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The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party
October 27, 2017 By Jim Weathersby 1 Comment
The moniker for the University of Florida Gators-University of Georgia Bulldogs football series came from Florida Times-Union sportswriter Bill Kastelz in the 1950s. He remembers walking in Jacksonville near the Gator Bowl, now EverBank Field, before one of the games and seeing an inebriated fan offering a policeman a drink. Kastelz also noticed fans using binocular cases to carry a flask and that many fans were openly drinking adult beverages while being ignored by police and other authorities. In front of his typewriter after the game, Kastelz thought the appropriate name for the annual affair was, "The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party." While the party roars outside the stadium and in the stands, the teams wage a war on the field reminiscent of the days of the Roman Empire—fierce, tactical, and merciless.
One of the great Deep South rivalries finds Georgia leading 49-43-2, but Florida currently holds the victor's trophy, the Okefenokee Oar. The longest winning streak in the series for both schools is seven: Florida from 1990-1996 and Georgia from 1941-1948.
Georgia dominated the series before the 1950s. Led by Bulldog greats such as Bob McWhorter, David Paddock, Tom Nash, and Chick Shiver, UGA outscored the Gators in six games from 1915 to 1927, 190 to 9.
The Gators recorded their first two victories over Georgia in 1928, 26-6, and 1929, 18-6, but the 1930s witnessed total Bulldog domination. Led by Coach Harry Mehre and College Football Hall of Fame players Vernon "Catfish" Smith, Frank Sinkwich, and Bill Hartman, the Bulldogs won eight of nine contests. Also during this decade, Jacksonville became the permanent home of the series (1933). College Football Hall of Fame coach Wally Butts continued the Bulldog supremacy through the 1940s with victories in seven of the nine games.
Under Mehre and Butts in the 1930s and 1940s, UGA enjoyed some of its greatest success on the gridiron. Georgia dominated Florida and the rest of their opponents, compiling a .640 winning percentage. UGA also won three conference titles, one national championship, and had twelve All-Americans on these teams. Florida, on the other hand, was in disarray during this same time period. None of UF's five coaches stayed more than five years. The school won no titles and had no All-Americans. However, Florida changed its gridiron fortunes beginning in the 1950s.
Florida governor and grad Fuller Warren spearheaded a campaign to improve the plight of the UF football program in 1950. The school hired away Bob Woodruff from Baylor to become head coach for $17,000 a year, the highest salary of any state employee at that time. Woodruff convinced the administration to increase Florida Field capacity to 40,000, increase the salaries of assistant coaches, and allow the athletic department to be fully autonomous.
As Woodruff recruited better football players—Charlie LaPradd, Joe D'Agostino, John Barrow, Vel Heckman, for example–the Gators began to turn the tide in the Georgia rivalry. Florida won the series against the Bulldogs in the 1950s with a 6-4 mark. The rivalry was now on.
Neither school enjoyed much success on the gridiron from 1960-1965, but the 1966 game marked the first time both schools had title aspirations. Under Hall of Fame coach Ray Graves and a young quarterback by the name of Steve Spurrier, the Gators came into the Georgia game undefeated and ranked number seven in the country. The Bulldogs, under third-year Hall of Fame coach Vince Dooley, had lost only to the University of Miami by a single point. Georgia boasted a ferocious defense led by Jake Scott, Bill Stanfill and George Patton. UGA harassed Spurrier and the favored Gators the entire first half but trailed 10-3 at halftime. The second half belonged to the Bulldogs. Georgia's defenders began to sack Spurrier and the offense mounted a lethal ground game. Georgia waltzed off the Gator Bowl field with a 27-10 victory. As Spurrier walked off the field, a Bulldog fan barked to the future Heisman trophy winner, "There he goes, Mr. Quarterback. Some quarterback."
With both programs sporting perennial winners, the series saw the Gators take the 1960s with a 7-3 record while Georgia won the 1970s with the same record. Georgia continued to beat the Gators in the 1980s under Vince Dooley and such superstars as Herschel Walker, Terry Hoage, Jimmy Payne, Kevin Butler, and Tim Worley, as the Bulldogs won eight out of the ten meetings. Arguably, the most exciting game in the decade and the entire series took place in 1980.
With about one minute and twenty seconds left in the game, Florida led Georgia 21-20 and had the Bulldogs backed up to their own 7-yard line. Georgia quarterback Buck Belue rolled out, dodged a couple of defenders, and hit receiver Lindsay Scott with a pass. Scott reversed his field and eluded the Gator defense for a 93-yard touchdown that gave Georgia the lead and eventual victory, 26-21. Legendary Bulldog broadcaster Larry Munson became famous for his "Run, Lindsay, run…" call of the play. The victory over the Gators maintained Georgia's undefeated record on the way to the national championship.
The series began to turn the Gators' way when future Hall of Fame coach Steve Spurrier took the helm in 1990. The Gators dominated the decade with nine wins out of ten against the Bulldogs. The Gators were led by such greats as Errict Rhett, Ike Hilliard, Danny Wuerffel, Jacquez Green and Jevon Kearse. Before leaving to coach the Washington Redskins after the 2001 season, Spurrier compiled an 11-1 record against Georgia coaches Ray Goff, Jim Donnan, and Mark Richt. Many of these games were Florida blow outs. However, the 1993 game proved to be one of the more dramatic ones in the Spurrier era.
Georgia entered the game against the nationally-ranked Gators with a mediocre team led by quarterback Eric Zeier and future All-Pro running back Terrell Davis. UF freshman quarterback and future Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel struggled with the football in the rain. Backup Terry Dean led Florida to 10 unanswered points for a 23-20 halftime lead. The Gators maintained the lead throughout the second half and with the score 33-26 Zeier led UGA to the Gator 12-yard line with five seconds left. The Bulldogs thought they had scored a touchdown on the next play but the referees ruled Florida defensive back Anthone Lott had called timeout. During the next play Lott was called for pass interference, but on the last play of the game Zeier threw incomplete to cement the Gator victory.
As the century changed, the Bulldog fortunes in the series remained the same—defeats to Florida. The Gators amassed a record of 9-1 against Georgia from 2001-2010. Florida struggled under Coach Ron Zook to win games, but Richt could only beat him once in three tries. UF terminated the embattled Zook after three seasons and hired another future Hall of Fame coach, Urban Meyer. Meyer lost to Richt once in six contests. One memorable Florida victory under Meyer took place in 2008.
Georgia entered that season as the number one ranked team in the country led by such superstars as quarterback Matthew Stafford, running back Knowshon Moreno, and receiver A.J. Green. The teams entered the game with one loss apiece. Stafford threw three interceptions after halftime and Florida scored five unanswered touchdowns in the second half to cruise to a 49-10 win. Meyer called two timeouts with less than a minute remaining to allow his players more time to celebrate. According to Martin Gitlin, author of The Greatest College Football Rivalries of All Time, Meyer called the timeouts in response to Richt ordering his players in the 2007 game to take an excessive celebration penalty after the Bulldogs' first touchdown. Meyer, according to Gitlin, had not forgotten that Bulldog celebration and wanted the team to avenge the loss in the way that they did.
Florida leads the series in the current decade four games to three, and this year's battle will be the second meeting between Georgia coach Kirby Smart and Florida coach Jim McElwain. The coaches and players change but the rivalry continues to rage on.
As the teams embark on another chapter of the game by the St. John's River, let's raise our cocktail glasses to salute one of the Deep South's classic gridiron rivalries. Here's to the players, coaches, and fans who make college football the greatest game in the world—Salute!, Sante!, Prost!, Cheers!
Filed Under: College Football, Rivalries Tagged With: A.J. Green, Anthone Lott, Bill Hartman, Bill Kastelz, Bill Stanfill, Bob McWhorter, Bob Woodruff, Buck Belue, Bulldogs, Charlie LaPradd, Chick Shiver, Danny Wuerffel, David Paddock, Eric Zeier, EverBank Field, Frank Sinkwich, Fuller Warren, Gator Bowl, Gators, George Patton, Harry Mehre, Herschel Walker, Jacksonville, Jake Scott, Jim Donnan, Jim McElwain, Jimmy Payne, Joe D'Agostino, John Barrow, Kevin Butler, Kirby Smart, Knowshon Moreno, Larry Munson, Lindsay Scott, Mark Richt, Matthew Stafford, Ray Goff, Ray Graves, Ron Zook, St. John's River, Steve Spurrier, Terrell Davis, Terry Dean, Terry Hoage, Tim Worley, Tom Nash, University of Florida, University of Georgia, Urban Meyer, Vel Heckman, Vernon "Catfish" Smith, Vince Dooley
SEC Title Game History: Alabama vs. Florida
December 2, 2016 By Jim Weathersby Leave a Comment
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship game has occurred every year since 1992. The game matches the East Division winner against the West Division winner, and the victor of this game earns the title of SEC champion for that year. The game has been an economic success for the conference and a television ratings bonanza. Birmingham hosted the game for the first two years and Atlanta has had it ever since, with the current contract running through 2026. The most frequent match up in the game has been the University of Alabama and the University of Florida. The Tide and the Gators have met eight times and will meet for number nine on Saturday. These contests have seen some of the league's all-time great coaches and players pitted against one another when the stakes were the highest. The following is a brief look at each of the eight games.
The inaugural game in 1992 in Birmingham pitted two future College Football Hall of Fame coaches against the other, Alabama's Gene Stallings and Florida's Steve Spurrier. The Gators took an early lead on running back Errict Rhett's five-yard reception, but the Tide stormed back with 21 unanswered points behind two Derric Lassic runs and a 30-yard Jay Barker to Curtis Brown touchdown pass. The Gators tied the game midway through the fourth quarter on another Errict Rhett touchdown, but Bama defensive back Antonio Langham intercepted a Shane Matthews pass and returned it 27 yards for the winning score in the 28-21 Tide victory. Alabama completed an undefeated season with a resounding 34-13 Sugar Bowl victory over number one-ranked Miami, thereby capturing the national championship.
Alabama and Florida met again in the 1993 SEC title tilt. The Gators gained a measure of revenge with a 28-13 victory. The Gators held a tight 14-13 lead in the third quarter before quarterback Terry Dean hit receiver Jack Jackson for a 43-yard touchdown pass and an eight point lead. The Florida defense throttled the Tide the rest of the way and the Gators tallied one more touchdown for the final score. Florida would then win its first ever Sugar Bowl by destroying West Virginia, 41-7.
Atlanta became the permanent home of the championship game beginning in 1994, but the same two participants hooked up for the third year in a row. Alabama trailed 17-10 at halftime before erupting for two field goals and a Dwayne Rudd 23-yard interception return for a touchdown that gave the Tide a 23-17 lead with just under nine minutes to play. Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel then led the Gators on an 80-yard, 10-play drive culminating with a two-yard Wuerffel to Chris Doering touchdown. The ensuing extra point gave Florida the lead with 5:29 to go in the game. The defense took over from there as the Gators hung on for the 24-23 victory.
The two schools would not meet again in the championship game until 1996, which witnessed the Gators winning a shootout, 45-30, on the way to their first national title. Danny Wuerffel threw for over 400 yards and six touchdowns against an Alabama defense that came into the game ranked sixth in the country in total defense. Wide receiver Reidel Anthony caught 11 of Wuerffel's passes for 171 yards and three touchdowns. Florida's victory propelled them to a rematch with arch rival Florida State in the Sugar Bowl for the national title. The Seminoles handed the Gators their only loss of the season, 24-21, but Florida responded with a 52-20 drubbing in the rematch. Wuerffel also won the Heisman trophy that year.
Three years later in 1999, the Tide and Gators met again. While Spurrier remained as Florida's coach, Mike DuBose was in his third year as the Tide's leader. Alabama led Florida 15-7 early in the fourth quarter when the Tide erupted for 19 unanswered points. Freddie Milons scored on a 77-yard run and 18 seconds later, Reggie Grimes tallied a 38-yard touchdown after intercepting Jesse Palmer. Alabama added another touchdown later for the final score of 34-7. The Tide defense was the story. Alabama held Florida to 114 total yards, the fewest ever for a Spurrier-coached Florida team. The Tide picked off the Gators four times and did not allow them to convert a third down. Both teams would go on to lose their Bowl games that year.
It would be nine years later until the schools met again. This time, two future Hall of Fame coached squared off, Florida's Urban Meyer and Alabama's Nick Saban. The 2008 game marked the first time in SEC history that the number 1 and number 2 ranked teams in the nation (Alabama, 1 and Florida, 2) squared off. With Alabama leading 20-17 in the fourth quarter, Florida scored two touchdowns for a 31-20 victory. The clinching score came on a five-yard touchdown pass from Tim Tebow to Riley Cooper with 2:50 to go in the game. Heisman Trophy winner Tebow would lead Florida to the national championship with a victory over Oklahoma, 24-14, in the Orange Bowl and a 13-1 final record.
The two teams met once more in the 2009 SEC championship but this time Saban and the Tide prevailed 32-13 over Meyer and the Gators. Again the teams came into the game ranked number one and number two in the country (Florida, 1 and Alabama, 2), and this time both teams were undefeated, an SEC Championship game first. Led by quarterback Greg McElroy, running back Mark Ingram, and receiver Julio Jones, the Tide compiled 490 yards of offense against a Florida defense that was giving up only 230 yards per game. Alabama finished the season undefeated and won the national championship with a 37-21 win over Texas in the Rose Bowl.
Last year the Tide and Gators met for the eighth time in the championship game. Saban led his Number 2-ranked Tide against first-year Gator coach and former Saban assistant Jim McElwain. The teams played a sluggish first half with Alabama taking a 12-7 lead, but in the second half the Tide exploded for two touchdowns and a field goal to ice the game, 29-15. Derrick Henry broke Herschel Walker's SEC record for rushing yards in a season with 189 yards for the game and 1,986 for the season. The Tide then won the second College Football Playoff series with a thrashing of Michigan State in the semi-finals and a thrilling win over Clemson in the title game.
Saban and McElwain meet again on Saturday in what seems to be the schools' annual play date. Prognosticators give the Gators very little chance in the game as the undefeated Tide enters Number 1 in the polls and over a three-touchdown favorite. Stranger things have happened, but the Tide have the look of a fierce pack of pachyderms set on eating Gator meat and anything else that gets in their way. The SEC championship game is always a donnybrook with some of the most passionate fans in all of sports. Cheers to the Tide, the Gators, and the great game of college football!
Filed Under: College Football, Other Tagged With: Alabama, Antonio Langham, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chris Doering, Curtis Brown, Danny Wuerffel, Derric Lassic, Derrick Henry, Dwayne Rudd, Errict Rhett, Florida, Florida State, Freddie Milons, Gene Stallings, Greg McElroy, Heisman Trophy, Herschel Walker, Jack Jackson, Jay Barker, Jesse Palmer, Jim McElwain, Julio Jones, Mark Ingram, Miami, Mike DuBose, Nick Saban, Oklahoma, Reggie Grimes, Reidel Anthony, Riley Cooper, Rose Bowl, SEC Championship game, Shane Matthews, Steve Spurrier, Sugar Bowl, Terry Dean, Texas, Tim Tebow, Urban Meyer, West Virginia
SEC Coach Comparisons
September 7, 2016 By Jim Weathersby Leave a Comment
How do the current SEC coaches match up with some of the prior coaches at their respective schools? Let's start the comparisons with Nick Saban, Bret Bielema, Gus Malzahn, Jim McElwain and Kirby Smart. We'll examine the rest in the near future.
Nick Saban of Alabama
Saban begins his 10th season in Tuscaloosa. His official record at Alabama is 100-18, a .847 win percentage His teams have won six SEC titles and four national championships. Here are the statistics from two of the more famous Alabama coaches after their ninth seasons in Tuscaloosa:
Frank Thomas—From 1931-1939 Thomas had a record of 69-9-4, an .840 win percentage. During this time he won four SEC titles and two national championships.
Paul "Bear' Bryant—From 1958-1966 Bryant compiled a record of 80-12-6, an .820 win percentage. Bryant, during this time, won four SEC titles and three national championships.
No other Crimson Tide coaches managed to stay in Tuscaloosa for at least nine seasons. Arguably, Saban is the most successful football coach in Alabama history. Unless something unforeseeable takes place, Saban will remain at Alabama as long as he wants.
Bret Bielema of Arkansas
Bielema is entering his fourth season as coach of the Razorbacks. His record after three seasons in Fayetteville is 10-15, a .400 win percentage. He has won zero SEC titles and zero national championships.
Arkansas has had 13 coaches who lasted at least three years. Of those 13, Bielema's win percentage is better than just two. His win percentage does not come close to Arkansas legends Hugo Bezdek, Frank Broyles, Lou Holtz, Ken Hatfield and Houston Nutt. That does not bode well. If Bielema doesn't win more games over the next couple of seasons, you may see a different coach in 2018 at Arkansas.
Gus Malzahn of Auburn
Malzahn enters his fourth season on the Plains with a 27-17 record, a win percentage of .610. He has won one SEC title and lost to Florida State in the BCS national championship game after his first season in 2013. Since then, Auburn has been very mediocre.
Thirteen Auburn coaches lasted at least three seasons. Of those 13, Malzahn has a better win percentage than nine. This includes Hall of Fame coaches Mike Donahue and Shug Jordan. A better comparison may be Gene Chizik, the man Malzahn succeeded. Chizek lasted four years. With Heisman-winning quarterback Cam Newton, Chizik won the national championship in his second season, 2010. Two years later, Auburn fired Chizik and hired Malzahn. If Auburn struggles again this season, Malzahn will probably be looking for work elsewhere.
Jim McElwain of Florida
McElwain enters his second season at Florida after a 10-3 first year and second place finish in the conference. Not a bad start. His win percentage is .770.
The University of Florida has had 24 coaches before McElwain, but let's compare him with three Hall of Fame coaches, two future Hall of Fame coaches and two coaches who replaced those two future Hall of Fame coaches.
Hall of Famer Charlie Bachman coached Florida from 1928-1932. He was 8-1 his first year and finished with an overall record of 27-18-3. He won no titles of any kind.
Hall of Famer Ray Graves coached Florida from 1960-69 and tallied a 9-2 record his first year. He went on to compile a 70-31-4 overall record with no titles.
Hall of Famer Doug Dickey coached the Gators from 1971-78. He went 7-4 his first year and amassed an overall record of 58-43-2, with no titles.
Future Hall of Famer Steve Spurrier coached Florida from 1990-2001. He accumulated a record of 9-2 his first year. His overall record at Florida was 122-27-1, with six SEC titles and one national championship.
Ron Zook took over the Florida reigns from 2002-2004. Zook finished 8-5 his first year, 23-14 overall, with no titles. He could not match Spurrier's success.
Future Hall of Famer Urban Meyer took over in 2005 and went 9-3 his first year. He coached through the 2010 season amassing a record of 65-15, with two SEC titles and two national championships.
Will Muschamp replaced Meyers and went 7-6 his first season in 2011. After four years and an overall record of 28-21, with no titles, Florida terminated him.
Florida's most successful coaches have had very good first seasons, something that McElwain achieved in his first campaign. This bodes well for him, although it is too early to make a prediction of success along the lines of Spurrier and Meyer.
Kirby Smart of Georgia
Smart starts his first year at Georgia after spending 11 years as an assistant coach under Nick Saban, the last eight as defensive coordinator. Smart has the pedigree to be very successful. Time will tell. Below are first year comparisons to prior Georgia coaches who had success at the school.
Harry Mehre coached the Bulldogs from 1928-1937. His record was only 4-5 his first year, but he ended his Georgia career with a record of 59-34-6, a win percentage of .600. He won no titles at Georgia.
Wally Butts had the helm at Georgia from 1939-1960. In his first year, Butts finished with a losing record of 5-6. However, he ended his UGA career at 140-86-9, a win percentage of .600. Butts won four SEC titles and one national championship while coaching the Bulldogs.
Vince Dooley is the winningest coach at UGA. He coached the Bulldogs from 1964-1988. Dooley finished his first year with a 7-3-1 record and compiled an overall tally of 201-77-10, a win percentage of .700. Dooley's teams won six SEC titles and one national championship.
Jim Donnan coached at UGA from 1996-2000. He finished 5-6 his first season but amassed an overall record of 40-19, a win percentage of .680. Donnan won no titles while at UGA.
Mark Richt coached at Georgia from 2001-2015 and finished with a record of 8-4 after his first season. His overall record at UGA was 145-51, a.740 win percentage. Richt won two SEC titles but no national championships.
Again, only time will tell as to the overall success of Kirby Smart. Even if for someone reason UGA struggles in 2016, the past has shown that Smart could still have a very successful career at Georgia. However, Smart will always be compared with Richt. While Richt has a terrific win percentage, he could not bring the Georgia fans a national title. Will Smart?
Next time we'll take a look at Mark Stoops of Kentucky, LSU's Les Miles, Hugh Freeze of Ole Miss, Dan Mullen of Mississippi State and South Carolina's Will Muschamp.
Filed Under: Coaches, College Football Tagged With: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Bret Bielema, Cam Newton, Charlie Bachman, Doug Dickey, Florida, Frank Broyles, Frank Thomas, Gene Chizik, Georgia, Gus Malzahn, Harry Mehre, Houston Nutt, Hugo Bezdek, Jim Donnan, Jim McElwain, Ken Hatfield, Kirby Smart, Lou Holtz, Mark Richt, Mike Donahue, Nick Saban, Paul Bear Bryant, Ray Graves, Ron Zook, Shug Jordan, Steve Spurrier, Urban Meyer, Vince Dooley, Wally Butts, Will Muschamp


Magnificent temples, vibrant cities and bustling markets charm travellers on an Indochina holiday that passes through Vietnam and Cambodia. The exploration of ancient cities, temples and pagodas are easily combined with tropical islands to create a truly memorable journey in this part of Southeast Asia.
Rich in character, Hanoi is Vietnam's capital city and a great starting point on a multi-country tour of this part of the world. Fruit stalls spill onto shady boulevards, food vendors serve up delicious bowls of pho and motorbikes zip through the streets.
A unique way to get an introduction to Hanoi is to visit the atmospheric Old Quarter and explore the many stores and enjoy the street food scene.
Bai Tu Long Bay is every much as stunning as neighbouring Halong Bay with its turquoise bay peppered with tropical outcrops, but with the lower tourist traffic. A trip to this beautiful region is just 4 hours from the capital city. A cruise in a traditional junk boat makes it possible to drift between limestone peaks and laze on the secluded beaches. An overnight stay on a traditional junk boat organized by a local Vietnam travel agent is the best experience and lets the travellers sleep out on the bay for the night.
A short stay in Danang gives access to Vietnam's third largest city and is within a short distance of both Hue (3-hours north) and Hoi An (30-minutes south). This creates a great destination for travellers looking for a short break from the high tourist areas. However, it still has a few worthwhile attractions, such as the Museum of Cham, My Khe beach, and Marble and Monkey mountains. Danang is a great place to taste the local and authentic cuisine which includes plenty of fresh seafood at very affordable prices. Also, a cruise on the Han River is a great experience while in the city.
Hoi An is one of Vietnam's most atmospheric towns with twinkling lanterns in the evening and ability to meet local tailors. This ancient city is crammed with charm with its riverside restaurants, artist studios and Chinese shop houses. The local food is scrumptious and the pace of life is slow. Hoi An is a great destination to see on the Vietnam and Cambodia tours with its timeless atmosphere.
Ho Chi Minh City's lifestyle and architecture have taken a lot of Chinese and American influence, while still able to maintain the traditional Vietnamese traits.
A comfortable stay in a hotel near the central market gives easy access to the wide range of attractions throughout the city. There are plenty of places of culture and interest in the city, including the Reunification Palace, Vietnam History Museum, Revolutionary Museum and Ho Chi Minh Museum. A night tour is a great way to appreciate the city with the ability to sip on Vietnamese coffee, listen to live music and taste the traditional snacks.
Ho Chi Minh City is one of the finest places in Vietnam for family entertainment with the Dai Nam, Suoi Tien and Dam Sen amusement parks. Other worthwhile sights include the Ben Thanh market, Notre Dame church and city post-office. For grown up entertainment, this city has a colourful nightlife with plenty of bars and teahouses that host live performance of both international and Vietnamese artists. Ho Chi Minh city is the gateway to explore fascinating Mekong delta in Vietnam.
The Mekong Delta is a magnificent water world and carpeted with endless greens with swamplands, paddy fields and orchards available for the traveller to tour. The travel distance to reach the Mekong Delta is in the region of 2.5 hours from Ho Chi Minh City.
Drift along the Mekong Delta to reach Cambodia and appreciate the riotous floating markets and riverbank villages that are seen en route. While drifting on the water, it is possible to see how the locals go about daily delta life. A speedboat journey to Cambodia can help to speed up the travel time.
On arrival at the Cambodia border it is necessary to first apply for a visa before arriving in the in the capital city of Phnom Penh.
Explore the city of Phnom Penh to really appreciate its history and energy. Phnom Penh is rich in character with its tangy aromas, motorbikes, monks and a colourful riot of sights and sounds. This part of the Indochina travel makes it possible to learn about past atrocities by visiting the Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng. Other sights in the local area include the Silver Pagoda and Royal Palace that sparkle in the sunshine.
A six hour bus ride from the capital leads to Siem Reap, which is a very popular and busy tourist destination for its ability to act as a base for the amazing Angkor temples.
A guided tour with a friendly local is the best way to explore the overgrown jungle temples of Angkor which are listed among the man-made wonders of the world. The local guide can give the most knowledgeable facts and stories about the temples throughout the park, but there will also be time to independently clamber between the jungle temples.
The endlessly fascinating temples at this UNESCO World Heritage Site are counted as Cambodia's most significant archaeological sites and well worth the entrance fee for a 1-3 day tour. There are plenty of temples to explore and even many ways to actually seem them – simply approach from a different direction or arrive at a different time.
The most spectacular of the temples is Angkor Wat with its moat and an outer wall that runs for a total distance 3.6 km. Other popular temples that attract the most tourist attention include Ta Prohm and Angkor Thom. But there are many other obscure temples that are hidden down jungle paths and well worth exploring. An early start is best to avoid the majority of the crowds.


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Little-known Motors Of The USSR: Diesel For & Nbsp; Zhiguli
Video: Little-known Motors Of The USSR: Diesel For & Nbsp; Zhiguli
Video: SECRET CARS SPIES USSR. 2023, February
Soviet passenger cars began to try on diesel engines at about the same time that the fashion for passenger cars with heavy fuel engines covered Western Europe - in the early 60s. And they began to try them on in Western Europe, and these motors were not at all of Soviet origin.
In 1960, in the West, sales of 21 Volgas began, which were built by the Belgian company S.A. Scaldia-Volga. In order for them to have at least some chance in the capitalist world, the cars differed not only in the extended configuration, but also in the presence of new diesel engines: in S.A. Scaldia-Volg believed that such a decision would increase the popularity of Volga among Benelux taxi companies. Unfortunately, these hopes did not come true, and diesel Soviet sedans with Peugeot, Rover and Perkins engines sold out in ridiculous numbers. We will definitely tell about this story in one of the following materials.
Little-known motors of the USSR: diesel for Zhiguli
In the meantime, let's return to the Soviet Union. And we will find that there were no serial diesels for passenger cars in the country at all. It was unlikely that it was a technical limitation. Rather, it all came down to the futility of such a development: why did the USSR passenger cars need scrap torque? Why fuel efficiency when gasoline is in bulk, but it costs a penny? And is there any point in a motor that suddenly refuses to start in the harsh Russian winter?
That is why in the USSR, unlike the USA or Western Europe, even trucks were most often equipped with gasoline engines. And diesel power plants were the lot of specialized equipment for which traction and efficiency are important. We translate into understandable language: for tanks, tractors and very heavy trucks.
However, the 1973 fuel crisis made it clear that oil, regardless of the country, should be used as efficiently as possible. Therefore, even in the USSR, they began to think about creating a diesel engine for passenger cars. Traditionally, the greatest enthusiasm was shown by the minds of the flagship of the Soviet automotive industry - the Volzhsky Automobile Plant. However, they managed to get funding for an expensive and very dubious project only by the beginning of the 80s.
It took engineers three years to create the engine, and in 1983 the first prototype was ready. They took a block from a VAZ-2103 as a basis, so the working volume of the diesel engine was 1.45 liters. The valve mechanism was similar to that used on the G8: the engineers tried to unify the new power plant with the existing ones as much as possible. At the same time, they were worried that excessive vibrations would not destroy the unit ahead of time, so the chain drive of the gas distribution mechanism was replaced with a belt drive.
For maximum reliability of the vortex-chamber diesel engine, diesel fuel was injected with a classic high-pressure fuel pump (TNVD). The motor turned out to be extremely simple in order to exclude additional difficulties during its serial production and further maintenance. That is why the technical characteristics of the VAZ diesel engine were not impressive: power - a measly 55 horsepower. Even a diesel second generation Golf would not be enough.
What can we say about the larger VAZ-2105, which after the installation of the diesel engine received the index 21055. In 1988 the car was taken out for state tests, and it even received the approval of the commission, but there were several significant problems. The first is sluggish acceleration dynamics: 23 seconds. For such a long time, the "five" has never traveled up to 100 kilometers per hour. The second reason is still low reliability: a diesel engine required the utmost accuracy and strength of the crank mechanism and piston group, and Soviet machines did not know how. Finally, the third reason: the country at that time did not have extra money to eliminate the first two …
That is why the poor debut of the VAZ-341 diesel engine took place after the collapse of the Union. Initially, it was planned to launch the production of motors at the Kirov plant in the early 90s, but the continuing difficult times forced the VAZ engineers to postpone this idea until 1996, until the piece production of motors was organized jointly with the Barnaultransmash enterprise.
Meanwhile, by 1996, the VAZ scientific and technical group already had three diesel engines: a 1.5-liter aspirated VAZ-341, a 1.8-liter naturally aspirated VAZ-343 and a 1.8-liter turbodiesel (!) VAZ- 3431. It was assumed that the motors will be installed on the VAZ-2104/2105/2107, as well as the Niva.
But reality again had its own plans. Barnaultransmash mastered full-scale serial production of diesel engines only by 2000. Moreover, it was only about one engine - the base VAZ-341, which began to be equipped with station wagons (VAZ-21045) and sedans (VAZ-21055). Other motors have survived on paper.
We all remember how "quality" the domestic cars of the early 2000s were distinguished by. Therefore, the diesel "classics" did not please with durability: the engines nursed 40-50 thousand kilometers, after which they required major repairs. The long-term and long-suffering project was closed in 2003, and since then VAZ has not returned to diesel engines.
From the end of 1999 to 2003, about 6,000 diesel Zhiguli were manufactured, which, in addition to the characteristic clatter, are distinguished by the exhaust pipe bent to the side and the Diesel nameplate. They still periodically appear on sale. For example, at the end of 2019, the diesel "four" was sold in Vladivostok.
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A big change in boating is coming, are you ready?
Copper, that reddish metal you may remember from the periodic table, has been used in the maritime industry since at least the 18th century when the British Royal Navy adhered copper plates to their hulls to protect them from shipworms and other marine growth.
Copper has worked so well that it remains in most of the bottom paint you will find on store shelves. Why? Copper, like tributyltin (which was phased out in 1988) and zinc, is a biocide. "Bio" means life and "cide" means killing. But these days, copper may be a victim of its own success. While it's great at killing life on your hull, paint can leach into the environment.
"Even in extremely small concentrations, copper is a dangerous pollutant for marine life, especially our salmon. In many cases, it's even more toxic than lead," says Chris Wilke, executive director of the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance. He's been looking at this issue for years and came to the same conclusion that the Northwest Marine Trade Association (NMTA) arrived at in 2011 — that copper should be phased out of paint.
A 2007 study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that copper disrupts a young salmon's ability to smell. According to the study, salmon swimming through dissolved copper lose the ability to smell their prey. Salmon also use their sense of smell to locate their home stream and reproduce.
"If we know that copper is bad, and if we know that boatyards are continually struggling to make the benchmarks in their boatyard permit, why not try an approach that addresses the pollutant at its source? For us, that was looking at the paint in the can and not copper at the end of the pipe," says Jim Brown, chair of the Clean Boating Foundation board and one of the original core members of the group that put forward legislation to phase out copper-bottom paint.
Washington's Department of Ecology(Ecology) has scrutinized copper on industrial sites for decades. When it comes to the state's 69 boatyards, Ecology is scared by how much copper and zinc is found in water samples taken during a storm. Any more than 147 parts per billion of copper in a sample exceeds the benchmark. If that happens twice during the five-year permit, the boatyard must take corrective action, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars for engineering reports and the purchase and upkeep of a filtration device. Keep in mind that 147 parts per billion is next to nothing. To put this amount in perspective; it is equivalent to three drops of food coloring in 50,000 liters of water.
When it came to the legislation, Senate Bill 5436, which passed in 2011, made Washington the first state to adopt non-copper paint guidelines. No new recreational boat up to 65 feet can arrive to market with copper on its hull starting in January 1, 2018, and no copper can be sold or applied to a boat after January 1, 2020. This law only applies to boats in Washington. Also, these upcoming dates are not retroactive, meaning that is legal to have copper on your boat after these dates, it just cannot be applied or sold after January 1, 2020. Plus, it is permissible for non-copper paint to cover copper paint with this new law. But the bill will only apply to recreational boats up to 65 feet, raising the question of why only a portion of boats have been targeted.
"While we had some things going in our advantage for this legislation, the team that brought this forward had other disadvantages we had to account for. In particular, while copper is bad regardless of whether it's on a yacht or a freighter, our core group did not have needed support to have this legislation apply to all sectors. Also, the boatyard permit pays special attention to regulating boats up to 65 feet, which falls within the NMTA membership. We went to Olympia unified around the best bill we could muster with the hope that other marine stakeholders and other states would join in. As they say in Olympia, 'perfect is the enemy of good.' While this bill was not perfect, it was a good one," says George Harris, NMTA president.
and produce paints that work in the unique climate of Washington.
"We have a couple of things going in our advantage that made this bill possible. First, there had been a history of our industry and environmental groups working together for clean water. Second, because of the cold waters here, we don't see the level of marine growth found in other areas. Third, we had a reason to move this legislation forward because the boatyard permit mandates that copper keeps getting harder and harder to have in your samples. Fourth, we had the right mix of legislators and interest groups coming together in unison, shouting that clean water matters," says Bill Youngsman, past chair of the NMTA.
Wilke of the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance says, "In order to protect our waters and the natural resources that we enjoy, we must move away from the most harmful chemicals and pollutants, especially when suitable alternatives exist." But it's not just the environmental community and boating industry that welcomed this chance. Bill Dewey of Taylor Shellfish Farms is pleasantly surprised with the leadership of NMTA on this issue.
"There's no confusion that nasty chemicals like copper and oysters don't mix. Typically, our partners when we work on addressing pollution sources are environmental groups, not organizations like the NMTA whose members may be contributing to the problem. We applaud the industry's leadership to address copper bottom paint. What a great example for their counterparts around the country. Hopefully others will follow their lead," says Dewey.
Alternative paints already exist. As the key dates of the legislation approach, more and more success stories are popping up. Bremerton Yacht Club, for one, has made a complete transition to non-copper paint.
If you ask some paint companies, they are planning for this phase-out with eyes wide open. Tony Bulpin, from Sea Hawk Paint and a regular in the pages of Northwest Yachting, has spent considerable time on this subject in recent years. He says the boating public needs to know that these new paints work well but are different from conventional ones.
"Boaters can't be expected to have the same experience and lifecycle as they are having with the current copper-based paints," says Bulpin. "There's a reason that boaters like copper. Taking out this chemical is going to have an effect, and our responsibility is to minimize the risk to get boaters what they ultimately need and want: a clean bottom. Sea Hawk has the product and is working on other products, but changing a boater's behavior can be a challenge." Bulpin added that boaters should know that their products do exceptionally well with hard growth and barnacles, but they should not be surprised if they see soft growth and slime when the boat is pulled.
Pettit Paint is looking forward to the phase-out. Pettit representative Rachael Cartwright has found a willing public as she travels around Washington.
"Regardless of how we arrived here, we now have a law coming into effect starting in 2018. Pettit will continue to work closely with the boatyards and boaters to ensure that this transition goes as smoothly as possible," says Cartwright. But not everyone is completely sold on non-copper paints.
*Author's Disclaimer: I was the lead lobbyist on the passage of this legislation and have worked with boaters and boatyards to move forward with non-copper paint as part of my role with the Clean Boating Foundation.
Peter Schrappen currently works for the Northwest Marine Trade Association as their Government Affairs Director and the Clean Boating Foundation as their Executive Director. Additionally, he serves on boards of the Boating Safety Advisory Council, the Washington Boating Alliance and the U.S. Superyacht Association.


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Weddings that I love to shoot and are unique just keep finding me! Its even better on the wedding shoots my own wife Yvonne is free to join me on!
This was maybe the most intimate wedding I've been at. A blushing bride and a true gentleman, Kate and Barry were all about what they wanted in their day. Comprising of immediate family, we felt grateful they let us into their wedding family for the day.
A short ceremony was followed by a champagne picnic in Rinville Park. No umbrellas needed, no sir, there were blue skies and a bright sun smiling on us. With very little people in the park, we took advantage of this huge playground. Both bride and groom felt comfortable with us so we had a lot of fun while shooting, chatting, and a bit more shooting. We also had a little helper (and model) in the form of Barry's nephews!
I love to see couples spend their wedding day how they want it and that's exactly what they did. After the park we did some quick snaps in Hazel Mountain Chocolate shop where the guys kindly let us photograph at practically no notice and finished up with some photos at Cava restaurant where they were having dinner with family to celebrate their wedding.
Thank you to Barry and Kate for letting us share your special day. We hope you enjoy your memories.


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Redefining The Genre
By Ross Muir
Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else. Belonging or connected to one particular person, place, or thing. Particularly remarkable, special, or unusual. Along with genius, the word unique tends to be over-used, especially in the world of musical or artistic creativity. It's also, more times than not, used inaccurately. A broadening of its meaning has been established over the years but the fact remains the word is still too easily placed where it doesn't deserve to be.
Sorry, I digress. There has been great anticipation in the run-up to the release of Moments, the second album from the British progressive rock band IOEarth. And not just from modern progressives or fans of that often derided form of music.
Those who look for something a little bit different in their rock music, or applaud thinking outside the reinvented progressive or classic rock box, have been looking forward to hearing what IOEarth would come up with next. Because this is a band who are a breath of fresh musical air to the world of progressive rock and are redefining the genre.
The debut release made quite an impact when band and album appeared on the modern-progressive rock scene in 2009. IOEarth and their self-titled debut album deservedly won numerous prog awards in both the UK and Europe but, as is always the case with such notable firsts, the question was could the band build on the foundation of that first album or at least match what had gone before.
Turns out they have bettered it.
Dave Cureton (guitars, vocals, keyboards) and Adam Gough (keyboards, guitars, vocals) have been friends since their school days and are the heart, soul and composers of IOEarth music. They have taken a myriad of influences, mixed vocal pieces with long-form instrumental compositions, incorporated instruments such as saxophone and trumpet into a rock-based environment and created what has become known as the 'IOEarth sound.'
On Moments they have taken that sound, refined and defined it even further and produced a remarkable and, in places, quite brilliant piece of work.
Moments takes its lead from the band's first album but where the debut was a 100 minute work over 2 CD's and three movements (Water, Earth, and Air), the follow up has deliberately moved away from the conceptual form and those longer themes. And while there is no Fire in Moments, it certainly glows and burns with musical innovation, vibrancy and life.
IOEarth's influences include Middle Eastern, Indian and Asian cadences and rhythms, classic rock and rock fusion, dance and ambient musical forms. All woven into a rock-based fabric that starts with Gough's piano and keyboards and Cureton's rock-driven guitar work.
The opener, the title track, is the perfect introduction to the band's distinct sound. From a quiet, spoken word start, the track builds into melodic lead guitar over a rock-driven groove before heading into an eastern themed instrumental run. The song then drops the pace for a smattering of Middle Eastern vocals leading to the short lyrical section featuring singer Claire Malin. It then returns to its east-meets-classic-rock theme before finishing as it started.
If Steve Vai, his guitar and amp were transported through time and space to a dusty bazaar in the Middle East, it might well have sounded like 'Moments.'
'Live Your Life,' written as two very different but connected parts, is more mainstream but still carries the band's core musical traits. Opening as a beautiful piano-based ballad featuring the wonderful voice of Claire Malin, the second part of the song gravitates to a high-energy rock piece with the band shifting into top gear. Driven along by the rhythm section of Richard Cureton (drums) and Christian Nokes (bass guitar), Malin is again in fine voice while Dave Cureton delivers some great lead work.
Although Dave Cureton and Adam Gough are the directors and architects of IOEarth's musical structure, the band is complimented by other musicians who help create that 'IOEarth sound.' Along with the aforementioned Richard Cureton, Christian Nokes and Claire Malin, there are the trumpet textures courtesy of Steve Trigg, flute and saxophone from Luke Shingler and additional contributions from Wendy Vissers-Hagenbeek, 9-year-old Jayna Maye-Noa Vissers (spoken words) and 6-year-old Nicko Cureton on cymbal percussion.
'Drifting' is a lighter, almost ethereal piece while 'Cinta Indah,' although also containing lighter, moodier passages, diversifies to include bold sections of power-driven symphonic rock.
'Brothers' is a punchy instrumental interlude (the only song on Moments that doesn't contain lyrics or a vocal) while 'Come Find Love' only contains three lines but expresses itself by repeating those lines over a song best described as ambient dance.
'Finest Hour' contains samples of that iconic and famous 1940 speech by Winston Churchill (with Claire Malin and Dave Cureton sharing vocal duties) before Moments closes out in grand style…
'Turn Away' is melancholic in tone and would have been an anti-climactic ending to proceedings if not for the fact that it slowly but purposely builds up the musical layers – first with Claire Malin's vocal interjections then Dave Cureton's flurry of notes across the fret board. The final word, or words, go somewhat fittingly to Sir Winston as he once again reminds us this is our, and IOEarth's, finest hour.
The 2009 debut was a great album with some excellent pieces woven within its three movements, but the 'IOEarth sound' was still evolving. Some of it was intriguing or interesting as opposed to integral or essential.
With Moments however the band has an album where, as the title suggests, each song is independent of the whole and stands proud on its own musical merit (the two parts of 'Live Your Life' also stand strong as individual tunes). Yet collectively the nine tracks produce a cohesive and quite dramatic piece of work and deliver sixty-minutes of modern prog at its innovative best.
Unique definition:
Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.
Belonging or connected to one particular person, place, or thing.
Particularly remarkable, special, or unusual.
The IOEarth sound…


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Q: Discharge and Recharge of a battery Under which value it is not recommendend to discharge a Li-Ion battery? How fully discharging battery affects a battery life? What happens if we leave a battery on charger, even battery is fully charged?

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Under which value it is not recommendend to discharge a Li-Ion battery?

It depends heavily on the particular battery chemistry, as some Li-ion cells are capable of very rapid (>1C) discharge and others need to be discharged much more slowly. The particular charge/discharge rates should be documented in the datasheets for your particular cells.

How fully discharging battery affects a battery life?

Fully discharging a Li-ion cell is generally detrimental to the life of the cell as it leads to formation of irreversible chemical byproducts (typically oxides of Lithium) and lowers the overall capacity of the cell. As you discharge the battery, Lithium ions intercalate back into the cathode structure, lowering the potential of the cell. Above a certain stoichiometric ratio of Lithium to cathode material, oxides of lithium and other byproducts form. These reactions are often irreversible, leading to precipitation of inactive material and blocking active surface area from participating in charge/discharge reactions.

What happens if we leave a battery on charger, even battery is fully charged?

Generally nothing. After the voltage of a lithium ion cell reaches a set threshold (dictated by the chemistry of the cell and construction of the battery) the charging circuit switches to constant voltage mode and holds the potential at a set level until the current decays to a very low level. As lithium ions intercalate into the anode (generally graphite or graphitic carbon structures) the graphite saturates (approaching a Li:C ratio of 1:6) and the net flow of current decays. At this point, the charger stops applying a voltage and stands by waiting for the voltage to drop below a certain point and topping up the cell periodically.
If you were to continue applying current during charge, or your charging circuit didn't switch over to a constant voltage mode, then the potential would rise to a point that would lead to over-intercalation and delamination of the graphite, breakdown of the electrolyte, collapse of the metal-oxiand eventually complete breakdown of your cell. This failure is often violent as the electrolyte is flammable, and should serve to highlight the importance of proper charging procedures when working with Li-ion cells. A good summary is given by Digikey in their Designers Guide to Lithium Battery Charging

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Core Brewing's Argenta Public House location continues to turn out some very surprising dishes in the low key tap room. Chef Jeff Wetzel's new fall menu is no exception, in fact it takes everything a step further.
If it feels like Core just recently released their first food menu, you are not wrong. Wetzel brought his Le Bouvier concept to Core's Argenta location about a month ago, but the quick menu update for the fall was needed to keep refining his vision for the menu.
The tapas menu gets a nice, duck-heavy update by adding fried duck confit ravioli and duck and waffles. The ravioli comes out looking like a typical fried ravioli, but with a well cooked duck confit filling.
The duck and waffles is a great take on the traditional chicken and waffles. The Porcini waffle is divided up into quarters, then topped with a savory bite of confit duck leg that is topped with "port wine caviar". This is simply port wine that has gone through spherification to resemble caviar, no roe involved. That along with the cherry maple syrup gives a nice splash of sweet to an otherwise savory dish.
The drive to use fresh ingredients combined with house made dishes really shines in the entree side. Wetzel is making fresh pasta before every meal service to go on the new Pork Belly Gnocchi, Pappardelle Pasta Bolognese, and Butternut squash dishes as well as the duck confit ravioli mentioned earlier. The fresh pasta really elevates those dishes higher than expected in the low key pub.
The pork belly gnocchi is the runaway hit here. To start it is not a traditional gnocchi, Wetzel blends in butternut squash for a decidedly different flavor, although the traditional gnocchi texture is spot on. The pork belly is perfectly braised for a crisp, but tender bite. Finally the whole dish is topped by an apple cream sauce that has chunks of apple and onion that has been slow cooked into the sauce.
The pappardelle pasta bolognese starts with a solid, but typical bolognese sauce filled with fresh ingredients. The pasta here is the real gem, it packs a very light and airy texture that you can only get from well made fresh pasta. The pappardelle is a good choice, it is much wider than most pasta noodles which holds plenty of the bolognese sauce while giving you a great bite of pasta.
The whole menu is not a complete rewrite, several favorites from the previous menu came over as well as some specials Wetzel has tested out over the past month. The buddha bowl is developing a solid following with the vegetarian crowd we are told, and the Moules Frites we tried as a special last time find a fixed spot on the menu. Others like the new cowboy chili pie will fit right into cooler weather.
One thing we are sad to see leave however is the excellent donut holes we had last time. In their place is a Pumpkin Mousse dessert that from name alone is a little deceiving. This is more of a badass deconstructed smore. It has a giant house made marshmallow that is toasted alongside a sliver of chocolate, pumpkin mousse, and house made gingersnap crumble.
All this together is a huge surprise, something we can't quite get over. The prices on the menu top out around $13 (Moules Frites), but honestly with the care and quality Wetzel is turning out. It could easily be double the price in a different setting and no one would hesitate to order.
The food really is breaking in on the level of some of the better restaurants in town. It stands in a stark contrast to the relatively low key and no frills tap room that Core has assembled in Argenta. Don't pass over Core in Argenta though, there is some great food being cooked here.


Following are the best of my community aquarium tank pics (part 2). You will see, moonlight in aquarium and regular aquarium lights. Fish include Koi, Shubankin, Mono Sebae, Albino rainbow Shark, Skirt Tetra, Pink Colored Skirt Tetra, Bala Sharks (Silver Sharks), Tiger Barbs, Dwarf Gourami, Pleco, Mollies and some more fish.
Following are the best of my community aquarium tank pics. You will see, moonlight in aquarium and regular aquarium lights. Fish include Koi, Shubankin, Mono Sebae, Albino rainbow Shark, Skirt Tetra, Pink Colored Skirt Tetra, Bala Sharks (Silver Sharks), Tiger Barbs, Dwarf Gourami, Pleco, Mollies and some more fish.
Monster fish: umm! Oscar, Gourami, Peacock Bass…You think? Koi can also be monstrous if its 7 or 8 years old. Here are monstrous koi fish but they are feeding by baby bottle and by hand.


Sponsored by the ECREF European Centre for Refractories gem. GmbH, the Gustav-Eirich-Award aims to promote ideas and support young talents in refractory research. Please submit an abstract describing dissertation for Ph.D. degree and/or individual research with a scientific content equal to that of a dissertation for a Ph.D. degree by May 31, 2019.
Glass Technology Services Ltd. continue their 2019 training program with a three-day 'glass failure analysis' course on April 16–18, 2019. The course includes an introduction to glass properties and strength, and practical exercises and case-studies will provide experience interpreting a range of failures. The course will be held again in October.
Owens-Illinois plans to acquire the Nueva Fanal container glass manufacturing facility from Grupo Modelo. The Nueva Fanal facility is located near Mexico City, Mexico, and produces 300,000 tonnes per year of glass container from four furnaces.
Medallion Resources Ltd raised gross proceeds of $597,510 after it closed the first tranche of its $630,000 non-brokered private placing, to be used for further metallurgical test programs, customer and feedstock supply development work, and general working capital.
According to the United States Department of Energy, the Trump administration approved seven applications for U.S. companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia. The nuclear approvals, known as Part 810 authorizations, allow companies to do preliminary work on nuclear power ahead of any deal to build a nuclear plant.
The Department of Trade and Industry in the Philippines said it will require imported and locally produced flat glass to pass quality standards set by the government before they could be sold in the market. The move, which came years after relaxing such a rule, was aimed at preventing the entry of substandard products into the local market.
Vitro Architectural Glass' facility in Fresno, California is first float glass manufacturing plant in U.S. to earn the U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR® certification for superior energy efficiency. The Fresno plant earned the certification by registering an energy performance score ranked in the 75th percentile or higher among other U.S. float glass manufacturing plants.
Houston-based CEMEX USA is providing concrete to replace the iconic 3,500-foot Sixth Street Viaduct Bridge in Los Angeles, which was built in 1932 as a transportation link across the Los Angeles River to connect Boyle Heights with the Arts District. The structure has deteriorated, leading to the current replacement process.
Schott plans to invest $1 billion in its pharmaceutical packaging business until 2025. The investment includes the construction of a glass tubing production facility in China and a production facility for syringes and containers in Germany. Schott cited growing global demand for pharmaceutical packaging as the reason for the investment.
Chaney Enterprises, a Gambrills-based ready-mix concrete and construction materials supplier, said it acquired PCS Concrete, an Annapolis Junction business that also has facilities in Sparrows Point, Westport, and Owings and Waldorf in Southern Maryland.
Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. said it hopes to start production at its Northwest Territories rare earth elements project by 2020. They recently struck a deal with Australian company Cheetah Resources Pty Ltd., which agreed to participate in development of Nechalacho Project at Thor Lake.


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Canon IXUS 90 IS review
Is Canon's latest compact a valuable addition to the acclaimed Ixus range?
By James de Vile 2008-04-11T10:19:29.101Z
A well built compact camera that's a step forwards in image quality, but one step backwards in usability
Solid build quality
Great image stabilisation
Excellent colour reproduction
Insensitive buttons
Not ultra-wide
High noise above ISO 400
The Ixus 90 IS takes up its positions in the middle of Canon's Ixus range. It lacks the wide angle and longer zoom of its superiors, yet offers this year's must-haves; image stabilisation, a high pixel count (10MP), face recognition, and a reasonable price.
Canon hasn't changed its menu system significantly for a number of years now, choosing to refine basic functions rather than add more advanced features. You can easily find a more advanced compact for similar money, but you'll struggle to find anything as well designed externally.
The tried-and-tested Ixus form has seen only minor changes, and this is no bad thing; the offset location of the lens remains, and the focus assist light allows for a solid single-handed grip without fingers intruding into the shot.
One casualty of this year's revision is the optical viewfinder, though it's far less important than it used to be thanks to the improved PureColor LCD, remaining viewable in even relatively bright sunlight.
Canon has reworked the rear controls significantly, though what is gained in aesthetics is lost in usability. Much of the navigation now takes place via a textured click wheel, used to change shooting modes, scroll through photos and navigate the menu.
Those used to Apple's click wheel may have trouble here – operation of the Ixus has more in common with a rotary dial telephone than an iPod, requiring a firm revolving movement to create enough traction. Even then, the interface struggles to keep up if you move too fast, and pressing too hard will operate the buttons underneath. Similarly, the flush mounted buttons – fashioned from the same piece of metal as the outer shell – are far less yielding than you'd expect, and provide little tactile feedback.
Great image quality
Despite some poor external design decisions, the Ixus 90's image quality is a marked improvement over previous incarnations. This is partially due to the megapixel bump, but we also noticed significant improvements in colour reproduction, with the previously-volatile automatic white balance proving accurate in every shot we took.
We did have issues with noise at higher ISOs, with heavy noise interfering with the JPEG compression at anything above ISO 400; thankfully, there's less of a need to increase the sensitivity thanks to the image stabilisation. Once only seen on Canon's professional L glass SLR lenses, optical image stabilisation is becoming a mainstay in compact cameras, and the Ixus 90 IS is proof that it's a valuable addition whatever sort of pictures you take.
We were able to shoot indoors with no flash, hand-held with a half-second exposure and still come out with a sharp shot. That's extremely impressive for such a small camera.
No internal memory
While the Ixus lacks an internal memory, you'll find a woeful 32MB memory card in the box. It's only good for six shots at full resolution, but it's enough to get you going if you've neglected to pre-empt the purchase with a larger capacity card.
The Ixus range has always represented style over substance, and in this respect the Ixus 90 IS is a worthy, if unremarkable, addition to the range. It's solid, beautifully designed and takes fine photos, though the new button layout will take some getting used to.
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JODHPUR -- With the Jodhpur CJM Court acquitting Salman Khan in the Arms Act case, the Bollywood actor's lawyer Hastimal Saraswat on Wednesday alleged it to be a conspiracy against the former.
Expressing his delight over the judgement, Saraswat told the media that it was a fake case.
"Salman Khan has been acquitted in the Arms Act case after the prosecution failed to provide conclusive evidence. Lalit ji Bohra, who filed the case, knows whether it was a conspiracy. What is his interest?" he said.
Meanwhile, Vishnoi Samaj's lawyer Rajesh Lamba told ANI that they would now move the High Court against the actor.
"The Vishnoi Samaj thinks Salman Khan had done this. We will further appeal to the High Court," Lamba said.
He, however, added that the future action would be decided after going through the copy of the order.
The Jodhpur CJM Court earlier in the day acquitted Salman Khan in the Arms Act case.
Earlier on January 9, the Jodhpur District session court had fixed January 18 for announcing its decision on the same.
The date for pronouncing the judgment was fixed after the court heard the final arguments from both sides which were completed on January 9.
Magistrate Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit directed the actor to be present in the court during pronouncement of the order.
A case against Khan was registered under the Arms Act earlier in October 1998 for alleged use and possession of arms with expired license during alleged poaching of two black bucks in Kankani village of Rajasthan.
The case was filed by the state's forest department.
Earlier in 2007, the actor spent a week in jail in Jodhpur before being granted bail.


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'Roswell' Reboot Among Six CW Pilot Pickups
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The original 'Roswell' cast; writer Carina Adly MacKenzie (inset)
The network's tally sits at nine for the season — up from six a year ago.
The CW on Tuesday added to its pilot haul, picking up an immigration-themed Roswell reboot and dramas from familiar faces including Greg Berlanti and Rob Thomas.
Ordered to pilot are Roswell, In the Dark, Skinny Dip, Playing Dead, The End of the World as We Know It and Spencer. They join Wayward Sisters, Charmed and Dead Inside as the network's pilot haul comes to nine — up three from a year ago.
Here's a closer look at Tuesday's pickups:
The untitled Roswell project is written by Carina Adly MacKenzie (The Originals) and counts the original show's Kevin Kelly Brown among its executive producers. After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush, who is now a police officer: He is an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.
The Roswell reboot is based on Melinda Metz's Roswell High book series that also spawned the Jason Katims drama (that starred Shiri Appleby and Jason Behr) that ran for three seasons on The CW predecessors The WB Network and UPN. Exec producers include Amblin Television's Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank and Lawrence Bender. The drama hails from Warner Bros. Television.
Spencer, from Greg Berlanti and husband Robbie Rogers, is based on the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger. The drama revolves around what happens when a high school football player from South Central Los Angeles is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High. It explores the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds — Compton and Beverly Hills — when their lives begin to collide. This is Berlanti's third pilot order of the season and second drama, joining ABC comedy Most Likely To and CBS' God Friended Me.
April Blair (Reign, Into the Badlands) penned the script and exec produces the drama alongside Greg Berlanti Productions topper Sarah Schechter. The Warner Bros. Television project counts Rogers as a producer, with Dane Morck on board as a consultant.
In the Dark, from writer Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom), follows a flawed and irreverent blind woman who is the only "witness" to the slaying of her drug-dealing friend. After the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to find the killer, while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at Breaking Blind, the guide dog school owned by her overprotective parents. Exec producers include Ben Stiller and his Red Hour Films team of Jackie Cohn and Nicky Weinstock. The drama hails from CBS Television Studios. This is Kingsbury's second pilot order of the season and joins CBS comedy Fam.
Skinny Dip is based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen. After her husband tries to kill her on what she thought was a romantic cruise to celebrate their second wedding anniversary, a woman teams with a jaded ex-cop to exact her own twisted brand of revenge on her cheating spouse and winds up uncovering a wider conspiracy in the process. Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) penned the script and exec produce the CBS Television Studios drama alongside Keshet Studios' Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan.
Playing Dead is described as a dysfunctional family dramedy about a mortician and his son whose lives are turned upside down when the woman who abandoned them 15 years ago returns and asks them to fake her death. Rina Momoun (Mistresses, Hart of Dixie, Everwood) and Josh Reims (Valor) penned the script and exec produce the CBS Television Studios project alongside Intrigue's Tariq Jalil and Lucas Carter.
The End of the World as We Know It is based on the book of the same name by Iva-Marie Palmer. When a prison spaceship carrying the universe's most deadly aliens crashes in Southern California, two young women with bigger dreams than working at a kids' pizza place in the Valley are recruited by a space cop to hunt down the escaped criminals who have camouflaged themselves as eccentric Angelenos. Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker (Powerless, iZombie) penned the script and exec produce the Warner Bros. Television drama alongside studio-based Rob Thomas (iZombie), Danielle Stokdyk, Dan Etheridge and Alloy's Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo. The project hails from Warner Bros. Television, Ehsugadee Productions, Spondoolie Productions and Alloy Entertainment. This is Thomas' second pilot order of the season and joins CBS comedy I Mom So Hard.
Tuesday's orders join three previously announced pickups: Wayward Sisters, the Supernatural spinoff; the Charmed reboot; and Dead Inside, from exec producer Bill Lawrence. Last season, The CW ordered six pilots, with four of them moving to series (Black Lightning, Dynasty, Life Sentence and Valor).
With reboots of Roswell and Charmed and a Supernatural spinoff, The CW is among the broadcast networks looking to familiar intellectual property in a bid to cut through a cluttered landscape that is expected to top 500 scripted originals this year. Key to the reboots is having the original producers involved, which Roswell has with Brown attached.
Keep up with all the latest pilot orders, castings and eventual series pickups with THR's handy guide.
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Macarena Carolina Ripamonti Serrano (born 11 July 1991) is a Chilean politician. She is the mayor of Viña del Mar.

Political positions
She endorsed Gabriel Boric in the 2021 Chilean general election.

References

Living people
1991 births
Mayors of Viña del Mar
Women mayors of places in Chile
21st-century Chilean women politicians
Democratic Revolution politicians
University of Valparaíso alumni
Viña del Mar University alumni

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Fort Mims
After civil war began between the hostile and peace parties in the Creek nation in the summer of 1813, the settlers between the Tombigbee and Alabama built stockades, which were called forts and in which they placed their families for safety. Another stockade, most important of all, because it was the only one east of the Alabama and nearest Pensacola, was particularly the refuge of wealthy half-bloods from Little river, who had sought safety from their hostile kin, in the swamp about Lake Tensas. It enclosed the residence of Samuel Mims, an old and wealthy Indian countryman, near the Tensas boatyard. Mims was the first treasurer of Washington county, in 1800. The stockade enclosed an acre of ground, and for entrances had two ponderous gates. It was very badly situated for military defense, as it was closely approached by woods and canebrakes. Many had taken refuge here when Col. Carson, of the First regiment Mississippi volunteers, reaching Mount Vernon from Baton Rouge, late in July, sent Lieut. A. L. Osborn with 16 men. to assist in its defense. When Gen. Claiborne arrived he detailed Maj. Daniel Beasley, of the same regiment, to Fort Mims, with the companies of Capts. William Jack and Hutton Middleton. Seventy armed men found in the stockade were organized in a company under Capt. Dixon Bailey, an educated Creek half-breed. An advanced post was established at Pierce's sawmill, where Lieut. Andrew Montgomery was stationed with 35 men. Claiborne visited the stockade August 7 and ordered the building of two additional blockhouses, which, it seems, was not done. There were 105 soldiers in the stockade, and altogether the population, white. Indian and negro, male and female, was about five hundred and fifty, says Pickett. "Crowded together, in an Alabama swamp, in the month of August, much sickness prevailed." The hostile Creeks, under McQueen, and Weatherford, a half-breed nephew of the famous Gen. McGillivray, having received supplies from Pensacola, organized a war party at Tallapoosa, and marched to McGirt's plantation, where they halted to obtain information. The affair was a sequel of the attempt of Col. Caller, with a party that included some half-breed Creeks, to cut off the party that brought supplies from Pensacola. In the stockade were a brother and half-brother and several sisters of Weatherford, but the nation was embittered by civil war, over the proposition to make war on the United States.
The leaders of the hostiles sent out parties to threaten other posts, and deceived Claiborne by a report that they proposed to attack the Easely stockade, a place far north on the Tombigbee. Before marching to that distant place, however, the general sent a message of warning to Maj. Beasley, who responded, writing on August 30, that he had improved the fort, and that his men, in the face of alarms, manifested a desire to meet the enemy. Some of McGirt's negroes had brought in news of the approach of a war party, and James Cornells, a half-breed, came in and reported the discovery of a fresh trail to McGirt's. The day before Beasley wrote, two negro boys, sent out as cattle herd, had run in breathless, to tell of a large party of Indians. Capt. Middleton went out with some horsemen and finding nothing, one of the boys, was tied up and flogged. Though apparently incredible, there is strong confirmation of the story, that when the Indians attacked, the inmates of the fort were collected about the whipping post where Beasley was about to punish the other negro boy for warning him of danger. (See letters of Hawkins).
Judge Toulmin's account of the attack is as follows : "The gate was open. The Indians had to come through an open field 150 yards wide, before they could reach the fort, and yet they were within 50 steps, at eleven in the morning, before they were noticed. The sentry then gave the cry of Indians, and they immediately set up a most terrible war whoop and rushed into the gate with inconceivable rapidity, and got within it before the people of the fort had any opportunity of shutting it. This decided their fate. . . . The fort was originally square. Maj. Beasley had it enlarged, by extending the lines of two sides about 50 feet, and putting up a new side into which the gate was removed. The old line of pickets stood, and the Indians, on rushing into the gate, obtained possession of this additional part, and through the port holes of the old line of pickets fired on the people who held the interior. On the opposite side of the fort, an offset or bastion was made round the back gate, which being opened on the outside was also taken possession of by the Indians, who, with the axes which lay scattered about, immediately began to cut down the gate. There was a large body of Indians, though they probably did not exceed 400. Our people seemed to sustain the attack with undaunted spirit. They took possession of the portholes in the other lines of the fort and fired on the Indians who remained in the field. Some of the Indians got on the blockhouse, at one of the corners; but after firing a good deal down upon the people they were dislodged. They succeeded, however, in setting fire to a house near the pickets, from which it was communicated to the kitchen and thence to the main dwelling house. They had attempted to do it by burning arrows, but failed. When the people in the fort saw that the Indians retained full possession of the outer court, that the gate continued open, that their men fell very fast, and that their houses were in flames, they began to despond. Some determined to cut their way through the pickets and escape. Of the whole number of white men and half breeds in the fort, it is supposed that not more than 25 or 30 escaped, and of these many were wounded. The rest, and almost all the women and children, fell a sacrifice to the arms of the Indians or to the flames. The battle terminated about an hour or an hour and a half before sunset. . . . Our loss is seven commissioned officers and about 100 non-commissioned officers and privates, of the First regiment of Mississippi territory volunteers. There were about 24 families of men, women and children in the fort, of whom almost all have perished, amounting to about 160 souls. I reckon, however, among them about six families of half breeds and seven Indians. There were also about 100 negroes, of whom a large proportion were killed." (Toulmin's letter to the Raleigh Register, his information being derived from "a person of character and credibility, who was present during the whole scene, and who escaped through the opening made in the pickets." See Niles Weekly Register, Oct. 16, 1813).
Among those who escaped, according to Pickett's Alabama, were Surgeon Thomas G. Holmes, Capt. Bailey, Ensign W. R. Chambless, all wounded. Hester, a negro woman, shot in the breast, managed to paddle a canoe to Fort Stoddert, and give the news to the garrison there. Chambless, after wandering about for some time, with two arrow heads and a bullet in his body, reached Mount Vernon, and lived ten years afterward. Joseph Perry and one Mourrice are the only other soldiers of the Mississippi volunteers mentioned among the 14 who escaped. The rest of the soldiers and inhabitants, except a few half-bloods who were made prisoners and some negroes taken for slaves, lost their lives, and those who were killed by bullets were fortunate. Among those spared -were the wife and seven children of Zachariah McGirth, son of a famous Georgia Tory, who had fled into the Creek nation and married one of the maidens. Sept. 9, Capt. Joseph P. Kennedy, brigade-major, arrived at the ruins, with a detachment to bury the dead. According to Pickett he reported that all the bodies were scalped, "and the females, of every age, were butchered in a manner in which neither decency nor language will permit me to describe. The main building was burned to ashes, which were filled with bones. The plains and the woods around were covered with dead bodies." This may have been true, but the language is not in Kennedy's report. He did say that his detachment collected and buried the bodies' of 247 men, women and children, of the inmates of the stockade. While searching the adjacent woods for bodies they " discovered at least 100 slaughtered Indians, covered with earth, rails, brush, etc. We could not be mistaken as to their being Indians." (Miss. Archives). This indicates that the battle was a fiercely contested one, and that the number of the inmates of the stockade is greatly exaggerated in the histories.
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Source: Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, by Dunbar Rowland.
2 thoughts on "Fort Mims"
Marie Day Mimbs
Samuel Mimms and David Mimms were the sons of Benjamin Mimms and Judith Woodson. Samuel's wife and children escaped the Massacre because they had left for shopping. The decendants live in Texas today. David Mimms did not have a wife. Both were scalped. This is my family and a lot about Fort Mims written by people that never gave a lick to research is false.Samuel and David sold their land in NC to establish the Fort to establish a peaceful place for the INDIANS, BLACKS and WHITes. Samuel's grand-daughter wrote a letter trying to get some of the information straight. GOODLUCK.
PLEASE CORRECT THEY WERE NOT INDIANS BUT THEY WERE BROTHERS. The obly thing about Indians is David probably had an Indian Mistress Who Knows?
kate battiste
I am descended from David Mims who had the indian wife or mistress. In the long line of mims men, My gg grandmother was Emma, daughter of William Yancy Mims. She told her granddaughter, who was my grandmother that we are descended from an indian chief's daughter who married a mims at the fort. I am confused as to which Mims it was. If Samuels son was killed at 16 at the fort, it could not have been him. Do you think it was David the Elder? Sam's brother? Please help me, I've been at this for years. I cant find the answer, but I can't let it go. My email address is crazynalabama53@gmail.com Thank you so much. Kate kastorff, Cale, Glasscock, stagner, Mims.


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I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying saw its first episode released during late 2014. This short series focuses on Kaoru, a regular everyday office worker and her marriage to a chronic Otaku called Hajime. She must learn to deal with his unconventional behaviour and bazaar job of blogging about anime. The show then explores the similarities and differences between Otakus and non-Otakus and their life in urban Japan. As the show progresses Kaoru tries her best to change Hajime and convert him out of his Otaku ways.
My Review: Not really a whole lot to say about this one. The episodes an incredibly short, only lasting a little more than three minutes. Further towards the end, I noticed that each episode became progressively longer, however, I also found the later episodes to be less funny and engaging. All that being said I found that we do get a nice little look at Otaku culture and how the general public perceives them. Watching how the wife tried to force her otaku husband to change to be more "normal" was something I think many of us can relate too. I can't say I recommend this anime, however, if you are stuck for something to watch or just have some time to kill then I can't see any reason not to give it a watch.
Its funny, this anime was actually very endearing to me. It was the first thing I watched with my first crunchyroll subscription and I have to say the light comedy and easy going episodes did wonders to my mood. To me this anime was just an easy going light hearted approach to life and the some of the normal slice'o life animes don't compare to.


I Have had an idea to create a live real time JAVA chat room that is linked to Live ATC. Net as a way of members directly communicating with one another and talking about the live feed they are listening to and informing other people of any significant things which happen on the feed and of any information about any air ports or flights which may be of a significance.
And... of course to be sociable and share our knowledge with one another.
what are your views on this idea?
We've already tested something that does this...considering adding it soon.
i think i have beat u 2 it dave?
It's not a race. People might find it a bit more useful if it is integrated on the site. But you are free to do whatever you want on your own.
you should not can u access normal java stuff?