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December 25, Christmas
1858. From Thoreau's Journal: ". . . . Now that the sun is setting, all its light seems to glance over the snow-clad pond [Walden], and strike the rocky shore under the pitch pines at the N. E. end. Though the bare, rocky shore there is only a foot or a foot and a half high, as I look, it reflects so much light that the rocks are singularly distinct, as if the pond showed its teeth. . . . How full of soft, pure light the western sky now, after sunset! I love to see the outlines of the pines against it. Unless you watch, you do not know when the sun goes down. It is like a candle extinguished without smoke. A moment ago you saw that glittering orb amid the dry oak leaves in the horizon and now you can detect no trace of it."
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December 24, Christmas Eve
1841. From Thoreau's Journal: "I want to go soon and live away by the pond where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds. It will be success if I shall have left myself behind. But my friends ask what I will do when I get there! Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons?"
1841. From Thoreau's Journal: "The best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his tomb. The ghost of a priest is no better than that of a highwayman. It is pleasant to hear of one who has blest whole regions after his death by having frequented them while alive, who has profaned or tabooed no place by being buried in it. It adds not a little to the fame of Little John that his grave was long "celebrous for the yielding of excellent whetstones." A forest is in all mythologies a sacred place; as the oaks among the Druids, and the grove of Egeria, and even in more familiar and common life, as "Barnsdale wood" and "Sherwood." Had Robin Hood no Sherwood to resort to, it would be difficult to invest his story with the charms it has got. It is always the tale that is untold, the deeds done, and the life lived in the unexplored scenery of the wood, that charm us and make us children again, to read his ballads and hear of the greenwood tree."
1858. From Thoreau's Journal: "P.M. To Walden. I see in the cut near the shanty site quite a flock of Fringilla hyemalis and goldfinches together on the snow and weeds and ground. Hear the well-known mew and watery twitter of the last, and the drier "chill chill" of the former. These burning yellow birds, with a little black and white in their coat flaps, look warm above the snow. There may be thirty goldfinches, very brisk and pretty tame. They hang, head downwards, on the weeds. I hear of their coming to pick sunflower seeds in Melvin's garden these days."
December 21, Winter Solstice
1853. From Thoreau's Journal: "We are tempted to call these the finest days of the year. Take Fair Haven Pond, for instance, a perfectly level plain of snow, untrodden as yet by any fisherman, surrounded by snow-clad hills, dark, evergreen woods, and reddish oak leaves, so pure and still. The last rays of the sun falling on Baker Farm reflect a clear pink color.—I see the feathers of a partridge strewn along on the snow for a long distance, the work of some hawk, perhaps, for there is no track."
1851. From Thoreau's Journal: "A clump of white pines seen far westward over the shrub-oak plain which is now lit up by the setting sun, a soft feathery grove, with their gray stems indistinctly seen, like human beings come to their cabin door, standing expectant on the edge of the plain, inspires me with a mild humanity. The trees indeed have hearts. The sun seems to send its farewell ray far and level over the copses to them, and they silently receive it with gratitude, like a group of settlers with their children. The pines impress me as human. A slight vaporous cloud floats high over them, while in the west the sun goes down apace behind glowing pines and golden clouds which like mountains skirt the horizon. Nothing stands up more free from blame in this world than a pine-tree."
Dec. 19, 1851. From Thoreau's Journal: "In all the woods is heard now, far and near, the sound of the woodchopper's axe; a twilight sound now in the night of the year, as if men had stolen forth in the arctic night to get fuel to keep their fires a-going.
The sound of the axes far in the horizon is like the dripping of the eaves. Now the sun sets suddenly without a cloud, and with scarcely any redness following, so pure is the atmosphere, only a faint rosy blush along the horizon."
1856. From Thoreau's Journal: "12 a.m. Start for Amherst, N. H. A very cold day. Thermometer at 8°, and I hear of others very much lower at an earlier hour, 2° at 11.45. The last half the route from Groton Junction to Nashua is along the Nashua river mostly. This river looks less interesting than the Concord. It appears even more open, that is, less wooded. At any rate, the banks are more uniform, and I notice none of our meadows on it. At Nashua, hire a horse and sleigh, and ride to Amherst, eleven miles, against a strong northwest wind, this bitter cold afternoon. At my lecture, the audience attended closely, and I was satisfied. That is all I ask or expect generally. Not one spoke to me afterward, nor needed they. I have no doubt they liked it in the main, though none of them would have dared say so, provided they were conscious of it. Generally, if I can only get the ears of an audience, I do not care whether they say they like my lecture or not."
1851. From Thoreau's Journal: "The pitch-pine woods on the right of the Corner road. A piercing cold afternoon; wading in the snow. The pitch pines hold the snow well. It lies now in balls on their plumes, and in streaks on their branches, their low branches rising at a small angle and meeting each other. A sombre twilight comes through this roof of pine leaves and snow, yet in some places the sun streams in, producing the strongest contrasts of light and shade. The winter morning is the time to see in perfection the woods and shrubs wearing their snowy and frosty dress. Even he who visits them half an hour after sunrise will have lost some of their most delicate and fleeting beauties. The trees wear their morning burden but coarsely after midday, and it no longer expresses the character of the tree. I observed that early in the morning every pine needle was covered with a frosty sheath, but soon after sunrise it was all gone. You walk in the pitch-pine woods as under a pent-house. The stems and branches of the trees look black by contrast. You wander zigzag through the aisles of the wood, where stillness and twilight reign. I do not know but a pine wood is as substantial and as memorable a fact as a friend. I am more sure to come away from it cheered than from those who are nearest to being my friends."
1859. From Thoreau's Journal. " A.M. To Cambridge, where I read in Gerard's Herbal. His admirable though quaint descriptions are to my mind greatly superior to the modern more scientific ones. He describes not according to rule, but according to his natural delight in the plants. He brings them vividly before you, as one who has seen and delighted in them. It is almost as good as to see the plants themselves. It suggests that one cannot too often get rid of the assumption that is in our science. His leaves are leaves; his flowers, flowers; his fruit, fruit. They are colored and fragrant. It is a man's knowledge added to a child's delight. Modern botanical descriptions approach ever nearer to the dryness of an algebraic formula, as x + y = a love-letter. It is the keen joy and discrimination of a child who has just seen a flower for the first time, and comes running in with it to his friends. How much better to describe your object in fresh English words than in these conventional Latinisms! He has really seen, and smelled, and tasted, and reports his sensations."
1838. From Thoreau's Journal: "Silence is ever less strange than noise, lurking amid the boughs of the hemlock or the pine, just in proportion as we find ourselves there. The nuthatch tapping the upright trunks by our side is only a partial spokesman for the solemn stillness.
Silence is the communion of a conscious soul with itself. If the soul attend for a moment to its own infinity, then and there is silence. She is audible to all men, at all times, in all places. If we will, we may always hearken to her admonitions. "
1840. From Thoreau's Journal: "Man lays down his body in the field, and thinks from it, as a stepping-stone, to vault at once into heaven, as if he could establish a better claim, when he had left such a witness behind him on the plain. Our true epitaphs are those which the sun and wind write upon the atmosphere around our graves so conclusively that the traveler does not draw near to read the lie on our tombstones. Shall we not be judged rather by what we leave behind us, than by what we bring into the world? The guest is known by his leavings. When we have become intolerable to ourselves, shall we be tolerable to heaven? Will our spirits ascend pure and fragrant from our tainted carcasses? May we not suffer our impurities gradually to evaporate in sun and wind with the superfluous juices of the body, and so wither and dry up, at last, like a tree in the woods, which possesses a sort of embalmed life after death, and is as clean as the sapling or fresh buds of spring? Let us die by dry rot at least. The dead tree still stands erect without shame or offense amidst its green brethren, the most picturesque object in the wood. The painter puts it into the foreground of his picture, for in its death it is still remembered. When Nature finds man returned on her hands, he is not simply the pure elements she has contributed to his growth, but with her floods she must wash away, and with her fires burn up the filth that has accumulated, before she can receive her own again. He poisons her gales, and is a curse to the land that gave him birth. She is obliged to employ her scavengers in self-defense to abate the nuisance. May not man cast his shell with as little offense as the mussel, and it, perchance, be a precious relic to be kept in the cabinets of the curious? May we not amuse ourselves with it, as when we count the layers of a shell, and apply it to our ear, to hear the history of its inhabitant in the swells of the sea, the pulsation of the life which once passed therein still faintly echoed? We confess that it was well done in Nature thus to let out her particles of lime to the mussel and coral, to receive them back again with such interest.
The ancients were more tidy than we, who subjected the body to the purification of fire before they returned it upon nature, for fire is the true washer; water only displaces the impurity. Fire is thorough, water is superficial."
1859. From Thoreau's Journal: "My first true winter walk is perhaps that which I take on the river, or where I cannot go in the summer. It is the walk peculiar to winter, and now first I take it. I see that the fox has already taken the same walk before me, just along the edge of the button-bushes where not even he can go in the summer. We both turn our steps hither at the same time."
1858. From Thoreau's Journal: "Up river on ice to Fair Haven Hill. I see an immense flock of snow buntings, I think the largest I ever saw. There must be a thousand or two, at least. There is but three inches at most of crusted and dry frozen snow, and they are running amid the weeds that rise above it. They are very restless, and continually changing their ground. They will suddenly rise again a few seconds after they have alighted, as if alarmed, but after a short wheel, settle close by. As they fly from you in some positions, you see only or chiefly the black part of their bodies, and then as they wheel, the white comes into view, contrasted prettily with the former, and in all together at the same time. Seen flying higher against a cloudy sky, they look like snowflakes. When they rise all together, their note is like the rattling of nuts in a bag, as if a whole bin-full were rolled from side to side. They also utter from time to time, that is, individuals do, a clear rippling note, perhaps an alarm or call. It is remarkable that their note, above described, should resemble the lesser red-polls'. Away goes the great wheeling, rambling flock, rolling through the air, and you cannot easily tell where they will settle. Suddenly the pioneers, or a part not foremost, will change their course, when in full career, and, when at length they know it, the rushing flock on the other side will be fetched about, as it were, with an undulating jerk, as in the boys' game of snap-the-whip, and those that occupy the place of the snapper are gradually off after their leaders on the new track. Like a snowstorm, they come rushing down from the north. They are unusually abundant now. I should like to know where all these snowbirds will roost to-night, for they will probably roost together. What havoc an owl might make among them! So far as I observe, they confine themselves to the uplands, not alighting in the meadows. But Melvin tells me he saw a thousand feeding a long time in the Great Meadows, he thinks on the seeds of the wool grass, about the same time I saw those above described."
1856. From Thoreau's Journal: "Minott tells me that his and his sister's wood-lot contains about ten acres, and has, with a very slight exception at one time, supplied all their fuel for thirty years, and he thinks would constantly continue to do so. They keep one fire all the time, and two some of the time, and burn about eight cords in a year. He knows his wood-lot, and what grows in it, as well as an ordinary farmer does his cornfield, for he has cut his own wood till within two or three years, knows the history of every stump on it, and the age of every sapling, knows how many beech-trees and black birches there are, as another knows his pear or cherry trees. It is more economical as well as more poetical to have a wood-lot, and cut and get your own wood from year to year than to buy it at your own door. Minott may say to his trees, "Submit to my axe; I cut your father on this very spot." How many sweet passages there must have been in his life there, chopping all alone in the short winter days! How many rabbits, partridges, foxes he saw! A rill runs through the lot where he quenched his thirst, and several times he has laid it bare. At last rheumatism has made him a prisoner, and he is compelled to let a stranger, a vandal it may be, go into his lot with an axe. It is fit that he should be buried there."
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Home » Allegany County seen by 8.7 million Jeopardy! viewers
Allegany County seen by 8.7 million Jeopardy! viewers
By JOHN ANDERSON
Thanks to Alex Trebek, a ritual for an average of 8.7 million people a day is watching the 41-time Emmy winning game show, Jeopardy!
So it was a nice surprise on Tuesday night to see Allegany County make the show.
The question was "Alphabetically, it's New York's first county, followed by Allegany & Bronx."
The correct answer was, "What is Albany?" and Amy Schneider, who is on an 11-show win streak, had the correct answer. Schneider has made Jeopardy history as the first transgender contestant and she is on a roll.
The show continues to be a hit, as past grand champion Ken Jennings has been a popular guest host (he read the Allegany County question) along with current Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers.
The show is taped about 45 times a year, but they film up to five episodes a day.
What will we see next? Gabby Hayes (I'm sure he's been on the show in the past), Texas Hot (New York's longest family-owned restaurant), Balloon Rally or the Pink House? Maybe a band will mention Wellsville, get 30 million streams on the song and that makes the show. That's far-fetched. I have my money on Texas Hot.
Allegany County Assistant District Attorney Michael B. Finn removed
Sad News: Allegany County announces three new Covid-19 deaths
Department of Health: Dealing with ticks
Sad News: Accidental Deaths, Updated

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Q: nivo-slider js code unable to change transition effect? I am trying to modify the Nivo-slider JavaScript code to use one of the effects that are built in to the slider. I have been playing around with this code for quite some time now with no success. The very bottom of the code below has some
 transition effect options. When I try to choose one, it works only from the 3rd slide on. Meaning the first slide has a 'fade' effect, second slide has a 'no effect' third slide has a 'slideLeft' effect, then from the fourth slide on, whatever effect I am trying to apply across the board is applied to the remaining slides.
I was wondering if anyone can help me understand what I am doing wrong? I am simply trying to pick a transition effect and apply it to all my slides...
Here is the JavaScript code:
        // Generate random effect
        if(settings.effect === 'random'){
            anims = new Array('sliceDownRight','sliceDownLeft','sliceUpRight','sliceUpLeft','sliceUpDown','sliceUpDownLeft','fold','fade',
            'boxRandom','boxRain','boxRainReverse','boxRainGrow','boxRainGrowReverse');
            currentEffect = anims[Math.floor(Math.random()*(anims.length + 1))];
            if(currentEffect === undefined) { currentEffect = 'fade'; }
        }

        // Run random effect from specified set (eg: effect:'fold,fade')
        if(settings.effect.indexOf(',') !== -1){
            anims = settings.effect.split(',');
            currentEffect = anims[Math.floor(Math.random()*(anims.length))];
            if(currentEffect === undefined) { currentEffect = 'fade'; }
        }

        // Custom transition as defined by "data-transition" attribute
        if(vars.currentImage.attr('data-transition')){
            currentEffect = vars.currentImage.attr('data-transition');
        }

        // Run effects
        vars.running = false;
        var timeBuff = 0,
            i = 0,
            slices = '',
            firstSlice = '',
            totalBoxes = '',
            boxes = '';

        if(currentEffect === 'sliceDown' || currentEffect === 'sliceDownRight' || currentEffect === 'sliceDownLeft'){
            createSlices(slider, settings, vars);
            timeBuff = 0;
            i = 0;
            slices = $('.nivo-slice', slider);
            if(currentEffect === 'sliceDownLeft') { slices = $('.nivo-slice', slider)._reverse(); }

            slices.each(function(){
                var slice = $(this);
                slice.css({ 'top': '0px' });
                if(i === settings.slices-1){
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed, '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                } else {
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed);
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                }
                timeBuff += 50;
                i++;
            });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'sliceUp' || currentEffect === 'sliceUpRight' || currentEffect === 'sliceUpLeft'){
            createSlices(slider, settings, vars);
            timeBuff = 0;
            i = 0;
            slices = $('.nivo-slice', slider);
            if(currentEffect === 'sliceUpLeft') { slices = $('.nivo-slice', slider)._reverse(); }

            slices.each(function(){
                var slice = $(this);
                slice.css({ 'bottom': '0px' });
                if(i === settings.slices-1){
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed, '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                } else {
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed);
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                }
                timeBuff += 50;
                i++;
            });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'sliceUpDown' || currentEffect === 'sliceUpDownRight' || currentEffect === 'sliceUpDownLeft'){
            createSlices(slider, settings, vars);
            timeBuff = 0;
            i = 0;
            var v = 0;
            slices = $('.nivo-slice', slider);
            if(currentEffect === 'sliceUpDownLeft') { slices = $('.nivo-slice', slider)._reverse(); }

            slices.each(function(){
                var slice = $(this);
                if(i === 0){
                    slice.css('top','0px');
                    i++;
                } else {
                    slice.css('bottom','0px');
                    i = 0;
                }

                if(v === settings.slices-1){
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed, '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                } else {
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed);
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                }
                timeBuff += 50;
                v++;
            });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'fold'){
            createSlices(slider, settings, vars);
            timeBuff = 0;
            i = 0;

            $('.nivo-slice', slider).each(function(){
                var slice = $(this);
                var origWidth = slice.width();
                slice.css({ top:'0px', width:'0px' });
                if(i === settings.slices-1){
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({ width:origWidth, opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed, '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                } else {
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        slice.animate({ width:origWidth, opacity:'1.0' }, settings.animSpeed);
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                }
                timeBuff += 50;
                i++;
            });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'fade'){
            createSlices(slider, settings, vars);

            firstSlice = $('.nivo-slice:first', slider);
            firstSlice.css({
                'width': slider.width() + 'px'
            });

            firstSlice.animate({ opacity:'1.0' }, (settings.animSpeed*2), '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'slideInRight'){
            createSlices(slider, settings, vars);

            firstSlice = $('.nivo-slice:first', slider);
            firstSlice.css({
                'width': '0px',
                'opacity': '1'
            });

            firstSlice.animate({ width: slider.width() + 'px' }, (settings.animSpeed*2), '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'slideInLeft'){
            createSlices(slider, settings, vars);

            firstSlice = $('.nivo-slice:first', slider);
            firstSlice.css({
                'width': '0px',
                'opacity': '1',
                'left': '',
                'right': '0px'
            });

            firstSlice.animate({ width: slider.width() + 'px' }, (settings.animSpeed*2), '', function(){
                // Reset positioning
                firstSlice.css({
                    'left': '0px',
                    'right': ''
                });
                slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished');
            });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'boxRandom'){
            createBoxes(slider, settings, vars);

            totalBoxes = settings.boxCols * settings.boxRows;
            i = 0;
            timeBuff = 0;

            boxes = shuffle($('.nivo-box', slider));
            boxes.each(function(){
                var box = $(this);
                if(i === totalBoxes-1){
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        box.animate({ opacity:'1' }, settings.animSpeed, '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                } else {
                    setTimeout(function(){
                        box.animate({ opacity:'1' }, settings.animSpeed);
                    }, (100 + timeBuff));
                }
                timeBuff += 20;
                i++;
            });
        } else if(currentEffect === 'boxRain' || currentEffect === 'boxRainReverse' || currentEffect === 'boxRainGrow' || currentEffect === 'boxRainGrowReverse'){
            createBoxes(slider, settings, vars);

            totalBoxes = settings.boxCols * settings.boxRows;
            i = 0;
            timeBuff = 0;

            // Split boxes into 2D array
            var rowIndex = 0;
            var colIndex = 0;
            var box2Darr = [];
            box2Darr[rowIndex] = [];
            boxes = $('.nivo-box', slider);
            if(currentEffect === 'boxRainReverse' || currentEffect === 'boxRainGrowReverse'){
                boxes = $('.nivo-box', slider)._reverse();
            }
            boxes.each(function(){
                box2Darr[rowIndex][colIndex] = $(this);
                colIndex++;
                if(colIndex === settings.boxCols){
                    rowIndex++;
                    colIndex = 0;
                    box2Darr[rowIndex] = [];
                }
            });

            // Run animation
            for(var cols = 0; cols < (settings.boxCols * 2); cols++){
                var prevCol = cols;
                for(var rows = 0; rows < settings.boxRows; rows++){
                    if(prevCol >= 0 && prevCol < settings.boxCols){
                        /* Due to some weird JS bug with loop vars
                        being used in setTimeout, this is wrapped
                        with an anonymous function call */
                        (function(row, col, time, i, totalBoxes) {
                            var box = $(box2Darr[row][col]);
                            var w = box.width();
                            var h = box.height();
                            if(currentEffect === 'boxRainGrow' || currentEffect === 'boxRainGrowReverse'){
                                box.width(0).height(0);
                            }
                            if(i === totalBoxes-1){
                                setTimeout(function(){
                                    box.animate({ opacity:'1', width:w, height:h }, settings.animSpeed/1.3, '', function(){ slider.trigger('nivo:animFinished'); });
                                }, (100 + time));
                            } else {
                                setTimeout(function(){
                                    box.animate({ opacity:'1', width:w, height:h }, settings.animSpeed/1.3);
                                }, (100 + time));
                            }
                        })(rows, prevCol, timeBuff, i, totalBoxes);
                        i++;
                    }
                    prevCol--;
                }
                timeBuff += 100;
            }
        }
    };

    // Shuffle an array
    var shuffle = function(arr){
        for(var j, x, i = arr.length; i; j = parseInt(Math.random() * i, 10), x = arr[--i], arr[i] = arr[j], arr[j] = x);
        return arr;
    };

    // For debugging
    var trace = function(msg){
        if(this.console && typeof console.log !== 'undefined') { console.log(msg); }
    };

    // Start / Stop
    this.stop = function(){
        if(!$(element).data('nivo:vars').stop){
            $(element).data('nivo:vars').stop = true;
            trace('Stop Slider');
        }
    };

    this.start = function(){
        if($(element).data('nivo:vars').stop){
            $(element).data('nivo:vars').stop = false;
            trace('Start Slider');
        }
    };

    // Trigger the afterLoad callback
    settings.afterLoad.call(this);

    return this;
};

$.fn.nivoSlider = function(options) {
    return this.each(function(key, value){
        var element = $(this);
        // Return early if this element already has a plugin instance
        if (element.data('nivoslider')) { return element.data('nivoslider'); }
        // Pass options to plugin constructor
        var nivoslider = new NivoSlider(this, options);
        // Store plugin object in this element's data
        element.data('nivoslider', nivoslider);
    });
};

//Default settings
$.fn.nivoSlider.defaults = {
    /*'sliceDownRight','sliceDownLeft','sliceUpRight','sliceUpLeft','sliceUpDown','sliceUpDownLeft','fold','fade',
            'boxRandom','boxRain','boxRainReverse','boxRainGrow','boxRainGrowReverse*/
    effect: 'fold',
    slices: 15,
    boxCols: 8,
    boxRows: 4,
    animSpeed: 500,
    pauseTime: 3000,
    startSlide: 0,
    directionNav: true,
    controlNav: false,
    controlNavThumbs: false,
    pauseOnHover: true,
    manualAdvance: false,
    prevText: 'Prev',
    nextText: 'Next',
    randomStart: false,
    beforeChange: function(){},
    afterChange: function(){},
    slideshowEnd: function(){},
    lastSlide: function(){},
    afterLoad: function(){}
};

$.fn._reverse = [].reverse;

})(jQuery);

A: The effects are already set up in the js, so you would just need to change/add the data-transition on your html page:
img src="demo/images/demo.jpg" data-thumb="demo/images/demo.jpg" alt="" data-transition="slideInLeft"

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Ferrets in the SCA and the Middle Ages.
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fire in the great hall and was told, "Don't step on my ferret, you lummox!"
"Sorry, I didn't see him."
"He's a white ferret on a black cloak. How could you miss him?"
"I though he was fur trim."
bounce. "Don't blame me, I voted Libertarian."
In Middle English, the word means literally 'busy-ness'.
'Wormwood...helpeth against bytynge of weseles and of dragouns'.
It would also depend on how his lady felt about you rearranging his kilt.
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a major cause of rabies and other ills.
>a major cause of rabies and other ills.
better than alot of dogs (esp. wet ones).
> cages. They have not yet developed the loyalty gene as have cats and dogs.
cat-box just like a cat and tended to follow me around the house.
> carpet sharks on the weekends.
of a woman with a ferret...I'll check.
interesting tidbit: Catfur coats were worn in period!!!
P.S. Don't turn on your dryer when the ferret is in it.
> of a woman with a ferret...I'll check.
artist. It is a period painting and it's called "Lady with a Ferret"
used to spritz mine with a spray bottle and they loved it!
and legalized the wicked, wonderful weasels!
and Queen and they made ferrets a protected animal for their reign!
>>> of a woman with a ferret...I'll check.
size and color for an ermine.
> >>> of a woman with a ferret...I'll check.
> size and color for an ermine.
for a view of the painting in question.
green grass under the azure sky.
I beg your indulgence of my lengthy post.
Sorry, no. There is absolutely no evidence for this pronouncement.
corners while doing research for a book.
and general wag. The short form is, "Yeah, ferrets are 'period.'"
A: A lot, but I'm not going to because I'm a (med) evil person. he he.
nature of the attempts, they are inadequate.
doesn't come close to matching the historic written record.
descended from the steppe polecat cannot be eliminated.
archaeological evidence, the inference is suppositional.
the ferret part is historic only. Hope the list helps.
predicaments that could prove fatal.
domestic farm animals, birds, and cold-blooded species.
> Sorry I spend way too much time with the books.
'wild' instinct and usually can not survive on their own in the wild.
for a dog to regress to 'wild' tendencies when necessary.
always the most loyal to their 'owner' but the Alpha of a residence.
this occuring). The polecat looks just like a "dark sable" coloured ferret.
I was going to wait until finished but here are tidbits I have pulled.
species, 28 genera and 5 sub familes.
had no useful information directly about ferrets------so far.
Verhaltensforshung. Klaus Immelmann and colin Beer. Cambridge Mass.
Encyclopedia of the animal world. Sydney Australia, Bay books. 1977.
Grzimek. NY. Van Nostrand Reinhold . 1976.
Macmillan Illustrated animal encyclopedia / edited by philip whitfield.
NY. macmillan pub. co. 1984.
woman tell me that her family decided to get a ferret after playing with mine!
climed into the front of my sideless surcoat, wouldn't come out and conked out.
the queen's name here later.
the owner of the shoulder she is sitting on.
of buying one on loan, what the Egyptians had are called "ichneumons"
basket to send down an open hole after bunnies!
never grow up and need to be bathed a lot!
> worse than say, children and cats?
"Be not like the ferret to let go your hold with blowing"
its nose (or bite its tail).
to learn how to handle a ferret safely).
> eliminate both the wild and pet cats in Austrailia.
less of a problem but do represent a threat to the lizard population.
pleasure of two ferret friends, Una and Luna.
tight places (this would further indicate their intelligence).
it is not uncommon for the survivor to be miserable or to even pine away.
expert, I just read a lot).
legal decree to make it possible.
look at hunting tapestries to date ferret use by humans.
line them up in neat little rows before chewing them up one by one.
conscience Kill the foul beast, I would be better off being nice to it.
Since then it only spills my drinks.
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like the "sitter" and he did this on purpose.
> by Da Vinci, and it was a heraldic pun, and perhaps a personal jibe.
(unless Da Vinci had /no/ sense of proportion).
> I am very eager to know who used ferrets (peasents? gamekeepers?
> how they were used (did techniques resemble modern ways of ferreting?)?
As rabbit hunters, that hasn't changed much either.
> >an eight ounce ermine !
but most likely a male. It's simply too large to be an ermine.
this argument in hopes of resolving it.
family Mustelidae) are the skunk, otter, badger and wolverine, et al.
more or less black on the tail esp. a large European weasel (Mustela erminea).
which the ferret is considered a domesticated variety.
in the brown summer coat.
Taken from the book "The art of the Portrait"
first two syllables of the sitters name(Gallerani)"
purpose here was therefore to call attention to his qualities and powers"
of Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan.
I had a ferret for years. She will always be among my favorite pets.
of ferrets is this- a well behaved ferret is a constantly handle ferret.
tourney. I wish you well in your new motherhood. Ferrets are a joy.
> tried to, would quickly die.
Wild ferrets are a pest in New Zealand, partly because they eat native species which aren't evolved to cope with mammalian predators, and partly because they spread bovine tuberculosis.
> because it's supposedly something that ferrets naturally do.
> you that something is wrong and you gotta do something about it.
They can be trained to refrain from biting, but it isn't easy. You're working against evolution.
I've had ferrets since the early 1990's, with a total of 8 having been part of my family in that time. I have only had a ferret draw blood in two situations - one when she was in total pain, and I touched the sensitive spot; the second was "hyper active" and would draw blood if she was excited or tired. The others have never drawn blood with their teeth (and with their claws only when they wanted DOWN or UP and I wasn't quick enough, so they were scrambling LOL).
I love my ferrets, but they are social creatures - they either need a LOT of your time, or a second ferret to keep them company. They play throughout their entire lives, never really growing out of the kitten/puppy stage. If anyone would like to discuss these little loving critters offlist, feel free to drop me an email any time.
<<< Something to keep in mind, an easily startled ferret is likely hearing or vision impaired. I had a sprite (spayed female) that was completely deaf. If you startled her, something that was not hard to do if she didn't see you, she'd bite.
1) Ferrets don't make taurine in their systems (cats don't, either), so they need it in their food. Ferret foods and cat foods provide it. High ash content, high carb content is bad for them; high protein, high fat content is good for them. There's obviously more to this discussion, but for the uneducated who feed their ferrets DOG food... this is vital info.
2) Ferrets imprint on food via smell at a young age. A ferret released in the wild will not survive, as nothing smells like his kibble, so he doesn't know that anything is edible. Again, vital info for the uneducated.
1. Change the litter box every day.
2. Change/wash the bedding (hammocks, blankets, anything fabric they lay on or in) every week.
3. Do not wash the ferret any more often than once a month - their skin puts out oils, and fresh oil smells stronger, so when you wash away the old and their body has to replace it, they have a much stronger odor.
Over the last 9 years, I have had/been-owned-by/ferret sat 16 different (and they are all very different) ferrets. A couple like to bite my feet/ankles but have only drawn blood a few times. One would play a little aggressively and I don't think he realized his actions. He had been played with by previous owners more aggressively so that's what he knows and he plays very rough with the others to the point that I cage him separately but let him play with the others during "energy burn" time. I occasionly have to disconnect him from one of the others but then, they seem to try to antagonize him sometimes, too.
The original ferret, Stinker, was a sweet and loving little girl. She would get in the bed with me and play with my feet and legs. She seemed to like scratching at my legs in the bed but liked to bite my feet, not in a mean fashion. If she bit me and I said, "Oww, oww, oww," she would quickly change from biting to licking my feet as if to say, "Sorry, sorry, sorry." It was very sweet.
Kyre likes to play with my feet. She chases them and will grab me from time to time. She is playful not mean.
Ferrets can be taught not to bite by several methods. You don't have to be mean to them to break them of the habit. And sometimes it's not a habit, it's a stage they go thru like puppies. Notice I didn't say they grow out of it because mostly they never grow up, tho they do grow older.
My oldest had to be put down recently, as many of you know, because she was 8 years old and her body had become over run with adrenal disease. Her body was very tired.
However, there are aggressive biters that intend to do damage. I have been bitten by one at a pet store. Someone did buy that one knowing it would do damage. I hope it has a good home. It bit thru my thumb cuticle and pad deeply and wouldn't turn loose. I had to pry it's mouth open to get it off of me, all without screaming in the pet store. My thumb was sore for several wks. It was my own fault as I was told before I picked it up. I don't blame the ferret for my ignorance. I know better.
just another 2 cents worth.


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Gino Pancino (né le  à San Giorgio della Richinvelda) est un coureur cycliste italien. Il a notamment été champion du monde de poursuite par équipes amateurs en 1966, et vice-champion du monde l'année suivante. Aux Jeux olympiques de 1968 à Mexico, il fait partie de l'équipe d'Italie, qui obtient la médaille de bronze dans cette discipline.

Palmarès sur piste

Jeux olympiques
Mexico 1968
  Médaillé de bronze de la poursuite par équipes

Championnats du monde
Francfort 1966
  Champion du monde de poursuite par équipes (avec Luigi Roncaglia, Cipriano Chemello et Antonio Castello)
Amsterdam 1967
  Médaillé d'argent de la poursuite par équipes

Championnats nationaux
 1967
  du championnat d'Italie de poursuite amateurs
 1969
  Champion d'Italie de poursuite par équipes amateurs (avec Giorgio Morbiato, Nereo Bazzan et Mario Savi Scarponi)

Palmarès sur route
 1968
 Vicence-Bionde

Notes et références

Liens externes

Coureur cycliste italien
Coureur cycliste sur piste
Coureur cycliste aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1964
Médaillé de bronze olympique italien
Champion du monde de cyclisme sur piste
Naissance en avril 1943


How can I find out my credit score? How are credit scores calculated?
It seems like lately you can't sit through even one television commercial break without trying to be lured into getting a copy of your free online credit report and being pleasantly lectured about the importance of knowing your "credit score." But of 1,000 Americans surveyed by the Consumer Federation of America, only one third fully understood what their credit score actually meant and the impact that it has not only on obtaining the obvious like car loans and mortgages, but also getting apartments and even jobs.
Credit scores are a somewhat blanket approach of letting potential lenders know overall where you stand with your credit. Using a rating of 300 to 900, it takes into account the obvious such as how timely your payments are and your credit account balances as well as how much unused credit there is on each account, how long you've been at your job and your residence. It also applies a rating to the age of your accounts, bankruptcies, and whether you've ever applied for credit counseling.
Seem reasonable enough? Well sure, if you're applying for a mortgage or a car loan. But what if you're trying to get insurance or a job? Yup, that's right, now potential employers can check out your credit score. Employers maintain that it's just another way of checking someone's "background" much the same way they would check one's criminal history. Unfortunately, unlike a criminal record, almost one third of all credit reports contain erroneous information that could be damaging enough to cause a denial in credit. Not only that, but marriages can have messy divorces leaving even messier credit reports behind. Sure, we can all accept problems with credit during the division of assists, but should we be denied unemployment for the vicious sins of our vindictive former spouses?
So what's the best way to get a handle on your credit score? Each year you can get free copies of your credit reports from Experian, Trans Union, and Equifax (the big three in credit) by logging on to www.freecreditreport.com or if you get denied credit you can request a free credit report within 60 days of denial. For an added nominal fee you can also get your credit score. Review your report carefully and check for discrepancies. If there are errors it's very important get these corrected as they will most likely effect your credit score.
Another thing to keep in mind is that credit reports are not etched in stone: sometimes you can strike deals with creditors so that you can clean up your credit faster thus raising your credit score sooner. For instance, if you owe Kookie's Klam Shack $1,000, you've been way behind, and as a result haven't been paying at all, sometimes you can get them to call the Big Three and wipe the slate clean and close the account in good standing IF you give them $200 a month for five months. It sounds steep, but it can save your credit rating and score big time.
Credit scores are even less stagnant, changing with every payment you make (or don't), whenever you apply for a loan, and whenever there are credit inquiries made. So just because your credit score is low today doesn't mean you can't start fixing it today.
At the risk of sounding like all of the late-night ads that plague your television and prey on your insecurities, knowing your credit score really is the first step to all things financial – and more than just things financial than you'd have thought. Get on it, find out your score, and know what your credit says about you.
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Q: Container wont fit 100% of screen I am trying to have a typical forum look to my website but the container of my content won't fit to 100% of my page height.
I have tried using height: 100vh; and all the others I can find.
My CSS is
body {
  font-family: Verdanna, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-attachment: fixed;
  color: #f2efe8;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  font-size: 20px;
  background-image: url("../resources/bokeh.jpg");
  background-size: cover;
  padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
  height: 100%;
  min-height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
}

header {
  font-family: Verdanna, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  text-align: center;
  font-weight: 700;
  padding: 4px;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}

div.container {
  width: 1000px;
  margin: auto;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
}

This is my webpage, with vertical overflow

A: If you add 100% height to the body & html and min-height: 100% to the container you'll be good to go (unless I've misunderstood the question).
body, html {
    height: 100%;
}

.container {
    min-height: 100%;
}

Full code example: https://codepen.io/raptorkraine/pen/ZKZeLz

A: Another approach
Create a wrapper with it's own id or class and set it with these css properties:
.background {
   position:fixed;
   top:0;
   right:0;
   bottom:0;
   left:0;
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-attachment: fixed;
   color: #f2efe8;
   background-image: url("../resources/bokeh.jpg");
   background-size: cover;
   z-index:-1;
}

This content will never scroll though.
Example fiddle

A: From my experience, you should want the page to be at least 100% height, but still increase if more content are added.
html, body{
  height: auto; /* This is applied by default, so it's not necessary to define it */
  min-height: 100vh;
}

Here I use min-height: 100vh instead of min-height: 100% because otherwise the body will not take 100%, because the parent needs a fixed height for that.
Then, when you want a full screen container, don't try with height: 100%, you can create a helper class for that:
.vh-100{
    height: 100vh;
}


Bring people together to develop a broad vision of the way forward and the key priorities for change.
You should now have reached the stage where you have identified the needs, ambitions and assets of the community. Now you need to bring these to the attention of the wider community to develop a broad vision of the way forward and the key priorities for change.
allow people to have discussions and contribute their 'vision' for your community going forward – what will your community be like in 10 years time?
Not everyone will be able to attend community events so it's important that you're able to give people an opportunity to contribute their ideas/views at every stage of the community-led action planning process. Online methods such as a Community-led action plan Facebook page are a good way of ensuring that as many people as possible can contribute. However, not everyone has digital access or is comfortable with this medium so hard copy information and/or face-to-face contact with those who are unable to attend community events should also be considered.
No plan will succeed fully without the help and co-operation of others. There are a variety of other groups and organisations (potential stakeholders) who you will want to be talking to at this stage who may be keen to help out with both creating the action plan and putting it into practice.
But, how do you identify who are the appropriate groups, organisations and people to be talking to? This is where some key link people come in who have a good understanding of your broad vision and priorities. For the public sector your local Community Planning Partnership (CPP) team will be invaluable as they will be able to identify the appropriate public bodies (and key people) who should be involved. Similarly, for the community and voluntary sector your local Third Sector Interface (TSI), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), or your local community development worker should be able to point you in the direction of the key local community and voluntary organisations.
The next stage is to identify the ways in which these stakeholders can help you. A useful way to tackle this is through a stakeholder analysis session where you bring together a number of 'stakeholders' (potential partners) to look at their (and your) motivation, capacity and opportunity (see the sample stakeholder table template) to help your community achieve its vision and purpose.
From this you should be able to identify the key people who can help you to progress your plan and potentially join your core planning group.
Fact sheet: What makes a good vision?
This fact sheet provides an outline of a community visioning event.
This fact sheet provides an outline of a session for identifying how potential partners can help with your community action plan.
This table will help you see who and how people and organisations are involved in developing and carrying out your action plan.
Links to further resources and information that you might find useful when reaching out to your wider community.


1. A watertight structure within which construction work is carried on under water.
3. A large box open at the top and one side, designed to fit against the side of a ship and used to repair damaged hulls under water. Also called cofferdam.
4. A floating structure used to close off the entrance to a dock or canal lock.
a. A horse-drawn vehicle, usually two-wheeled, used to carry artillery ammunition and coffins at military funerals.
b. A large box used to hold ammunition.
1. any of various structures used as a protective environment for workers, esp. one consisting of a pressurized, watertight chamber for use in underwater construction.
a. a float for raising a sunken vessel.
b. a watertight structure built against a damaged hull to render it watertight.
3. a two-wheeled wagon, used for carrying artillery ammunition.
He could also, by the gleam of bayonets visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow lines of artillery with green caissons.
The stragglers who flocked in masses to the banks of the Beresina found there, unhappily, an immense number of carriages, caissons, and articles of all kinds which the army had been forced to abandon when effecting its passage of the river on the 27th and 28th of November.
At a few steps distant from the vehicle he now found a company of some thirty stragglers collected around an immense fire, which they were feeding with planks, caisson covers, wheels, and broken carriages.
And here and now, my friends, any one can assure you on his honor, and by all that is sacred, that NEVER, no, never since there have been men on earth, never in this world has there been such a fricasse of an army, caissons, transports, artillery and all, in such snow as that and under such a pitiless sky.
This consultation concerns the transport of caissons to recovery facilities or treatment centers, or a waste disposal center to another on the territory of the dac, and the leasing of approximately 90 caissons to store the various materials received in waste disposal and transfer docks.
La Direction generale de la Protection civile va acquerir, d'ici a la fin de l'annee, deux caissons hyperbares, en prevision de l'ouverture de deux centres hyperbares a Annaba et Oran.
The asset acquisition package includes 170 active wells, 70 platforms, 70 caissons and other offshore structures.
Neway group managing director Peter Sinkinson said the pumping work enabled engineers to get access to watertight lock gates, known as caissons, which had to be swapped to allow refurbishment work on one.
THE CAISSONS ARE STILL ROLLING ALONG, BUT BUDGET CONSTRAINTS MAY HAVE LEFT THE WHEELS WOBBLING A BIT.
Caissons have been floated and then sunk onto a prepared foundation for the yzmit Gulf Bridge, which is the main transit point of the project that encompasses Gebze-Orhangazi-yzmir.


Tom spoke about how students can set their own learning outcomes through the teacher creating a Google Form and students responding, very quick and simple to set up – all working through real time which means students can watch updates happening right away on the class board (particularly useful for plenaries and watching who answers first!). Tom reported how he had used this with a coursework based class which allowed him to move around the room and help the students in a very individualised way, as well as tracking where students are and allowing for ease of feedback. Online forms has been used for surveys, quizzes and evaluations at Clevedon School as a result of Tom's work.


Take a sticker-powered trip to the museum with this super sticker book! It's a double-sided panoramic play scene that folds out to 126cm long (that's four feet) with a busy museum during daytime on one side, with huge dinosaur skeletons, priceless vases and bored security guards. The other side features the museum at night, when everything comes to life. Dinosaurs roam free, knights in armour ride around and paintings jump out of their frames! There are over 100 stickers of exhibits and famous works of art to decorate the scenes.
Check out Stickyscapes: Superheroes for more fold-out sticker fun, too.


Renault India finally came up with its most awaited compact SUV, called Renault Duster. The SUV has all the skill and ability of a roader. India has a special place for the SUVs and Renault India has full confidence, that Duster will be welcomed with all heart. The affordable price tag is also one of the major factors that is making Duster people's favorite. The major competition to Renault Duster is the upcoming Ford EcoSport. But, Duster SUV has so many things that would make it beat EcoSport in the market. The car has been launched in both diesel as well as petrol variants. Renault Duster Petrol RxE is the base petrol variant that is powered by a 1.6 litre of 16 valve petrol engine that churns out peal power of 100.8bhp and 145Nm of maximum torque. The engine has been coupled with five speed manual transmission that gives out a mileage of 13.24 km per litre. The design of the car is also impressive and resembles a bit to Logan, but still manages to look fresh and different. The proper chassis gives the car a very dynamic feel, while the high ground clearance and added height make it appealing. The interiors of the car have also been done nicely. The Renault Duster Petrol RxE comes with numerous high class features like wide front seats, higher driver position, higher wheelbase that provides comfortable seating at the rear, air conditioning, tilt power steering and so on.
The exteriors of Renault Duster Petrol RxE are quite impressive. The car stretches up to 4.3 meters, but it sure looks bigger than 5 meters. The exteriors of this SUV are a perfect amalgamation of sporty and dynamic attitude. The front profile has a stylish grille with broad chrome slats that has big bold Renault badge. The grille is well complimented by twin barrel headlights and fog lamps that have been properly carved-out with the dual tone bumper. The side profile of Renault Duster RxE has bold wheel arches fitting huge 16 inches of alloy wheels . The body colored ORVMs accompanied by body colored door handles makes the exteriors of the compact SUV much more tempting. Finally the rear end of the car has brilliant tail lamps, which are blended nicely with the impressive rear bumper. The top-class exhaust with chrome finishing completes the rear end of Renault Duster RxE.
The interiors of Renault Duster Petrol RxE are completely practical and comfortable. However, we cannot say that the interiors are as lavish as Renault Koleos's but they are quite likeable. The car variant comes with classic black fabric upholstered seats along with chrome finished gear knob. The centre fascia finish and the door grab handle have been done in Glossy metallic grey while the floor console finish is in charcoal grey color. The car could adjust 5 adults comfortably. Overall, the interiors of the car are quite appealing and provide a luxurious feel to the passenger.
Under the hood, Renault Duster Petrol RxE is powered by a dynamic 1.6 litre of 16 valve petrol engine. The engine has a displacement of 1598cc and has the ability to churn out peak power of 100.8bhp at the rate of 5850rpm along with 145Nm of peak torque at the rate of 3750rpm. The engine here is coupled with five speed manual transmission, which pushes the compact SUV to deliver a good mileage figure of 13.24 km per litre. The acceleration and pickup of the car is impressive as well. When accelerated the SUV picks up a top speed of 160 km per hour and reaches from 0-100 km per hour in 11.5 seconds. On the whole, the Renault Duster RxE is a true performer on and off road.
The braking and handling of the new Renault Duster Petrol RxE is remarkable . The car has hydraulic operated diagonal split dual circuit braking system. The front part has ventilated disc and the rear has drum brakes. The superb suspension system comprising of Independent McPherson Strut with coil Springs and anti roll bar in the front axle, while the torsion beam axle with coil spring and anti roll bar is present in the rear. This suspension system enhances the overall driving of the car and makes it easy for the driver to drive easily even on the rough and rugged Indian terrain. What also makes the handling of Renault Duster RxE worth a drive is the presence of hydraulic power assisted steering wheel that assists the driver in gliding smoothly through the narrowest roads.
Renault Duster RxE is the base petrol variant of Duster SUV. Therefore, the variant misses out on ABS, EBD and brake assist. But the car certainly is blessed with many other safety features such as engine immobilizer, door open warning lamp, engine protective under guard and central locking system . The car variant also doesn't have airbags, which is a bit of a disappointment.
Renault India has taken care of the comfort department in Renault Duster Petrol RxE. The car variant is loaded with numerous comfort features that make sure that the journey is comfortable and relaxing for the passengers. The new Renault Duster RxE comes with keyless entry, power windows with illuminated switches, air conditioning system with pollen filter and heater, tilt steering column, foldable rear seat, 12V accessory socket in the front, headlight alarm, front seat back pocket and 2 cup holders. Furthermore, to enhance the convenience and comfort for the passengers, Renault Duster RxE sports bottle holder on console, passenger vanity mirror, digital clock, and versatile rear parcel shelf with storage space, front map lamp, theatre dimming interior lamps, key answer back function and electric backdoor release type. All these features make the car quite impressive and a better option as compared to other SUVs available in the market today.
Light weight, properly designed exteriors, high comfort and elegant interiors, are the major highpoints of the new Renault Duster RxE.


It's only because they have to. Otherwise ULA will be squawking about "monopolies" and being "locked out" (get it?) and such ... the same crap they themselves did for years and years. LockMart and Boeing used to take each other to court so often in the old days before the joint venture ULA that it was almost comical.
That's what I figured it was. Thanks!
This favoring of Atlas V only lasts until the launchers bought on the bulk buy are expended and Vulcan takes over from it.
Atlas V and Delta IV are going away. That's a is lock. Delta IV's last launch is 2018, and as soon as an alternative can be fielded which does not use Russian engines Atlas V will be relegated to non-government launches where it cannot easily compete.
Then the situation favors the Falcons because Vulcan will need 3-7 successful launches of various types to qualify for all classes of NASA or USAF payloads. Ditto for Blue and for BFR. Example, you wouldn't launch an RTG or nuclear reactor on a vehicle with only 3 or 4 launches.
Near term the launch bid to watch for is the test flight of NASA's Kilopower space nuclear reactor, and its full size ground test takes place within the next few weeks. If either Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy gets that launch then it will be nuclear qualified, perhaps both due to their commonality, which is the last major advantage Atlas V will have.
Sticking to what they know ... it's not gonna last, either. The whole "we gotta do what we've always done because that's the way we've always done it" mentality is gonna get them retired.
Just take the pension, fellas. Take the pension. You've served your masters well for long enough.
One correction to my previous post is that Delta 4-Heavy will continue to fly until 2023.
Onthe other hand, SpaceX could offer both FH and BFR/Chomper with a dual bid.
This should be for Raptor 40 then. Iteration 20.0 is ready to go, as far as we can tell. Now comes the part where SpaceX gives it the "Merlin treatment", squeezing more and more performance out of the platform in incremental upgrades.
Time to start taking bets as to if the power to weight ratio will be over 300. Merlin at 200 is crazy enough, what with most engines not cracking 80-ish.
Looks like a modification of the January 2016 USAF Raptor upper stage engine development contract for F9/FH.
That contract cut a USAF check for $33.6m and the proportial contribution was 2:1, meaning a new $40.8m USAF check results in a SpaceX expenditure of $81.6m.
They've also moved up the completion date from December 31, 2018 to April 30, 2018.
In light of recent IAC announcements, the F9/FH phase out and BFR/BFS acceleration, ISTM this could now be applylied to the BFS "Chomper" satellite delivery vehicle/BFR "upper stage."
We won't have to wait long to find out then. Most of the Raptor-40 work has likely been finished already. Same design, just beef/scale some components up, retool the powerhead for the increased pressure it has to deal with, etc.
Likely Raptor-40 will be the 650k lbf model, and then SpaceX will start aiming for the 1,000k lbf one after that for BFR 2.0.
Even if they get 275 it'll be a hell of an achievement. Merlin at 200 is already a milestone for RP-1's efficiency rating. Best RP-1 engine ever made. AR-1 is gonna be great, sure -- if it gets off the test bench (and likely will) -- but Merlin is my favorite.
Chris at NasaSpaceFlight reports that pending NASA front office approval, on December 4th 2017 Dragon CRS-13 will fly on a Flight Proven™ booster (CRS-11). The tech reviewers green flagged it.
Can't say we didn't see this coming after the USAF move to use them. NASA won't regret it either.
And all those Flight Proven™ cores in the barns are going to make it much easier to fly 40 missions next year.
WASHINGTON — SpaceX said Nov. 8 that it suffered a failure of a Merlin engine during a recent test at its Texas facility, but that the incident would not delay any upcoming launches.
The incident, which took place Nov. 4 and was first reported by the Washington Post, may have involved a new version of the Merlin engine being developed by SpaceX for the next upgrade of the company's Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
"SpaceX experienced an anomaly during a Qualification test set up of a Merlin engine at our rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas," the company said in a statement to SpaceNews. No one was injured in the test, the company said, and "a thorough and fully transparent investigation" is underway, in coordination with various government agencies.
SpaceX has yet to disclose specific details about the incident, which a company source said took place on a Merlin test stand that has two bays. One bay reportedly suffered damage that will take two to four weeks to repair, while the neighboring bay received only minor damage that can be repaired in days.
The incident, according to the source, took place not during an actual engine firing but during a troubleshooting activity called a "LOX drop" where liquid oxygen is flowed through the engine to look for leaks. It wasn't clear how this test led to the anomaly that damaged the engine and its test bay.
Better on the test stand than on the launch pad or going down range. Odd that it blew up during the LOX drop. Will be interesting to read SpaceX's investigation into the cause.
This was not during an engine run, it was during a LOX dump - a flow and leak test. It may not have even been in the engine but in the ground support equipment on the test stand. We'll get that info later.
Such incidents can occur when cleaning procedures were not sufficient to get all combustibles out of the engine before the next test. For example, RP-1 or some other hydrocarbon could have been missed during a cleanup and ignited when the LOX hit it.
Since this was a developmental Block 5 engine test, not a Block f4 which is the operational engine, the flight schedule will not be impacted.
Give them 2 to 4 weeks to clean up the mess and get the stand ready and it's back to testing Block 5.
If you aren't breaking things you aren't learning anything.
Yeah, I thought the purge system was supposed to clear all of that out between tests -- just for this reason?
Something went screwy. They'll figure it out, identify a new and better way to handle purges, make it (and their procedures) better & more robust than ever, and it'll never happen again.
WAPO were the first ones to run this story and that is kind of messed up. Is BO going to use WAPO to spread negative info on its competitors? I don't even think they covered BO's power head failure. Also, how did WAPO get this information?
Scuttlebutt is a disgruntled employee at McGregor, or contractor.
That Bezos has been using WapPo as a political and business PR attack dog is old news. He's been doing it ever since he bought the paper a few years ago.
WaPo also gives Bezos and in with the spook agencies. Philip and Katherine Graham, its long-time publishers from the World War 2 days forward, were involved and there's no sign that the paper has broken that connection. Today, Amazon Web Services provides cloud services for the spooks. If you have the time look up Operation Mockingbird.
Back to the "engine explosion"
This was a failure of ground support equipment (GSE) in the test stand. NASASpaceFlight.com has a story with SpaceX & NASA sourced information, photos taken by a user flying over the test center, etc.
The test stand should be repaired and back in operation within a couple of weeks, and the adjoining test stand should be ready in a few days. There will be no impact on the flight manifest.
As SpaceX gets closer to launching astronauts using Block 5 Falcon 9's and Crew Dragon capsules in mid-2018 there will be more FUD (fear, uncertainty & doubt) and concern troll stories, mostly sourcing from those who see this is a threat. The Usual Suspects in the industry, and their shills in Congress and the media.
Expect even more as their BFR super-heavy Booster and BFS Spaceship progress through their test programs. A BFS will be up to bat first, with the first test vehicle's keel being laid around Q2 of 2018. The factory is being prepared, and the tooling on order.


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Israeli Mobileye shareholders mean hefty payout for Israel following Intel deal
Amit Boukai
After Intel announced it would buy the Israeli company, Mobileye, for $15.3 billion a few months ago, and formally acquired all 84% of its outstanding shares yesterday (Tuesday), the State of Israel anxiously awaits its big cut in the form of taxes on the Israeli shareholders who profited from the deal.
Israel set to receive $1 billion in taxes from deal Photo Credit: Channel 2 News
Yesterday (Tuesday), Intel officially announced its complete acquisition of Mobileye, with the purchase of 84% of Mobileye's outstanding shares. In Israel, cuts from the huge deal are anxiously being awaited as this coming September, the State of Israel is due to receive 4 billion NIS or approximately $1 billion in taxes.
The large sum comes from high taxes levied on the company's four Israeli primary shareholders among which includes its co-founders Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram, as well as Mobileye's largest private investor, Shmuel Harlap.
Mobileye becomes Intel subsidiary Photo Credit: Public Relations/Channel News
"With Mobileye, Intel emerges as a leader in creating the technology foundation that the automotive industry needs for an autonomous future," stated Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. "It's an exciting engineering challenge and a huge growth opportunity for Intel. Even more exciting is the potential for autonomous cars to transform industries, improve society and save millions of lives."
Intel purchased the Israeli company for $15 billion Photo Credit: Reuters/Channel 2 News
Intel's autonomous driving department will merge with the Israeli company. As an Intel subsidiary, Mobileye will continue to operate from Israel under the supervision of co-founder Professor Amnon Shashua, who will become the Intel senior vice president and Mobileye CEO and chief technology officer. Ziv Aviram, the other co-founder, will resign from the company.
"Leading in autonomous driving technology requires a combination of innovative proprietary software products and versatile open-system hardware platforms that enable customers and partners to customize solutions," said Shashua. "For the first time, the auto industry has a single partner with deep expertise and a cultural legacy in both areas. Mobileye is very excited to begin this new chapter."
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How COVID-19 will change your commute
Moving Well | Steve Colquhoun | Posted on 11 May 2020
How the COVID-19 pandemic will change the way we work and move around town.
As isolation ends and post-pandemic life beckons, a tricky choice looms for many urban commuters: should we return to public transport? Is it okay to add yet another car to congested roads? Or could we continue the healthy cycling and walking habits that helped ease the lockdown blues?
Social commentator and demographer Bernard Salt says hygiene hyper-vigilance will be a top-of-mind consideration in public spaces for the foreseeable future. "If you're paranoid about getting on a train at Cranbourne and spending an hour in a packed carriage jammed against god knows who with god knows what infection, you'll take the car instead," he says.
It's a prospect that Councillor Nicholas Reece, chair of planning for the City of Melbourne, fears could undo decades of work to encourage commuters to take up public and shared transport options. "If there is a vast shift back towards the private motor vehicle, our current transport systems will not cope," he says. "It's not feasible to get a million people into the central city each day in a car.
A recent report from consultancy firm WSP Australia recommends a staged approach to distancing on public transport, from 'strict' to 'moderate' then 'relaxed'. All scenarios would significantly lower passenger capacity, and timetables would need to be amended to allow for longer stops so commuters could enter and exit safely. Managing space at stops and stations presents another significant challenge.
As a state, we've been struggling to keep our head above water for a decade or so because of the rapid pace of population growth.
As individual households make personal choices, governments and planning authorities are grappling with the bigger picture. Stuart Outhred, RACV's senior planner for mobility futures, says the COVID-19 lockdown of the past two months presents an unprecedented opportunity to take stock and make positive change.
"As a state, we've been struggling to keep our head above water for a decade or so because of the rapid pace of population growth. And when you're struggling to keep your head above the water, it's really difficult to work out where you're swimming to," he says.
"What if this is a possibility to look at where we're at as a city, and chart if we want that particular future, what has to change and how do we get there? It's very rare that you get the chance like this to stop and take stock."
He says it's hard to predict how our roads will look in the coming weeks as a range of factors are likely to affect traffic volumes. On the one hand there could be fewer people commuting as many continue working from home at least some days of the week. On the other hand those who might have previously caught a train, tram or bus to work may choose to use their car to avoid the risk of infection on public transport. "When you couple that with cheaper petrol and also as we're coming into winter, there's a few points that are a potential tailwind for more car use. The sum of those parts is really unclear at the moment."
For commuters keen to preserve social distancing, there are viable alternatives. Monash University professor of transport engineering Graham Currie says numerous opportunities for change in commuting habits could add up to "a noticeable difference" across the various networks.
Some may choose to continue to embrace their 'corona commute' – a journey from the breakfast table to the kids' school desk, on to the queue for the kitchen coffee machine, and finally to the study 'office' in time for the day's first video conference.
Bernard Salt estimates work-from-home rates jumped from around a steady five per cent of the workforce to as many as 30 to 35 per cent in recent months. Many inevitably will return to the office, but he believes up to 15 per cent may choose to embrace regular, ongoing home-based working arrangements.
"It's a turning point," he says. "During the Second World War, women had to do all of the jobs because all the men were at war. And what that did was sow the seed of thinking that women can have a different role.
"Sometimes through adversity, when a population is forced to do something, they take the bits that make a real difference and hang onto them in the post-traumatic-event world. And that's what I think we'll see."
If working from home is unworkable and public transport inevitable, Nicholas Reece suggests workers could seek to stagger shift times with colleagues. "Small changes to people's start and finish times can deliver huge benefits in terms of efficiency for the transport system," says Nicholas Reece. "It may mean people can use public transport and maintain social distancing."
Varying working hours to avoid peak-hour crowding is nothing new for Bernard Salt. "My preferred response, even before (isolation), is to work odd hours," he says. "I live in the eastern suburbs and will be at my desk in Docklands at five in the morning. I like to work between five and about two, and then go home and have an hour of sleep. It certainly works."
During weeks in lockdown, many Victorians rediscovered the simple joy of cycling or walking as they sought safe outdoor activities, and Bernard believes some will use this experience as a springboard for a new commuting routine.
"The reality is that the majority will just revert, go to their gyms or whatever they do, or just not do anything," says Bernard. "But I think there's a stickability factor there, that many people will continue with that physical exercise going forward."
COVID-19 has been a dark moment, but if there is a silver lining, it is hopefully that we use it as an opportunity to make some long-term changes.
The challenge for planners and policy makers is how to facilitate this increased uptake of alternative forms of transport. RACV has thrown its support behind plans by the City of Melbourne to temporarily remove parking spaces on some streets in the CBD in order to widen footpaths and enable greater social distancing as people start to return to the city once government restrictions are eased.
And Stuart Outhred encourages municipalities across the state to consider similar measures. "Creating a safe street environment for people to travel by bike or walk more often has a lot of merit. We are really keen to see how different councils can apply the quick-build approach and support healthy transport options going forward."
City of Melbourne councillor Nicholas Reece says the Italian city of Milan has already converted 35 kilometres of roadway to cycling and pedestrian-friendly thoroughfares. In Dublin, Ireland, some street parking has been reallocated to create wider footpaths, allowing pedestrians to achieve more effective social distancing. Auckland continues a long-running policy of 'tactical urbanism', using pop-up infrastructure to alter footpaths and bike lanes to help with distancing and allowing extra space for queuing outside shops.
"COVID-19 has been a dark moment, but if there is a silver lining, it is hopefully that we use it as an opportunity to make some long-term changes," says Nicholas.
"In the world's most liveable city, we can always do better. That's why we need to come out of this smarter, better and more resilient than ever."
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Chatsworth is a civil parish in Derbyshire, England, within the area of the Derbyshire Dales and the Peak District National Park.

The population is largely in and around Chatsworth House and is considered to be too low to justify a parish council. Instead, there is a parish meeting, at which all electors may attend.

Most of Chatsworth belongs to the Duke of Devonshire's Chatsworth estate, the villages of which include Beeley, Pilsley and Edensor.

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John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales  (1870-1872) says -

John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles says -

See also
Listed buildings in Chatsworth, Derbyshire

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External links

The Official Chatsworth website
Parish of Chatsworth at British-towns.net
Chatsworth page at derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk

Towns and villages of the Peak District
Civil parishes in Derbyshire


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Q: How to "trick" C preprocessor into accepting any part of a function/variable etc. as a token? Note that I'm trying to modify existing code, written by someone else, so answers from other similar questions most likely don't apply, as they could kick off the code with macro functions oriented coding mentality in mind, making preprocessing acrobatics much easier, which isn't the case for me.
So this is what I want to do.  Let's say I have 1 function and 1 variable:
void Foo1(void);
int Foo1 = 0;

I want to turn them into:
void FOO1(void);
int FOO1 = 0;

Now as everyone knows, doing
#define Foo FOO

will not work as the C preprocessor will not treat Foo out of Foo1 as a single token but rather, it will treat Foo1, the whole of it, as a token.
So I need to somehow "trick" the C preprocessor into believing Foo is a token, then work on it.
I tried this:
#define a_random_thing Foo
#define Foo FOO

naively believing preprocessor will consider "Foo" a product of "a_random_thing" after expansion, and then perform another round of expansion on "Foo".
That sadly and obviously didn't work.
So what exactly should I do?
The code I'm working on is an updated library, and tons of the variable names and function names were modified ever so slightly — just enough to gave me 100+ compilation errors; very thoughtful on their part. I'm trying to make it backward compatible.
If what I'm trying to accomplish is not possible, please also tell me, thanks!

A: It's not really possible unless you go ahead and define foo1, foo2, foo3...
You simply can't split foo1 into two different pre-processor tokens, which would be required in order to solve the problem variably.
The closest thing you can do is #define foo(n) FOO##n and call it as foo(1) to get FOO1.
...or you could probably just do search & replace in a text editor.

A: The reason this won't work is because tokenization happens in the lexing phase of the compilation process. In this phase, the C compiler will parse the sequence of bytes as per C's lexical rules to create tokens (individual elements of the code: keywords, names for variables and functions, operations like +-*/, etc.).
The lexing phase works before the C pre-processor. At this time, the pre-processor looks for tokens matching the macro definition, and replaces them. Already, what your program will have are tokens called foo1, and a macro defining FOO.
I would suggest you look at string replacement tools sed/awk to solve your problem.


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Issue Date: November 01, 1998
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Achievement of Self-Identified Goals by Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury: Phase I
Catherine A. Trombly; Mary Vining Radomski; Elin Schold Davis
Catherine A. Trombly, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, 635 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, ctrombly@bu.edu
Mary Vining Radomski, MA, OTR, is Occupational Therapist, Outpatient Brain Injury Program, and Rehabilitation Outcomes Coordinator, Sister Kenny 1nstirute, Minneapolis, Minneapolis
Elin Schold Davis, OTR, is Occupational Therapist, Outpatient Brain Injury Program, Sister Kenny Institute, Minneapolis, Minneapolis
Neurologic Conditions / Traumatic Brain Injury / Research
Research Article | November 01, 1998
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, November/December 1998, Vol. 52, 810-818. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.52.10.810
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Catherine A. Trombly, Mary Vining Radomski, Elin Schold Davis; Achievement of Self-Identified Goals by Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury: Phase I. Am J Occup Ther 1998;52(10):810–818. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.52.10.810
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Objective. This study sought to determine whether persons with traumatic brain injury who received outpatient occupational therapy services achieved self-identified goals related to tasks of daily life.
Method. Sixteen participants completed the study. Occupational therapists used their usual treatment procedures to restore independence in home and community occupational functioning. The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure identified the five most important problems that interfered with independence in the roles the participant valued as well as the participant's perception of performance ability and satisfaction with performance. Goal Attainment Scaling documented achievement of the five self-identified goals. The Independent Living Skills Evaluation (ILSE) and the Reintegration to Normal Living Scale(RNL) measured changes in overall instrumental activities of daily living and community reintegration.
Results. The participants significantly achieved (p < .001) their goals from admission to discharge, rated themselves as performing significantly better (p < .001), and were significantly more satisfied (p = .001) with performance after treatment than before. Additionally, they improved significantly on the ILSE (p < .001) and the RNL (p < .001) from admission to discharge. There were no significant changes in performance from discharge to followup on any of the scales.
Conclusion. Although causality cannot be inferred, it can be concluded that participants attending outpatient occupational therapy significantly improved, and improvements were sustained after discharge, but no further improvement occurred spontaneously.
Occupational Therapy Interventions for Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury
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Research Opportunities in the Area of Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, September 2016, Vol. 70, 7006400010. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2016.706004
Neurobehavioral Predictors of Work Participation in Adults With Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Spinal Cord Injury
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Special Issue on Occupational Therapy for Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, April 2016, Vol. 70, 7003170010. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2016.703002
Effectiveness of Interventions to Address Visual and Visual–Perceptual Impairments to Improve Occupational Performance in Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review
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The work part of the week went fine. I spoke about Mommy/Daddy-loves-you-best books at Pomona to an audience of enthusiastic students, profs, booksellers and writers (Susan Patron, Candace Ryan, and Megan Whalen Turner graciously attended.) After lunch (our thirty-year-old favorite, patty melts at Walters, which has gotten way fancier) the next day with my old Pitzer bestie Ruth, we went over to the campus for a rather more intime (read: sparsely attended) but lively discussion of censorship with Susan and then went for a walk around the campus, which has doubled in size since the 70s. The students were very polite to us Olds, and even praised the cafeteria food. (The all-you-can-eat ice cream, rumored to be a string attached to a bequest, was gone, but I noted that two vegan specialities were offered on each menu.) Right: Susan Patron and me.
And now I'm back and pondering the in-box drama that is the ALSC discussion of lowering its age level of service from fourteen to thirteen. It's amazing what can draw fire from the dragon ladies' throats!
>For those of us not on the ALSC discussion list, can you summarize the highlights? I think Marc Aronson mentioned this on his blog awhile back, but I haven not heard much about it since then. Are they putting it to a membership vote?
>Apparently, the whole thing has been mooted for a year because of a procedural error ALSC made in notifying membership of the proposed change. So no vote will be taken until 2011.
>Sorry to have missed you, but one of my kids insisted on celebrating their birthday.
>I was particularly inspired by the story of Angela the Pumpkin.
>Oh, Lisa, you California moms are all alike, letting the kids walk all over you and getting ponies and clowns at their birthday parties.
>Ah, selfless Angela, "who has agreed to become a pumpkin pie." She's a role model for us all.
>Yeah, a model for what happens when Thornton Burgess channels the Apostle Paul.
>Great fun was had by all watching Roger Rabid go after those pesky parental affirmation guides posing as picture books.
Still, it could be fun to have an "I love you more than that other book loves you" award. Maybe the trophy could be a bottle of syrup?
>HI Roger, I don't get what you mean about age level of service. Service for what? thanks for clarifying.
>Betty, ALSC is both cleaning up some confusing language and proposing changing the age of children served within the scope of ALSC's mission. Right now it is preschool through age fourteen/eighth-grade, but the Board proposes changing it to birth through thirteen. There is no controversy about the birth end of things but quite a bit about fourteen to thirteen. The overlap with YALSA (which covers twelve through eighteen, I think) periodically results in turf wars between the divisions, and I thought I read that this latest results from YALSA asking ALSC to drop down to twelve, from where, presumably, YALSA would pick up. Personally, I think the overlap is fine and reflects the way youth library services are provided in this country. Any change would also mean that all the book award committees would have to rewrite their charges, which is a nightmare of red tape.
>I seem to recall the same rumor about all-you-can-eat ice cream night at my alma mater (Wesleyan). Maybe it's an urban legend, told of and at every liberal-arts college in the country. Or maybe I'm inventing it. It was a long time ago and the state of my memory is such that I'm doing well even to remember where I went to college.


Editorial: Is it as tight as it can possibly be? Readers won't want to wade through excess verbiage to find your story and publishers won't want to cut down one more tree than necessary to print your book. Make every word count.
Critical: Ask your beta readers what they perceive the story question to be, and if, in their opinion, you addressed it. Ask about character arc, relevant obstacles, pace. While caught up in your novel's minutiae, you may have trouble seeing the big picture.
Promotional: "This is a great book. It starts slow but hang in there because it has a great finish." We hear recommendations like this all the time. What we don't hear: "This book is amazing! It starts with a bang but then fizzles out." Make your ending strong enough to generate word-of-mouth sales. If that necessitates going back to the beginning to deepen your character's desire or raise the stakes, and you have the heart to do so, it will be worth it.
While "finishing" is debatable, "stopping" is often a practical decision. Maybe your perseverance is used up, or your emotional connection to the work has snapped. A new project insistently calls your name. And there wouldn't be such a thing as a "drawer novel" if most of us hadn't experienced the need to walk away because we'd reached a dead end.
Remember that a novel is a snapshot in time. The concern that led you into the story was indicative of where you were in your life. Hopefully, you will grow as a person and your concerns will change. If you start adding these new concerns into your old novel, it's probably time to stop.
Most likely, the only creative piece requiring a lifetime of effort is you. When it comes to your writing, if you are finished exploring one idea, move on, or you'll be rewriting the same piece your whole life long. Keep submitting it for critique and others will gladly reinforce your uncertainty by continuing to find things for you to change.
Would you call intuiting when to walk away a "mad skill"? Have you struggled with finding the finish line in your own work? Share: how do you know when you are finished?
Kathryn, ! Yes, I would call knowing when to finish a Mad Skill. As both a painter and a writer, I've experienced that initial flash of inspiration turning to mud. Of shifting shadows and the impulse to shift with them. As you stated, above, there are may ways to make that mud. Right now, I'm completing a revision with my editor's notes. When I told my husband that I would then go back in for more cutting and shaping, he asked me (not for the first time), if I was ever going to be done. And finally, with this revision, I see a finish line. I even feel it in my body. Very weird. But it's a physical 'letting go'. I'm printing this post. It's a treasure.
I love the body intuition angle, Susan, and glad you could appreciate the multi-media approach here on a personal level. There were any times, during my debut's 8-year journey, when even other writers wondered if I wasn't just shifting words around and then shifting them back again. But I knew I was learning how to improve the story I wanted to tell—I could feel the improvement in my bones. It's exciting, right?
Exciting and scary – but mostly exciting. And wonderful to have you and this amazing community shining the light.
My experience this week with finishing may be relevant even though the piece was a poem, not a novel. A fellow poet and I challenged each other to write a poem about another person's lovely unusual name and the setting from which it grew. I am not entirely satisfied with my poem, which I would never submit for publication, but it is adequate for the purpose and, I believe, will be liked by the owner of the name.
The takeaway? Purpose. That poem is for a small private audience. I can let the poem go, even though it could be much better, and use my time and focused efforts on the WIP for eventual publication: another purpose entirely.
Thanks for this, Anna, because you are so right. Submitting your work for publication requires a higher bar. Purpose, as you point out, is important in deciding where that finish line is located.
You ask: how do you know when you are finished?
I keep feeling 'out in left field.' Your comments make sense for people who write drafts, polish in drafts, and have to make a decision as to when each is finished.
I work in finished scenes: when a scene is satisfactory, it is also done. I don't go back – if there had been a better way, I would have used it when I wrote it.
I haven't come across others who write this way (not that I've been looking!), but it works for me.
So far, one completed book in the mainstream PC trilogy written and published that way, and a quarter into the next one, I never go back and wish I'd done something differently.
There's a Mexican proverb, Hay de todo en la viña del Señor, roughly, 'There are all kinds in the Lord's vineyards,' says it all.
I thought I was uniquely odd until someone who requested a Scrivener template from my blog told me his intentions as a 'writer,' which didn't involve the writing – he would plan things like James Patterson, and pay someone else to produce the words – which seemed even further out there. I told him to go for it – not up to me to discourage any styles of producing books.
For me, it's all about the finished product: if that works for the reader, who cares how the sausage was made?
You're right, Alicia, I can't imagine working this way! You must be very clear about the entirety of your story before you start writing, then? But wow—to end up exactly where you wanted to go, without one wasted word or meandering thought, each layer already included and sure that every word is contributing to the overall arc—what a gift!


Stainless steel conveyor belt systems are ideal for the cooking, freezing, and handling of edible products. They are versatile and can easily be customized for any automated food processing system with exceptional results.
Metal conveyor belts do not outgas and do not require lubrication, which means there is no risk to the flavor or quality of the foods being processed. Unlike other conveyor materials, like wire mesh, fabric, or rubber, metal belts will not deteriorate or generate particulates that could contaminate food products.
Endless metal belts have a flat, nonporous surface and will not absorb bacteria. Conveyor systems from Belt Technologies are easy to sanitize between uses. They are resistant to chemical corrosion and can be sanitized with almost any standard cleaning method.
Metal belts can easily transition between hot and cold applications. They last longer and are more reliable than plastic conveyor belts in extreme temperatures. Stainless steel belts are excellent for cooking and handling raw materials because of their high thermal conductivity. Food is cooked thoroughly and evenly thanks to the quick, even transference of heat.
To learn more about stainless steel conveyor belt systems for automated food processing applications, contact the experts at Belt Technologies today.