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This is the third dress I made from Butterick 4790 (the “walkaway” dress), with a few adjustments to achieve a perfect fit. When viewing the main sample garment for the Butterick pattern on their website, I noticed that it looked quite a bit different than the original pattern cover from 1953! So I came up with a method for altering the tissue pattern to fit properly, and I’ve also discovered that any 50s dress looks much better with a crinoline and corset underneath! I’ve given complete instructions on my blog , and you can see many more pictures of this dress here
The front panel is a stretch matte satin from Telio & Cie fabrics, and the pink rayon crepe was purchased for $2.50 a yard!
Twists on feminine classics, like a bold patterned shift dress and pants with a racing stripe.
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Ongoing: This behind-the-scenes tour lets fans visit some of the most restricted and non-public areas and view the Stadium from a whole new perspective.
Weekends and second Tuesdays: Eureka! Learn how to pan for gold, just like the 49ers did during the California gold rush, at an outdoor re-creation of a miner’s panning station.
July 14 – August 13: The OC Fair is offers 23 days of food, rides, exhibits, animals, music, action sports, concerts and fun!
Weekends, May 27 – June 18 and daily, June 24 – September 4: Splash Pad water features include ten-foot-tall pelicans, palm trees and sea horses.
March 19 – September 4: The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA) has re-designed and re-built its popular outdoor Butterfly Pavilion exhibit.
June 30 – September 3: Kids can take a spin at the potter’s wheel, see a glass-blowing demonstration, or take a seat in the Children’s Art Spot (4+) or Studio One (7+) to try painting, printmaking, collages and other types of art.
June 1 – August 15: Many libraries offer homework help, including academic workshops and story times. Plus, join the Summer Reading Program, June 1 – August 15. Young readers (kids and teens) at most Los Angeles County and Orange County libraries will enjoy a “Build a Better World” theme.
June 19 – August 11: Kids (6-12) can drop in weekdays for a variety of crafts.
June 15 – August 19: Bring picnics, blankets, chairs and warm clothes to these family friendly performances of “The Taming of the Shrew” and “MacBeth.”
July 5 – August 31: For over 80 years, this famous festival has featured multimedia art exhibits, demonstrations, workshops for adults and kids, art tours, live music and food for sale.
July 1-31: Take a guided wagon ride around the farm, stop at different areas and try different summer fruits and vegetables, and finally step into the melon patch to sample delicious home grown melon.
July 28-30: Now in its 23nd year, the Long Beach Crawfish Festival combines the best Cajun, Zydeco and New Orleans music, tons of fresh crawfish prepared Louisiana style, a giant food court, children’s stage, bounce houses, karaoke lounge and more.
Thursdays, April 6 – November 7: The Fullerton Market is the place to come and enjoy fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables, handcrafted artisan products, live music and entertainment, plus crafts and activities at the Kids’ Korner and food vendors.
Fridays: Every Friday night is Date Night with Frogg’s Bounce House. Drop the kids off and enjoy a night out!
Daily: Kids Bowl Free returns for its 9th summer! Kids across North America can bowl for free all summer long at one of 1,200+ participating bowling centers.
July 28: Head over to the library, pull up a seat and enjoy this very special magic show with Arthur Trace!
June 19 – August 24: Bring a lawn chair, blanket, picnic style dinner and the whole family for screenings of family-friendly movies all summer long, at neighborhood parks across Long Beach.
Fridays: This fun tournament is open to all K-6th graders and includes three hours of chess, pizza and juice, plus trophies for the top four players in each age group!
May 16 – September 5: Kids read any eight books, record them, and bring the completed journal to any Barnes & Noble store to receive a free book.
July 27-30: This 4-day event will feature tons of discounted baby, children and maternity clothes, room decor, toys, furnishings, shoes, books, outdoor equipment and more.
July 1 – August 5: Set in mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic musical comedy that takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
July 26-30: Experience the raw power and car-crushing fury of some of the world’s most awe-inspiring monster trucks.
Fridays, July 7 – August 18: Bring a lawn chair or blanket for comfy after-dusk viewing of favorite family films.
June 2 – September 30: Spread out your blanket or set up your beach chairs for a free family movie in the sand.
July 7 – August 31: Where art comes to life, the pageant features 90 minutes of “living pictures” – incredibly faithful art re-creations of classical and contemporary works with real people.
Ongoing: Join the Halos for a behind-the-scenes tour of baseball’s fourth-oldest stadium, including areas normally restricted to the public.
July 28: Let your kids (3+) cook up some fun while you get a night on the town! For all of our Cool Cats and Chicks- wear your favorite 50’s threads and join us for our Sock Hop bash.
Fridays: Etnies Skatepark marks its 10th year of hosting all-ages concerts, featuring some of SoCal’s great skate bands.
Monday and Friday: Join Los Angeles Museum of Art in The Boone Children’s Gallery, located in the Hammer Building.
Friday – Sunday: Visit a large-scale permanent craft marketplace in classic World War II-era waterside warehouses, plus creation stations, printmaking workshops, daily demonstrations, live music, special events and food trucks.
Fridays: Binge-watch anime during Teen Anime Club every first and third Friday, and see popular and not-so-popular films during Teen Flicks every second and fourth Friday (ages 13+).
July 14 and 28, August 11 and 25: Awaken your senses with great music, hands-on garden and science projects, botanical tours, food trucks and more.
Last Friday: Parents drop kids off for a night of cooking.
Daily: A monthly calendar of story times, crafts, homework help and family-friendly events at libraries in the Orange County library system.
Daily: A monthly calendar of family-friendly hikes, walks, tours and more at parks in the Orange County Parks system.
Every other Friday: They turn off the lights, crank up the music with special-effects lighting, so families can have their disco bouncing fun.
June 20 – July 28: In celebration of the Autry’s new Play! exhibition, enjoy four square, hula hoops, checkers, cards, and more.
July 14-29: A special birthday salute to America, featuring short stories, poems, songs and essays by American writers and songwriters.
Friday and Saturday: They turn down the lights, turn up the music and fire up the lasers and strobes. Enjoy access to all the attractions at the park The price of admission covers the entire duration of Cosmic Nights.
June 27 – August 4: Celebrate 107 years of the Long Beach Municipal Band! Come out with your family and friends for music under the stars.
May 19 and July 28: During this free carseat education class presented by AAA, learn about occupant-protection laws, how to select the right seat, how to correctly secure your child in a seat and installation tips.
Fridays: Kids (7+) join Fashion Camp every Friday for a fun sewing workshop.
Fourth Fridays: For teens with their own sewing machines, who are dying to learn new techniques, sew age appropriate projects and make new friends!
Thursdays, June 15 – August 3: Enjoy eight evenings of live music presented by some of the coolest jazz artists in the Southland, including both bright newcomers and fan favorites from seasons past.
Weekdays, July 10 – August 31: Bring out that creative spark at the Festival of Arts. Kids (5-12) can enjoy art classes taught by professional festival artists in mixed-media, jewelry making, collage and more.
June 12 – August 18: Watch a different kid-favorite movie each week all summer long at Harkins Theatres.
May 13 – August 6: The Butterfly Pavilion unites science education and hands-on fun for visitors of all ages. Hundreds of butterflies call the temporary enclosure home during the spring and summer.
Tuesdays and Fridays: Kids (3-5) and their parents join a themed storytime with rhymes and songs (at least three books), and a craft or science experiment.
July 25, 26, 27 and 28: Does your child have a favorite Superhero? Party Karacters lead superhero training workshops where each week will be taught by a different superhero and sidekick (sidekick will be added if over 10 children register).
July 14 – August 18: Join us for our summer movie night series in the park. Bring a blanket or low-back chair and sit under the night sky while enjoying a family-friendly movie!
Through October: Free family-friendly concerts will be held in parks, outdoor amphitheatres, community centers, libraries and museums throughout LA County featuring a variety of artists.
Wednesday and Friday: Kids (3-5) and their family join the engaging, imaginative, and themed adventures of improvisational storytelling.
Fridays and Saturdays: All ages Glow Night Includes front of the line admission to all activities, unlimited admission to the Game Zone that includes over 20 digital games, GLOW Dunk contests and GLOW Bull Riding Contests!
May 14 – September 10: The exhibition introduces animals many visitors have never heard of or seen. Including rare fossils and specimens from around the world, vivid reconstructions, animated computer interactives, and hands-on activities.
July 21-23 and 28-30: Believe in the wonder of live theatre again with performances of “The Little Mermaid” by Musical Theatre Orange County.
July 5-7, 12-14, 19-21, and 26-28: Enjoy free art activities and crafts in our Gallery.
Friday and Saturday: It’s cosmic night every Friday (9 p.m. midnight) and Saturday (8-11 p.m.). Enjoy the color laser light show and party music while playing dodgeball, dunking basketballs or freestyling on the main court.
May 27 – September 4: For the first time ever, Disney Junior has partnered with a museum to create an exhibit based on one of its most beloved characters!
June 24 – July 29: Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Seussical is fun for the whole family!
May 22 – September 4: With a Cerritos Lanes summer games pass, you can bowl 3 games every day, all season long, for one low price.
June 3 – August 18: The County of Orange and OC Parks are pleased to present the summer movie series for 2017!
June 19 – August 26: Sign up for our Summer Discovery Program. Read books and complete activities throughout the summer to earn incentives.
June 23, July 28 and August 25: Treat your kids to a fun, interactive, and educational event they will love!
Fridays: Work with fishy friends to keep the beaches clean as we learn about ocean stewardship with a focus on developing our prosocial skills!
Fridays: A fun hour for babies, toddlers, and their families filled with stories, songs, and playtime.
Fridays: English and Spanish introduction to computers, using the Internet and MS word.
July 13 and 28: Need ideas or support to make your child’s potty training a success? Learn tips and techniques to ensure a successful, positive experience.
July 5-30: Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, Hairspray is an uplifting story about integration on a local TV dance show for all ages.
July 27 – August 13: This summer the Gamble House will once again open its servants’ quarters for exclusive “Upstairs Downstairs” tours.
Fridays, July 14 – August 25: Put some fun into your Fridays. Whether taking your date on a balloon ride or an evening stroll with the family, these trendy lawn games are a perfect addition to your evening at the Great Park.
July 14-30: Batter Up! The All-American and Tony Award winning hit “Damn Yankees” is coming to Westminster this month.
July 28: Come see as this classic fairy tale is brought alive on stage by the Mainstage Players. Watch as a spoiled princess befriends a frog who magically turns into a handsome prince!
July 24-28 and August 7-11: Unleash every child’s tech passion through the different creative spaces at Build It Workspace.
Through September 3: Celebrate art with 125 fine artists and artisans at the Laguna Art-A-Fair, one of California’s summer art destinations.
July 22 – August 6: Come down to the Discovery Cube for a live action stage show will take viewers on a journey through different stages of “the impossible.”

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New data from Skyscanner has revealed the cheapest months to visit New Zealand, with savings of up to 40 per cent on fares for those with flexible travel dates.
Australians will be able to travel to New Zealand without having to quarantine from 11:59 pm on Sunday April 18, Ms Ardern said Tuesday afternoon.
"If a case is found that is quite clearly linked to a border worker in a quarantine facility and is well contained, you'll likely see travel continue in the same way as you could see life continue if that happened here in Australia", said the New Zealand PM.
This marks the first time Australians will be allowed to travel outside the country quarantine-free and without the need for exemptions.
Qantas is now updating its timetable to ramp up travel between Sydney and Auckland and will offer Frequent Flyers uncapped Classic Flight Reward seats for the first three days of travel when the borders open.
Those coming from Australia will be on planes exclusively for Australians, Ms Ardern said.
'If there is a hot spot in one of the states of Australia we may just act in the same way that another state would, with just limitation of people to come in and out of our borders until that issue is resolved'. This will be made possible because up to 1,300 rooms will be freed up with the creation of the bubble. "Just prepare that there may be disruptions".
"With the strategy that we have had, it has meant that the vaccine for us hasn't been a question of life and death in the same way it has in other parts of the world".
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Ardern has also outlined situations in which the travel bubble would remain in-tact, as well as situations in which it would be paused.
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This page lists quotes about Michael’s shows, his CDs, and the “Songs and Stories” podcast:
- Hey Karma (2017)
- Lump of Coal (2014)
- Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night (2012)
- Dogspeed (2009)
- Spotted Mule & Other Tales (2006)
- The Songs and Stories Podcast
“Michael Gaither makes toe tappin’ music that makes you think….and smile!!!!
(Wesley Robertson, KVMR 88.9 FM, Grass Valley CA)
“Michael draws the audience into the music through his intelligent, sophisticated lyrics about common everyday subjects to which we can all relate. He sounds like Bob Dylan, if Dylan was born in Texas and moved to Santa Cruz”.
(Ruby Slippers, KVMR-FM 88.9 FM, Nevada City CA)
“Michael and his band gave us a priceless night we will never forget.”
(Marky Starks, Canyon Acoustic House Concerts, Prunedale CA )
“We have had the great pleasure of having Michael play at our facility for years. Our guests love to sit back, sip wine, and enjoy the music that he and his band put together. They play music with lyrics that are both fun and entertaining for people of all ages.”
(Annette Hunt, Roudon-Smith Winery, Scotts Valley CA)
“Michael is a writer with a keen eye for detail and a gentle sense of humor.”
(Larry Kelly, Maverick Country [UK])
“I have often thought that the hardest songs to write concern everyday life. Michael Gaither is a singing storyteller in the style of Tom T. Hall and Roger Miller with a heaping dash of Lyle Lovett in the mix.”
(Uncleshag, The Longtown Sound Podcast and WLSO FM)
“Warm, often hilarious Americana folk tinged with the occasional country beat…with autobiographical lyrics that teeter on the edge between profundity and sentimental simplicity.”
(Joshua Farber, coverlaydown.com)
On “Hey Karma” (2017)
“Michael Gaither might be the John Prine of Silicon Valley. He sings about love, life and society at the South end of the bay with a twinkle in his eye and an ear for telling detail. His sweet, smart lyrics come from a place wholly his own. I get a real kick from songs like Best of Breed Romance and It’s Nothing Personal (The Layoff Song). On first listen, I laughed out loud as he gently skewers the corporate speak and emotional callowness of tech culture where people forget how to be people and you can tell it by the way they talk. Not to worry though, these songs are here as a fine reminder.
Michael’s satire has a special charm, too, because you get the sense that he likes people too much to be bitter even as he sings about heartbreaking behavior that’s become unbearably normal.”
(Mark Buchanan, Creative Marketing and Communications Leader, Accomplished Brand Strategist)
Michael Gaither’s latest release, Hey Karma, is an eleven-track collection that features guitars, banjos, and mandolins lovingly bringing to life tunes about life, love and things in between. Gaither goes nostalgic on the lead track, Mix Tape – which with its light percussion and bluesy backdrop proclaims the joys of making that little plastic soundtrack – as well as Tuesday Nights At Eight (Song for Red Skelton) while nice harmonies are found on “Outside the Gates of Graceland” a song that envisions searching for a dream. Different angles of love can be found on It’s Nothing Personal (The Layoff Song), the smartly written, harmonica-laden Best of Breed Romance and the delightfully sweet Somewhere I Went Right. Other tracks on the album include a subdued version on Warren Zevon’s Lawyers, Guns, and Money, the title track which calls on karma to take care of the ones who are in line to get their due and the thoughtful On Saturday and Sunday.
(Tara Joan, thedailycountry.com)
On “Lump of Coal” (2014)
“What I love about Michael is his natural ability to tell a good story in song and relate to his audience. There is a sublime humour in much of what he writes and the accompaniment uncluttered, allowing his voice to take full command. Christmas isn’t yet with us but Michael’s version of the time-honoured ‘Go Tell It On The Mountain’, with delightful banjo clopping away in the background, will be featured on my Somer Valley 97.5FM ‘special’ during December, as will ‘The Krampus Comes Out Tonight’. The new EP. ‘Lump Of Coal’, exceeds all expectations, with three ‘Holiday Tunes’ and three ‘Live Solo Tracks’ – but don’t just take my word for it, go buy it!!! (Bryan Chalker, Somer Valley 97.5FM, Somer UK)
“I’d welcome this “Lump of Coal” in my stocking! This glows with the warmth of holiday good tidings. My favorite tune is “Entertaining an Angel”, closely followed by “Black Fridays Eve” “Krampus” is also fun, yet dark! I plan on playing this on my show.” (David Howard, KVMR Radio, Nevada City, CA)
“Michael Gaither’s new CD, ‘Lump of Coal’ is a nice addition to anyone’s holiday music collection. Listening to Michael’s songs is like having a friend tell you a story; a friend who is honest, witty, has a way with words and a wonderful, pleasing voice that makes it a joy to listen to.” (Jackie Locken, KKUP Radio, Cupertino CA)
On “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night” (2012)
“Michael Gaither’s new release, “Starlite Drive In Saturday Night,” is a brilliant and unique contribution to the field of Folk/Americana. It means something extra special to those of us on the oft-neglected left coast. “Starlite…” contains several gems, including the dog/wolf story “Charlie and Chloe” which made me cry. This is an album that shifts back and forth in time from the very contemporary “She’s More Connected” to the nostalgic title track. It grows with every repeated listening and does not have a bad track. Buy it and wear it out.”
(David Stafford, KKUP Radio, Cupertino CA)
“Michael Gaither is an up-and-coming Americana singer/songwriter from Watsonville, CA, near Santa Cruz, and Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night is his third release. The insightful songs written by Michael are a love letter to his hometown, Watsonville, where he has lived his whole life. (KPIG, in nearby Freedom, has been playing this cd quite a bit.) The songs are snapshots of the town’s characters and stories, some past (the title track mourns the closing of the local drive-in movie theater), and some very present (Now It’s a Taqueria, Still a Small Town, and She’s More Connected, the latter co-written with Steve Kritzer). Michael has a such a natural storyteller’s approach to his material (not to mention a warm voice) that even the cover of the Warren Zevon’s Don’t Let Us Get Sick sounds like a song he wrote. Soulful, heartwarming and genuine, the cd’s a real pleasure to listen to and provides much food for thought.”
(Doug Kelly, KDRT, Davis CA)
“Michael Gaither does it again. Evocative lyrics, humor, heart-tugging, and stellar musicianship make ‘Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night’ a tasty treat. Now I want a taco.”
(Natalie Davis, Grateful Dread Radio)
“Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night” is an impressive combination of music and words, with the “different” use of music within some of the tracks, giving it an unusual but nice charactoristic style. Great Work, and looking forward to the next release.
(Graham Barclay, Hawke’s Bay’s Soundwave FM, 87.8 and 107.7, New Zealand)
“Michael’s song ["Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night"] is a sweet marriage of nostalgia and modern story telling. A perfect soundtrack to have playing as you pull up to any one of the few but proud remaining drive-ins across the nation.” (Josh Frank, owner, Blue Starlite Drive-in, Austin TX)
“Love it! Intelligent and clever songs along with a killer band!”
(Cindy Haden, foothillsartsandmusic.com)
On “Dogspeed” (2009)
“I have this CD and also “Spotted Mule…”. I love the way Michael crafts his lyrics and speaks about everyday stuff that you wouldn’t think to make into a song.”
(CD Baby customer)
“A great CD talking about everyday life, memories, musings and a poke at those jerks who talk on their cell phones while driving (“Hang it Up”). There is something that everyone can relate to on this CD.”
(Phil Peretz, Indie4Life)
“Thanks for your insightful musical compositions. As a Trucker driving local in Washington for going on 33 years now, it’s nice to hear my daily inner commentary put to song.”
(Wild West Radio listener on the song “Hang It Up”)
On “Spotted Mule and Other Tales” (2006)
“A brilliant debut CD from Michael Gaither. A fine blend of folk, bluegrass, alternative country and Americana in its purest sense. Aside from the strong songwriting ability and Slaid Cleaves-style vocals, Michael surrounds himself with very strong and multi-talented musicians.
(Jeff Scammon, Wild West Radio/KVMR FM, Nevada City)
“If you are looking to add some toe tappin’ music to your mule ride or porch sittin’, check out Michael’s CD’s. Shoot, play his songs for your mule. Your mule will thank you!
(Deb Kidwell, Lake Nowhere Mule and Donkey Farm, Martin TN)
“Album of the Week for May 21 2007″: Michael Gaither, “Spotted Mule and Other Tales”
(Eddie O’Strange, Town & Country Radio [New Zealand])
“Highway 17 roadtrippin’ sarcasm and storytelling from the local Americana singer/songwriter.”
(Good Times Santa Cruz)
On the “Songs and Stories” podcast
“Grateful Dread Public Radio is proud to have Michael Gaither’s Songs and Stories on our station. Michael produces an interesting podcast program that entertains and enlightens, and the music and musicians featured are favorites with our listeners. Michael is consistent, hard-working, knowledgeable and creative, and the combination—with the music—is a winner. Then again, so is Michael.”
(Natalie Davis, Grateful Dread Radio)
“I host a weekly independent music podcast called “The Great American Music Hour” and have played Michael’s music on my show before. “Songs and Stories” is a very cool podcast in that it illuminates the songwriting process from the songwriter’s point of view. If you are a fan of great American music, you will thoroughly enjoy this show”.
(Jerry Jodice, host, The Great American Music Hour)


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Complex Coloring Printables
Complex coloring printables are provided to study coloring skills—not the skill of staying between the lines, but the skills of the use of color in design.
Teen and Up
These are like Quilts
A simpler beginning to color use in design would be found in this Sonic the Hedgehog™ drawing. I drew this for my children years ago and handed it to them. I challenged them to color it based on certain guidelines. I can't remember what I said to them now, it was so long ago. To show them, I colored one and mine is the one pictured. When they were finished, it was obvious to me that they needed further study in this field or they were too young for the assignment. At the time they were 7 and 10.

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The conditions at Tesla’s production facility leading up to meeting its Model 3 production goal have been reported as nothing short of hellish as Elon Musk "barked" at employees working 12 hour shifts, bottlenecking other parts of the company's production and reportedly causing concern by employees that the long hours and strenuous environment would cause even more workplace injuries and accidents.
Some Tesla analysts and bulls seemed surprised that the company's stock fell on Monday, even after the company was able to report at the end of the weekend that it had not only reached its 5,000 Model 3 per week goal, but also that it had produced 7,000 vehicles overall. “I think we just became a real car company,” Musk wrote in an e-mail to his employees after meeting the goal for one week.
This led to a nearly 30 point swing in the price of Tesla stock during trading on Monday and further declines today. The stock opened and was quickly over $360 per share before it ultimately faded, gave up all of its gains and went on to finish the day red by several percent. Perhaps this quick loss of confidence was a result of investors finally reading behind the surface level headlines.
Sure, Tesla was able to produce 5,000 Model 3's in a week, but at what cost? Skeptics and bears had asked what the point of meeting the 5,000 per work goal was if it must be done in an “all hands on deck“ fashion that is going to burn out employees and bottleneck other parts of the production line. For instance, it's now being reported that the company's Model S line is 800 cars behind schedule.
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that this is basically exactly what happened. In addition, they reported that a “short tempered“ Elon Musk personally oversaw production and “snapped“ at employees who were told that that weekend work days were mandatory and that 12 hour shifts should be expected.
The article stated:
A tense and short-tempered Chief Executive Elon Musk barked at engineers on the Fremont, California assembly line. Tesla Inc pulled workers from other departments to keep pumping out the Model 3 electric sedans, disrupting production of the Model S and X lines. And weekend shifts were mandatory.
Leading up to Sunday morning’s production milestone, Musk paced the Model 3 line, snapping at his engineers when the around-the-clock production slowed or stopped due to problems with robots, one worker said. Tesla built a new line in just two weeks in a huge tent outside the main factory, an unprecedented move in an industry that takes years to plan out its assembly lines, and said the tented production area accounted for 20 percent of the Model 3s produced last week.
“They were borrowing people from our line all day to cover their (Model 3) breaks so the line would continue to move,” said a Model S worker on Sunday.
Because of the focus on the Model 3, the S line is about 800 cars behind, the worker said.
“They’ve been throwing Model 3s ahead of the S to get painted to try to assure that they make their goal of 5,000,” the worker said. “The paint department can’t handle the volume.”
Employees were told that 12-hour days, 6-days-a-week would be expected. The company even re-wrote its attendance policy to make exceptions as to when they had to notify employees that they would be working weekends. We can't help but wonder what impact this has had on morale:
Last week’s big push also brought a rewrite of the employee attendance policy. After mandatory weekend shifts were assigned, two workers said, Tesla rescinded a policy promising workers at least one week’s notice before weekend work.
“The manager and supervisor are verbally going around and saying: ‘If you don’t come in, you’ll be written up’,” one of the workers told Reuters last week.
Some employees are worried the frenetic pace plus long hours could burn out workers. One employee said they were told to keep working until they met their daily production mark, not when their shifts ended.
“They said starting tomorrow be prepared to work up to 12 hours,” said the Model S employee on Monday. “It’s gonna be basically 12 hours from now on and I’ve got a feeling it’s gonna be six days a week.”
Confirming an earlier Reuters report from late last week, Reuters again noted that the influx of new vehicles at a high rate bottlenecked the company's paint shop, despite CEO Elon Musk responding to these allegations last week by Instagramming a relatively meaningless photograph of the company's paint shop as if to say “hey, everything is fine."
Reuters reported that this bottleneck could threaten the company's annual total production goals:
Disruption of the Model S and X lines could threaten Tesla’s target of building 100,000 of those vehicles in 2018. Tesla built 49,489 of those cars in the first half of this year.
Asked about the potential S and X impact, Tesla said it also produced 1,913 of those vehicles during the last week of the quarter along with its Model 3s.
Tesla said it built a total of 28,578 Model 3s in the second quarter, and 40,989 since production began last July.
The hellish week of production seems to have taken its toll on employees, at least going by reports of what they told Reuters. The article notes that employees believe that the strenuous hours and the nonstop work will eventually burn out the staff, if it hasn’t already, and will lead to increased injuries and Musk "going through an awful lot of people". In addition, with just one week's run of 5,000 Model 3's behind them, Tesla is now giving some of the line a break for the Fourth of July holiday:
In the morning of Sunday, July 1, about five hours after the self-imposed second-quarter deadline had passed, the number 5,000 flashed on a countdown screen viewed by Tesla’s Model 3 assembly-line workers. The Model 3 itself bore a “5,000” sign in its front window.
Tesla said on Monday that some of its Model 3 production would be on break as part of the July 4 holiday, with production to resume on Thursday. Tesla plans to build 6,000 Model 3s per week by August.
But the worker told to expect longer shifts warned that pushing assembly-line workers too hard could backfire.
“He (Musk) is gonna go through an awful lot of people because people are gonna start getting hurt left and right,” by the fast-moving assembly line, the worker said.“There’s only so fast a person can move.”
Tesla had released a production update early Monday claiming that it had met its 5,000 car per week a goal by “factory gating“ 5000 Model 3s and 7000 total cars over the course of a week.
As one astute observer noticed on Twitter, however, the time from reserving your Model 3 to getting it delivered has shrunk. This seems to indicate that the pool of orders waiting to be filled on the Model 3 is also starting to shrink.
This was last week. Which proves that Tesla estimate is dynamically tied to current production. pic.twitter.com/qNODsKyH3s— Vu Nguyen (@vucanthi) July 2, 2018
For now, the company technically has “hit its goal“ - but are we going to find out soon that the price that they paid for it in terms of not only overtime, but also production facility inefficiency and employee well-being, wasn’t worth it? The market already seems to think so.


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Researchers engaged in the study of structural geology and tectonics, which relates to the properties of the Earth's crust, will be given the opportunity to debate geological aspects of the climate change technology, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), at a special event being held in Edinburgh this week. And the organisers are also inviting a wider audience.
Prof Iain Stewart, who is perhaps best known for presenting high-profile TV science programmes, will chair the session and a number of CCS experts – including Prof Stuart Haszeldine, of the University of Edinburgh, Dr Bill Spence from Shell and the University of Strathclyde's Dr Jennifer Roberts – will set the scene before the debate begins.
The chain of technologies referred to as CCS captures carbon dioxide emissions from anthropogenic sources, such as power plants and industrial facilities, and stores them permanently in geological storage sites deep below ground. The world's first large-scale CCS project at a coal-fired power plant began operating in Canada last October, and design is under way on two commercial-scale projects in the UK.
The annual meeting of the Tectonic Studies Group, the UK's top event for research into structural geology and tectonics, is being held this year at the University of Edinburgh. The three-day event showcases a wide range of research alongside opportunities for discussion, including a "Question Time" debate on CCS technology during Day Two. The meeting has been jointly organised by the University of Edinburgh, British Geological Survey, the National Museum of Scotland and Heriot-Watt University.
The Question Time on CCS takes place at the university's King's Buildings campus on Wednesday 7 January from 11.20am, and members of the public are invited to take part. No registration is required. More event details: www.sccs.org.uk/events/question-time-on-ccs-tectonic-studies-group-2015
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In the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, students of a private school offered special prayers for those who lost their lives in the Uttarakhand glacier burst and also prayed for the safety of others who still remain to be rescued.
At Shiksha Niketan School some students held placards while others stood with folded hands, offering prayers.
Nandita Saini, a student, said: “We have gathered here to offer prayers for the people who have lost their lives following the Uttarakhand glacier burst. May their souls rest in peace.”
Teachers also joined the students on Monday morning in the school compound.
“I am really worried about the people who went missing, their families must be in a panic right now. I just hope they will be rescued at the soonest. We have gathered here to pray for all of them,” said Madhav Verma, another student.
In the Indian state of Uttarakhand, a glacier burst in the Tapovan-Reni area of Chamoli District on Sunday which led to massive flooding in Dhauliganga and Alaknanda rivers and damaged houses and the nearby Rishiganga power project.
Around 203 people are missing and 11 dead bodies have been recovered as of now, according to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister has announced ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakhs each to the kin of those who lost their lives.


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CREMATORIUM ANNOUNCE LAST SHOW WITH GUITARIST MARK UEHLEIN
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CREMATORIUM, the Los Angeles purveyors of "Murdercore," has announced that guitarist and longest standing member, Mark Uehlein, will be leaving the band for personal reasons. His last show with CREMATORIUM will be this Saturday, February 27th at The Blvd in Los Angeles, CA.
Vocalist Daniel Dismal commented on the subject: "This Saturday night is going to be Mark's last show ever with CREMATORIUM. Mark has dedicated a lot of blood and sweat into playing with CREMATORIUM since 1996 and in many ways, CREMATORIUM would not have done as much as we have as a band if it was not for Mark's involvement with the band. It's a sad day to watch Mark leave but we want to give him a proper send off and let him know just how much he will be missed and how much he's actually given to the underground Metal scene as a whole."
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CHP buys barn and land
In December 2023, the Community Harvest Project (CHP) purchased the acreage the organization has farmed for more than two decades. The land was previously leased from Ken Crater and Peg Ferraro who were among the founders of the non-profit farming organization that works with volunteers to grow fruits and vegetables for hunger relief.
The pair offered the property to CHP last year which paid $800,000 for two parcels at 33 and 37 Wheeler Road.
The land is held under a conservation restriction that prevents commercial development. Community Harvest Project (CHP) is a non-profit farm. A total of 15 acres was acquired in a capital campaign without a lot of fanfare and with grants, CHP Executive Director Tori Buerschaper said.
Over $600,000 came from grants by six foundations and the remainder was fundraised by CHP board members from a dozen donors who wish to remain anonymous.
If asking for money sounds like easy work, it isn’t. There’s more “nose to the grindstone” than you might think.
“There were a number of discussions upfront to make it so we had an invitation, so we don’t just out of the blue, just make an application for multiple hundred thousands of dollars. There are many conversations that happen ahead of time,” said Buerschaper, attributing the majority fundraising to the CHP board.
Together with the CHP’s grant writer, Buerschaper worked to pull together some smaller grants. The fundraising goal was reached in December, the same month they closed on the property, she said.
There are no plans for changes to the property’s uses. It’s the security that comes with owning the land that allows for more forward thinking, she said.
“So we are undergoing a strategic planning process, “ Buerschaper said.
A strategic planning group held its first meeting on February 8 and through that process Community Harvest will consider what changes may be made in the future to its programs.
“We are planning to continue farming with volunteers,” she reassured. “What is different is that in the past, we had a landlord who was the one managing not all of the building projects, but a number of them. So now that is our responsibility, but also we have a little bit more freedom.”
What CHP is doing right now is better assessing the cost of barn maintenance and upkeep, especially now that we are owners, said Buerschaper. They’re looking at a roof replacement in the next decade as well as redoing the parking lot.
“I’m taking more time understanding the cost and scope of projects like this and then building them into our operating budget and our fundraising plan,” she said.
More than another type of organization, CHP is extremely reliant on the land on which it sits on to execute its programs, she said.
“That familiarity is a huge asset to us. Especially when it comes to farming, it’s not just familiarity, it’s our ability to steward year to year and really care for the soil in a way that makes our faming successful and sustainable,” she said.
“We see this as a huge vote of confidence from our founder Ken that we continue to execute the vision he has had. This is a sign that we are here to stay and continue providing our services and to do it in a way that we can make those long term plans and adapt as needed.”
According to its website, CHP produce is distributed to partner organizations like traditional food banks, pantries for medically-tailored meal programs as well as free fridges so fresh produce can reach people where they are.
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Once again all eyes are on London for the annual BRITS awards. Tonight has been the best of recent years, with up and coming acts gracing the red carpet with their fresh take on individual style. These included Aluna Francis of AlunaGeorge who looked divine wearing a sheer pink ensemble from Antonio Berardi as well her performance outfit, white shorts, white bra with long line sheer white t shirt. Singer-songwriter Chlöe Howl wore a black feathered number with contrasting cut out black boots. Iggy Azalea stunned in a red Elie Saab cut out gown with minimal accessories and hair in a subdued up-do.
Some of my personal highlights included presenter Laura Whitmore wearing a Hasan Hejazi red metallic shift with sheer sleeves and cut out sides, London Grammar’s Hannah Reid looked glowing in a black Elie Saab gown, Fearne Cotton stunned in a silver metallic and sheer dress, as well as Lily Allen’s presenting dress House of Holland from the Autumn Winter 2014 collection and of course Beyoncé performed in a floor length glittering green gown that perfectly accentuated her silhouette from Vrettos Vrettakos. From these celebs choices we can bet that metallics and sequins are a key trend that is here to stay!
Not forgetting the boys of the night, Tinie Tempah and Pharrell Williams were competing for best dressed man in music wearing a sparkling smooth textured Dolce & Gabbana suit jacket with velvet slippers and a dark metallic Lanvin suit and dickie bow tie respectively. The show openers Arctic Monkeys looked polished in their dapper suits, including tartan check as well as velvet for their suit jackets. Nick Grimshaw mixed casual faded black jeans with his shiny spotted Gucci suit jacket and leopard print scarf. Labrinth stood out with his beautiful embroidered jacket from Louis Vuitton. All in all, a great night for fashion and music.


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After a rigorous selection process, the Lakewood School Board has named Dr. Erin Murphy as its new superintendent. Murphy is currently the Deputy Superintendent for Bainbridge Island School District. The Board approved Murphy’s appointment in a unanimous vote on Friday, April 28, 2023. She is scheduled to begin on July 1, 2023.
Murphy was selected from a large pool of well-qualified applicants. Three finalists visited the district this week, touring schools, meeting with staff, students, and community members, and leading a public forum.
Lakewood School Board President Sandy Gotts said the work in selecting a new superintendent was a collaboration between community, staff, students and the School Board. “The Lakewood Community came up strong in their support during the selection process and their involvement was vital to the process. We had some very strong candidates and it was a thoughtful, intense decision by the Lakewood School Board, but we knew we had the right fit with Dr. Erin Murphy,” she said.
Murphy will oversee the daily operations of the Lakewood School District, including management of its approximately $40 million budget, more than 300 employees, five schools, and numerous programs and partnerships.
Gotts said, “Dr. Murphy’s overall experience, connection to community, and approach to teaching and learning is exactly what Lakewood needs in a superintendent.”
Murphy will take over the superintendent position from Superintendent Scott Peacock who announced that he is stepping down at the end of this school year.
“Students are at the heart of all work in the Lakewood School District,” Murphy said. “I look forward to joining this amazing community and am honored and excited to serve as your next superintendent.”


The incidents of women being victims of domestic violence may be prevalent on a large scale but the cases of men being at the receiving end of such domestic violence are also being reported, according to an analysis by the Madhya Pradesh Police.
As per the figures, collected by the MP Police under a separate category of ‘wives beating husbands’ in the domestic violence segment, based on complaints received on its ‘Dial-100’ service, over 800 men faced domestic violence in the state in the last four months.
The Dial-100 is an emergency service of the state police to help people in distress. However, the ‘cruelty by husbands’ towards their wives is still a reality with about 22,000 such complaints received in the state during the past four months, a sociologist said.
“So far, we were counting all domestic violence cases under one head. So, the cases of violence by wives against their husbands were also counted as a part of it,” Hemant Sharma, the public relations officer of the Dial-100 service, told PTI. The police segregated the data and formed a new category out of it, of ‘wives beating husbands’, around four months back as till then, they did not have any concrete figures of such complaints, he said.
“Since this category was formed in January this year, 802 men made calls in the last four months to the Dial-100 service seeking police’s help after facing the wrath of their wives,” he said. As per the data, 158 such cases were reported in January, 179 in February, 212 in March and 253 in April.
The state’s commercial hub Indore reported the highest number of 72 such cases, while in the state capital Bhopal 52 men complained to the police against their wives. However, over 22,000 complaints under ‘husbands beating wives’ category were reported in the January-April period. Of these, 2,115 complaints were from Indore and 1,546 from Bhopal, according to the police figures.
Arvind Chouhan, the professor of social science at the Barkatullah University here, said new trends come to light in the society with the passage of time. “Women are getting aware about gender equality and their legal rights because these issues are now being publicised widely through different media platforms. Therefore, the women are resisting domestic violence,” he said. India has mostly been a patriarchal society and it is unfortunate that women have been the victims of violence, he rued.


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The fourth edition of Pakistan Super League is set to begin from February 2019 and preparations have now initiated to stage the country’s biggest sports event in a glamorous manner.
Some quite interesting additions to the draft are anticipated and the draft process is expected to be held in mid-Oct.
One of the modern-day greats, AB de Villiers hits the list of foreign players which will be released in the first week of next month.
Yesterday, Pakistan Super League revealed the categories of local players who participated in the third edition of the league. The list sees the promotion of players to higher categories as well as the relegation of players to lower categories.
The middle-order batsman Umar Akmal is demoted to Gold from Platinum for the fourth edition of Pakistan Super League.
The list sees the rise of youngsters like Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, and Babar Azam who have been in limelight recently due to their impressive stint for Pakistan cricket team in recent times.
The trio of Asif Ali, Shaheen Khan Afridi and Hussain Talat that made debut in international cricket this year, also watches their preferment in the list of players revealed.
The information about the local players who weren’t part of the third edition of the PSL and foreign players who would be available to pick in the draft is expected to be released in the coming days.
The management of the respective franchises can retain up to 10 players in their teams. They are allowed to trade their players with the players of other teams till the trade and retention window shuts.

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India is the third largest market for Swiss Military, which produces men’s lifestyle products, after Switzerland and Korea, the company’s managing director Anuj Sawhney said.
He said that due to the sheer size of India’s population, the brand has been to establish itself in the country by offering affordable men’s lifestyle products.
“We entered the Indian market in 2014. India is now the third largest market after Switzerland and Korea due to its population”, Sawhney told PTI.
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Beebe Medical Group recently welcomed board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Afua Nyanin, MD, to its Women’s Health crew. Nyanin will see clients at Beebe Women’s Wellbeing Plantations in Rehoboth Beach. To make an appointment, simply call (302) 480-1919.
“We are pleased to announce Dr. Afua Nyanin is signing up for our Women’s Well being crew to deliver needed obstetrical and gynecological treatment to our group,” said Stephen Keiser, VP, chief administrative officer, Beebe Health care Team. “Please welcome her to Sussex County and group Beebe as we function to proceed to increase entry to care in lots of areas of health care.”
Immediately after getting her undergraduate from Stanford University and clinical diploma at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical University in New Jersey, Nyanin concluded her OB/GYN residency at the University of Maryland Healthcare Middle in Baltimore and the West Virginia College/Charleston Region Healthcare Center.
Prior to joining Beebe, Nyanin worked at the Luminus Health and fitness Chesapeake Women’s Health and fitness in Easton, Md. She is a member of the American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists. She has several management and teaching experiences, as perfectly as revealed analysis and presentations. Her passions include integrative medication, sexual well being and infertility.
“I am really thrilled to be part of Beebe,” Nyanin stated. “I arrived here simply because of its household-like setting and obtain to sufferers and coworkers from all walks of life. I am passionate about the total wellbeing of women, such as our bodily, reproductive and psychological wellbeing, to identify a couple of areas. My philosophy is to address the total particular person.”
Nyanin joins Beebe Healthcare Team, which contains more than 20 specialty places of work in a lot more than 40 office environment areas in the course of Sussex County. When patients see suppliers that are inside of the Beebe Clinical Team, they can expertise seamless digital clinical correspondence between workplace visits, outpatient services and the hospital.
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The number of children under five who die each year has plummeted from 12 million in 1990, to 7.6 million last year, the UN says.
The fact that the World Health Organisation (WHO) sets apart August 1 to 7 every year as World Breastfeeding Week is indication that breastfeeding is, indeed, an unmatched way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants as well as an integral part of the reproductive process with important implications for the health of mothers.
A two-day 'National Conference on Youth in the 2011 Elections and Strategies for Improved Participation in the Democratic Process' organised by the International Republican Institute (IRI) in Abuja wound up with wide ranging observations, recommendations and demands.
Youths, under the aegis of National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) have tasked leadership at all levels to take proactive step in addressing issues of education, employment and youth participation in decision making processes.
Authorities in Kano, Nigeria, recently announced people would be jailed or fined for refusing to immunize their children against polio, as cases increase in the northern state, but it is unclear whether this approach is working.
Over 4 million girls, aged 6 - 11 do not attend school in Nigeria in spite of the fact that the country has made steady progress in primary school enrolment, Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina has said.
Child Trafficking in the Eastern part of Nigeria is a lucrative trade. In Nigeria, human trafficking ranks the third most common crime after financial fraud and drug trafficking. At least 10 children are sold every day across the country, according to the UN. Globally, the traffickers earn $33 billion yearly.
A recent survey, which shows that some Nigerian children have never attended school, is true but totally unacceptable, particularly when it has been established that literacy is a vital instrument for national development.
Mr Richard Taylor, father of 11 year old Damilola who was killed in Peckham, South London in 2000, has said that African children, mostly Nigerians, are continually being killed in London because they refuse to join gangs and deal in drugs.
A UK-based anti-child abuse charity organisation, AFRUCA, is working with UK groups to make branding of African children as witches a criminal offence in the United Kingdom.
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Yesterday we visited the Museo Prado and the Royal Palace located in Madrid. The Prado was pretty much a regular art museum there were some cool paintings but it was hot and we were really tired. We went to the Royal palace first and we really enjoyed it.The Royal Palace was more interesting and really pretty. It was built in 1738 I believe and it's where the royal family lives. The king and queen actually live somewhere else but they sometimes visit this and they hold banquets and a lot of parties there. It was decorated very ornately and all the ceilings were painted.
One of the street performers getting ready.
We also went to Plaza Mejor and went to a market which was our first interaction buying things! In the plaza there are tons and tons of street preformers! It is funny seeing all these different people dressed up and asking for money.
Today we went to Toledo which was GOREGOUS! It was so, so pretty. It was about an hour away and the views were amazing. We went to the cathedral and it was so cool. The inside was huge and had tons of stained glass and everything was decorated. It took 250 years to build and was sooo detailed. Toledo used to be the capital of Spain before Madrid. It is probably one of the most gorgeous places I have ever seen. Completely breathtaking.
The view of Toledo.
We also saw a Jewish temple and El Grecco's famous painting. Toledo was really fun and had great shopping. Kelly and I both bought a few things, we have to bring that Spainish fashion back to Ohio.
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The mystery is solved!
I'm glad to see this particular tech myth put to bed. You have to give it to WD for a clever marketing trick though...
There has been some confusion about whether Western Digital's IntelliPower technology varies a drive's rotation speed or not. Well, it doesn't. A WD spokesperson said that IntelliPower does not vary a drive's spin speed while it is in use. The drives have fixed spin speeds and these may vary with individual drive capacity …
Why should it really take more juice to spin at a faster speed? Once you're up to speed you're just fighting friction and no acceleration is involved.
I can understand seek speed making a difference because massive accelerations are involved and thus faster seeking means more power is needed. You could likely make power gains by reducing seek speed.
Morons will always assume bigger numbers mean better performance.
Why listen to a CD on a 1x CD player when you can listen on a 52x? That way it will only take a minute to listen to your favourite albums.
Want one racing stripe on your fiat scetiento? no, two will make it go twice as quick!
Want to get data from a 5400rpm HDD with 100MB read speed? no, it will come off much faster with a 7200rpm disk with 100MB read speed.......
On the other side of the coin are the marketing folks who come up with this bolony. Intellipower? Does it intelligently control the power? No, it is a fancy name that indicates the engineers have come to some kind of compromise with the design.....
Friction of any kind is proportional to the square of velocity, hence a 10k disc will require four times as much power to spin it as a 5000 RPM disc of the same design.
Seek speed makes no difference - this is mostly down to how long the head takes to move across the disc, not waiting for the right sector to come around.
Generally speaking, a faster rotation speed means faster data transfers, whatever the interface speed - think of everything as a bottle-neck, and you will get the picture.
A lot of the power used to keep a disc spinning is used to overcome air drag. The faster the disc spins, the greater the amount of drag which goes up as a cube of the speed although flat surfaces and discs are a bit amonalous in that respect.
As for using variable-speed discs, controlling the head height above the surface requires a particular disc speed to maintain the aircushion at the correct level for optimum data reading and writing, making a variable-speed drive very difficult to design and manufacture (it could be done with multiple hR/W heads designed for different rotational speeds but it wouldn't be cost-effective).
It's pretty much moot anyway as the move towards solid-state mass storage is growing apace and the time of rotating mass storage media is just about over.
Rob, you were right on the money until you talked about SSD taking over rotating media. They will both exist in parallel for many many years. The price performance per GB and reliability will keep spinning media around (yes you are right I said reliability!).
The big money will be in pulling these storage techs together with the controllers and everything else up the storage chain.
the difference is that you could be waiting longer for that 100MB to come round under the heads while the drive spins slowly.. rather than having it start to read much faster of a drive with a faster spin speed
especially since that 100mb is unlikely to be in one nice big continuous file
go look up rotational latency
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On behalf of the committee of the IMSS I am very pleased to bring you the first edition of ournewsletter ‘The Fragment’. The objective of the IMSS is to provide a forum for practitioners of Mass Spectrometry. To do this, a meeting of the IMSS isheld each year. This year’s meeting will be held on Wednesday the 13th of May in the Moran Red Cow Hotel, Dublin.
The purpose of this newsletter is to highlight new developments or interesting applications of Mass Spectrometry to the membership of the IMSS. We also maintain an up to date website (www.imss.ie) which provides contact information of the IMSS, details on committee membership, meeting information and links to areas of interest for users of mass spectrometry.
All of this takes a lot of effort and I would like to thank all those involved in the IMSS (past and present) who have kept and continue to keep the society and its activities going. I hope you enjoy the newsletter and if you would like to contribute please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org. We look forward to seeing you all in May.
On the 12th of November, 2014 a huge event occurred some 50 million miles from earth...a probe which had taken off from French Guyana in 2004 landed on comet 67P. While this event alone is fascinating, it is all the more intriguing to anyone with an interest in mass spectrometry as there was a GC-MS on-board.
The Rosetta mission, (named after the famous Rosetta Stone discovered and deciphered in part in 1799) concerns a robotic probe built and launched by the European Space Agency. Along with Philae, its lander module, Rosetta is pre-forming a detailed study of comet 67P. The Philae lander is comprised of 9 separate experiments and one of these ‘MODULUS Ptolemy’ is concerned with the precise measurement of stable isotope ratios of light elements H, C, N and O in their various forms within material sampled from the comet subsurface, surface and near surface atmosphere.
The aim of the project is to determine the degree of isotopic enrichment (or depletion) of D (i.e., 2H), 13C, 15N, 17O and 18O in cometary samples relative to specified standard reference materials. The idea for this experiment came from Prof Colin Pillinger and the project lead for Ptolemy is Prof. Ian Wright from the Open University.
The mass spectrometer is an ion trap; a type of analyser not normally associated with isotope ratio measurements but the reason for its inclusion is understandable given the size and weight limitations. This is no ordinary ion trap, as conventional systems were found to be unsuitable and so specific software and hardware had to be developed and validated to ensure the mass accuracy and measurement precision required for the intended experiments. An advantage of mass spectrometry in space is that the working pressures required are ambient so there is no need for a vacuum system. In addition to the ion trap there are 3 GC columns, a Helium/Argon gas supply, a H2 gas supply and also small bore chemical reactors pre-column with roles such as drying, protonation and fluoridation, necessary for the various experiments planned.
A drill (20cm depth) on board Philae will be used to take solid samples which will enter an oven, which is vented and then various temperature programmes will be executed before introduction of the gases into the GC-MS. After 20 years of planning, building, launching and orbiting Philae made a soft landing on 67P, unfortunately it landed in shadow and as result its batteries are not currently being charged by the solar panels incorporated into the system. It is hoped in 2015 that the lander will re- awaken as the comet re-orientates relative to the sun. Please see references and links below for further information on this project.
Chapter 9 ‘An Ion Trap too far? The Rosetta Mission to characterise a comet’ from March, R.E.; Todd, J.F.J. ‘Quadrupole Ion.
Trap Mass Spectrometry’, 2nd Edition, Wiley, Hobokken, NJ, USA, 2005.

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Original Title: The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch
Authors: Neil Gaiman(Author), Dave McKean(Illustrator)
Published: September 1st 1995, Vertigo/DC Comics
Genre: Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Horror
Page Count: 96 pages, Paperback
I am attending a seminar about Punch and Judy this semester, and this great Comic book was on the seminar’s reading List, together with some other interesting modern novels, like Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. I had to choose this seminar. Honestly, I had enought of analyzing gender theories, identity issues or grasping society ranks in the time of modernism. This was a whole different subject, something new that sounded so interesting to me. And until now, I am not disappointed by the seminar.
Yesterday, I have finally read this comic within a few hours. It was very entertaining but at the same time sad, macabre and scary. Here are some more aspects I liked about the book:
Both, author and illustrator managed to create such an atmosphere so that the reader would be sucked up in this world. The little boy, the main character of the comic, was presented in a rather melancholic way. Me as a reader also had quite a nostalgic feeling while reading the book. Then there were also some sad parts in which I noticed that the boy was very lonely, abandoned from his parents to spend a lot of time with his grandparents. Also, he spent a lot of time with Mr. Punch and his friends ;)
The drawings seemed to be undetailed, and were kept in dark colours of brown, black and red, but I think this was on purposed and fitted well to the atmosphere. I also liked that there were sometimes photographs shown in the comic book which were also a bit blurry. This gave the comic book a realistic atmosphere as well.
Well, this was it actually. I don’t think that you have to know a lot of things about the Punch and Judy show, although it might be funny to know a few things. But even if you don’t, some scenes of the Punch and Judy show are showed at the beginning of the comic.
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mercredi 24 septembre 2008
Phoebe Washburn (Zach Feuer Gallery, New York)
Tickle the Shitstem
Phoebe Washburn's work explores generative systems based on absurd patterns of production. In Tickle the Shitstem, Washburn has developed a system/environment in which production and waste are equally important. The Shitstem generates its own products along with the inevitable byproducts or waste, and at times, there is little or no distinction between the two. The installation simply keeps churning, producing and hemorrhaging cyclically unless it is interrupted by a failure. Products of Tickle the Shitstem include beverages, pencils, colored urchins and t-shirts.
Over the past few years Phoebe Washburn’s installations have evolved from wavelike aggregations of scrap wood to a more sophisticated form of recycling: working “ecosystems” of plants, water and sports drinks. Consumerism enters the picture in her latest site-specific project, which demonstrates a hyper-awareness of “green” technology and its ubiquity as a marketing strategy. In a Rube Goldberg-esque process, a series of pumps and hoses connect the gallery’s three rooms. T-shirts are laundered in a washing machine, and the “gray water” is then filtered and used to dye sea urchin shells. The candy-colored urchins are offered for sale (as are Gatorade, colored pencils and screen-printed T-shirts) in an elaborately constructed wooden storefront. Eventually, the water is pumped into a kiddie pool-turned-fountain. Some elements of Ms. Washburn’s system — bits of greenery, fish tanks filled with Day-Glo golf balls — seem more decorative than functional, but it’s hard to tell. The work’s scatological title connects bodily and industrial waste. Ms. Washburn suggests that the byproducts of art making must also be dealt with, and that resourceful artists can find ways to benefit from this new economy.
With attractive international interns operating a store and reggae resounding through the gallery, it’s easy to dismiss Phoebe Washburn’s show as a hipster event. Yet this Poughkeepsie, NY, native, who was in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, has a lot more to offer than just good times for sale. Washburn’s multi-part installation, with its naughty, scatological title, is a quirky cross between a child prodigy’s science fair booth and a DIY project gone wrong. Its centerpiece is a washing machine in which used T-shirts are rinsed daily before being branded with the word ort and sold for $25 each. The water used in this process is then slowly purified through a series of vats and tanks. The end result eventually fills a massive barrel, which is emptied by the intern on duty. Washburn’s “rules of the game” stipulate that the excess water needs to be creatively reused. Plants are hydrated; sea urchins, T-shirts and pencils are dyed and sold; soda is peddled so that the bottles might be recycled to hold more water. It’s a never-ending battle to keep the system functioning as production and consumption, usable material and waste, become outlandishly interchangeable. With supply exceeding demand, defeat seems inevitable, and the remainder of each day’s water is transported to a plastic kiddie pool where it ungracefully stagnates. Washburn’s show is a powerful demonstration about the fragility of our natural resources, which, when intertwined with human needs and desires, are placed in grave jeopardy.
Locating Propriety in the Inappropriate
There is something appropriate in finding Zach Feuer Gallery open for business in mid-August with a Phoebe Washburn’s installation, when the rest of Chelsea is a ghost town. Seeing this Dadaistic riff on productivity in a gallery district that feels like the artistic equivalent of the rust belt cannot but accent an initial response to it. Almost every door on West 24th Street has notices of apology as galleries prep themselves for the relaunch of the season, after Labor Day. Ms. Washburn’s sprawling, complex, decidedly nutty piece, “Tickling the Shitstem,” which is something of a “happening” in the old-fashioned sense, a work poised between sculpture and performance, is all about the foibles of an improvised production-line. Because it is a zany exploration of progress and decay, this is a work that, by its very nature, will unfold and only fully realize itself with the passage of time, when the built in failures inevitable in such as wacko system are bound to take effect. By the time the art world throngs to the gallery for the delayed private view on September 4, therefore, the piece will have had a couple of weeks head start on its audience. This probably explains the odd choice of opening time for such a highflying young artist who, at 35, has already been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Berlin Guggenheim and UCLA’s Hammer Museum. As you enter the gallery, you are confronted with what has become the trademark look of a Washburn piece: a shimmering surface of at first seemingly randomly knocked together 2-by-4s, appearing like a cross between panicked or lackluster carpentry and some outgrowth of nature. But this ramshackle first impression is deceptive, and this is a robust, if primitive seeming, workable structure. Turn the corner and you see that it houses a hive of industry — or to be more precise, commerce, as a pair of workers offer an odd mix of merchandise, in the form of unappetizing soft drinks, printed tee-shirts, and various inexplicable souvenirs whose enigma is their sole attraction.Penetrate further into the gallery and another workstation presents itself, linked to the sales barn by various tubes and wires. There is a washing machine feeding a stepped arrangement of glass tanks, the top three of which are filled with brightly colored golf balls, and the last a hardy water plant. Off to one side, though again linked with hosing, is a big orange Igloo drinks cooler, filled with sand, and feeding a garbage bin over the top of which a dirt tee-shirt is stretched, attached with bright orange pegs that match the cooler and one tank of golf balls. In a third space is a water feature, a fountain surrounded by garishly colored rolled up towels, once again linked to the goings on of the other elements of this playful factory. Such Heath Robinsonian ingenuity — everything works, but only just, and by the most circuitous and intentionally obtuse means — serves to underscore how, despite the efforts of Andy Warhol, “art” and “factory” are a contradiction in terms. A factory, after all, turns out something useful with streamlined efficiency, whereas art, as Oscar Wilde insisted, is by definition useless. The aesthetic experience, in fact, is what is exposed by inefficiency, in the cracks between expectation and actualization. By now, the viewer is itching for explication which is at hand from the press release, or the salespeople back at the souvenir shop. The industry here revolves around the machine washing of found tee-shirts, and the management of the liquid waste emerging from that process. The stuff for sale — soft drinks of the same colors as the golf balls, the bottles to be filled afterwards by undrinkable waste liquids of the same colors — is secondary to the process of its own manufacture. In fact, the “shitstem,” as its name implies, conflates waste and productivity. Faux-industriousness has a long pedigree in the Dada tradition, dating right back to Marcel Duchamp’s meditations on constellations of displaced mechanical objects (chocolate grinders being a favorite) in such works as “The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even” (1915–23). This proceeds via the twittery, jerky pointless-seeming machines of Jean Tinguely to Ms. Washburn’s neo-Dada contemporaries. These include the late Jason Rhoades, with his manically compulsive arrangements of appropriated detritus; Ms. Washburn’s stablemate at Zach Feuer, Danica Phelps, with whom she shares an obsession with color-coding; and the technophile absurdist Roxy Paine, with his elaborate machines for making art. Semantically close to the scatalogy of Ms. Washburn’s Shitstem is Wim Delvoye’s “Cloaca,” a super-elaborate machine that produces excrement. But while there might be some shared intentions and values with these waste generators, with a humor tinged by ecology, Ms. Washburn’s aesthetic stands in contrast to that of Messrs. Paine and Delvoye in that it eschews mechanical streamlining to insist on a homey, hippy aesthetic of the handmade and pieced-together, recalling instead — though without the heavy handed moralizing — the not much fun fair aesthetic of the Swiss Thomas Hirschhorn. Another distinction of Ms. Washburn’s strategy, bringing her closer to the American installation artist Sarah Sze, is a willingness to create elaborate mechanisms in which an allowance of some kind of erosion or failure is built into the life of the work. What Ms. Washburn does have in common with all these artists is a need for narrative. This, however, is a departure from her artistic origins. When she first came to public attention with her staggeringly sumptuous installation of stacked and tacked together shards, such as “Nothing’s Cutie,” her debut solo exhibition at LFL (the precursor of Zach Feuer), the emphasis was on the formal experience, not its underlying meaning, although the very use of detritus and the rushed sense of improvisation undeniably gave the piece an ecological edge. This was a moment in her development when the experience could only be described in abstract, phenomenological terms: Kim Levin, for instance, aptly observed how Ms. Washburn’s “improvisational logic is rhizomic, fractal and not nearly as precarious as it looks.” Now, the emphasis has heavily tipped from form to content, from stasis to process. With more “happening” there is correspondingly less that is sculptural. Recalling the impact of that early work, it is hard not to regret Ms. Washburn’s progress, and to yearn for a reconnection with her initial ecstatic creativity. In the meantime, though, and taken on its own terms, her funky aesthetic affords plenty that is fun and thoughtful, which is not a bad place to be.


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Budding new talent Shawn Mendes tours the US
The infectious pop of Justin Bieber meets the DIY style of Ed Sheeran in teen Canadian singer Shawn Mendes, whose ambitions garnered him a huge online following after posting videos of himself performing popular covers. This self-made attitude attracted the attention of Island Records, to which he signed, and together they released the record-breaking single 'Life of the Party' in June 2014 .
The song made Mendes the youngest artist to land a debut in the Top 25 charts. Buoyed by this success, the teen heartthrob has gone from strength to strength and has even supported Taylor Swift in tour. His folksy, upbeat brand of pop bears a refreshing honesty from someone so young and steers clear of the manufactured pop star formula. 2016 witnessed the release of his second album Illuminate, featuring the lead single 'Treat You Better'. Catch Mendes when he plays in , ,

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