... In the mid-1930s the Luftwaffe was building up its strength with a number of new warplanes, and the Messerschmitt Bf 110 was the company's submission for a twin-engine fighter for which Focke-Wulf and Henschel also prepared designs. They were to be initially heavy fighters, but with the capability of being deployed as high-speed bombers. Changes in requirements for the fighter resulted in Messerschmitt being the only candidate and three prototypes were built, the first flying on 12 May 1936.
The two 910-hp (679-kW) Daimler-Benz DB 600A engines were very unreliable; nevertheless, a speed of 314 mph (505km/h) was recorded during tests and the general performance was considered reasonable, although swing during take-off and landing gave problems. Engine unreliability plagued the three prototypes, and the pre-production series of Bf 110A-0 aircraft had 680-hp (507-kW) Junkers Jumo 210Da engines which produced a considerable performance penalty, but Messerschmitt was still awaiting the new DB 601A with fuel injection and other improvements. This engine's gestation period stretched even longer, with consequent delays to the Bf 110 program, and after the fourth pre-production aircraft had been completed in March 1938 the company switched to the Bf HOB, a cleaned-up version with provision for two 20-mm FF cannon in the nose, supplementing the four machine-guns carried by the Bf 110A-0. A total of 45 Bf HOBs was built, all with Jumo engines: most were Bf HOB-1 aircraft, but some Bf HOB-2 machines had their cannon removed and cameras installed, while the few Bf HOB-3 examples were earlier aircraft modified subsequently for use as trainers.
DB 601A at last became available, resulting in the Bf HOC with some minor airframe changes, including squarer-cut wingtips and new radiators. Ten Bf 110C-0 pre-production aircraft were delivered for evaluation in January 1939, followed closely by Bf 110C-1 production fighters. As production built up, Focke-Wulf and Gotha joined the program and by the end of August 1939 159 Bf 110Cs had been delivered at a production rate of 30 per month. By the end of the year deliveries had reached 315.
The new fighter proved its abilities in the Polish campaign and in December 1939 succeeded in destroying nine out of 24 Vickers Wellingtons on a mission over the Heligoland Bight. Three other Wellingtons failed to return from this operation and the 50 per cent loss to Bomber Command was a severe blow, but it enhanced the prestige of the Bf 110 as a bomber destroyer.
The high priority afforded to Bf 110 production is reflected in the monthly average of more than 102 aircraft in 1940, but it was in this year, when the Bf 110s began to encounter single-engine fighter opposition, that its shortcomings became apparent, an ominous foretaste of things to come later in the year. While its ability as a day fighter may have been doubted, even in the improved Bf 110C-2 and Bf 110C-3 versions, there were plenty of other roles where it could perform useful tasks.
The Bf 110C4 with armour for the crew and uprated 1,200-hp (895-kW) DB 601N engines was used as a fighter-bomber and could carry two 551-lb (250-kg) bombs beneath the centre section; in this role it became the Bf 110C-4/B and operated against British shipping in the English Channel in the summer of 1940 with success. The Bf 110C-7 was an improved fighter-bomber with up to 2,205 lb. (1000 kg) of bombs, while the Bf 110C-5 was a reconnaissance machine...


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Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom. It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississip Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters' hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom. Her husband leaves her and offers to put the baby up for adoption before he leaves, but the mom will have nothing to do with it.
Never having read anything by Elizabeth Berg, I was happy when my book club chose We Are All Welcome Here for our December selection. Though fiction, the book is based on the life events of one of Ms. Berg’s readers, Marianne Raming Burke, and her mother Pat Raming. In the novel, a young pregnant woman contracts polio in the final days of her pregnancy and actually gives birth to her daughter in an iron lung.
I would stretch out beside my mother’s chair, and she would lean her head back and gaze upward, smiling at Orion’s Belt, at the backward question mark of Leo, at the intimate grouping of the seven daughters of Atlas. Sometimes I would pick some of the fragrant grass I lay in to put under her nose
About book: It’s so delightful, revisiting a book and discovering you enjoyed it just as much as you did the first time around – if not more so. This was certainly the case with Elizabeth Berg’s novel: We Are All Welcome Here, an endearing story of triumph over tragedy, love in the face of adversity, faith, perseverance, and learning to accept each other’s differences with grace. Love does not have legs. It does not have arms.
Also by Elizabeth Berg. Praise for We Are All Welcome Here. In September 2003, I received a letter from a reader named Marianne Raming Burke, who had an idea for a book she wanted me to write. She began, I don’t know if you ever do this kind of thin. .My first thought was, I can tell you right now, I don’t.
We would make this a place where we could talk comfortably about our plans to walk to Memphis. I finally had a friend. Suralee Halloway-my age almost exactly, our birthdays were one month apart-had moved here in February and lived with her mother, the Divorcée, at the end of the block. Noreen Halloway had hair like Marilyn Monroe, and she had the mole above the finely formed lip, too. But her face was wide and bland, her body short and pudgy, probably due to the divinity she ate before bed every night.
Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely.
As the novel (based on a true story) is set in Tupelo, the specter of Elvis Presley naturally intrudes, for an over-the-top, heartrending finale. PW. "Berg has the components of a forceful drama in place, but her tale lacks emotional resonance. Elizabeth Berg is the author of many bestselling novels, including Open House (an Oprah's Book Club selection), Talk Before Sleep, and The Year of Pleasures, as well as the short story collection The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year.

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Hey Clay! just launched Talking Clay. Talking Clay is an interactive modeling clay app that teaches kids step-by-step how to make clay creations (monsters, aliens, animals, and birds). My kids tested it out by making cute penguins. I loved that it got them being creative together while on screen time!
Hey Clay is selling a kit to accompany these apps that contains 18 cans of brightly colored air-dry modeling clay. This also includes a promo code to get you started on the apps. Some of the creatures are free but if you want the full apps, they do cost.
Hey Clay Modeling Clay App for Kids
The apps give kids directions on how to make each creature using digital animation. Each step shows basic shapes for making the creature’s body part. Kids follow along with the steps, working on their motor skills and creativity.
The clay included in this set is quite spongy — you could bounce balls of this clay. Cool, right?
The Animals app includes horse, cow, sheep and rabbit. The Monsters app contains directions for a cyclops, a hipster, Pi, and more. The Birds app gives you ideas to make a dove, peacock, penguin, and more.
Once you’ve made your clay creation, let them dry. When they’re dry, display or play with your colorful creatures.
My kids were disappointed that the end picture of a penguin wasn’t the same as how the steps in the directions told the kids to make theirs. (The eyes, for example, were different.) Which meant, they didn’t have the same looking penguin as the app’s image. However, the end results turned out adorable either way so it was all good!!
As I mentioned before, I really liked that the Hey Clay apps gave my kids something creative to do — and although it was screen time, it was an interactive activity they could do together.
Disclosure: I was sent a free sample of the Hey Clay modeling clay.

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Four FC personnel martyred in Kurram Agency
15 October, 2017
At least four Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred and two others injured in three low-intensity blasts in the Kharlachi area of Kurram Agency near the Pak-Afghan border on Sunday.
According to security sources, the first blast occurred when a bomb disposal squad team was conducting a routine search in the area.
Two other explosives went off in the area after the first blast as security forces reached the site to aid in a rescue operation.
The nature of the blasts is unknown, but the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Following the blasts, security officials cordoned off the area and launched a search operation, while all those injured were shifted to nearby hospitals for treatment.
Kurram is one of the most sensitive tribal areas as it borders three Afghan provinces and at one point was one of the key routes for militant movement across the border.
The region was claimed by the military to have been cleared of insurgents during an operation a few years ago. However, militants still carry out sectarian attacks and also target security forces occasionally.


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An Unlikely Tale-Part One
(* Author's note: This is fiction. Any similarity to real events and/or persons is purely coincidental and unintentional. However…sure would have been nice…)
The clock was counting down. Inexorably ticking away. Soon it would be Eleven Days to Zero, as my friends called my upcoming visit to a Hollywood studio. Might as well live in a City Beneath the Sea for all I knew about the workings behind the scenes of TV. I found to my chagrin that The Fear Makers and The Mist of Silence in my brain had overshadowed me. I was an awkward nobody. How would they treat me, an intruder into their hushed up domain?
If the studio was willing to pay The Price of Doom contest people for allowing me, the winner of a mere essay contest, onto their back lot, I wanted to make a good impression. And so,days later, face scrubbed and hair combed I was escorted past the normally forbidden doors. Few people noticed me as I brushed elbows past the various dream factories and wondered what wonderful worlds of imagination they were pumping out behind the warning red lights on the doors while filming was in progress.
"Hey!" I yelped suddenly and passed out….
" The Sky is Falling?" I asked as I came to. Apparently pieces of Styrofoam blue and white had suddenly hit me on the head as I walked through what was supposed to be a deserted soundstage.
"Sorry about that, "my escort grimaced. "This here is one of the new shows; Must have come loose, some of the sky. Cheap glue. Gotta admit, it's nice on film."
"Well, I didn't suppose I was in Kansas anymore, "I pulled some of the styrofoam flakes out of my hair,"but they should have put up a warning." But it was a nice set, and indeed, I thought, it was going to look great on film. I was rather interested in meeting the cast and crew. It was supposed to be an Action-Adventure series set some 10 to 20 years in the future. About a submarine. I was nervous about that. Would I actually have to get into the massive prop?
"You won't have to Turn Back The Clock with this model,"a nice man held up a toy submarine and allowed me to examine it. "Nobody will be able to mistake our submarine for a old rustbucket. And don't worry,"he told me,"it'll look real on film."
Before long I was ushered into a small conference room and met some of the cast and crew. When they found out I had written minor stories for some fanclub years before, they were most open to any ideas or plots they might field to their writers for their show.
"Well," I pondered, "say your submarine is moored by The Village of Guilt, hidden away, everyone there unaware of life as you know it, and The Hot Line you depend on for assistance is down and…"
"No, no, no!" the studio censor took me aside, "think Monsters! Think Fanfiction! Or it 'll be a Submarine Sunk Here! kind of show."
"Well," the prop coordinator said, "The Magnus Beam has to rescue the cast next week from a watery and lingering limbo of scattered atoms. Ain't that exciting enough for TV? "
'There's just No Way Out of this predicament,"the producer complained, after screening preliminary takes of the day. "It's just too realistic. Nobody's going to want to watch that. I need fantasy stories to lure my audience."
"I got an idea," HK said, "it hit me when I was knee deep in the artificial snow and.."
"That's it! That's brilliant!" I just couldn’t help myself from interrupting," The Blizzard Makers capture The Ghost of Moby Dick ! Why paranormal phenomenon is more and more popular now and if you had an encounter with a ghost whale and..uh…why are you both looking at me like that?"
"Long Live the King!" cheered the cast on the set next door, while "Hail to the Chief!" played on another, effectively drowning out The Last Battle in one of the sequences we were filming. There was almost a Mutiny when the director decided to do a retake after we all got back from lunch.
"Doomsday", one of The Invaders from the set next to us smirked at lunch; "You'll never last the season. A submarine with glass windows. Bahh humbug!"
"They're not glass!" I retorted. I'd been briefed. We didn't actually know what they were, but they weren't glass, we knew that much. Or the sub would have broken long ago in the film version. And I'd actually been hired. My fairy tale Hollywood job was simply to observe and offer suggestions and ideas, to anyone at anytime, about anything. This was a progressive show.
"The Indestructible Man?" the blond asked, "is actually a Buccaneer who turns Crane into The Human Computer and while he thinks he's a computer he's actually The Saboteur who steels some of Nelson's experiments from a Cradle of the Deep?"
"Cradle?" asked the skinny dark actor as he joined us, "we're going to have a baby on the set?"
"No, " BD replied. "but it's going to be neat seeing you say nothing but 'bleep- bleep- bleep'."
"No," I replied, "you'll think you're a computer but you'll still be able to speak."
"Pity," smiled blue-eyes. "I would have enjoyed watching the challenge."
"If you'd like a challenge DH," I replied," you can flash your gills as one of The Amphibians that The Exile captures and turns into his slave. Then BD here rescues Crane-The Creature, but you're still one of The Enemies to Seaview, so Nelson has to discover The Secret of the Loch, or he'll never find the serum to turn you back into a normal person and you'd be one of The Condemned people who believe they're computers for the rest of your life and there's a Traitor too and …are you ill DH? BD?"
An Unlikely Tale-Part Two
"But," I stressed later to the production staff, "Jonah and the Whale really happened!"
"Stuff and nonsense," I was told bluntly, "you write that and you'll have a ticking Time Bomb on your hands."
"Yeah, well, the producer likes it!" I replied, my emotions overriding my sense. It wouldn't help things to get myself fired. I liked rubbing elbows with the Hollywood elite.
"And Five of Us are Left", I told the stars of the show of our writing compliment. Any ideas gentlemen? " Of course, the director did have to call them to the set just then. I retired to my cubbyhole of imagination while I tried to drown out the banging on the bucket for the submarine's rock & roll scene.
If only The Cyborg could help. After his Escape from Venice, the ultra modern sophisticated ex-top secret military experimental robot the studio had purchased under- the-counter from The Left Handed Man had been dishing out computer generated ideas which another studio had been quick to steal, uh, borrow. Ratings are the Deadliest Game in Hollywood, and can make even the smallest cardboard set a Leviathan of popularity..
"So, The Peacemaker steals the gold bullion," the red-haired star offered during a break, "but he's sabotaged by Silent Saboteurs."
"Why are they silent?" BD asked.
"Well, they have to be, to save on paying them for lines. You should know that."
"Uh, gentlemen," I asked, "any other ideas?"
"Yeah," DH said, "have the writers give us some stories with girls in them!"
"Is that all you think about?" the director interupted, "good grief, one more suggestion about girls and…"
What the director was going to say was never completed as he was called away by some minor crisis on the set.
"How about a story called The X Factor, sounds sci-fi more than a kid's show, doesn't it?" RB offered.
"Sounds like a makeup company," the blond retorted.
"Aghhhhhggg!" screams suddenly came from the studio office as the staff fled the building, "the machines, the machines are broken! From the payroll computer to the final drafts of next week's script in the copier! All that work down the tubes!"
"That's it!" I rose, excited, "The Machines Strike Back! Brilliant idea, if I say so myself, see ya!" I ran to my cubbyhole and began typing on the antiquated Navy computer that the studio had gotten cheap. But it made a good typewriter if you didn't mind the irritating pinging and the circley thing going round and round and saying 'this is a drill, repeat, this is a drill' and other such things. IA had insisted on getting his writers into the mood...even a mere suggestion maker like me.
"Uh, did they say payroll?" RB asked. His powerboat needed a new engine so this was bad news.
'No, no, no!!!" the censor shouted, the next day. "The Monster from Outer Space can not be a bikini clad buxom beauty! Make it a horrible, squishy thing, like a blob or something. You can't have it pretty! We'd be laughed off the air, and you know we can't show belly buttons, unless it's Crane's when he's putting on his wetsuit but that doesn't count."
"But think of it," I demanded," the drama, the intrigue, a beautiful woman who lures the crew to the Terror of Dinosaur Island, actually it's her spaceship that killed off the dinosaurs in a time warp and she takes the crew of the sub captive and back to her planet and…"
"Are you sure you're on the right set? This isn't a space drama! This is a Submarine show! We have underwater stuff, monsters, aliens, but no pretty space-girls, understand?"
"I don't care, belly buttons and cleavage is out, capiche?"
"Oh the pain!" the censor glared at me and walked off muttering about artists and writers and showbiz in general.
"Uh, I have an idea," TB said, a bit nervously, "How about a ghosty thing, it takes over the chief and…"
"Brilliant!" I exclaimed and began to expand, "yes, yes, let's see, aha! The Phantom! Yes, now what kind of ghost….submarine stuff, okay, he's a submarine Captain! Gotta make him eerie….eerie…World War Two, no ,make it World War One. I got it, how about a U-Boat? We can go heavy on the Captain's German accent. Now, let's see, he takes over the chief…no,no, that won't do, not enough empathy from the audience, has to be one of the stars, sorry TB, great idea, but it 'll be better if the spectre takes over the Captain."
"But he always gets the best stuff!"
"They'll make it up to you in another episode when the chief gets to save the world, okay?"
"Okay, you win, but…"
"Look, TB, I gotta write this down while I'm on a roll, got any other ideas, jot em down and we'll work on them later, okay, gotta run, bye!" I raced to my plot book.
"The Sky's on Fire?" asked RB "Again? I'm getting very tired of stories with nothing but stock footage from the film and other tidbits from musty old vaults. Can't you writers come up with anything more original?"
"If we don’t give the producer something, "I replied, " it's gonna be a Graveyard of Fear around here. We have a deadline!" But I promised to see what I could do.
The next day was raining and I sat down next to RB in the commissary. The creamed corn on his plate looked like The Shape of Doom to me, but then I'm no gourmet. It wasn't difficult to imagine what the next monster to attack the submarine might look like.
"Well, "he asked, "what happened?They told me at the gate you spoke to the producer."
"He said nobody would notice,"I sighed, "this is television. The audience will only get to see the show again in one repeat and even that's chancy what with some of the pre-emptions we've been getting lately."
"Uh, I have another idea," TB approached our table sheepishly, "It's about some Dead Men's Doubloons that the chief finds in his poker winnings and.."
"Poker? Hey that's great!" I exclaimed, "the chief has a winning streak, all due to …I know, a lucky charm, no, a lucky shirt…gaudy, silly….Hey, I know! How about a Hawaiian touristy type shirt, and he…hey, yeah, he conjures up The Death Ship and it attacks the boat and the pirate ghost takes over Crane and…what's the matter? RB? TB? are you ill?"
"The Monster's Web?" DH asked, as he sat down the script, "You've got to be kidding! A giant underwater spider! Oh the pain!"
What was it about the next set over that had this entire cast and crew using their lines?
"The spider eats The Menfish but The Mechanical Man saves the day and Nelson starts making androids to crew the sub and you all get to go on vacation in Tibet and… are you ill?"
DH just shook his head and groaned.
"Anyway, you get taken over by a ghost. The Return of the Phantom, I think they'll be calling it; you can play the full range of emotions from terror to evil and speak with a funny accent, there's also a girl, how about that!?" Actors loved to play with accents and girls. Some of the writers were really getting good!
An Unlikely Tale-Part Three
"So, gentlemen," I briefed the actors, "The Monster From The Inferno is…" I let them wait for it, the writing staff had worked long and hard on this, "a Werewolf!"
The men looked at me with silence and vacated the small conference room, looking as if it were The Day the World Ended. I would have thought they'd be pleased. Actors were supposed to enjoy challenging parts. Oh well.
Later I was to find that evening somewhat of a Night of Terror. Someone had forgotten to pick up after the school children who'd toured the set earlier in the day and The Terrible Toys made me trip and twist my ankle. It gave me an idea though. All about a Day of Evil and how Deadly Waters had hid the little Things From Inner Space and from Nelson's crew too, while he played with the toys; little realizing that he was being hypnotized by the them to become a member of The Death Watch, as a Deadly Invasion took place aboard The Haunted Submarine! Was I on a roll or what! What was so intriguing was that it all made sense!
"The Plant Man?" BD asked, incredulous.
"Yes," I replied, making it up as I spoke. We hadn't finished the script yet, but BD was a nice guy, and never any trouble, so we tried to please him, even though the few lines we did manage for him were soon gobbled up by production overrides. "You have to defuse The Lost Bomb he invented, but The Brand of the Beast on The Creature that he grew from the petri dish glows hot with radiation and you face a horrible Death From The Past as they forgot to bring anti time warp serum aboard. You get to die or turn into The Heat Monster, whichever the censor approves and…you okay?" I asked as he excused himself from my presence.Was it my imagination or was there always a bug on this set?
TB approached and grinned.
"Oh, Hi, got a new idea?" I asked cheerfully.
"Actually, no, but I did want to show you my pet rock."
"Pet rock?" I asked. I was aware of the craze. My own pet rock had a derby hat and a mustache, but this one was rather unusual.
"Yeah, it's got a fossil in it. Millions of years old.."
"Wow, hey I got an idea! How about, oh boy you're gonna love this, The Fossilmen kidnap The Mermaid who's torn between dating The Mummy, and the Shadowman, and a kind of mixup happens and Cranés alter ego is zapped into them both and…what is it TB, are you ill? Man, I have got to notify the health authorities."
"There's just No Escape From Death for me, is there?" the extra moaned. I certainly couldn't count how many times he was killed off on the show. Odd that the viewers didn't catch on that this crewman showed up so many different times as different character. Oh well.
"Well, at least you'll be back. Maybe on the Doomsday Island populated by The Wax Men ? Some of the writers visited the wax museum when we were on hiatus and got some great ideas about living wax dummies and…you're not ill too, are you?" I promised myself I'd make sure to update my shots as soon as I had a chance.
"Well," the producer approached, "how are you doing, I have to say great work so far, now I need something a bit more dramatic."
"Hmm," I thought as some lightening and thunder boomed and crackled in the sky, "well, how about a Deadly Cloud that's really a life form out to Destroy Seaview…"
An Unlikely Tale-Part Four
"Care for the Fires of Death?" RB offered me a cup of coffee in the afternoon sunshine. The coffee was so strong it was rumored to have turned some of the stuntmen into The Deadly Dolls they use to test cars out with.
"No thanks," I replied, "I already took that Journey with Fear."
"Sealed Orders," a studio page plopped a huge manila envelope into my hands. "They want your opinions about these synopsis's, ASAP."
"Well," I spoke my good-byes to this Man of Many Faces, one of the more experienced actors of the studio, and could only wonder what new gems of imagination the writers had dreamed up for him.
"The Fatal Cargo idea is okay," I told the producer." Spoiled ice cream making everybody sick, so they're late to the Army Navy game, but it needs a little something…. How about about a Time Lock that traps Nelson and Crane and the chief has to Rescue them before it's A Time to Die…"
"Blow Up the sub?" BD asked, incredulous, "You can't do that. Without the sub, we're nothing."
"Ahh, but the return of the Deadly Amphibians trying to take over the world give Nelson the funds by Washington to build a newer, improved boat, and she saves the world. But then The Return of Blackbeard throws a wrench in the victory party and it's up to Sharkey to defeat the pirate and The Terrible Leprechaun who's joined him and…? What's wrong.. are you ill again? This set has got to have sick building syndrome. Hmm. Hey that's an idea for a story…the submariners of the world are coming down with…uh…anyone?"
The set was suddenly deserted. Oh well, they probably all went home to bed.
"So did the Captain get some melted butter?"I laughed as the guest star shed The Lobster Man costume, glaring at me all the while. Chee whiz, actors! I thought that was funny. "Oh, hi TB, great day isn't it." I said as he approached.
"Yeah, I have some friends up north and it's been snowin' hard and the kids have been building a snowman and …"
"Brilliant! I see it now, the snowman comes to life, but it's it's not a nice snowman, why, that’s it! It's The Abominable Snowman and…TB? TB? What are you doing with that straight jacket?
"Yes," the Doctor said, "I'm afraid it's happened again. Visitors just can't take the pressure. She's ranting and raving that Crane is some sort of 'Man Beast' that needs an injection to be cured before he explores the' Savage Jungle' where the 'Flaming Ice' lives, intent on an 'Attack' on all mankind. I have her secluded for her and your protection.…fanficitis is very contagious."
"Well, "I sighed, and dressed my Chip doll with a new khaki uniform, his older one having been singed when he fought the fire in the control room; "it's The Edge of Doom for my visiting any other studios, but I have an idea about The Death Clock….Crane and Nelson are cast adrift and …what is it, why are you looking at me like that…"
"Hey," RB asked the producer," whatever happened to that essay contest winner that visited the set last year?"
"Oh, I have her in a padded cell with all the others.Even without a concussion,there's 'No Way Back' for her. She'll be a Voyage fanfic writer for the rest of her life, even if the show's been canceled. But don't feel too badly. I have an idea for a new movie and I'll let her work on it occassionally when I see her on visitors day. It's based on an alien's visit to the set and it starts to believe it's a writer for television. I'm going to call it, 'It Happened on the Back Lot'…."

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Later this week, Obama will have his first face-to-face negotiations over the Fiscal Cliff.
In a post that came out this afternoon, The Washington Post's Zachary Goldfarb nicely summarized Obama's opening offer:
Obama’s previous proposal called for raising $1.6 trillion in new taxes on the wealthy by allowing tax rates to increase, imposing a new special tax on millionaires and limiting deductions for the wealthy. He also proposed $340 billion in health-care and entitlement savings, continuing $1.1 trillion in spending cuts already passed into law and generating another $1 trillion in savings through the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The demand for $1.6 trillion in new taxes is far greater than Obama proposed in negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in summer 2011. At the time, Obama wavered between $800 billion and $1.2 trillion in new tax revenue, depending on how much in entitlement cuts Republicans were demanding.
That story came out at 2:37 PM ET, and it's interesting that it was in the several minutes after the release that the market sagged through the rest of the day.
Tonight Obama met with liberal groups to discuss the cliff, and in some followup tweets, Goldfarb notes a sliver of opportunity... he didn't tell the groups anything about protecting Social Security and Medicare at all costs.
It's clear that higher taxes on the rich is the one area where Obama can't budge (politically). His side will eat him alive.
If that can be accomplished creatively (through the Mitt idea of doing it via tax deduction eliminations) and Obama and Boehner can agree on a number, that is one possible path towards a deal.
A few other Fiscal Cliff notes...
- The negotiations haven't even begun, and already The Right is getting angry with Boehner for selling them out.
- More and more Democrats favor going over the Fiscal Cliff before bargaining.
- But Neil Irwin at Wonkblog argues that even a short period over the Fiscal Cliff (into January without a deal) could put the US into a badly damaging recession.

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Topeak's Dual-Touch Bike Stand is a great way to display and store your prize two-wheelers whether you park it in your living room, the garage or the office. It's built of durable and attractive aluminum, is capable of holding up to 4 bicycles with additional bike mounts (2 bike mounts included) and features a quick-release height adjustment (the stand reaches up to 10.5 feet).
Burley's water-resistant Trailer Storage Cover keeps your trailer clean and ready to go when not in use.
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The Michelangelo gravity rack offers functional storage solutions in a contemporary art deco design. This unique product uses the force of gravity to harness superb support, reinforced by steel tube construction. Rubber bumpers conveniently protect your walls and floor from scratches and scuff marks. This silver powder-coated bike storage rack will help you make the most efficient use of your valuable space. Looks great in any home or garage. - Leans against the wall - no attachment required! - Features patent pending Easy-Adjust arms to accommodate any bike - Rubber bumpers protect wall and floor - Premium quality silver powder coat finish - Easy assembly with M5 bolts - Maximum Load 80lbs (35kgs) - Dimensions: 83" x 19.75" x 16" - Limited Lifetime Warranty
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The Hollywood Dual Use Bike Stand can be assembled as either a maximum-capacity double-sided bike parking rack or a space-saving single-sided bike parking rack. Featuring heavy-duty welded steel construction and a park-equipment-grade exterior finish, it's suitable for both commercial and residential use. It includes anchor holes for bolting to concrete, and can be connected to adjacent units with an optional accessory (sold separately). Plus, this easy-to-assemble rack fits both wide and narrow tire sizes.
Store you bike safely out of the way with Allen's Spacesaver Storage Rack. The Spacesaver easily mounts on any wall and supports your bike by its toptube.
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Keep your garage organized or maximize your living space with Saris’ Bike Trac. A wide wheel track accepts most front and rear bike wheels, plus it's long enough to keep your bike securely in place and your walls protected. Mounting hardware is included.
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After several leaks and rumors, the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) is finally made official and the specifications of this new tablet from Samsung is certainly interesting.
Compared with the numerous rumors in recent weeks, the final specifications of the product are actually quite different and pleasing in several aspects. The Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) comes with a 10.1 inch display which employs a similar technology to that of the IPS panels for its display. It uses the PLS (Plane to Line Switching) mechanism from Samsung to provide great quality at an attractive price.
A resolution of 1920×1200 pixels should be sufficient for most aspects, although some users will certainly miss the QHD or even 4K resolutions. Going for those options would have increased the price of the tablet while seriously undermining the battery life of the device. At a price of € 289 for the 16 GB version with only Wi-Fi connectivity, the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) can be considered as a mid-range tablet. The price increases to € 389 if the version with cellular connectivity option is chosen.
Cellular connectivity is of the highest order on the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) with support for 300 Mbps LTE networks.
At the moment, the 7300 mAh battery is more than sufficient enough to handle the power demanded by the 10.1-inch screen. The internal memory of 16 GB may seem insufficient for a tablet, but it comes with expandable memory card storage support for up to 200 GB. The octa-core 1.6 GHz processor is supported by 2 GB of RAM. This configuration is essential if the product is to handle the android 6.0 marshmallow operating system. At a thickness of just 8.2 mm, the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) is one of the thinnest at this price point. It weighs 525 g and the product will be available in stores from June onwards.
Samsung, though, has not released any information about the launch of the device in the US markets for now.
The tablet is well-equipped in terms of multimedia capabilities with an eight-megapixel rear camera to go along with the two-megapixel camera. These are more than sufficient specifications to get ahead in the mid-range tablet segment where the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) will be competing. The presence of two stereo speakers makes it a perfect entertainment device.


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London Mayor Sadiq Khan announces stricter fees for polluters, while Ecotricity charges more to charge.
Anyone who gets steamed at a Toyota Prius driver trying to hypermile in front of them now has another reason to dislike hybrid-vehicle drivers. They're not earning their right to drive solo in high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes for free, according to a report from Cornell University's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. In fact, they're costing the US economy millions of dollars per year.
Reports that the BMW i8 would be a popular plug-in vehicle have been circulating since stories claiming 'sold out' status circulated late last year. Those turned out not to be entirely true, but now that deliveries have actually started, the $160,000 EV is proving to be only available to the patient in posh English shops.
With notoriously bad traffic and pollution, Shanghai may institute a congestion charge, similar to what's been seen in London and Singapore (and considered in San Francisco). The gist of congestion charging is that drivers are charged a small amount for entering a certain part of the city - in the UK, entering central London between 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday, costs drivers 10 pounds ($16.16).
Electric vehicle owners may be the last ones standing cruising next year when it comes to London drivers that can dodge the city's congestion charges, UK-based This Is Money reports. New emission rules, which would still have to be approved by Mayor Boris Johnson, would cut congestion-exempt vehicle-emissions limits by about 25 percent, leaving only electric vehicles and a few hybrids below that threshold. Currently, there are about 19,000 mostly small-diesel-engined vehicles in the city who don
Drivers in the UK owe a staggering $270 million in congestion charge fees, according to Transport for London. Surprisingly enough, that figure comes even as the number of those attempting to avoid paying the fines has declined. In 2010, 52,103 drivers skipped out on paying, while that figure plopped down to 33,684 in 2011. Transport for London says a "significant" amount of the owed money can be chalked up to diplomatic missions that refuse to pay up. Authorities in the UK have begun pursuing of
Chronic traffic woes have led officials in Beijing to take action, again. A congestion charge will soon be levied on drivers wishing to travel on select roads in the Chinese capital. Xinhua news agency says the charge is to encourage residents of Beijing to use public transit or bicycles for inner-city jaunts. Xinhua did not detail how the congestion charge will be collected or which roads would be affected.
Americans drivers are abandoning their full-sized vehicles for compacts. Pure electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf and plug-in, gas-powered cars like the Chevy Volt are becoming more readily available as 2012 approaches – and there are several new models getting ready to join them on dealer lots. Meanwhile, manufacturers in Europe and Asia are preparing to crank out a horde of microcars so small they make the ForTwo look like a Fleetwood. For a driver interested in going green, it sure s
Traffic congestion is good for the environment. Wait, come again? Are we talking about Bizarro World here? Actually, according to Wall Street Journal writer David Owen, excessive congestion can actually be a good thing when it convinces drivers to explorer transportation alternatives instead of sitting in endless traffic jams.
Boris Johnson for Mayor of... San Francisco? Our favorite municipal chief executive may be taking his time in dismantling the congestion charge in London, but his services may soon be needed in the City by the Bay, as local bureaucrats there contemplate instituting a new charge for motorists wishing to enter – or leave – the city's downtown core.
The city by the bay could soon be the first American city to get a congestion charge, and if current plans go forward it will be complex. San Francisco is currently debating a plan that would charge motorists not only for entering the congestion zone, but also for leaving it. The charges would also only happen at certain times of day, currently set for 6-9 am and 3-6 pm. The problem is that whenever you do something like this the boundaries are arbitrary. There are bound to be people caught out
London Mayor Boris Johnson is considering scrapping the city's oft-maligned Congestion Charge. The pay-to-drive strategy was instituted back in 2003 as a way of reducing traffic in the busy British capital, but it has met with fierce opposition from motorists and some politicians. Shortly after taking office, Johnson got rid of the latest extension which instituted the C-Charge in western parts of the city, but the Congestion Charge Zone is still alive and well in Central London. While it may be
Earlier this year, a major storm was brewing in London as then-mayor Ken Livingstone was locked in a legal battle with Porsche over an increased Congestion Charge on its performance cars. After quite a bit of legal wrangling back and forth, Livingstone's ejection in favor of new London mayor Boris Johnson and the roll-back of the C-Charge in general, Porsche came out the victor. We're not really sure what to think about the issue, especially considering that each side had its own data suggesting
Prior to the mayoral election in London, England earlier this year, former mayor Ken Livingstone had grand plans to expand the scope of the city's congestion charge. Following the election, the man commonly referred to as "Red Ken" was supplanted by Boris Johnson and things began to change. Johnson has now decided that the expansion of the congestion zone to the western part of London will be canceled. Surprisingly when Johnson asked Londoners what they thought of the congestion zone expansion,
London motorists can rejoice after a planned £25 daily congestion charge was lifted by a signature of consent order by an administrative court in London. Porsche was a major voice against the charge, and the German automaker went full-tilt in the courts to throw out former mayor Ken Livingstone's hefty tax. The proposed tax likely didn't do much good for Livingsone's re-election campaign, which he lost to Boris Johnson in May, who campaigned against the charge.
Motorists in London had high hopes when they elected Boris Johnson as their mayor. The former Conservative party leader is a well-known gearhead, and even moonlights as an automotive journalist. And those hopes may just yet be vindicated, as Mayor Johnson begins rolling back the Congestion Charges instituted by his reviled predecessor "Red" Ken Livingstone.
The advent of changes to London's congestion charge that makes the fees based on a vehicle's carbon dioxide emissions has prompted many automakers to tweak some of their models to get their emissions down. Any car that emits less than 120g/km of carbon dioxide is exempt from having to pay the charge. The latest brand to go after that threshold is BMW with their 318d. The existing version is rated at 123g/km, so BMW will make some changes to get into the charge free band. BMW engineers feel they
We don't want to take sides on London's Congestion Charge, but we are keenly interested in what the charge will mean for the environment and motorists. Ken Livingstone claims that the charge is intended to reduce congestion and CO2 emissions while Porsche claims that the charges are unnecessarily high and unfair. New evidence that Porsche has located, though, indicates that CO2 emissions will actually increase if the charges go into effect as planned. In fact, Porsche claims that the mayors offi
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Space debris that poses a threat to operational satellites is not being monitored closely enough, astronomers have warned.
A new study suggests that more than 75% of the orbital debris detected cannot be matched to known objects in public satellite catalogues.
The astronomers are calling for more regular deep surveys of the debris, with large telescopes, to help quantify the risks posed to active satellites.
Some of these satellites are relied on for essential services, including communications, weather monitoring and navigation.
Lead author James Blake, a PhD student at the University of Warwick department of physics, said: “The light curves extracted from our survey images show just how varied these objects can be, both in terms of their physical nature and of their attitude or behaviour within orbit.
“Many of the faint, uncatalogued debris appear to be tumbling, showing significant brightness variation across the observation window.
“These sorts of features can tell us a lot about the perturbative forces acting on residents of the geosynchronous region, but also highlight that we need to be more careful when making assumptions about the properties of these objects.
“We need to probe the faint debris population further and obtain more data to gain a better understanding of what’s out there.
“It’s important that we continue to observe the geosynchronous region with large telescopes wherever possible, to start to build up a more complete feel for the faint debris environment.”
The research forms part of DebrisWatch, an ongoing collaboration between the University of Warwick and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (UK).
It aims to provide a fresh take on surveys of the geosynchronous region – the earth-centred orbit – that have been conducted in the past.
This survey searched for faint debris – objects that are too small or poorly reflective to be regularly monitored and recorded in publicly available catalogues.
The US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) maintains the most complete public catalogue of space objects, using its global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) comprising over 30 ground-based radars and optical telescopes, alongside six satellites in orbit.
Researchers say that although certain residents of the geosynchronous region are often referred to as stationary, collisions can still occur with relative velocities of kilometres per second.
Images from the survey were analysed to pick out candidate debris objects and investigate their brightness over time.
The resulting light curves contain information about the objects themselves, including their shape, surface properties and attitude, but are also affected by other factors like viewing geometry and atmospheric interference.
The astronomers focused their survey on the geosynchronous region, roughly about 36,000 kilometres above the equator, where satellites orbit with a period that matches the Earth’s rotation.
Far above the outermost layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, there are no natural mechanisms, such as orbital drag, to induce orbital decay.
To help them uncover faint debris, the astronomers made use of the Isaac Newton Telescope on the Canary Island of La Palma.
They found that the majority of the orbital tracks detected had brightnesses corresponding to roughly one metre or less.
More than 95% of these faint detections failed to match with a known object in the USSTRATCOM catalogue, as they are too faint to be regularly and reliably monitored by the SSN.
When the researchers included all their detections – including those above and below one metre – more than 75% failed to match.
The satellites themselves become debris when they reach the end of their mission lifetime, rocket bodies abandoned after successfully launching their payloads can explode or break-up after many years in orbit, and collisions can occur between orbiting bodies, sometimes resulting in thousands of new fragments.
The astronomers are now investigating ways to extract even more information from the survey data, using simultaneous observations that were taken with a second, smaller instrument.
It was was part-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, and was supported by the Royal Society.
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Our favourite surf rock band (that sings about poop) are BACK TOGETHER!
We had a scare when lead singer Greg moved to Calgary last year, only to discover that was a huge mistake 🙂 So Toronto bound again with wife and cat, they are back and we couldn’t be more excited!
This is our 14th Annual Halloween COSTUME PARTY! Show us your best costumes and you could win prize packs from some of Ontario’s best craft breweries! Several chances to win throughout the night.
Cute, quirky rock ‘n’ roll/ beat/ surf/ pop. Most songs are never longer than 2 minutes. Stephen and Sid played in The Fucked Up Teddy Boys and Shake Appeal. Greg and Sid played in the Raclones. Greg and Stephen and played in the Screamagers. Now we all play in the TrollBlazers.
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Should mother of the bride dresses coordinate with bridesmaids?
Are there colors I shouldn't wear as mother of the bride?
Avoid bridal colors like white, ivory, and champagne. Black is sometimes considered the color of mourning, while red may be too dramatic. Many modern brides choose to ignore these rules—check in with the bride to see what's off-limits!
What styles are appropriate for mother of the bride dresses?
Mother of the bride dresses don't need to feel frumpy or overly conservative! Experiment with strapless styles, unexpected lengths, or modern jumpsuits. Adhere to the dress code, and look to bridesmaids or the wedding gown for guidance on bold patterns or embellishments.
Should the mother of the bride and mother of the groom coordinate their dresses?
The mother of the bride traditionally chooses her dress first, but we believe in communicating with the mother of the groom throughout the shopping process. Talk about color, pattern, style, and level of formality so your dresses feel harmonious.
How far in advance should I start looking for a mother of the bride dress?
Once the wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses have been chosen, start shopping ASAP! Purchase your dress at least six months before the wedding, so you'll have time for shipping and alterations.

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