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INSITUM + NATURA
Designing a digital ongoing training platform through a deep understanding of the different profiles, behaviors and needs of Natura’s consultants in Brazil.
Natura is one of the largest Brazilian manufacturers and marketers of beauty, household, personal care, skin care, solar filter, perfume and hair care products. The company sells products through 1,5 million representatives in many countries across the world. Those representatives are central to the company’s business model and training them is critical to guarantee their understanding of the benefits and attributes of Natura’s products in order to ensure and enhance the sales of products; but with the limited number of employees that can teach them Natura faced an enormous challenge: only 30% of the representatives participated in training of their products and lines, implying a reduction in quality of care and service to the end customer. Furthermore, the major part of the representatives are from lower socio-economic classes, having low or none education which means a higher learning curve when being educated in new contents and skills. In that context INSITUM was brought in to help Natura envision a new e-learning tool intended to be engaging, easy to use and adapted to the needs of the different types of representatives as way to guarantee that more Consultants participate in Natura’s training activities.
The goal of this collaboration was to help Natura to create a continuous training digital platform through the user-centered innovation process, focusing the solution on the different profiles and needs of Consultants in Brazil. Specific objectives included: an in-depth understanding Natura’s consultants, their motivations, learning behaviors and emotional aspects that lead them to be engaged in an activity, developing design principles to create a new e-learning platform; co-creation with Natura’s stakeholders several solutions for the new e-learning platform, consolidating them in prototypes to be tested and iterated with representatives; and design the final e-learning platform with technical specifications and implementation roadmap.
Training representatives is critical to guarantee their understanding of the benefits and attributes of Natura’s brands and products in order to ensure and enhance sales.
The project entailed involving the users from the beginning, by understanding their needs and habits, until the end, by developing concepts and validating the final outcome.
Initially INSITUM's team conducted an extensive ethnographic research with Natura’s salesforce all around Brazil, interviewing and observing representatives in 17 cities in order to understand different existing profiles in terms of needs and expectations as well as their different learning habits — such as the way some learn from each other as a more trustable source of information and others for example, desire to go deeper into topics such as hair care or make-up to better convey products.
Secondly, we co-created concepts with Natura’s stakeholders based on the different representatives profiles’ needs (new functionalities, ways to progress into the content, new formats etc). These concepts were tested and refined with representatives to evaluate the most relevant, attractive and useful solutions for them. After receiving feedback, we incorporated the outcomes into a platform containing the basis of gamification, social reinforcement and cognitive learning.
For part of our representatives this will be an alternative of professional education, since they not always have the habit to deal with accounting and commercial activities.
Adriana de Queiroz, Commercial Training Manager
The resulting design is a unique learning platform that smoothly communicates and engages the different profiles of representatives, what we called ‘knowledge paths’. It was rolled out to all Natura salesforce in May of 2014 after several usability tests and Natura’s expectations for the new solution include 50% of their 1,5 million representatives already using the platform in 2015.

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Shia LaBeouf is a rapid to large name in the new film The Tax Collector, whose trailer has taken the net through the tempest.
The movie from Suicide Squad chief David Ayer sees the Even Stevens entertainer play Creeper, who gathers money from groups for a totally successful wrongdoing master. The film may be one of the first to return to films because the coronavirus achieved mass auditorium terminations.
When Is The Movie Set To Release?
The dispatch date for The Tax Collector withinside the U.S. is prepared for Friday, August 7. On that date, the film will come to video available to come into work for contributions which incorporates Amazon, Google Play, and Apple TV, and is in like manner set to be propelled in pick theaters.
This August dispatch date, like that of Selena Gomez film The Broken Hearts Gallery, makes the film one of the primary post-lockdown motion pictures to make it to theaters, pulsating Christopher Nolan’s presently deferred Tenet to films through 5 days.
What We Must Know
Watchers open air of the U.S. can likewise furthermore have scarcely longer to go to peer the film reliable with its chief. Composing on Twitter while the trailer dropped, Ayer stated: Heres the area generally profitable of The Tax Collector followed! In Theaters, and VOD August seventh and Oct twenty 6th for the unwinding of the area.
David and Creeper are ‘tax collectors’ for the wrongdoing master Wizard, amassing his decrease from the pay of neighborhood packs’ illegal dealings. In any case, while Wizard’s classical opponent comes back to Los Angeles from Mexico, the business endeavor is overturned. David uncovers himself resolved to protect what subjects more noteworthy to him than whatever else.
What Director Stated About The Movie?
Director David Ayer discovered that the film is a return to his grittier motion pictures like End of Watch and Street Kings instead of the significant expense go tale of his present motion pictures Bright and Suicide Squad. He stated: Yeah, it is a little unprejudiced film roughly the LA roads around what is occurring today.
The chief moreover discovered basically how committed LaBeouf changed into to making the film: He’s one of the fantastic entertainers I’ve worked with, and he is the most extreme devoted to edge and soul.
He had a veneer pulled on Fury, after which on Tax Collector, he was given his whole chest inked. So he types of are betting everything, and I’ve not perceived every individual that is devoted.


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T.J. Champitto is an American novelist with a talent for suspenseful storytelling-creating fast-paced adventures that gently weave realism and science through an extraordinarily vivid lens. With his debut novel, The Medina Device, Champitto has burst onto the literary scene as an exciting new author who is poised to unleash more thrilling works.
2020 Maxy Awards - Best Thriller2020 PenCraft Award Winner - Crime Action ThrillerSilver Falchion Award Finalist - Action Adventure"Full of energy, action and suspense this a high octane thriller with a fascinating premise; a thrillingly brilliant read." -Bookliterati Book Reviews"A whirlwind pace and a captivating style." -Indies Today

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text: Wimbledon Hill Park is a redevelopment of Atkinson Morley, a former hospital in Wimbledon in the London borough of Merton. The hospital was opened in 1869 as a convalescent hospital until it became an internationally recognised neuroscience centre after World War II. The centre was then closed in 2003 and became vacant before being sold in 2010. The redevelopment project consists of 77 luxury apartments with penthouses, other amenities include a concierge, a resident’s gym and a cinema. The façade area on the project is 1,500m2 of stone panels covering 4 floors and supported by the RJ Facades EVT system with horizontal T rails. The substructure was fixed back to concrete and hollow brick using FBN II 10/20 A4 and a resin and sleeve system.

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New three-row Duster will arrive in 2018.
The original Dacia Duster (Renault Duster in many markets including India), was introduced in December 2009, and being over six years old, is due for a full makeover. The second generation 2018 Dacia Duster is said to be offered in 5-seat and 7-seat versions. A set of speculative renderings from Auto Express show how the 7-seat Renault Grand Duster may look like.
The current Renault Duster (Dacia Duster) is based on the B0/Logan platform. While an earlier report said that the next-gen Renault Duster will be based on the CMF platform, the new report from the British publication states that the all-new model will be underpinned by an updated version of the B0/Logan platform. The 5-seat version will be introduced in 2017, and followed by the 7-seat version in 2018.
The next-gen Dacia Duster will introduce a new design language for the brand. The Renault Grand Duster will also feature the new family design, and be around 200 mm longer than the standard Duster with its length measuring around 4.7 metres.
Also Read: 2016 model year Renault Captur compact SUV announced
The engine options of the 7-seat Dacia Duster in the UK will include a 124 bhp 1.2-litre turbocharged petrol unit and probably a 130 bhp 1.6-litre diesel unit which could replace the current 1.5-litre diesel unit. Like now, a four-wheel drive system will be optional.
[Source: Auto Express]

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E-Abhijoga is Odisha State Grievance Redressal Portal. Its objective is to facilitate online availability of the grievance redressal mechanism to citizens thereby providing him/her facility to lodge the grievances anytime, anywhere. Its two more objective includes to track the status and to send reminders and clarifications, irrespective of citizenâ€™s geographical location, and to introduce a standard and uniform approach of grievance redressal in all State Government Departments and offices to enable the Public Grievance officer for easy access to grievances. E-Abhijoga also includes paperless processing of grievances as per internal workflow of the organization.
Benefits for the Citizen:-
• Single channel:- e-Abhijoga is designed in such a way that the grievance is channelized into one cohesive system with a Unique Grievance Tracking Number.
• Easy to Use:- Allow registration of grievance through internet on 24*7 basis. There are provision to submit grievance.
• Quick feedback:- Unique Registration number to the citizen upon submission of the grievance to the system.
• First response to the citizen within 24 hours of submission of the grievance. Any question or documents required for redressal of the grievance will be asked in one go on time bound basis on receipt of the grievance.
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Bright red blooms in Murden CoveJune 12th, 2012 by tristan baurick
Reporter Tad Sooter took some dramatic photos of algal blooms off Murden Cove on Monday. A few nearby residents told Tad the blooms were the brightest they’d seen.
Here’s what he learned about the blooms:
Algal blooms that turned water off several Bainbridge shorelines bright red this week pose no risk to humans or shellfish, according to Kitsap County Public Health District officials.
Environmental Health Specialist Shawn Ultican said the dramatic blooms are caused by Noctiluca, a harmless plankton. Noctiluca blooms are common this time of year and are spurred by sunlight and nutrients in the water, he said.
The rusty-red blooms spread down Manitou Beach and into Murden Cove on the east side of Bainbridge on Monday. Ultican said blooms were also reported in Port Orchard Passage.
Because of their color, Noctiluca blooms are often wrongly associated with harmful “red tide,” which causes paralytic shellfish poisoning. Red tide is caused by different plankton species and isn’t noticeable in the water, Ultican said.
For more information on beach closures and shellfish advisories, visit www.kitsapcountyhealth.com.
In the above photo, Stephanie Bowen and her 2-year-old son Alex take a look at the bloom that spread across Murden Cove on Monday.
See more of Tad’s photos below.

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Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver, The Son’s Veto and The Withered Arm, by Thomas Hardy
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Tony Kytes the Arch Deceiver is a comedy based on a young man journeying through his village as he tries to deceive three women who clearly have feelings for him. It shows, how in the end, coincidence lets him down and he is caught out. The Son’s Veto is a slightly longer story which explores the life of Sophy, a village girl, through many years of her life, concentrating on her son’s prejudice and the result in which she suffers and dies unhappily. The Withered Arm is a longer story again, also charting a period of many years involving three people in which jealousy and witchcraft dominate. It finishes in a dramatic and tragic way.
The three stories tell very different tales and can therefore be seen as separate genres. Tony Kytes is clearly a comedy as it is a portrayal of ordinary life in which coincidence, intrigue and normal human behaviour is shown. No one suffers terribly, there is a fairly pleasant ending and Hardy gives the reader the chance to criticise the characters’ personalities. The ending of this story is as much to do with coincidence and fate, as it is dependant on the characters attitudes. Hardy describes Sophy’s story as a little ‘tragicomedy’ and this can be seen evidently in the genre of the story.
The Son’s Veto is a mixture of genres i. e. tragedy and comedy. It includes elements of comedy, exploring Sophy’s ordinary life and the behaviour of her son but we can see Sophy’s suffering which gives the story an air of tragedy. The story portrays the downfall of Sophy through her lack of willpower and the trouble caused when she doesn’t speak her mind. This flaw in Sophy’s nature can be compared to the flaws in Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, such as ‘Macbeth’ and his ambition, which results in his downfall In The Withered Arm the elements of tragedy are clear.
Each character suffers extensively because of their actions. The story focuses on the relationship of Rhoda Brook and Gertrude Lodge. Hardy shows how their individual emotions and desires lead to the tragic ending and each individual suffers mainly from their own actions but also by the actions of others. Thomas Hardy was born at Upper Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset, 2nd June, 1840. The ‘village’ was very small, just eight workers cottages with a total population of about 50 and at the age of nine he was sent to a church funded school there.
His education was continued at home where his ambitious (however, illiterate) mother insisted he continued to read a wide range of challenging books. He went to London to study architecture, winning prizes from the professional associations and working under Sir Arthur Blomfield. Hardy’s real interest, however, was in literature, and he soon began to write. By the time Hardy returned to Dorchester in 1867 to work on designing and restoring churches, he had also begun writing novels. The background of the writer is reflected very much in the settings and characters. ‘Wessex’ is the setting for nearly all of Hardy’s novels and short stories.
It is the name he gave to that part of southwest England, which includes Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, Hampshire and Wiltshire. When Hardy was born in 1840, Dorset was very remote country, cut off from other parts of England. There were cart tracks rather than main roads and this is displayed in both Tony Kytes and The Withered Arm. Hardy would have grown up being surrounded by labourers, working on the land. Sheep and dairy farming were widespread, the farms being owned by middle class farmers who employed locals to work for them. This is reflected greatly in all three of the stories.
Hardy was a Victorian writer but modern for his times and always challenging convention. Unlike other writers, he concentrated very much on his characters, their lives and the society they lived in. If other novelists were found to talk descriptively about society, it was from a superior moral viewpoint and the heroes and heroines were always middle or upper class, due to their audience being educated middle to upper class themselves. However, Hardy was born in Dorset, to an uneducated family of country labourers and his success as a writer was wholly due to educating himself and studying to give him a better start in life.
Hardy therefore includes large amounts of descriptive writing on the lower classes especially from his own knowledge and experience. He wrote about ‘peasants’ and these feature in all three of his stories that l have read, more so in Tony Kytes. Dialect is the specific use of language used by the people living in a specific region. Being so cut-off, Wessex villagers spoke a dialect, which would have been barely understood in nineteenth-century London. Hardy’s parents both spoke ‘broad Dorset’ and therefore Hardy spent his childhood surrounded by the people he knew best speaking this dialect.
He, understandably, included such words in his stories as all three, have Dorset as a main location. Tony Kytes is a simple story. Hardy uses a narrative frame. The story is part of a sequence of stories told by different characters travelling to a Dorset village. We, the reader, do not meet them and they are not main characters in this story, however they give the reason for the often-used Dorset dialect. The action of the story takes place in a short period of time, just one afternoon, and the setting and location changes little throughout the story. The story contains suspense and poses questions throughout.
It is clear we see things from Tony’s viewpoint. “Tony covered her over, so that the wagon seemed to be empty for the tarpaulin; and then he drove on to meet Milly” The audience is made clear of his feelings and emotions at different points during the story. This affects the way we read the story and the way we feel towards the characters, as the reader tends to feel closer to Tony and therefore makes an effort to understand him. I ‘m sure if it were written from the viewpoint of one of the girls, especially Milly, the audience’s feelings for Tony would change dramatically.
Our attitude towards him would be much colder and certainly one of disgust. This story would have been perceived differently by audiences of Hardy’s time. Then, the divide between men and women was explicit. Men always had the upper hand and the women followed with no mind of their own! . An alternative interpretation to this story might be to think of the position of the women. They are seen as manipulative, but also victims of Tony’s lies. His charms are used to work his way around them and he exploits their trust, feelings, naivety and their innocence.
The Son’s Veto is much more complex a story. It is told in the third person or ‘impersonal narrator’. The story starts at one point but then uses a flashback, which intrigues the reader and makes a difference in a short story. It involves a multifarious array of locations and times and the language used is much more complex and sophisticated than Tony Kytes. The story is written from Sophy’s viewpoint. ” ‘No Sam; you shan’t! ‘, she cried, putting her hand over his mouth, ‘You ought to be more serious on a night as this. ” This story is clearly about class, the divisions of, and society and its values. Another clear theme is the downfall of Sophy – how she, an innocent young woman, suffers heartbreak because of her son’s lack of compassion. It is similar to Tony Kytes where the women are shown as feeble and powerless against the men in their lives, but the story is also very dependent on Sophy’s individual weakness rather than women as a whole. ” ‘Say no more-perhaps I am wrong! I will struggle against it! ‘she cried miserably ”
She is pressured into doing what other people tell her to do and pleasing everyone except herself, like Milly in Tony Kytes. Both characters are afraid of having minds of their ownFinally,The Withered Arm is an extremely intricate short story, in fact it can be described as a ‘novella’. Although it is classed as a short story its length and complexity mark it as more than retelling of one or two events. Like The Son’s Veto the story ranges over a period of years but it is more sophisticated as the emotions and thoughts of the main characters are explored in greater depth.
However, both The Son’s Veto and The Withered Arm are short stories in their restriction to a small number of main characters. The Withered Arm is narrated in the third person and its complexity is also shown in the climax of the story where Hardy’s skill as a story-teller is shown in how he uses Rhoda’s vision at the beginning of the story in a complete surprise for the audience at the end. In the first part of the story it is Rhoda’s viewpoint that dominates up until the point where Gertrude learns the truth about Rhoda, then the story is seen very much in the eyes of Gertrude.
This allows the audience to have feelings for both women, which makes the ending a mixture of emotions. The Withered Arm is a much stronger portrayal of women (Rhoda Brook) than the other stories. We can see parallels between Gertrude and Sophy as victims, but because of the first viewpoint we can see Rhoda as a victim as well. She is the unmarried mother who is gossiped about by the village and who has been abandoned, left to suffer at the hand of a prosperous male farmer. There are many ways the audience can interpret the story.
Rhoda can be seen as a jealous witch, an abandoned mother, a poor dairy – milker and even a village outcast. Gertrude can be understood as a young wife, a victim of witchcraft, a wealthy dairy-owner, an un-loved cripple and a desperate paranoid woman. Farmer Lodge can be seen in two totally different lights. At points in the story he is quite obviously a father who rejects his son, a husband who rejects his wife, and at other points a self-satisfied and prosperous farmer. The community, in which the Tony Kytes is set, is similar to that of Hardy’s when he was a child.
Hardy would have socialised with a community who knew everyone else’s business and in Tony Kytes it is obvious to us that Tony’s antics became common knowledge, as it is a villager who is narrating the story. Hardy’s stories are based on his own social experience and context. In the 19th century, in Victorian England, respectability was very important and the concern about a girl’s virginity reflects this. ” ‘She’s as sound as a bell for me, that I’ll swear! ‘ ” , This means that the girl is a virgin as far as Tony is concerned.
Apart from this Tony Kytes does not include any more based on social or cultural background, there is not a mention of the different classes. However, in The Son’s Veto, Hardy examines society in a great deal and also explores the problems that arise from a marriage between the different classes. Sophy is a Dorset girl (again, a link to Hardy’s background) who works as a parlour -maid for the vicar of the village. ” It was her native village, Gaymead, and the first event bearing upon her present situation had occurred at that place when she was only a girl of nineteen. Through circumstances she becomes his wife and he commits ‘social suicide’ by marrying below himself and they then move away. Already, Hardy is addressing the discrimination of people in society and uses Sophy’s downfall as an example, as she has a child, the vicar dies, and Sophy is left to bring up her son, who has (due to the vicar’s wealth) been attending schools of the highest academic value. This creates a barrier and Hardy shows how class can divide even the bonds that should be strongest, between mother and child.
Randolph, Sophy’s son, is embarrassed by his mother’s background and feels she lowers the tone of his father’s memory. When Sam, Sophy’s child hood sweetheart, returns and declares his love for Sophy, she is held back from marrying Sam because of Randolph’s prejudice. He ignores the fact that his father married down a class and forbids Sophy to do the same. He feels it would degrade him and shame him in front of all his well-educated friends. Hardy uses this discrimination to make a point of the prejudice and ignorance of the upper classes.
‘I am ashamed of you! It will ruin me! It will degrade me in the eyes of all the gentlemen of England! ‘ ” I think, reading this story in today’s society the audience can see a big difference between the class divisions but I feel personally that class is still an issue in today’s society, it just isn’t published and expressed so openly as in The Son’s Veto. In The Withered Arm, social background features prominently. Rhoda is an outcast and always the subject of village gossip due to her relationship with Farmer Lodge, a man of higher class.
This is shown by the way the farmer treats his (illegitimate) son, ignoring him and denying any relation to the boy, for he lives with Rhoda in a common, secluded cottage, hunting for their food. ” She was with Mr Lodge, of course. What did he say or do? ‘ ‘ Just the same as usual. ‘ ‘ Took no notice of you? ‘ ‘ None. ‘ ” Class segregation is also shown in Rhoda’s jealousy, as one of the reasons for her to dislike Gertrude appears to be that Gertrude is obviously from an upper class background where-as Rhoda is lower class working in the dairy of her ex-lover and his beautiful wife.
The cultural background of Hardy’s times seems to appear and affect events largely in this story. Magic plays a central part and Hardy was quick to claim not to have invented the ‘magical’ details of the story. He said they were all based on fact. Every village in Wessex was supposed to have its own witch who specialised in curses. Her services were often sought for casting ‘the evil eye’ at an enemy, which would result in injury. The ‘good side’ of witchcraft was in the hands of the village conjuror.
He could tell the future and help people who had been ‘bewitched’ find their enemy. Conjurors also lifted curses. These beliefs are the main element of The Withered Arm and obviously some of the audiences of Hardy’s time would have found the story much more believable than we do now. Irony is the main aspect in Tony Kytes. The character of Tony, the main character, who after all the trials and tribulations of the story, where he tries to seduce all three girls, the story ends with him marrying his fiance who he had in the beginning! It’s ironic that having rejected his fiance vents turn out she is the only one who will marry him. ”
‘It do seem as if fate has ordained that it should be you and I, or nobody. ‘ ” Coincidences also affect the ending of the story. The main one is obviously all three women being present on his journey, also the presence of Tony’s father, the crash in which the girls are revealed and finally the arrival of Hannah’s father as Hardy implies Hannah’s answer to Tony’s proposal would be different if her father wasn’t there. ” ‘My daughter is not willing, sir! ‘ says Mr Jolliver, hot and strong ”
In The Son’s Veto the irony may be less obvious than Tony Kytes but it is there! Randolph sees it as a disgrace and shameful if Sophy decides to marry Sam, who comes from Sophy’s original class, a boy she grew up with, however he forgets that the father he loved so much did exactly that which led to Sophy being his mother. There are, however, many coincidences which affect the story as well. Firstly Sophy and Sam have a disagreement, which leads Sophy to turn down his proposal, but their love is by no means finished. Sophy then falls and feels it would be best if she quit work.
This pushes the vicar to think of life alone and he proposes to her, and because Sophy has been brought to respect the higher classes she accepts out of respect and flattery. This decision leads to a life of regret and unhappiness. Having married the vicar she has a son and the vicar’s wealth means he can be educated but because of her working class origin she is regarded with contempt by her grown up son. Later, through coincidence, by being kept awake at nights, she happens to see Sam in the early hours of the morning.
Their love is renewed, The air and Sam’s presence had revived her; her cheeks were quite pink – almost beautiful ” but Randolph disapproves and this leads to the overall irony of the ending. In The Withered Arm, irony results in the tragic ending for all. The fact that after seeing Rhoda’s son in the street Gertrude strikes up a friendship with Rhoda is ironic. It is dramatic irony that allows the audience to be aware of Rhoda’s possible responsibility for the affliction of which Gertrude has no idea. It is also ironic that it is Rhoda who accompanies Getrude to the conjuror, which will result in Gertrude knowing that Rhoda is the cause.
There is irony in the way they are all brought together at the end, at the son’s hanging (who brought the women together) which now exposes all three together for the first time since Gertrude found out and the shock results in Gertrude’s death. Fate has worked unkindly for the characters in all three stories and it is Hardy’s skill in combining psychologically realistic characters with coincidences of events, which emphasise their situation and motives that make his handling of irony so interesting. Dialect is the way people living in a specific region use language and is used in Tony Kytes.
It is not standard English and often the grammar is different and they use different words for desirable things or feelings. An example of dialect is ” ‘nunny – watch’ ” , which is used by Tony to describe a difficult situation. This is an example of the grammar of the Broad – Dorset dialect. Hardy uses the ordinary expressions of ordinary people. The language in the Son’s Veto is developed, sophisticated and complex. Concentrating on the first paragraph of the story Hardy uses very descriptive words in which he builds up a picture through increasing detail. To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery.
Under the black beaver hat surmounted by its tuft of black feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted and coiled like the rushes of a basket, composed a rare, if somewhat barbaric, example of ingenious art. / One could understand such weavings and ceilings being wrought to last intact for a year/ or even a calendar month/ but that they should be all demolished regularly at bedtime/ after a single day of performance/ seemed a reckless waste of successful fabrication/
The words underlined are examples of how Hardy uses ‘Latinate’ words to increase the detail of his description. Hardy uses these rather than ‘Anglo-Saxon’ words which could replace them, but ‘Latinate’ words are polysyllabic and therefore give the impression of more descriptiveness. Surmounted can be replaced with ‘on top of’, demolished is replaced with ‘undo’ and fabricated has the same meaning as ‘make’. The ‘Latinate’ vocabulary make the description a lot more complex and sophisticated. Hardy uses complex, long sentences containing many successive clauses.
This splits up the description. Hardy uses formal narration. The story is not told by a local as in Tony Kytes but by the author. The first paragraph is used to set the scene and formal narration shows it is written from an upper-class angle, again, different to Tony Kytes. The second paragraph, however tells us more about Sophy and the life she leads and is an example of Hardy’s use of characterisation. ” And she had done it all herself, poor thing. She had no maid, and it was almost the only accomplishment she could boast of.
Hence the unstinted pains. ” Already Hardy is provoking sympathy from the audience towards Sophy as his main character, and explores that, in this stage of the story, Sophy has too much time on her hands. Even enough, to delicately weave her hair amazingly well, just to take it out at the end of the day. Hardy’s language in this paragraph is then followed by Sophy, aged nineteen speaking. ” ‘Why Sam, how can you be so fast! I’ve never even said I liked ‘ee; and it is all your own doing, coming after me! ‘ ”
She uses every day speech, which is colloquial, and uses slang, and abbreviated words. If we compare Sophy’s use of language when she is nineteen to that of her in her thirties, we can determine a significant difference between them. Sophy’s speech becomes formal, standard English, which suggests an education and improved vocabulary. ” ‘O no! Not in one of those wretched holes! At public school – one of the most distinguished in England’ ” However, Sam’s speech is informal, non-standard English and he uses slang. ” ‘Chok’ it all! Of course!
I forgot, ma’am, that you’ve been a lady of class for so many years. ‘ ” The use of dialect in the Son’s Veto shows the origin or class of the person speaking and the main purpose in this story might be to show Sophy’s lack of education as in the first part of the story where her son corrects her grammar. ” ‘ Has, dear mother, not have’ ” However, the use of Dialect used in The Withered Arm is for another purpose. Hardy uses it to set the scene by creating a visual insight for the audience into the lives of the characters and we are able to picture it more realistically.
In the first chapter of The Withered Arm Hardy uses dialect and jargon to add realism and make the reader aware of where the story is set, in Dorset. Only Dorset milkmaids would have used language such as ” in full pail ” , which means the cows are ready to be milked. It is jargon used to describe their occupation; it is their specialist language. An aspect of dialect is that instead of using standard grammar it has its own non – standard grammar. ” ‘He do bring home his bride tomorrow’ ”
Hardy also uses language to describe Rhoda’s surroundings as the same as her feelings. He describes the isolation of her house and the surroundings of her and her son, and this language suggests also the emotional state of Rhoda. ” to a lonely spot high above the water-meads “, I think the ending of Tony Kytes is dependable both on the characters weaknesses but also coincidence. Obviously, the fact that the trap overturns leads to the ending. If it did not, Tony could have finished his journey with each girl leaving not knowing what he was up to.
Also if Hannah’s father had not appeared she could have willingly accepted his proposal and they could have had their banns put up the next Sunday rather than Milly. However, without the coincidence the story could have ended just as differently. If the girls had not been so over-powered by Tony, they might have refused to hide, wanting to express their love for him and he would be placed in a difficult situation. An alternative ending to the story would be if Milly left Tony so he would end up with no one, which is what he deserved!
If the story ended like this, we could predict that his reputation as a lady’s man would not be affected. And he probably wouldn’t end up on his own if he manipulated and took advantage of yet another victim, the same way he did Milly, Unity and Hannah. But it is also possible that we would feel different about Tony and perhaps be sympathetic towards his situation, rather than with Milly’s, or it would just make the ending more comical. Hardy gives the impression the story worked out well and everybody lived ‘happily ever after’.
And then he kissed her, and put the wagon to rights, and they mounted together; and their banns were put up the very next Sunday” I feel audiences would not perceive this today. People would have a very different appreciation of the story. The women are certainly portrayed as somewhat weak-willed and Tony is the ‘master’, he makes the decisions. In today’s society, feminists would be outraged with the way the women are treated as in these modern times women and men are seen (by most) as equals, although men still seem to have the upper-hand.
This may just be a biased response, but it is a fact that there is more domestic violence against women. I feel personally that this story was fairly predictable. Hardy gave the reader the feeling, by showing Tony’s troubles, that he would become unstuck and all his deceit would blow up in his face. As a short story I though it contained a lot of action and I think Hardy was able to do this by his ability to include such a lot in his short descriptions. I don’t think Milly, as a woman in today’s society, would have accepted Tony’s offer; in fact I think she would have vowed to wreak revenge for being treated so poorly !
The ending of The Son’s Veto is a result of Sophy’s weak character: rather than listen to her own conscience she depended on other people to tell her what to do. If she wasn’t so weak characteristically, then she could have changed the storyline altogether. She might not have married the vicar out of respect, therefore not giving birth to Randolph and facing his prejudice. She may have continued on her relationship with Sam, they could have married, and she would stay the parlour – maid, working class girl she was.
If Sophy had gone ahead with the marriage but then realised she had been weak – willed, she could have put a stop to Randolph’s behaviour and maybe even then find happiness again with Sam. From this the audience would have much more respect for Sophy and the issue of class and men/women would not be as prominent. The story would then not be seen as a tragic-comedy but as a comedy because if Sophy married Sam and the ending seemed happy, Hardy would probably not have written about Sophy’s death.
In The Withered Arm, despite the supernatural element, it is the jealousy, envy, deceit and unhappiness in the characters that results in the ending of the story. If Farmer Lodge had married Gertrude out of love rather than because of her beauty he would have not openly expressed disappointment about her disfigurement. This would have led her not to become paranoid and seek help from the conjurer. If Rhoda was content with life she would feel no need to curse Gertrude and then Gertrude might not have been crippled. Therefore the ending would not feature the death of the characters and the genre of the story would not be tragedy.
The audience might look more into the happy marriage of Farmer Lodge and Gertrude rather than Gertrude’s insecurities and Rhoda’s hatred and jealousy. I think that Tony Kytes was a predictable ending and from the situations portrayed by Hardy, looking at Tony’s attempts to deceive and his quick-thinking, I could tell that somewhere along the line Tony would, eventually, be caught out. The Son’s Veto’s ending was very suited to the story as all along Hardy has concentrated on Sophy’s weakness and the ending was a believable result of this.
I would have personally enjoyed the story more and found it more believable if, in the end, Sam had convinced Sophy to marry him. I understand though, that Hardy did not write stories that ended ‘happily ever after’ and this is one of his qualities as a writer. The Withered Arm had a dramatic and intense ending and because of this I found this ending my favourite. However, this ending was the most unbelievable of the three stories. I think Hardy took coincidence to the extreme in this case and only the most superstitious of person would find this ending anywhere near believable.
I would have found the story much more effective if maybe Hardy had not made the corpse the son of Rhoda and Farmer Lodge and if all three characters did not either die or fade away. It would have been interesting to see the aftermath of this situation in at least one of the characters lives. Ultimately it is Hardy’s storytelling and his creation of such vivid characters that affects the reader. His choices regarding the endings of the stories reflect his viewpoint and purpose both in his novels and short stories.

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by Jessica Daniels
Through our genes, we may inherit good traits. That height you have or those light eyes may be passed down from your parents. The unfortunate part about genes, however, is that they can increase our risk of developing certain health conditions. Genes can put some men, especially Black men, at heightened risk of prostate cancer. The good news, however, is that a new study suggests that there may be ways to undo much of that potential harm with a healthy lifestyle.
Researchers found that among men at increased genetic risk of prostate cancer, those who maintained a healthy lifestyle were much less likely to die of the disease over nearly three decades.
What a “healthy” lifestyle looks like
“Healthy” meant they exercised regularly, refrained from smoking, kept their weight down and favored fish over processed meat.
Men who met those goals had a 1.6% lifetime risk of dying from prostate cancer. That compared with a 5.3% chance among their counterparts with unhealthy habits, the investigators found.
However, healthy habits did not appear to protect men from developing prostate cancer in the first place, lead researcher Dr. Adam Kibel notes.
It’s possible they instead lower the risk of aggressive prostate cancer, according to Kibel, chief of urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston.
Prostate cancer is very common: About one in eight men will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). But the cancer is often slow-growing, and may never progress to the point of threatening a man’s life: Only one in every 41 men actually die of prostate cancer.
So although you may not be able to exercise your risk of the disease away, lifestyle may matter in the aggressiveness of the cancer.
“One way to look at it is, an unhealthy lifestyle might throw fuel onto the fire,” Kibel adds.
Of the 12,000 men surveyed, each man was given a healthy lifestyle score, earning one point for each of six factors: keeping their weight below the obesity cutoff; regularly getting vigorous exercise, like jogging; not smoking; regularly eating fatty fish (like salmon); eating tomato products; and limiting processed meats. In particular, studies have tied those three diet habits to a lower risk of prostate cancer or death from the disease.
Over 27 years, just over 3,000 men developed prostate cancer, and 435 died from it. Genes made a big difference: Men with genetic risk scores in the top 25% were over four times more likely to
die of the disease, versus those in the bottom 25%, the investigators found.
But for those same men, lifestyle also had a big impact. Those who stuck with at least four of the six healthy lifestyle factors cut their odds of dying from prostate cancer by 45%, versus men who adhered to few or none.
So which lifestyle has the highest chance of lowering your risk?Of all lifestyle habits, Kibel says, exercise seemed most important, followed by maintaining a healthy weight.
The findings do not prove that those healthy habits, per se, saved some men’s lives. But Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer at the ACS, calls the results “encouraging.”
“What’s interesting is this suggests that a healthy lifestyle may not decrease your risk of developing prostate cancer, but may decrease your risk of lethal prostate cancer — which is much more important,” Dahut shares.
Do you know your genetic risk?
In the real world, men would not know their polygenic risk score, but both doctors say that could change in the coming years.
For now, you can get some sense of your genetic risk based on family history, though that’s not the whole story, Dahut adds. Having a father or brother with prostate cancer more than doubles your risk of developing the disease, according to the ACS.
Based on the latest findings, Kibel says he suspects that a healthy lifestyle would help lower the excess risk linked to family history.
There was no evidence that lifestyle changed the risk of lethal prostate cancer among men at lower genetic risk. That, Kibel says, may be because few of those men died of the disease — making it hard for any lifestyle measure to show an impact.
However, there are plenty of reasons beyond prostate cancer for men to adopt healthy habits, both doctors add.
“People are generally happier when they’re in good physical shape,” Kibel notes.
He also encourages men to learn about their family medical history. While women typically have a good sense of that, Kibel says, he has found that male patients usually don’t know if any relatives have had prostate cancer.


2012 Challenger SRT8 392 w/ Zoomers
Took delivery of my new 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 392 and had the dealership install my Zoomers Exhaust off of my 2010 SRT for free. Here's a quick clip of what it sounds like.
2009 Dodge Challenger RT Start Up, Exhaust, In Depth Tour, and Test Drive
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2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 Start Up, Exterior/ Interior Review
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2012 SRT8 Corsa Xtreme Exhaust
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Have a nice secret sound&story adventure.


The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d’affaires of the Kingdom of Netherlands to Ankara on Saturday in protest at two parliamentary motions to recognize the 1915 incidents as genocide of the Armenians.
“We understand that some Dutch politicians have an agenda of presenting motions supporting Armenian allegations to the Dutch House of Representatives in the upcoming weeks,” Spokesperson of the Ministry Hami Aksoy said in a press release. “Turkey’s approach vis-a-vis the events of 1915 is based upon historical facts and legal norms. Established ruling cases in the European law registered the fact that the events of 1915 constitute a legitimate subject of debate. “This being the case, the attempts to take the events of 1915, which is a sensitive matter for Turkey and the Turkish nation, out of its historical and legal context to politicize the issue cannot be accepted,” Aksoy stressed. “In this context, we invite Dutch politicians to review their prejudiced stance towards Turkey and avoid politicizing history. “If the Netherlands wishes to contribute to the solution of this historical issue, they could support the proposal we have been suggesting persistently since 2005 as to form an independent Joint Historical Commission open to scholars of Ottoman History.
“Our views and expectations on this issue — have been conveyed to the Charge D’affaires of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands who was summoned to the Ministry,” he added.
Members of the Dutch ruling coalition stated support to two proposals by the conservative Christian Union (CU) MPs to be debated in the coming weeks.
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Dr Malik Baloch holds an emergency press conference in Quetta after the murder of 22 people.
More than 13.1 million people will exercise their right of vote in the LG polls today, the largest in KP's history.
Family members and relatives of those killed in Mastung massacre protested with victims' bodies laid beside them.
this year's toll is the second highest in India's history.
About 200 demonstrators from each group stood outside the mosque in Phoenix, Arizona to demonstrate.
Khan improved to 31-3 with his fifth victory in a row, which came by judges' scores of 117-111, 117-111 and 115-113.
Information minister says the attempt to attack Gaddafi stadium was foiled by the gallantry of a police official.
Ogra recommends to bring down GST on diesel to 17 per cent to prevent a surge in prices ahead of Ramazan.
Successive blasts targeted a mosque inside Camp Kasim on the island of Jolo, which is long plagued by Islamic militancy.
It was noted that majority of polling staff had set up separate polling booths for women voters at the polling stations.


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2022 Experience Review | 5 Stars
#anawesomeexperience #southpointepark #miamibeachlifestyle
For me, it is self evident to start out this 2022 blog with the South Pointe Pier, located in South Beach, in the mythical city of Miami Beach…
…I absolutely love this place, with simply awesome views of the pier, South Beach, and the Miami skyline!
Great place for a walk, for biking, skating, people watching, and enjoying the beautiful scenic views!
In this place, regardless of the state of being I find myself before getting there, always ends up making me feel quite awesome!
Highly recommended! Definitely worth the trip…
Have fun and enjoy!
ALFIE S. A.
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The South Pointe Pier is a great place for the active athletic South Beach lifestyle, you can go walking, running, biking, roller blading, and practice many other fun action sports!
Great for an afternoon stroll… Or at anytime, really…
It is also a great place to contemplate nature, reflect and meditate in a spectacular setting!
The pier is located right next to world famous South Beach…
Not only do you get the pier and its awesome views to the Atlantic Ocean and South Beach, but the vistas of the Miami skyline are unbelievable!
You will see all kinds of water enthusiasts having fun and enjoying themselves in their personalized vessels, such as waterskis, speed and sailboats, and yachts…
You can even take your phone with you… But then again, you probably shouldn’t…
The views are just spectacular here…
It is also an awesome place to just hang out, be cool, and take up some sunshine!
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South Pointe Pier Miami Beach
Address: 1 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Specific Area South Beach City Miami Beach County / Region Dade County
From Miami: 25 to 40 minutes depending on traffic, 5.5 miles or 9 km
From Miami Beach: 15 to 25 minutes depending on traffic, 2.5 miles or 4 km
From Fort Lauderdale: 35 minutes to 1 hour depending on traffic, 32 miles or 51 km
Boca Raton: 50 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes depending on traffic, 49 miles or 79 km
Palm Beach: 1 to 2 hours depending on traffic, 75 miles or 120 km

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Mountain Biking Highlight
Only for walkers released, yet one of the longest trails in the area. Highly recommended.
The best trail in the vicinity. With about 10km length and S1 from time to time S2 very good mobile in absolutely idyllic area ...
Very nice trail! In the wet because of the roots very slippery, but in dry weather to drive incredibly well.CAUTION: It is a hiking trail, bicycles are not allowed there.
Hammertrail, great to ride on both sides.
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The smoky grey clouds, admire emissions from flip-of-the-century steam locomotives, floated over the in any other case rolling, green Northern Pocono Mountains on a most modern Memorial Day weekend. May per chance per chance they’ve been hints of the rental's railroad previous?
The weed-sprouting observe, supporting a diesel engine, a stainless-steel New York Central, and three maroon, Pennsylvania Railroad coaches subsequent to the Wayne County Traffic Center, had been poised for his or her 13: 00, 25-mile budge to Hawley and Lackawaxen because the “Lackawaxen Restricted,” operated by the Stourbridge Line's Delaware, Lackawaxen, and Stourbridge Railroad Company. From rail's previous, apparently grew rail's display conceal.
Having been operated by the Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, and inaugurating tourist prepare service as a ways abet as September of 1979, the Stourbridge Line ran for added than three decades as an earlier rendition, ceasing operations on December 11, 2011, earlier than the display conceal Delaware , Lackawaxen, and Stourbridge Railroad Company, budge by the Myles Community, re-plied the tracks as of May per chance per chance 9, 2015.
A 50-minute force from Scranton to Honesdale, a seek for of Main Side road, a dash in the Wayne County Ancient Society Museum, and a series of brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, data books, and rental-connected literature deposited me right here, on the picket platform, surrounded by an rising in finding of the prepare's passengers.
The prepare's railroad history, although silently refined, regarded to debate with me. A look over the coaches revealed town's Victorian structure, which, as a preserved pocket, regarded to maintain withstood the tick of time, and subsequent to the brick, keep window carrying company center was a observe-connected replica of a picket coal wagon displayed on an incline. Rails clearly connected town with its previous.
A plaque outside of the historical society proclaimed, “Delaware and Hudson Canal. Terminus of the waterway uniting the Hudson and Delaware rivers. Built 1825 to 1828. A gravity railroad feeder reached Carbondale. For 70 years the anthracite substitute outlet for the issue.”
As I heard the “All Aboard” cry of the conductor-a digital tone- and pitch-ideal echo of the instruction given by trainmen for virtually two centuries-and inched in the direction of the coach with my fellow passengers, I noticed that one thing referring to the rental had drawn me to its previous.
The put apart, to illustrate, was the Delaware and Hudson Canal and what relation, if any, did it favor to this “Gravity Railroad,” with which Honesdale regarded synonymous?
Settling into my seat in automobile # 1993, “Clinton Leech,” which had once been operated by the New Jersey Central Railroad, I belief of the philosophy shared by Sir Arthur Pinero, an English actor, dramatist, and stage director who had lived between 1855 and 1934. “The display conceal is the previous again, entered by means of one other gate,” he had philosophized.
As the prepare would ply the tracks to its destination in the display conceal, I’d try to stamp the rental's history to its previous.
A transient, locomotive-tugging jolt, preceded by the mandatory whistle, increased automobile coupling tension until the chain formed by the four coaches crept away in forward momentum brotherly love, crossing Route 191, the put apart vehicles had mute as witnesses of its departure.
A laborious walk, amid the protesting shrieks of its wheels, propelled the Lackawaxen Restricted into an arboreal tunnel of green, because it paralleled the roughly named Lackawaxen River, whose oil-hued floor, admire a mirror, reflected the trees, earlier than squeezing previous coach and caboose cradled siding observe.
Increasing fade manifested itself as coach sway, because the lateral rocking – excuse the rhyme-took the display conceal away, transporting me to the rental's previous. Half it collectively, I commanded my mind!
Canals and railroads shared both a geographical and logical origin right here. In the case of Honesdale, they looked to be the identical.
Situated in Wayne County, in northeast Pennsylvania, town was 35 miles from Scranton (I had pushed it myself) and 150 miles from Philadelphia. To this point, that was now not very principal.
Established in 1798, the county itself was named after Popular Anthony Wayne, a Revolutionary War hero who had received notoriety when he ended Indian resistance and destroyed the Northwest Indian Confederation in the Wrestle of Fallen Timbers.
Separated from the County of Northampton in 1798, Wayne County was established, on the present time encompassing 744 sq. miles.
Its seat of authorities diverse over time-from Wilsonville to Millford, Bethany, and, as of May per chance per chance 4, 1841, the very Honesdale wherein the prepare originated. I ponder the put apart its name came from, nonetheless, extra importantly, what introduced other folks to certain areas to originate up with? Most likely a diagram in and a diagram out and one thing to transport in either or both directions.
A observe on the Wayne County Ancient Society's plaque, which I had jotted down in my notebook, struck me: “Anthracite.” I attain now not know if this was a household observe in Pennsylvania, nonetheless it regarded fundamental-fundamental ample for a dig into my laptop laptop for its which suggests. And, certain ample, “dig” was, unknowingly, a pretty appropriate observe with which to affiliate it.
Because of it was mined from the earth's oldest geological formations and was as a result of this truth subjected to the most spicy amount of warmth and stress, anthracite, a vary of coal, was ready to operate much extra heat vitality than its softer, geologically younger counterpart, placing it in principal inquire in rising The united states to gas its home hearths, manufacturing facility furnaces, and steam-powered machines and locomotives-now not that there had been any of these round-finally now not but.
Even when heavy mining in the issue in the unhurried-1800s to early-1900s depleted most of its present, excluding for that also in very deep, sophisticated to realize deposits, it ranked as one in every of the three most principal fossil fuels, alongside with oil and natural gas.
So, for a establishing, rising industrial-primarily primarily primarily based nation, it was identical to gold. What remained, I explain, was study the technique to get it from right here to there.
The answer, again, looked to be inscribed on the Ancient Society's plaque: “Delaware and Hudson Canal.” It was time for added digging.
William Wurts was an early explorer of what was then identified because the anthracite mine fields, viewing this rich northeast Pennsylvania vitality source as a doubtlessly monetarily rich one. Buying gargantuan parcels of land the put apart it was located, alongside with brothers Charles and Maurice, in 1812 for little cash, he apparently noticed price about a others did.
Coal extraction was the first step in his notion. Transporting it to market, in particular to the Philadelphia one, was the second. But that formula, by skill of barge-plying canal, had hitherto confirmed now not up to efficient, since many of the dear coal commodity was misplaced enroute. There had to be one other-and better-manner. He believed there was.
Impressed by the fair as of late built Erie Canal and spurred by the root that a the same waterway would possibly per chance most certainly present New York City, he realized that he would possibly per chance most certainly create his maintain-on this case, the plaque-noted Delaware and Hudson Canal, which became the first lengthy- distance transportation route chartered by the states of Pennsylvania and New York in 1823.
Threading its manner by means of a narrow valley between the Shawagunk Ridge and the Catskill Mountains, it followed-or, extra correct, became-a 108-mile waterway to the Hudson River cease to Kingston.
Why now not rent the ultimate to whole his notion? That is precisely what Wurts and brothers did, contracting Erie Canal engineer Benjamin Wright to glimpse and notion the artery, whereafter floor was broken in July of 1825. Their $ 1.6 million imaginative and prescient, requiring three years of constructing and a pair of,500 laborers to whole, was remodeled into water-flowing truth in October of 1828.
Its origin, between Kingston and Rosendale, New York, from the put apart it connected to the New York-budge Hudson River, followed the Rondout Creek to Ellenville, passing by means of the villages of Sandburg Creek, Homowak Murder, and Basher Murder, by means of the Neversink River (what a recognition to retain!) and on to Port Jervis. Proceeding, in a northwesterly direction on the New York facet of the Delaware River, it entered Pennsylvania alongside the northern bank of the Lackawaxen River (at the moment framed by my coach's left facet window) to Honesdale.
Visions occasionally outpace technology. That phenomenon no doubt performed out right here. Water was buoyant, supporting barges, nonetheless offered little propulsion for walk back and forth from origin to destination, leaving mules as “motors,” which floor out a 15-to 20-day to day mile protection. Supersonic they had been now not.
You would possibly per chance well most certainly per chance also lead a horse to water, according to the adage, nonetheless now not basically alongside of it, leaving humans as primitive GPS guides of them alongside the towpaths.
They also periodically pumped mounting water from the barges and refueled the four-legged engines, identified in the 19th-century as “feeding.” The wage was all of $ 3.00-per month, now not per day.
Necessity, to make certain, bred innovation in the venture, including such civil engineering “firsts” as river-spanning aqueducts to minimize walk back and forth times and the unearthing of cement in the Rosendale rental by John Roebling, who would later use it someday of constructing of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The canal no doubt facilitated transport to Kingston after which down the Hudson to New York, nonetheless how was the coal transferred from the mines to the ready for barges? It was abet to the plaque.
It mentioned a term I had never heard, nor in particular desired to: “Gravity Railroad.” Why emphasize the invisible force which ensured that trains remained on their tracks-or, for that topic, all the pieces else on the floor? Net, right here I come!
Attention-grabbing. I’m again again amazed at how human ingenuity substituted for technical engineering. As the locomotive, albeit of diesel energy, at the moment pulled my prepare, the arena out my window, no topic perception to the opposite, remained stationary. This Gravity Railroad employed a thought that was virtually inverse, in that the engine remained stationary, nonetheless finally the vehicles it pulled moved.
Canals over the Moosic Mountains to Honesdale for interchange and onward walk back and forth alongside the Delaware and Hudson waterway had been now not feasible, leaving the laying of tracks on which coal-laden sleds and wagons would possibly per chance most certainly budge because the assorted for the first segment of the New York-budge scurry.
But again Benjamin Wright, allowing the wheels of his brain to flip (right here is, in spite of all the pieces, what made him an engineer), envisioned these for a prepare, turning heading in the valid direction, and suggesting a railroad primarily primarily primarily based upon the thought that embodied in the Delaware and Hudson Gravity name, that would, finally partly, be powered by that natural, earth-supplied force.
What goes up, as is properly identified, must come down. But that first portion posed a downside, for, while gravity would attain an admirable, never-unimaginative job on the second, some sort of engine was wanted for the first.
Initiating off in the coal fields of Carbondale, at a 1,200-foot elevation, a 16-mile observe stretched to Honesdale, first mountaineering to 1,907 feet at Rux's Gap by mans of 5 west facet inclined planes, whose vehicles had been vertically hauled by stationary, steam -powered engines or winches, after which horizontally traveled all the diagram in which by means of them. Three declining ones facilitated descent on the east facet, all the manner down to a 975-foot elevation, although right here, obviously, gravity changed all need for motive energy.
Steam engine-to-automobile connections diverse because the formula was improved, starting up with two drums and a series, progressing to hemp cables with 7.5-trek diameters, and ending with steel ones.
The vehicles themselves had been originate, nonetheless crowned with roofs and internally provisioned with bench seating. In the reverse direction, horses pulled them from Honesdale earlier than they would possibly per chance most certainly very properly be cable-secured to the Moosic Mountain in-and declined planes.
The 16 miles of in any other case slightly flat floor posed little engineering obstacle. Or did it? Right here, neither the stationary steam engines nor the brigade of horses had been optimistic, with the latter requiring their very maintain care and repairs. What was wanted was an instrument with the engine's mechanical, wood-or coal-burning energy, nonetheless that was now not restricted to its single space. The answer to that spot shall be straightforward now (my prepare was being pulled by one), nonetheless now not basically then. No topic man takes with no consideration was, at one time, an innovation of engineering, a brand fresh-fangled development to be proclaimed to the arena.
Enormous Britain, in the match-now not the US-was the birthplace of railroading. Yet, on the time, it was a painful passage down the canal on this facet of the Atlantic that spurred the technology that will most certainly ameliorate it on the opposite facet.
Nonetheless, if stationary steam engines existed, what referring to the practicality of refining them in insist that they would possibly per chance most certainly very properly be remodeled into shifting ones?
Skeptics had been rampant. Nonetheless, all of it all over again took an engineer-on this case, Delaware and Hudson Chief Engineer John B. Jervis-to flip the imaginative and prescient in his mind into the truth on his observe.
Contented that this skill now not finest existed, nonetheless that it held the main to a future, rail-primarily primarily primarily based transportation mode, he sent his young protégé, Horatio Allen, all the diagram in which by means of the pond in 1828 to brainstorm, alongside with England's maintain engineers, a real, efficient steam locomotive that will most certainly cloak a tight distance in a comparatively quick time. He was equally tasked with shopping the required strap iron to cloak the floor of the in any other case picket observe.
The distance all the diagram in which by means of the ocean did nothing to skew the accepted belief between Jervis and George Stephenson and son, Robert, who had been belief to be the reigning experts in the fledgling railroad substitute, that this was the lengthy budge. They themselves had been in the formula of designing lawful this form of locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
John Urpeth Rastrick, who had taken out a patent for the steam engine as early as 1814 and had since formed his maintain Foster Rastrick Company in the City of Stourbridge, was contracted to achieve the Gravity Railroad's first locomotive, the eight-ton, $ 2,914.90 ” Stourbridge Lion, “so designated as a result of its boiler sported a painted lion's head.
Subjected to its maintain intermodal transport, it was first shipped from Stourbridge earlier than being loaded on to a ship for the transatlantic crossing, arriving in New York on May per chance per chance 13, 1829, the put apart it partook of a static demonstration at a foundry.
Placed on its designated Honesdale observe three months later, on August 5, it was poised for its inaugural budge, about which Jervis wrote to Delaware and Hudson president Bolton, “We shall set up steam on her the next day or the next day,” including that ” terror raises as we diagram the length when our contrivances must come to their touchstone of experiment. ”
Opening the throttle, Horatio Allen triggered the fresh-fangled engine to puff and chug on the three miles of picket observe, confronted with wrought iron straps, which laid on a 30-foot-high, Lackawaxen River crossing trestle, in the formula inaugurating steam locomotive service in the US.
“The united states's first steam locomotive, the 'Stourbridge Lion,' sent Honesdale and all of Wayne County into the history books when, on August 8, 1829, the incredible 'iron horse,' with its grasshopper legs and a lion's face painted on its boiler head, chugged up the observe on this very town, “noted the” Wayne County Ancient Society's Publication “(Quantity 32, #1, January-March 2017).
Due to engine's smokestack was too immense to clear an overhead bridge, ti would possibly per chance most certainly finest walk back and forth as a ways as Seelyville earlier than it had to come abet, now backwards oriented. Nonetheless, history had been written on the rails that day. The united states had entered the railroading generation.
“I started with principal fade, passed the curve over the creek safely, and was soon out of hearing of the cheers of the gargantuan assemblage display conceal,” Allen later outlined. “On the pause of two or three miles, I reversed the valves and returned with out accident to the space of starting up, having thus made the first railroad day out in the Western Hemisphere.”
Its glory was transient. Even when the locomotive's success would possibly per chance most certainly now not be discounted, that of the observe on which it ran was now not. It was too primitive to toughen the persisted ply of iron locomotives and coal-laden vehicles, and charges to toughen it proved prohibitive.
Kept in a Honesdale shed until 1848, the Stourbridge Lion was then transferred to Carbondale, the put apart its boiler was removed and offered for stationary applications, leaving its observe for horse use after planks had been laid all the diagram in which by means of them.
Even when it was the pause of the line for the “Lion,” it no doubt paved the manner in the direction of extra developed engines and properly reinforced steel rails, all of which united and fostered the growth of the nation.
Its boiler, cylinder, and walking beam had been subsequently obtained by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and formed the partly normal steam locomotive exhibit in its Corridor of Transport.
Now it made sense-that’s, the second plaque outside of the Wayne County Ancient Society Museum, which mentioned, “A replica of the fundamental Stourbridge Lion, first steam locomotive budge on rails in the US, August 8, 1829, is housed right here Beside it is Eclipse, normal passenger coach on the Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad. ”
It also now made sense why Honesdale was belief to be the “Birthplace of The united states's commercial railroad.”
The society itself was housed in a brick structure built in 1860 because the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's headquarters and town, once identified as Dyberry Forks, was renamed for Philip Hone, one in every of the canal transportation machine's planners. My prepare's departure point, I also learned, had once been its boat basin, or transfer point of coal, from the Gravity Railroad to barges for the 108-mile scurry to Kingston. The picket automobile viewed earlier than boarding had symbolized it.
The utilization of the conventional blueprint, the Wayne County Ancient Society Museum's paunchy-scale, 0-40 locomotive replica, constructed in 1933 in Colonie, New York, retailers by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company, was displayed on the Country of Development Exhibition in Chicago and on the 1939-1940 New York World's Generous, earlier than being placed on permanent display conceal at its most modern space.
That features a 17.4-foot wheelbase, engine, and soft size, a 4.3-foot observe gauge, and a four-foot-diameter boiler, it weighed between seven and ten lots, according to the museum. Burning coal, it produced nine horsepower and had a 1,750-to 2,000-pound tractive effort.
The adjacent “Eclipse” parlor automobile, with its ash within, 20 elegantly upholstered, direction-reversible seats, hand-stenciled ceiling, picket shutters, and paymaster's buggy, represented these namely worn by the Gravity Railroad between Honesdale and Carbondale in 1920. had a 29.3-foot total size, a 24-trek wheel diameter, and a 6.9-foot ceiling.
A jolt of my coach took me out of the rental's previous and redeposited me in the display conceal. A glint of solar, piercing the metal ceiling, transferred the Lackawaxen River, alongside whose banks the prepare persisted to snake, into a mirror of Mica.
Screaming with protesting divulge because the accordion of vehicles stretched their curve-rounding couplings after which settling into slightly straight-observe silence, the prepare approached White Mills.
Situated between Honesdale and Hawley, the Lackawaxen Restricted's intermediate cease on Route 6 in Wayne County, its display conceal sleepy, abet-river solitude served as a pointy distinction to the commercial bustle it once offered. And the blue stone constructing with its sky-extending chimney fleetingly viewed by means of the tree clearing because the prepare clanged over the avenue's railroad crossing, gave little extra than a trek of that generation. A pitcher manufacturing facility it once was, I learned, of Dorflinger repute.
After serving an eight-one year apprenticeship in glass blowing, slicing, and adorning on the Cristalleries de Saint-Louis in France, Christian Dorflinger immigrated to the US in 1865, settling in White Mills, Pennsylvania, and establishing his maintain glass manufacturing facility. On the starting up constituting seven cramped, sloped-roof employee homes that resembled these in France, he expanded the advanced to encompass 33 of them by 1869, enabling 182 workers and their households to be accommodated.
His noted, exquisitely reduce lead crystal, synonymous with class, soon graced many elite residences, including that of the White Dwelling.
Even when the manufacturing facility closed in 1921, its stone constructing, some workers homes, the corporate space of enterprise, and the shop maintain since reopened to the general public.
One more mosey by means of the arboreal tunnel preceded the sparks, screeches, and wheel-to-rail grinds that arrested the prepare's momentum and introduced it to a cease on a curving observe portion subsequent to Hawley's wood-planked platform at 13: 45 after a nine- mile easterly stir by means of the Northern Pocono Mountains.
Love Honesdale, it had its maintain railroad roots.
At the delivery identified as Paupack Eddy, it adopted its most modern name from Irad Hawley, president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, who built his maintain gravity railroad, after seeing the price it offered in connecting with the Delaware and Hudson Canal. Indisputably one of his vehicles is on display conceal on the general public library.
Modified by accepted locomotives in 1885, it yielded to the Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad, which made its inaugural budge from Hawley to Dunmore that one year.
Crossing Route 6 and traversing a trestle, the Lackawaxen Restricted, afforded a watch of the homes defining Hawley, started its penetration of the woodland on the longer of its two segments. Steel-to-metal, wheel-to-observe interface no doubt gave the senses a workout: admire flint, their sparks sent tendrils of pre-combustion ignition up the nostrils and their shrieks pierced the ears admire fingernails on a blackboard.
The quick, white, fence put up-akin to mile markers persisted to flick by out the left facet windows: JC 121, JC 120, JC 119-remnants of the “Jersey City” observe over which the prepare now virtually about galloped, counting all the manner down to the starting up of its line.
Also never waning from see was the Lackawaxen River, which primarily flowed by means of the rural Northern Pocono Mountains and had a 598-sq.-mile drainage rental. It passed by means of Honesdale and Hawley, the put apart it was joined accomplish the southwest by the Wallenpaupack Creek and thence persisted eastward for float into the Delaware River in town of Lackawaxen, the prepare's terminus.
This, in respond to my quiz upon boarding, was the coal-transporting canal.
Having served as a transportation artery from the early 18th-century, it facilitated the waft of bundled logs to the Delaware River, destined either for Easton, Pennsylvania, or Trenton, New Jersey, having annually carried some 50 million board of walk. May per chance per chance this had been the appropriate origin of the coal-transporting thought?
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, then the largest non-public commercial venture, employed a series of 28 locks, which raised the canal water level by 278 feet, nonetheless, admire every early visions, once technology had eclipsed its see, it became quick-sighted .
When it was realized that observe-finest transport of passengers, freight, walk, and coal was feasible with a New Jersey routing in 1898, the now admired, nonetheless then uninteresting and inefficient intermodal Gravity Railroad and canal transportation machine was superfluous. The latter's overflow dams had been opened and the water was drained.
I’m in a position to also finest imagine what number of of these stepping stones to development will must had been employed all the diagram in which by means of history.
As the brakes screeched a final time on a large curve in front of little extra than a picket bench marking the in any other case beyond-see town of Lackawaxen at 15: 00 after one other 16-mile segment from Hawley and a 25-mile collective one from Honesdale , I descended the coach's three steps to the floor.
The observe on the abet of the prepare snaked in the direction of the rental's previous and, after the locomotive had been repositioned on a siding, would return me to my Honesdale origin, leaving, until then, silence amidst towering trees and a pine needle blanketed floor as testomony to man's imaginative and prescient and the history, by means of technology, he had manifested right here. I belief of Sir Arthur Pinero's prophesy-that the previous was lawful the display conceal, entered by means of one other gate. May per chance per chance I even maintain done precisely that on the present time, I puzzled?
“Wayne County Ancient Society Publication,” Quantity 32, #1, January-March 2017.


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1 prepared pizza crust, par baked
1 cup Ranch dressing combined with 1/2-1 tsp. chipotle sauce, or to taste
2 cups shredded Monterey Jack or mozzarella cheese
2 cups chopped, cooked chicken
6 slices bacon, cooked, drained, crumbled
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Top pizza crust with seasoned Ranch dressing, spreading out as needed. Sprinkle with 1 1/2 cups cheese; top evenly chicken and bacon. Sprinkle remaining half cup of cheese over the top.
Bake pizza, uncovered, on center rack of oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly. Serve at once.

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Price$ 4,950.00 (AUD)
Toshiba's 2.8kg Tecra M4 series is the company's third tablet PC release, and the Tecra M4 P-M 770 is one of the most powerful tablets we've seen to date.
A Wacom-designed pressure-sensitive digitiser is built-in behind the machine's 14.1in shock-protected display to provide a more accurate response. The display itself is protected by a thin protective polycarbonate panel, and natively supports a resolution of 1400 x 1050 pixels, driven by a 128MB Nvidia GeForce FX Go 6600 PCI Express graphics controller.
The Tecra M4 series features all the latest-generation Intel Centrino technologies. We tested the P-M 770, which comes with an Intel Pentium M 770 (2.13GHz) processor combined with 1GB of PC4200 DDR2 memory, a 5400rpm 80GBhard disk and a double-layer DVD burner that's swappable with a second battery or hard disk.
For networking, it has built-in Gigabit Ethernet, a 56Kbps modem, infrared and 802.11a/b/g wireless networking. Bluetooth is optional.
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A six-cell battery, rated for 3-4 hours, is bundled as standard. A standard one-year warranty also applies (you can opt to extend this).
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The Michael Grandage Company have announced the UK première of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51. Academy award-winning actress Nicole Kidman will star as Rosalind Franklin.
The production reunites Kidman and Grandage following their recent collaboration on the forthcoming feature film Genius.
Photograph 51 opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on 14th September (previews from 5th September) and runs until 21st November 2015. Photograph 51 sees the return of MGC to the West End following their critically acclaimed season in 2013/14, also at the Noel Coward Theatre.
Michael Grandage said: “We’re thrilled to be returning to the West End with Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51 at such a vibrant time for London theatre. At the heart of all our work is a desire to make theatre accessible to everyone – we are delighted to offer a quarter of all the tickets for the run, over 20,000 tickets, for Photograph 51 at just £10, continuing our commitment to stage productions of the highest quality at affordable prices.”