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Tonights the night that parties will be taking place all over the world to celebrate New year. If you cant get out to a party or you need some good party tunes then tune in this evening (early start) for non stop party music taking you well into New Years Day.
The best of "Abbey Acoustic"
New Years Days night from 10pm I will be showcasing some of the acts we have had on the show over the last 12 months and inviting them back for more acoustic sessions.
A lot of the acts can be found at www.youtube.com/billclarkontheradio where you can view videos of them performing live in the studio
The Chill Factor
A very good friend of mine has for a long time now between producing radio shows for various stations. I had the privilege of working alongside him on Digi Radio back in 2002 and he produces a good programme. Take a look at www.thechillfactor.co.uk and listen out on a radio station near you to his show.
The last weekend of 2008
So its the last weekend of 2008 as this time next week it will be 2009. This means a few more minor changes to the show and I am back on air from 10pm tomorrow night as well as Tuesday and Thursday but not on Wednesday as that is New Years Eve.
Starting back on the 1st Monday of the New Year is the return of The Bradshaws as well as the website review of the day.
The Bit In The Middle
Its that time where its the bit in the middle. The bit sandwiched between Christmas and New Year and having worked through most of it I can say that I now get a couple of days off and will be back on the radio on Monday night.
What did you all get for Xmas. Whats the worse present you have ever had and why?
Boxing Day Sport
Join me from 2pm this afternoon for all the Boxing Day sporting action live on the radio and also on line as well. Bringing you the latest news right through til 6pm
Christmas Eve and traditionally its a time for spending with families, eating lots of food and generally enjoying yourself so at this point I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and thanks for taking the time out to read this blog.
I know not many people leave comments and it would be nice to get a few but the stats show that it is visted very regularly at all times of day and night from people all over the world.
Its a couple;e of days away but you can join me live from 2pm on Boxing Day for all the latest sporting action.
The Night Before, the night before Christmas
CONFUSED.......
Its the 23rd December and its the night before the night before Christmas and tonights acoustic hour features an hour of acoustic christmas songs.
An acoustic Christmas live on Abbey FM from 10pm
Love on a Sunday
Since 1st December Peter Koth took over my late night Sunday slot bringing you two hours of the worlds best love songs. Peters not available this Sunday and therefore I am back on it as a one off so if you are in the mood for a little romance or just want to wind down after a hectic weekend then join me this Sunday from 10pm and Peter koth every Sunday thereafter at 10pm .
Jon Byrne New Album Release
Tonight on Abbey FM at 10pm, Jon Byrne joined me to talk about his new album release and upcoming gigs as well as playing more of his songs acoustically and live in the studio.
Find out more at www.myspace.com/jonbyrnemusic Double click a photo to view full size or scroll down to see a video recorded live in the studio.
The full session is also available for download HERE.
The photo below is of Jon Byrne and myself in the studio.
Jon Byrne performed his song called "Money is better than love". Live in the studio tonight.
Feed The Birds (Fundraiser)
Tonights the night of the gig that I will be comparing, Get yourself along to The Kings in Dalton Road and help raise money to feed injured birds throughout the winter months. We are still in need of donations towards this and raffle prizes. Get in touch if you have any you could offer.
The event features 3 different acts and kicks off around 7.30pm tonight.
Getting Closer to Christmas
Christmas is getting closer and I've already started playing Christmas songs on the show. The show on Tuesday 23rd December will feature an hour of Xmas songs performed acoustically so oin me for an acoustic Christmas on 23rd december from 10pm.
I do get Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off and am back on Boxing Day for an afternoon of Sport from 2pm
Feed The Birds (Upcoming Gig)
Elite, Dropping Point, Gwen hechle and event organiser Gillian Nicholson all appear on the show tonight from 10pm. It wasnt easy squeezing 9 of us into a studio but we did it.
The Full session including music from Elite and Gwen hechle
can be downloaded by clicking HERE.
This weekend, Saturday 13th December 2008. Get yourself along to the Kings on Dalton Road and help raise money to feed our little featered friends throughout winter.
MUSICIANS are getting together to help Furness' feathered friends this winter and a
A live gig is being staged in Barrow to raise money to buy food for the rescued birds and other wildlife cared for by Pat Denny at the voluntary animal refuge in her garden at Cliffe Lane, Hawcoat.
They cost about £100 a week to feed.
The fundraising gig, Feed the Birds, has been organised by Gillian Nicholson, from Barrow, who put together the successful music concert for the Jubilee Bridge centenary celebrations.
She said:"We want raise money so Pat does not have to worry about feeding the birds over winter."Miss Denny, 65, said: "It's marvellous. I am overwhelmed by this. I'm very grateful.
"I do enjoy looking after the birds but it is a struggle."
Bands Elite and Dropping Point, and singer/songwriter Gwen Hechle, will perform at the gig at the King's Arms, Dalton Road, Barrow, at 7.30pm on Saturday, December 13.
It will be compered by myself
A raffle prize is two tickets to see Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls, of the Wonder Stuff, perform at Barrow Island's Canteen on December 20.
Entry is free but donations will be appreciated.
Raffle prizes and donations can be left at the King's.
Contact Gillian Nicholson on Barrow 870529 to have them collected.
Sunday at a loose end
Today is Sunday and it feels strange that I am not doing my usual routine of producing the late nigth phone in and debate. Peter Koth takes over the Sunday Show with a new format starting tonight from 10pm.
I will be back on the radio from 10pm tomorrow night
Its a Saturday and I was at a loose end today. Not used to having 3 days off in a row with no radio show to do but its not really as good as it sounds as there is always a lot of behind the scenes work going into the job. Always on the lookout for a good story or some bit of news or gossip to use on the radio. I could have gone round town Christmas Shopping but decided against it as its getting too busy. Instead, my day was spent looking back at the week to see what I could use in next weeks show.
So my 3 days away from radio isnt really what it seems.
The morning after the night before.....
Its the morning after my Birthday and I`m sobally tober... or is that Totally Sober. My birthday was like any other normal working day to me and I had a couple of drinks after the show last night and may go out for a few celebration drinks this weekend. Meanwhile, todays another day and it carries on as normal.
Happy Birthday to.....
Me.........
Yes. Today , 4th December many moons ago (well not that many) was the day that I was born so even if no one else wishes me a happy birthday then erm Happy Birthday to me anyway.
New Look to late show
The New look late show starts tonight.
Hits and headlines is taking a break for now so you can expect some great chill out choons acoustically as well as live acoustic bands in the studio. The website review of the day is around 11.30pm and two episodes of The Bradshaws at 11.15pm and 12.15am.
11pm and midnight start the hours with the Late Night Triple Play. One from the 80s , one from the 90s and one from the 21st Century. These can be chosen by you and you can email your choice to me


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Writing a Novel is Like Directing a Movie
Jun20 by Tim Kane
I'm a big movie fan and I noticed that nearly all of my top ten directors also write their own scripts. That's not an accident. Writing a novel is analogous to directing a film. You have the script, the actors, the set and the pacing to consider.
First off, I strongly believe that any novel writer should bang out at least one screenplay in his or her life. Screenplays are the bare bones stories of this world. There's nothing but plot and dialogue. No elaborate scene descriptions or convoluted point of view. Just pure story.
I was lucky enough, in my final year at UCSD, to stumble into a screenwriting class. Best thing for me. I wish I'd discovered it early. Most of the creative writing program was a joke. The same people inhabiting the classes (which were little more than glorified critique groups) all peddling the same story they started as freshmen (usually this involved some crisis of the soul about a broken relationship).
In screenwriting, we analyzed scripts of successful films. That's something that harder to do with novels because they're so damn long (and I read like a snail stuck in molasses). Because there's nothing to get in the way of plot, I was able to see the elements unfold clearly before my eyes. I recall analyzing The Silence of the Lambs and marveling at how the screenwriter fit all the pieces together.
After that, I launched out and wrote a few screenplays of my own. I even worked for a "producer" up in Hollywood to punch up his script. Don't get excited, the guy was from Eastern Europe, and every five pages girls were mysteriously taking off their tops. It made Asylum scripts look Oscar worthy in comparison. But the upshot was, I learned how to get to the essence of a story quickly.
I learned about beats (which can mean two things). I drafted a story idea for another producer that was just the beats (story elements) and condensed the whole script down to about 20 pages. I also learned about inserting beats into dialogue. A beat is that dramatic pause when someone is speaking. In filming, the actor (or the director) gets to decide how to fill that beat. As a novelist, it's a bit more complicated.
When I write out a chapter in novel, I often take the idea of screenwriting and beats on the first pass. That is, I just lay out the various story actions and raw dialogue. When I want a pause, I just write BEAT, and move on. In the second pass, I start to add layers of detail and description.
For me this mimics the actions of making a film. First you have to write the screenplay (cement the elements of plot and dialogue), and then the director and actors can come along and throw up the scenery, add the tone and mood, make the plot live.
This is the trouble I think most novelists have. They try to do all this at once. I've seen first drafts where people have concentrated on the character and descriptive end to the detriment of the plot. That's like a director bringing together a set of actors and starting to film without a script. It works sometimes (like with Iron Man), but not very often.
I try to switch hats when I write. First I write the script, concentrating on the action events, or if there's substantial dialogue, I'll run through the lines without any punctuation, just to get down the flow. Then, preferably on a different day, I'll go through as a director, setting the scene, adjusting the pacing, and motivating my actors (characters) to give better performances.
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One comment on "Writing a Novel is Like Directing a Movie"
Charley Pearson says:
So true. A novelist is like a director, whole bunch of actors, choreographer, ruthless editor, set designer — you name it, all rolled together, performing their parts in some sequence or other.

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In the early 1940s, with the world locked in the bloodiest conflict in human history, scientists in Germany, Great Britain, the United States and Japan struggled to unlock from the atom a weapon of almost inconceivable power. This race to turn theory into devastating reality formed a secret subtext to the war that destroyed millions of lives using industrial warfare. In the area of theoretical physics, Japan was as advanced as her European and American rivals. She lacked only the raw materials and the sheer industrial excess to turn those materials into an atomic bomb. But Japan's war machine was nothing if not resourceful.
Since 1940, the Japanese had been aggressively researching the science of the nuclear chain reaction. Dr. Yoshio Nishina had been nominated for the Nobel Prize for his pre-war work in nuclear physics. Now he and a team of young scientists worked tirelessly at the Riken, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, to beat the Americans to the bomb. After two years of preliminary research, the atom bomb program called F-Go began in Kyoto in 1942. By 1943, Japan's Manhattan Project had not only produced a cyclotron that could separate bomb-grade uranium, but also had developed a team of nuclear scientists with the knowledge to unleash the atom's unknown power. As America built a uranium enrichment plant in the Washington desert so enormous it drew every watt of electricity from the Grand Coulee Dam, the Japanese scoured their empire for enough raw uranium to make their own bomb, with only limited success.
Japan looked to Nazi Germany for help. The Nazis, too, had been pursuing the nuclear bomb. But, by early 1945, the Allies were on the Rhine and the Russians had taken Prussia. In a last-ditch effort, Hitler dispatched a U-boat to Japan loaded with 1,200 pounds of uranium. The submarine never arrived. American warships captured it in May 1945. Two Japanese officers on board the submarine committed suicide and the shipment of uranium was diverted to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for use in the American Manhattan Project. Without the uranium, Japan could not produce more than one or two small atomic bombs.
As the bomb programs in both countries neared completion in 1944, General Douglas MacArthur's island-hopping campaign drew closer to Japan's home islands. Fleets of B-29 bombers rained fire on Tokyo and other major cities. Nishina had to move his effort to the tiny hamlet of Hungman in what is now North Korea. The move cost the Japanese program three months.
On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a single atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The blast killed more than 70,000 people outright, and in the days and weeks to come thousands more succumbed.
When word of the blast reached Nishina, he knew immediately that the Americans had beaten him to the prize. But he also had implicit confirmation that his own atomic bomb could work. Nishina and his team worked tirelessly to ready their own test. Historians such as Robert Wilcox and Atlanta Journal Constitution writer David Snell believe that they succeeded. Wilcox writes that on August 12, 1945 - three days after the Nagasaki bombing and three days before Japan signed the articles of surrender - Japan tested a partially successful bomb in Hungnam. By then the effort was merely symbolic. Japan lacked the means to produce more weapons or to deliver them accurately to the United States.
As Japan rebuilt after the war, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki came to represent the folly of Japan's imperial aspirations as well as American inhumanity toward the Japanese. The Japanese people held nuclear weapons in abhorrence. Japan's leaders shared that view, but, having been on the receiving end of nuclear warfare, also developed a special appreciation for the bomb's strategic value.
As the war ended, thousands of American troops occupied Japan. After the nuclear attacks on Japan, the United States feared that the desire and ability to create this power would spread throughout the world. Washington learned that Japan had been much closer to its own nuclear bomb than previously thought. Destroying Japan's nuclear-weapons capability became a high priority. In addition to negotiating international non-proliferation agreements, U.S. occupation troops destroyed several cyclotrons and other vestiges of Japan's atomic bomb project to prevent Japan from resuming its nuclear program. Though the troops could demolish the physical remnants of the F-Go project, they could not destroy the enormous body of knowledge Nishina and his team had accumulated during the war.
In the years to come the men behind F-Go would become the leaders of Japan's nuclear power program. Their first priority was to stockpile enough uranium to ensure that nuclear research could continue in Japan.
The war and the atomic blasts that ended it left a strong and enduring impression on the Japanese people. They abhorred the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But the Japanese leadership recognized that in nuclear power there was an alternative to foreign energy dependence, a dependence that had hindered Japan since her entry into the industrial era.
With the surrender of Japan, the United States became the preeminent power in the Pacific. But that position was challenged in 1949 with the communist victory in China and successful nuclear tests by the Soviet Union. The communists were challenging America in the Pacific, and Japan suddenly shifted from vanquished adversary to valuable ally.
The United States was completely unprepared when North Korean troops swarmed south in 1952. Soon poorly armed, under-trained American Marines were surrounded in Pusan with their backs to the sea. For the first of many times during the Korean War, the American military commander, Gen. Douglass MacArthur, lobbied President Truman to use nuclear weapons.
Those weapons were stored on the Japanese island of Okinawa. While American troops faced annihilation in Pusan, American B-29s waited with engines running to bomb targets in China and Korea. Later in the war, when Chinese troops entered Korea, nuclear-laden bombers flying from Japan would actually penetrate Chinese and North Korean airspace. One jet fighter bomber was shot down.
The Korean War is an important milestone for Japan. Only seven years after the most humiliating defeat in its three-thousand-year history, Japan served as the staging ground for the same military that had defeated her. Japan's own military at the time was practically nonexistent. As humiliating as the American servicemen who frequented Tokyo's nickel brothels was the realization that Japan's defense was wholly in American hands. As Truman played the game of nuclear brinkmanship with the Chinese, it became apparent that Japan's defense now relied on the same nuclear bombs that had sealed her World War II defeat.
In the early 1950s, the United States aggressively urged Tokyo to get involved in the nuclear power business. Having witnessed the destructive power of nuclear energy, President Eisenhower was determined to keep it under strict control. He also realized that the world would never accept a complete U.S. monopoly on atom-splitting technology, so he developed an alternative - Atoms for Peace. Eisenhower gave resource-starved countries like Japan and India nuclear power reactors as a form of technical, economic and moral support. Lacking the indigenous resources to rebuild its economy and infrastructure, Japan quickly turned to nuclear power as the answer for its chronically energy-starved economy.
With the help of the American Atoms for Peace program, Japan began to develop a full-scale nuclear power industry. The Japanese sent scores of scientists to America for training in nuclear energy development. Desperate to regain a foothold in the international arena and reclaim its sovereignty and power after the war, the Japanese government willingly spent scarce funding on research labs and nuclear reactors.
Japan's wartime experience had prepared her to build a nuclear industry from scratch, but with Atoms for Peace, it was cheaper to import complete reactors from the West.
Atoms for Peace supported British and Canadian nuclear exports as well as American. Britain went first, selling its Magnox plant to Japan. General Electric and Westinghouse rapidly secured the rest of the industry, selling reactor designs and components to Japan at exorbitant prices. The Japanese industry quickly became a model for other Atoms for Peace countries. A generation of brilliant young Japanese scientists came of age during this period, all committed to the full exploitation of nuclear energy.
Once the industry was vitalized, Japan resumed its own nuclear research independent from the United States. Encouraged by the Americans, in 1956 Japan's bureaucrats mapped out a plan to exploit the entire nuclear fuel cycle. At that time the concept was only theoretical, no more a reality than the atomic bomb was when Einstein penned his infamous letter to Roosevelt in 1939. According to the theory, plutonium could be separated from the spent fuel burned in conventional reactors and used to fuel new "breeder reactors." No one had yet been able to make it work, but this was the dawn of the age of technology. Scientists in Japan, America and Europe were intoxicated with the possibilities of scientific advancements. Japan's central planners and bureaucrats were equally enthusiastic. The breeder reactor plan would make the most efficient use of the raw uranium Japan imported from the United States. It would wean Japan from her dependence on American energy and also create an enormous stockpile of plutonium - the most powerful and difficult to obtain bomb material.
The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States' most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that has allowed Japan to amass 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium since the 1980s, a National Security News Service investigation reveals.
These activities repeatedly violated U.S. laws regarding controls of sensitive nuclear materials that could be diverted to weapons programs in Japan. The NSNS investigation found that the United States has known about a secret nuclear weapons program in Japan since the 1960s, according to CIA reports.
The diversion of U.S. classified technology began during the Reagan administration after it allowed a $10 billion reactor sale to China. Japan protested that sensitive technology was being sold to a potential nuclear adversary. The Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations permitted sensitive technology and nuclear materials to be transferred to Japan despite laws and treaties preventing such transfers.
Highly sensitive technology on plutonium separation from the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site and Hanford nuclear weapons complex, as well as tens of billions of dollars worth of breeder reactor research was turned over to Japan with almost no safeguards against proliferation. Japanese scientist and technicians were given access to both Hanford and Savannah River as part of the transfer process.
A year ago a natural disaster combined with a man-made tragedy decimated Northern Japan and came close to making Tokyo, a city of 30 million people, uninhabitable. Nuclear tragedies plague Japan's modern history. It is the only nation in the world attacked with nuclear weapons. In March 2011, after a tsunami swept on shore, hydrogen explosions and the subsequent meltdowns of three reactors at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant spewed radiation across the region. Like the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan will face the aftermath for generations. A twelve-mile area around the site is considered uninhabitable. It is a national sacrifice zone.
How Japan ended up in this nuclear nightmare is a subject the National Security News Service has been investigating since 1991. We learned that Japan had a dual use nuclear program. The public program was to develop and provide unlimited energy for the country. But there was also a secret component, an undeclared nuclear weapons program that would allow Japan to amass enough nuclear material and technology to become a major nuclear power on short notice.
That secret effort was hidden in a nuclear power program that by March 11, 2011- the day the earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant - had amassed 70 metric tons of plutonium. Like its use of civilian nuclear power to hide a secret bomb program, Japan used peaceful space exploration as a cover for developing sophisticated nuclear weapons delivery systems.
Political leaders in Japan understood that the only way the Japanese people could be convinced to allow nuclear power into their lives was if a long line of governments and industry hid any military application. For that reason, a succession of Japanese governments colluded on a bomb program disguised as innocent energy and civil space programs. The irony, of course, is that Japan had gone to war in 1941 to secure its energy future only to become the sole nation attacked with nuclear weapons.
Energy has always been Japan's Achilles' heel. Her need for oil in the face of an American embargo triggered Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and the continued shortage was a recurring theme in her defeat in that war. Only one act could take more credit for Japan's humiliation - the splitting of the atom that gave birth to the nuclear bomb. Now Japan would turn that same atom to its own purposes - to ensure a stable source of energy well into the next century and, equally important, to ensure that the homeland never again suffered the indignity of defeat.
Japan approached the nuclear problem the same way it tackled the electronics and automobile industries. A core group of companies were each given key tasks with long-term profit potential. Then the government nurtured these companies with whatever financial, technological and regulatory support needed to assure their success. The strategy worked brilliantly to bring Japan from post-war oblivion to economic dominance in a single generation.
The five companies designated for the development of nuclear technologies had to make major strides beyond the conventional light water reactors that had become fixtures in Japan under U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program in the 1950s. Japan would have to do what the Americans and Europeans had failed to do - make an experimental breeder program a commercial success. Their hubris convinced them that they could. The Japanese, after all, were the masters of the industrial process. They had turned out automobiles, televisions and microchips superior to the Americans, with better quality and at less cost. Nuclear accidents are almost always the result of human error: sloppy operators without the proper education or training or who did not install enough redundancies. Such things happen to Americans and Russians, but not to Japanese.
As China, North Korea, India and Pakistan developed nuclear weapon systems, Japan and her Western allies strengthened their alliances to counter the burgeoning threat. From a secret meeting between U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in the 1960s and the participation of several subsequent American and Japanese leaders, the secret transfer of nuclear technology was part of an international strategy to fortify Japan against an ever-escalating East Asian arms race. This policy culminated during the Reagan administration in legislation that dramatically changed U.S. policy. The United States ceded virtually all control of U.S.-origin nuclear materials shipped to Japan.
To the detriment of the world and her people, the Japanese government exploited the Japanese public's well-known abhorrence of nuclear weapons to discourage the media and historians from delving into its nuclear weapons activities. Consequently, until the March 2011 tragedy, the Japanese nuclear industry had largely remained hidden from critical eyes. The less than thorough International Atomic Energy Agency, the world's proliferation safeguard agency, also turned a blind eye.
In a rare glimpse of a Japanese industry that has remained top secret for so many decades, our investigation raises serious concerns about Japanese and Western nuclear policies and the officials who shaped those policies during and after the Cold War. International corporations and officials sacrificed the safety and security of the public to carry out the deception. Under the guise of a peaceful nuclear power program, they made huge profits.


Inserted the smart boot manager floppy, rebooted and was then presented with a basic menu from which I could select the Cdrom drive with the first Slackware installation disk. It worked a treat and I was able to start the installation.
Mar 07, 2012Smart Boot Manager is an OS independent boot manager that searches for drives and paritions, and automatically includes bootable partitions into its boot menu. It includes a scheduler that allows you to boot a particular system at a preset time.
Nov 11, 2009Smart Boot Manager si presta egregiamente per risolvere questo problema. Smart Boot Manager si installa su un semplice floppy, il floppy pu essere creato da un sistema esistente indifferentemente che questo sia, Windows, Linux, o Mac.
Jul 31, 2009Rather than fool with the MBR of Windows, I thought I'd go with a boot floppy approach for linux. I realize that as part of the linux setup process that a boot floppy can be created, but I'm thinking for future reference, I'd like to be able to create backup bootable floppies from within linux.
The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. You can boot the operating systems from harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB. You can start the boot manager from floppy, CD, network and there are many more ways to start the boot manager.
Midnight Commander Text file manager shows directories and files in a graphical display. It is very easy to use, and allows browse, copy, rename, delete, move, search and edit files. It is very easy to use, and allows browse, copy, rename, delete, move, search and edit files.
Jul 18, 2008Re need floppy boot disk There's another way that doesn't involve booting off a floppy, but getting W98 to boot grub4dos. It's explained here in the context of installing Puppy Linux on a W98 machine but the same principle applies, instead of booting Puppy, you get grub4dos in your case to boot the installer vmlinuz kernel and initrd copied off the boot CD, and then you do a normal install.
[email protected] Boot Disk is a bootable Live CD/DVD for system recovery purposes. Use [email protected] Boot Disk to recover your lost data, reset Windows passwords, make computer system backups and securely erase data and there is much more.
Smart Partition Recovery restores deleted logical disks. In an automatic mode, Smart Partition Recovery will easily make it possible for you to restore access to the lost sector. In an automatic mode, Smart Partition Recovery will easily make it possible for you to restore access to the lost sector.
You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives . More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.
PloP Boot Manager estende as vantagens de inicializar o computador tambm para dispositivos USB como pendrives, nos permitindo selecionar o dispositivo de inicializao sem que tenhamos de acessar o Setup da mquina, que pode estar protegido por senha ou ainda prejudicar o computador.
Jan 17, 2013A piece of free-ware called PLoP Boot Manager solves this problem, offering an image that can burned to a CD or put on a floppy disk, and enables you to boot to a variety of devices, including USB drives.
Nov 08, 2008If you happen to have a floppy drive, you can install Smart Boot Manager to a floppy, boot from that, and it will give you the option to boot a CD drive. I haven't tried it with USB devices though. If you have a floppy drive and want to try it, let me know and I can give you directions of how to install Smart Boot Manager.
If you are using the floppy only because you have an old system BIOS that can't boot USB or DVD, look at some floppy based boot managers that let you boot devices when the BIOS won't support it PlopKexec Boot Manager or Smart Boot Manager.
Smart Boot Manager (), which can boot off CD-ROM and floppy drives on computers with a faulty BIOS. FreeDOS, which can run BIOS flash and other legacy DOS utilities.
Smart Boot Manager () is an OS independent and full-featured boot manager with an easy-to-use user interface. There are some screen shots available. There are some screen shots available. It is essential if your BIOS will not allow you to boot to CD-ROM and you want to use a CD-ROM based Linux for Stage 1 recovery.


That momentum at NOAA was largely due to Brandon Southall, I think. He moved into private consulting a couple years ago and seems to be making more scientific progress than before, possibly at the expense of International and National policy progress.
At the same time, he's playing an active role on science committees in key initiatives, such as NOAA's recent and ongoing effort to come up with global ocean noise maps and cetacean distribution maps for use in policy-making.
Brandon's web site — http://sea-inc.net/about/ — says he was at NOAA's Ocean Acoustics Program 2003-2009.


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David Bowie Verbatim: drugs, dresses and lust in the Sixties and Seventies – the things we learned from the man in his own words
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Extraordinary and previously unheard recordings of Bowie from the BBC archive tell his story from Bromley to Berlin
The hour-long programme was made up of Bowie's own anecdotes and stories covering the first chapter of his life, from his London and then Kent childhood, to drug-fuelled oblivion in the US, before being "reborn" in Berlin.
The segments of interviews over the years were peppered with his laughter and outtakes of performances and recordings from long before they were digitally remastered.
From his fascination with transvestites, to his putting Slash of Guns N' Roses to bed as a little boy, here is a selection of David Bowie's almost parodical early life as told by him.
The late pop star David Bowie
Little Richard was his main influence growing up
"My cousin Christina was a huge Fats Domino fan and had Blueberry Hill and I had Elvis Presley's Hound Dog and we did a trade because I preferred the sound of that.
"What I liked about it is that I couldn't understand the lyrics and that really made an impression on me - there was some secret information there that I didn't have. I think that's been something that's been important to me ever since."
But it was Little Richard who actually inspired Bowie to begin playing a musical instrument himself, after his mother took him to go and see Richard perform live: "It was the sax line-up he had behind him that impressed me more than anything else, because I'd only heard the saxophone through my brother's records as being a Jazz thing and that was too complicated for me."
The man who fell to Earth: David Bowie
Bowie immediately begged his father to lend him the money for a saxophone, which he did, and the young Bowie then took a meat round to pay him back.
On clothes and the personality they gave him and men in make-up
"I was always very vain. I always liked clothes a lot, I guess it was my way of confirming I had a personality, not really being sure if I did or didn't. If you wear clothes of a certain nature you automatically were a personality because clothes maketh men, but I guess I learned that men maketh clothes eventually."
David Bowie interview: 'I have done just about everything it is possible to do'
Bowie's first lavish purchase was a green-tweed suit from Burton – paid for again by a loan from his father.
London had a huge influence on his fashion choices – including men experimenting with wearing make-up: "Going up on the train there was a guy with make-up on and he was a Mod. He wore eyeshadow and he looked rather peculiar and I thought he looked rather good."
He once had a permanent erection at the Marquee club
Bowie reveals he spent much of the Sixties in a state of lust. "One of my keenest memories of the Marquee club in the mid-Sixties is having a permanent erection because there were so many fantastic girls coming over from Europe.
"All these Swedish girls were flocking to London to come and get an R'n'B star, so you grew your hair really long and hope that they recognised you as Keith Relf – I made a better Keith Relf than Brian Jones. Anyway I hung out with Jonesy a few times and he was too short and fat."
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Music saved Bowie from 'terrifying insanity'
Bowie's step-brother suffered from mental illness and as did several people on his mother's side and Bowie was terrified of meeting the same fate. "One puts oneself through such psychological damage trying to avoid the threat of insanity, you start to approach the very thing that you're scared of. Because of the tragedy inflicted especially on my mother's side of the family – there were too many suicides for my liking – that was something I was terribly fearful of.
"I felt I was the lucky one because I was an artist and it would never happen to me because I could put all my psychological excesses into my music and then I could always be throwing it off."
Dresses and transvestites – he loved them
"I was very impressed by transvestites, they are kind of pre-raphaelite, there was something about the Edward Burne-Jones, Rosetti thing that I thought was a purist new-energising of the British spirit."
Bowie liked the look so much he decided to get his own dress: "I thought well, that's perfect. I had long hair at the time and it looked like something interesting – so I wore that around for a bit.'
America: The drugs and the characters
"The first time I went to America there was a wonderful writer and he lived in Greenwich Village. The first thing he did within a couple of days of getting there was play me Loaded by the Velvet Underground and this was like the new release. I thought 'Wow, I'm in America, I'm in Greenwich Village and there's this guy playing me Loaded - this is heaven and I've brought a dress with me.'"
The second time Bowie was in America he came unstuck, trying to juggle his characters with his real-self, leading to a well-documented period of hedonistic chemical abuse: 'Now we start hitting real problems because I enjoyed the character (Ziggy) so much and it was so much easier for me to live within that character along with the help of some chemical substances at the time – you become what's called a drug casualty."
David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust
While in America, Bowie met costume designer Ola Hudson, who created the wardrobe for the Station to Station tour. "The black pants and the waistcoat were made by a lady called Ola Hudson who is subsequently mother to who we now know as Slash of Guns N' Roses – so I knew Slash as a little lad. I put him to bed on a beanbag."
He was worried for his life – then he ended up in the heroin capital of Europe
Realising he needed help, Bowie left the excesses of America behind for self-imposed rehab in Berlin.
"I wanted to find some kind of satisfaction in life rather than this desperate kind of searching. I just did too much and I came close several times to overdose. It was really graphicly clear, it was like being in a car where the steering had gone out of control and it was going towards the edge of the cliff.
"I was very worried for my life, so I ended up in Berlin, the smack capital of Europe. I didn't have any idea until I got there until I found out that's what it was, and who did I take with me? Iggy Pop, who was trying to get off smack."
On being 'reborn' in Berlin and the power it gave him to pen the Berlin trilogy
"Surviving all that and realising you don't have to be a casualty was like being reborn.
"I think that throughout the Sixties and Seventies I was driven by lust. As much as anything it's a great creative force that in turn is replaced by anger when you ask where the money is, then you get depression, and then you go to Berlin and write really moody instrumental stuff."
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Proving to be an insightful "heartfelt" lyricist, Robbie first stepped onto Australia's music scene in 2013, as he won triple j Unearthed's National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) with his song Don't Go Walking Away. Robbie was instantly catapulted to attention as he earned a place on tour with The Paper Kites and Don't Go Walking Away gained national airplay.
Robbie spent much of 2014 and 2015 quietly working away on his debut EP The Faster The Blood Slows, and perfecting his live set-up. Robbie released his first single from the EP (Sunday) back in October 2014, and has progressed through 2015 playing regular shows, including an official Bigsound showcase and two east coast tours, and building up his live performance with producer Nathan Morrison, a set-up of which has been said to "make your knees weak". With his EP released in October 2015 in conjunction with second single The Pain, of which was immediately added to full rotation at triple j, Robbie is undoubtedly one to watch in 2017.
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I am an Early Stage Researcher and a Doctoral student at the A. I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland. Before joining the ECMED H2020-MSCA-ITN project, I have been working as a Researcher in Neuroanatomy at College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University. I was investigating mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury. I completed my Masters (MPhil) in Molecular Biology from Centre for Research in Molecular Medicine, The University of Lahore, Pakistan. My current project investigates the role of SRPX2 protein in uPAR-interactome and post-traumatic epileptogenesis.
Our molecular profiling study of epileptogenesis done about 15 years ago led us to investigate urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA). uPA is part of the uPAR-interactome which is composed of its receptor, uPAR, and other extracellular ligands such as sushi-repeat protein X-linked SRPX2. Studies in cancer have shown that uPAR-interactome is a major player in cancer cell adhesion, proliferation, differentiation and migration; extracellular matrix degradation; invasion and clearance of inflammatory cells; apoptosis, and tumor angiogenesis.
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The objective of this ETN project is to explore in details the distribution and function of SRPX2 during epileptogenesis, and assess the potential of this novel target for biomarker and therapy discovery.
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Important ceremonies in soap never go to plan and that rule is about to be well adhered to again as Luke Morgan's wedding to Mandy Richardson ends in chaos in Hollyoaks while Lachlan White faces being exposed as a killer at the funeral of mum Chrissie and grandfather Lawrence in Emmerdale.
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Q: Unable to recover hard disk drive after failed formatting due to sudden power outage I was formatting a WD Caviar Blue 640GB hard drive using Darik's Boot and Nuke (writing zeros method), and suddenly power in the house went out so computer did shot down. It was on about 30% on pass 1 of 3 passes.
When I booted computer to start the process again, hard drive is not listed anymore. I tried rebuilding and deleting MBR using installation disk, Hirens, even Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics say's the MBR table is locked by another program and bunch of other software, but still can't make it work. In Windows disk manager shows disk unknown not initialized I/O error. Tried fixing with DiskPart but no success.
Is there any other way to fix it?
I used the folowing software to test HDD:

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*HDDScan v4.0

*HDTune v2.55

*WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics v1.31

*AOMEI Partition Assistant v7.0.1

*EaseUS Partition Master 13.0

*EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

*Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)

*Hard Disk Sentinel

*MBRWizard 3.0.73

*DISKPART (Windows)

*bootrec.exe (Console using Windows installation disc)

OS used for testing:

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*Linux Mint

*Arch Linux

*Windows 10

A: Age can be a factor. If it's true that the hard drive is 11 years old, it's about time to replace it.
In my experience, any hardware that's is more than 5 years old can be unreliable. That's just me speaking from my experience.
With what you have already done, it would be best use of your time to replace the hardware. Any extra effort is just a waste.
Hard drives are inexpensive these days. Get one from a reputable company, Best Buys, New Egg, etc.

A: Practically, the disk is dead, but I've found a few things that could wring a little life off of a dead drive.
If your filesystem alone is the issue, you could run a tool that works device level, like shred in order to zero out the drive completely, and doing a reformat. I'd recommend a "full" format, and doublechecking by using a badblocks option (in linux) or chkdsk in windows with the appropriate switches - /b would work for ntfs, and /R for other filesystems.
In theory zeroing out and reformatting the drive kicks in the drive's own bad block checking and error correction, and I've kind of gotten a 'dead' drive that underwent a similar scenario running for a short time (then dying, then coming back to life, then dying again finally).
That said, you really also need to consider the health of the drive as a whole. Modern drives have a reasonable ability to self test. I'm a fan of gsmartcontrol since it highlights problem values, but I'd recommend running a short test, then if it passes a long test. If either disk health checks fail, you're better off binning the drive.
Smart Statistics are also handy - I've another answer that goes into detail on these, and if you can't get smart statistics, well the drive is also dead

A: Formatting only affects the data itself while disk recognition is handled by a chip inside the HDD. That's mean your formatting cannot be the cause as long as data and disk recognition are handled by different parts.
So the most probable scenario is the chip didn't supported the power loss, maybe he suffered from a temporary high tension (preceding the power loss in your house) that killed your HDD.

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Our synthetic sickle was designed to be sturdy enough for hooking the arms, legs or body as depicted in Mair's compendium yet be flexible enough for safe sparring (with adequate protective gear). It requires no maintenance, though for best results it should be stored out of the sun in a cool, dry place.
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The sickle is one of the unconventional weapons detailed in the massive mid 16th century Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athetica compiled by Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579). Three versions of this multi volume compendium have been preserved: the BSB Cod.icon. 393(1/2) in Latin, Mscr. Dred. C 93/94 in Early New High German and Codex Vindobensis 10825/26 in both Latin and German. Mair lived in Augsburg and was a civil servant and fencing enthusiast, though there is no evidence that he ever certified as a fencing master.
There has been some debate on whether the techniques of the sickle and the other "peasant weapons" depicted in the compendium were based on actual observation of contemporary peasants or speculation by Mair, but in either case the 16 illustrated pages devoted to the sickle depict and describe a variety of attacks and counters that include strikes, parries, hooks, disarms and grapples.
Although Mair believed that fencing in its various forms was instrumental in building character, he apparently didn't do enough of it to keep him from embezzling money from the Augsburg city coffers so that he could live well beyond his means. He was ultimately hanged as a thief at the age of 62. Don't make his mistake! Order our sickles and train hard!
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Hahn first got involved with volunteering for the 4th of July in Thomaston when it was organized by the 'Breakfast Club', with community members such as Lucy Mayo and Sally Hill. "Back then you had to go through a rites of passage working first at making the popcorn, then perhaps doing the cotton candy." said Hahn in a recent interview.
He tells that the Firemen's Association used to put on the chicken barbecue as a fundraiser for its organization. A private vendor then took over the concession for a few years. When the committee found itself with no vendor to run the concession one year, Hahn decided he could take it over as a fundraiser for the event. He had just moved back to Thomaston, from Portland, for his development construction company. In Portland he had been working for the phone company, and occasionally helped a co-worker put on chicken barbecues at corporate affairs. Hahn knew what was needed to put on a large scale barbecue.
For the first few years his friend helped him put on the barbecue for Thomaston's festivities. Hahn continued to borrow his friend's pits, traveling the two Portland round trips. These were the only pits available to Hahn that were large enough for the purpose. According to Hahn, it requires a large set-up to cook the quantity of chickens that can be ready and served during that one hour after the parade when hungry diners crush onto the festivity grounds.
Several years later, local businessman Bob Liberty had a large set of pits specially made to use for a big yearly charity bike ride event he was involved with. Hahn borrowed those pits for years, until he finally inherited them. Every year he and his regular crew of 6-8 volunteers haul them out and set them up along with a dining tent, tables and chairs. Hahn says they use the same tables that fellow townsman Albert Harjula built for the festivities around 30 years ago. The tables need replacing.
He jokes that he wants "to see it keep smudging out the craft tent when the pits get smoking. It has been at the same location along the fence behind the craft tent and Masonic Hall so long that the grass no longer grows there. This 4th of July dining tradition needs someone to make sure that keeps happening!" Hahn would help train a new group willing to take it over. He feels it is important that young people get involved with volunteering with the festivities. He says that all the main activities of the festivities need to have more than one person ready to do a job.
Hahn says that at $9.00 a dinner, which includes 1 1/4 pound of chicken (half a chicken barbecued with Hahn's special secret sauce), coleslaw, roll with butter, and name brand soda, the meal is a good deal. He will pass along the secret sauce to the committed volunteer team that steps forward to take over the tradition.
Hahn is now in the hospitality business and works from his office at The Country Inn in Camden. He has also been serving as a Thomaston selectman for several years. He loves most to be out skiing and to play the piano. He plays two music gigs a week. "You can find me on Thursday evenings playing at Billy's Tavern, Thomaston, with fellow musicians Reny Stackpole, Susan Davenport, and Mike McFarland," he said.
Rockland, Maine - Children will draw images from February's celebrations and traditions at Rockland Public Library's ongoing drawing workshops led by artist Catinka Knoth. Participants draw along with Knoth as she demonstrates how to draw subjects from Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, and Mardi Gras. 2009 Chinese New Year, celebrated for 15 days, is the Year of the Ox. Subjects may include papercut ox designs, Chinese dragon, and Lion Dancers. Valentine's Day cards often have hearts, birds, cupids, lace, ribbons, and roses. Mardi Gras motifs include masks, King cakes, doubloons, jazz instruments, jester, tricorn hat, and beads. Knoth suggests that participants may bring in related books and pictures as a possible inclusion for the demonstrations..
Sponsored by the Wellin Family Foundation, the workshops, for age 6 and up, are free and open to the public, with all materials provided. Ongoing workshops meet every Tuesday, 4-5 pm, Community Room, Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St., and are hosted by Friends of Rockland Library. FMI - Jean Young, children's librarian, 594-0310.
Tuesdays; 4-5 pm; 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24; "Let's Draw February's Celebrations!"
Download free Chinese New Year 2009 - Year of the Ox, card by Catinka Knoth, 53 kb pdf file. Print out and fold in quarters to make a frenchfold card.
Rockland, Maine - Children will draw winter animals and scenes this January, at Rockland Public Library's ongoing drawing workshops led by artist Catinka Knoth. Participants draw along with Knoth as she demonstrates how to draw a variety of subjects. Winter motifs may include polar bears, penguins, snowy owls, arctic hares and foxes, houses in a snowy landscape, frozen lakes with skaters, and ice fishing. Sponsored by the Wellin Family Foundation, the workshops, for age 6 and up, are free and open to the public, with all materials provided. Children 10 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Ongoing workshops meet every Tuesday, 4-5 pm, Community Room, Rockland Public Library, and are hosted by Friends of Rockland Library. FMI - Jean Young, children's librarian, 207-594-0310.
Tuesdays; 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27; 4-5 p.m. "Let's Draw Winter Animals and Scenes!"
THOMASTON (April 4): The Thomaston Fourth of July Committee is busy planning the 2006 celebration. This year's parade theme is "Stars and Stripes Forever". Several new categories of float categories will inspire group participation.
There will be awards in the categories of family, merchant, neighborhood, and business/organization floats. The committee wants people to use this opportunity to express their creativity, display group spirit, entertain others, and celebrate the holiday.
I think this may also be viewed at the Village Soup for a couple weeks.


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The Unfinished Tribute to Crazy Horse
This week, David Clark is our tour guide as we take a closer look at some of America's greatest monuments. His series continues today with the story of a monument-in-progress, the unfinished tribute to Crazy Horse.
If everything goes according to plan, by the twenty-second century America's largest monument won't honor any presidents, and won't glorify the Republic's early history. It will be the most immense statue in the world "" 563 feet high and 641 feet long "" and it will depict a native warrior who lived and fought as an enemy of westward imperialism and a fugitive from the US government, who was driven from his people's land and, after his surrender and imprisonment, surreptitiously murdered by US soldiers.
The gargantuan Crazy Horse Memorial, carved out of a mountain in the Black Hills just southwest of Mt. Rushmore, will certainly remind us that "the red man had great heroes, too" -- as Chief Standing Bear of the Lakota Sioux intended it to -- but it will also conjure all the fierce brutality and shameless injustice of American history, the kind of bloodstains that are scrubbed off our most well-known monuments. The image of Crazy Horse is at once a symbol for the many virtues of the Native Americans and for the many savage sins of the United States.
Korczak Ziolkowski's No Indian-Lover
In the 1940s a group of Lakota chiefs decided to counter the iconography of Mr. Rushmore with a mountain sculpture of their own, in honor of those native civilizations that the US government and the apotheosized Presidents had systematically conquered. The chiefs found their craftsman in a Polish-American named Korczak Ziolkowski, who was out west already to work on Mt. Rushmore and relished the chance to devise and execute a colossal carving on his own terms. Ziolkowski didn't consider himself "an Indian-lover," in his words: rather, he was "a storyteller in stone" who respected the Lakota and their hero and understood the broad significance of a Crazy Horse monument. So the chiefs got their sculptor, and Ziolkowski got his life's mission.
Ziolkowski scouted a site -- the sacred mountain of Paha Sapa, also known as Thunderbird Mountain -- and set to work in a wilderness without company or even roads (he had to bulldoze the first ones himself). He spent the remainder of his days, from 1949-1982, clambering on the rocks like a grey-bearded mountain goat, plotting and drilling, blasting, shoveling, and bulldozing -- "carving" on the largest possible scale.
The unkempt sculptor exuded vitality; he carried himself as a cheery, rough-tongued, hard-drinking mountain man, an icon in his own right for the rugged individualism of the western "white man" -- the cowboy, the settler, the prospector. He knew he had the talent for a more prosperous and celebrated life in the arts, but was fully devoted to the monument, the setting, the work, and the lifestyle. "I'm the world's biggest chiseler," he boasted. "I've got $23 dollars in my bank account . . . If I had stayed in the East I'd be a millionaire fancy-ass sculptor today."
While almost single-handedly shaping the mountain, Ziolkowski suffered quite a few injuries, including two heart attacks. Once, his son Casimir mis-steered a tractor over a 170 foot cliff, tumbled through the air right over Korczak's head -- and luckily planted on the only soft dirt heap in sight, miraculously unharmed. After all this, Ziolkowski managed a peaceful death, and was buried in a tomb he blasted for himself at the base of the mountain, knowing he wouldn't live to see Crazy Horse finished.
Early on, Ziolkowski's first wife had joined him out in the Hills for a short time, then promptly divorced him. Apparently, the idea of wearing her life out with an eccentric dynamite-nut stranded in backwoods didn't appeal to her, once she'd given it a try. The second wife worked out better: she endured, even thrived, and after Korczak's death has been managing the project with the help of their clan of children (7 out of 10 are still working on or for the Memorial). There's a visitor center and a museum at the base of the unfinished sculpture, which opened to educate the public and raise funds for continued work. In fact, Ziolkowski refused to accept government funding, fearing the Feds would hijack his vision, so the Crazy Horse Memorial is all privately funded by donations and visitor fees.
Crazy Horse's nine-story-tall face was finished in 1998. There's a catch, though: nobody knows exactly what Crazy Horse looked like. Whether the warrior chief refused to have his photograph taken for fear that it would steal his "shadow" and shorten his life, as one story goes, or he just didn't care for the artistic medium, Crazy Horse left no (definitive) photographic remains. (There are plenty of "reputed" but unproven photos of Crazy Horse circulating today.) Ziolkowski, therefore, intended to fashion a nonspecific face to represent the Idea of Crazy Horse -- a symbol rather than a mimetic likeness.
The Controversies, The Ironies & The Paradoxes
Plenty of controversy seethes around the Memorial. In the beginning, some local people opposed the project for racial reasons, and even went so far as to vandalize Ziolkowski's smaller works out of spite. While racist opposition has faded in time, other forms continue. Some Native Americans protest that blasting images into their sacred mountains is no way to honor their cultures and traditions, regardless of whose faced is chiseled out in the end. And others wonder why Lakota chiefs conceived the project without the permission of Crazy Horse's family, or why the Ziolkowski family seems to control the whole project (and handles all the funds). Still, none of the trouble has halted the work, which continues today and will keep on indefinitely.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a tangle of paradoxes and sobering ironies. The largest sculpture in America will honor a people the United States trod over, a man the government captured and killed. The four heads of Mt. Rushmore -- heroes of the white Republic -- will be overshadowed by a larger-than-life reminder of one of the Republic's greatest crimes. A lone Polish-American immigrant will have been the primary architect and sculptor of a tribute to Native American history, community, and values. And the colossal form will depict a man who was wary of photographers, of whom no unequivocal image survives. [Images courtesy of crazyhorsememorial.org.]
Previously: The Statue of Liberty, The Washington Monument, The Gateway Arch


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"Out of 5, how much do I love NWG?"
Oh, shucks, Hoggie, you're making NWG blush a little.
Graham Onions is a genius and NWG thinks he maybe should replace Alastair Cook as an opener.
Yes, it's Cardiff all over again.


PriceFixer: In Defense of "Plagiarism"
I'm not really defending "plagiarism." One of the few things I remember about my high school English class was when, in discussing The Scarlet Letter," my teacher explained that "revenge" was one of the worst of all possible sins, right up there with plagiarism.
While some plagiarism is obvious and obviously reprehensible -- i.e. taking someone's work and passing it off as one's own -- much of what passes for plagiarism is in a much grayer area.
Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed, and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source, is usually enough to prevent plagiarism. See our section on citation for more information on how to cite sources properly.
Note how when they get to giving examples, they simply say "All of the following are considered plagiarism." It's not untrue -- there are probably some people who consider everything on that list plagiarism -- but there are doubtless others (including me) who don't "consider" all of these things plagiarism.
Some of them could be simple mistakes -- e.g. I didn't put the copied text above in quotation marks. Was that plagiarism?
Did John F, Kennedy commit "plagiarism" when he put his name on Profiles in Courage (assuming the allegations that Ted Sorensen ghost-wrote it for him are correct)? [just looked that up on Wikipedia and saw the following, which I hadn't heard before -- the joke around the Senate was that they wished Jack had a little less profile and a little more courage.]. Put another way, is it really "plagiarism" when the true writer is a willing (and well-paid) participant in the process?
I seriously doubt that either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama wrote their campaign books all by themselves -- does that disqualify both of them from being President?
Likewise, "giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation" could be a simple mistake, not plagiarism. In fact, putting the thing in quotes ought to be a pretty good defense AGAINST plagiarism, because in that case you're making it clear that they are NOT your words (that's not to say that misattributing a quote is never misconduct; just saying it's not always plagiarism).
And then there's "changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit." This goes beyond the traditional definition of plagiarism, which is to take someone else's ideas or expression and pass them off as one's own. If the sentence embodies an "idea", then yes, an attribution might be appropriate. But if the sentence is merely reporting a fact -- especially a fact that is widely known -- then why should it be "plagiarism" to rewrite the "fact" using new words, but the same "sentence structure"? If the author used subject-verb-object, am I precluded from doing the same?
"With plagiarism, an author tries to convince his audience that he has become conversant in a subject through journalistic research, processed that research, and distilled it by turning it into words on paper."
If I am posting a blog about something that occurred in the real world (and which I happened to read about first in Newsweek), do I really have to give Newsweek credit? In this one, Lehrer has changed both the sentence structure and the vocabulary, added new expression, and also added a helpful link to the videos themselves. Is it plagiarism just because we now know that his source was this particular Newsweek article?' I personally don't assume that every journalist that reports the result of some study has necessarily read the original study or spoken to the person who conducted the study, but that's what Seife seems to think the use of such a study always implies.
If the journalistic profession wants to label that plagiarism, I don't really have standing to complain. But what about high school students? I'll get to that later.


Years after Carly Cardellino stopped her university sorority, she couldn't leave one piece of it: a teal celebrity as well as a red heart laid out in black, the team's icon, which she had actually invested $50 to have actually tattooed on her left foot during her student year.
Ms. Cardellino had resigned herself to covering the tattoo with a flesh-colored round Band-Aid when, in December 2012, the Fda accepted a new type of laser that could get rid of, to name a few things, so-called recalcitrant tattoos. After seven treatments ($ 400 a session) in the office of Dr. Paul Friedman, a skin doctor in Manhattan and Houston, the tattoo was gone.
" The skin is a little lighter," said Ms. Cardellino, who attributes that in part to her compulsive use sun block in the location. (Tattoos can't be revealed to sun while they're being treated.) "However if I showed you I had a tattoo there, you 'd be like, 'I do not believe you.'".
The new laser, called a picosecond, because it fires pulses at a trillionth of a 2nd, works the same way that the previous generation of lasers did, which is by breaking down the ink to ensure that the body could absorb it.
Yet it has been commonly hailed as the very first significant improvement in tattoo removal in Two Decade. That's because, compared to the old lasers, which worked merely in billionths of seconds, physicians state the picosecond both cuts therapy time in half as well as could get rid of colors of ink (including reds, blues and also eco-friendlies) that formerly hardly budged. A tiny research published in the journal Dermatology showed that two-thirds of tattoos with blue as well as environment-friendly pigments nearly vanished after 1 or 2 therapies with a picosecond laser.
Supporters prefer to define the difference in how carefully the brand-new lasers shatter ink as the distinction between pebbles and also sand. (Researchers are already at the office on a femtosecond laser, which would pulse at a quadrillionth of a second, which in this example, most likely would pulverize the ink to silt.).
" It's an actually significant breakthrough," stated Dr. Roy Geronemus, a dermatology teacher at NYU Langone Medical Center, who has collaborated with lasers since 1983 as well as performed several of the first picosecond research studies. (Dr. Geronemus is on the clinical board of advisers of the company that makes the laser.).
Just like all cosmetic treatments, there is some component of advertising hype. Tattoo removal is an approximately $75-million-a-year business– primarily catering to young specialists who assume tattoos are preventing their surge, moms who choose the art not fits their photo as well as tattoo fanatics who just wish to refurnish.
There is additionally a sample of heartbreak and also really hopes dashed. Dr. Bruce Baker, a skin specialist in Manhattan, has two times eliminated the same woman's name from the exact same guy's buttocks. You connect the dots.
Yet the number of treatments performed in the United States has actually decreased dramatically in the last few years, to 33,363 in 2014 from 58,429 in 2012, the most recent year for which the American Culture for Aesthetic Cosmetic surgery has numbers.
Some doctors associate the drop to the new laser's capability to reduce treatments per person (each treatment counts as a procedure, in the society's accountancy), however Dr. James Grotting, the culture's president, placed a much less delighted spin on it.
" The numbers are declining because tattoo-removal treatments haven't provided naturally good outcomes," Dr. Grotting created in an email. He called tattoos "still an unsolved trouble" because of the still-present opportunity of scarring and the vast variant in just how different shades as well as sorts of ink respond to lasers. Pink ink, as an example, often consists of iron oxide, which means it might transform black under a laser, a less-than-desirable outcome, particularly if one has, as an example, tattooed pink lip lining.
No one contests that having a tattoo removed is much more expensive and also time-consuming compared to having one placed on in the first place, as well as the expense is rarely, if ever before, covered by clinical insurance coverage. Only one female talked to reported a tattoo resembling "clearing up," as it's called, in a therapy or 2, as well as hers was a small brown Zodiac sign on her ideal third finger. (Expense as well as preliminary results vary commonly by the size of the tattoo and also its location– leg as well as feet tattoos are slower to go away, likely since blood circulation is less.).
After a touch of the laser, the skin crusts promptly. Many doctors provide numbing cream and also lidocaine shots, which implies that by the time the laser hits (with an ominous-sounding snap), the worst component is over.
Mr. Schratter gladly invested 5 hrs under the needle having a redwood tree tattooed from his right knee to his groin last year, he fears shots. Actual laser time: seven mins.
Mr. Schratter, who has 7 various other tattoos and strategies to replace the redwood with something else, was a lot more loosened up for his second appointment, which took only around 45 mins. Still, he joked, "deforesting is hard.".
Numerous states don't mandate that a medical professional perform laser therapies. You might desire one.
Essentially, laser tattoo removal is touching a wand to a patch of skin. The treatment is controlled by states, many of which enable laser drivers to function after as little as 16 hours of hands-on training.
Consider this, printed in boldface type, from the internet site of the laser firm Astanza: "Entrepreneurs with no clinical history in over 45 states operate highly profitable laser tattoo removal organisations on a daily basis.".
The company goes on to mention that even if a doctor is needed to act as clinical supervisor, "this function usually needs just regular check-ins.".
New York State requires that a medical professional monitor laser treatments, yet particularly adds that this "will not be interpreted as always calling for the physical visibility of the monitoring doctor at the time and also place where such solutions are done." New Jacket is more stringent: doctors just.
Doctors normally bill a minimum of two times as much as laser clinics, so why would certainly you spend for an M.D.?
" You could show a monkey to press a button," said Dr. S. Tyler Hollmig, assistant professor of dermatologic surgical treatment at Stanford College. "It's judgment. That's why you want a medical professional.".
Every medical professional has a tale of an individual that comes in after a messed up removal procedure. Treating a tattoo effectively includes recognizing the biology of the skin around it. There is no uniformity amongst tattoo ink.
And also a client may desire a person who can evaluate the color of the skin (darker skin is harder), the history of the tattoo (has it been dealt with before?) as well as its age (older tattoos are easier, since the body gradually does away with the ink, which could have faded anyway).
Tattoos should be at least 6 months old to be eliminated, due to the fact that the inflammatory response has to stop, or removal therapy may make it even worse.
As well as it might be less uncomfortable to visit a doctor. Even if your state doesn't consider running a laser to be the method of medication, providing a shot of lidocaine typically is.


Fort Lewis – A soldier with a drinking problem faces a dilemma. The Army offers treatment for alcohol abuse, but the soldier's chain of command must be kept informed. For those hoping to make a career in the military, this can be a dealbreaker.
The Army hopes to fix that.
This week it launches the Confidential Alcohol Treatment and Education pilot program at Madigan Army Medical Center and two other Army installations.
The program is the first of its kind and is bold in one of its key provisions: When a soldier seeks help for alcohol abuse, his or her superior officers won't be notified.


Prospect Park collects all of its mulch in a huge pile, which visitors only come across by accident. I felt that this impressive mountain of mulch didn't receive the appreciation it deserved. This is why I chose to create a fun zine and website to get people excited about mulch and attract them to this "landmark".