In addition to PEN America's book awards, which celebrate the best books published in a given year, PEN America also honors the outstanding careers and lifetime contributions to the world of literature and drama of our era, as well as the promise of emerging talents. In 2019 we honor achievement in international literature, editing, literary sports writing, and drama, and literary promise in poetry. Note: The following awards are by nomination only, and there are no finalists.
The award will be conferred annually to a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, represents the highest level of achievement in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and/or drama, and is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship.
To a playwright working at the highest level of achievement in mid-career.
To a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits.
For Watson's high literary stewardship as the editor of Apogee, a journal of literature and art, foregrounding writers of color and engaging with issues of race, gender, and class, including Apogee's "Alternate Canon" series.
To a living sports writer for their literary merit and dedication to sports writing with keen knowledge, insight, and a literary voice.
For the high literary quality of her sportswriting, her exemplary use of the oral history form, and her body of work including Basketball: A Love Story (2018), When the Game Was Ours (2013; with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson), Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection (2006), and her many years as a newspaper sportswriter and NBA columnist. She is the first female sportswriter to win the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing.
To a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.
For the high literary character of his debut collection, Stereo(TYPE), which explores the intersection of space and body, race and region, and sexuality and class; and wrestles with the ongoing crisis in Flint, MI.


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El XX Campeonato Mundial de Boxeo Aficionado se celebró en Ekaterimburgo (Rusia) entre el 9 y el 21 de septiembre de 2019 bajo la organización de la Asociación Internacional de Boxeo (AIBA) y la Federación Rusa de Boxeo.

Las competiciones se realizaron en las instalaciones de la Centro Internacional de Exposiciones de la ciudad rusa.

Calendario

Medallistas

Medallero

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Pág. del campeonato .
Resultados oficiales  .
Resultados en the-sports.org .

2019
Boxeo en 2019
Boxeo en Rusia
Deporte en Ekaterimburgo
Deporte en Rusia en 2019
Boxeo

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Sometimes nature paints you a Lee Weiss.
What Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot would've looked like with a pencil moustache.
An example of what you can see in Venice if you're lucky.
A view of Florence after an April shower.
What I'm looking at from the porch at Post Lake when I should be working.


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St. FX D-lineman Dave Skillen is going to try to suit up for Saturday's Loney Bowl with a torn ACL. (Halifax Chronicle-Herald)
All-star Laurier linemen Adam Bestard (he long snaps, too!) is looking forward to trying to make the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers next spring. (Waterloo Region Record)
Looking ahead to Saturday's Yates Cup, London columnist Ryan Pyette points to Western coach Greg Marshall's 19-0 OUA playoff record since 2000 and says, "The biggest thing for Queen's coach Pat Sheahan is to convince his players they can win the big one against the guy who never loses it." (London Free Press)
14-year Saskatchewan Roughriders veteran Gene Makowsky (U of S Huskies) was just three years old the last time the franchise had a first-place finish, so you know it's been a while. (Regina Leader-Post)
Speedy Laval linebacker Frédéric Plesius is now known as "Fredo" to Carabins fans. Nice touch. (Allez Les Bleus)
Paraphrasing the late Lloyd Bridges' character in Airplane, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to go vegetarian." Which CFL stadium does the best job serving a hamburger? (CFL Buzz)
Huskies Football Outsider is making its peace with some of the Canada West all-star selections. The fact some snubbed Saskatchewan Huskies and their teammates have at least one game to play is more than enough consolation.
Capital Region Football thinks it's telling only one of Ottawa's six OUA all-stars (receiver Steven Hughes) is a hometown player. It might be 2-of-6, since if memory serves Cyril Adjeity, a native of Ghana whose parents are diplomats, played his amateur ball in the city.
For point of comparison, though, four of the nine Queen's players selected are from either Kingston or nearby Belleville. That's not saying either way is better; just the facts.
(Personal opinion: People get too pent-up over the all-star selections. Fix the process, then we'll kvetch.)
Men's basketball RPI is once again available!
Now-unranked Nipissing is finding out about leadership. Lakers coach Mike McParland sees it in spades in Carleton centre Andrew Self:
"I thought he was the best player on the ice and we could definitely use a player of that calibre ... That's been one of the things we've said all year, that we maybe are missing that No. 1 horse as a centre, although Ryan Maunu has really stepped up ... If we had another left-handed horse at centre, that would definitely help us."
(North Bay Nugget)
Nice retrospective on early-1970s Waterloo goalie Jake Dupuis, who made his own goalie masks. (Midland Free Press)
Not CIS (again), but it would remiss to not link to a Graham Hays column about Elizabeth Lambert, that ponytail-pulling New Mexico soccer player, since the clip was posted here last week:
"This is how it so often goes for women's sports ... Roll tape, ignore the context and let the criticism and mocking commence ... from the casual references to 'catfights' circulating with the clip to the place of prominence it occupied on Web sites and sports talks shows -- attention far more lavish than anything the national championship game will receive a month from now -- it was also a reminder that some segment of the population still finds comfort in mocking the very idea of women's competing with a level of intensity at which such excesses become potential problems."
It's off-topic, but it's only fair to give that other side (ESPN.com)
Vic Ferrari 11/10/2009 11:13 pm
Followers of the Huskie Football Outsider also don't like how bloggers haven't given the UofS much credit for a very strong regular season which included beating Calgary.
sager 11/11/2009 12:06 am
Vic,
You must mean some other bloggers. I voted Saskatchewan No. 2 at the start of the year when almost everyone had Western in that slot. They were up high every week on my ballot, once the offence started putting up points.
It should be a good game Saturday and Saskatchewan has the D to get it done, plus Hassler can help them control the clock and stop Glavic in the best way, keeping him on the sidelines.
Anonymous 11/11/2009 1:29 am
Hey Vic, if you scroll down you'll see a post that refers to Nixon having "mojo" and credits him for getting the job down.
Who wrote that post? Naete, the day before.
Good story from the Nugget about Self and Carleton, but he's not the captain - that's Brad Good.
Deux fans 11/11/2009 12:08 pm
Frederic Plesius is known as "Fredo" by everybody who knows him... Sometimes, we attribute aliases to players, but not this time...
The point is that he weights around 245 for an outside LB, and he's still very fast. (He was red shirted as a DL at Baylor-NCAA last year)...
sager 11/11/2009 6:22 pm
I can't help think of "Fredo" without thinking of The Godfather.
@sager - lolll if you had them in front of you, let me tell you that you wouldn't confuse them...

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I have heard on the news over the last week or so about a couple of cases of Rabies in horses here in Colorado. Should we be vaccinating the horses for Rabies?
The short answer is yes, here at MVS, we are currently recommending rabies vaccines for all of our equine patients.
There are many different "variants" of rabies, but here in Colorado we are concerned about only two. Bat rabies is carried in insectivorous bats (they eat only insects) here in Colorado and there is a low incidence of exposure and therefore transmission of the disease. Skunk (or terrestrial) rabies is carried by skunks and has a higher chance of exposing domestic pets and horses. Here in Colorado we have always had an incidence of bat rabies (though never reported in horses before 2009). Since 2008 there have been an increasing number of cases of skunk rabies reported. This has also led to a small increase in the number of domestic animals that have been exposed and tested positive for rabies, including a small number of horses. Since 2009, El Paso, Adams, and Douglas counties have each reported a case of rabies in a horse.
For a small cost each year, a horse can be protected from this 100% fatal disease. The vaccine is effective at protecting the horses, and is also quite safe. For a disease like rabies, where there are very serious public health ramifications to you and your family, the rabies vaccine is a great idea. Although the risk of exposure is still small, a properly vaccinated horse is the only horse that will survive infection with rabies.
As a note, we spoke with the state veterinarian today, and they confirmed that a horse has to be vaccinated by a licensed veterinarian to be considered protected from the disease. Therefore, in the event of a suspected rabies exposure, if your horse was not vaccinated by a veterinarian, they will be considered unvaccinated by the State of Colorado!


Energy is a precious commodity, and it is costing us a hefty price. Not only are we going broke paying the bill, but our planet is suffering in a big way. With the heavy toll our energy use is taking, perhaps it is time we look to alternatives. Solar energy has garnered a great deal of attention over the last several years, and is certainly a more economical and environmentally friendly alternative. Take a look at today's article for tips on how to harness the sun and make it work for you. Let's get environment smart and energy savvy, Chapin!
Regularly clean south-facing windows. Dirt reduces the amount of energy the windows can absorb.
Ensure that nothing is blocking sunlight from the concrete slab floors or heat-absorbing walls. This includes landscaping, furniture and decorative items.
Use insulating draperies on south-facing windows to reduce heat loss during the night and during cloudy weather.
Other things you can do to effectively employ sunlight include scrupulous energy conservation.
Make sure that your insulation is adequate.
Use weather-stripping around windows and doors. Removeable insulation is available for use on doors and windows at night and during cloudy weather to hold on to heat.


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Amabie with a Plastic Bottle
Shisei Hashimura
I painted Amabie, which is the Japanese ghost that is believed to have appeared on the sea in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1846 in the Edo Period. It is said that she/he? made predictions about good harvest and also epidemics by causing a strange phenomena with a shining light from the sea. She/he told her/his witnesses to spread a picture of herself/himself to the people. After Covid-19 began to rage in February 2020 in Japan, the old legend was revived on social media, and it became popular for people to draw a picture of her/him as an "Amabie Challenge".
In September 2021, I painted my work with a reference to the black and white printed matter of Amabie drawn in 1846. The body of Amabie is covered with fish-like scales, has three legs, long hair and a bird's beak. The coloring is totally my imagination. Also I painted a plastic bottle on the sea behind Amabie as a symbol of modern marine landscapes.
"Image of Amabie, Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive
https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/item/rb00000122/explanation/amabie"
Shisei Hashimura was born in Kyoto and studied and worked in New York City for nine years in the 1990s. She graduated BFA of the School of Visual Arts and MA of New York University. She currently lives and works in Yokohama. Through her work, Hashimura highlights the discomforting hidden feelings that lie in the everyday landscape of urban life in Japan. She does so through her paintings and mixed media. Her solo exhibitions were held at Gallery Lara Tokyo, Gallery SIDE 2, Launch Pad Gallery and Yokohama-City Sakae Ward Cultural Center Lyllis. She had joined group exhibitions at the National Art Center, 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo, and at Raid Projects, L.A, arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A., CSID showroom Gallery Medamothi, Switzerland, Galerie Wong Hohmann, Wiesbaden, Germany. Hashimura has also been 'Artist in Residence' at BankART NYK, Hammer-Head Studios, and 3331 Arts Chiyoda. She has currently joined Koganecho AIR program, Yokohama.


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Rocky point is on the north shore of Long Island and has a total area of 11.3 square miles. The population of the hamlet is about 14,000 residents. RCA, an electronics company in business from 1918 to 1986, once operated a large transmitting and transmitter research facility in Rocky Point. Transatlantic radio messages from "Radio Central", as it was called, were received in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Poland. The first transatlantic commercial telephone service linking New York to London was initiated by AT&T at Radio Central in 1927. The 5,200-acre site was decommissioned and demolished in the 1970's and is now owned by the State of New York. Rocky Point and nearby Shoreham were the home to inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla the Serbian-American engineer and physicist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating currents electricity supply system. Tesla, a contemporary and friend of Mark Twain, had early research facilities in Rocky Point.
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Co-operative Retailers Must Drive 'Revolution in Food'
By external news source
Mid-Counties Co-operative in the UK at Convenience Retailing Summit
As part of the IGD Convenience Retailing Summit in London on 16 June, Phil Ponsonby from Midcounties Co-operative told delegates that convenience stores must revise their range and style for the modern shopper. At the time of the summit, Mr Ponsonby was group general manager for food retail. He has since been appointed deputy chief executive for trading.
Mr Ponsonby explained how Midcounties Co-op had revitalised its food output, breathing new life into the society's stores and enabling them to not only survive in a highly-competitive market, but to thrive. "It's about a revolution in food," he said.
One of the ways in which convenience stores can better serve their customers, Mr Ponsonby believes, is to change their layout as customers tend to "shop by mission, not category". Placing breakfast, lunch or dinner items together in store is more suited to the way in which shoppers approach filling their baskets.
Mr. Ponsonby also echoed the view of Calum Kirk from the Co-op Group, who earlier in the day stressed that it wasn't affluence that defined how customers shopped, but attitude towards food. He cited the examples of a retired couple living in the Cotswolds versus urban, wealthy couples in cities – there will likely be a different outlook on food and the type of products they buy. The retailer's job was to embrace these differences.
We've had it our own way for a long time – it's now a complete reversal
Convenience retailers such as co-ops also have the opportunity to take advantage of the current changes in the retail sector. Mr. Ponsonby noted that more people than ever are buying their food online and the rise of discount supermarkets continues – but that also means there will be more people buying their fresh food from convenience stores, including co-ops.
"We've had it our own way for a long time – it's now a complete reversal."
Last year, Midcounties launched a new supermarket format that was based around quality local produce. Mr Ponsonby spoke of how the co-operative now stocked locally sourced, seasonal fruit and vegetables. Stores had done the 'Jamie Oliver challenge' – ensuring they stocked every ingredient used in the chef's cookbooks. The shelf space given to milk, bread and newspapers had been reduced, replaced with growth areas such as coffee, gluten-free food and parcel services.
"We are focusing on food and it's working for us," said Mr. Ponsonby and pointed out that co-ops are intrinsically ethical, and should take the lead on healthy eating – another growth area.
Midcounties Co-operative recently posted annual results showing a 3.1% increase in sales for 2015/16 compared with the previous year. These results were boosted by an 11% increase in income from Co-operative Energy, part of the Midcounties society. In May, society CEO Ben Reid announced his retirement saying that the enterprise was now well-positioned for the future. Upon the request of the board, he will continue to work in the society in a new, part-time role as group chief executive to help create a structure that reflects the growth and significance of Co-operative Energy.
In the retail sector, another area where Mr. Ponsonby believes co-ops can gain an advantage is their ability to forge relationships with customers. The inherent community aspect of co-operatives means engagement can be more easily forged with customers than at other businesses. At Midcounties, 65% of shoppers are members and the society has introduced a community space in stores where those members can give feedback, post community notices and generally interact. A campaign calling for shoppers to 'share what you love' was also popular, with photos in store of customers with their favourite products.
The future for convenience is to be really brave and innovative about food
Co-operatives can also prosper against privately-owned enterprises when it comes to colleague satisfaction. Staff at Midcounties are involved in finding local suppliers, and are encouraged to be passionate about the food on sale, said Mr Ponsonby. "Happy colleagues are good for business."
Mr Ponsonby ended with a call for collaboration. He cited areas where co-ops had not previously been successful, such as food-to-go, as opportunities for collaboration with partners who have more experience: "The future for convenience is to be really brave and innovative about food."
More from the summit: Innovation can continue to drive co-operative and convenience retail
Read more: Midcounties: Annual results that 'live the co-operative values'
UNITED KINGDOM by James Sullivan 13 July 2016
photos: Mid-counties store
Summit venue, the Radisson Blue Portman Hotel in central London
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Graph 2: " what 'nature is a common language' ". Instead of going straight into the quote I would specify with " I started thinking about what the phrase ' nature is a common language'..."
Graph 2: I would replace with "make any sense about this topic at first" with "grasp what exactly this phrase meant"
Graph 2: no "the" needed before nature Hello everybody. Today I'm presenting my speech about "nature is a common language". Don't expect me to be good at this or even make a logical point about this topic, so enjoy it? When I started to write my speech about this topic, I didn't even understand it and even now I don't fully understand it. So, I started thinking about what "nature is a common language" could mean, it was hard to make any sense about this topic at first, then I thought: what if the common language of the nature is every human's experience of the nature, such as the joy of the ocean breeze, the pleasure of strolling through a forest, or a fear of the sound of thunder. But then I realized that you can't develop a speech talking about that. Soon after an idea popped up in my head: what if the nature connects us and brings us together all around the globe even with the absence of linguistic skill or using the tongue to speak words.
But still, how can nature bring us together? That is a difficult question to answer. We all basically use nature in so many ways, either consumption or entertainment, but still, I can't just point it out exactly. Graph 3: "basically " in the sentence "use nature in so many ways" isn't needed. you are already saying we are using nature. Try to cut down on so many unnecessary words. Especially within this sentence as nature is something everyone uses.
Graph 3: "either consumption or entertainment" could be replaced with "ranging from consumption to entertainment"
Graph 3: "just point it out" drags on for to long you could replace with "specify"
Graph 3: I would replace "amongst different groups as well" with "of different use cases." The reason why is that in your following sentence you are discussing use case not different use cases.
Graph 3: "These all correlate between groups." Correlate doesn't make sense in this context. Maybe "These are all used between different groups"
Graph 3: I would replace "everything" with "everyone" as you are talking about people Maybe what brings us together is sharing the multiple usage of nature. Let's try to think of commonalities amongst different groups as well. We all have needs that must be met, for example, urination, defecation, nourishment, shelter etc. These all correlate between groups. It's important to understand that there is an impertinent biological aspect to this as well. These needs are fairly easy to communicate without a language being a mediator, because everything has to deal with them.
All this we could call "instincts", but nowadays more people drift away from these instincts. For example, an author named Jack London heavily relies on humankinds' relationship with nature. In one of his books "To build a fire" he talks about how a man started to drift away from nature and relies on technology to survive instead of instincts. More and more technologies are being made and to make computers, phones and on and on, we consume what nature gives us. Like in the book, people start to rely on technologies and we too, because of that we start to eradicate nature. Due to us destroying the nature, problems occur for us. For instance, the greenhouse effect. We help other people and this "instinct" of helping others is implemented from birth, it is the same for other animals. When we see an injured dog or a bird with a broken wing, we help them, but we can't forget to help the nature too. We need to reduce the greenhouse effect, recycle, drive more with an electric cars, plant more trees etc. Some animal species became extinct, perhaps in the future humankind will disappear as well.
Graph 4: "he talks about how a man" I would replace with "London"
Graph 4: "and relies" in context I would replace "and began to rely"
Graph 4: "More and more technologies are being made and to make computers, phones and on and on, we consume what nature gives us." This sentence could be simplified. Just focus on the core point of more technologies are being made and that fact that we must consume nature.
Graph 4: since you are referring to the plural word "electric cars" the word "an" is not needed Without nature we are nothing. Nature united us to evolve, discover new things, construct advanced inventions that lead us to where we are now. We need to reunite to save nature and we shouldn't have any questions why, due to nature being a common language.
Graph 5: "have any questions" could be replaced with "ask"


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A blow to a high-rise building in the Dnieper: the SBU took on the commander of the Russian air regiment Timoshin
The SBU announced suspicion to the commander of the Russian aviation regiment, Colonel Oleg Timoshin. It was on his orders that the occupiers hit a high-rise building in the Dnieper on January 14. As a result of rocket attacks, 46 people were killed, and more than 70 were injured.
In total, enemy shelling, carried out on the orders of Tymoshyn, led to the death of 88 and wounding 240 Ukrainian civilians.
What you need to know about war criminal Oleg Timoshin
War criminal Oleg Timoshin is the commander of the 52nd heavy bomber aviation regiment of long-range aviation of the aerospace forces of the Russian armed forces. This Russian colonel has ordered many terrorist strikes against Ukraine. In particular:
organized a strike on a residential building in Dnipro on January 14;
is involved in a missile attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk on June 27, 2022. Then 21 people died, 77 civilians were injured;
the investigation found that, on Timoshin's instructions, Russian invaders fired rockets at the Riviera shopping center in Odessa and the city's cultural center in Lozova, Kharkiv region, in May; Goji" in the village of Sergeevka, Odessa region. Then, 14 people died from the shelling, another 30 were seriously injured. peaceful Ukrainians," the SBU stressed.
Important!For a series of air attacks, the Russians used Tu-22M3 bombers armed with Kh-22 and Kh-32 cruise missiles.
Timoshin faces life imprisonment
suspicion under the article "Violation of the laws and customs of war." He faces a life sentence. Comprehensive measures are currently underway to bring the war criminal to justice.
Briefly about Russia's terrorist strike on a high-rise building in Dnipro
In the afternoon of January 14, a Russian missile hit a nine-story building in Dnipro. As a result of the shelling, the entrance was completely destroyed.
Hundreds of Dnipro residents helped rescuers clear the rubble. In particular, children also joined in the work.
Speaker of the Air Force of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat said that the house was hit by the same rocket that hit the shopping center in Kremenchug earlier. In particular, X-22.
The rubble was cleared only on January 17.
In total, 46 people died as a result of the Russian terrorist strike. Six of them are children. Another 79 people were injured.
"We charge to the fullest": in Russia they cynically gloat over a blow to a high-rise building in the Dnieper The Kremlin commented on the Russian missile attack on a high-rise building in the Dnieper, which took dozens of lives From the destroyed high-rise building in the Dnieper got pets Terrorist Russian attack on a high-rise building in the Dnieper: everything that is known about the enemy attack
This is a political struggle in the OPU itself, – political strategist on Tymoshenko's resignation
"Dragon's teeth" with which Russia strengthens the border is produced in Belarus – investigators
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A Bluestocking Knits: "Pearl Buck Swing Jacket Knitalong"
Welcome to new members of the knitalong, Sarah of Lieblingsgarn, and Little Jenny Wren!
Beth writes, "I've started on the back, seems to be going smoothly so far - I just find Kate's design with that back pleat to be ingenious. However, I think I need to make mine a little longer than the pattern calls for - and feel rather intimidated to figure out how without goofing up that pretty pleat as well as matching up the front pieces!"
I think that lengthening the body would involve a bit more than just working it longer than instructed, because of the back pleat. I've never modified such a tailored garment before, so if anyone has some advice, please shout out!
My guess would be that in order to keep the armhole shaping intact, the length needs to be added to the body pieces below the point where the armhole shaping begins. On the front pieces, this isn't much of a problem, as you can either add some rows in at the "continue even in patt until piece measures ___" part, or add two rows in between the decreases (as I did for the sleeves), to keep the line of the side seam straight.
For the back, you might be able to add a bit of length by widening the yoke piece, and then repositioning the armhole shaping on the back, but you either have to know ahead of time that you will adjust the length, or be prepared to reknit the yoke. This would be considerably fiddly, as well as setting the top of the pleat further down on your back, rather awkwardly. The diamond section on the pleat is the same on all sizes (112 rows), and so obviously the least-complicated way is how Kate set the stitch count for the differing sizes, by adding stitches to the plain sections on either side of the pleat, and then at the "cont without further side decs" section (just before the armhole shaping begins), do decrease until the correct number of stitches for your size is reached. The pattern doesn't give you much space to perform this trick, but I think it could be done, as long as you don't want a lot of extra length! It might be simpler to put the side decrease rows closer together, spacing them out evenly through the stockinette section.
Kate Gilbert is, of course, the designer of the Pearl Buck Swing Jacket, currently being fêted here in this knitalong. She recently took some time from her busy schedule -- motherhood, magazine deadlines, unpacking! -- to chat with us.
What was your first sweater design like?
My very first sweater design was a complete and utter failure. I never put it all together but I still have it. The body is basically a giant poncho and the sleeves are these stubby little things. You can see it here: http://www.kategilbert.com/blog/archives/2006/03/public_knitting.html I had no idea what I was doing and had only made a (very ugly) scarf before.
Definitely. I have to learn to let go of a pattern at a certain point because there are deadlines and it's just not realistic to do things a thousand times. I would get tired of them and never finish them. Thankfully I learn something with each pattern I write and hopefully each one is a slight improvement on the last. Also, I've had to learn to let go of my patterns after their published. I'm always happy to see what people do with them. I like when knitters run with them and make them better. Sometimes, they choose a yarn or color or button that I would never have chosen, but I hope that's what will make it "perfect" for them.
What is most important to you as a designer -- fabric, shape, texture?
Is D) all of the above a possible answer? I think shape is really my main obsession. My first inspiration for a project usually comes from a certain silhouette that I'm trying to achieve. In the case of the Pearl Buck Jacket, the shape I was going for would have required a fabric that is probably nearly impossible to achieve with knitting but I decided to give it a shot anyway. Then, the yarn that was chosen for the project changed the shape, fabric and texture that was possible. It's all a compromise.
Sometimes it's a technique that I would like to try or use again. Sometimes when I see people from a distance, I think they are wearing something great and stalk them down to get a closer look. It usually turns out that they aren't wearing at all what I thought they were so I try to create what I had imagined they were wearing. I guess I'm most inspired by a challenge though. I try to figure out if it's possible to knit a certain shape, or rather, if I can figure out how to do it, since I imagine anything is possible and there are certainly people out there much cleverer than myself – those knitting mathematician people could probably knit anything.
What do you enjoy most about your work? least?
I love that feeling you get at the end of a project, you know, the one where you say, "I made that!" and you want to show it to everyone. Believe it or not, I also like the deadlines. I would probably never finish anything without them. I'm good at working under pressure and with restrictions. I practically never finish any of my non-work projects. If I can be honest, the thing I like the least is having to go back and reexamine a project when it's done. By the time knitters are out there knitting up a pattern, usually at least 6 months have passed since I knit it and thought about it. I've usually finished a couple projects since then and am neck deep in something new. I find it really hard to go back and remember why and how I did something in order to answer questions that people email me. They often have a better idea of what's going on in the pattern than I do.
Is there a usual starting point for your designs? Do you plant it all out first or improvise on the needles?
All of my projects start with a sketch or at least a vision of what I'd like to make. I've tried just sitting down and knitting something, but I'm not really that sort of person. I need to plan it down to the last stitch and then revise it on the needles. I've tried several times to make things that were randomly striped. I can't do it. I always end up sitting in front of my computer planning my stripes so they appear random.
What knitters have influenced you?
Kaffe Fassett was my first big influence. I taught myself to knit when I was in high school using books that I had found in the library. Most were full of patterns that I wouldn't have touched, especially as a 16 year old! It was only when my art teacher lent me his wife's copy of "Family Album" that I realized there were all sorts of possibilities for using color and patterns in knitting and that yarn didn't have to come from Walmart. More recently, Elizabeth Zimmermann never fails to inspire me.
If you were to have a motto in life, what would it be?
Try everything once – except organ meats.
Kate blogs at Needles on Fire, and more of her patterns are available at kategilbert.com. Thanks again, Kate!
The Pearl Buck Swing Jacket is a wonderful design -- simple and classic. It comes together easily, and requires only a bit of care when blocking and piecing together to look very elegant.
The Jaeger Extrafine Merino is beautifully soft on my skin. The elderberry color is lovely, too, full of depth and drama -- it looks rather more purple in some lights, but usually tends more towards the burgundy with purply-blue undertones.
The pleat at the back is the most unusual thing about this jacket, but the half-diamond edging at the front and the back yoke worked from side to side are also subtle but interesting details.
I made a minor adjustment to the length of the sleeves as follows: in the first decrease section (at the lower arm), instead of 11 plain rows between the decrease rows, I worked 13, giving a total of 14 rows for the shaping, worked 5 times altogether. At the "continue even" section just before the beginning of the cap shaping, I worked 12 rows straight, and the piece measured 11 1/4 in. instead of 10 1/4 in. as given. This kept the stitch count on the needle the same as in the instructions, but added about an inch to the length. I could just as easily have worked an extra inch straight at that last section before the start of the cap shaping, but this would have made the bell-shape end lower down, and I wanted to extend it closer to the elbow. (The bell-ness does not show much after blocking.) If I'd thought about it ahead of time, I might have added an extra inch to the length of the body, so that the sleeve/body proportions would have been the same as in the original -- as it is now, after I lengthened it, the sleeve is just a smidge shorter than the body, and would look a bit better if it was about two inches. This is a minor quibble, though!
It is also very comfortable, partly from the lovely merino, but also the shaping and fit. Ten out of ten!
Beth writes, "Another crazy busy week - I'm only just finishing up the second sleeve. Then on to the real business, I'm going to tackle the back."
As for me, I finished knitting on Thursday night, and started sewing up on Friday!
I actually have not had much experience in putting together a fitted garment -- in fact, I'm wondering if this is my first one -- have done drop-shoulders before, and the raglan-like sleeves of the top-down style, but nothing like these beautifully rounded ones. I was a bit apprehensive, and so I got out my old Vogue Knitting reference for reassurance.
I found it much easier to sew in the sleeve cap before sewing up the sleeve and side seams, rather than sewing the sleeve and side seams first as the pattern says. I speak from experience, having done the first sleeve cap first (the way that VK recommends), and the second cap after the straight seams just now -- it was considerably less awkward doing that curved seam with the sleeve flat, so that I could hold the two pieces together more comfortably and smoothly.
to snug with a single smooth pull on the working yarn. (It's almost like the way an invisible zipper pulls the two sides together.) I did have a lot of trouble with matching the lengths, and frequently ended up with about half an inch more on one side at the end of a seam -- on average, I think I did each seam three times -- and so I started putting in markers to match up as I went along, usually four on each long seam, so that any extra length would be distributed more evenly.
I also used a safety-pin version of Vogue's and Knitty's marker method of picking up stitches along the curved neckline, dividing the length fairly evenly by 10 (for the 97 stitches -- a.k.a. almost-100 -- to be picked up).
For those who, like me, are still fairly new to mattress stitch, I found myself dropping into this hypodermic position -- oddly enough, it was quite natural, even though I have never actually inserted a hypodermic needle. It felt much easier on my wrist than holding the needle in the usual manner, since I could aim and scoop up a stitch simply by moving my thumb, instead of my whole wrist. It wasn't always possible to do it like this, because of the way that some of the pieces fitted together, but it was helpful, and so I pass it along.
I sewed in the twenty-seven ends -- would have been twenty-nine, but I knitted in two of them along with the collar -- last night while watching "Jericho" and "Rosemary & Thyme", two, er, rather disparate mystery series, the one grim and hard-boiled and the other a more typical English "cozy" mystery, light-hearted and not terribly demanding.
Pictures, as they say, to follow!
We have a new face in the knitalong this week, Bec of Glamorouse, who writes, "I'm feeling a bit of a fraud that I'm yet to cast on, but somebody has to be last, right? My last hurdle is that I'm still waiting on my Bendigo Wool Mills colour card to get yarn (Suse's recommendation and I trust her completely on this one!) but I have the needles, I have the pattern, and I'm returning to my normal job today after three months of an extra-demanding project so hopefully I now also have the TIME to knit!"
As for me, well, I didn't think I had the time this week either, since my choir had not one but two performances of Mozart's Mass in c minor, involving numerous trips both "home" and "away" for rehearsals, and the concerts this weekend. This was more than a bit of bother, but on the other hand I had Mozart in my head all week, and that can't be bad.
as I finished both of the sleeves this week, and everything is blocking.
Beth says, "I've finished the yoke it's blocked and on gauge - hurray! Half way up the 1st sleeve and like you, wondering if I'm liking how big the cuff is. No pictures yet - I hope to post something this week. I've just had one of those weeks where everything hits at once."
Fern says, "Not much to report from me although there's a gauge swatch in my near future. I took a class a few weeks ago about knitting to fit properly and part two is in two weeks. At this one we come in with gauge swatches for projects we plan to make and we'll get a little help in tweaking the pattern as necessary to fit us specifically. So I'll be knitting a gauge swatch for the swing jacket. Who knows, I may be casting on before month-end."
Shelagh writes wearily, "This is remarkable, but true, my yarn is still backordered."
this photo is from Two Swans Yarn.
an excellent reading of the novel by "Poirot" himself, David Suchet. His own voice is quite unlike that which he adopts as Poirot (I once saw an interview in which he declined to come out of character, as it took him so long to get back into it), a rather calm, rich baritone instead of Poirot's soft, almost whispery tenor, and the voices he uses for the other characters, including the women, are equally varied and effortless -- except, I must say, that for Col. Race, Poirot's sidekick for this particular novel, who has I thought an extremely annoying upper-class-twit voice ("Bwing hew to the smoking woom immediately!") that only distracted from the easy brilliance of the others. I'd read this book before, many years ago, but am much more familiar with the delightful 1978 movie with Peter Ustinov as Poirot -- was rather disconcerted for a while at how much had been changed for the movie, but not terribly surprised, as I'm sure it's difficult to pack that much story into two hours -- the audio version runs to eight and a half! Many of the characters in the book were dropped entirely, such as Mrs. Allerton and her son Tim, and others, like Rosalie Otterbourne and Miss Bowers, were merged with lesser characters to streamline the story. I think that Suchet's Poirot is brilliant, though, and so I am equally happy with this audio version (except, as I've said, Col. Race, which to Suchet's credit didn't even sound like him!).
But the swing jacket, that's what I was talking about. I worked the first sleeve yesterday -- yes, you read that right. I cast on for it Saturday night while David and I watched "National Treasure" -- I had to pull it out, though, as I was so busy watching Sean Bean -- excuse me, I mean paying attention to the complex storyline, that I accidentally picked up the long tail I'd left for sewing up the sleeve later, and began knitting with that, so I had to start again. Being stockinette, it goes very quickly, even with the cap shaping.
I pinned everything together this morning for a fitting. The weather has been very grey these past few weeks, and so I wandered around the house rather gloomily, trailing long streamers of yarn like a madwoman. The gloom, I hasten to add, is due to the weather, not the swing jacket, which is coming along nicely.
This is the sleeve width as written for the 44 in./112 cm size. The sizing I think is not terribly generous -- this is five inches of ease on me. The garment tends to hang open about 5 inches or so, just as in the IK photos, which means that most of the ease, as might be expected in a swing jacket, is towards the back.
The shape of the sleeve is somewhat deceptive. It looks fairly straight when laid flat, as below, but on an arm the weight of the knitted piece make the bell shape much more obvious, as you can see in the photo above.
If the weather stays this dull, I might even get to wear the jacket before autumn!
Beth has been having computer problems, so she hasn't blogged for a while, but has been using the time to swatch -- "I've finally gotten pretty close to gauge - I should probably be doing that needle switch off thing that you are doing to get it perfect, but I'm far too lazy and forgetful. I liked Suse's idea to start with the yoke since it's the smallest piece, so that's where I'm at right now. Hope to have some pictures soon!"
Suse writes, "Nary a thing to show off. Son #3 requested a handknitted jumper as it's coming up for winter here. Why do the children's needs automatically come before the mother's? I don't know, all I know is that I have temporarily abandoned Pearl Buck (sadly) and have done the back and two sleeves of a 7 year old's jumper. In a very similar colour to my Pearl Buck, so at least we'll match when I finish both."
Again with the social life chez Bluestocking! It's making my head spin. We had a cousin's wedding on Saturday -- Laura was the bridesmaid. This photo, from when she was trying on dresses, is especially poignant for me, as the dress made me aware of how fast she is growing up, and the way she is sitting shows how much she is still six.
So, well, I didn't get much knitting done this weekend!
I have spent most of the weekend outside, catching up on what I like to call gardening, but is really weeding. The weather's been perfect -- rather cool, with sun off-and-on, nice for being outdoors. No knitting, though, but apparently I'm not the only one!
Beth writes, "Public mortification - I'm still swatching. The first swatch was too large, of course I didn't have the next size down needles. Couldn't get to the yarn shop with all girls at home last week. So ashamed! I hope to have something more interesting next week."
Suse has had a busy week, although not intentionally -- "I've finished a sleeve and am working away at the second. However a trip to the hospital with a certain young man has waylaid me a tad and I haven't picked it up for a few days now."
Thought I should finish the second Hedera sock while it's fresh in my mind. I'm still avoiding making a decision about the Swing Jacket sleeves, though am fairly sure that I will resize them -- it's just a question of how much.
Beth writes, "I've finally bought my yarn! It's Dalegarn Hauk in a pretty shade of olive. I really wanted to buy some gorgeous Jo Sharp DK in a color called glade, but it was twice the price, couldn't justify it. I'm swatching right now and pretty pleased with the yarn - I hope to post a picture (at least of my yarn and swatch) soon."
Suse writes, "I've finished the yoke, and am working my way steadily through the first sleeve. No pics this week; I'll try and do better next week."


In the workplace, our differing bases can lead to disagreements. Conflict can stem from all kinds of communication barriers from gender to culture. By listening for the following six perceptual languages, we can proactively negate workplace miscommunication and efficiently convey information to our colleagues.
On The Office, Oscar has the nickname 'Actually' for his ability to insert himself and information into any conversation. In several ways, he embodies the 'thoughts' language style of communication. You may have an Oscar on your team if they often insert data and research into discussions. In most cases, they are a highly pragmatic member of the group.
Think of these colleagues as the reporters on your team. They are sure to ask the five W's and one H needed for every project. They comprise roughly a quarter of the workforce and regularly become team leaders like a Project Manager.
The workplace is never a great place to discuss heated out of office subjects; this is usually even more true for those who fall under the 'opinions' style of communication.
This person uses values and judgment as building blocks for how they feel about things, rather than appealing to facts. Team members using "In my opinion" to start sentences are key indicators of the perceptual language. They also excel at deciding what groups should do.
This communication style works better in some positions than others. In data-based positions, this person could struggle. Instead, a creative role, where interpretation is used more liberally, could be an ideal fit. 10% of the workforce use opinions as their language base.
Similar to opinions, 'feelings' is a communication style that relies on emotions above all else. However, they use phrases like "I feel" to begin sentences. Often, these speakers are excellent at choosing their words.
If you ever asked yourself, "Why did I just say that," then you might be a 'reactions' communicator. As Regier explains, "They just say stuff." Typically, they are the colleagues that take little to no time to respond to a question. Be it in-person or over Skype, they will have an answer to any question quicker than your average person.
A quick response can be great for communication with tasks. However, it can be frustrating during a conflict. Sometimes, their initial answer might not be the type of thought they ultimately want to convey.
Reactive individuals do their best at work when they're being proactive rather than responding to issues. It won't eliminate their reactive responses, but it will keep them in a better mindset for thinking things through.
Here, it all boils down to the details. 'Actions' communicators crave the facts that spring ideas into motion. Whether it's asking the daily plans or getting down to brass tacks, they want to launch into, well, action.
Their diligent work ethic and drive are welcomed by all companies. However, the startup space has become an ideal setting for action-based communicators. The same can be said for entrepreneurs and freelancers that possess a lot of self-motivation.
Pairing 'thoughts' and 'actions' colleagues together often produces excellent results. The combination of data and drive typically leads to successful sprints and campaigns. With just 5% of people with 'action' as their base, they are the rarest of the six perceptual languages.
10% of workers rely on a passive, nebulous approach when speaking. That is when they decide to speak at all. Instead, these individuals like to think. If you have an office meditation program, a 'reflections' communicator likely had an influence.
Getting an immediate answer from these teammates may be difficult. An actions communicator can find themselves more frustrated with these types than others. Conversely, exciting partnerships can form from collaborating with opinions, feelings, and reactive colleagues to produce outside-the-box ideas.
These people need room to process ideas and information. They may also need reminders to keep them on schedule with friendly, non-micro management check-ins from time to time.
Crossing communication styles is unavoidable. In work and life, we will always need to interact with people that perceive and communicate information differently. All you can do is be informed of each style and adapt accordingly.
In the office, understand who embodies which personality. Try your best to incorporate this information into your interactions with the person. You are likely to see improved conversation and results when collaborating.
When inevitable miscommunications arise, rely on your awareness of these differences to resolve matters. With the information at your disposal, you can remedy workplace communication issues with relative ease.


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Oman-India Friendship Association- Key Facts
Oman recently announced to establish Friendship association with India. This will the first of such initiative in West Asia. It was announced during a bilateral discussion held between the foreign ministers of the country. The bilateral discussion was held virtually on the backdrop of recent trip by the External Affairs Minister of India Shri S Jaishankar to Bahrain and UAE. During the bilateral discussion, the countries reviewed their economic cooperation, consular issue, capacity building and training programmes.
About Oman-India Friendship Association
India-Oman Recent Developments
Significance of Oman
The association will aim to provide a platform to promote matters of mutual interest, understanding between the business and social communities of the countries.
In 2018, Indian PM Modi visited Oman and enhanced the cooperation between the countries in defence, energy, food security, trade and investment and regional issues.
In December 2019, India and Oman signed the Maritime Transport Agreement. The pact was first of its kind that India signed with a Gulf country. The pact enabled India to expand its footprints in Southern Indian Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, East Africa and Persian Gulf. This was a part of India's Indo-Pacific Vision. The Indian Navy has been provided access to the Duqm Port. The Duqm port if the largest sea port located in the Indian Ocean. India is planning several projects in Oman. This includes a 1.2 billion project to set up the largest Sebacic Acid plant (which is the largest in Middle-East). Also, an integrated tourism complex called "Little India" is to be constructed under 78 million USD.
Oman is an ideal place for international business as it has industrial hubs established all along the 1,700 kilo metres of sea coast on the Indian Ocean. The country holds four industrial free zones and four sea ports facing the Indian Ocean. The Industrial Free Zones of Oman offer 30 years of corporate tax exemption, no restrictions on repatriation of profits, no income tax, usufruct agreements, 50 years of renewability, currency exchange freedom and stable currency rate.
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Bilateral dialogue • Gulf of Oman • India-Oman • Indo-Pacific • Oman


This week's featured missing person is Stephanie Gay Miles, a 33-year-old woman last seen in Puyallup, Washington on September 16, 1994. Her car turned up over six months later, in April 1995, when it was towed in Seattle, but I'm not sure if they figured out how long it had been there.
I was supposed to add her yesterday of course, but Michael came home from work unexpectedly early, and stuff happened, and I forgot. I am a poo-head. Mea culpa.


New figures from June show an increase in investor housing finance commitments nationally amid a slowing market, as investors remain undeterred by stricter regulatory measures.
Continuing strong property investment is surprising given the state of the market, according to CoreLogic research analyst Cameron Kusher.
"With investment lending significantly tilted to NSW and considering that in Sydney housing supply is ramping-up, rental growth is at historic lows as are rental yields and the growth cycle is very mature. It is difficult to determine exactly why investment remains so strong," Mr Kusher said.
Home to the most expensive housing in the country, the combined NSW and Victoria markets continue to make up the lion share of all housing finance commitments in Australia at 67.8 per cent, down only slightly from its 2000 peak of 68 per cent.
Despite the recent implementation of measures designed to curb investment in property, it seems investment lending has not been stemmed.
"With lenders already having tightened lending policies to investors, which was very effective initially, it will be interesting to see what the next steps are, particularly if the recent acceleration in lending to investors continues," Mr Kusher said.
With a steady supply of new dwellings in Sydney and Melbourne, their property markets are set to face further challenges, Mr Kusher said.


You have indicated that you will be on short term assignment more than 1 year. General information about traveling to Chile can also be found by clicking the links on our travel pages.
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LSST admin will assist in finding suitable lodging.
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You and your family will qualify for Annual Home Leave after 1 year.
30 days Car rental covered – may be an AURA fleet car or commercial rental.
After 30 days rent car from AURA.
You will need to get a local drivers license.
Travel Expense Report (TER) should be submitted at the end of your first 30 days.
If you will be travelling to another location (although you will initially be without your passport while your visa is processed), during your first 30 days, on a separate Travel Request (TR), then ask the LSST Project office for the Meals and Incidentals (M&IE) tracker spreadsheet. It will help you to keep track of which TR your M&IE will come from and will help LSST maintain compliance.
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current residents, residency program faculty, and DO-Touch.NET members who want to learn how to successfully overcome the challenges of conducting meaningful research in a residency program and who want to fulfil some of the new ACGME requirements for scholarly activity.
I am Geoffroey-Allen Franklin, MBA, AdeC, the Data Manager for A.T. Still Research Institute. I support the DO-Touch.net PBRN by developing data collection methods, assuring data quality and maintaining data accessibility.


Spotted this over on the VERC, very interesting!
Montreal, Quebec – March 22, 2004 – Softimage Co., a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced SOFTIMAGE®|XSI® EXP for Half-Life® 2 – a free version of its award-winning 3-D nonlinear production environment designed to work exclusively with Half-Life 2, the upcoming action game created by Valve. The software, which will be demonstrated in the Softimage booth (# 1528) at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Jose, Calif. March 24 – 26, allows gaming customers to create and modify characters, props, and scenery for Half-Life 2 MODs and other Valve Source™ engine-powered titles, and then output their creations directly into the games. On Wednesday, March 24, Softimage will provide special, limited edition, pre-release CDs to attendees of SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP for Half-Life 2 seminars at GDC. The complete software package is also expected to be available for download from the Softimage website by Wednesday, March 24. Click to read more.
So that means it will be out tomorow! This was very unexpected, but not bad news at all. As soon as it is out, I will be adding a HL2 SOFTIMAGE section, so don't forget to start working on those tutorials!
Cool. So HL2 will be released soon, I'm almost breaking up and buying one of the betas.
Valve have said summer, and all signs are pointing to that being the real time frame.
Bulk, aren't you going to name the section "HL2 XSI"? Since SOFTIMAGE is the company and XSI is the tool.


Hipgnosis Portraits is a glossy coffee table tome from the creative agency, published by Thames & Hudson.
The high-profile firm is behind some pretty famous artwork, including the iconic sleeve for Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon.' This book serves as an opportunity for Hipgnosis to showcase some of its most prominent commissions alongside its lesser-known works.
The first half of the book, penned by co-founder Aubrey "Po" Powell, is dedicated to telling the story of the art, and how each work came to fruition. The rest is an exhaustive look at the designs of the legendary creative studio. The images are just as exciting and eclectic in the 21st century as they were back in the 1970s.


New Heeley Voice – December 2013 – Issue 59 | IT'S HAPPENING IN HEELEY!
There's been progress at Sum Studios, with work starting on the remaining 2 derelict buildings, Recycle Bikes have launched a new DIY 'Bike Kitchen' in Attercliffe and the Sheffield Antiques Quarter kick off their crowd funding campaign to put the Quarter well and truly on the map.
The December issue includes lots of articles about local people – hear tales of the fundraising efforts of Team Lightning, the sad closure of Honey Pie Tea Room and how a local lollipop lady is supporting childrens education in Goa.
There's also a review of the 2nd Big Boulder Music and Arts Festival that took place in September plus details of how you can support next years event at upcoming 'Big Boulder Rolls On' fundraising gigs at The Heeley Institute.


Drone detectors have been called in to Heathrow Airport, alongside the army, after a flying device paralysed operations on Tuesday evening, according to reports.
Crowded Space Drones which is contracted by the Government and counter terrorism police is reportedly on the ground today, helping to protect runways from interference.
Elite units employed by the company from Northern Ireland have 'relationships' with the Civil Aviation Authority and the FBI, its website says.
The drone that halted operations at Heathrow zoomed above the airport and towards its terminal buildings for at least five minutes before dropping out of the sky, a key witness told MailOnline today.
The first video of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) reveals how easily its rogue pilot was able to paralyse Britain's busiest airport for an hour last night.
The airport has been branded an international 'laughing stock' after at least 100 flights carrying at least 15,000 passengers were delayed just weeks after Gatwick was crippled over Christmas.
The drone was seen hovering above Heathrow between 5pm and 6pm yesterday, grounding jets in case it was sucked into an engine or smashed through a plane's windscreen.
Software engineer Harpal Randhawa, 25, filmed the drone 'zooming' across the sky above Heathrow unhindered for at least five minutes.
He told MailOnline: 'I had been watching the disruption on the news and looked out of the window and saw a drone. I knew it was one straight away. It was hovering and then zooming around the perimeter and then towards the terminal buildings.
'I'd say it was circling for around five minutes in total but then it just came down and was gone'.
Mr Ranhawa, who lives two miles from Britain's busiest airport in Stanwell, called the chaos at Heathrow, which apparently has no anti-drone weapons, 'quite ridiculous'.
He added: 'They haven't caught the person at Gatwick. Maybe it was the same pilot'.
A massive police operation was launched last night, with the Army immediately brought in to deploy specialist equipment to block drones, but the rogue pilot has not been found.
Heathrow boss John Holland-Kaye is in the firing line today as his airport admitted it has ordered millions of pounds of military grade anti-drone equipment but it is reportedly not yet in place.
Instead they have a team patrolling the nine mile perimeter of the airport looking for them, according to The Times, having brought them in the wake of Gatwick's crisis.
Critics have questioned how a single drone could shut down Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport and the seventh busiest in the world, and why it was without the technology to stop drones getting anywhere near its runway.
One passenger caught up in the chaos called the situation 'bloody ridiculous' and another said: 'Pathetic! We must be even more of a laughing stock than usual'.
Matt Charter, who was travelling back from work in Southall on the A30 in Stanwell near Stanwell, spotted what he thought was a drone above near the Southern boundary at 5.54pm.
Matt, 24, of Wraysbury, Berkshire, said: 'Me and my colleague saw what I thought was a drone hovering in the sky.
'We friend started filming it and we pulled over before we filming it again closely at the A30 at Stanwell.
'It certainly was a drone as it was hovering stationary at about 300ft in the air and was flashing distinct red, green and white LED lights.
Heathrow has declined MailOnline requests to give any details on what system it has ordered, and when it will be operational.
Potential solutions are thought to include the Israeli-designed Drone Dome, which can detect and jam communications, making them fall from the sky.
Metropolitan Police officers at the airport are reported to have been practising using 'net' bazookas to bring down rogue drones.
But they are not thought to be ready to use them to protect the airport yet.
Flights departing from Europe's biggest airport were halted at the busiest time of day after a drone was spotted at around 5.05pm.
Anti-drone measures can cost as little as £15 and Heathrow has no excuses for not having them, experts said today.
Academics and professional pilots says the airport must have known it could suffer a copycat attack after the chaos at Gatwick last month.
Police have confirmed that 'military assistance' has been implemented at the west London airport after flights were prevented from taking off for an hour.
But experts say the latest disruption was 'inevitable' and security should have been upgraded sooner.
Security consultant Will Geddes, chief executive officer of International Corporate Protection, said 'How this was able to happen in such close proximity to Gatwick is beyond me – the threat isn't just going to go away.
'I continue to be utterly astounded that there were no countermeasures already in place'.
Speaking about measures airports can take to combat drones, he said that a drone can be 'hacked' from a distance of up to six miles.
Oleg Vornik, chief executive officer of Australian-based DroneShield, said more drone-related travel disruption is likely.
Mr Vornik said: 'Gatwick has shown to prospective copy-cats around the world that you can easily disrupt major piece of infrastructure such as an international airport.
He added: 'This is only the beginning, and follows on what now has been a couple of years of escalating drone incidents at airports.
'It is critical that facilities install counter-drone protection'.
Travellers stuck in their seats on taxiing aircraft watched airport vehicles on the runway desperately hunting the drone.
Travel experts estimated the incident led to 40 flight delays.
Measures to install anti-drone missiles and detectors were promised in the wake of the Gatwick chaos, which crippled services in the run-up to Christmas. Potential solutions are thought to include the Israeli-designed Drone Dome, which can detect and jam communications.
Heathrow last night declined to give any details on what system it has ordered, and whether it is operational yet.
Metropolitan Police officers at the airport are reported to have been practising using 'net' bazookas to bring down rogue drones. But they are not thought to be ready to use them to protect the airport yet.
He was stung by heavy criticism over the debacle at Gatwick, when more than 1,000 flights and 140,000 passengers were affected between December 19 and 21. Sussex Police arrested an innocent couple and then suggested there might never have been a drone at all, before claiming it had been a 'mis-statement'.
Afterwards, security minister Ben Wallace pledged to deploy detection systems throughout the UK. Experts fear a large drone could bring down a passenger jet.
Yet despite police, military and transport chiefs having three weeks to prepare for another drone attack, Heathrow was forced to suspend operations at 5.05pm yesterday as a precautionary measure after 'reports of a sighting of a drone in the vicinity'.
One user, who was stuck on the tarmac at the airport earlier this evening, asked 'why do the drone people keep doing this?
Police have vowed to snare the drone pilots who caused flights to be suspended at Heathrow airport.
The Army has been drafted in to beef up security at the airport after a drone was spotted by police officers and members of the public near one of the runways on Tuesday, grounding flights for an hour.
Scotland Yard said 'extensive inquiries' were continuing, and appealed for any information that may help trace the owner and operator of the drone, which was witnessed flying over Heathrow just after 5pm on Tuesday.
They said 'significant resources' were deployed to monitor the airspace around Heathrow while 'military assistance' was also being provided.
Met Police Commander Stuart Cundy said: 'Our priority is keeping the airspace over London's airports safe for the thousands of planes flying in and out every week.
'Any deliberate acts to endanger the airfield and aircraft are serious offences that can carry lengthy prison sentences.
'If flown into the path of an aircraft, a drone has the potential to cause great harm to those on-board.
He added: 'We understand the extensive frustration and inconvenience that suspending flights causes the public.
'Anyone with information about the incident or who may have suspicions in relation to illegal drone in the area of are asked to report online or call 101.
He said specific operational tactics in relation to dealing with illegal drone use cannot be discussed.
US airports use frequency jammers or 'early warning' systems to tell air traffic control if a drone is approaching, neither of which are in place at UK airports. Heathrow, which has two runways, carries 78million passengers a year – 32million more than single-runway Gatwick.
Ministers have announced a package of measures designed to give police extra powers to combat drones. The exclusion zone around airports will be extended to approximately three miles, with additional extensions from runway ends.
Ministers also announced that operators of drones weighing between 250g and 20kg will be required to register and take an online drone pilot competency test. Police will also be able to issue fixed-penalty notices for minor drone offences.
Fines of up to £100 could be given for offences such as failing to comply with a police officer when instructed to land a drone, or not showing their registration to operate one.
It came weeks after more than 1,000 flights and 140,000 passengers were affected in the run up to Christmas amid drone chaos at Gatwick.
Measures to install anti-drone missiles and detectors were promised in the wake of the chaos which crippled services in the run-up to Christmas.
Airport bosses have been criticised for not learning from the mistakes of last month and not investing in drone protection technology.
Brian Strutton, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa), said: 'This second drone incident in less than a month has shown how important it is that airports invest in drone protection technology immediately.
'The Government should ensure that every airport does so in the interests of public safety and should accelerate and strengthen its other drone legislation planned for later this year. It's time to act swiftly and decisively.
'An aircraft or helicopter collision with a drone has the potential to be catastrophic and so it's right that Heathrow shut until it was sure flights could take off and land safely again.
The technology deployed by Gatwick airport bosses to prevent further drone chaos has been revealed as an advanced system used by the U.S. military that can cost as little as £800,000.
It comes after disruption spread to Heathrow when flights were halted for nearly 90 minutes when police spotted a rogue craft above the runway.
New pictures taken at the airport on Friday show the Anti-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Defence System, or AUDS for short, on the roof of the South Terminal in West Sussex.
The system was developed by three British companies, one of which – Chess Dynamics – is based in Horsham, around 14 miles from Gatwick.
One part of the new hardware, created by Blighter Surveillance Systems, is a 360-degree scanning radar which can detect micro, mini or standard drone targets.
Micro drones can be spotted from up to a mile-and-a-half away, while normal sized targets can be detected from a distance of six miles.
Another aspect of the device also uses thermal imaging to detect small drones in all weather conditions, and can also track them at day and at night.
After the drones are detected, staff at Gatwick airport can then use an inhibitor to jam the signals – or radio frequencies – used by the drone, bringing it safely down to earth.
The portable device has been used 'in active service' by the US army and NATO since September 2016 and has been deployed in the Middle East, the companies behind it have said.
The new technology was snapped just a day after military hardware deployed at the airport on the final day of travel chaos was removed.
That system, which is said to have a range of several miles, uses four radars to give 360-degree detection in order to identify and track targets.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said last week: 'The military capability has now been withdrawn from Gatwick.
Last week, Gatwick Airport revealed it had spent around £5million on new technology to stop drones disrupting flights again – but refused to reveal when it would be installed or any further details.
More than 140,000 passengers had their flights either cancelled or delayed during 36 hours of chaos at the airport between December 19 and December 21.
The cost of the chaos caused by the drones is expected to have run into tens of million pounds.
The cat and mouse game with police started as drones were deliberately flown over officers and the Gatwick control tower while flashing on-board lights before heading for the runway when officials tried to reopen it.
Marksmen were seen carrying shotguns at Gatwick – but officers said they could not shoot down the remote-controlled craft for fear of stray bullets.
Airports could be given powers to shoot down drones with net-firing bazookas under laws to prevent further drone chaos.
Drone operators will also be banned from flying within three mile of an airport and the maximum height they can fly at could be lowered.
Police would also be able to force operators to land drones flown illegally near airports and prisons.
Experts believe it is only a matter of time before a collision between a drone and a passenger jet.
A large drone could take down a passenger jet because it could shred an engine if it was sucked in or destroy its windscreen or windows, causing a sudden drop in cabin pressure.
Airport bosses have expressed frustration at not being able to protect themselves against drones.
And Britain's most senior police chief admitted authorities need to 'up their game' with anti-drone technology to protect UK airports.
Labour have also accused the Government of being 'slow off the mark' to tackle threat from drone technology.
Frustrated passengers are taking to social media to express their frustration with the Heathrow drone chaos – as hundreds are left stranded in the airport.
The north runway was grounded for around an hour after reports of drone sighting at 5pm caused all departures to be halted.
Dozens caught up in the delays have been taking to Twitter to vent their frustration with the situation.
The runway has now re-opened but numerous passengers are likely to have been caught up in the situation.
The incident comes just weeks after London's second busiest airport, Gatwick, was severely disrupted when drones were sighted on three consecutive days in December.
The disruption resulted in about 1,000 flights being cancelled or diverting and affecting 140,000 passengers.


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Woke up to a brisk 31 degrees in Nashville today. I had forgotten what winter felt like for the last 5 years in Florida now is the wake up call. Wake up call is a good phrase to use in this case. Ask yourself what was your wake up call? How did it occur and better yet what have you done about it? I realized today that i have actually been a member of this site since 2012 and I still believe it was a great idea to join this site. I haven't really been on here and I can legitimately come up with more excuses than Martha Stewart has recipes on why i haven't done anything yet but hey now that's out of the way i can get down to business again. I will be back to punishing this keyboard with work and post on here from now on. I have 7 books to write and number one needs to be finished by March 2018. Hey I have a question and feel free to answer or give your opinion i look forward to hearing them. See i have this plan and as of now it is going into motion what would it take to get you as an artist, animator, publisher, Writer and creator of worlds to actually work as one? Because i don't know about you but i am out to change the world and wreck certain people's nasty agendas and thoughts on who we are and what we should be portrayed as. I am done with the talk now its time to put in the work and show the world at large just how talented we are and most of all show them how to we are leaders as well. So here we go and strike up the band i am now declaring all out war on PROCRASTINATION ON THIS SITE and not doing what we dream of doing and have been dreaming of forever. We all have goals and dreams but the one thing we are missing is action. Me included oh no I am in no means excluded from this as a matter of fact I include myself on this so there it is. OK now.....Your Move!


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The Badass Women of Star Wars
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As Jedi superfans across the world count down the days until the Dec. 18 release of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," we've seen scant details about the new sequel's plot. But there's one thing we do know: The new lead character of Rey is a total boss. And she also happens to be a woman.
Played by 23-year-old British actor Daisy Ridley in her first major role, Rey is a scavenger who lives in a ship graveyard on the planet of Jakku. She's scrappy, self-reliant, and strong: a woman who "does her own thing and has her own story," Ridley said in a behind-the-scenes teaser. "I hope that women—and men—across the world can see something they relate to in Rey."


Are you looking for a unique and interesting way to show some love for your favorite agents? If so, look no further than this officially licensed Marvel t-shirt featuring the S.H.I.E.L.D. Logo! The acronym stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate, but all it really means is a bunch of awesome agents protecting the world. If you're a fan of their work, let them know with this awesome S.H.I.E.L.D. t-shirt!


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This is one of the sweetest things I have ever seen. I feel so happy for Dekar that he was so loved. What a beautiful family he has!
thank you so much for sharing this very special video of your son. I am so very sorry for your loss. Because of Dekar and this story I really felt the need to do something ???? I got a hold of the hospital in are small city and asked if I could make blankets and hats for babies not expected to make it or who were delivered to early, the lady on the phone couldnt believe what I was asking after she asked around she had a doctor at the hospital call and say what was needed. I am now sewing away making micro preemie blankets and bonnets. thank you so much for sharing and to Dekar because of you sweetie I am hoping to bring some comfort to parents.I had no idea there was such a great need.
Oh, Marge…I just watched Dekar's amazing video. He is so beautiful…your family is so beautiful. I wept as I watched. Christine and Danielle did an amazing job. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is such a gift to families who walk this path. I wish it existed when my babies were born. Christine was kind enough to make a little slideshow of my Faith and Grace with the little polaroids I received. NILMDTS is a wonderful organization and they do amazing work! Thank you for sharing this most precious piece of your lives with us.
I noticed the website at the bottom of one of your emails. I just wanted to share with you how touched I was by your willingness to share your experience with others. It is especially close to my heart as we await the arrival of #6 within the next 2-3 weeks. It is only the grace of God that could sustain you (or any of us) through such a thing. Thank you for posting your sweet memories and pictures of Dekar. They are forever etched in my mind.
You website is wonderful. We were so touched by your video. What a beautiful baby and how wonderful to see how Dekar was loved by everyone in your family. We will be linking to your site.
Dekar is beautiful. What precious pictures.


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Q: Hibernate OnetoMany and ManyToOne throw exception I'm trying to make simple one to many relationship but hibernate is throwing error, no idea what to do.
Class Product:
public class Products {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private long id;

    @ManyToOne()
    @JoinColumn(name = "user_id", foreignKey = @ForeignKey(name = "fk_user"))
    private Users users;

}

and Class Users:
public class Users {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long Id;

    @OneToMany()
    @JoinColumn(name = "product_id", foreignKey = @ForeignKey(name = "fk_product_id"))
    private List<Products> productsList = new ArrayList<>();

}

I got error:  Error executing DDL "alter table products drop constraint fk_user" via JDBC Statement

A: Here is a working example of such relationship :
Drawer class :
@OneToMany (mappedBy="drawer", fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.REMOVE, orphanRemoval = true)
private Set<Pocket> pockets;

Pocket class :
@ManyToOne (fetch=FetchType.EAGER)
@JoinColumn(name = "id_drawer", nullable = false)
private Drawer drawer;

A: Since the foreign key is on the child side (Products class), you can drop it on the parent side and reference to child as being the owning side:
public class Users {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long Id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="users")
    private List<Products> productsList = new ArrayList<>();

}

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The Club is lead by the President who is elected by her peers in May each year. The President is supported by the Junior Committee.
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Gaddafi Spy Chief Nabbed
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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 5:17PM ET / Published Mar. 17, 2012 8:14PM ET
On the lam since Muammar Gaddafi was killed in Libya last year, former head of Libyan intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi was apprehended by Mauritanian security Saturday at an airport in the capital city of Nouakchott. The International Criminal Court has had a warrant for the 63-year-old's arrest since he fled Libya a year ago. The action was a joint operation of French and Mauritanian authorities, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced, and said he would seek al-Senussi's extradition. The spy master was convicted in 1989 and sentenced in absentia in France for an attack on a plane that left 170 dead.
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MCU to Lose Spider-Man If Far from Home Doesn't Hit $1 Billion?
We have some new, very fascinating details regarding the contract that exists between Marvel Studios and Sony, which allows for Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Specifically, it's come to light that if Spider-Man: Far from Home, which officially hit theaters last week, doesn't make $1 billion at the box office, Sony regains full control of the franchise and Tom Holland's Peter Parker may no longer be a part of the MCU. While all of that seems very unlikely it does, at the very least, shed some light on the high expectations Sony has when it comes to this deal.
This comes as part of a recent report in an entertainment industry newsletter. Just as a refresher, Sony still actually owns the rights to Spider-Man and his rather large supporting cast of characters. This includes Venom, which is why the studio was able to produce last year's movie starring Tom Hardy outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, following the relative failure of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sony cut a deal with Marvel Studios back in 2015 that allowed for Spidey to appear in the MCU. The precise details of the contract have never been fully revealed, yet we know the deal was complex.
Eventually, Tom Holland was cast as our new Peter Parker and he made his debut in Captain America: Civil War, before getting his own solo movie with Spider-Man: Homecoming. According to the newsletter, the original deal that was struck contained a stipulation that boils down to, if Spider-Man: Far From Home clears $1 billion at the box office, Marvel Studios would get to oversee a third solo Spider-Man movie. If not, "full control would have reverted back to Sony."
Related: Spider-Man: Far from Home Has Fans Arguing Over Proper Name for the Snap
Without digging into spoilers, those who have seen Spider-Man: Far From Home know that would leave us in a very interesting place. What we know for sure is the movie is absolutely crushing it at the box office and this is in almost no danger of happening, barring some sort of unforeseen catastrophe. As of this writing, the Jon Watts-directed sequel has already cleared $577 million worldwide in its first week of release, all but ensuring it will make it past that ever-important $1 billion mark. As such, it's highly likely Sony and Marvel Studios will collaborate on the inevitable Spider-Man 3.
But what happens after that? Tom Holland previously revealed that his original contract was for three MCU movies, which he's covered with Captain America: Civil War, Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, as well as three solo movies. Once Spider-Man 3 is completed, his contract will be up. At that point, it's possible that Sony and Marvel will have to re-negotiate for the future. Is that where Sony will play hardball in order to make a Venom crossover movie happen? For now, all we can do is wonder and speculate. Perhaps we'll learn a bit more during Marvel's presentation at San Diego Comic-Con next weekend. This news was first reported by The Ankler.
Topics: Spider-Man Far From Home, Spider-Man 3 MCU, Spider-man