide comparable PARAFAC components. Achievements and limitations of this proof-of-concept are discussed providing guidance towards full in situ EEMS measurements to resolve rapid changes and processes in natural waters based on the assessment of spectral properties. Their combination with multiwavelength FDOM sensors onboard autonomous platforms will enhance our capacities in observing biogeochemical processes in the marine environment in spatiotemporal and spectral dimensions.


text: People.com Entertainment TV Karamo Brown 'Instantly' Gave Jake Borelli Advice - 'He's Going to Set Me Up with My Husband' PLUS: Borelli reveals his favorite romantic comedy stars another Grey's Anatomy star - Katherine Heigl! By People Staff Published on February 7, 2020 08:00 PM Share Tweet Pin Email PEOPLE Now airs live, Monday through Friday, from the Meredith offices in New York City. Catch PEOPLE Now every weekday at 12:00 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT on People.com or on the PeopleTV app on your favorite streaming device. Want even more? Check out clips from previous episodes of PEOPLE Now.

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A better deal for ageing dairy cows
Generally, the idea of making more from one you've literally milked for years may not sit well with many people, especially animal rights activists.
But when you're into dairy farming, it's a business call you have to respond to once in a while.
Cows have a lifespan of about 20 years. But those used in the dairy industry don't live that long. The most is five years; their bodies wear out from constantly being pregnant or lactating. Aside from aging too fast, nearly half of those used in modern dairy farms become lame before their time-from standing on concrete floors to be milked for days on end, according to studies.
If you didn't know it, cows need to get pregnant and give birth to a calf before they can give milk. They are living mammals, not dairy machines that can be milked at will. Despite modern advances in zoological science, that's one natural law that has yet to bent or altered.
They undergo extensive genetic manipulation, yes-but only to make them produce more milk than they would naturally produce to feed a calf.
Today's dairy cows make more milk-many times over, in fact-than their ancestors did. In 2007, the US dairy herd of about 9 million cows produced 83.9 billion kg of milk, while in 1950, the country's larger herd of about 22 million cows could produce only 52.6 billion kg.
Given the kind of stress they go through, dairy cows age early and become less productive, if they don't become lame or ill of mastitis for lactating too much. Under current standards, production below 12 to 15 litres of milk a day is not economically viable.
As it doesn't make business sense to keep spent dairy cows, they are sent to slaughter. And having gone through a lot in their very short lives, their meat is considered of low value, generally good only for dog or cat food. Or low-end processed meat. Low-end because it can't even be considered fit for a big-brand hamburger.
Cows make nice hamburgers when they are much younger, when they're too young to have calves or be milked. So different cows, not dairy cows, are used for good hamburgers.
Dairy cows sent to slaughter are called "cull cows", short for good-for-nothing meat. In the US, about 9.5% of the cattle slaughtered in 2014 were culled dairy cows.
With global milk prices currently hitting rock bottom, dairy farms have resorted to culling to limit production and keep prices from falling further. So supply of meat from culled dairy cow is high, which doesn't help improve demand and price.
It's a different case though in India, where most people shun beef. Instead of being sent to slaughter, old dairy cows are usually donated to temples where they are fed till they die.
If they are not taken to temples, they are sometimes used to pull carts or even allowed to roam free.
But not all cull cows are near worthless. In the UK, some of the best steak restaurants-like Kitty Fisher's and Chiltern Firehouse in London, Levanter in Manchester and Bellita in Bristol-sell steaks from middle-aged or old cattle, some of which are imported from dairy farms in Spain.
Quoted by the Telegraph newspaper, Nemanja Borjanovic, the Serbian‑born owner of London restaurants Lurra and Donostia, who imports their beef through his company Txuleta, "older animals give a very different meat, far darker in colour than the pinky-red meat from younger animals that we see in supermarkets".
The flavour from old animals, says Borjanovic, "is deeper, stronger and has length, like wine-the taste stays with you".
Most of these top steak restaurants import their beef from two districts in Spain, Galicia and the Basque Country. The Galician beef comes from animals called Galician Blond, and the prized meat comes from old bullocks (castrated males). "They are very hard to find, as there's no reason to keep a castrated bull for 10 or 15 years, except as a pet", says Borjanovic. "We usually get about 10 or 15 a year".
Galician Blond beef
The fat from a Galician Blond beef is very yellow, from the beta-carotene in the grass of the cattle pastures. "It speckles the meat like raindrops because it is slow-growing, unlike the big gobbets of fat you get from corn-fed animals", Borjanovic says.
Basque meat, on the other hand, comes from dairy cows. These animals are not immediately slaughtered at the end of their milking life, which is usually about four years. They are instead given four more years' "retirement", when they are fed up or "finished" to improve their meat quality and develop fat. So when sold as beef, they command better prices than they would if sent straight from the dairy farm to slaughter.
Taking a cue from Basque cattle farmers, a project in the UK has started taking elderly, unproductive British organic dairy cows to be fattened for the prime meat market.
A similar endeavour has been started in the US. A beef company, Mindful Meats, has been raising the profile of dairy cows as source of good quality meat, not just cheap meat fit only as pet food.
Mindful Meats does not fatten old milk cows as Basque farmers do, however. Instead, they reach out to pasture-based, organic dairy producers offering them a better deal for their aging milk cows than what the current market offers.
Unlike factory farm cows, which spend their whole milking life confined in concrete walls, pasture-based, organic dairy cows live their whole lives roaming and grazing pasture. So they are generally healthy and better fed.
Sold for cheap meat
Before Mindful Meats, unproductive dairy cows, whether from factory farms or organic farms, were all sold for cheap meat. No differentiation was made between the two, even though cows raised by organic producers lived less stressful and healthier lives than their factory counterparts did.
Like Borjanovic and his customers in London, Claire Herminjard, CEO of Mindful Meats, has found-to their surprise-good meat out of old dairy cows.
Instead of being tough and chewy, as many people expect, dairy cow meat, has "a robust, mature meat flavor" to it, says Herminjard. Dairy cows being female, their meat (their customers tell them, she says) has that "sweet, clean finish, and natural marbling."
For partnering with Mindful Meats, organic milk producers get a good deal for their old, underperforming cows-40% more than what the conventional market can offer.
Mindful Meats, of course, has very limited presence even in the US. With similar, though much smaller in scope, initiatives in Spain and in the UK, it is a good start to help dairy farmers get more value for their ageing milk cows.

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Sep 2, 2019
As Hurricane Dorian makes landfall, we talk solidarity not charity, disaster preparedness and why capitalism is so ill-equipped to deal with disaster.
As Brexit looms, UK police are using new surveillance techniques to track hate speech...but where is that line drawn?
Fake meat is a huge industry - and for good reason. The so-called western world needs to cut meat consumption by some 90%. Still, we need to have a nuanced discussion about processed foods and how to make ditching meat healthier for people and planet.
Student loans aren't fair...unless you worked 2 jobs to pay them. Or so says this guy...


Railway facilities will be further strengthened in the Una district of Himachal Pradesh. Railway Board has prepared a blueprint for the modernization of Punjab Ropar to Una and Amb-Andaura railway stations.
The modernization work will be completed in the coming time. For this, an area-wise budget of about crores of rupees has also been proposed.
In the work to be done in two phases, in the initial phase, modernization work will be done from the Ropar side to Nangal railway stations. After this, rejuvenation of Amb, Andaura, and Una railway stations is also a part of the plan.
Una railway station is proposed to be modernized in the second phase. The great thing is that the facilities of the passengers will be strengthened in this modernization work.
The facilities from the railway station to the toilets will be provided in a better way. Even the process of preparing railway stations like an airport is part of this plan.
According to the need and busyness of the railway stations, preparations are being made by the Railway Board to improve the atmosphere including accelerators for the passengers, improving the toilets of the stations.
Rejuvenation of these railway stations is proposed
Punjab Ropar, Anandpur Sahib railway stations are included in the modernization plan by the Railway Board.
There Una, Amb, Andaura, etc. railway stations are also proposed for this scheme. This scheme for the railway stations of Una district will provide huge benefits to the passengers.
Modernization of Amb, Andaura along with Una railway station is proposed. For this, a plan has been prepared by the Railway Board.
Una Railway Station has been placed in the pipeline for modernization in the second phase.- Rohtash Singh, Superintendent, Railway Station Una.


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The Tejon Indian Tribe, in partnership with Hard Rock International, will host a groundbreaking on December 14 for the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tejon.
It will be located less than 15 miles south of Bakersfield, off Highway 99 near the 166 Mettler exit.
The project will be built in two phases. The first phase will consist of an approximately 150,000-square-foot casino featuring 3,000 slot machines, 48 table games, and multiple food and beverage venues including the renowned Hard Rock Cafe. Phase II will include a 400-room hotel, 2,800-seat Hard Rock Live event center, additional casino space, restaurants, pool, fitness facility, and spa.


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This bridge is an excellent example of a common style that Pennsylvania used for its bridges in the 1950s. The state's own unique style of railing is well-represented here and remains unhindered with no modern railing additions.
The Historic Bridge Inventory found the bridge non-historic. However, the SHPO appears to have found it eligible as part of the historic district, even though it falls out of the 1870-1930 district period of significance. HistoricBridges.org agrees with the SHPO's finding. Even if it falls out of the period of significance, it is worth noting that a 1950s bridge would fit in a historic district more so than a 2008 bridge would, and thus its preservation should still be considered.
Fortunately, the bridge appears to have been recently rehabilitated, and it appears to be in excellent condition and retains excellent historic integrity. This recent rehabilitation is quite unusual for PennDOT, which more often chooses to demolish aging bridges rather than save money and history by maintaining the existing bridge.
Information and Findings From Pennsylvania's Historic Bridge Inventory
Discussion of Bridge
The 1951, 2 simple span, 147'-long, steel stringer bridge is supported on concrete abutments with wingwalls and a concrete pier. The bridge has a concrete filled steel grid deck and period steel railings with vertically scored concrete endposts. It is not individually significant as it is a late example of the most common 20th century bridge technology in the state. It is located on what is a boundary of the PHMC-determined eligible historic district, but it was built well after the ca. 1870-1930 period of significance and is thus noncontributing.
Discussion of Surrounding Area
The bridge carries a 2 lane road, 2 shoulders, and 1 sidewalk over the Casselman River on the west edge of Meyersdale borough. Most of the borough was determined by PHMC to be a historic district with a period of significance of ca. 1870 to 1930.
Bridge Considered Historic By Survey: No (Despite Pennsylvania SHPO Findings: Eligible. Meyersdale HD. SHPO Finding. 12/15/1993.)
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Silver screen's current top actress Alia Bhatt may have had just one release this year in 2018 but that has won her all the accolades from fans and the industry.
Everyone is aware how close-knit the bond of industry best friends Kareena Kapoor Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Malaika Arora, and Amrita Arora is
Winner of the last season of Bigg Boss actress Shilpa Shinde has a special attachment to the reality show
The most awaited east meets west wedding of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas is less than a week away.
Bollywood's diva Priyanka Chopra is all set to tie the knot with Hollywood heartthrob Nick Jonas at the Umaid Bhavan Palace in Jodhpur.
B-Town's IT couple Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, fondly known as DeepVeer, took the nation by storm when they tied the knot
Priyanka Chopra along with Nick Jonas has left for Jodhpur, the Sun City of India, where her wedding festivities will begin from today.

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When I was asked if I would like to sponsor a Kenyan not-for-profit organisation called Compassion CBO, I first looked at their website to see what it is all about. What struck me straight away were the first few lines:
“Compassion CBO is a grassroots, not-for-profit Community - working to eradicate poverty through education .... and to rehabilitate orphans and vulnerable children.”
I have always thought that women and children are those who suffer the most on this planet earth, especially in the developing world.
Compassion is the right name for this organisation. Their work is all about helping women and children who live in poverty and helping to stop outdated and inhuman cultural practices for girls.
What, I asked myself, is more important than making the world a better and safer place for women and children by empowering them through education and long-term sustainable development.
We live in the 21st Century with all its technological development and, over the last few decades, our world has become quite small and global. I really do feel that we all are responsible for what happens on each continent in the world. In a sense we are no longer ‘separate’ and cannot play at being ‘ignorant’.
We cannot any longer ignore:
- the high level of illiteracy amongst children & women, outdated cultural practices for girls, and natural disasters like drought and HIV/AIDs pandemic, etc....
As we are all interconnected as humans we need to allow ourselves to be touched in our hearts.
Compassion is a quality of the heart, where we feel affected by what is happening to others.
If women and children in Kenya are suffering, we naturally want to help.
I would like to acknowledge and support Compassion CBO in their essential work for women and children and wish their mission to succeed:
- to overcome poverty through education and long-term sustainable development;
- to advocate for children and women, to release them from economic and social poverty,
- and enable them to live responsible and fulfilled lives.
I feel proud of sponsoring Compassion CBO, making the world a safer place for women and children!
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Tanmaya runs courses and trainings in the UK, Germany and Greece

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This gorgeous coconut layer cake is easy to make, and absolutely loaded with coconut flavour. Sure to be a hit this holiday season!
This coconut layer cake is divine. It has such much flavour packed into it. It uses coconut milk, plus coconut extract for that extra something special. Speaking of something special I would like to wish my co-host Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen a Very Happy Birthday today. I heart you my friend! So very much. I hope your special day is filled with friends, family and lots of amazing food!
Welcome to Day One of Christmas Week. This event is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen. We hope to inspire you to break out those holiday sprinkles and get your bake on!
Each year I team up with my buddies to bring you Christmas Week. This year is no exception. We have 5 full days of recipes coming at you. I really hope it helps to inspire you to bake this holiday season.
I decided to make coconut layer cake. It's something I've been wanting to make for the blog for some time. I think I've been saving this recipe for a couple of years now. So it was high time to get on with it and make it.
I'm not a big layer cake kind of person. Not that I don't love them. I enjoy eating them, I appreciate how gorgeous they are. But I am not a patient person. So taking the time to layer it all perfectly is just too tedious for me.
For this one I threw caution to the wind, and figured the worst that could happen is I turn it into a coconut cake parfait. Luckily it cooperated with me. Worst case scenario the layers are not perfect. However I'm not sure anyone will care if it's covered in gorgeous coconut.
You could totally do this one with toasted coconut if you like. Again, I'm not very patient so waiting for coconut to toast perfectly is not going to happen. So white coconut it is. I'm easy like that.
I highly suggest you try this one. If I can make it anyone can. Seriously, not a cake maker over here. You will rarely see them on my blog. So I am not kidding when I say "if I can make it, anyone can make it". A monkey could make this cake. Although I'm sure he'd prefer banana cake.
I digress.. Be sure to scroll to the bottom for all the recipes from our other participants for Christmas Week. There's also an awesome giveaway so be sure to peek in on that as well. Keep tuning in all week for lots of amazing holiday recipes.
Places to stalk Cravings of a Lunatic!
For the Coconut Layer Cake:
For the Coconut Cream Frosting:
For the topping:
- 2 cups of sweetened flaked coconut
For the Coconut Layer Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Spray three 9-inch round baking pans with non-stick spray, then lightly flour. Set aside.
- In a stand mixer combine the butter and sugar. Beat on medium speed until the mixture is fluffy.
- Now add the egg yolks, one at a time, into the mixer, continue to mix well after each addition.
- Add the coconut extract, mix again until combined.
- In a separate medium sized bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Sift this twice, don't skip this step, it's worth the time it takes.
- Now gradually add the butter mixture alternating with the coconut milk, making sure you begin and end with the flour mixture. You want to mix the ingredients thoroughly.
- Now in another separate mixing bowl, beat the egg whites with a hand mixer on high speed until the mixture forms stiff peaks.
- Now you are going to fold that gently into the other batter, make sure you do not over-mix, nor use a mixer at this time. Folding in carefully is important.
- Spoon the batter evenly into each pan, and place them in the oven. Bake for about 18 to 20 minutes. The top should be golden, and if you insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake the toothpick should come out clean.
- Now you want to carefully remove the cakes from the oven. Allow to cool in the pans for about 10 to 15 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack, and continue to cool completely.
- Once cooled you can slice each cake layer in half horizontally. Set them aside while you prepare the frosting.
For the Coconut Cream Frosting:
- *note: I used three batches of icing for this cake because I used it for the layers. I also did a scratch coat before the final coat.*
- In a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, mix the butter, coconut milk, heavy cream, and coconut extract until creamy. Now add the confectioners' sugar gradually, mixing until smooth.
- Use this frosting to put in all your layers. So lay the first layer on a plate or cake stand, spread frosting over it evenly. Continue this process until all the layers are stacked. Coat the entire cake with a thin layer of frosting. Allow to set up.
- Now add your final coat of frosting over the whole cake. Carefully place all the coconut over the cake so the entire thing is covered.
- Place in fridge until ready to serve.
- Serve with a big old coconut loving smile!
Thanks to our sponsors for Christmas Week. Anolon is donating a 5-piece Bakeware Set. Swing by their Facebook Page to show them some love. We also have Ball supplying us with 4 sets of Jars in their gorgeous Green Heritage Color. Swing by their Ball Canning and Recipes Facebook Page to say hello.
Swing by all the participants to see what they've been whipping up for the holidays:
- Cookie Cake by The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
- Eggnog by Cookistry
- Chewy Molasses Cookies by Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts
- Eggnog Muffins with Eggnog Glaze by Food Lust People Love
- Finnish Pulla (Cardamom Coffee Braid) by Farm Fresh Feasts
- Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie by My Catholic Kitchen
- Cranberry Berry Pomegranate Sangria by Mind Over Batter
- Cranberry Cheesecake by From Gate to Plate
- Millionaire's Shortbread Bars by Cooking In Stilettos
- Red Velvet Fudge by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
Giveaway Prizes Up for Grabs this Week include:
- One 5 piece set of Anolon Bakeware Set
- Two Sets of Ball Heritage Collection Quart Jars (each set includes 6 jars)
- Two Sets of Ball Heritage Collection Pint Jars (each set includes 6 jars)
- One Set of 1 Dozen Assorted Cookie Sampler Box from The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen Bake Shop
- Two Sets of Brownie Brittle Snack Sampler (each set includes One 5-ounce bag of each flavour)
- Plus 1 Copy of each of these cookbook:
- One Autographed Copy of Make Ahead Bread by Donna Currie
- One Copy of The Mixer Bible by Meredith Deeds
- One Copy of 175 Best Babycakes Cake Pop Recipes by Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss
- One Copy of 175 Best Mini Pie Recipes by Julie-Anne Hession
- One Copy of The 250 Best Brownies, Bars & Squares by Ester Brody
- One Copy of Oatrageous Oatmeals by Kathy Hester
- One Copy of Adventures in Comfort Food by Kerry Alteiro
- One Copy of Food Truck Road Trip by Kim Pham
- One Copy of Decadent Gluten-Free Vegan Baking by Cara Reed
- One Copy of 100 Juices, Smoothies and Healthy Snacks by Emily von Euw
- One Copy of CopyKat coms Dining Out at Home Cookbook Recipes by Stephanie Manley
- One Copy of Copykat.com's Dining Out At Home Cookbook 2 by Stephanie Manley
Be sure to enter the giveaway below. Open to U.S. residents only. Good luck everyone.
Toodles and smoochies! xx


Collaboration with IMO:
Collaboration between the Regional Organization for the Conservation of Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden(PERSGA) and the International Maritime Organization(IMO) is long lasting and has resulted in several fruitful outputs for protection of the marine environment in the very highly bio-divers and strategic shipping rout environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. An important joint achievement was the separation schemes for ship traffic in the narrow areas of the Gulf of Aden and southern Red Sea. Right from the beginning when EMARSGA was inaugurated the IMO demonstrated substantial support to the Centre. EMARSGA has in turn been very actively cooperative with IMO in several initiatives concerning protection of the marine environment in the red sea and Gulf of Aden...
PERSGA is an active partner in the Globalist Partnership Project that includes 13 lead partner countries from five regional seas; three countries out of the thirteenare from PERSGA region. Head of EMARSGA technical Support Committee is theregional coordinator of the Project. The Regional Workshop on Baseline Survey Methods in Ports carried out at EMARSGA Hurghada Egypt in May 2007 was one of the earliest activities of the Project. EMARSGA has also contributed to the Regional Training Workshop on Ballast Water Management organized in Aden Yemen in November 2008. Upcoming activities of the project include a regional workshop on the Legal Aspects of Ballast Water Management to be carried out in EMARSGA and national training workshops on Ballast Water Management that will be delivered in Arabic language, in the member states.
In March 2008 PERSGA and IMO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the implementation of regional Technical Cooperation Program activities dealing with marine pollution prevention and response for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The strategic objective of the MoU to PERSGA is to enhance the Technical Capacity of EMARSGA and its technical support capabilities to Member States. Activities implemented in the 2008 – 2009 biennium include Regional Training Workshops on BallastWaterManagement (organized in Aden Yemen in November 2008), (i) a Training Workshop on Sensitivity Mapping in Response to Oil Pollution, (carried out atEMARSGA in Hurghada Egypt in May 2009) (ii) technical visit to Yemen conducted in July 12th 2009 (ii) a Regional Workshop on Special Area Requirements of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden under MARPOL (to be carried out in EMARSGA Hurghada Egypt during the period October 19th – 21st 2009) and (iv) a National Contingency Planning Workshop IMO level 2 (to be carried out in December 2009 in Djibouti)
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Clinical Validation of a Transcranial Doppler-Based Noninvasive Intracranial Pressure Meter: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study
Noninvasive intracranial pressure (ICP) measurement would represent a major advance for patients with neurological problems. The Vittamed ICP meter is an ultrasound-based device reported to have high agreement with lumbar puncture cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure measurement. However, previous stu...
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Upcoming Pokémon Anime Series Will Introduce A New Hero Alongside Ash
Step aside Ash, there's a new Pokémon trainer in town. Famitsu is reporting that the new Pokémon anime series (called Pocket Monsters in Japan) will feature a new hero who will be training alongside Ash, marking the first time that two characters will be front and center. The new trainer's name translates to Go, and he's 10 years in age. Ash obviously still relies on Pikachu as his go-to Pokémon, whereas Go is a bit more modern, selecting Scorbunny from the upcoming Pokémon Sword and Shield games as his main.
The animated series debuts in Japan on November 17 on TV Tokyo. Odds are it will make its way stateside in the months ahead.
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The Norwegian furniture brand Northern manufactures design products in a very modern Scandinavian style, combining tradition and creativity. Thanks to its light fixtures, furniture and accessories, Northern has achieved international success and is especially appealing to aficionados of clear, exciting shapes made of natural materials.
There is one thing that is expected from Northern's products: that they create an atmosphere. They are highly unique, and what inspired them is often obvious at first sight and brings smiles on people's faces. Northern combines innovation with traditional Scandinavian style. The most frequently used materials are glass, wood, metal and ceramics, but synthetic material is sometimes used when its specific properties are of advantage. Natural materials prevail and provide a feeling of warmth with appealing details while enhancing Scandinavian environmental-friendliness and Northern's interest in sustainability.
Lighting is at the heart of Scandinavian design: the lights accomplish more than just diffusing a bright light because they are also sources of comfort, cosiness and warmth in the home. With lighting objects emitting a soft light, adjustable reading lights or welcoming light oases, Northern's portfolio offers original and functional lighting solutions for every occasion.
Northern collaborates with young Scandinavian designers and also produces designer classics by famous Scandinavians.
The company was founded in 2005 under the name Northern Lighting and first specialized in high-end Scandinavian design lights. in 2018, it changed its name to "Northern", omitting "Lighting" to better illustrate the company's enlarged portfolio. Northern still develops light fixtures, but also furniture and small accessories in its famous Northern style.

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Too Clever By Far Fandom Harry Potter Harry finds out that he was Salazar Slytherin in a past life He learns to live with the knowledge while teetering between unfailing loyalty and the urge to tinker with fate
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Watch Out For Little Fees
When you receive your monthly bank statement or credit card statement, do you take the time to review each transaction to make sure that everything is accurate? If you do not review your statements, you may very well be paying fees that are being incorrectly charged.
This month I sat down to review my bank statement and noticed that they had charged me a $1.75 fee for using a non-network ATM. When we do use the ATM, we typically visit one near our house that is a surcharge-free location so this fee immediately jumped out at me.
After reviewing all of my transactions and verifying everything else was accurate, I placed a call to my bank to dispute this charge as we did not use any non-network ATM. In the past, I have been told that there are times where a POS purchase is mistakenly labeled as a non-network transaction and that is why they assess the fee. In a few days, I should have the $1.75 credited back to my account.
Little Fees Equal Large Loss.
Similar to how little things can add up when taking advantage of deals and specials, you need to be careful that these small fees do not pile up into a larger loss.
If I did not have the habit of reviewing my account statements, we would have been out the $1.75 this month. While it doesn’t seem like a big deal, when you consider that this has happened 10-15 times in the last year it starts to look a little more significant and this is for just one account.
Add Fees to Savings.
As an added bonus, if you have taken me up on my challenge to increase your savings you can redirect any money you reclaim in inaccurate fees towards your savings account.
Take the time to review your account statements closely to ensure you are not paying for the mistakes of others.
Companies make so many mistakes, yet they are always in their favor. Interesting how it is a mistake.
When I goto a local pub I’ve used their cash machine a few times and I’m dinged the $1.50 to use it but then my branch dings me for using a non-network ATM machine so if I take out $60, I get charged $63.75
🙁 Makes me take out cash at my local ATM prior to doing anything. That stuff adds up. And then at the end of the money I get dinged again if I use my debit card a certain amount of times.
And to think, its a Credit Union and not a Bank! Thought they were supposed to be better!
You’re lucky the fee in the pub was only $1.50 as I’ve seen some places charge fees as a percentage of the amount withdrawn or a minimum of $5 whichever is more.
Planning ahead to use an ATM that will not result in a fee can add up over the long term.


Do you remember Vitaly Bulgarov’s AR-15 DEX-stock? If not please check last year’s article to refresh your memory and compare it to what the KILN (new name) project looks like one year after. Most of the details are unknown at this time and KILN have asked for patience. A lot of patience. The people involved are […]
While HERA Arms are doing their best to deliver back orders of the CQR buttstocks for the AR-15 rifles they just announced officially that they are in R&D for a version for AR-10s. As you can realize there are no pictures or drawings for us to show, but the best guess is that it is […]
The visitors of SHOT Show had the possibility to both see and feel the HERA Arms CQR stock and grip in person. Stag Arms, RSR Group, JP Enterprises, Phase 5 and Juggernaut Tactical had rifles with the HERA Arms stock mounted. According to LAN World Inc’s information, they have no less than 12,000 people […]
The post HERA Arms CQR stock and grip, some 12,000 people on the waiting list appeared first on The Firearm Blog.
Before you all go crazy with questions about where to order, pricing, delivery and so forth I have to start this article by typing that all the pictures you are seeing are – unfortunately – edited and Photoshopped. It seems someone simply took a picture of the HERA Arms CQR stock and merged it with […]
The HERA Arms CQR stock has now appeared in the US. The CA legal stock was mounted on a Ruger AR-556, model number 8500 with a 16.1″ barrel. More on the Ruger rifle here. The Ruger in the head picture has the new HERA barrel cap on it. Looks are very similar to the A2 […]
The latest HERA H3 Polymer Magazine 30 round with transparent frame are around the corner. The magazine lead time is about 3-4 weeks. It’s a re-design from the Gen 1.5, and these are the new Gen 2.0. To be perfectly honest, I’ve tried one of the earlier generations (not sure which, but most likely Gen […]
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LAN World Inc. started over 13 years ago in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a provider of California compliant firearms. I am certainly no expert on the California firearms legislation, but with new upcoming and stricter rules (sigh) LAN World have been working with HERA Arms in Germany for several months on a new design […]
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dBs Music Composition for Film & Television student John Kerton is coming towards the end of his final year with us, so we caught up with him to discuss his experience at dBs, his work with professional filmmaker Paul Zinder and his Plato-inspired Innovation in Sound project...
At dBs, we place a huge emphasis on ensuring our students are given ample opportunities to work while they study. We aim to kickstart our student's careers before they leave by connecting them with industry professionals and giving them paid opportunities within the creative industries. It's one of the reasons why we think that studying with a specialist institute, like dBs, is the best choice for those looking to forge specialist careers in the creative industries. Music Composition for Film & Television student John Kerton is just one member of the dBs community who has benefited from these industry connections; working with professional filmmaker Paul Zinder on the score for his documentary 'Some Stiff Competition’. We caught up with John to discuss his work on the documentary, how dBs has helped him hone his skills and his Plato-inspired project for Innovation in Sound.
First of all, introduce yourself! What are you studying at dBs, where are you in the course and what is your background generally in music and sound?
I'm John and I'm in the third year of the Music Composition for Film & Television degree. I should be finished but I'm continuing to summer. Before dBs, I studied Music Performance at college. I was mostly interested in performing and playing in bands and stuff. Then I did a media course and got interested in film quite a bit and it sort of made sense to merge the two things together. That's how I ended up doing this course. There were only two universities in the South of England that did a specific music for film course at bachelor degree level. It was either dBs or UCA in Farnham. Obviously, I ended up picking dBs as seemed like a better place. Bristol is much more interesting than where I'm from.
I learned a whole bunch being at dBs. I don't think I really knew that much when I came here in terms of sound and production or any of that stuff. I probably didn't even know what a saw wave was! I've learned a whole bunch, for sure. My tastes in terms of film music were more towards orchestral stuff. Ennio Morricone was probably my one inspiration. That's obviously widened now. Whereas, when I arrived, I was like, "I like this one film guy, I can do music and I like films.”
So what has your experience at dBs been like? Any highlights?
I think every exhibition at the end of the year is one of the highlights. Seeing how far everyone has come in their work. Another highlight was in the second year when I got the opportunity to work with the filmmaker Paul Zinder on the documentary 'Some Stiff Competition'. That wasn’t a student film, so that felt like a big deal - to be working on something that other professionals are working on. That's just coming out now. It's taken a while for it to be ready. I couldn't show any of it for my exhibition in the second year. I've got a trailer for it, but I'm not really allowed to show people that either. That was definitely a highlight.
I think this year, doing the Innovation module with Emmanuel Spinelli was awesome. We started seeing Emmanuel in the second year and he just blew our minds open with all the sound art stuff. The exhibition for Innovation that we had was really awesome. I did an installation for that which was a booth that you sat in and I created a Max patch that took the signal from your heart and put it through a generative programme that turned it into music. It turned it into MIDI, essentially. Then I took all those MIDI from about 20 people and then put that into one composition.
The concept of the project was based on a quote from Plato, "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." The idea was what would it be like if people's hearts were literally singing songs. What would the harmony and disharmony that are created sound like? That's what I was trying to create with the composition. That was definitely a highlight for me - doing something that wasn't necessarily to do with film, but it just felt quite creative.
That sounds like a really cool project. How did the different heartbeats manifest themselves? Were there many variations in the sound that was created?
The variation that was directly affected by the heartbeat was the velocity of the melody notes. You could tell when there was a spike in the signal because you get a really loud velocity, but that also creates a sense of musicality to the melody as well. Everything in terms of the chord sequences and the harmony was all built into the generative aspect of it. So that wasn't necessarily interactive, it was more just being triggered and the velocity itself was the interactive aspect of it. That's where you could kind of hear the differences between people. I think there was one point where it just stopped working, and I was like, "Oh, God, has his heart stopped?" The project was really fun. Lots of people said they could hear their own heartbeat when they were in the booth listening, which was kind of funky.
Lots of the students really enjoy Emmanuel’s Innovation module. Did you find it interesting?
Yeah definitely. I think because he comes from such a sound art background. There’s lots of experimental stuff which is a bit left-field for a lot of people that don't know about it when they first learn about this stuff but it's very inspiring. He's a great teacher and a super cool guy.
Tell me a bit more about Some Stiff Competition. How did the opportunity come about and when were you working on it?
I finished that in the second year. I got a message from Ben [Philcox] at one point. He messaged a couple of other people and put us all in a group on Facebook, and was just like, “Is anyone interested in this?” I got in contact with him and he sent us an email about what Paul was looking for in terms of music. He was looking for a classical piano-style piece. So I made my own sketch and send that to Paul and I think he really liked it so I started making more sketches for him. Eventually, we had a meeting over Zoom and he showed me bits of the film and where it was at that point. We just started talking about his ideas for music. It was quite different from anything I've done before because, normally, you get an edit sent to you and you just score over it; synchronising the music to the edit in logic or something. He wanted me to watch the edit with him, write bits of music and then he gave it to his editor to put in the film.
That was quite a weird way of working for me, to be honest. I think he was quite protective over it because I was a student but that was the process we went with. He understood exactly where he wanted music. I think he finished the film, with my music, at some point last summer and then start putting it out to festivals. I got in contact with him recently to get the trailer and he mentioned that the premiere was in California at a documentary film festival there, which is kind of cool. I've never even been to America, so it's weird to think that there are people listening to my music over there.
That's really cool. I know you can’t say too much, but what’s the basic premise of the film?
It’s based in an English village and it's based on a 'teddy bear parachute'. Do you know what that is? A teddy bear parachute?
No, I can't say I do...
It's for kids. It's a contest where they pick a Teddy and make a parachute for it and chuck it off the church spire. There are lots of people there and there are judges that watch and see how far the teddy bear gets and then there's a winner. It's pretty mental, to be honest. But it's really quite funny and charming at the same time. The film follows two rival families. I won't spoil the ending.
What was the experience of working on the project like?
Yeah, it was really good! I think it is nice to work on something where people are really professional. You feel like you can rely more on people. I think that makes you up your game a little bit as well. Not that I'm lazy when I do student films, but I think just the idea of working with professionals and being paid a little bit of money as well, feeds the idea that this really needs to be very good. I just felt it was a really good collaboration. I got on really well with Paul. He's a really cool guy. I had lots of chats about the music with him. I would send him lots of different sketches to see what his ideas were. I'd always give him more than one option for every tune.
Were you the only composer on the project?
Yeah, I was creating the score, there wasn't anyone else working on the music. My role was to make music samples for Paul, that fit his idea of what the music should be at certain points in the film. A lot of it was also my own ideas. I think it was only towards the end that he actually sent me an edit because he wanted something more specific in terms of when the music was synchronised with the visuals. Before that, I was literally just watching the video link and then playing the track out of logic and trying to like start at the same time. The rest was just little musical segments that were written.
What other projects have you been working on since this documentary?
I had a kind of dry spell last semester. Then this semester, I literally had two student films that I've just done. They always give them to you like two days before the deadline. It was last weekend I had two films to do in two days. One of them I'd already written quite a lot of conceptual music for and it was just a case of trying to get everything to work to the edit out of what I had. The other one was a story of a post girl in a village and her day going and delivering things. She needs to deliver this package on time or she loses her job and she's there with her brother. It was quite sort of English countryside-y and light, so I just did some folk-style guitar for it. I literally watched it with my guitar and recorded it really roughly through my Mac speakers with a guitar track over it and then, later, I recorded everything properly and arranged and mixed it. That was probably the quickest I've ever done a score, to be honest! It was crazy, man. My brain hurt after that weekend.
I guess working at that high speed is quite useful for preparing you for the industry when you graduate, though?
Yeah, I think especially in film scores. It's always the last thing that gets done before the final dubbing stage. Time gets taken from the production for things that happen before you get to the music, so you could have very little time left to do the music. With any project, the music always comes last so yeah, I think it’s definitely good training.
Finally, do you think that dBs has helped prepare you for working in the industry?
Absolutely. Every year we've done something that's about business or is industry-related; learning and researching. This final year we've created our own websites and been cultivating our professional persona online. I feel way more prepared having studied at dBs for three years. I’ve learned a lot and I feel like I've gotten so much out of it. I would have been lost without dBs.
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Check out all of the memorable moments from Prince William and Kate Middleton's visit to Canada, and see even more pictures in our gallery!Prince William and Kate Middleton proved that they’re game for anything on their current royal tour.“We hit it off immediately, taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in, and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old-fashioned girly stuff,” Markle wrote on her now-shuttered lifestyle blog, The Tig.“She quickly became a confidante I would text when I was traveling, the friend I would rally around for her tennis matches, and the down-to-earth chick I was able to grab lunch with . .” and also likely preparing for her engagement announcement), perhaps Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, might still make the journey across the pond. Pippa Middleton Kate Middleton will presumably be there, but what about Pippa?Sources in Canada tell Royal Watch: ‘‘We are told the children are coming and the itinerary is being coordinated accordingly. The family will travel to British Columbia and the territory of Yukon as part of the tour.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a father of three, who will meet with the family during the trip is also taking an interest in the official schedule.Adds a Canadian source: “Our Prime Minister loves this part of Canada and he’s keen for the Cambridges to see it.He spent some of his early life in British Columbia and he and his own family holiday in Tofino.
George, who was nine-months-old at the time, enjoyed a play date in Wellington in New Zealand and a visit to Sydney’s Taronga zoo where he pet a bilby.On Tuesday, during their four-day tour of Sweden and Norway, the pair took part in a bandy shootout in Stockholm; the sport looks a lot like hockey, but differs in a few ways — there’s a ball instead of a puck, the sticks have a bend and the goal is larger.RELATED: Kate Middleton Secretly Donated Her Hair To Kids’ Cancer Charity The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went head-to-head in a mock penalty shootout after watching a full game between local teams.The royal pair touched down in the country last Thursday to begin their nearly two-week-long North American tour, which will continue into California this coming weekend.Since the couple landed, they've celebrated Canada Day, spent the night on a warship, competed against each other in a dragon boat race, visited a center for at-risk and homeless youth, played street hockey, gone canoeing, and that's not all.But what other famous faces are most likely to be spotted in the pews, from A-list actors to sports legends to political powerhouses? Priyanka Chopra Markle and Chopra are close friends—before she went radio silent on social media, the Barack and Michelle Obama Ever since working on the Invictus Games together, Prince Harry and the Obamas have had a special rapport—from spoof PSAs to belly laughs on the basketball court to charming a roomful of Chicago teenagers. However, it’ll be more than official business for this power couple: Sophie and Markle are reportedly close, with reporting that she even gave Markle advice on how to deal with her rapid ascent to royal-level fame.

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Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), in its reply to the special court, said that Aryan Khan used to procure contraband from friend Arbaaz Merchant. The agency accused Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan‘s 23-year-old son of being an ‘integral part’ of a drug nexus.
“Khan was accused of being used to procure contraband, and the contraband was found in the custody of [Arbaaz] Merchant. The investigations pertaining to transactions abroad need to be investigated and are being investigated,” the NCB was quoted saying.
Aryan Khan – Accused No. 1 for the NCB – sourced drugs and was in touch with “some persons abroad who appear to be a part of an International Drug Network for illicit procurement of drugs”, the anti-drugs agency has said in the statement that has yet to be submitted in court.
They have added that Aryan is in touch with people who are a part of ‘international drug network’ for illegal procurement of drug. The matter pertains to Aryan Khan and seven others in connection with the cruise ship raid in Mumbai on October 3.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has also summoned filmmaker Imtiaz Khatri for questioning. He has been asked to appear before the agency on October 14, says the agency.


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I’m looking at what I call my “James orchid,” a plant given to us when James passed. I think it is somewhat of an anomaly. After the original blossoms faded, the stems that held them did not die off but remained healthy. A few months later, I noticed a shoot growing off one of the stems. This ended up being another spray of the snowy blooms. I wrote about this surprising new growth in my December 20 blog.
Today, I noticed three new buds beginning to swell, and the seven remaining blooms are glowing in the filtered sunlight. But the most remarkable thing is that the other stem has a shoot that will ultimately be filled with blossoms. I have read that when an orchid sends out a spike from a stem that has already blossomed, it is unusual. Our small plant has done this twice over, and some may call that rare, but I call it a blessing and a sign of new life.
I have read a lot lately about how life’s greatest tragedies can change us—giving us a knowing peace, a depth of understanding, and an internal glow that hints at eternity. The past year has tried many of us in so many ways. And even though some days it is tough to put one foot in front of the other, I believe that together, we walk toward a bright future.
It is James’s birthday in ten days. To celebrate, friends and family will gather at Heavens Beach, his favorite place on our planet. There will be a James-style barbecue with hamburgers, hot dogs, and storytelling—and there will be a few tears. But most of all, there will be laughter. James loved to tell corny jokes and to laugh.
On this beach called Heavens, we will remember Jay, but we also know as we gather again that we walked through this loss together. Holding each other up through prayer, presence, and gifts like the orchid that took on a spiritual meaning, knowing that someday we will join James in his heaven. Until then, we walk together with deeper understanding, hope, and laughter—always with laughter.
Blessings of Passover, Easter, and Spring.
“When You Walk Through a Storm” By Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rogers When you walk through a storm Hold your head up high And don’t be afraid of the dark. At the end of a storm There’s a golden sky And the sweet silver sound of a lark. Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart, And you’ll never walk alone. You’ll never walk alone.
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Beautiful Kathleen. What a lovely way to remember your precious James as a family.
This is such a lovely time of year and a special season for remembering Jesus, all he has done for us and those who have gone to be with Him.
Much love ❤ and blessings.
Kathleen, your beautiful post has brought me to tears–from deep empathy for your loss and also because of the song “When You Walk Through a Storm.” My mother passed 12yrs ago. She had a beautiful soprano voice & also played the piano and she played & sang that song all the time. Your post brought back very loving memories of her singing it. She was almost 92yrs. when she passed in the spring of 2009 and a month before her passing, Luis & I had taken her to LakeShrine to enjoy the beauty of that spring day. As we stopped to watch two majestic swans by the waters edge she was so moved she suddenly broke out in song. All the people & children around us stopped & listened to her sing, It was a perfect moment & a memory that always chokes me up.
God Bless you and your family and your gathering to celebrate and remember James.
Thank you for sharing that beautiful poignant memory of your mom. It touched my heart.
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Which song was the Bee Gees sixth consecutive number one single on the US Billboard charts?
"Love You Inside Out" is a 1979 hit single by the Bee Gees from their album, Spirits Having Flown. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in June 1979, interrupting Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff", becoming the third single from the album to do so.
"Love You Inside Out" was a milestone single for the Bee Gees, earning them a permanent place in rock history when it reached number one on the US Billboard charts.
1. It was the group's ninth number one single in the US (tenth if you include "Lonely Days", which reached number one on the Cashbox charts in 1971), more number one singles than any other 1970s artist.
2. It was The Bee Gees sixth consecutive number one single in a single year. The only other group to achieve this was The Beatles.
3. It was the third consecutive number one single from Spirits Having Flown, which followed three consecutive number one singles from their previous album Saturday Night Fever. At that point, no other artist had ever had three consecutive number one singles from two successive albums.
4. At the time, it placed them fourth among all artists with number one singles (9) and fourth in total weeks (27) at number one.


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And sure enough, as Hurricane Irene’s winds howled and rain pelted down on early Sunday morning, a large swath of the steep hillside collapsed, sending a mess of heavy red mud, vegetation, roots, and rocky rubble onto the street and sidewalks below.
Entrances to some of the one-family homes at the end of the block were blocked, and the only fire hydrant serving the dead-end street was partially buried.
“We have been complaining forever about this,” said homeowner John Dixon, who has lived in the house at the very end of Wright Street for over six years.
“We’ve been complaining and complaining, and this was just a matter of time,” added Robert Perosi, a resident of the block for seven years.
Suzanne Vescovi, who has lived on the block for 14 years and has two boys, ages 8 and 9, was disgusted and frustrated. She has had her eye on the steep hillside for years, and as recently as last Friday, placed a call to 311 about the “degraded” retaining wall.
“311 would not take my complaint, and told me to call the Building Department,” she said. When she called that city agency she was told to telephone 311.
Phil Nucci, another resident, saw the chunk of hillside crashing down.
“I was standing on my porch at about 2:30 a.m. [Sunday morning]. The wind was blowing but it wasn’t raining,” he said. “Then, all of a sudden, I heard a whoomp!” he recalled, searching for a word to describe the sound that he heard.
Homeowner Robin Reigi woke up at 4:30 a.m. and saw the massive mudslide. She exlained that residents of the blocked had parked their cars off the street on Saturday (in advance of Irene’s arrival) “because we anticipated that this would happen,” she said.
Seeing the mudslide, she and her wife, Lesly , “were deathly afraid that the trees would come down, so we decided to get out. We packed a backpack, fled to the car in the high winds and driving rain, and drive to my mother’s house in West Brighton.”
“I’m still shaky and worried,” said Lesly Reigi, who talked to a reporter from the safety of a ground-floor window, too nervous to join neighbors who were congregated on the mud- and rock-covered sidewalk.
Sanitation Department supervisor Steve Woolverton was on the scene by 1:30 p.m., with a crew, front-end loader, and two dump trucks.
“We’re gonna clean it right out,” he reassured the residents who were milling about on the street.
“This is the first (significant) mudslide we’ve had since we started working a 6-o-clock this morning,” he told the Advance. “There was a small (slide) on Van Duzer and Broad Streets, but this one is the worst I’ve seen.”
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Before the Sanitation Department crew and vehicles arrived, resident Kerron Thompson was out with a wide shovel, trying to help out and clear some of the heavy mud from his neighbors’ sidewalks. “We were just talking about this happening,” he said. “I called 311 about it, and they gave me a complaint number.”
The mudslide now has residents of Wright Street worrying about something else: The now-denuded hillside, stripped of protective vegetation, may slide further in upcoming heavy rains, and uproot the tall trees directly across the street from their homes.