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MakerDAO is a platform that allows you to use your Ethereum tokens as collateral; this process creates dollar-pegged Dai tokens that are loaned to you. Recently, MakerDAO has been trying to keep Dai’s value stable by increasing the interest rates that users pay. Now, those interest fees are on the rise once again.
Last week, holders of MKR governance tokens voted in favor of increasing the Dai stability fee by 3%, which means that users will now pay 14.5% interest per year on debt that accrues while borrowing Dai. This is one of many votes that have increased fees over the past few months—in the past, interest has been as low as 0.5%.
Supply and Demand
As MakerDAO has noted, Dai’s average exchange price has persistently been a few cents below the $1.00 target. The project also notes that market makers have large inventories of Dai, suggesting that demand for existing Dai is low among buyers. It also says that previous fee increases have had little impact on the price of Dai.
In theory, high interest rates should discourage users from creating new Dai and should encourage them to redeem their existing Dai. This should in turn decrease the Dai supply, which should keep prices high and close to the dollar. Unfortunately, previous fee increases have not had a lasting effect, and this change may not last long, either.
However, MakerDAO CEO Rune Christensen is confident in the process. In a recent interview with Breaker Mag, he noted that although rising stability fees have not successfully driven down the Dai supply, those fees have mitigated price volatility somewhat. He adds that the increases have also extended growth and that he feels the governance model is valid.
The Bigger Picture
Still, high fees are far from popular. MakerDAO has come under fire for the fact that fee changes are determined by a small number of “whale” accounts that hold large amounts of MKR governance tokens. In other words, MakerDAO governance is highly centralized at the moment—although some believe this will change over time.
MakerDAO is mainly promising because it offers an alternative to Tether and other centrally issued stablecoins. Its “do-it-yourself” approach has made it fairly popular: Dai’s $90 million market cap puts it in the top six stablecoins. However, if user costs continue to rise, the project could see a backlash despite the impressive adoption it has gained.


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Health care in the United Kingdom
On the following lines, I would like to familiarise you with the basic information on the health care in the United Kingdom. Certainly, do not expect lengthy description of pluses and minuses of the British health care system. However, it is going to be more of practical information that might be useful for you to know showing what to arrange after your arrival.
The emergency number is 999 (fast).
Number 111 serves for not urgent cases, e.g. making arrangements at the emergency, etc.
As soon as you settle and get the proof of address, you may register at the doctor’s (GP – General Practitioner). There, they require similar documents (e.g. the proof of address) as for opening the bank account.
You can rely on the fact that certain services are for free (e.g. visit at the GP) and others are charged, such as prescriptions and others.
The health care in the UK is organised in the NHS – National Health Service.
Registration at the GP
- You must find the closest GP’s office, where to register.
- You must come to the GP’s office with a valid ID / driving licence / passport and the proof of address.
- You are introduced for a check-up (the so-called doctor’s surgery), where you fill in the given forms and undergo a general check-up.
- After the registration, you will get a medical card via mail. The card has an identification number (NHS number), under which you are registered in the NHS system. This makes the arrangements for check-ups much easier, so instead of spelling your name, you only state your number.
- In contrast to the Czech health care system, in the UK you are obliged to make an appointment every time you would like to visit your GP. You can do so in person or via phone. It is not possible to come whenever you decide, as you would be refused.
- If you have medical issues that require a consultation at the specialist, you must first visit your GP. If he or she cannot solve the problem, you are directed to the specialist.
Based on the above stated facts, it is obvious that it takes some times to register. Therefore, it is in your own interest not leave it for the very last moment, when you get into troubles. When you get a confirmation of your address, make an arrangement at the GP’s (you can find the closest GP as soon as you arrive).
From the GP, you can expect the following services:
- Medical advices and the respective treatment
- Medical tests
- Recommendations to the specialist
What to do, if you are already registered at the GP, but it is a bank holiday, weekend, closed or you need to get the medical treatment sooner, than you are appointed?
Visit the closest the Walk-in Centre. There, you can expect the help with illnesses or injuries that does not require an immediate treatment. You can just wait without an appointment, when you are called.
Furthermore, you might expect other services in the centre. For example, when you come to the UK already with some kind of injury or an illness (e.g. stitches that need taking out, but you are not registered at the GP yet).
Apply for the so-called EHIC (European Health Insurance Card)
The European Health Insurance Card is almost the same as the insurance card from the EU member states. The only difference is the UK sign in the circle with stars.
The registration is for free and you are only required to have the National Insurance Number and the proof of address in the UK.

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Tallahassee Representative Chosen To Lead State House Democrats
The Florida House Democratic Caucus has chosen Rep. Ramon Alexander (D-Tallahassee) as its chair for the 2022 and 2024 legislative sessions. In the new role, Alexander will be charged with raising money and recruiting candidates. He says he plans to hit the ground running ahead of the next election cycle.
"My primary focus will be on the 2022 election cycle right now," said Alexander. "Making sure that our candidates are prepared to communicate their message and that we have a coherent strategy going into that election cycle."
Alexander says he will be paying close attention to how the lines are drawn during this year’s redistributing cycle to make sure they follow the Fair Districts amendments passed in 2010. They are meant to allow for districts to be drawn without favoring one political party over another.
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InBank is opening a loan production office in Boulder at 2505 Walnut St. with plans to open a full-service branch in the city within the next 12 to 18 months.
InBank, which changed its name from International Bank in 2019, has been targeting the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado for several years.
“We are very optimistic about the continued growth in the Boulder and Northern Colorado market and look forward to expanding our presence in this area,” InBank CEO Ed Francis said in a statement. “Our investment in additional bankers and office space will help us build-out our footprint in the Boulder and Northern Colorado area, support our existing clients in this market and attract new customers. In addition to our new Boulder loan production office, we have plans for full-service locations throughout Boulder County and Northern Colorado as part of our overall growth strategy and to support the continued economic expansion in this market.”
The organization also opened a north Denver loan production office last year.
InBank has yet to identify the other markets it is targeting for expansion.
The New Mexico-based institution has existing Colorado branches in Aurora, Greenwood Village and Trinidad.
Staff at the Boulder branch include senior vice president Adrianne Tracy, senior vice president Andrew Sauer, vice president Stephanie Miller, assistant vice president Zac Claeys and senior loan assistant Charlene Garcia.
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The Eyston Arms
The Eyston Arms - ‘Superior pub food in a truly lovely village', (Good Food Guide, we hope you'll agree!)The ‘Eystons' sits in the middle of the oldest part of the historic village of East Hendred, Oxfordshire, at the foot of the Ridgeway, just off the A417 between Wantage and Rowstock. In 2003 George and Cargie Dailey completed the total refurbishment of the Eyston Arms. Customers are greeted with a huge log fire, a rustic Cotswold flagstone floor, a series of cartoons of regular customers, simple polished tables and comfortable leather upholstered chairs. If Daisy Barton is the face of the Eyston Arms then Maria Jaremchuk in the kitchen is the very attractive engine!! This largely self taught Chef, is very well respected within the industry and customers at the Arms know and love the constantly changing menu.
High Street, East Hendred
Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8JY
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View the map below to see where we are and to get directions.
Millets Farm Centre
Visit Millets Farm Centre for a great family day out! We are a family friendly, working farm attraction situated in Frilford, near Abingdon with approx. 1.2million visitors throughout the year.
At Pendon we aim to recapture, in detailed and colourful miniature, scenes showing the beauty of the English countryside as it used to be in the years around 1930.
S. Howard Bed & Breakfast
Comfortable, attractive central Abingdon bed and breakfast accommodation in an historic house in East St Helen Street, described in Pevsner’s Architectural Guide as one of the most interesting streets
The Crown and Thistle Hotel
Dating from around 1605, The Crown & Thistle is a meandering 400-year-old grade II listed coaching inn - one that's been immaculately refurbished for 21st century tastes.

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|Publication number||US3977614 A|
|Application number||US 05/447,345|
|Publication date||Aug 31, 1976|
|Filing date||Mar 1, 1974|
|Priority date||Mar 7, 1973|
|Also published as||CA993850A1, DE2410490A1|
|Publication number||05447345, 447345, US 3977614 A, US 3977614A, US-A-3977614, US3977614 A, US3977614A|
|Inventors||John Gordon Hardwick|
|Original Assignee||Imperial Metal Industries (Kynoch) Limited|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (18), Classifications (18)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates to winding apparatus for use in the manufacture of structures of filament-reinforced plastics or filament-reinforced elastomeric material. Typically, but not exclusively, the structure is intended to be used as a pressure vessel, for example by acting as the casing of a solid propellant rocket motor and containing the solid fuel therein. An alternative application of the structure is to provide part of a nozzle assembly for a solid or liquid propellant rocket motor.
Through the last twenty years there have been innumerable designs of winding apparatus aimed at efficiently utilising the tensile strength properties of continuous filament reinforcement materials. Many filament reinforcement materials have been used in such apparatus, examples being glass and carbon. The filament may be used in single strands or in tows of a number of strands lying together and side-by-side to form a ribbon.
Conventional helical winding apparatus usually comprises a mandrel support mechanism which is furnished with a mandrel when it is to be used, and a carriage system bearing a supply of filament. A mandrel drive and the carriage are geared together so that the carriage reciprocates parallel to the mandrel axis as the mandrel is rotated.
In this way filament can be laid on the mandrel in a helical pattern. Longitudinal reinforcement of the wound article can thereby be provided, and this can be strengthened by hoop windings if required.
The invention is particularly concerned with winding of pressure vessels having domed ends, a low length/diameter ratio and a low helix angle. In the type of apparatus disclosed in prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,146,962, in the name of the same inventor, a low helix angle necessitates a substantial movement of the carriage carrying the filament guide beyond the ends of the mandrel. This is undesirable because the machine then occupies a substantial amount of space, and there is a substantial length of filament between the guide and the mandrel at the ends of the carriage traverse. This problem can be mitigated by using a pivotable arm to carry the filament guide, instead of a linearly movable carriage.
In winding certain pressure vessels, in particular rocket motor casings, it is desirable to carefully control the lay of filaments on the mandrel so that the helix angle is substantially constant at a predetermined designed value over the central section of the vessel. The filament guide must then be moved at a constant speed over the central section of the mandrel, but it must move relatively slowly as the filament is laid over the domed ends of the mandrel. However, with low length to diameter ratios, difficulties are encountered in designing a device for pivoting the arm to produce the required velocity characteristic.
The attainment of an accurately controlled helix angle is also facilitated by using a pivotable filament guide as disclosed in the prior United States patent. The present invention provides an elegant solution to the problem of oscillating the arm and the filament guide to give the required lay of filament for the specific type of pressure vessel referred to above.
A typical embodiment, and a modification thereof, of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a front elevation of a winding apparatus;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a side elevation of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of part of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of the drive mechanism for the apparatus of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 6 is a modification.
Referring initially to FIGS. 1 to 4 of the drawings, the winding apparatus comprises a mandrel support mechanism 9 which comprises a headstock 10 and tailstock 11 of which the former is provided with power means (not shown) for rotating a mandrel. The power means may be an electric motor with gearing. The drawings (except FIG. 4) show a mandrel 12 in position in the apparatus, the mandrel 12 being mounted on a core 13 extending into the headstock 10 for rotation by the power means, and extending into the tailstock 11 for support. It is to be noted that the mandrel consists of a cylindrical centre section 14 at each end of which is a geodesic section 15 terminating in a collar 16 co-axial with the core 13. As will be appreciated by the man skilled in the art, the shape of each geodesic section 15 depends upon the angle at which helical windings are to be placed on the mandrel.
Coupled to the power means is an arm 17 mounted at a fulcrum 18 to one side of and beneath the mandrel 12, the arm 17 lying in and swingable in a horizontal plane so that it projects from the fulcrum 18 to a free end 19 on the opposite side of the mandrel 12 from the fulcrum 18. At a position 19a close to the free end 19, upstanding members 20a carry an approximately horizontal bar 21 which is parallel to the arm 17 and projecting away from the mandrel 12. The bar 21 is rotatable about its own axis on a spindle 21a and supports a filament feed head 22 extending thereabove. The filament feed head 22 can be swung about an axis coextensive with the horizontal bar 21. The filament feed head 22 terminates in a waisted roll 23 from which a tangent is also tangential to the mandrel at a point approximately aligned with the bar 21 when the feed head 22 is in the vicinity of the cylindrical centre section 14 of the mandrel 12.
The arm 17 and the equipment mounted thereon is provided with means for supplying filament to the roll 23. Thus, referring particularly to FIG. 4 from which the mandrel has been omitted, a group of spool carriers 28 (eight in the example shown in the drawings) is mounted in a fixed position on the opposite side of the fulcrum 18 from the mandrel 12. The fulcrum 18 is provided with a pair of fulcrum rollers 24, and aligned with the gap therebetween which receive filaments from spools on the filament spool carriers whereby the filaments pass along the arm 17, and are not affected by the angular position of the arm 17 at any particular time. At the free end 19 of the arm 17, there is provided a horizontal axis roller 25 which receives the filaments in a horizontal plane and about which the filaments can be turned to be led to a second horizontal axis roller 26 mounted between uprights 20 on the arm 17. The filaments turn around the roller 26 and can be twisted about an axis running along their length in passing to a roller 27 mounted on the filament feed head 22 and turnable therewith. From the roller 27, the filaments pass over the roll 23 and through a guide comb 23a thereon to be laid tangentially on to the mandrel 12 at a point aligned with their passage from the roller 26 to the roller 27. By these means the filament path length is substantially unaffected by either the angular displacement of the arm 17 or that of the filament feed head 22, so that operation of these parts does not effect a length displacement of the filament. The guide comb 23a controls the uniformity of the filaments across the tow and the concavity of the waisted roll 23 controls the width of the tow. Angular adjustment of the roll 23 about its axis, together with the guide comb mounted thereon, varies the width.
Movement of the arm 17 is effected by the mechanism schematically shown in FIG. 5. This shows the arm 17 with its fulcrum 18 and free end 19, the arm being provided with a slider 30 which is movable radially of axis 18, 19 along a short portion of the length of the arm and is fixed to one end of a radius arm 31. The radius arm 31 is fixed to a sprocket 32 to turn therewith and about the centre of the sprocket 32. Turning is effected by a rack 33 coupled by a connecting rod 34 to a yoke 35. The yoke 35 is perpendicular to the connecting rod 34 and is provided with a longitudinal slot 36 which receives a pin 37 mounted on a wheel 38. Rotation of the wheel 38 causes circular movement of the pin 37 whereby the yoke 35 is displaced from side to side of the wheel 38 with simple harmonic motion. This motion is transmitted through the connecting rod 34 to the rack 33 to turn the sprocket 32 with that same simple harmonic motion at its periphery and therefore, in an amplified form, at the slider 30. This causes the arm 17 to turn about its fulcrum 18 with a modified simple harmonic motion. This is illustrated in FIG. 5 by the dotted line 40 which traces the path taken by the slider 30, and the dotted line 41 which shows the opposite position occupied by the radius arm 31. Hence the arm 17 is provided with a movement which is slower at its extremities than at its centre for a purpose which will be described.
It will be observed from FIG. 5 that the illustrated position of the arm 17 is the largest displacement that can be achieved, the radium arm being perpendicular to the arm 17 at that point, but that further rotation of the wheel 38 will displace the yoke 35 to an additional small degree, and the corresponding movement of the rack 33, the sprocket 32 and the radius arm 31 will then return the arm 17 to a small amount towards its central position. The end of this extra movement will take place as the pin 37 passes through a position coincident with the centre of the yoke 35. Thus the movement of the arm can be described as being rapid at its central position with a marked slow-down towards the position shown in FIG. 5, followed by a small return of a few degrees towards the central position, a displacement to its extreme position again, followed by a major swing of the arm from a slow speed to a high speed through its central position to the opposite side thereof. The half-cycle is then repeated. The feature of the small return may not be necessary and can be eliminated by shortening the radial position of the pin 37 so that the slider 30 does not pass the position shown in FIG. 5.
FIG. 5 also shows a second yoke 42 provided with a slot 43 which receives a second pin 44 mounted on the wheel 38. The second yoke 42 is coupled through a connecting rod 45 to a rack 46 which cooperates with a pinion 47 carrying cable and rod connections 48 to a pulley 49 which may be of the same diameter as that of the pinion 47. The pulley 49 is secured to the spindle 21a to the right of the bar 21 as viewed in FIG. 4, the pulley being omitted from the latter Figure for clarity of illustration. The pulley is secured to the spindle so as to rotate it. Similar to the drive means for the arm 17, the second yoke 42 will be displaced with simple harmonic motion but at a phase distance of 90° from that of the first yoke 35. This is transmitted directly to the filament feed head via pulley 49 and spindle 21a 22 so that when the arm 17 is moving with maximum velocity, i.e., in the central part of its movement, the filament feed head 22 is turning at its slowest speed, and vice versa. Double harmonic motion may be provided by using the rack 46 to turn a second wheel the same as wheel 38 for which the motion is taken by a repeat of the yoke 42, connecting rod 45 and rack 46.
The rotation of the wheel 38 is geared to rotation of the mandrel by the power means, as will be more fully described below.
There will now be described the operation of filament winding on the apparatus just described. The mandrel 12 is mounted on the core 13 between the headstock 10 and tailstock 11 of the mandrel support mechanism 9. The mandrel 12 will, of course, have been designed to have its geodesic sections 15 of the required shape for the angle of the helical windings which are to be applied to the mandrel 12 by the apparatus, and with due regard for the diameter of the collar 16 which will define open ends in the ends of the eventual article. Filament is fed into the apparatus by mounting spools thereof on the carriers 28 and passing the ends of filament between the pair of fulcrum rollers 24 and the rollers 25, 26, 27 and 23. Throughout this length, the filaments lie side-by-side to form a ribbon, and this is wrapped around one of the collars 16. The apparatus is then actuated by energisation of the power means and for convenience its functions will be described from the starting point shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 of the drawings. Thus the following operations occur simultaneously:
1. The mandrel rotates in an anti-clockwise direction as viewed in FIG. 3 and with the topmost section of the mandrel as viewed in FIG. 1 coming downwards towards and then below the filament feed head 22.
2. The arm 17 swings from centre to left as viewed in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2.
3. the filament feed head 22 begins to rise slowly from its extreme position as shown in FIG. 1 of the drawings.
It will be noted that when the apparatus is at its operational speed, the start-up position just described is that where the arm 17 is moving with its maximum velocity.
As the mandrel turns, the ribbon of filaments is led thereon in a helical pattern, being fed from the roll 23 onto a point on the mandrel which is approximately aligned with the axis of the filaments between the rollers 26 and 27.
As the arm 17 approaches its end position, i.e., the position shown in FIGS. 2 and 5 of the drawings, it slows appreciably although the speed of rotation of the mandrel is unchanged. The arm goes through the part-cycle of becoming stationary, returning a little, moving back to its extreme position and then accelerating rapidly back towards and through its midposition. The same cycle is repeated at the other end of the mandrel.
The slow speed and the time occupied by the arm 17 at each end of its travel is provided to enable the mandrel to turn through an angle approaching 180° whilst the arm 17 is at that end. This permits the band of filaments to be laid upon the geodesic sections 15 of the mandrel in a geodesic path, and accordingly to turn around and be a tangent to the collar 16 at that end. The relatively rapid movement of the arm 17 across the centre part of its travel enables the band of filaments to be laid upon the mandrel in the cylindrical portion 14 thereof in a close approximation to a perfect helix. With the mandrel 12 rotating at a constant speed, it is obviously necessary for the arm 17 to traverse the cylindrical portion 14 of the mandrel 12 at a high speed if the band of filaments is to be laid thereon at a low helical angle, for example of the order of 20° to 25°.
The filament feed head 22 moves in concert with the arm 17, although 90° out of phase therewith as is schematically shown by the arrangement of the yokes 35 and 42 in FIG. 5. The movement is that of simple harmonic motion so that with the arm 17 in the centre position, as shown in FIG. 1, the filament feed head 22 is at the extreme position of its movement. This gives the necessary "lead" to the filament to eliminate the lag in distance between departure of the filament from the head and arrival on the mandrel and therefore allow it to be laid upon the mandrel at the point thereon aligned with the length of filament between the rollers 26 and 27. At each end of the movement of the arm 17, the filament feed head rises to the vertical position and then swings to again be in advance of the position of the point of contact of the filament with the mandrel. FIG. 1 shows the filament feed head 22 in position for traverse of the arm towards the left of the drawing. Shown in dashed lines is the position of the filament feed head 22 when the arm is moving towards the right-hand side of the drawing. The arc traversed by the roll 23 is also shown in dashed lines. It should also be noted that the swinging motion of the arm 17 also keeps the roll 23 in a better face-to-face relationship with the surface of the mandrel than rectilinear movement to provide less distortion of the ribbon of filaments before it is laid on the mandrel.
The invention is particularly applicable to the manufacture of wound articles which have a relatively low ratio between their length and diameter. Thus the arcuate passage of the filament feed head 22 approximates to the external surface of the mandrel, and at no point is the roller 23 a large distance away from the mandrel surface. This can be contrasted with the prior art method of having a filament feed head which moves along a rectilinear path in which case the manufacture of a wound article having a relatively low ratio between its length and its diameter could necessitate displacement of the filament feed head along its rectilinear path a substantial distance away from the mandrel surface whilst the band of filaments is being laid around the geodesic end portions of the mandrel. The winding of this portion of the pattern does not take up a very large length of filament so that return of the filament feed head along its rectilinear path when the geodesic end pattern has been half-completed involves the winding back of the unused filament between the filament feed head and the mandrel surface. This poses particular problems, especially as regards abrasion of the filament.
Reference is now made to FIG. 6 of the drawings in which there is shown a modified mounting from the arm 17. Thus in this case the arm 17 is not attached to a fixed fulcrum, but rather to a moving fulcrum plate 50 mounted on a slideway 51. The radius arm 31 is attached to the arm 17 at a fixed hinge point 52. Traverse of the radius arm 31 under the action of the rack 33 causes the arm 17 to swing and also effects movement of the fulcrum plate 50 along the slideway 51 so that the free end 19 of the arm 17 follows the flattened curve 53 shown in FIG. 6. This curve can be compared with the curve 54 followed by the free end 19 of the arm 17 when the system of FIGS. 1 to 5 of the drawings is used, i.e., with the fulcrum of the arm 17 fixed at the most remote position that can be occupied by the fulcrum plate 50 on the slideway 51. It will also be observed that the plane normal to the radius arm 17, i.e., the plane in which the filament feed head swings, is directed inwardly to a greater degree at each extreme position of the arm 17 than that which occurs when the arm 17 has a fixed fulcrum; in the latter case this plane is tangential to the curve 54. The respective planes are denoted as 55 for the modified mounting of the arm 17, and 56 for the unmodified form respectively. There is also obtained bigger swing of the arm to give freedom to the filaments to find their natural positions on the geodesic sections of the mandrel. Square-end mandrels can also be wound with this apparatus.
In a further modification, the horizontal bar 21 is adapted to be adjustable towards or away from the fulcrum 18 to cope with various mandrels of similar shape but different size. Examples of ways of doing this are firstly mounting the horizontal bar on a slide, and secondly tilting the upstanding members 20a towards or away from the fulcrum 18 as indicated in dotted lines on FIG. 3. In the latter arrangement, provision must be made for vertical adjustment of the axis of the mandrel, also as indicated in dotted lines, to make sure that a tangent from the waisted roll 23 is also tangential to the mandrel at a point aligned with the bar 21.
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|U.S. Classification||242/436, 242/483.9, 242/482.4, 156/446, 156/351, 242/472.8|
|International Classification||B29C53/60, B29C53/80, B65H81/00, F02K9/24|
|Cooperative Classification||B29C53/8016, F02K9/24, B29C53/602, B65H81/00|
|European Classification||B29C53/80B2, B29C53/60B, F02K9/24, B65H81/00|


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Do you believe in fate? I invited a friendly looking woman to sit next to me on a very crowded flight from the Minneapolis to Phoenix for the 2017 Creativation (CHA) in January and by the time we landed, we had become friends. Michelle is the owner of Rose Mille, an on line store that features upscale craft goodies such as glass glitter, gorgeous ribbon, flowers and imported embossed paper known as Dresden trims. Rose Mille had a booth at Creativation and I was able to see the beautiful vintage embellishments as well as their line of vintage wallpaper inspired designer papers and I knew I wanted to design with them. A few days ago, I received a box in the mail and this is the first card I designed with the goodies I received.
Shake, shake, shake...Here is a look at my shaker card all shook up. I chose three designer papers from the scrapbook paper line here on the website that are original designs by Michelle for my card. I stamped the "beautiful" sentiment from Fun Stampers Journey in the corner and attached the subtle grey and blue piece to a navy blue card base. I die cut a shaker frame out of navy blue and pink toned striped designer paper using Tonic Studio's Eastern Oyster Layering Die Set. After adding a layer of acetate, I dumped in some of the gorgeous Blush and Ocean glass glitter and sealed it with two layers of mounting tape and a piece of floral Rose Mille designer paper.
I love butterflies almost as much as gorgeous glitter. I chose a white Dresden trim butterfly like those shown here and colored it with Nuvo's Cornflower Blue Embellishment Mousse. The butterfly sparkles after I applied some of the Ocean and Blush glass glitter using Nuvo glue. I added some pretty 3D butterfly stickers I found here on the Rose Mille website to finish the card front.
I finished the inside of the card with some more of the soft floral designer paper, a Tonic Studio's Eastern Oyster frame and one more 3D butterfly. I had fun designing this card and sharing Rose Mille, my new favorite source for vintage upscale trims and goodies for card making, scrapping or any crafty adventure you chose.
Thanks for helping me #spread the joy of creativity!

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The novel is a survivor. In the centuries since Cervantes turned the endeavor inside out, so many writers have set out to make the form, well, novel. From Proust’s long game to postmodern tricksters like Julio Cortázar to the contemporary faction of autofiction writers devoted to blurring the space between fiction and fact, the novel adapts even as it endures.
Throughout her career, the Scottish writer Ali Smith has been interested in the novel’s elasticity. Her debut novel, 1997’s Like, comes in two parts: a story, then a journal by another character illuminating the story just told. How to Be Both, from 2014, is likewise made up of two narratives—an artist in Renaissance Italy, a teen in modern-day Europe—but in some editions of the book, the contemporary comes before the ancient. The jump across centuries shocks, no matter which way your edition moves; the reader tries to reconcile these stories, make them make sense. It’s a fun conceit, even if you’ve already read Cortázar.
Smith’s follow-up is a different sort of experiment. Rather than reach back into history, she set out to create a work rigorously interested in the present moment. The aim wasn’t to do something with the novel form but rather to dispense with what has long been understood as the genre’s prerequisite: time. The UK edition of Autumn appeared in 2016, mere weeks after she delivered the manuscript to her publisher. (The novel was published in the United States a year later.) It tells the story of a young girl and her friendship with an elderly neighbor, one that distilled the political moment even as it was happening. A novel engaged with politics is not surprising; a novel keeping pace with the headlines—in particular, those about the Brexit drama as it unfolded—was.
Readers of Autumn may not have been aware of Smith’s intentions, but it was the first in a “Seasonal Quartet” that she intended to publish at the same brisk clip—Winter in 2018, Spring in 2019, and now Summer. None of the books is exactly a sequel to its predecessors. In each, we are introduced to a separate cast of characters making their way through a United Kingdom riven by bizarre domestic politics, reckoning with Europe’s refugee crisis, and ruminating on the moment’s pop culture and the off-kilter climate of the modern world. This is a work—if we consider the four books a single work, as Smith clearly does—fixed in the contemporary, aspiring to tell us about a world that is still taking form. In Winter, the characters fret over Twitter and argue about “the [ice] shelf the size of Wales that’s about to break off the side of Antarctica.” How like life.
By adopting such an approach, Smith has sought to rethink the role that the novel might play in understanding our lives—as they happen, not in retrospect. Think of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, a book that summed up America in the 1990s and appeared only days before 9/11 provided a conclusion to that era. Smith wants her novels to be able to tell us something about the world today; she wants the reader and writer to be engaged (perhaps “distracted” is the better word) by the very same things that engage and distract all of us.
Some critics have pointed out that the order in which you read Smith’s Seasonal Quartet doesn’t matter. Time passes between the books, but as we don’t proceed through the generations of a single family, it’s relatively easy to keep our bearings. And any one of these works will teach readers what they need to know about both the imagined and real worlds in which they’re set. The larger systems of reference and allusion, the author’s stylistic tics (direct sentences, stagy dialogue), the interspersed bulletins from the news cycle—all form the novels’ specific backdrop.
Yet from their first pages, the books could be said to share more than just method. Autumn begins with Dickens, as does each subsequent volume, sort of, and in each we find studies of odd pairings and intergenerational relationships. In Autumn, we meet Daniel Gluck sitting nude on a beach, trying to work out whether he’s caught in a dream or dead. Spoiler: It’s the former, and for the rest of the book we learn about his waking life, in particular his lifelong relationship with Elisabeth, his neighbor, who was a mere child when they met but who became, as is the case with many of Smith’s teens, a wise-beyond-her-years adolescent.
Daniel, once a composer of some note connected to a coterie of midcentury London scenesters, is at the end of his life—the ideal moment for an accounting of one’s days. And Elisabeth, grown now, is involved in that project, as she’s writing an academic study of one of Daniel’s old circle, the Pop artist Pauline Boty.
The books of the Seasonal Quartet, as with Smith’s earlier novels, are invested less in plot than in story. Again, it’s like life: The characters ponder the news of the world (“All across the country, people looked up Google: what is EU?”), and they talk. The dialogue tries to both approximate reality and approach profundity: “‘See how it’s deep in our animal nature,’ Daniel said. ‘Not to see what’s happening right in front of our eyes.’”
Winter picks up on familiar ground. We get Dickens again, this time paraphrased: “God was dead: to begin with.” And while we no longer listen in on Elisabeth and Daniel’s heady conversations, there is plenty of talk between the new characters: this time, an elderly woman named Sophia, accompanied by a spectral presence (a disembodied head, the mystery of which will be solved later), who is spending Christmas with her son Art, her estranged sister Iris, and the young woman Art is paying to masquerade as his girlfriend. As in the previous book, the setup is mostly feint. World events arrive much as they do in reality (“The first headline today in the 20 second news round-up after the 20 seconds of advertising says that there is now 80% more plastic in the earth’s seas and on its shores than estimated”), and maybe this is meant to illuminate the things the characters talk, and talk, and talk about. (“I said, Art is seeing things. And your aunt said, that’s a great description of what art is.”) Some readers will find that more than enough.
Spring takes another pirouette: A filmmaker mourns the death of his longtime screenwriting collaborator and daydreams about a picture he means to make about Rainer Maria Rilke and Katherine Mansfield. In a separate plotline, a woman who works for a national immigrant detention center meets up with a ghostly young girl. There’s more about art—Tacita Dean looms—plus a road trip that doesn’t make much sense, but the details in novels don’t need to hold up in synopsis, necessarily.
Perhaps it’s best to think of the first three entries in the Seasonal Quartet as akin to jazz: variations on a theme. The reader tries to chart the connections between the books, and while those exist (the characters do have some vague relationship to one another; a certain corporation is mentioned more than once), they don’t yield much. The references—to Dickens, Shakespeare, art, political chatter—are what holds these works together, just as their improvised design creates a common atmosphere. The four novels, it turns out, are not a jigsaw puzzle, coming together in the end to form a satisfying whole and bound by tidy straight lines. Instead, they’re a collage—a fitting form for fiction that seeks to reckon with a moment in human history that was (and is) so messy.
Summer shares many of the features of its predecessors. Early on it features a slightly altered line from David Copperfield: “Whether I shall turn out to be the heroine of my own life.” Sacha, the protagonist, can’t place the phrase, but we know we’re on familiar ground: Dickens, a precocious teen, a contemporary Briton poking around on the Internet. Sacha is another of Smith’s trademark wise girls, but she also has a younger brother, Robert, seemingly a prodigy. And the two have a somewhat unusual family arrangement: They live with their mom, Grace, who was once an actress, while their dad lives right next door with his new girlfriend, Ashley.
Smith is asking us to do more than suspend disbelief; you’re either with her or you’re not. Far-fetched domestic arrangements, a grappling with the world we’ve made (“Not even when they see the pictures of Australia burning do they admit it”), the not altogether illuminating wordplay (the book lingers over the difference between “heroine” and ”heroin”)—this is the world of all of the novels in the quartet.
Smith seems awed by the strange world she has created, and a kind of whimsical smugness occasionally creeps into her writing. Robert, playing a prank on his big sister, superglues an hourglass to her hand. It feels less like an actual prank a brother might play than a setup for the author to break out a pun: “this woz best present I cud imagine from now on u always have time on ur hands,” Robert texts her. Sacha glibly replies, “bonding experience.” Smith, though, isn’t exactly joking; this is also a book about the passage of time.
Smith knows that Summer is her quartet’s final act, and she knows that we want some closure. We begin to get a clearer sense of how this all coheres: Art, the son from Winter, and his colleague, Charlotte, are walking by when Robert glues the timepiece to his sister’s palm. The strangers intervene, and these people are thrust together. In another improbable turn, the entire family decides, rather impulsively, to join Art and Charlotte on their journey to Suffolk. Smith takes a moment to remind us of the work’s operating metaphor: “Come too,” Art insists. “You can tell us about your immortal summer. On the way. Summer on the way, even in February.” Well, why not—Grace has fond memories of Suffolk from her youth, Sacha yearns to see the North Sea, and Robert wants to visit a place where Einstein, a hero of his, once set foot.
Art, too, has a task. His mother has died, and he’s been charged with returning a large stone (no spoiler here, but readers of Winter will recognize it) to a man she once knew, a composer, now quite elderly (readers of Autumn will recognize him). It’s possible that Smith is executing something she’d planned from the start, but these connections, once revealed, feel improvisatory, unlikely, and most of all unimportant. Summer does solve some of the riddles posed by the earlier volumes—for example, the mystery of Winter’s disembodied head. But where a whodunit must conclude with the murderer unmasked, Smith is more respectful of the literary novel’s own conventions: opacity and, instead of revelation, a slow crescendo toward meaning. Summer tells us where that head came from, but the answer might not necessarily satisfy.
In some ways, one wonders if perhaps this is the author’s point. The pressing concerns of our age—climate change, rising nationalism, human migration, the consolidation of corporate power—are so profound and complex that our responses are rarely satisfying. To make sense of these things, and to find a way to live in the midst of them, we fix on everyday life, abandoning plastic straws in some gesture toward saving the world. But looking closely at life reveals its illogic and coincidence. Meaning requires search. A choice like naming a character Art hands us the meaning overtly—art matters! But such decisions read to me as notes to the authorial self. They are the sort of thing a writer might, given time, decide to erase from a manuscript, like footprints from a Zen garden. But the very plan that Smith devised for writing these novels means she doesn’t have that particular luxury. Time is on her mind thematically but also practically; she probably feels like she’s got an hourglass glued to her own palm.
There’s no murderer to unmask, so Smith retraces her themes. Sacha, she wants us to know, is the spiritual heir to Iris, who first appeared in Winter as a political radical. But while Iris’s cause was nukes, Sacha’s will be… everything else. “This new generation of responsible young people will sort it out,” her mother declares, and that “it” could refer to impending climate disaster, the ongoing migrant crisis, the self-inflicted wound of Brexit, or any of the other bogeymen that haunt Smith’s (which is to say, our) world.
Robert, the prankster brother, is skeptical of most inclinations to be moral. But if he’s the counterpoint to Sacha, what do we make of his reverence for Einstein?
Einstein! who called for civil rights in the USA. Einstein! who warned against the nuclear bomb and said if he’d known they would use what he had discovered about quantum and relativity the way they used it he’d have become a cobbler and mended people’s shoes all his life instead.
Novels require you to believe that a 13-year-old boy might skip school, head for the local bookshop, and lose himself in a biography of Einstein. Or at least Summer does. It’s lovely to imagine that the future will be a reckoning between Sacha’s vague goodness and Robert’s intellectual curiosity. I’m not sure these are really the forces that shape the world, but I appreciate the optimism—I, too, believe the children are our future.
Summer and its companion novels contain so much of interest that they defy easy summary. This is less a matter of their action (here, a family meets some strangers and undertakes a pilgrimage) than their digressions. There are so many references and tangents—in Summer, on Einstein and the filmmaker Lorenza Mazzetti; in Autumn, on the artist Pauline Boty and, to a lesser degree, the sculptor Barbara Hepworth; in Spring, on Katherine Mansfield. The author’s erudition and curiosity are bracing, but Smith uses them to establish the verisimilitude of her own thought, not the world itself.
Smith is doing what her characters do: thinking aloud. Her desire was to write a novel (or four) that was of the moment, and to do so in what we’ve all come to think of as real time. It can be done; the book in our hands is proof. But however diverting the results, the novels—Spring and Summer in particular—often feel like the first drafts of history, much like the headlines that float in the background. The novels state their concerns (the fate of the woman artist in a misogynist society, what nefarious corporate actors have done to our culture, the maddening fact of injustice, the slow collapse of the planet’s health), but they don’t really dramatize them the way we might expect a novel to. The books raise questions, vibrate with righteous feeling, but don’t actually resolve anything.
Throughout the quartet, Smith’s unconventional methods give her an advantage. She surely holds the distinction of being the first novelist to weigh in on Covid-19 (less as a concern than as a bit of scene-setting): “The net is all photos of people in other countries with masks over their mouths and noses.” At another point in Summer, Sacha is watching the absurd TV game show The Masked Singer, in which a panel of judges must guess the identity of disguised celebrities based on their rendition of a song (“It has struck Sacha that actually everyone and everything on TV is like someone wearing a mask”). It feels dutiful, the novelist dealing with the sudden ubiquity of masks on our city streets in a way that is witty but meaningless.
Smith can’t be blamed for her inability to muster anything to say about the coronavirus. Really, we don’t yet know how to make sense of the social disruption and human costs of the pandemic. Sacha (and Smith) is like all of us, musing about masks while we hope that we and those we love survive and that the world may one day right itself. We don’t know what else to say about masks; only time will tell.
Sometimes Smith’s rush to follow the news trips her up, laying bare the truth that the larger endeavor to make a meaningful novel out of this moment might not yet be possible. I received a copy of the manuscript of Summer in June from the publisher; three weeks later, an electronic galley arrived. In the interim, Smith revised the book to mention George Floyd’s death and the protests that followed. She’s faithful to the strategy she committed herself to, building a novel against the headlines. Floyd shows up only as an afterthought, when Sacha, in a letter, enumerates her heroes, among them “every single person protesting what happened to George Floyd.”
Floyd had been dead less than a month when I encountered those words. I credit Smith for having seen this as a significant moment in the politics of a country in which she herself does not live. But one wishes that more followed from Floyd’s mention, and there’s nothing here, really, about the United States’ racism or violence or the genuine pain that catalyzed these protests. Perhaps Floyd is destined to become a symbol, but it saddened me to meet him here, thus reduced. A newspaper can tell us what is worth thinking about, but a novel should tell us how to think about it. It was inevitable a novelist would one day reckon with Floyd and all his death represents, but I would have been willing to wait a little longer.

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ABBAGIRLS consist of Kim Graham and Helena Gill two of the UK’s top vocalists. These two very talented girls together with top quality backing tracks bring the unmistakable sounds and harmonies of ABBA live to any venue.
Both girls CV’ are far to long to list, they are both very talented top class performers.
Together their harmonies and ABBA-like voices give a brilliant and entertaining show with fantastic costume changes.
ABBAGIRLS are visual, exciting and absolutely enthralling. Their show is recognised as one of the best ABBA tribute shows in the business today.
Everyone knows the ABBA songs but only the ABBAGIRLS make them sound so real.
Kim Graham (Frida) has only ever been a professional vocalist. After four successful seasons at Butlins holiday centres, her career continued all over the world including cabaret on Cunards QE2. At the Stages’ “Showcall Showcase” Kim was highlighted as the act of the day in November 1998.
Helena Gill (Agnetha) like Kim is a professional vocalist. Helena started her career by achieving a music degree at York University, this very talented multi-instrumentalist went on to top London West End Shows, before travelling the world with various bands working with some of the biggest names in show business.


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https://vimeo.com/59618486 Rather than butcher how this was done, here's a blurb from the website where you can also support the film by purchasing a downloadable copy:
The optical effect of blur is at the core of the film, so to make this effect as beautiful and authentic as possible "Astigmatismo" is shot in a 5-level multiplane using a special lens. The animation involves cut-out marionettes and paint on glass. Everything is entirely made by hand and there are no post production effects.
It is, however, computer-assisted. The camera and the lens were entirely controlled by computer making it possible to adjust the focus and the depth of field with extreme precision, allowing for a variety of focus effects that wouldn't have been possible to create otherwise. In this way, the film combines old school animation techniques with recent advances in camera technology.


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|Birth: ||Oct. 25, 1800|
|Death: ||Nov. 3, 1881|
She was born in Virginia according to the 1880 census.
Ann is the daughter of Dr. John Johnston and Elizabeth Bell Johnston. She married Alexander Culton (died 20 Apr 1840) on 14 Aug 1818 in Rockbridge County, Virginia and had 4 known children:
Zachariah Johnston Culton, 11 Feb 1822
Rebecca Ann Culton, abt 1832
Newton Culton, 14 Aug 1834 and
Frances Culton, abt 1837
My g-g-grandmother is Annie Johnston Culton. In the early 1870's, she accompanied her son-in-law and daughter, Benjamin Franklin Warden, Jr. and Francis Culton Warden, when they moved from West Virginia to Burnet County, TX. Annie's son Newton moved with them, along with several other families. On a recent trip to Washington, DC, I spent some time in the offices of the Historical Society in Lexington, Rockbridge Co, VA. I was looking for history for Annie. I found a wealth of material, including the following entry in the Virginia Historic Marriage Register, Rockbridge County, Virginia Marriages 1778-1860, page 324:
"Ann & Alexander Culton 10 Aug 1818; d Zachariah bond or license date only"
The findagrave.com page for Dr. John Johnston lists Ann as his daughter; I believe this is an error. The marriage record above indicates that Ann's father was John's brother Zachariah Johnston, Jr.
Also, the page for Ann shows John and Elizabeth Bell Johnston as her parents; I believe this should be Zachariah and Jenny McMath Johnston.
If you have other data, I am very interested.
Thanks for your attention,
In the 11 Aug 1982 (correct year) issue of the Seguin Gazette Enterprise, Seguin, Texas, I found the following under Mary C. Bond's Family Tree Article based on old obituaries. It says: "Ann R. Johnston Culton died in 1881 in Burnett County. She was the widow of Alexander Culton, who died 1840 in Rockbridge Co., VA." (Lindy SP)
John Johnston (1761 - 1845)
Alexander W. Culton (1819 - 1905)*
John Culton (1825 - 1902)*
Newton Culton (1834 - 1919)*
Ann R. Johnston Culton (1800 - 1881)
John W. Johnston (1801 - 1850)*
William Z. G. Johnston (1802 - 1853)*
James Johnston (1808 - 1846)*
Old Burnet Cemetery
Created by: Burt
Record added: Oct 15, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 16194393
Added: Feb. 19, 2011

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The concept of sustainable housing can take many forms or definitions. The view embraced in this study for sustainable housing was a structure that is low-cost, energy efficient, and one that uses local renewable or recycled materials, while at the same time being safe and providing shelter to its occupants from the elements. Rather than focus on a few aspects of housing in isolation from spatial necessities or occupant demographics, the approach used in this study was to seek best practices for sustainable temporary housing that also accounts for local climatic conditions. The global need for temporary housing may be expected to increase due to multiple factors: increasing severity of natural disasters resulting in large number of displaced peoples; an increase in the number of climate refugees as a result of a changing climate; and the inability of developing countries to provide sufficient infrastructure in pace with their rapid population growth. Novel developments and promising products and methods in the field of temporary disaster relief housing have been reviewed in the study. To date, an engineered solution to the problem that is low-cost, quick to construct, environmentally and socially sustainable, takes into account the needs of the occupant, and accounts for local climatic conditions has not been found. On the contrary, every major disaster proved the inability of governments to cope with the challenges posed with providing for the large numbers of displaced peoples.


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Joe Arpaio’s Law
Apparently the obvious slipped through the trenches of the brains of Arizonans and out of their skulls because it doesn’t take much thought to realize an overbearing, offensive police force makes the populace distrustful of the police and that, in turn, leads to lawlessness. The world is laughing at Maricopa County, home of The Asshole King, Sheriff Arpaio, for seeing its violent crimes go up while the rest of the state’s violent crime numbers drop. What Arizona doesn’t get is making the entire state just like Maricopa County is a very simple process:
- Police go crazy and start busting people left and right for picking their noses, navel gazing or having a slightly darker tan (a.ka. Mexican).
- Victims become reluctant to report crimes because the police are thought to be a bunch of assholes and it’s easier to put up with rape and violent beatings than deal with them.
- Criminals and those on the edge of being criminals decide they’ll probably get away with their crime because of this so they do it fearlessly.
- Crime explodes and those willing to call the Asshole King, Sheriff Arpaio, to complain about being shot in the stomach do actually report some violence.
- Asshole King, Sheriff Arpaio throws the victim in jail for being dark skinned and the gunman gets away because he was just making sure the darkie was a U.S. Citizen and bled blue blood.
What could Arizona do to replicate this distrust in police? Oh, why, there’s always SB1070, the anti-immigrant law that the Arizona government passed recently which will require law enforcement officers to put the boot to the neck of anyone that might look suspiciously like an illegal resident. A lot of people are bitching about this law, and with good reason.
Who constitutes these alarmists? A range of folks including police associations, faith based groups, immigration right leaders, and leading civil rights groups. Of these, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP and Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund have come together to denounce the bill, calling it out for making racial profiling the standard and undermining effective community policing by creating distrust between law enforcement and communities of color.
Oh lookie there! SB1070 might instill fear and distrust in the general populace—maybe even fear of speaking to police about any possible crimes because they don’t want to be harassed about whether they’re in Arizona legally while they gush out blood and bile from a gunshot wound to the stomach? No, that’s silly. Maybe.
The thing is, though, this is the reality and the very likelihood of Arizona becoming Maricopa County is very real. Here are the facts:
Those findings alone suggest that the systemic violence often cited as the compelling argument for stricter border laws may be overblown.
But the more telling number may be the crime statistics for the portion of Maricopa County that is under the purview of controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio. According to data compiled by America’s Voice, crime in that area has actually increased 58 percent since 2002.
Arpaio is considered something of a visionary among conservatives with respect to his approach to immigration. Many of his reforms, indeed, have served as a basis for the law that Gov. Jan Brewer tried to implement statewide. But he has clashed with other sheriffs over his methods, with some complaining that such broad anti-immigration policies put an overwhelming burden on law enforcement officials while producing social friction rather than safety.
Good luck with that, Arizona.
To make matters worse, it seems like Arizona might become the Nazi capital of the US, attracting a bunch of actual Nazi sympathizers to the border. GottaLaff tells us the story:
Jason “J.T.” Ready is a neo-Nazi who happens to be an ex-Marine. He sounds like such a reasonable guy, I can’t imagine why the Border Patrol would object to his antics:
But local law enforcement are nervous given that Ready’s group is heavily armed and identifies with the National Socialist Movement, an organization that believes only non-Jewish, White heterosexuals should be American citizens and that everyone who isn’t White should leave the country “peacefully or by force.”
“We’re not going to sit around and wait for the government anymore,” Ready said. “This is what our founding fathers did.”
Oh really, “J.T.”? Our founding fathers grabbed their muskets and went after anyone who wasn’t a non-Jewish, straight, white, Glenn Beck lookalike? Of course, that leaves Agent Orange McBoehner types out in the cold, but that’s another story for another time.
Wonderful! From the Arizona paper:
He and his friends are outfitted with military fatigues, body armor and gas masks, and carry assault rifles. Ready takes offense at the term “neo-Nazi,” but admits he identifies with the National Socialist Movement.
Law enforcement officials said patrols like Ready’s could undercut the work of the thousands of officers on duty every day across the border, especially if they try to enforce the law themselves in carrying out vigilante justice.
Like I said: Good luck with that, Maricopa State.

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27/08/2020 - Several outlets - To avoid becoming entrenched between the US and China, the EU should deal with them in its own way: it should look at the world from its own point of view, defending its values and interests, and using the instruments of power available to it.
26/08/2020 - Foreign policy never stops. But the summer of 2020 has been exceptionally busy, with a seemingly never-ending series of crises: in Lebanon, Belarus, Mali and the Eastern Mediterranean. At the informal Gymnich meeting in Berlin (27-28 August) we must forge a common way forward. It is both urgent and feasible to strengthen Europe’s international clout.
21/08/2020 - Last Monday I opened the Summer University of the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander (Spain). We mostly discussed the consequences of the current crisis for Europe and the world. At this stage, the risk seems serious that it destabilises many developing countries and strengthens a trend towards authoritarian regimes. In this context, Europe has a key responsibility to defend effective multilateralism and help developing countries in need.
On the International Day commemorating the victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief, we pay tribute to those who have lost their lives, who are attacked, threatened or persecuted due to their religion or belief.
13/08/2020 - The situation in Belarus has become a matter of grave concern. After last Sunday's Presidential elections, Alexander Lukashenko and the Belarussian authorities must stop the repression against the Belarus people and open negotiations with the wider society. Over the last months, the Belarusians have clearly shown that they long for democracy and respect for human rights. A substantial political change is a precondition for further development of the relations between the EU and Belarus.
The aspirations of young people around the world need to be at the core of our political, social and economic development debate. Protecting and fighting for youths’ equal rights, particularly in developing regions, contributes to a fairer and more sustainable development. On the International Youth Day, the EU highlights the importance of giving voice to the young people and empowering them to better address the challenges of the future.
10/08/2020 - The devastating explosions that hit Beirut last week killed and injured numerous people and have destroyed major parts of the city and the livelihood of many of its inhabitants. The international community, and in the first place the European Union and its Member States, has reacted quickly to mitigate the immense damage and suffering caused. However, as it is often the case when such disasters happen, the most important and difficult steps lie ahead: what thousands of Lebanese citizens are asking for is to tackle deeper-rooted problems. As a long-time friend of Lebanon, the EU will stand by their sides in their efforts to build a more prosperous and democratic Lebanon. We owe it to the victims of August 4th.
Indigenous Peoples have been socially, economically, politically and judicially excluded for centuries. The unbalance puts them at a greater risk in the current challenging international landscape. On the Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the EU extends its solidarity to all indigenous peoples. The EU is acting on the ground to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and calls for global efforts to protect indigenous peoples.
As we mark the International day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the EU extends its solidarity to all indigenous peoples around the world at a time when their health, lives and livelihoods are endangered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
31/07/2020 - Every day we see deepening tensions between the US and China with clashes over a variety of issues. Positions are hardening with advocates of decoupling in the ascendancy in both Washington and Beijing. This US-China strategic rivalry will probably be the dominant organising principle for global politics, regardless who wins the next presidential US elections. In that context, we need to hold our nerve and frame our own EU approach. I would like to reflect here about a few principles that should guide us

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Of all the new or updated vehicles that were unveiled at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, the 2017 Toyota Yaris would have easily been among the least exciting if not for the introduction a new performance variant. Even so, as a vehicle for the pragmatic-minded, it can never be ignored.
Despite its size, the small hatchback is a bigger deal for Toyota than you might have realized, more so in hyper-competitive Europe than in North America. As such, quite a lot of effort was put into its long overdue refresh.
Learn more — here are eight interesting facts about the significantly updated, 2017 Toyota Yaris subcompact car…
1. What is It?
This is not an all-new Yaris. Rather, it is the third-generation model that first went on sale in 2011, having aimed at improving its competitiveness.
The updated Yaris is the result of a 90-million-Euro investment that granted it some 900 new or redesigned parts. It competes in the subcompact segment — the heart of Europe’s car market — against other popular hatchbacks like the Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen Polo, Renault Clio, and Opel Corsa.
Toyota offers both a patrol-powered and an electrified hybrid versions of its small hatchback.
2. Important Global Car
Though not a big deal in North America, where there is a strong distaste for everything small (Canada to a lesser extent), the third-gen Yaris has been a big seller in Western Europe, where it has continued to increase its share of the B-segment (supermini) market since its launch, with over 208,000 units sold in 2016 alone.
The Yaris has been manufactured at Toyota Motor Manufacturing France’s Valenciennes factory since 2001 and is exported around the world, including Africa, North America and the Middle East. Production passed the three million mark in 2016.
Interestingly, nearly 40 percent of all third-gen Yaris sold in Europe are of the hybrid version.
3. More Interesting Design
As a car that prioritizes practicality and fuel efficiency, the updated Yaris isn’t going to set anyone’s pants on fire. Even so, it is more aggressive than before, featuring a bolder front fascia with new headlights and a catamaran-shaped bumper. The rear end sports a new horizontal tail lamps that stretch into the hatch.
Ten different colors are now offered, while the even more thrifty Yaris hybrid comes standard with 16-inch alloy wheels, the largest set you can get.
4. Quieter, More Modern Interior
Toyota’s engineers have made the interior of the Yaris more user-friendly and modern. Every trim level except for the base model now comes with a thin-film transistor (TFT) information screen embedded in the instrument cluster, while new upholsteries, colours and trim details heighten its overall appeal.
The Yaris Hybrid is also quieter inside, largely thanks to tweaks made to the engine and exhaust system.
5. Brand-New Engine
Speaking of engine, as part of its comprehensive update, the 2017 Yaris benefits from a brand-new, 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine that replaces the previous model’s 1.3-liter unit. The small powerplant produces 111 horsepower and 100 pound-feet of torque, allowing the hatchback to accelerate from 0 to 96 km/h (60 mph) in 11 seconds flat, almost a full second faster than before.
Power is transferred to the front wheels by a five-speed manual transmission or an optional four-speed automatic (talk about ancient tech…).
6. Meet the Yaris GRMN, the Hot Family Member
And there is the new Yaris GRMN, the hottest member of the Yaris family…
GRMN stands for “Gazoo Racing Masters of the Nürburgring”. As with just about anything with “Nürburgring”, the Yaris GRMN is a performance machine and is inspired by Toyota’s return to the FIA World Rally Championship. It is the Yaris of choice for those who place driving exhilaration above all else, competing against other hot rods like the Ford Fiesta ST, Opel Corsa PC, Volkswagen Polo GTI, and Renault Clio RS.
The Yaris GRMN’s performance enhancements include a supercharged, 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine that produces more than 210 horsepower, a six-speed manual transmission that routes torque through a Torsen limited-slip differential, a revised suspension system and, of course, bigger brakes.
It is visually distinguished from the lesser Yaris models by a more muscular sheetmetal characterized by unique front and rear bumpers, a rear diffuser, a black spoiler, center-mounted tailpipe and 17-inch BBS wheels.
Inside, it sports specially-designed front seats, a steering wheel that’s shared with the GT86 sports car, and aluminum-covered pedals.
7. Better Safety Out of the Box
To provide driver and passengers more peace of mind, Toyota has made its suite of safety features (Safety Sense) standard on every Yaris trim.
The package includes a Pre-Collision System with Autonomous Emergency Braking, Automatic High Beam, Lane Departure Alert and Road Sign Assist.
8. Just in Time for Summer
The updated, 2017 Toyota Yaris and new Yaris GRMN go on sale in Europe in the first half of 2017, while the arrives a few months later. It will be interesting to see if Toyota follows Ford’s footsteps and offer its performance-tuned hot hatch in the United States and Canada.
Considering that the Toyota GT86 is the only sports car it has in its product portfolio, the brand is seriously lacking the fun factor, especially when compared to many of its competitors, which have fully-fledged performance divisions.
Regardless, with the introduction of the Yaris GRMN, the Yaris lineup is no longer a complete bore.
What Do You Think?
Did Toyota do enough with the updated, 2017 Toyota Yaris? Did you find our eight facts about the little hatchback interesting, and would you choose the Yaris GRMN over, say, a Fiesta ST?
Share your thoughts in the comments below, and also check out our 8 Fun Facts About The New, 2018 Ford Fiesta ST.
BMW M2 Coupe Edition Black Shadow Celebrates Success
The BMW M2 has surpassed the M3 as the best-selling M model, and the M2-Coupe Edition Black Shadow is a celebration of that sales triumph.
Unveiled at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, the special blacked out M2 comes exclusively in Sapphire Black metallic and rides on 19-inch, black matte forged light alloys with a Y-spoke design. It also boasts a high-gloss black grille, a carbon finish for the exterior mirrors and rear diffuser, and race-inspired accents.
All mechanical bits remain unchanged from the regular M2, so power is provided by a turbocharged, 370 horsepower 3.0-liter straight-six engine that, when equipped with the optional seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, allows the Black Shadow M2 to accelerate from 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) in just 4.3 seconds.
Compact dimensions combined with the exceptional chassis tuning gives it the handling chops to match the impressive speed.
Considered by many enthusiasts to be the true successor to the E36 M3, the BMW M2 managed to sell more than 12,000 examples in 2017. It is one of the finest performance cars on the market right now.
New Lexus UX Unveiled, Joins Crowded Small SUV Segment
Toyota’s luxury division has bolstered its SUV-crossover lineup with a compact CUV, the new Lexus UX.
Debuting at the 2018 Geneva Motor show and billed as a ‘gateway model’ for new urban customers “in a dynamic and growing” segment, the UX is essentially a Toyota C-HR but, fortunately, looks more expensive and upscale inside and out.
It rides on Lexus’ new GA-C (Global Architecture – Compact) platform — a variation of the Toyota New Global Architecture — and measures five inches shorter than the Lexus NX crossover at 177 inches (4,495 mm) long, which should make it easier to fit into those tight city parking spaces.
The exterior adopts many of the larger sibling’s styling cues such as the polarizing spindle grille and sculpted panels, though the full-width taillights are distinct. The interior is also an upgrade over the C-HR, featuring new seats, new materials, new tech and more refinement.
The Lexus UX launches in two flavors — UX 200 and UX 250h. The UX 200 gets its power from a new 168-hp 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine that’s mated to a CVT, while the UX 250h pairs the same engine with a new fourth generation hybrid drive system that produces 176-hp. A new E-Four system grants the hybrid UX all-wheel drive capabilities by employing an additional electric motor on the rear axle.
The new Lexus UX goes on sale in December 2018.
Range Rover SV Coupe – An Expensive Two-Door SUV For The Rich
Jeep Wrangler aside, when was the last time you saw a two-door SUV? Back in the late 90s? Early 2000s maybe? Well, Land Rover feels it’s been too long since we’ve had one and has prepared a two-door Range Rover specifically for a very few individuals with deep pockets.
We say a “very few” individuals because only 999 examples of the Range Rover SV Coupe will be made, with each costing £240,000 in the UK. And what does all that money get you? The finest Land Rover Range Rover has to offer, of course.
The Coupe’s silhouette is unmistakable, but without a good look at the side, you probably wouldn’t notice the absence of two doors. Other distinct exterior touches include unique side vents, a modified grille design, and Range Rover’s first-ever 23-inch wheel option.
Ride height has also been lowered by 8 mm and the suspension retuned to give the SV Coupe a sportier look and ride.
Things are extra special inside, where we find unique semi-aniline leather front seats with a gradated diamond quilt design and the choice of three elegant wood veneers and four front-to-rear contrast interior color options. A range of single-tone interior colors is also available.
Want to make your ride even more special? Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations gives you access to 100 more paint colors, unique ‘match to sample’ hues with a range of finishes; contrast stitching; headrest embroidery; door handle and tread plate engraving; and semi-precious metal badging.
The Range Rover SV Coupe is the fastest full-size Range Rover to date, thanks in large part to a 5.0-liter Supercharged V8 that produces 557 horsepower and 516 lb-ft of torque. It is capable of hitting 60 miles per hour (96 km/h) from a standstill in just 5 seconds and a top speed of 165 mpg (266 km/h), which are impressive figures for such a large vehicle.
Notwithstanding the fact that two-door SUVs have never truly been popular (the two-door Jeep Wrangler doesn’t sell near as well as the four-door Wrangler), does the Range Rover SV Coupe make you want to see more two-door SUVs? Share your impressions in the comments below.


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They are nicely modelled examples with no chips or cracks - they have their original dark brown glass eyes. The modelling on this pair is more minimalistic and monumental in form than other examples in my Iconic Edinburgh online store.
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To: Jon David, District Attorney, The U.S. Department of Justice, Quintin McGee, ADA, and Cortney Sanford, ADA
Justice for Lennon Lacy
Promote social justice by increasing awareness of inequality and racism in North Carolina. Lennon Lacy was a victim of racism and deserves to have justice.
Why is this important?
Lennon Lacy was an African American 17-year old West Bladen high school student from Bladenboro, North Carolina. On August 29, 2014, Lacy was found hanging by belts that were tied together from a swing set in a primarily white mobile home park near his home. There is no reasonable evidence that proves that Lacy committed suicide. Lacy played football for his high school and had his uniform laid out on his bed the night before his body was found. Lennon Lacy was in a relationship with Michelle Brimhall, a 31 year old Caucasian women. Brimhall reported that the town disagreed with their interracial relationship. The population in this town is 80% white and 18% black. His death was declared as asphyxia secondary to hanging. Lacy's mother, Claudia Lacy does not believe that her son committed suicide, but was murdered.
Some questions that have been left unanswered are: (1) what happened to the new Jordan’s the teen had recently bought? (2) the shoes found on Lacy’s feet were a size 10.5 but Lacy wore a size 12, who did the size 10.5 shoes belong to and why were the laces missing? (3) what did Lacy use to reach the swing set, which was 6 ft tall? (5) the belts that Lacy were found hanging from did not belong to him so who did they belong to? (6) did the person who dug up and removed the flowers from Lacy’s grave have anything to do with his death? (7) why didn’t law enforcement and the FBI do a thorough investigation and why did they rule out foul play so quickly? After two years, despite all of these unanswered questions, law enforcement still claims that it was suicide.
We demand justice for Lennon Lacy! If justice is never served and this case is left closed, we are being taught that racism and murder is allowable. I created this petition to District Attorney Jon David, Quintin McGee, ADA, Cortney Sanford , ADA, and the US Department of Justice. I urge you to sign this petition to demand that this case be reopened so that a thorough and unprejudiced investigation from law enforcement and FBI.


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"Wayside" Offers Fantastic Water Views From Every Room of This Elegant 3 Bedroom Colonial Located in The Stonebridge District in Tiverton, Rhode Island. This generous and open kitchen has plenty of cabinet/counter space, wet bar/wine refrigerator...
"Wayside" Offers Fantastic Water Views From Every Room of This Elegant 3 Bedroom Colonial Located in The Stonebridge District in Tiverton, Rhode Island. This generous and open kitchen has plenty of cabinet/counter space, wet bar/wine refrigerator and breakfast bar with seating. The large dining room provides a gracious space for more formal entertaining with high ceilings and large windows, with light reflecting off the water outside. Living room has a working fireplace, built-in leaded glass bookcases and beamed ceiling. The family room has sliding glass doors to a beautiful granite patio and the completely glassed in sunporch has spectacular water views all the way up and down the Sakonnet River. All three bedrooms on the second floor enjoy the magnificent views stretching out over the Sakonnet River, and the third floor bar and pool room, as well as bonus office/den provide an additional area for entertaining, or quiet space for reading and relaxing. Experience the gorgeous sunsets perched above the Sakonnet River, walk to Grinnell's Beach and Stonebridge Pier, a small riverfront beach undergoing a total renovation and expansion, seaside garden, picnic area and bathhouse renovation. A renowned RI coffee shop and delicious restaurant, Fort Barton Elementary School, Tiverton Yacht Club and Marina are just steps away. New roof and windows. Easy access to Rt 24, 25 minutes to Providence, 25 minutes to Newport's beaches and nightlife, 50 minutes to Boston. NO FLOOD INSURANCE!
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