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In this example, we will use CSTools to visualize a probabilistic forecast (most likely tercile) of summer near-surface temperature produced by ECMWF System5. The (re-)forecasts used are initilized on May 1st for the period 1981-2020. The target for the forecast is June-August (JJA) 2020. The forecast data are taken from the Copernicus Climate Data Store.
To run this vignette, the following R packages should be installed and loaded:
library(CSTools) library(s2dv) library(zeallot) library(easyVerification) library(ClimProjDiags)
We first define a few parameters. We start by defining the region we are interested in. In this example, we focus on the Mediterranean region.
lat_min = 25 lat_max = 52 lon_min = -10 lon_max = 40
If the boundaries are not specified, the domain will be the entire globe.
We also define the start dates for the hindcasts/forecast (in this case, May 1st 1981-2020) and create a sequence of dates that will be required by the load function.
ini <- 1981 fin <- 2020 numyears <- fin - ini +1 mth = '05' start <- as.Date(paste(ini, mth, "01", sep = ""), "%Y%m%d") end <- as.Date(paste(fin, mth, "01", sep = ""), "%Y%m%d") dateseq <- format(seq(start, end, by = "year"), "%Y%m%d")
We then define the target months for the forecast (i.e. JJA). The months are given relative to the start date (May in this case) considering that monthly simulations are being analyzed.
mon1 <- 2 monf <- 4
Finally, we define the forecast system, an observational reference, the variable of interest and the common grid onto which to interpolate.
forecastsys <- 'system5c3s' obs <- 'erainterim' grid <- "256x128" clim_var = 'tas'
Finally, the data are loaded using
c(exp, obs) %<-% CST_Load(var = clim_var, exp = forecastsys, obs = obs, sdates = dateseq, leadtimemin = mon1, leadtimemax = monf, lonmin = lon_min, lonmax = lon_max, latmin = lat_min, latmax = lat_max, storefreq = "monthly", sampleperiod = 1, nmember = 10, output = "lonlat", method = "bilinear", grid = paste("r", grid, sep = ""))
Loading the data using CST_Load returns two objects, one for the experimental data and another one for the observe data, with the same elements and compatible dimensions of the data element:
> dim(exp$data) dataset member sdate ftime lat lon 1 10 40 3 19 36 > dim(obs$data) dataset member sdate ftime lat lon 1 1 40 3 19 36
The latitude and longitude are saved for later use:
Lat <- exp$coords$lat Lon <- exp$coords$lon
First, anomalies of forecast and observations are computed using cross-validation on individual members:
c(Ano_Exp, Ano_Obs) %<-% CST_Anomaly(exp = exp, obs = obs, cross = TRUE, memb = TRUE)
The seasonal mean of both forecasts and observations are computed by averaging over the ftime dimension.
Ano_Exp$data <- MeanDims(Ano_Exp$data, 'ftime') Ano_Obs$data <- MeanDims(Ano_Obs$data, 'ftime')
Finally, the probabilities of each tercile are computed by evaluating which tercile is forecasted by each ensemble member for the latest forecast (2020) using the function
ProbBins in s2dv and then averaging the results along the member dimension to obtain the probability of each tercile.
PB <- ProbBins(Ano_Exp$data, fcyr = numyears, thr = c(1/3, 2/3), compPeriod = "Without fcyr") prob_map <- MeanDims(PB, c('sdate', 'member', 'dataset'))
We then plot the most likely quantile using the CSTools function
PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap(probs = prob_map, lon = Lon, lat = Lat, coast_width = 1.5, legend_scale = 0.5, toptitle = paste0('Most likely tercile - ', clim_var, ' - ECMWF System5 - JJA 2020'), width = 10, height = 8)
The forecast calls for above average temperature over most of the Mediterranean basin and near average temperature for some smaller regions as well. But can this forecast be trusted?
For this, it is useful evaluate the skill of the system at forecasting near surface temperature over the period for which hindcasts are available. We can then use this information to mask the regions for which the system doesn't have skill.
In order to do this, we will first calculate the ranked probability skill score (RPSS) and then exclude/mask from the forecasts the regions for which the RPSS is smaller or equal to 0 (no improvement with respect to climatology).
First, we evaluate and plot the RPSS. Therefore, we use
RPSS metric included in CST_MultiMetric from function from easyVerification package which requires to remove missing values from latest start dates:
Ano_Exp$data <- Subset(Ano_Exp$data, along = 'sdate', indices = 1:38) Ano_Obs$data <- Subset(Ano_Obs$data, along = 'sdate', indices = 1:38) RPSS <- CST_MultiMetric(Ano_Exp, Ano_Obs, metric = 'rpss', multimodel = FALSE) PlotEquiMap(RPSS$data[], lat = Lat, lon = Lon, brks = seq(-1, 1, by = 0.1), filled.continents = FALSE)
Areas displayed in red (RPSS > 0) are areas for which the forecast system shows skill above climatology whereas areas in blue (such as a large part of the Iberian Peninsula) are areas for which the model does not. We thus want to mask the areas currently displayed in blue.
From the RPSS, we create a mask: regions with RPSS <= 0 will be masked.
mask_rpss <- ifelse((RPSS$data$skillscore <= 0) | is.na(RPSS$data$skillscore), 1, 0)
Finally, we plot the latest forecast, as in the previous step, but add the mask we just created.
PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap(probs = prob_map, lon = Lon, lat = Lat, coast_width = 1.5, legend_scale = 0.5, mask = mask_rpss[ , , 1], toptitle = paste('Most likely tercile -', clim_var, '- ECMWF System5 - JJA 2020'), width = 10, height = 8)
We obtain the same figure as before, but this time, we only display the areas for which the model has skill at forecasting the right tercile. The gray regions represents areas where the system doesn't have sufficient skill over the verification period.


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's patch 1.0.8 went live on the public test realm this week
, giving players a taste of the update's multiplayer enhancements and class balance tweaks. Though the focus of the patch is incentivising public multiplayer games, the most popular part of the update is likely to be all the tiny usability and quality of life tweaks. The Wizard teleport spell can now teleport through walls as long as there's a path to the target location, and Archon durations will be extended by nearby kills rather than just last hits.
Mousing over items in the auction house now shows tooltips for the player's current gear for easy comparison, and players can now craft items using materials in their shared stashes. The number of monsters encountered in Monster Power 1 and greater has been increased, and players can now use the Book of Cain in town to identify all of their items at once. The patch will be going up on the live servers soon, but you can check it out now by signing up to the public test realm.Path of Exile
developer Grinding Gear Games
has been very active in engaging with the game's beta community via the official forums, but the community has now become so large that personally communicating with each member isn't always possible. To help communicate the team's current game development thoughts to fans, developers have started a new read-only Development Manifesto forum
. The forum delivers details of all upcoming game changes and features and contains posts explaining the thought process behind each game system.
In developing an immersive sci-fi sandbox with online components, the folks behind Star Citizen
have run into a small problem: How you let people uniquely identify themselves without opening the flood gates on immersion-breaking names like xXxSePiRoTh123xXx
? The solution the team has come up with is to separate your username into a unique handle to be used on the forum and chat system and a non-unique callsign displayed on the in-game UI.
This could get confusing, but developers suggest that spoofing someone else's callsign could actually be part of the online gameplay. You'll be able to scan a ship to determine the unique handle of the player, and ship upgrades may even be available to block your handle from ship scans.Turbine
continued development on its upcoming Infinite Crisis
MOBA with a champion profile video on the Green Lantern
. Infinite Crisis
takes place in the DC Comics storyline of the same name and sees multiple versions of classic DC characters from alternate universes come together in a bloody conflict. The classic Green Lantern is a ranged damage-dealer with huge single-target damage, a targeted slow, and a massive area-effect finisher.
The Dota 2
European servers may be the current target of a DDoS attack
, as some players are reporting severe disruption during games. Valve
has yet to release any official statement on the matter, so it's not yet known whether the servers themselves are under attack or individual players are being targeted directly. Disconnections even interrupted the DreamHack Invitationals and the G-1 qualifier tournament, at both of which real cash is being put on the line.
An organisation named DFC Intelligence published a report this week
claiming that Dota 2
had surpassed League of Legends
as the most played game in the world. The press release cited as its source the organisation's own PC Game Meter service, which attempts to merge statistics from resources like XFire. DFC charges a whopping $6,000
for access to the full PC Game Meter report, and made its claim about Dota 2
as part of a press release advertising it.
The reports findings were quickly called into question, as XFire currently reports over 10 times as many active LoL
players as Dota 2
players and the findings are strongly contradicted by previously released stats
from Riot Games
and Valve. A Riot Games spokesperson later released a statement asserting that LoL
sees "over 500,000 peak concurrent players every day on just the EU West shard" while Dota 2
's all-time peak concurrent user record on Steam
hit only 325,879.
It's been a long time coming, but upcoming MOBA Prime World
has finally entered closed beta
in Europe and the US. Prime World
boasts more depth than a typical MOBA with the inclusion of RPG-like persistent heroes and a castle-building mechanic that includes customisable city economies. The game saw such massive success in Russia that developers have recently been working on translating it for English-speaking audiences. You can apply for a closed beta spot now
for a chance to test the game before launch.
As part of a roster of over 100 heroes, Heroes of Newerth's
older characters have been a little neglected. Though S2 Games
does balance tweaks on old heroes, some of the oldest heroes haven't yet been shown off in a video spotlight explaining their abilities and useful strategies. Popular classic hero Devourer finally got his own spotlight this week to celebrate the release of his new Jin Chan Golden Edition cosmetic skin.
The default Devourer is a stinking sown-together mass of putrid organs and flesh with a sizeable health pool and some serious melee damage output. Though slow on foot, Devourer can use his Gutling Hook ability to grab an enemy at a distance and drag him in from far away. The hook can also be used to save allies by pulling them out of harm's way and will deal damage only to enemy units.
The Decay ability releases a persistent cloud of fetid gas around Devourer that deals magic damage to nearby enemies and himself. The ability can be toggled on and off at will, and Devourer can use it to kill himself in order to deprive the enemy team of a kill. This pairs well with Devourer's ultimate ability, Devour, which slowly eats the target enemy and temporarily boosts Devourer's strength and speed as a result.Join us every Monday for Not So Massively, our roundup of the top news from popular online games that aren't quite MMOs. If you think there's a game we should be covering in Not So Massively or you've found some interesting news you think deserves attention in the next roundup, please mail the details to firstname.lastname@example.org.

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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is a conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
The office used by Horace Slughorn during his first job as Potions Master at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was a particularly cramped room in which he held some Slug Club dinner parties in.
Behind the scenes
- This office was only mentioned as being small in size in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, where Slughorn compares it to a water closet. Although, in the novel, it does make a brief appearance in Pensieve memories.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Appears in flashback(s))
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Chickenpox and its epidemiology
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H. E. Bates was born in 1905 at Rushden in Northamptonshire and was educated at Kettering Grammar School. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life. During the Second World War he was a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F. and some of his stories of service life, The Greatest People in the World (1942), How Sleep the Brave (1943) and The Face of England (1953), were written under the pseudonym of 'Flying Officer X'. His subsequent novels of Burma, The Purple Plain and The Jacaranda Tree, and of India, The Scarlet Sword, stemmed directly or indirectly from his experience in the Eastern theatre of war. Perhaps one of his most famous works of fiction is the bestselling novel Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944).
In 1958 his writing took a new direction with the appearance of The Darling Buds of May, the first of the popular Larkin family novels, which was followed by A Breath of French Air (1959), When the Green Woods Laugh (1960), Oh! To Be in England (1963) and A Little of What You Fancy (1970). His autobiography appeared in three volumes, The Vanished World (1969), The Blossoming World (1971) and The World in Ripeness (1972). His last works included the novel, The Triple Echo (1971), and a collection of short stories, The Song of the Wren (1972). H. E. Bates also wrote miscellaneous works on gardening, essays on country life, several plays including The Day of Glory (1945), The Modern Short Story (1941) and a story for children, The White Admiral (1968). His works have been translated into sixteen languages. A posthumous collection of his stories, The Yellow Meads of Asphodel, appeared in 1976.
H. E. Bates was awarded the C.B.E. in 1973 and died in January 1974. He was married in 1931 and had four children.
Author photo © Mark Gerson
August 2010 Guest Editor Veronica Henry on The Darling Buds of May... The Larkins are a total contrast to the Corleones, but equally compelling. The characters and the setting are so wonderfully vivid – you can taste actually taste the strawberries and feel the sun on your back. And Ma Larkin is the ultimate domestic goddess –Bates’ descriptions of her legendary feasts leave your mouth watering.
The Beauty of the Dead (Jonathan Cape, 1940) featuring fifteen stories, was released to critical acclaim. Pamela Hansford Johnson wrote in John O'London's Weekly that "all have that delicate luminosity by which visions are seen more clearly than in the bright sunlight." 'Old' is a snapshot of an elderly man no longer appreciated or respected by his children and extended family during a Sunday tea. He finds a companion in his seven-year-old grand-niece, making animal shapes out of biscuits and eventually falling into a "mesmeric peace" as she brushes his hair. There is a glimpse of Bates's childhood experiences in 'Quartette', written through the eyes of a music director. The story accounts the attraction between two of the singers which the director worries is breaking up the group, yet on their last song he can feel "the passionate quality of their singing transcending the small hot room and the small bewildered minds". Bates had much personal knowledge of choirs and singing through his father, who was a choir director.'The Bridge' is narrated by a twenty-two-year-old woman while she and her older sister vie for the attention of the same man. The Spectator praised it as "a masterly short story...courageously conceived thick with symbolism, it is a triumphant display of control."For the first time, this collection features the comic bonus story 'Obadiah'. After a tough, poverty-stricken childhood, Obadiah's scheme to make his fortune begins with a pig. He wanted neither children nor romance, but a partner in business, so when he meets a widow with similar values, he wins her over in what becomes a comic sketch of a bickering couple a rare and brilliant piece of caricature in Bates's canon. Published in the New Clarion (1933), and not republished since.
The Flying Goat (Jonathan Cape, 1939) features sixteen diverse stories from slapstick sketches to portraits of marital tension; one Uncle Silas tale; and three that hark back to Bates's boyhood roots. 'A Funny Thing' is an escalating bragging match between Uncle Silas and Uncle Cosmos. Cosmos is modelled on Bates's paternal grandfather, Charles Lawrence, who was "known about Rushden as a dapper and dashing figure who spent his holidays in the south of France, where he reputedly had a number of mistresses". A television adaptation starring Albert Finney was aired in 2003.In a cautionary tale, ever-relevant today, 'Shot Actress Full Story' is an account of the death of a former actress, and of the damaging effect of rumours. In commenting on the public's obsession with scandal and journalism, the tale reflects Bates's early newspaper work at the Northamptonshire Chronicle as well as a wider social commentary.The Times Literary Supplement singled out 'The White Pony' and 'The Ox' as "faultless things, jewels as luminous and as finely cut as any Mr. Bates has turned out. In each of them the evocative strength of his countryside pictures is joined to a still and poignant emotion that seems to project a background of universal experience for a particular sorrow."The bonus story 'Pensioned Off' is a sensitive and touching tale of a Latin teacher approaching the end of his career, reflecting on his obsolete methods of trying to teach a dying language. The story is based in part on Bates's own Latin teacher who he described as "extremely fat", so in a sweetly comic moment we hear how he fasts every Thursday so as not to become obese. Published in the New Adelphi (1929), and not republished since.
The Nature of Love (Michael Joseph, 1953) was Bates's first published collection of novellas.It contains three stories, different in weight but similar in texture, drawing from rural landscapes and the sensitive, poignant studies of the people that bring them to life. Dulcima, dedicated to W. Somerset Maugham, is a tale of a simple girl in rural England whose manipulation of both an old widower and a young forest worker has tragic results. In 1971, EMI Productions released a film adaptation starring Carol White and John Mills. The Grass God is a literary portrait of Fitzgerald, a landowner who is unfeeling in the treatment of his tenants and his wife, who, whilst bumbling through a summer affair with a young beauty, gets a taste of his own medicine. Further afield, The Delicate Nature follows a young man to the Malaysian jungle to assist a plantation owner, but enters into an affair with his wife. For the first time, this collection includes the bonus story 'Old Lady' which continues the retrospective theme and the dalliances of young romance.
The Bride Comes to Evensford, a novella first published in 1943, follows a woman from her arrival in a small town (modelled on Bates's native Rushden) to her work for a draper, her marriage to him, her increasing command over the business and the household, and finally to her infatuation with a young man as a widow in her fifties. Written and published in the midst of Bates's work for the Air Ministry, but hearkening back in style and subject matter to his pre-war stories, this is a beautiful study of one woman's life, her hopes and disappointments. Philip Toynbee stated that it had "e;a fine elegant shape, covering with formidable skill a period of thirty years in only twice as many pages...Mr. Bates is a master of restraint...in a period of over-exuberance."
Something Short and Sweet, H. E. Bates's sixth collection first published in 1937, demonstrates his mastery of character and form. Richard Church, writing in John O'London's Weekly, stated that this collection confirmed his belief that Bates "is an immortal...Here is a creative artist whose technique in the art of the short story is comparable with that of the great masters in this form." The title story explores the intricacies of the relationship between a forty-year-old evangelist and his twenty-year-old assistant. 'Cloudburst' and 'Spring Snow' are vignettes of human struggle in a rural context, similar to much of Bates's earlier work. 'Finger Wet, Finger Dry' and 'The Sow and Silas' continue Bates's success with the antics of Uncle Silas. The Morning Post commented that "each story stands out individual and distinct...In each the theme has been worked over, walked round, sifted, considered, a stance as viewpoint selected, the ultimate significance determined."
The Daffodil Sky, first published in 1955 (Michael Joseph), mixes eclectic characters travelling to foreign lands with poetic treatments of rural life in Bates's Northamptonshire. 'A Place in the Heart' is set in Asia against a colourful backdrop of rickshaws and ceremonial drumming. An Englishman, shortly before returning home, romances a local girl in this tale of lost love when his inarticulate and flippant goodbye is achingly contrasted with her disappointment.Closer to home, 'The Evolution of Saxby', one of Bates's best-known stories, concerns a cold, controlling woman who buys, decorates and sells one house after another. Challenging this notion of constant movement and progress is her sweet but helpless husband, who wants only to settle down and garden in a place to call home.The Times noted that "there is no better writer of straightforward short stories...Mr. Bates writes simply; his instinct is a deep compassion." This collection illustrates his ability both to feel deeply, and then to reflect sensitively on the page.
Includes an introduction by Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945.The Flying Officer X stories were written by H.E. Bates in his unprecedented role as an official war writer with the R.A.F. during WWII, where he animates the realities faced by pilots tasked with protecting the skies from enemy aircraft. The resulting stories that appeared under the pseudonym Flying Officer X are portraits of individual pilots narrated by an observer who, like Bates, is on the inside of the air force without being a pilot. These portraits recount the personal history of the pilots, and convey the individual qualities and forces that motivate them. They blend the action and suspense of aerial battles, friendships cut off too soon, and life enduring against all odds. In true Bates style, the New York Times noted "e;These are tales told in impressive quiet, tales that are innocent of even the suggestion of flagrant heroism that colors so many stories about combat pilots."e;Bloomsbury Reader is delighted to collect these stories into one volume for the first time, along with five additional stories from the same period, never before included in a collection: 'Fishers' sees a bond between two soldiers from very different walks of life; 'Happy Christmas Nastashya' sees an English officer encounter a young woman in service to her country in Russia; 'The Bell' follows a young flying officer as he travels back to a familiar pub to reminisce about a lost friend; 'From this Time forward' exposes the raw emotion of losing a loved one; and 'Three Thousand and One Hours of Sergeant Kostek' shows us a man of extraordinary character and flying ability.
The Cruise of the Breadwinner is an adventure at sea, following Snowy as he comes of age through a shower of sea-spray and bullets. The youngest crew member on a coastal patrol boat, he longs for action as his sharp eyes pick out distant plane battles and his ears strain to the sound of faint gun-fire. But when finally the war envelops him and his crew-mates in its terrible grasp, he must face the realities of pain, fear, and death. Rescuing two downed pilots, one English and one German, the humanity of the enemy and the true cost of war become all too clear. Here Bates exhibits his staggering ability to write character, building an exhilarating tension on board with the dynamic between the grumbling yet skilful engine operator, the wide eyed enthusiasm of Snowy, and the rotund, clumsily tender Captain. We witness the impact of war's heroics and futility on the boat and the boy during a short, violent voyage off the coast of England, told with such fluency and lightness of touch that it is a tale of action as well as beauty. The New York Times said that Bates "painted it all with a loose, sure brush that does not waste a stroke. ?
The Wedding Party, first published in 1965 (Michael Joseph), is a collection of short stories evoking both the dark and light, and the comedy and tragedy in human nature. Bates employs a deceptive delicateness of touch in his descriptions and character sketches, here mastering the true essentials of the art of the short story; he says much by saying little, what is left out more poignant than the words on the page.With a host of larger than life characters, we meet the scheming and eccentric Aunt Leonora, who fibs her way through the comic tale 'The Picnic'. The collection also unites two loveable rogues Captain Poopdeck and Uncle Silas, and brings us the farcical tale 'Early One Morning' which provide a sharp contrast with the sombre and haunting tones of pieces like 'The Primrose Place' and 'The Winter Sound', and the lyrical but bitter episode of 'The Wedding Party' itself.
Seven Tales and Alexander beautifully captures a spectrum of emotions from innocent childhood and early adolescence, to those of simple-hearted and uninquiring old age. On its original release in 1929 (The Scholartis Press), The New Statesman observed that Bates has 'by seeing with a child's eyes, found a world of marvellous and strange beauty, and has given the smallest shades of change and emotion the magnitude and drama they have in the minds of children and poets.'In 'The Child' we meet a young girl mesmerised by the sea seen through a multi-coloured window, and, in contrast, 'The Comic Actor' sees an unsuccessful farmer who, encouraged by his devoted family, fulfils a life ambition by participating in a village play.Bates draws on his own experiences of the barber shops of his youth in 'The Barber'. Forced to visit them on Saturdays, he was made to wait until the barber had served the army of 'black-necked, poaching, shoemaking, prizefighting, often stinking men.'The title story, 'Alexander', follows a young boy as he travels with his uncle by horse cart to the garden of an eccentric old lady, where each year they pick fruit. The boy becomes enamoured with a young girl, meets a darkly cunning and cynical poacher, picks a forbidden apricot as a gift for the girl, and is consequently thrust into first reflections on pleasure, pain, and life itself in this most charming story.
The Woman Who Had Imagination, H.E. Bates's fourth volume of stories, first published in 1934 (Jonathan Cape), is a fascinating collection of contrasts. The stories combine elements of realism and poetry, beauty and ugliness, tenderness and irony. Graham Greene, writing in the Spectator, lauded the collection as 'the first volume of Mr. Bates's maturity' and Bates as 'an artist of magnificent originality with a vitality quite unsuspected hitherto'.This is brilliantly demonstrated in the title story, 'The Woman Who Had Imagination', the heart-rending story of an Italian woman, revealed through the casual meetings and conversations that take place on a day's outing of a country choir. The contrast between 'The Waterfall', with its melancholy and grace, and the disturbing tensions in 'The Brothers', emphasises Bates's mastery of both the delicate and the disquieting. It is also in this collection that we are introduced to the much-loved comic narrator, Uncle Silas, in 'The Lily', 'The Wedding' and 'Death of Uncle Silas.'In addition to the original collection this edition includes two extra stories. 'The Country Doctor' concerns a woman's grief on the death of her dearest friend. It was first published in the Fortnightly Review in 1931 with the title 'The Country Sale', and later in the limited edition The Story Without an End and The Country Doctor (White Owl Press, 1932), and has not been reprinted since. 'The Parrot' chronicles a man, a marriage and the eponymous parrot, and has only previously been published in 1928 in T.P.'s Weekly, founded by the radical MP, T.P. O'Connor.

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I finished the actual crochet-work on both of these projects awhile ago, but they both needed some finishing in order to be useful. These days, most of my craft-time is going towards finishing the girls' Easter dresses and the boy's Easter vest, but on Sundays I indulge myself by working on projects for myself.
I made the first project from a hat pattern in this book, but I wanted to use it as a snood, so today I sewed a circle of elastic around the inside edge:
And here's how it looks from the back:
The next one is a cabled headband (my first time making crocheted cables). I used the pattern for a hat brim from this book, and then shortened it and sewed it closed in order to make a headband:
Both of these were made of a pretty yarn that a friend gave me for Christmas a year ago. I really like them both!
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TEMECULA -- Residents fighting to keep a proposed granite mine from being built in the hills south of Temecula spelled out their opposition to the project Sunday -- literally.
About 1,000 people arranged themselves to form the phrase "NO QUARRY!" on an athletic field at Patricia Birdsall Sports Park in south Temecula.
As aerial photographers passed overhead in a plane and helicopter, participants chanted "No quarry, no quarry" -- a common mantra among area activists since early 2005 when Granite Construction Inc., of Watsonville, proposed building a 155-acre open-pit mine on 400-plus acres just north of the San Diego County border.
While some were content to voice their opposition passively, others preferred to be a little more vocal, mixing it up with a handful of quarry proponents who were in attendance.
Kathleen Hamilton, president of Save Our Southwest Hills, the quarry's main opponent, said more people turned out at this year's event than came out for last year's.
"People are starting to realize that this hasn't gone away," Hamilton said of the high turnout. "This is still a threat."
Hamilton added that she believes the large number of advertisements Granite has been running in local media has raised awareness among many residents who didn't know about the proposed mine, dubbed Liberty Quarry.
Granite has been waging a public relations battle with quarry opponents such as Save Our Southwest Hills and Rainbow Against the Quarry -- who were co-sponsors of this event -- and other area residents.
Among the many issues raised by opponents, the possibility of increased air pollution caused by the mine was the most common concern voiced at the event.
Casey Evans, a representative of Friends of Liberty Quarry, said Granite has hired independent scientists, such as medical doctors and geologists to examine the potential effects of the mine.
"Our scientists say air quality will not be an issue," Evans said, dismissing questions raised by area doctors who are opposed to the quarry. "We believe their facts are most likely biased."
One such opponent, Dr. Reg Watts, of De Luz, said he did not agree with Evans' assertion.
"They are liars," Watts said. "And you can quote me on that."
Watts said he is concerned that fine particles of dust called silica might be released into the air during blasting and then carried over neighboring areas by wind. That claim has been dismissed by proponents as a scare tactic.
While Evans and other supporters of the project may dismiss air quality concerns, opponents see it as the defining issue.
Temecula resident Holly Swenson said she brought her 4-year-old daughter, Kelsey, to the event because, she said, she believes the quarry is a threat to her family and others in the area.
"I don't want to breathe that stuff. I don't want my kids breathing that stuff," Swenson said. "And I don't believe a word they say. This is about money to them."
Swenson was not alone in her emotional response. Distrust and anger were in the air, and as the event got under way, some representatives from Friends of Liberty Quarry found themselves under verbal fire.
Discussions about the issues quickly turned into accusations, with each side calling the other "shortsighted" and eventually calling each other liars.
At one point, a Temecula police officer arrived and talked to Evans. The officer, who refused to identify himself to media representatives, quickly left.
Later, Evans said a member of SOS-Hills called the police and accused members of Friends of Liberty Quarry of "being confrontational and getting out of hand."
Evans said he told the officer that they were in a public park, trying to make sure their viewpoints were represented. Evans also said an SOS-Hills member dumped a bottle of water on him.
Hamilton said she wanted to keep the focus on the success of the event.
"They are here to cause an incident and make us look like wild-eyed liberals," Hamilton said. "They are trying to provoke us."
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Correction: Event attendance overestimated
Although organizers of the anti-quarry event held Sunday originally estimated that some 2,500 people attended, a careful examination of an enlargement of a photo taken from overhead shows roughly 1,000 people spelling out 'No Quarry!'

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John J. Slocum papers relating to Ezra Pound
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Series I, Correspondence , is located in folders 1-15 and consists primarily of letters from Ezra Pound to Slocum, in some cases accompanied by carbon copies of Slocum's replies. The early correspondence primarily concerns Slocum's efforts to place articles and poems by Pound in various American periodicals, and folders 4-7 contain typescript carbons of four such pieces, including "In War Begin Responsibilities," "To Whose Profit Roosevelt," and "Augment of the Novel." Being Pound's informal agent in the United States was no easy task. For example, in a letter of November 4, 1940, Slocum writes, "I would like your permission to cut anti-church, anti-jooish references out of ["To Whose Profit Roosevelt"] before sending it out;" Pound replied "All right, you can cut and doctor them articles....." in December.
Other topics include the increasing difficulties of correspondence and payment methods as the war progressed; Pound's general political and economic views; James Laughlin; and Pound's visit to the United States in 1939. The earliest letter in the series concerns Pound's enthusiasm for microfilming as a publication method and his prediction of "the revolution in actual publishing."
Folders 9-10 contain letters exchanged in 1947-50 concerning Slocum's founding of the James Joyce Society. Pound disapproved, urging him to found a Confucius Society instead. When Slocum protested that there was much more interest in Joyce, who "was Occidental," Pound replied "oxidental nuts. he wuz a blinkin Byzantine" and ceased replying to Slocum.
Other correspondents include Dorothy Pound, who wrote urging Slocum to "learn at least a few facts--Cornell never did," and John Edwards. Folders 13-15 contain Third-Party Correspondence, letters mentioning Slocum addressed to James and Anne Laughlin.
Series II, Writings , is located in folders 16-17 and consists of a typescript of "Cast a Cold Eye," a talk given by Slocum on his friendship with Pound.
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JOHN J. SLOCUM, 1914-1997
After the war, he joined the United States Information Agency and served with them until 1970, representing the agency in Germany and Egypt and traveling to Asia and South America as part of their inspection team.
Slocum assembled what was widely considered the world's leading collection of James Joyce printed and manuscript material. The collection was acquired by Yale University in 1951. In 1953 Yale University Press published A Bibliography of James Joyce by Slocum and Herbert Cahoon. Stephen Hero, a new edition of the Joyce "draft" that became Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, was published by Laughlin's New Directions press in 1963.
Slocum was the founding president of the Friends of the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1974 and a leading member of the American Numismatic Society. He also served on a Presidential Cultural Advisory Committee; and participated in an effort to reorganize the Smithsonian Institution.
John Jermain Slocum lived in Newport, Rhode Island, where he died on August 12, 1997. He was survived by his wife of many years, Eileen Gillespie Slocum, and their two daughters.
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I cut my pieces of fabric the same size, then cut down my top piece (that will be the center of the patch) by 1 centermeter so it is a little smaller. Then I stitch a U along the outside. Pop a little fluff inside and stitch closed the last side. I dont do the double fold because I think it looks neater when I dont...but some people like a more uneven, rolled edge. I roll as I go. I don't pin. Then I do any applique work/decorative stitching. When its all done I go around anywhere that is still poofy and put stitches there. Spirals and dashes and stuff.
I have seen patches WAY better than mine...but this works for me.
But I know your partner Stillatthetop. She is gonna like whatever you send. (I had to google trapunto quilting and now I have to try that!)
I started stalking and got all excited and crafted all my patches for stillatthetop. And I planned out my patches for crazyda79 and got the materials all together. I wouldnt be surprised if they are done as soon as I finish my housework. TM patches are completely addictive.
Ahhh Blupaisan...I am SO glad you liked it. I sent the canvas because I just wasnt sure and I wanted you to have something you liked just in case. LOL
Crayons are nice. But, they are a bit faint and details are hard...I use water color pencils on wetted down fabric. Way easier to make dots and stuff. Plus, you can do it after. I did the stitches before coloring it in.


IRVINE – Residents flocked to Mike Ward Community Park in Woodbridge to join the city’s kickoff of the Sizzlin’ Summer Concerts series on Sunday.
The first concert featured country music by Gold Rush Country. The event also had a children’s play area and gourmet food trucks.
The series will continue every Sunday through Aug. 14. Next up is Identity Theft, which will perform various 1980s songs at the July 17 concert.
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Scottish energy secretary Michael Matheson has backed an extension to the North Sea windfall tax, and said he would broaden it to a range of other industries.
The offshore wind industry has been warned not to see Scotland as simply a “production base for renewable energy”.
Plans have been set out on creation of a “critical” and long-awaited skills passport to help oil and gas workers transition into renewables.
A new report from Robert Gordon University (RGU) suggests £17 billion of investment could secure the north-east’s position as a leading global energy hub, but a lack of ambition may lead to significant job losses.
Wave energy leaders in Scotland see offshore wind developers as potential infrastructure partners in their drive to harvest vital renewable power from the country's waters.
Scotland’s net zero and energy secretary has issued a clear reminder to the offshore wind industry that supply chain pledges are more than simply “indications”.
Cash generated by Scotland’s offshore wind boom could be used to create a sovereign wealth fund, the cabinet secretary for net zero has revealed.
Surging gas prices throws into “sharp relief” the need to ramp up Scottish offshore wind and hydrogen, the energy minister will say later.
Scotland would be up to £6.7 billion better off with investment in carbon capture technology, the energy minister has said.
Scotland’s energy secretary says he is “not against the idea entirely of some kind of windfall tax” on North Sea oil and gas producers.
Scotland’s energy industry has now had some time to digest the results of arguably the most hotly anticipated offshore wind auction in history.
The Scottish Government has earmarked up to £80 million in a bid to bring forward the timeline for a key decarbonisation project.
The transition away from oil and gas “must not throw thousands of north-east jobs under the bus”, a Scottish Parliament debate has heard.
The UK Government has refused to back Nicola Sturgeon’s opposition to the new Cambo oil field off Shetland – and warned jobs are at risk from “turning off the taps”.
Aberdeen has been awarded £15m as part of a £100m Scottish Government package to advance the hydrogen economy, which could see the resource provide nearly a sixth of Scotland’s energy needs by 2030.
Scotland’s net zero secretary has said Holyrood would allow North Sea oil and gas exploration, if the country were to break away from the rest of the UK.
Scotland’s cabinet secretary for energy, net zero and transport has cut the ribbon on a key facility for the country’s largest offshore wind farm
Ineos is to invest more than £1 billion to reduce the environmental impact of its Grangemouth refinery.
SSE Renewables is to combine two of its proposed North Sea wind farms in order to create one “super project”.
The Scottish Government has been urged to stop ‘sitting on the fence’ over the controversial Cambo oilfield near Shetland.
Scotland’s cabinet secretary for energy and net zero says plans are in the pipeline for more offshore leasing rounds over the course of the current parliament.
Brexit is undermining the battle against the climate emergency, a senior SNP government minister warned.
The Scottish Government has said there is “no change to policy” being considered for oil and gas workers stuck in hotel quarantine from red list countries.
The Scottish Government has unveiled its new cabinet secretary in charge of overseeing energy and net zero policy.
Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has said oil and gas workers travelling back into Scotland could be granted exemption from enforced quarantine measures.

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Sphinx Chamber Orchestra a treat for fifth graders
Published: Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
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BREVARD -- Transylvania County fifth graders attended a special "Young People's Concert" at Brevard College's Porter Center for Performing Arts on Sept. 25. The concert included a performance by the acclaimed Sphinx Chamber Orchestra (SCO).
Students also learned about the instruments they play and, most importantly, how they might begin playing a string instrument.
The Porter Center's "Young People's Concert" series is an interactive, free educational program that annually introduces local school children to music. The center was one of only 13 venues on the national tour of the SCO, which is composed of alumni of the national Sphinx Competition for young black and Latino string players. Last year, the orchestra performed in venues such as the Krannert Center, Detroit's Orchestra Hall, Harris Theatre and Carnegie Hall, reaching concert audiences of 8,000 and more than 3,600 students during outreach sessions.
The SCO concert is part of Brevard College's Porter Center for Performing Arts rich subscription series that rediscovers the musical threads of tradition and diversity that were the hallmarks of the center's first decade. Performances this year will range from award-winning medieval vocal styles to a chart-topping Celtic band and a well-known boys choir. A new mini "Discovery Series" is designed to showcase young and upcoming artists and encourage area school children to pursue careers in music.
Inaugurated in 1998, the Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College has earned a reputation as one of the finest performance halls in the South. Named for North Carolina businessman and Brevard College Life Trustee Paul Porter, the Porter Center hosts the Artist Series at Brevard College -- which has brought in some of the world's most talented musicians in a dizzying array of styles -- from Capitol Steps to Herbie Hancock, Harry Belafonte to Turtle Island String Quartet, Hilary Hahn to Pat Metheny -- from classical and jazz to world music and bluegrass -- all performing in a pristine acoustical setting.
The Porter Center is a performance and academic space for Brevard College students from the music and theatre departments, a campus meeting space and a performance venue for some of the groups that populate Transylvania county's rich cultural scene -- the Brevard Philharmonic, Brevard Community Band, Transylvania Choral Society and more.
The SCO tour was made possible in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Target Corp. For information on Brevard College's Porter Center for Performing Arts, visit www.theportercenter.org.
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The purpose of this review is to introduce you to the key people (Kims) you should be familiar with prior to visiting North Korea. You will certainly be well aware of them before you leave unless you close your eyes and plug your ears for the duration of your trip! Should you read my other reviews you will encounter reference to, and more details on, these people with, perhaps, monotonous regularity. Welcome to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!
North Korea and the Kim family dynasty are inextricably linked. North Korea today is essentially the Kim family and the Kim family is North Korea.
Apart from infrequent reference to a few early kings the history of North Korea will appear as if it commenced around the beginning of the 20th century and the only people you will hear about within the DPRK will be Kim Il-sung, his first wife – Kim Jong-suk, and their descendants. When I say descendants I mean their son Kim Jong-il and their grandson and current leader Kim Jong-un. While Kim Il-sung died in 1994 he still holds the title and position of Eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. His son Kim Jong-il is Eternal General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
Inquiries, to guides, as to the siblings/off-spring of the leaders are answered in one of two ways – either you will be told that such information is secret or it is not known. This may appear odd but the only people of importance in North Korea are the leaders – essentially, why would you be interested in anyone else? Guides will appear perplexed. The leaders are gods, great military men, song-writers, composers, writers of operas and general purveyors of advice and wisdom on absolutely everything. In the sense that absolutely everything bad and wicked in North Korea is directly attributed to the United States and other imperialistic countries, in particular Japan, everything good and wholesome is attributable to one or more of the three Kims.
The peoples’ (those whom I had contact with and saw) respect for, and allegiance to, the leaders ended up being the most enduring memory of my trips to North Korea. I will never forget our main guide’s joy and state of awestruck when Kim Jong-un entered the May Day Stadium and took his place in the VIP area for the opening ceremony of the Mass Games that I too attended in September 2018. Having never been in the presence of the Leader before our guide stood/sat there for most of the evening in a trance-like state, totally mesmerised – you could see the tears welling up in his eyes. While rather emotional for everyone, this being the first time that foreign tourists had ever been allowed to attend an event in the presence of one of the leaders, our guides state took things to a whole new level and proved, if proof was necessary, the level of love held by many North Koreans for their leaders. The guide remained in a state of ecstasy for days. Some days later when it was announced that Kim Jong-un would shortly visit and meet with the South Korean President, Moon Jae-in, in Seoul I asked the guide (very pro-reunification) if he was excited about that. He indicated that he was but was also very deeply concerned for the Leader’s personal safety in Seoul – the sort of concern a father might have for his young child.
While in North Korea you will be expected to show respect for the leaders and you will be well briefed on this topic before you get to North Korea and when you get there! There are a number of rules applicable to visitors and number one of these is that you will respect the leaders, past and present. This means among other things:
- You will not speak in derogatory terms about the leaders – you are permitted to discuss politics and have your views – don’t cross the line and offend. Very much a case of ‘if you have nothing good to say about someone, say nothing at all’, as my grandmother used to say;
- You will bow (bending at the waist with your hands by your side) and present flowers before statues, mosaics, and other representations of the leaders as appropriate – your guides will direct you in this regard and I will refer to it in other reviews. By the end of both my tours the group had admirably mastered this ability to bow (or bow – pronounced as in bow and arrow – as our Hungarian born Western guide in 2018 referred to it!);
- You will, when permitted to take photos, of statues of /monuments to the leaders
ensure that you take in the full figure – no pictures of parts of figures. If you are in the picture you will stand respectfully in front of the statues – no “v” signs, outstretched arms in imitation of Kim Il Sung, no “picking” of the leaders noses, etc; and
- In the event that you obtain a newspaper (including the weekly English language Pyongyang Times) it is almost certain that one or more of the leaders will be depicted on the front page and throughout the paper. You will not scrunch up such pictures, use them to wrap your shopping, etc and you will not fold the newspaper such that a crease is embedded on a leader’s face. As an interesting aside, in 2018 the first Pyongyang Times issued while I was in the country did not have a leader’s picture on the front – this would certainly have lowered its circulation numbers among tourists but in retrospect I now wish I had bought a copy of it as it may indeed turn out to be a collectors item given a leader’s absence from the front cover!
While the above may seem rather draconian and indeed ridiculous to some readers, in North Korea it is seen simply a matter of showing respect for the beliefs and customs of the people. You are not being asked to convert but rather show respect in the same way as you would remove your shoes before entering temples, etc in other countries.
I have somewhat digressed from the Kim’s.
There are five Kim’s that you need to be aware of as depicted in my pictures attached. You will see statues, images and other depictions of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il everywhere. These two leaders are typically displayed together, with much fewer depictions of Kim Jong-suk, especially outside the north east of the country.
Mother Kim Jong-suk, to give her her more formal title, was the daughter of poor farmers in Hoeryong County in the north-east of the country who became a revolutionary fighter, married Kim Il-sung and became Kim Jong-il’s mother. While in Hoeryong we visited her humble birthplace as we had done that of Kim Il-sung on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The KCNA (Korean Central News Agency) has variously referred to Kim Jong-suk as an “outstanding woman revolutionary” and “the sacred mother of the revolution,” citing that ‘Her marksmanship was so marvellous that even her comrades-in-arms used to guess the number of killed enemies by counting empty bullet pockets of her cartridge belt after battles.” I saw some evidence of this amazing marksmanship at the Jipsam Revolutionary Site near Chongjin, on the east coast. Mother Kim Jong-suk passed away on the 22nd September 1949 aged only 31 – officially from ‘the hardships she had endured during the years as a guerilla fighter’. Other sources suggest a failed childbirth, tuberculosis or even being shot as the real cause of her death.
A meeting between Kim Jong-un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in at Mt Paektu precluded our visiting Kim Jong-il’s even more humble birthplace in a then secret camp on the slopes of the mountain. For my reader who may seek to challenge me as to where Kim Jong-il was born, Russian records (generally accepted outside North Korea as factual) have it that he was born as Yury Irsenovich Kim, the son of a rank and file officer of the Red Army, Kim Il-sung, in Vyatskoye, a tiny village, in the Russian Far East. During a number of visits to Russia, and the far east in particular, Kim Jong-il never once visited Vyatskoye – presumably as he recalled no association with the place and didn’t want to play into the hands of Russian propagandists and their ‘fake news’!
Apart from news articles and similar you will not come across depictions of the current leader, Kim Jong-un. Such depictions are forbidden – he being a modest man like his father before him. Statues and other forms of public glorification of Kim Jong-il were not erected until after his death. My guide felt that given the rather tender age of the current leader it was unlikely that the people will be able to await his death prior to having some form of public acknowledgement to his great achievements erected.
The final Kim that you need to be aware of is Kimchi, which you will encounter three times a day, at breakfast, lunch and at dinner – even if you order pizza!
During my 2014 visit to North Korea we were permitted to, and indeed encouraged to, take photographs of any and all depictions of the Leaders we encountered (outside museums and similar places were photography was not generally permitted). During my 2018 visit, in many places (though not everywhere) we were forbidden from taking photographs of various paintings of the Leaders and of blown up photographs of them – generally dispensing one form of advice or the other. The only reason I can think of for this new restriction is that photographs of photographs have been republished in a manner which has been construed as degrading or poking fun at the Leaders. A rather famous website dedicated to depicting Kim Jong-il ‘looking at things’ (https://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/) comes to mind. To be fair, the good General did have an uncanny ability to look at things………..
a skill which he has clearly handed down to his son, the current leader, Kim Jong-un (http://kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com/).
Clearly all of these things were put-upon the Leaders seeking their approval or blessing, as they are upon dignitaries and leaders anywhere else in the world. Only because it’s North Korea does it seem odd. Similar light-hearted sites could be set up for many today.
To summarise: –
The leaders of North Korea since 1948 have been:
Kim Il-sung – 1912 – 1994 (leader 1948 – 1994)
Kim Jong-il – 1942 – 2011 (leader 1994 – 2011)
Kim Jong-un – 1983 – (leader 2012 – )
Dates given, especially birth-dates, are open to debate.
I have referred to the various Kims as leaders – in reality they each have, and continue to have, a multiplicity of titles. For ease of reference, within the DPRK the Kims are often referred to as:
Kim Il-sung – President
Kim Jong-il – General
Kim Jong-un – Marshal
Kim Jong-suk – Mother.
My next North Korea 2018 – General Review – HERE
Return to the beginning of my North Korea 2018 – General Review – HERE


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The Peckham Planning Network (PPN) is made up of a number of individuals and groups, formed initially through the work in 2012/13 preparing for the PNAAP Public hearings, who continue to work together on planning matters in Peckham. Peckham Vision founded the PPN and continues to facilitate it as a doorway into the planning issues affecting Peckham town centre. The PPN meets bimonthly, and there are planning actions and events between meetings. Joining the network and coming to the meetings is a good way to learn about the developments affecting the town centre and how to take action. To join the mailing list, email email@example.com.
We are grateful to The Lane ward councillors for their support for this work with Community Council Neighbourhood Fund small grants to Peckham Vision's community planning project, which includes the development and operation of the PPN.
6th June 2016 meeting
The meeting was attended by 20 people, and was another lively discussion. This time the focus was on numerous planning applications which needed comment and objections. Together they raised significant issues and had wider and cumulative effects on the town centre. These included the lack of social housing, damaging effects on the historic buildings and the Conservation Area, and the size and mass of some were out of scale with the town centre. Because of these wider issues, and that the plans were controversial, it was agreed to ask the ward councillors to call-in several so they could be decided by the Planning Committee, rather than by officers under delegated authority. People should be encouraged to submit their objections. It was also agreed to ask for a deputation to the Community Council on 29th June, and to ask to make representations to the Planning Committee on 5th July about the wider issues and cumulative effects of so many planning applications being considered in isolation as separate developments. Other business included planning policy developments and future consultations, the development of PPN and the need for volunteers to help on the Peckham Vision stall at the Brimmington Park Festival on 2nd July and the Peckham Rye Fete on 3rd September. The next date will be in September, to be fixed.
11th April 2016 meeting
The meeting was attended by 22 people, and 9 sent apologies. Almost all had been before, though at each meeting there are some new faces. In total about 45 people have now taken part in the PPN meetings. Over 120 are on the mailing list, including people who have taken part in other Peckham Vision events and wanted to join the planning mailing list. The new Google doc table of development sites for the monitoring and tracking information is proving useful to keep track of many details and identify which sites need action of some sort. This is also enabling a closer look at the cumulative impact of different development sites. The meeting also looked at the preparations for the next consultation on the New Southwark Plan (NSP). The forthcoming summer events starting in May at Goose Green were an essential part of informing the public about the planning developments and issues. Volunteers are needed for the Peckham Vision stall with the mobile exhibition. The next meeting will be on 6th June 7-9pm.
1st February 2016 meeting
The PPN’s February meeting was attended by 26 people. It was the 1st meeting of the second year of regular meetings. PPN had started in August 2013 following a year of informal monthly meetings preparing for the PNAAP Examination in Public hearings in July 2013. The consistent and growing attendance at PPN was evidence of the success of the developing process. The previous week had seen the highly successful public community meeting of over 200 discussing, in front of the Council, the local vision for Peckham for the planning policy in the New Southwark Plan (NSP). This successful meeting followed the Peckham Vision arranged workshop in November 2015 with Council officers on planning policies and the draft NSP.
The draft development map for Peckham town centre, which Peckham Vision had produced and displayed at the 27th January meeting (see here: http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Major_developments), had shown how the planning issues are multiplying now that the PNAAP is being implemented. The PPN is providing a way for local people to understand together through experience how the planning and development process works, and so is improving local chances of influencing it. At this 1st February 2016 PPN meeting, we continued to pool our information about the different sites, highlighting issues to focus on to make comments on the New Southwark Plan, and we continued to develop the PPN processes further.
7th December 2015 meeting
The PPN's December meeting was attended by 23 local people, with a high level of interest in the planning issues relating to individual development sites, conservation and planning policy. It was the 6th meeting of the first year of the regular bi-monthly meetings. The development of the PPN from an ad hoc small group of local people focussing on co-ordinating specific planning campaigns, into the entry point for anyone interested in learning about community involvement in town centre planning and development, seems to be working well.
In 2015 the mailing list has almost doubled from about 60 to 110, and attendance at more frequent meetings has more than doubled from 8 to between 15 and 23. We still need to attract people from a more diverse ethnic and age range, but work in hand is preparing the way for this longer term development. If you have any suggestions for this please let us know.
The PPN is now developing a capability to track planning applications and development sites, and to identify generic issues arising from them. The good management, planning and development of the bimonthly meetings are a key to the sustainability and self management of the PPN. The development of templates for the agenda and meeting action notes is paving the way for distributing tasks amongst those attending meetings to enable PPN to become self managing.
15th November 2016 NSP workshop
This was a workshop about the New Southwark Plan (NSP) Preferred Option out for consultation. 25 people attended. Three Council Planning officers led by Tom Buttrick explained the background and gave an outline of the many policies covered in the NSP. The workshop divided into three groups for more detailed discussion. Feedback: This was the first workshop of its kind I have ever heard about (I am 22) let alone been invited to. More workshops and events, of this shape and size, would be good. I also echo one of the sagest comments going around the room, which was for all of us build these types of conversations and understandings into our daily lives, and children's and young adults' lives at school, college, play and work.


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Boosie Badazz returns with his latest project, a brand new mixtape, titled Bleek Mode (Thug in Peace Lil Bleek).
The Southern rapper pays homage to his friend Darryl “Bleek” Milton, who was reportedly murdered on April 1, 2010.
“We had a hell of a life together,” Boosie says on the intro. “He’ll go down as a legend. T.I.P. my ride or die, Lil Bleek.”
The 19-track set features guest spots from Lil Durk, Tony Michael, and Og Dre. Songs include “Not My N*gga”, as well as the previously released “Family Rules”.

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Early in 2017 Santos Organics funded Plastic Free Byron and their Borrow Bag program for tourists in the Byron Shire.
The initial concept however did not lift off as intended due to problems tourist facilities had with bag up-keep and maintenance.
As such the Plastic Free Byron team revised the program and are trialling the new system with Byron Central Apartments. Every apartment will have a reusable bag available for their visitors.
After the 4 week trial Plastic Free Byron will open up this program to other tourist facilities as well in hope that 2018 can be the year that Byron Bay no longer needs plastic bags!
For more information visit plasticfreebyron.com


Atlantic: Nationwide, 42 per cent of parents say their kids are stressed about going back to school. The prospect of new teachers and homework can have that effect, it seems. But in Atlantic Canada, most parents feel their kids are feeling fine about getting back to the books. Just 22 per cent of parents there report back-to-school stress.
Quebec: In the wake of Jack Layton’s death, few Canadians feel the NDP will be able to find a leader with similar strengths. Except in Quebec—the scene of last election’s much-discussed “orange wave” of NDP support—where 34 per cent feel the NDP will either “definitely” or “probably” find a new leader as strong as Layton.
Ontario: Ontarians, it seems, have the bleakest outlook in the country. In a recent poll, 59 per cent agreed that “things were better 20 years ago”—the highest of all provinces (Alberta was the lowest, at 46 per cent). They’re also most likely to concur with the statement: “I’m mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore.” Thirty per cent of Ontario residents share that anger, compared with 22 per cent nationally.
Alberta: Although some slammed the military’s “royal” renaming as a colonial throwback and retrograde step, most Canadians, it turns out, approve of the government’s decision. Nowhere is approval as strong as it is in Alberta, where support for the renamed Royal Canadian Air Force is sky-high. Eighty per cent of Albertans either “strongly agree” or “agree” with the decision to return the “royal” to the three main branches of the Canadian military.
British Columbia: A new poll finds that 76 per cent of people in B.C. think texting or emailing while driving is just as dangerous as driving drunk. Half of British Columbians, meanwhile, believe that simply talking on a hand-held device is as risky as drinking and driving.
Sources: Ipsos Reid, Harris-Decima, Abacus Data, Angus Reid


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- Double-click on the yellow exclamation point. Another box will open up.
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Acer Aspire 5330 Drivers
Update and download Acer Aspire 5330 drivers immediately so that you can make your hardware device run much better. Drivers can be tiny little files used by the operating system that include instructions for the CPU to make sense of it so that the system can utilize the particular piece of hardware that the driver file relates to. Sans accurate driver files installed there is no way for the system to make use of the hardware device. The hardware is useless and will not properly communicate with your computer system. You would have to have the correct driver files actually installed on your operating system of your computer so you can use this piece of hardware.
All hardware and peripheral devices need to have the proper drivers installed within the operating system in order for the devices to be used. These hardware devices can be a printer, disk drive, cell phone or thousands of other hardware devices that are able to be connected to a computer by way of plugging in a cable or simply directly plugging it in to the motherboard.
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Hunting down the correct Aspire 5330 driver for your particular device can feel like the ultimate challenge in life. Here are a few things you need to know as you are searching for drivers.
- The name of the manufacturer (if it is built-in to the motherboard then use the computer brand)
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Recent Windows (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10) nicely does most of the work for the user and is capable of installing the proper drivers onto the system for the user whenever it detects any new hardware or device attached to the computer. There may be an occasion or two in which searching is needed for some software or a driver that was not installed automatically by the operating system. And that is why you have arrived at this page!
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Watch out for when you download drivers and files from random unknown websites. In order to lower your risk for malware, it would be best to only download drivers from the device maker's site if all possible. Malware can be disguised as drivers and other common files. Downloading and installing a file that you think is a Aspire 5330 driver is one of the worst things a person can do if the file ends up to have a virus. There is no antivirus program that can prevent ALL viruses. Because of the possibility of a virus download, we send you directly to the maker's website. Their websites are more trusted for you and your computer than other random websites offering similar files.
After you searched, found and received the correct driver file for the device attached to your computer system, you can then install the device onto your Windows system. After having it downloaded to your hard drive, the file may need to be uncompressed especially if it ends with a .zip or .rar. After you have uncompressed the file you should run the program to install the driver. In some instances when the device driver fails to install you could have to install the Acer Aspire 5330 drivers manually.
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NH AFL-CIO decries photo ID law in Dunbarton; town moderator says union complaint based on false informationBy Kathy Remillard
Union Leader Correspondent
November 06. 2012 5:16PM
DUNBARTON - Officials said accusations made in a petition today that was to be sent to the Governor and Secretary of State because residents were denied the right to vote are false.
'Only hours after the polls opened, there have been reports from the NH AFL-CIO of poll workers in Dunbarton telling voters that they cannot cast their ballots without showing photo identification,' a statement from the organization signon.org read.
The organization urged the governor to put a stop to requiring an ID at the polls.
Dunbarton Town Moderator Fred Mullen said the petition is based on false information.
'Nobody's been refused,' he said, but added that a mix-up occurred when a Selectman instructed voters to access their IDs early this morning.
Mullen said before the Selectman could further instruct people to complete a voter identification affidavit if they did not have identification, a man interjected that he did not need to show one.
Mullen said he intervened and explained the process, and the man showed his ID without further incident.
Dunbarton Police Chief said that even with a large voter turnout, voting was conducted in an orderly fashion.
'Several folks had no ID and went through the process fine,' he said.


Lattermath Posts New EP Studio Video
Lattermath is currently working on a new EP, and now the band has posted studio update video, which can be viewed below. The band also comments:
"First of many updates to come! The clips you hear in this video are very rough, very unmixed bits of a brand new track that will be featured on the new EP!"
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There was a fire at the music studio owned by Tesla bassist Brian Wheat. Tesla kept their equipment and memoirabilia there. To see more info go to http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/Lifestyle/News/tesla%2D0930/
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Kings Of Modesty just got their album "Hell Or Highwater" released in the US. They are a progressive metal band from Finland that has been around since 1994. Their current line-up was formed in 2007 and this is their first album.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Leaves' Eyes has had to cancel the rest of their North American tour including the scheduled show in Mexico. They tried to do as many shows as possible but with the cancellation of the tour with Kamelot they were not able to make up for the missed shows. Hopefully they'll be able to come back and have better luck next time.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Bangalore Choir (featuring David Reece who sang for Accept on 1989's "Eat The Heat") have released their first album in 18 years, "Cadence". You can find out more about the new album as well as hear some sample tracks at http://www.bangalorechoir.com/.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
I have been noticing more and more bands putting out special editions of their albums. These special editions are more than just a couple of extra tracks, but now include expanded packages and artwork, bonus discs (both audio and/or DVD), and even more extras.
Monster Fest 2010 will be will he happening this weekend, Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 at the Merced County Fairgrounds. Gates will be open from 3:30pm-12:00am with over 30 bands playing including international artist Lynch Mob. You can check out their website at http://www.monsterfestrocks.com/.
I just updated my CD database. You can view my complete collection by clicking on http://truernrheaven.blogspot.com/p/my-cd-collection.html or use the navigation bar above.
Friday, September 24, 2010
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Accept have announced the first dates for their tour in support of "Blood Of The Nations" which was released last week in the US. This is their first US tour in over 14 years. The band will have "Meet & Greets" have every show and have pleged to stay until the very last fan leaves. Check out the dates below:
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Black Tide have released the first song titled "Bury Me" from their upcoming album at http://www.blacktidemusic.com/buryme/Revealed.aspx. Be aware, you have to login using your Facebook page to listen to the new song.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Ozzy Osbourne has announced some dates for a North American arena tour starting on Nov. 12th. Current dates are all in the North West US and Canada. Dates announced so far are:
Mike Portnoy, founding member and leader of Dream Theater, has decided to leave the band after taking some time off and playing with some other bands this past year. It will be interesting to see what Dream Theater does in finding not only a new drummer but a song writer. You can read Mike Portnoy's and Dream Theater's press releases at dreamtheater.net.
Last week Kamelot announced they would be touring despite their lead singer Khan falling ill. Well, after rehearsing with Michael from Circus Maximus the band has decided to postpone the US tour until Khan is able to rejoin the band. For more information check out their blog on MySpace or their news section at kamelot.com.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Creation's End featuring Mike Dimeo (Masterplan/Riot) will be releasing their debut album "A New Beginning" on Sensory Records on November 9th. To hear a preview of the album as well as the complete track "Of Shadow And Flame" on their MySpace page.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
In my internet meanderings tonight I came across a couple of bands I found interesting and would be interested in what anyone else thinks about them. They have a couple of things in common, both have young female singers, Brooklyn from Picture Me Broken is 17 and Taylor Momsen from The Pretty Reckless is only 16, and both have great voices. Here are a couple of videos from the bands:
Blackbird have finished recording their new album "Modern Day Saints" and will be releasing it soon. Check out their MySpace page where you can check out a couple of new tracks as well as some of their older songs, the band rocks, you won't be disappointed.
Mindsplit are a new band from Lion Music and will be releasing their debut album "Charmed Human Art Of Significance" On September 17th. Tracklisting for the CD is:
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Kamelot's singer Roy Khan has fallen ill with a as yet undiagnosed illness and has gone back to Norway to receive care from his physician. Do the timing of the upcoming tour that has been in the planning for over a year the band has asked Circus Maximus singer Michael Eriksen to step in for Roy with his blessing. I'm sure that everyone wishes for Roy to get better ASAP but it's cool that the tour will go on.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Kamelot have announced Swedish vocalist Elize Ryd of Amaranthe will be joining them on their North American Tour. Elize toured with Kamelot during their Summer Pandemonium Tour an European tour in the Spring. She will be part of the VIP meet and greet as well.