Within the national network, the Michigan Spatial Reference System consists of twenty-four permanent CORS across the state, with four residing in St. Clair County. At twelve feet tall, the stations resemble futuristic light poles, mounted on cement bases that run twelve feet into the ground. In other parts of the United States, CORS are located on the roofs of buildings. Testing has found those sites to be less accurate than the Michigan stations that are mounted on a deep cement base, probably due to the instability of a frame building and the ever-present reflective surfaces and obstructions that cause noise in the GPS solution. The CORS system technology is catching on across Michigan and the nation because it saves a tremendous amount of money. This is due to the fact that time spent surveying a site is almost cut in half by using the CORS system.
CORS in St. Clair County, MichiganChuck Koob, an engineer at BMJ Engineers and Surveyors Inc., Port Huron, Mich., and Bob Kreger, PLS, an engineer-surveyor for the St. Clair County Road Commission heard about the CORS technology from Rick Sauve, technical sales representative for Leica Geosystems.
At the 2001 Michigan Surveyors Conference, Sauve was informing his customers of a project by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to set up the Michigan Spatial Reference System. Rick informed the surveyors that MDOT had agreed to handle all the positioning, integrity monitoring and data archiving of the CORS if counties invested in constructing one. That inspired Koob and Kreger to call a meeting to discuss the idea.
Funding for the construction of the CORS in St. Clair County came through Michigan's Remonumentation Fund. Every time a document is recorded at the Register of Deeds, a fee is collected by the state and given back in the form of a grant through the Remonumentation Fund. Larry O'Keefe, environmental services director and remonumentation grant administrator, spearheaded the CORS project. O'Keefe and Troy Feltman, St. Clair County administrator, worked persistently on the paperwork required for the CORS system.
The project was a joint effort between several county departments: landfill, metropolitan planning, road commission, lands and graphics, drain office and MDOT's transportation design survey division. MDOT was pleased by the CORS project because it will greatly enhance the network across the state. There is no fee to use the CORS; anyone who uses advanced GPS techniques will benefit.
Overcoming ObstaclesThe need for a survey crew to set up a temporary base station is eliminated with the CORS system. Traditionally, when a surveyor (the "rover") collects GPS points in the field, a temporary base station is set up on a known (the base) point. By simultaneously observing a minimum of five Navstar GPS satellites at both locations, a very precise 3-D vector measurement is computed between base and rover. When this computed vector (dx,dy,dz) is applied to the base station coordinate, a new rover position is calculated. This entire process of computing a new rover position is performed 10 times a second. The geographic data collected includes latitude, longitude, and elevation, earth-centered Cartesian (X, Y and Z) or local coordinates (N, E, elevation) and is centimeter accurate. Simply, CORS are permanent reference stations with a fixed point on the earth, an unchanging X, Y and Z value.
Under normal circumstances, a standard UHF 450-470 MHz radio signal is emitted ten times per second from each station, reaching in excess of five miles from the base via radio link. However, utilizing these radio frequencies presented a problem in Michigan because St. Clair County shares a 37-mile border with Canada. The Canadian itinerate frequencies are in the 430 - 450 MHz bandwidth, and cross-pollination of U.S.-based itinerated frequencies with Canada's is regulated by international law. As a result of this radio issue, St. Clair County turned to the newest technologies linked to the existing cell tower network and wireless Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) to deliver the real-time kinematic (RTK) corrections to the surveyors working in the county.
The radio frequency problem was a major hurdle in making the St. Clair County project work. The whole idea behind the CORS technology is for a surveyor, base station and a satellite to communicate. The solution, inspired by Brian Breise, information technology (IT) director for St. Clair County, was to use unregulated cellular frequencies for the radio link. Normally, CORS are built with a radio transmitter onsite. Instead, Breise has each of four CORS in the county linked via the IT network to a phone modem bank housed at the St. Clair County administration office building in Port Huron, as well as the state web server in Lansing. A surveyor can use a cell phone in the field to call the phone number for the CORS housed at the administration building. That call accesses the CORS data stream, providing the surveyor with real-time data.
The St. Clair county system is also equipped to transmit wireless CDPD information. In an area with good wireless coverage, a surveyor in the field could access the data from a CORS via the wireless modem built into a GPS receiver. Accessing a station in this way would eliminate the need for a radio or cellular phone, and it would be much faster and easier to operate, eliminating some hardware, cables and batteries. However, densification of CDPD within St. Clair County is an expensive endeavor and CDPD will soon be replaced with the newer Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system.
In addition to real-time surveying applications, surveyors can verify and adjust field data by post processing it in coincidence with the data collected simultaneously at the CORS via the MDOT's design survey division CORS website. The other alternative is to collect data in the field and upload it to the National Geodetic Survey's (NGS) Online Processing Users Service (OPUS) website. With at least two hours of collected dual frequency data, the website will E-mail back to the surveyor a precise position of where the data was collected.
This post processing method does not enable a surveyor to extrapolate or stakeout a position in real time. It only facilitates the positioning of fixed locations established in the field. The method of post processing is straightforward and conveniently brings state plane coordinate data to a local survey location, but now surveyors in St. Clair County with a cell phone can immediately get the data in real time, with no post processing.
Reaping the Rewards of CORS: Time and Money SavingsIndividuals from private engineering companies like Michael J. Rossow, PS, senior program/project manager of Tetra Tech MPS, Richmond, Mich., are embracing the CORS system. Rossow indicated that the cost of an expensive GPS unit is offset by the fact that one survey staff member spends just 25 percent of the time formerly utilized by a two-person crew in the field, and radios do not have to be purchased because of the cellular link. They are also finding the retrieval of data to be fast, user-friendly and accurate. Leica's representative Sauve said, "GPS crews save countless hours of time by not having to set up their own base station for the day's work and performing sufficient field checks to insure the authenticity of their base station location."
Savings are also achieved when points don't have to be re-surveyed. The values obtained by GPS are "fixed in time and space' and can be located by any competent surveyor equipped with a high precision dual frequency GPS receiver. If a point has already been located with GPS, that point may never have to be surveyed again. Any surveyor with a survey grade GPS unit can enter the coordinate values prior to going into the field, eliminating the repetitious need to locate that point again.
The county has also noted the savings created by the CORS system. O'Keefe said the expensive GPS equipment that was purchased to access the frequencies emitted from the towers paid for itself within the first year and a half. These savings are primarily due to a decrease in the time required to perform the survey work necessary in maintaining a landfill facility.
Future Benefits of CORSThe St. Clair County project is creating quite a buzz in the realm of surveying and construction engineering. The county is on the cutting edge of satellite-based GPS, and is considered a model project worldwide, according to Sauve. He said, "The St. Clair County Michigan Spatial Reference Network project is looked upon both nationally and internationally as a prime example of how GPS technology can enable the seamless exchange of centimeter level geo-spatial data between private and government entities." Sauve explained that the St. Clair County reference stations facilitate the use of "one receiver" phase data collection on a contiguous coordinate system.
Sauve also noted that, as the St. Clair County CORS become more recognized and utilized by the government and private sector organizations, more advances will follow. These technological developments could include improved machine control operations, crime scene investigations, maritime construction and precise navigation, county-wide digital terrain modeling and emergency vehicle tracking. "Certainly," he said, "the St. Clair County reference station network will provide the citizens of St. Clair County with applications that have not yet been invented, which will enable cost savings and tax money resources for years to come."
The Michigan Spatial Reference System has already detected minute changes in Michigan's elevation, known to geologists as glacial rebound. The reference stations are also very sensitive to water vapor. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) can analyze data from the CORS and determine the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which helps meteorologists determine weather patterns.
NGS Declares Michigan CORS the BestThe NGS, which is a branch of NOAA, studied the CORS network in the United States and its territories. The findings of the study were accumulated in a poster paper titled "Evaluating Pseudorange Multipath Effects at Stations in the National CORS Network" in October 2002. The main objectives of the study were to identify the most affected and least affected sites in the network, to closely investigate problematic sites and to compare various receiver/antenna combinations. Over 390 sites were compared. The study found that the location and mounting base affected the performance of the stations, as well as equipment combinations. Many negatively affected sites had signal interference from other sources.
The least affected sites were the state networks installed in Ohio and Michigan; these sites used excellent antenna mounts, choke ring antennas, and new receiver technology. The CORS located at the Smiths Creek Landfill (OKEE) in St. Clair County, rated the best overall performer in the Americas! In fact, the top sixteen performing stations in the study were all in the Michigan network.
The Michigan network is not only a benefit to those surveyors who use it within the state; anyone using advanced survey techniques needing a reference point can use the system. Surveyors from all over the nation access the OKEE station routinely. On the rare occasion when that station is down, Breise's St. Clair County IT department gets calls from the state of California to fix it! Breise said, "The CORS system brings centimeter accuracy to an industry that not so long ago accepted plus or minus one foot as state-of-the-art; but then again didn't we once believe the world was flat?"
The CORS system project in St. Clair County will save hundreds of thousands of dollars in surveying costs over the next few years while improving accuracy. Potential applications involving these reference stations are only limited to the imaginations of those who creatively apply the technology.
For more technical information on the St. Clair County CORS, see www.stclaircounty.org/offices/cors/.
To learn more about specific case studies on GPS monitoring, visit www.leica-geosystems.com/solutions/engineering-monitoring/monitoring/index.htm.


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Five reasons to buy a static caravan in Yorkshire
Known as God’s own country, Yorkshire is absolutely bursting with charm, from its stunning coastline and rolling hills to its attractive towns and friendly locals.
The eastern border of Yorkshire, home to our five holiday parks with caravans for sale, boasts a 45-mile long coastline, overlooking the bracing North Sea. Combine that with a plethora of seaside towns, sprawling landscape including the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and you have a winning combination for the setting of your home away from home.
Eric Jones, one of our owners at Primrose Valley, sums life as an owner in Yorkshire up perfectly: ''I love my own holiday home at Primrose Valley! It's a great getaway with lovely surroundings and locations to visit.''
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Blue Dolphin Holiday Park enjoys views over Gristhorpe Bay, close to Filey’s beautiful beach, and with indoor and outdoor pools and a fishing lake. Primrose Valley, near Filey Bay, is a larger site, with sea views, direct beach access and a range of owners’ only facilities.
Reighton Sands, just a touch further down with views over Filey Bay, has direct access to a quiet stretch of sandy beach, a swimming pool and a lovely lazy river. Also perched on the clifftop in this region is Thornwick Bay, close to charming Flamborough and with a new Boathouse and jetty providing exciting watersports.
Finally, there’s our owners-only park, Far Grange. With direct beach access, woodland walks, an 18-hole golf course, swimming pool and fishing lake, buying a caravan here brings you into the heart of the owners’ community.
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On park mini markets
Tesco Superstore, Filey
Co-op Food, Flamborough
Tesco Superstore, Bridlington
Tesco Superstore, Hornsea
Pindar Leisure Centre, Scarborough
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East Riding Leisure, Bridlington
East Riding Leisure, Hornsea
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The largest county in the UK, there are 2.9 million acres waiting to be explored in Yorkshire, including over 800 conservation areas and two UNESCO World Heritage sites: Saltaire, a well-preserved industrial village in West Yorkshire, and Studley Royal Park and the ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire.
Our caravan parks are close to the North York Moors National Park, of which more than a fifth is made up of woodland and forest. There’s also the famed Yorkshire Dales National Park, encompassing the Three Peaks of Pen-y-Ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside. You’ll find walks to suit everyone in this region, including accessible options.
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From the birthplace and home of the Bronte sisters to the York’s Viking past, there’s so much history to explore in the region. The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth is the place to find out more about the esteemed literary family, and you can expand your literary knowledge even further with the Dracula Experience, a walking tour of Whitby that explores the novel’s relationship with the town. York’s Jorvik museum is a must-visit, especially for families, and you’ll get a true glimpse of what life was like in Viking times in an interactive setting.
Meanwhile, old meets new at the National Railway Museum, also in York, a free museum that showcases an array of different carriages from throughout the ages, many of which you can step inside.
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Yorkshire is truly a feast for the eyes and for your tastebuds, with so much produce to try whilst you’re in the region. Make like Nick Park’s animated favourite, Wallace, and sample delicious Wensleydale cheese – a medium, crumbly cheese that’s been in production since the 1500s.
They’re serious about a decent cup of tea in this part of the world, and it’s the home of Yorkshire Tea and Taylor’s of Harrogate Coffee – so a proper brew is never far away. To really treat your tastebuds, take a trip to Betty’s in York, Harrogate, Northallerton or Ilkley, a traditional tearoom with delicious sweet treats, too.
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed bills Thursday that ban gender-affirming health care for minors and "adult-oriented" performances by "male or female impersonators" in public spaces or events where children may be present. The bills were fast-tracked by the state legislature's Republican supermajority, over objections from medical groups, LGBTQ advocates, and civil libertarians. "Lee signed off on the legislation without issuing a statement or having a public ceremony," The Associated Press reports.
The gender-affirming care law bans medications like puberty blockers and hormones for any form of gender dysphoria, as well as surgeries, which are rare in Tennessee, The Tennesseean reports. Minors taking those medications have until March 31, 2024, to stop. The Tennessee chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which had urged Lee not to sign the bill, said gender-affirming care "can be lifesaving" and this ban "interferes with the physician-patient relationship and parental choice."
The American Civil Liberties Union said it will sue to block the "dangerous" and "unconstitutional law," which showcases Lee's "intent to discriminate" against transgender youth and his "willful ignorance about the life-saving health care" he seeks to ban. Stella Yarbrough, ACLU of Tennessee legal director, said the drag show law "does not make it illegal to perform in drag in Tennessee," because "drag performances are not inherently obscene," but the ACLU is "concerned that government officials could easily abuse this law to censor people based on their own subjective viewpoints of what they deem appropriate."
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Although the bill's sponsor, Rep. Chris Todd (R), has called drag shows "child abuse" and suggested they are inherently unsafe for minors, other Republican lawmakers have argued it will only ban drag shows that fall under the state's existing obscenity laws — which, Democrats noted, already protect children.
"Drag does not typically involve nudity or stripping, which are more common in the separate art of burlesque," AP reports. In fact, drag is "a form of entertainment that has long had a place on the mainstream American stage," from Milton Berle "appearing in drag on the public airwaves as early as the 1950s" to the "bona fide cultural phenomenon" of RuPaul's Drag Race, and the fact "that such spectacles are now being portrayed as a danger to children boggles the minds of people who study, perform, and appreciate drag."
Dolly Parton frequently says, "If I hadn't been a girl, I'd have been a drag queen," AP notes. "But if she really were a drag queen, one of Tennessee's most famous daughters would likely be out of a job" under this law.
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Bristol based singer-songwriter Gavin Thorpe returns with a brand new single ‘Rise Above’, released today (16th July 2021) via Distiller Records.
The follow up to Gavin’s ’Talk Club EP’, which featured the Radio 2 play-listed ‘From Now On’, ‘Rise Above’ is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming ‘Rewind’ project, an album featuring 12 songs, spanning over 20 years and collecting together re-recorded tracks from Gavin’s five albums.
Recorded pre lockdown, engineered by Sam Dyson and Produced by Gavin and his long-term partner in crime Rupert Christie the single was mixed by Sam Burden who also mixed the Talk Club EP.
Although it’s an older song, ‘Rise Above’ “felt lyrically it was as if it was written for what is happening now to all of us in the world,” explains Gavin. “It’s a song about rising above all that life throws at us”.
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What are we to make, though, of the attention Cavendish grants to John Dee and Edward Kelly? She knew of the pair’s angelic conversations through Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist. Dee and Kelly were the inspiration for the play’s characters Dr. Subtle and Capt. Face. Margaret’s husband William was one of Jonson’s patrons.
If I were to enter the John Dee rabbit hole opened by my wanting to follow up on his appearance in The Blazing World, I could practice for students the keeping of a captain’s log. Into this log I would register three semi-recent biographies of Dee: Benjamin Woolley’s from 2001, Glyn Parry’s from 2012, and Jason Louv’s from 2018. Dee will make an appearance again later in the course when we discuss the Golden Dawn.
Why does Wells propel his Time Traveler into as distant and bleak a future as the one imagined in The Time Machine? It’s the future as pictured from the standpoint and subject-position of the Traveler himself as he recounts his journey for others. Wells, meanwhile, imagined other futures elsewhere and elsewhen, as during his later years, following his split with the Fabian Society. His political ideal of those later years was the “World State”: a single global technocratic “world commonwealth,” governed by a scientific elite. In his twenties, however, Wells may have interacted for a time with a secret society of a different sort: the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His run-in with the Order is thought to have occurred in London in 1894, the year prior to the publication of The Time Machine, Wells’s first great success as a novelist. Ithell Colquhoun mentions this run-in in her book Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn — or at the very least speculates about a “Fabian contingent” within a Golden Dawn splinter group called the Order of the Stella Matutina or “Morning Star.” Colquhoun describes Wells’s 1911 short story “The Door in the Wall” as “in the line of GD tradition” (192). I find myself reading again descriptions of Golden Dawn initiation rituals, like the following from Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabitha Cicero’s Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition:
“The goal of initiation is to bring about the illumination of the human soul by the Inner and Divine Light. A true ‘initiate’ is an individual whose Higher Self (or Higher Genius) has merged with the Lower Personality and actually incarnated into the physical body. The Personality is left in charge of the day-to-day routines of living and working, but the Higher Genius is free to look out at the world through the eyes of the initiate. Through this experience, the individual is given a permanent extension of consciousness which is impossible to mistake. Many times a student of the mysteries is drawn to a particular mystical current without knowing it. A series of ‘coincidences’ and synchronicities will often direct (or sometimes shove) a person toward that current through books or through meeting other people who also have a connection with the current. During this time, the student’s psychic faculties are still relatively undeveloped, yet the inner spark has been ignited. However, a full initiation, or dawning of the Inner Light, is evident when the entire aura is illuminated.”
Of course, one can be a solitary magician. One can tap into the Golden Dawn’s magic, as Wells did, without having to become a member of any particular group or organization. But according to Cicero and Cicero, the solitary magician is at a disadvantage, “not having a group of temple-mates to consult if problems arise” (xxvi).
Conversations with Frank are always lovely, sprawling, rangy things. Early on in the course of one (perhaps even our first), he disclosed to us that several of the Shady home’s occupants prior to our renting it had been musicians in local bands. “Oh yeah? What bands?” I’d asked, hoping to learn more. That was my first hint, I suppose: Frank, rehearsing the names of those bands. “Golden Dawn,” he’d said. “Tetragrammaton.” The latter, I knew, referred to the sacred name of god in Hebrew. I knew, too, of the longstanding prohibition in some quarters on saying that name aloud. And with that, I suppose, I began to suspect, at least on an intuitive level, that there was something odd about the home’s history, some sympathy for occult or forbidden things retained between roof and ground.
But the oddness, I soon learned, was one that preceded Frank and his musician-friends. Well before any of them had arrived on the scene, the home’s occupant was someone known around town as the Gay Wizard. If the place has a whatever-you-wanna-call-it — an ectoplasmic charge; an occult presence of some sort — that dude is, at minimum, a key link in that charge’s chain of transmission, if not its source.
I listened to an hour-long podcast on Welsh author Arthur Machen this afternoon, and not once was there mention of Machen’s membership in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. “An odd and unfortunate omission,” I think — though I concede that the podcast was otherwise quite informative. Why should it matter? Omissions of this sort are perhaps how the occult stays occult. I wonder, too, about Ishmael Reed, who includes Golden Dawn member Aleister Crowley’s The Book of Thoth in the multi-page “Partial Bibliography” at the end of his 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo. Crowley’s book is a study of the Tarot. Reed mentions neither Crowley nor the Tarot elsewhere in Mumbo Jumbo. Yet The Book of Thoth — the mythic one, the one alleged to have been written by Thoth himself — is the “Text” sought by the warring secret societies in Reed’s novel. This is but one of many aspects of Mumbo Jumbo deserving further study. I wonder, too, for instance, about the novel’s critique of Sigmund Freud and the references to Freud’s protégé and rival, Carl Jung. Freud is said to have fainted on two occasions — and Jung was present both times. On the first occasion, Jung “spoke about being fascinated by some recent discoveries of ‘peat-bog corpses.'” Jung’s interest in the subject of mummies and corpses “got on Freud’s nerves,” causing the latter to faint in the midst of dinner. On the second occasion, Freud fainted during a discussion of a Karl Abraham paper, an Oedipal reading of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. (See Nausicaa Renner’s essay, “Freud Fainting.”) Reed focuses, though, not on the fainting but on Freud and Jung’s reactions to America. For Freud, the place was “a big mistake” — part of some monstrous “Black Tide of Mud.” Reed suggests that Freud was an Atonist. Jung, meanwhile, was more ambivalent about America. Like Freud, however, he viewed America as a place where Europeans would have to undergo a transformation to survive — a process Jung called “going Black” (Reed 209). Reed takes the additional step of celebrating this process, granting it agency and giving it the name “Jes Grew.”
A dreary day — cold, rainy — most of it spent indoors reading the final hundred pages of Ithell Colquhoun’s book on MacGregor Mathers at the British Library. I’m all for observation of synchronicities and correspondences, but Mathers’s attempts to align various ancient magical systems — alchemy, astrology, Hermetic Qabalah, John Dee’s angelic alphabet, Egyptian and Celtic lore — leaves me exhausted and overwhelmed. Perhaps it’s time to shift course.

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Georgian observers to oversee Ukrainian presidential elections
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A Georgian delegation will visit Ukraine to observe the presidential elections.
The delegation will comprise MPs, employees of the parliamentary apparatus and representatives of the Central Election Commission, the Georgian parliament told Trend .
Georgian Deputy Parliamentary Speaker George Tsereteli said participation of the Georgian observers in the monitoring process indicates that Georgia interested in the Ukrainian presidential elections.
Following the monitoring, the Georgian election observers will make a report on the elections.
Ukraine will hold the presidential elections Jan.17. Current President Viktor Yushchenko is godfather to his Georgian Counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Cheryl Cole Feat. Tinie Tempah - 'Crazy Stupid Love'
Released: 20th July
Album: Only Human
Cheryl Cole is back with new single 'Crazy Stupid Love', the lead single from the former Girls Aloud star's fourth studio album set for release in November.
The promo sees Chezza looking mighty fine as she shows off those freshly toned abs and high-energy dance routines. The video also features UK rapper Tinie Tempah who features on the release. Think you can keep up?
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I, the undersigned owner, agent of the owner, or Good Samaritan responsible for seeking veterinary care for the pet identified above, certify that I am eighteen years of age or over. I consent to the examination of this pet by staff veterinarians at Pikesville Animal Hospital. I also agree that after consultation with me, the hospital's doctors may prescribe medication for, treat, hospitalize, sedate, anesthetize and/or perform surgery on my pet. I understand that some risks always exist with anesthesia and/or surgery and that I am encouraged to discuss any concerns I have about those risks with the attending veterinarian before the procedure is initiated. Should some unexpected life-saving emergency care be required and the attending veterinarian be unable to reach me, the hospital staff has my permission to provide such treatment, and I agree to pay for such care.
I understand that an estimate of the costs for veterinary services will be provided to me and that I am encouraged to discuss all fees related to such care before services are rendered and during my pet's ongoing medical treatment. If this pet is hospitalized, I agree to pay a deposit of 50% of the estimated fees. I agree to assume financial responsibility for the remaining fees and will provide payment via cash, credit card or check at the time my pet is discharged form the hospital. In the event the pet is hospitalized for more than 48 hours and the attending doctor is unable to reach me, I understand it is my responsibility to call the hospital at least every 48 hours to inquire as to the medical status of my pet and the fees incurred for medical services up to that day. I agree to pay a monthly billing and financing fee equal to 1.5% of the unpaid balance.
I understand that veterinary care during nighttime hours and/or weekends is not provided at by Pikesville Animal Hospital. Continuous presence of personnel is not provided during these hours.
I agree that either I, or an authorized agent of mine, will pick up my pet and pay for all accrued charges within five days of receiving written or oral notification that my pet is ready to be released from the hospital. Such notice will be given at the address maintained on the hospital's patient/client record. I agree that if I fail to comply with this policy, the hospital may handle this abandonment in a manner that is in the best interest of the pet and the hospital.
HAVE YOU TALKED WITH YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT THE FOLLOWING
1. The medical and/or surgical treatment alternatives for your pet
2. Sufficient details of the procedures for you to understand what will be performed
3. How fully your pet might respond or recover and how long it could take
4. The most common and serious complications
5. The length and type of follow-up care and home restraint required
6. The estimate of fees for all services
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It’s that time of year when everyone struts their baking stuff for the holiday parties. But not even the simplest cookie recipe can prevent me of an epic cookie fail. And I’ll be put in baker’s purgatory if I dare to make a batch of cookies from one of Betty’s cookie mixes.
My way around the non sense baking shenanigans that takes place in the holidays is to try new no bake treats recipes like this spicy gingersnap truffles. No bake. Very little margin for error. Deceptively easy treat. So good!
White chocolate drizzled truffles with a spicy ginger snap filling inside. So easy to make and eat. Here is the recipe.
White chocolate ginger snap truffles
- 16oz ginger snaps packet
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- 8oz condensed milk (half of a 14oz can plus a bit more)
- 1 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 tbsp of coconut oil
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper or non-stick pastry mat.
- In a food processor, crumbs the ginger snaps. Pour into a large mixing bowl.
- Gradually pour in condensed milk and mix thoroughly. If the mixture is too dry add more condense milk. Mixture should be homogeneous and sticky to the touch.
- Using your hands, pick up approx. 1 tablespoon of mixture and roll into a ball. Keep your hands slightly wet so mixture doesn’t stick to hands and it’s easy to roll.
- Place ball onto prepared tray. Repeat this process until all the mixture is finished.
- Melt the white chocolate chips with the coconut oil in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Remove and mix. Microwave 30 more seconds and mix. Repeat in increments of 15 seconds after that until fully melted.
- Drizzle melted white chocolate over the truffle balls with a spoon, doing quick horizontal swings until truffles are covered.
If you landed here before you already know that baking is just not my thing. It should be no surprise that I’m so frigging happy about these two ‘dealicious’ (hah I can’t help it) treats that I’ll be eating and sharing with much love and joy this holiday season. Absolutely NO baking required! Nuff said.
PEPPERMINT OREO TRUFFLES
Use TJs Candy Cane Joe-Joes for these truffles, but it works equally good with regular oreos. You can also throw a couple of candy canes in the food processor and use regular Oreos if you can’t find Peppermint Oreos.
- crushed to dust peppermint candy OR peppermint candy dust (@WorldMarket or Sprouts)
- 1 package of Ghirardelli (or whatever maker you prefer)semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 8oz. package cream cheese (room temp)
- 1 package Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe Joe’s (or 1 package of regular Oreos and 2 candy canes)
In a food processor, pulse cookies until they’re finely ground. Transfer them to a small bowl, add the softened cream cheese and fully combine (I used my hands for that.)
Mixture should be sticky. Roll it into little 1″ balls. Place the rolled balls onto a piece of parchment paper and place it in the freezer for 20 minutes (just enough to harden the outside of the balls)
Melt the chocolate according to the package directions.
Remove balls from freezer and dip them in the chocolate. Transfer them back to the parchment paper. Sprinkle the candy cane dust on top to garnish and then let the chocolate set and dry. Once dry, refrigerate the truffles and serve as needed.
BURBON PECAN BALLS
I made them for the first time yesterday and they are just heavenly. Boozy, sweet and powerful! The better the Bourbon, the better the punch!
Simply combine all ingredients and shape into 1-inch balls; roll in additional powdered sugar. Store in an airtight container up to 2 weeks.
- 1 box vanilla wafers crushed to dust in the food processor
- 2 tbsp of cocoa powder (I used 100% unsweetened Ghirardelli cocoa)
2 1/2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
Extra powdered sugar to roll the balls


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The Following are International Food Information Council Foundation resources pertaining to the various components found in food.
An unpublished study regarding diet soda consumption and heart disease risk in postmenopausal women contributes nothing new to the scientific evidence regarding the safety of low-calorie sweeteners. Its promotion ahead of the peer-review process increases the chance that incomplete or inaccurate information will be taken as fact, leading to unnecessary confusion among consumers.
Carrageenan (“care-ah-gee-nun”) is a naturally-occurring food ingredient extracted from red seaweed. It is a starch-like product that has been used in food for hundreds of years for its ability to form gels, thicken solutions, and stabilize products. These functions help to provide better-tasting, more palatable food choices.
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Research on dietary fats and health has advanced considerably in recent years, revealing their complex and critical roles in overall health and well-being. A strong understanding of fats in foods and their component fatty acids is essential for guiding consumers towards a healthful eating pattern. Mixing the right measure of unsaturated fatty acids and a dash of kitchen wisdom will help consumers to enjoy foods that are both healthful and tasty.
The following resources provide science-based information regarding common questions about food colors, such as what they are and common foods containing them, how they are regulated in the United States, and whether they cause hyperactivity in children.
The 2013 Functional Foods Consumer Survey is the eighth in a series of quantitative studies focused on Americans’ awareness of and attitudes toward functional foods. This research continues to provide insights into consumer perceptions of the roles of foods and beverages in promoting health and wellness.
Low-calorie sweeteners (sometimes referred to as non-nutritive sweeteners, artificial sweeteners or sugar substitutes) are ingredients added to food to provide sweetness without adding a significant amount of calories. In fact, they can also play an important role in a weight management program that includes both good nutrition choices and physical activity.
Dietary protein has become a “hot” topic in the news. Health professionals along with consumers need to be knowledgeable about the latest research related to the beneficial effects of adequate dietary protein.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) launched a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion on the safety of the low-calorie sweetener aspartame.
EFSA's scientific experts have drawn upon all available information on aspartame and its breakdown products and, following a detailed and methodical analysis, concluded in this draft opinion that aspartame poses no toxicity concern for consumers at current levels of exposure.
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I was going to put up a photo of Tony Romo or Tashard Choice, but decided the Cowboys don't really deserve a photo. So for the enjoyment of all the guys out there...a cheerleader photo...they brought their game last night...too bad the Cowboys could not do the same.
I am pretty sure I could have ran through those holes in the Cowboys defense last night with heels and a dress on. Huge holes. McGahee blew it up once and then McClain hit it.
I hate the Cowboys but I also don't like the Ravens. So I guess I was kind of rooting for the Cowgirls last night because the Ravens scare me in the playoffs...
I think the Cowboys might be done. It is going to be an interesting final week of the season, that is for sure.


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The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has learnt that several trains are not running this morning due to cable theft at the Van Rhyn station in Benoni.
Thousands of commuters have been left stranded due to the overnight cable theft at the station
Trains between Germiston and Dunswart as well as Kaalfontein and Pretoria have been affected by cable theft.
It is unacceptable that commuters are now forced to make alternate transport arrangements due to the lack of security at Metrorail train stations.
Residents in Gauteng need to be given a public transport system that is reliable and affordable.
The DA is calling on the Gauteng Provincial Government to speed up the process of handing over the Metrorail service to the province as this will ensure that the service runs adequately and that there is sufficient security.
Where we govern in the Western Cape, we have established a Rail Enforcement Unit that not only oversees the safety of commuters but also ensures that that cable theft does not occur and trains are not vandalised.


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“Why do financial markets rate Amazon as one of the world’s most valuable companies but the value of the vast region of the Amazon appears on no ledger until it is stripped of its foliage and converted into farmland?”
Mark Carney: The Reith Lectures 2020
In the struggle to protect the Earth’s environment we are all responsible for its current plight and ongoing protection. When contemplated as a whole, the enormity of the sea-change necessary on a personal and wider level to avert environmental disaster can be paralysing. However, as with all great human undertakings, change will not come through one giant leap but a series of small steps in a better direction.
Charities, including those whose objects do not explicitly include ‘the advancement of environmental protection or improvement’, are becoming increasingly aware of their role in trying to prevent further damage to the environment and improvement of the human condition. This has extended to charity investments and the growth of targeted Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) investing that seeks to do good with funds at the same time as generating financial returns.
Investing for ESG purposes is not a new concept. A number of charities have long avoided investing in companies whose activities run contrary to their own objects (commonly known as ‘ethical investing’). However, only more recently has it been possible for charities to actively target investments that seek to create material, measurable and positive impacts on people and the planet. Despite the ideas and aims of ESG investing finding a wider audience in recent years, there remain a number of concerns and misconceptions that have left many charities wondering whether ESG investing is possible and appropriate.
In this article, Edward Harper-Masters, an associate in the private client team at Penningtons Manches Cooper, and Louisiana Salge, senior sustainability specialist at EQ Investors, explore the legal considerations for charities wishing to engage with ESG and sustainable investing as well as some of these common misconceptions.
ESG investing is, in many senses, little different from more traditional investments and, as such, the trustees have the normal duties with regard to investing charitable funds. As with any question as to the extent of trustee powers, the first place to start is a charity’s governing document.
Most unincorporated charities contain a general power of investment for funds (other than those held as permanent endowments) that goes as far as or further than the powers contained in statute. Incorporated charities that may not have the luxury of a general power of investment will need to rely on any powers contained in their constitution.
Charity trustees will be familiar with their duties regarding investments under the Trustees and Charities Acts. In particular, the duties to ensure that any investment made for the benefit of the charity has regard to the standard investment criteria and that appropriate advice is sought.
Until recently this was often construed as a duty to maximise the return. Many charitable trustees will have had the 1991 High Court case of Harries v Church Commissioners for England at the forefront of their minds as a cautionary tale for charity investment policies. A claim was brought against the Church Commissioners by the then Rt Rev Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford and others in relation to the management of the investments under control of the Church Commissioners which, at the time, were invested with a view to maximising returns. The plaintiffs argued that the investments should have regard to the “promotion of the Christian faith”, even at the expense of financial returns.
It was held that the comprehensive investment policy of the Church Commissioners was sound and that the trustees were under a duty to maximise the return from the charity’s investments without consideration of other factors, ethical or otherwise. However, to interpret this decision as a rejection of the possibility of ESG investing would be a mistake. As ever, balance is key.
While trustees who pursue one form of investment to the detriment of returns will remain in breach of their duties, it was accepted that there could be instances where other considerations could be taken into account. These included where an investment conflicted with the aims of the charity or would hamper the charity’s work.
Unsurprisingly, in the now 30 years that have passed since the Bishop of Oxford decision, a lot has changed. Principally - and as explained in more detail below - the belief that ESG investing and the best available returns are mutually exclusive has been largely shown to be incorrect as more and more sustainable funds have entered the market.
In addition, the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016 introduced an explicit statutory power permitting incorporated and unincorporated charities to make social investments. These are defined as acts which are carried out with a view to furthering the charity’s purposes and achieving a financial return.
For the purposes of the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016, “achieving a financial return” goes beyond generating the greatest possible return to encompass any investment where the “outcome is better for the charity in financial terms than expending the whole of the funds or other property in question”. The Charity Commission accepts that “the definition is wide and may include some actions which would not ordinarily be thought of as investments”.
While charities should take advice to ensure that any action they wish to take will constitute a social investment, permitting actions which only contemplate a return on capital has opened the door to many investments that would previously have fallen foul of the need to yield the best financial return.
Despite the law beginning to catch up with the wishes of many charities to actively reflect their objectives in their investment policy, a number of misconceptions and concerns that may prevent charities engaging with ESG investing remain. Louisiana Salge explores four of these.
Misconception 1: All sustainable investment approaches are the same
LS: There are a variety of ways in which sustainability considerations can influence investment mandates and portfolio management. Below are the three most common approaches:
All these approaches, when properly executed, include active engagement with a charity’s investment managers. Terminology is not yet standardised but, as summarised, there are clear distinctions in available approaches tailored to reflect different client mandates and objectives. It is important to look further than the fund title when choosing between strategies that differ significantly in their objectives and outcomes.
Misconception 2: Sustainable investing will sacrifice investment returns
LS: There is mounting evidence that sustainable investing does not sacrifice performance. In fact, incorporating ESG factors into investments can help boost financial performance. Overall, businesses that demonstrate greater operational sustainability (ESG) and sustainable products and services can perform better.
Evidence indicates that the positive correlation between sustainability and performance holds both at the corporate accounting and investment performance levels. The reasoning is that businesses managing E, S and G better than peers demonstrate better risk control and compliance, suffer fewer severe incidents such as fraud and environmental spill litigation and, ultimately, carry lower tail risk. Additionally, ESG leaders invest more in research and development, foresee future risks, and plan ahead to remain competitive.
Impact investing also offers the opportunity to capture the potential upside from competitive advantage, sustainability trends and legislative support. Impactful companies are those that have turned the largest societal challenges into profitable business opportunities. These companies benefit from the growing global demands for their products and services; greater regulatory support; and avoidance of reputational and stranded asset risks. A recent example is the EU pandemic recovery package that demarcates special financial support for green economic activities.
Market evidence is also accumulating and reveals the superior returns of many sustainable strategies over their traditional equivalents. For example, Positive Impact Portfolios are frequently the best performing portfolio range, beating their benchmark for each of the eight years since their inception.
Misconception 3: Sustainable investing is too risky for a charity
LS: It is true that many high-impact investments can be located in more volatile markets such as emerging markets but real opportunities exist from small to large companies, equity, debt and real assets – and risks vary between these. For example, social housing investments can provide reliable government-backed income streams while providing significant societal benefits. Water utilities prevent industrial wastewater from polluting natural ecosystems and also provide defensive investment characteristics.
Therefore, portfolio managers are able to adhere to normal risk categories and create portfolios for different ‘risk appetites’ of charity endowment mandates, as well as tailor these to sustainability preferences.
While long track-record data is not yet available across all risk categories for the aggregated impact investment sector, there is evidence that Positive Impact Portfolios have shown better risk-adjusted returns than their conventional benchmarks since their inception when factoring in volatility.
This supports the opinion that by investing in well-managed businesses that target long-term needs, some potential higher short-term volatility is worth the sustainable returns. However, trustees should be aware that past performance is not a guide to future performance and that the value of investments and any income derived from them may go down as well as up and they may get back less than was invested.
Misconception 4: Sustainable investing cannot actually make a positive impact
LS: When investing a charity endowment through traditionally managed portfolios, disregarding the impact of investments on people and planet can contribute to business activity that actively works against the charity’s mission. On the other hand, investing a charity endowment through a positive impact mandate, the output of companies and that associated with an investment can align with the charity’s core values and support its purpose.
Even in listed markets, allocating equity capital or investing in bond issues of businesses that create positive sustainable impact will support their share price and provide easier access to capital thereby producing a license to operate. Using capital to invest for positive impact will signal to the market that such non-financial impacts are valued and nudge laggards in the right direction.
Additionally, sustainable investors will use their company relationships to engage boards on any sustainability weaknesses and thus create change. They can also use voting rights to back or block strategic decisions that concern the company’s ESG performance.
It is important to note that, when investing an endowment with the dual objective to create financial and sustainability outcomes, the investment reporting that trustees receive should not solely cover the financials. In order to bring the impact that portfolios have to life, investment managers must demonstrate that they are delivering on their clients’ positive impact objectives.
For example, an interactive impact calculator can show investments’ associated positive impacts such as renewable energy generated or hours of education provided. Managers should also transparently disclose alignment with the UN Sustainable Development goals and how portfolios are aligned to climate change scenarios.
While it is trite to say that the events of 2020 have made individuals, organisations and charities reconsider their position in society and their responsibilities, it is hard to see how the growing pressure for charities to reflect their ideals in their investments will ease.
While previously pursuing an investment policy that sought to achieve environmental, social and governance benefits risked allegations that charity trustees were not satisfying their duties, it is not hard to envisage a future point where only considering financial returns and not the wider impact of an investment policy could lead to a similar claim. As with any change a charity wishes to make, careful consideration and specialist advice are key. However, as this article shows, charities are now more able than ever to make financial decisions that reflect their aim to benefit and improve both society and the environment.

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Ultimately, we believe that screen printing is the best t-shirt printing method. Screen printing is a traditional method of printing that has been around for over a century and it’s proven it’s worth. It involves creating a stencil of the design on a fine mesh screen and then pressing ink through the screen onto the shirt. Screen printing is ideal for designs with few colors and larger quantities, as it offers high-quality, long-lasting prints at an affordable cost.
One of the significant benefits of screen printing is its durability. The ink used in screen printing is thicker and more vibrant than other printing methods, making it less likely to fade or crack over time. Screen printing can be done on a wide range of materials, including cotton, polyester, and blends. This con makes it a versatile (and cost effective) option for t-shirt customization.
Screen printing also allows for customization options such as metallic, glitter, or neon inks, adding a unique touch to the design. Moreover, screen printing is eco-friendly, as it uses water-based inks that are free of harmful chemicals. Now your printing method is GREEN! Make sure you tell all of your friends.
While screen printing is ideal for larger quantities (not that large), it’s only less idea for smaller runs. In such cases, digital printing or heat transfer may be more suitable.
screen printing is the best t-shirt printing method for high-quality, durable prints at an affordable cost. It offers customization options, versatility, and eco-friendliness. Making screen printing a popular choice among t-shirt designers and manufacturers.


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We live in a world where there is a great deal of emphasis on “working out”. There are countless gyms and exercise facilities available everywhere you look, many 24 hours. With all this emphasis on exercise I thought it would be nice to consider how we can exercise our heart to make sure it is functioning at its best.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
-John Andrew Holmes
The Bible clearly teaches us to perform the above mentioned exercise.
Remember as you go about your day today, even if you don’t have time to make it to the gym to exercise, you can still take a moment to reach down and lift the spirits of one who is down.

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This Tuli Wilderness Photography Workshop gives photographers something uniquely different to other wildlife workshops.
We don’t concentrate on wildlife photography per-say, rather, we place emphasis on creative ‘wilderness photography’. To us, this is the photography that marries the landscape and wilderness genres into concentrated nature photography.
So to give you the best possible Tuli Block experience we have partnered with Tuli Wilderness Safaris and their talented, skilled and knowledgable staff. With our uniquely crafted itinerary planned specifically for photographers that include bush camps so you can literally sleep next to your camera locations as you capture the night sky!
We want you to immerse yourself into the Tuli landscape, soak it up, make it part of you. This is the best way to experience the Tuli Wilderness.
- Price €2300
- Duration 6+ days
- Group Size 3
- The night sky in one of the cleanest light-pollution free areas close to South Africa
- Iconic Shepherd's trees that stand like solitary wise men in the landscape
- Roaming herds of elephant that crisscross the Tuli landscape
- The magnificent rock outcrops of Eagles Rock, the Great Tuli Wall and Solomon's Wall
- Majestic baobabs that command the view over the Tuli landscape
We meet at Oliver Tambo (Johannesburg International) Airport and depart at around 10:00am for our (approximately) 5 hour journey to the Botswana border, where we will meet our gracious hosts from Tuli Wilderness Safaris at the Pont Drif border crossing. Thereafter we will be transported to the luxury Serolo Safari Tented Camp near the edge of the Limpopo River. We shall have a relaxed evening and meal whilst getting to know one another and discussing our days ahead to get a feel for the planned photography sessions.
Our first morning is a relaxed start with an early game drive to orientate ourselves with the reserve around us. Upon which we will return for breakfast and a few classroom type teaching sessions at Serolo Camp. Post lunch, we head out for a photo-shoot nearby Serolo Camp close to the Limpopo River. It is a relaxing day so the photographers can get comfortable into a creative composition mindset and get a feel for the days ahead.
We start day 2 with a dawn shoot near the Limpopo River and return to Serolo Camp for post editing followed by our first critique session. These sessions are important as it is here that photographers get a chance to review their images and discuss how to improve both their composition and technical skills.
After lunch and some resting time, we head out on our first bush-walk along with our Tuli Wilderness Safaris guide. The idea is to experience this wonderful place slowly, on foot, so that the opportunity to create images arises out of this distinct landscape with its incredible trees. We will close with a sunset shoot location in the bush which also happens to be our resting place for the night.
This kind of ‘camping’ is one of the highlights of this workshop, to be out in the wilderness beneath the amazing night sky.
This will be a later start after the previous evening’s late hour, with a leisurely breakfast to begin the day. Then off on another morning bush-walk to the Mashatu River where we hope to photograph the environmental landscape images and with any luck, the famous Tuli Elephants!
A well-deserved rest is in order thereafter back at camp and depending on weather and other situational factors, we will spend our afternoon at Serolo Camp or at another bush location.
For the late afternoon we head to Eagles Rock, an astounding outlook over Tuli Block, where we will enjoy a few sun-downers and the evenings photo-shoot. Eagles Rock is also our nights bush camp so that we are ideally situated to shoot the impressive night sky from this aerial view.
Early dawn shoot from the Eagles Rock outlook and after breakfast we make our way back to Serolo Camp for edits and a critique session.
After a hearty lunch it is another bush-walk (or drive for those feeling tired) to a spot where we can capture the golden twilight hours and photograph the iconic baobab trees of Tuli Block.
Our night will be spent close to the trees so as to photograph them against the backdrop of the starry night sky.
Our final dawn shoot will again find us with the baobabs of the night before and after breakfast we return to Serolo for editing and critique.
After a restful lunch period we drive out to the Great Tuli Wall for our final photo-shoot. This stack of impressive boulders floods the Tuli landscape and are a wonder to see.
At day’s end we head back to Serolo Camp for a wonderful last dinner and stories from the guides.
Our last day is essentially a travelling day. We need only to leave at a reasonable hour to return to Oliver Tambo International Airport on time for flights, etc., (roughly a 6-7 hour drive) including a lunch stopover en route.

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One of the best CTI albums from the early 70s – and one of Stanley Turrentine's funkiest records as well! The album's got a sharper edge than most other Turrentine albums of the time – a quality that goes beyond Stan's already soulful approach to the tenor, and which brings in some ... CD
A stone classic from Kenny Burrell – a record that brought the guitarist to a whole new audience, with a wonderful sound that's a perfect summation of CTI at its best! The vibe here is perfect – spare, airy guitar lines from Burrell – playing with a freer style than usual, ... CD
One of Erroll Garner's best-selling albums ever – a famous live date recorded in the mid 50s – and a record that's as important to his catalog as the classic Misty! Garner's playing before an apparently large audience, but the recording quality is still nice and clear – a strong ... CD
Gil Evans plays an electric grand piano and is joined by a rather large set of musicians who include Masabumi Kikuchi on a variety of synthesizers, Billy Cobham on drums, Hammiet Bluiett and Arthur Blythe on saxes, Hannibal Marvin Peterson and Jon Faddis on trumpet, and George Lewis on trombone ... CD
Evocative work from Jan Garbarek – a wonderful progression of modes he first began for ECM many years before, stretched out nicely in this more recent session. The album's significant in featuring some early work from Bugge Wessltoft on synthesizer – playing here before his later fame ... CD
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One of our favorite albums ever from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – even though it was only issued by Blue Note nearly a decade after it was recorded! The set's an overlooked nugget from that intensely productive time when the group features one of its strongest frontlines ever – ... CD
Bill Cunliffe on piano, Brian Scanlon and Jeff Clayton on alto saxophone, Bob Sheppard on tenor and soprano saxophone, Larry Lunetta and Terell Stafford on trumpet, Andy Martin on trombone, Tom Warrington on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums. CD


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There are three simple rules to safe firearms handling: ALWAYS keep your muzzle pointed in a safe direction; ALWAYS keep your finger off of the trigger until you are ready to shoot; and NEVER load a gun until you are ready to use it.
Rules number one and three are pretty easy to train into a new shooter, but it’s that pesky #2 that gets most folks in trouble. As an instructor, I have a certain fondness for products that address training away this natural tendency and for that reason I decided to include Smart Firearms in my 2020 SHOT show coverage.
Smart Firearms--which is not to be confused with the so-called "smart guns" that our friends at NRA-ILA have discussed at length--built their success on their patented SF-30 training gun. It features an accidental/ negligent discharge suite, which gives the user an audible and visual warning when they have their finger resting on the trigger. Said trigger is built with a realistic pull weight and tactile reset. Up until this year, they only had models fashioned after the G19 and Smith & Wesson M&P, however, new for 2020 we are proud to cover their newest design-the SIG 320 training pistol ($249 MSRP).
As we spent some time with President Mike Farrell he explained that Smart Firearms' new SIG 320 training pistol is more than just a new shape of the same technology that they introduced in 2013.
“This new training pistol is built with their latest incursion detection suite that can now determine if you are violating rule #2 or simply taking a well-aimed shot,” said Farrell. “It also includes a series of accelerometers and inertial reference units that tell the gun how it's oriented. This allows for slightly more time during presentation and, more importantly, less during reholstering before the alarm sounds.”
I took a few minutes with it and tried every conceivable way to “trick it” and I simply could not. If I was a new shooter it would be hard to get complacent about my trigger finger with this thing screaming at me every time I violate Rule 2. (Instructors will love it, too—because they might actually have some voice left when they leave the range.)
The new pistol will fit all SIG 320 holsters and even accepts 320 magazines for realistic reload drills. Like all of their other training guns, it is built to survive an 8-foot drop onto concrete and even has the ability to be upgraded with a Laser Ammo training cap for visual shot indication and compatibility with reactive targets and simulators.
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Now every first and third Thursday each month, ANIMATED INSIGHTS BY SHANNON MUIR takes you inside Shannon’s latest reflections on her passion for animation as a medium, and other animated insights about life. To catch up on all posts, check out the Animated Insights portion of the website!
This week, Shannon Muir says goodbye to a fellow animation writer and personal friend, Larry DiTillio.
I grew up watching Larry DiTillio’s work, first as a fan of the original HE-MAN series in the 1980s. Then, a movie came out called THE SECRET OF THE SWORD, which introduced HE-MAN viewers to SHE-RA, his twin sister, and gave teen girls like me a female-led show to watch. Larry co-created She-Ra with J. Michael Straczynski, and he would later return to work with JMS as a Story Editor when JMS launched the live-action SF series BABYLON 5.
In that same time period, I would make contact with JEM developer and story editor Christy Marx, who would become my mentor and friend. Unbeknownst to me initially, Christy was good friends with Larry DiTillo, but I would find that out soon enough – even before she wrote “Grail” for the first season of BABYLON 5.
Flash forward a few years. I’ve completed my undergrad work at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, with a double major in Radio-TV and English. For everything I wanted to do, Los Angeles was the place to be. I’d started to slowly spend time figuring out how to make that transition.
Imagine my surprise when Christy contacted me and says she has a friend going away to Hawaii for a couple weeks. He needed someone to house sit and it would be an amazing opportunity to come for a couple weeks, see if I like Los Angeles or not, and go home if I don’t want to stay.
Turns out the friend in question was Larry DiTillio.
Staying at his home for the first couple of weeks in Los Angeles (I stayed with his family in their guest cottage for a week after their return as well) gave me the home base to get my start, learn the neighborhoods, and find an apartment… one I’d live at for around thirteen years.
In those years, and the decades to follow, Larry and I keep in touch not only through holiday cards but at Animation Caucus of the Writers Guild of America events as he and I (along with my now-husband Kevin) all belonged to that same group; Larry of course also had live-action credits with shows like BABYLON 5, for which he’d been Story Editor. Additionally, Larry held a deep passion for board gaming and I would try – though not as often as I wanted – to go to his house and Saturday nights and learn new and various board games. There’s a few my husband and I own as a direct result of learning them first at Larry’s home.
Here was someone whose work I grew up watching that I became honored to call someone I not only new professionally, but as my friend. Larry and his wife Margie would in turn, give Kevin and I the greatest gift we could have asked by coming down to Fullerton from Los Angeles for our wedding.
The best tribute I can leave here of Larry’s work and impact on animation is a embedded version of the full movie THE SECRET OF THE SWORD, authorized on the He-Man Official channel (intercut with frequent YouTube commercials, so it can be a bit jarring to watch). If you’ve never seen the crossover movie that originally introduced She-Ra to the He-Man mythos, here’s an opportunity.
The second clip is from a series I know he had great influence in, as a writer, developer and story editor, but the clip is from an episode written by Christy Marx, from the episode “Transmutate”. This authorized clip from BEAST WARS: TRANSFORMERS is about learning about the Spark helps express what I feel about Larry… “When a spark goes online, there is great joy…. When one is extinguished, the universe… weeps.”
I’m going to miss you, Larry… very, very much. And I know I won’t be the only one.


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New release v0.5.0 - This is the first version available as an addon as well as a mission-script.
* Now available as an addon, by popular demand!
* Grid measurement overlays added (suggested by TheDog).
* Mils are displayed, as well as degrees, when measuring angles.
* GPS, which can show grid coordinates (with 2-8 digit map reference), height ASL (on ground) or height AGL (in air), centre map on player (air only) or auto-track player (air only).
* Tools window, compass and GPS can now be dragged around the screen.
* When placing markers, you can click a "Send" button, rather than having to press the <enter> key (suggested by Q.Proper).
* When in an aircraft and looking at the map, an "EJECT" button is available.
* Markers are sorted alphabetically in the list and can be filtered with Alt + letter (suggested by Q.Proper).
* Compass made transparent to make it useful as a protractor (suggested by TheDog).
* SPON Map and vanilla map aren't synchronised properly.
* Compass is shown even if it is disabled in the mission.
* Compass direction marker goes over the edge of the compass.
* Current time, and time of sending a message, are shown even if watch is disabled in the mission.
* When querying tell, group and vehicle markers that you have sent, the target is shown as a nil error.


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RICHARD Burke has been jailed for 14 years after being found guilty of the manslaughter of Jasmine McMonagle.
Mr Justice Paul Burns has today passed sentence on Burke (32) who was found not guilty of murdering Jasmine McMonagle (28) but guilty of her manslaughter earlier this year.
Burke, of Killygordon, has been sentenced to 15 years with the final year suspended for five years.
Prior to his release, Burke must undergo a psychiatric assessment and must comply with the medical regime put in place by doctors. He must also comply with all requirements of the probation service or he will serve the final year of the sentence.
Burke had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ms McMonagle at Forest Park, Killygordon on January 4, 2019 but guilty to manslaughter.
The court heard that his responsibility for the killing was substantially diminished by a mental disorder. One of the doctors noted that the disorder “may have been triggered or exacerbated” by drug use.
The mother of two was found in a pool of blood in the kitchen of her home following a three hour standoff between Burke and Gardaí.
Last month, the mother of Jasmine, told how she relives the killing and wonders if her daughter called out for her family before she died.
Jacqueline McMonagle had told the court hearing that when it came to Burke, “the only word that comes to mind is evil”.
In a separate victim impact statement, Jasmine’s oldest daughter said that killer Richard Burke had tried to teach her mother Martial Arts, but what Jasmine really needed was defending from him.
The Criminal Court trial sitting in Monaghan had also heard from two psychiatrists who both agreed that Burke was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the killing which substantially diminished his responsibility.
The trial heard Gardaí attended the house in Forest Park, Killygordon following a 999 call by Ms McMonagle at 4.21am stating that she was in fear for her life.
The first officers on the scene were confronted by Burke brandishing a butcher-style meat cleaver which he swung at one of the members of the force, making contact with his clothing and narrowly missing his arm.
A garda went to the rear of the property shortly after 5am and saw Ms McMonagle’s lifeless body lying in a pool of blood after he looked through a small gap in the curtains of a kitchen window.
A trained crisis negotiator was deployed at the scene and efforts to gain access to the house continued for some time before gardaí decided immediate and forced entry to the property was needed after Ms McMonagle’s young daughter was seen at a front bedroom window of the house.
During three garda interviews which took place following the killing, Burke told investigating officers he “went ballistic” and started punching Ms McMonagle and strangling her with a rope. He said he was still holding the rope when gardaí knocked.
MORE to follow in Thursday’s Donegal News. Available in shops or online at https://my.donegalnews.com/


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