I feel a little bit like the old saying: " Ohhh look, there's my Johnny marching with all the other soldiers. Pity they are out of step except him!"
Another thing is it seems all Revit projects start with the walls. In real life it starts with the site.
Luckily on this project (already built from 2D Autocad drawings) I had access to the surveyors drawings which even had the contours in 3D ready to go.
Interestingly, this import showed the ground levels were slightly out as far as the original drawings were showing. Score One for Revit.
After an unnecessary diversion into Autocad Architecture to use the Drape command and then bringing that into Revit and finding that was not a lot of fun, I used the button marked "Create from Import", and this seemed to work OK.
It seems Revit is so simple to use in the ordinary tasks such as inserting walls doors and windows, but agonisingly difficult in the complicated bits- eg inserting beam systems. I guess even they will feel straightforward after much use. Getting the right level or even reference plane is sometimes like a blind man in an unfamiliar room. Nobody else seems to have these problems.
Still, they might have had proper training!
One little feature I found really cool is if you click on a roof, it becomes transparent, showing the structure below.


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On June 9th, I wrote a post about how our subscription to Money Magazine expired. On the magazine notifying us that "Our Money was running out," they attached a bright green scare-tactic cover that said "DON'T LOSE MONEY MAGAZINE" in bold yellow colors.
The image haunted my dreams, and it bothered me enough that I wrote a post about the strangeness of the ad campaign. I wrote the article well after we had trashed the magazine without reading it. At the time, I was dismayed that I couldn't share pictures of the magazine cover with you. But, much to my delight, when I checked the mail today, I found another magazine from Money with the same scare tactic ad.
When their first dose of bad advertising didn't work, they tried it again. Needless to say, I jumped at the opportunity to take pictures this time around. And, no, we're not renewing our subscription.
2. Check off number of MONEY issues you want to receive.
3. Mail your Savings Card TODAY!
And, that's how you get... "financial security"? No. That's how you spend $10 or $20 or $30 on sensationalistic financial advice. Sounds like a threat to my financial security. In my opinion, you have better ways to spend $30.
To Money Magazine's credit, acting on the advice inside the cover might help with financial security, but then again, maybe not -- given that the magazine wraps its advice in such ill-informed advertising.
And, lastly, the inside of the back cover.
It amuses me that their advertising is this dishonest (you can save by renewing for three years, but it costs you the same per year as a one year subscription), yet they still claim that what's inside the magazine is "worth more than the subscription price."
I think I'll save my money.
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Cambodia, Part I: Phnom Penh
It's no secret that I watch the travel program Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. I am a fan. I'll even admit to romantically lauding his cinematic travel exploits and adding some of his stops to my own travel schedule. Sure, he can be somewhat pompous and arrogant but I admire, and often try to emulate, his style of travel: Dive in, try it all, eat it all, drink it all, etc.
The first time Bourdain visited Cambodia he immediately felt in over his head. He felt young, coddled and voyeuristic. But most of all, he felt ignorant. And ironically, in no way trying to emulate, I felt this way as well. Walking around the streets of Siem Reap for the first time, it was clear: I knew little to nothing about this country! I knew little to nothing about its people, its current political state, or its recent and traumatic history. In my mind, Cambodia was a jungle wonderland that occasionally appeared in Unicef advertisements. I was obscenely ignorant. But in my naive state and wealth of Trip Advisor searches, I was just excited to have a wallet padded enough to entertain such an "exotic" destination and booked the ticket.
I loved Siem Reap my first go. It was incredible and all new. I came back humbled and changed. That may sound ridiculous and 'neo-colonialist' to some, but its true. Even within the safe, touristy, bubble of its faux-European streets, I knew it was different. The air was heavy. Scarred from a dark and recent history. Heavy, but beautiful and enchanting. I came back wanting to learn more. I came back knowing that this destination was more than just a movie set. I came back wanting to go back.
I arrived into Phnom Penh late. It was 2am and all of the tuk tuk drivers were asleep, and, it was a Cambodian holiday. I had to take a private taxi. We drove into the heart of the city in silence, air conditioning blowing down new car smell. I looked out of the window at a city boarded up. Store fronts were packaged up in iron bars and almost every store sign was dim. I arrived to my hostel and was immediately left at its doorstep to find it boarded up in the same fashion. My taxi sped off and I was left, standing outside, rapping on a metal shutter. I don't know how long I stood out there, knocking my knuckles on the only thing keeping me from safety, but it felt like an eternity. Had I made a mistake? Have I romanticized this place even more during the short years in between? Had I become even more blindly tenacious? Just as these thoughts were running through my mind, a local rose to his feet from behind a stall, shrouded in bushes, as if he were answering my internal rhetoric. No, no, no. Go sit back down! Please, don't come any closer. Even if you are trying to help! For the first time in while, I was scared. Just then, the shutter was pulled open and my haggard looking hostel owner ushered me in. "You're late."
I woke up at 2pm the next day and spent the greater part indoors writing about China, hiding from downpours, and talking to the hostel's bartender. She was a Cambodian woman, possibly my age, possibly younger, with a large, speckled bruise covering the entire right side of her face. It was beginning to yellow around her eye socket. I didn't dare ask what happened. But we carried on as if her right side resembled her left. She told me she was going to marry an Australian man in December. They had only met twice, but he was going to marry her and she was excited about this. I smiled and told her that I was happy for her. She didn't love him, but she missed him and "life will be easy" with him.
The first couple days of my time spent in the capital happened to be the festival of Pchum Ben, a holiday to celebrate ancestors, so almost everything was closed. Shops, restaurants, museums...but I walked around the city anyway. Phnom Penh was inspiring. I felt great there. It was a real place, unlike Siem Reap where almost everything is gift wrapped to the needs of tourists. The city was built around temples, and the temples were built around the city.
I walked through a Buddhist compound and met a Swedish photographer who told me about some of the architecture that I was wondering through. And later on I met an older man who was seated on one of the top steps of the main alter, wiping sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief. "What do you think of all this?", he asked me as I passed by him, about to go down the stairs and carry on. He was overcome with a desire to vocalize his animosity towards organized religion and saw me. I guess I have one of those faces. I'm an easy target. We had an interesting discussion about money, religion, religion and money, and the temples of Angkor Wat; which he amounted to being a monument to slavery. I understood his point, but stated that many "human triumphs" can be seen this way. The American railway system out West for example. I'm proud to say he was a little thwarted by this and looked at me with a contemplative, "Huhh...". We ended our conversation and shook hands. His name was Richards. I asked what he did for a living and it turns out he was a molecular biology professor at UCLA. I now understood his disdain for religion.
I retired to a bar to rest my sore back and medicate it with a fifty-cent draft. I reclined back in my wicker chair in the nearly empty bar and watched the Breaking News flood across the nearest television screen: US BOMBS SYRIA.
My head was reeling. So many thoughts were running through my head. Maybe it was the heat. I was getting emotional and quite meta. What was I doing here? What was I trying to accomplish? What was truly important? Am I helping or harming? What am I trying to prove? Am I trying to prove anything? How does my American presence affect where I can go and what I can see? Am I being herded? Phnom Penh is different; Is Cambodia getting better? I feel strange. Is this Western Guilt? Why the hell does this place make me feel this way?
Back at the hostel, I was invited out to dinner and drinks by a group that was staying in my dorm room. There were a group of French girls, wearing tiny Spring dresses to match their adorable personalities. They were studying Economics at the university near by. Then there was Leon, one of the girl's boyfriends who was by far the friendliest; George and Andy the two New Zealanders who were polar opposite in personality; and then Adom who had dark eyes and a ominous presence. We ended up drinking cheap beer at a rooftop bar facing the Sap river which flows out into the Mekong. I sat by Adom because almost everyone else had a pairing. The conversation started slow, and I felt that I needed to prove myself to him for some reason. I hate that feeling. But once we started talking about travel, and China, and Korea, things really picked up and I suddenly had value. He ended up telling me he was Tunisian but went to a Saudi boarding school payed for by his father. He hated the students there because they would pull up to school drifting Lamborghinis and treated the teachers horribly. He said that their wealth would protect them from punishment. He left the school at 16 and has been traveling since. He lived in China and picked up Chinese, traveled Africa and picked up French, and told me crazy stories about hitching a ride in the backseat of a local's car in order to cross the border into Somalia. He thought Cambodia was too easy and preferred the danger of Africa and liked to "make his own way". A few more beers in, I finally asked him how old he was. "How old do you think I am?" I'm notably horrible with guessing people's age, but he seemed older than me...in his khaki pants, short dark hair, and serious face. Add that to all of the stories he had just told me and I guessed 28. He laughed. He was only 20 years old.
The following days I tried to immerse myself in Khmer Rouge history. It was a rough and emotional couple of days to say the least. I started by taking a long tuk tuk ride to the outskirts of Phnom Penh to visit the 'Killing Fields'. I was fixed with an audiotape headset that allowed me to listen to stories of events that corresponded to specific markers in The Fields. At the center of The Fields was a giant pagoda. Walking up to the pagoda, the regality of its spires were wiped clean as you were confronted with the skulls and bones of Khmer Rouge victims. The bones, piled up upon one another; reaching higher and higher with no end in sight. Men, women, and children. Each skull was marked with a colored dot to correspond to a key to indicate how they were killed: ax, bullet wood, bludgeoning... Some people were taking photos of the display, but I couldn't bear it. I walked further into the fields and listened to survivor stories via my audiotape. Stories of rape, torture, children being separated from their families, reunification and perseverance. Upwards of 3 million, of Cambodia's own people, were murdered by the Khmer Rouge from 1975-1979; a population cut in half. (Brief history: Pol Pot rose to power in the mid 70's and was determined to take Cambodia back to a "working class". He believed that Cambodia needed to reject outside influence and begin again at "Year Zero". He forced everyone out of the cities and into the rice fields; determined to multiply Cambodian's rice production by three-fold. An impossible goal. Those who were not killed for being an intellectual, foreigner, doctor, artist, professor, bi-lingual, multi-lingual, or, simply having soft hands (meaning you were not 'working class') were sent into slave labor. Pol Pot was anti-Vietnamese, and was therefore secretly supported by The United States, having just seceded in The Vietnam War; though, sometime in 1978, we changed our mind. Pol Pot and his party was eventually overthrown by the Vietnamese government and fled into the countryside. Pol Pot died happy and comfortable under house arrest.)
I walked a little further in and came to The Killing Tree. This is where Khmer Rouge soldiers were instructed to kill children, often by grabbing their legs and beating them against its trunk until they were dead. The tree was covered with bracelets as a way to pay respect to its victims. Across from The Killing Tree was a larger tree that seemed to be at the center of the camp. I pressed the corresponding number on my audiotape to learn about this tree's role. The tree was used to hang a speaker which played propaganda music to drown out the moans and screams of the people being executed. I couldn't take any more.
The Khmer Rouge were almost but swept under the rug of history. Many of its leaders, including Pol Pot, escaped trials of war crimes due to loopholes such as 'lack of a war', or on the basis that many of killings were not deemed as 'religious persecutions'. Also, because of confusion and political chaos, many Cambodians didn't even know who was running their country at the time. And, to this day, some still consider Pol Pot to be 'a great leader'. For more, please visit: History of the Khmer Rouge
(Note: The Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh has been bought by a private, Japanese, company. Read here. And, that doesn't sit with me too well. I believe that Cambodia has been cut up, divided, and sold-out by their government enough. That being said, I still believe that is an important place to visit, see the evidence of crimes never prosecuted, and educate oneself. )
The following day I went to S-21. This was quite possibly the most disturbing place I have ever been. When the Khmer Rouge stormed Phnom Penh and instituted its '4-Year Plan', education was banned. Schools were closed and anyone with higher education, was seen as a threat and murdered. S-21 was once a high school in the heart of Phnom Penh, but under Khmer Rouge rule, had been transformed into a prison and torture headquarters. To say it was disturbing might be one of the grossest understatements to ever be mentioned. What happened there, is truly unspeakable. On par with the cruelty of Auschwitz, Khmer Rouge officials tortured, maimed, starved, and mercilessly executed their own people. Each "prisoner" was documented meticulously. Name, age, height, methods of torture used... Room after room house mugshot-esque photos of the victims. One of the most disturbing things to me was their faces. Many of them seemed to look up at the camera innocently and inquisitively. You could draw a timeline with their faces. Those who looked at the camera with eager eyes must of been imprisoned early on, as word of S-21 was still scarce. Others, who had already been beaten and malnourished, looked up at the camera with terrified, drained expressions. There was even a section dedicated to babies and children. Mugshots, of babies. Just let that sink in.
You were allowed full access to the prison. Walking along its corridors I felt strange. Not only because of what happened here, but also because the hallways were outdoors, much like Korean schools. I can only imagine the people of a promising and well educated Phnom Penh, routinely sending their children off to school here, as I would imagine those back in Korea. That is why this 'museum' is here today. To serve as a gross reminder of a history, hopefully, never to be repeated again.
Classroom had been transformed into torture chambers. The wire bed frames used to detain interogees were still in the rooms. Some of the restraints and crude torture implements were still there as well. Hanging in each room was a photo that was taken when the prison was liberated. Barely recognizable bodies were mangled and twisted into each bed frame. The very bed frame that laid before you now. The patchwork, tile floor was still the same. And the stains at the base of each wall, paired with the rest of the surroundings, manifested a nightmarish image. I walked through the rest of the prison and felt hollow. I sat outside in the courtyard of S-21 in a haze, ashamed of The US for their support during The Cold War, and just loathing humanity in general. I sat there, scanning the grass, picturing boys in school uniforms carrying books. I sat there, scanning the grass, until my eyes met a pair of beams, crudely fashioned into gallows.
I walked the city after the prison. It felt good to walk. It was incredibly hot and my clothes quickly became saturated with sweat. I sat down at a roadside eatery frequented by local tuk tuk drivers. Before I sat down many of them tried to offer me a ride and were shocked, and a bit confused, when I sat down in one of the red plastic chairs. A young boy, nervous and awkward, came by to take my order. He didn't speak any English. He backed away to get help and a woman, who ended up being the owner and chef, came out and asked, "Order?" I wasn't sure what was offered, but the men's plates looked okay. I asked what they had. She understood the question but couldn't recite to me the menu in English. She smiled, walked away, and came back with a plate of food. "Pork rice for you." I ate and felt comfortable. A pile of white rice tops with meticulously cared for (as not to waste) strips of pork. The stares had stopped and I was one of the guys.
Phnom Penh was beautiful, somber, educational, and jarring. It was quite the shock coming from comfortable Korea, and a wake up call for what lay ahead. It should not be seen as an after-thought to Siem Reap. It is a real testament to the strength of the Cambodian people and should be viewed as such. I watched families playing in parks, locals eating in restaurants, children chasing balloons. It was encouraging and full of progress. If you make it to Cambodia, please, be sure to stick around Phnom Penh for a bit.

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A record for Peranakan or Straits Settlement porcelain was set at an auction in Singapore when a Guangxu kamcheng took Sin$74,000 (£46,000).
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Copies of the 1615 reprint of the Geneva or 'Breeches' Bible are not too scarce.
Arms and armour: Personal touch gives 'warts and all' weapons the auction edge
Specialist buyers turn out in force to bid for rusty 'warts and all' weapons amassed by dealer-collector
Dodecahedron remains a mystery
Roman dodecahedra continue to baffle after more than two-and-a-half centuries of study.
Mr Brainwash convinces the bidders
Works by Mr Brainwash (b.1966) are becoming an increasingly common sight at auction.
Sussex militaria makes strong showing in auction on home turf
A selection of militaria with solid Sussex interest appeared at Lewes saleroom Wallis & Wallis (22% buyer's premium).
Allen Jones: work to Sir Terence Conran's taste
Allen Jones (b.1937) is regarded as one of the pioneers of early British pop art.
Pluck of the Irish
A pair of militaria highlights related to Irish regiments that came up in recent auctions.
Bidders target 'exceptionally rare' gun by an innovative provincial maker
While London gun-makers featured heavily – and lucratively – at Gavin Gardiner's (25% buyer's premium) auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns on December 14, provincial makers also got a look in.
Lichtenstein and Warhol with a touch of Hockney
Key artists in the American pop art movement such as Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1929- 87) make big ticket prices.
Tarka the Otter author makes a sale splash
Numerous works by Henry Williamson including fascinating inscriptions and annotations were offered in Chichester saleroom
Nicolas Robert hits bloom time at £355,000
Right at the top of the price lists for a London sale of a second portion of the library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Earl Fairhaven, was a lot that presented a handsomely bound collection of 15 very fine watercolour on vellum drawings of flowers.
Poignant reminder of home front perils in the Second World War
A rare Second World War helmet worn by members of a little-known unit of the UK home front comes for sale at Sworders on February 7.
Shipshape and soup shape prints make Maine attraction
Among the graphic works on offer in Thomaston Place's Winter Enchantment sale in Maine on February 24-26 are these two prints by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
Photograph of Marilyn Monroe signed for short-lived husband Joe DiMaggio
Signed presidential and other politically significant documents and letters brought high bids at a Heritage (15/20/15% buyer's premium) sale, but more costly than those lots was this photograph of Marilyn Monroe.
Deeply personal Plath editions offered at Dominic Winter auction
The auction at Dominic Winter (20% buyer's premium) on December 15 included two presentation first editions by Sylvia Plath.
The greatest hits of arms and armour collector Elvis
Birmingham-born Roy Elvis (1944- 2022) inherited his family interest in antiques and started collecting furniture and decorative arts from an early age.


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BBI team's success built on integrity, secrecy
Posted by admin On November 30, 2019 0 Comment
As the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) task force embarked on drafting the report amid national anxiety about its contents, the team took the unprecedented step of locking out secretariat staff from their deliberations to minimise leakages.
Fears of some senior politicians recruiting task force insiders to influence the outcome or get briefings on the contents had become real, even as the task force remained determined to keep everyone guessing until the report was officially released.
"Towards the end of the process there were attempts to recruit members to leak the contents of the report. When we started discussing the report after the county tours, we deliberated about who was going to sit in the meetings," one of the joint secretaries, Paul Mwangi, told Saturday Nation. "We agreed that only the people that had been gazetted as members of the task force would sit in the deliberations. The task of record-keeping was largely left to Amb Martin Kimani and I," Mr Mwangi narrated.
The tail-end attempts to interfere with the BBI were neither isolated nor the first, said Mr Mwangi.
"At the beginning, there was an attempt to recruit members who would push certain things towards a certain direction, but this largely failed," he said.
In private, he said, the task force members talked about their personal experiences at being approached by people who wanted to influence the outcome. It became apparent that most members of the task force had been approached.
Until the report was handed over to President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday, the BBI task force had managed to keep the contents secret amid heightened media and political speculation. According to Mr Mwangi, the clearest indication that nobody knew the report's contents was in the media reports.
"A lot of what the media was reporting was way off. Whoever was giving them information clearly didn't have anything," he said.
Among the reports published included that the team had proposed the position of a powerful Prime Minister and the reduction of the number of counties.
The 14-member task force was composed of three religious leaders — Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth, Bishop Lawi Imathiu and Bishop Peter Njenga; members of the council of elders — Major John Seii and James Matundura; academics — Prof Adams Oloo, Prof Saeed Mwaguni and Prof Morompi ole Ronkei; and constitutional law expert Dr Florence Omosa, who was a commissioner with the defunct Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC). There were also politicians — Senator Yusuf Haji who chaired the task force, Senator Amos Wako, Maison Leshoomo, Agnes Muthama and Makueni Woman Representative Rose Museo. The joint secretaries were Mr Mwangi and Amb. Kimani.
Coming from diverse political backgrounds and affiliation, Prof Oloo said trust and wisdom were the two things that kept the BBI going under the tight veil of secrecy that they had imposed on themselves. The team, he said, had agreed to maintain a high level of confidentiality if it was to succeed and deliver on its mandate.
"We agreed that we had to demonstrate high levels of integrity if Kenyans were to have faith in us to deliver on a mandate that included lack of national ethos in the country," he told the Saturday Nation in an interview yesterday.
In the nine-point agenda agreed between President Kenyatta and Mr Odinga, lack of national ethos is captured as one of the challenges that has pushed back national development, something the two leaders agreed must be addressed
"The team realised that members could not probe lack of national ethos and give recommendations when there were no ethos among themselves. It had to start with them," he said.
Shortly after they were gazetted, the task force went on a three-day bonding retreat at Windsor Golf Hotel & Country Club as they sought ways to ensure their political and ethnic affiliations did not cloud their thinking and interpretation of the mandate.
CONFOUNDED
"In that meeting, we also agreed to ignore the politics outside," says Mr Mwangi.
But that did not fully insulate them from the politics they were trying to avoid. The first encounter was with supporters of President Kenyatta and Mr Odinga who didn't appreciate the 'handshake'.
"In a way, we felt besieged because many supporters of the two principals felt betrayed by them. People had invested so much in the hatred that they could not see their lives beyond the handshake," said Mr Mwangi.
Formed in May 2018, the 14-team member team has confounded friends and foes for conducting the mandate without a whiff of a leakage, in this era of mobile telephony where it is easy to capture audio and video footage of proceedings.
"We were lucky that a large part of the team was made up of senior citizens who are leaders in their own right. They considered the call by the two leaders as the ultimate call of honour and it disturbed them a great deal if they failed in the mission," Prof Oloo explained.
The usual ethno-political suspicion and mistrust engulfed the team in the early days but it soon occurred to them they could not succeed if they carried on without constructing their own version of bridges.
The chairman of the committee, Mr Haji, would weigh in with a passionate plea to the team on the need for secrecy.
"You are people of honour and that is why the President and Mr Odinga have picked on you," the Prof remembers the chairman's plea. "It is only fair that there should be no communication until we complete this task."
It was then agreed that any public communication would be done by the joint secretaries.
EIGHT RETREATS
While the team was well received across the country, Prof Oloo says it was only in Uasin Gishu and Bomet counties that elected leaders gave the BBI public appearance a wide berth.
The two counties are perceived to be political bases of Deputy President William Ruto who had appeared opposed to the handshake.
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» f1reburn Versus Erikmcfar
erikmcfar 1922 Views
The Battle of Little Big Lake
The morning of Sunday March 3, 2002 started off as usual for the residents of Little Big Lake. However, their fragile community would be the center of a global conflict. Still recovering from a battle between F1reburn and Jim a few months ago. At the end of the day this peaceful fishing and farming community would find itself having to rebuild, again. Increasing expansion and domination my the rebel forces of General F1reburn has sparked the Imperious Naval League, a merciless empire that controls all travel and trade on the high seas, headed by the greedy dictator Erikmcfar. With the previous rebelling and conquering of the Cabalian Empire late in the year 2001 and establishing themselves among the ranks of the elite of the armies of the world. Erikmcfar fearing that F1reburn would threaten naval assets in the region, Erikmcfar, dispatched his army to stunt the upstart empire and reaffirm the INL status in the world.
In the early morning hours General F1reburn's scouts spotted the approaching INL army from the north through the mountains. F1reburn quickly took up positions in the resource rich south side of the map, while Erikmcfar was forced to settle the north side the lake. The initial actions were less than spectacular each exchanging some dog scouts to reveal exact positions. F1reburn took the early economical leads as was to be expected early tank production was equal and both sides invested heavily in airborne infantry, the rocketeer. Each empire having the same weaponry bought or stolen early in armament. The two sides began to build their forces after Erikmcfar massed a few sticks of paratroopers he struck at the resource rich east side of the map, however, F1reburn was already there with infantry and anti air(ifv) divisions, which countered Erikmcfars superior rocketeer force, Erikmcfar's troops were cut to pieces in the ensuing battle and one of his miners was also destroyed.
In a mad fury he unleashed a platoon of tanks to seek revenge on the remaining F1reburn infantry divisions which were quickly dealt with, but Erikmcfar's tank platoon retreated to the safety of his base when F1reburn arrived with reinforcements. At this point the game went into a stalemate where both sides where focused on building up their forces. While Erikmcfar was busy keeping pace with F1reburn's tank production. F1reburn had begun to construct his fleet in the lake to break the stalemate. Erikmcfar noticed this, but did nothing, realizing that he was stretched in resources at the moment and decided his only chance of victory would be in destroying F1reburn's army. Erikmcfar's position became increasing hopeless as F1reburn sailed into the middle of the lake. Erikmcfar needed a miracle. He got it when two F1reburn miners strayed too far north and where plastered by Erikmcfar's huge armored army consisting of mainly grizzly battle tanks. However, this is a case of too little too late, the dictator's fate had been sealed his base was shrinking due to the hornet air raids that he could do nothing about. Erikmcfar's only chance of victory comes at a last ditch tank thrust into the teeth of F1reburn's defenses.
As dark approached in the ensuing slaughter both sides took heavy losses and even the superior numbers of mostly grizzly and a few mirage tanks Erikmcfar armor could not penetrate the F1reburn position guarded by a large army of mirage and grizzlies also with fixed pillboxes and deployed bazooka troops. Victory was at hand for F1reburn. His fleet in the lake pounded away at the last of Erikmcfar's war machine as the remaining elements of F1reburn's army rolled and occupied the north side of the lake. The remaining Erikmcfar units were fleeing north to await evacuation from the sea. F1reburn had proven his status in the world and is a force to be reckoned with. Mass celebrations erupted in all F1reburn's camps and when word reached his capital there was immediate celebrations and a national day of celebration was proclaimed for the rest of the night.


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Q: Android Universal Music Player unable to advance to next or other song while playing to Chromecast Audio I'm trying to learn this Universal Music Player sample for my own app development. I was never expecting this so haven't even tried it out so far, but the sample from the GitHub behaves oddly when streaming to Chromecast Audio. I haven't found any related info anywhere, so have been posting this question wherever I can, hoping to get some hints from those of you with some experience with UAMP.
When I'm playing a song on the json list (from the default Google server) to Chromecast Audio and select another song on the list or try to skip to the next song, an error is thrown (see log below) about 5 times and it doesn't progress to the next or selected song. Instead it just moves on to a random song on the list, or keeps playing the same song. This is with the GitHub code directly complied and run on a tablet, without any modification. This does not happen when Chromecast is not being used (i.e., playing directly on the tablet). Sorry about the messy log message. Hope someone has some experience / knowledge on this and can give me a hint!

11-15 03:08:49.792 18204-18204/com.example.android.uamp
E/MediaNotificationServiceImpl: Unregistering trampoline BroadcastReceiver failed
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Receiver not registered: yy@8f7a15d
at android.app.LoadedApk.forgetReceiverDispatcher(LoadedApk.java:789)
at android.app.ContextImpl.unregisterReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1200)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.unregisterReceiver(ContextWrapper.java:576)
at yx.b(:com.google.android.gms.DynamiteModulesC@11746440:105)
at yp.onTransact(:com.google.android.gms.DynamiteModulesC@11746440:22)
at android.os.Binder.transact(Binder.java:392)
at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzed.zzb(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.media.zze.onDestroy(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.media.MediaNotificationService.onDestroy(Unknown Source)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleStopService(ActivityThread.java:3244)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap21(ActivityThread.java)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1591)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:111)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:207)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5728)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:888)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:749)

A: I initially reported this on GitHub, and while waiting found a workaround, described here:
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-UniversalMusicPlayer/issues/182
It's basically tweaking CastPlayback.java a bit so that the playback method doesn't get called multiple times with changing media info.

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module DTK
  class Service_moduleController < AuthController
    helper :module_helper
    helper :assembly_helper
    helper :remotes_helper

    # TODO: for debugging; will be removed
    def rest__debug_get_project_trees
      ServiceModule.get_project_trees(model_handle)
      rest_ok_response
    end

    def rest__debug_get_ports(service_module_id)
      service_module = create_object_from_id(service_module_id)
      service_module.get_ports()
      rest_ok_response
    end
    # end: for debugging; will be removed

    #### actions to interact with remote repos ###
    def rest__list_remote
      rsa_pub_key = ret_request_params(:rsa_pub_key)
      datatype_opts = { datatype: :module_remote }
      module_list = ServiceModule.list_remotes(model_handle, rsa_pub_key)
      rest_ok_response filter_by_namespace(module_list), datatype_opts
    end

    def rest__list_assemblies
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      version = ret_request_params(:version)

      # use latest version unless explicit version specified
      version = compute_latest_version(service_module) unless version
      version ||= 'master'

      rest_ok_response service_module.list_assembly_templates(version)
    end

    def rest__list_instances
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      rest_ok_response service_module.get_assembly_instances()
    end

    def rest__list_component_modules
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      opts = Opts.new(detail_to_include: [:versions])
      rest_ok_response service_module.list_component_modules(opts)
    end

    def rest__check_master_branch_exist
      rest_ok_response check_master_branch_exist_helper(:service_module)
    end

    # TODO: rename; this is just called by install; import ops call create route
    def rest__import
      rest_ok_response install_from_dtkn_helper(:service_module)
    end

    def rest__prepare_for_install_module()
      rest_ok_response prepare_for_install_helper(:service_module)
    end

    def rest__check_remote_exist
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      rest_ok_response check_remote_exist_helper(service_module)
    end

    # TODO: rename; this is just called by publish
    def rest__export
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      rest_ok_response publish_to_dtkn_helper(service_module)
    end

    # this should be called when the module is linked, but the specfic version is not
    def rest__import_version
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      remote_repo = ret_remote_repo()
      version = ret_version()
      rest_ok_response service_module.import_version(remote_repo, version)
    end

    # get remote_module_info; throws an access rights usage error if user does not have access
    def rest__get_remote_module_info
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      rest_ok_response get_remote_module_info_helper(service_module)
    end

    def rest__pull_from_remote
      rest_ok_response pull_from_remote_helper(ServiceModule)
    end

    def rest__remote_chmod
      response = chmod_from_remote_helper()
      rest_ok_response(response)
    end

    def rest__remote_chown
      chown_from_remote_helper()
      rest_ok_response
    end

    def rest__confirm_make_public
      rest_ok_response confirm_make_public_helper()
    end

    def rest__remote_collaboration
      collaboration_from_remote_helper()
      rest_ok_response
    end

    def rest__list_remote_collaboration
      response = list_collaboration_from_remote_helper()
      rest_ok_response response
    end

    #### end actions to interact with remote repos ###

    def rest__list
      diff             = ret_request_params(:diff)
      project          = get_default_project()
      datatype         = :module
      namespace        = ret_request_params(:module_namespace)
      remote_repo_base = ret_remote_repo_base()

      opts = Opts.new(project_idh: project.id_handle())
      if detail = ret_request_params(:detail_to_include)
        opts.merge!(detail_to_include: detail.map(&:to_sym))
      end

      opts.merge!(remote_repo_base: remote_repo_base, diff: diff, namespace: namespace)
      datatype = :module_diff if diff

      # rest_ok_response filter_by_namespace(ServiceModule.list(opts)), :datatype => datatype
      rest_ok_response ServiceModule.list(opts), datatype: datatype
    end

    def rest__list_versions
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      project = get_default_project()
      opts = Opts.new(project_idh: project.id_handle())

      if include_base = ret_request_params(:include_base)
        opts.merge!(:include_base => include_base)
      end

      rest_ok_response service_module.list_versions(opts)
    end

    def rest__list_remote_versions
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      client_rsa_pub_key = ret_request_params(:rsa_pub_key)

      opts = {}
      if include_base = ret_request_params(:include_base)
        opts.merge!(:include_base => include_base)
      end

      rest_ok_response service_module.list_remote_versions(client_rsa_pub_key)
    end

    def rest__versions
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      client_rsa_pub_key = ret_request_params(:rsa_pub_key)
      project = get_default_project()
      opts = Opts.new(project_idh: project.id_handle())

      rest_ok_response service_module.local_and_remote_versions(client_rsa_pub_key, opts)
    end

    def rest__list_remote_diffs
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      version = nil
      rest_ok_response service_module.list_remote_diffs(version)
    end

    def rest__info
      module_id = ret_request_param_id_optional(:service_module_id, ::DTK::ServiceModule)
      project   = get_default_project()
      opts      = Opts.new(project_idh: project.id_handle())

      rest_ok_response ServiceModule.info(model_handle(), module_id, opts)
    end

    def rest__info_about
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      about = ret_non_null_request_params(:about).to_sym
      unless AboutEnum.include?(about)
        fail ErrorUsage::BadParamValue.new(:about, AboutEnum)
      end
      rest_ok_response service_module.info_about(about)
    end
    AboutEnum = ['assembly-templates'.to_sym, :components]

    def rest__get_workspace_branch_info
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      version = ret_request_params(:version)

      # use latest version if version option is not provided
      if ret_request_params(:use_latest)
        version = compute_latest_version(service_module) unless version
      end

      rest_ok_response service_module.get_workspace_branch_info(version)
    end

    def rest__create
      module_name       = ret_non_null_request_params(:module_name)
      namespace         = ret_request_param_module_namespace?()
      config_agent_type =  ret_config_agent_type()
      project           = get_default_project()
      version           = nil #TODO: stub

      opts_local_params = (namespace ? { namespace: namespace } : {})
      local_params = local_params(:service_module, module_name, opts_local_params)

      opts_create_mod = Opts.new(
        config_agent_type: ret_config_agent_type()
      )
      init_hash_response = ServiceModule.create_module(project, local_params, opts_create_mod)

      rest_ok_response(service_module_id: init_hash_response[:module_branch_idh].get_id(), repo_info: init_hash_response[:module_repo_info])
    end

    def rest__delete
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      delete_all_versions = ret_request_params(:delete_all_versions)
      all_except_base = ret_request_params(:all_except_base)

      if delete_all_versions
        module_info = service_module.delete_object()
      elsif all_except_base
        module_info = service_module.delete_versions_except_base()
      else
        version     = ret_version()
        version     = compute_latest_version(service_module) unless version
        module_info = service_module.delete_version_or_module(version)
      end

      module_info.merge!(:version => version) if version && !delete_all_versions
      rest_ok_response module_info
    end

    def rest__delete_version
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      version = ret_version()
      module_info = service_module.delete_version(version)
      rest_ok_response module_info
    end

    def rest__delete_remote
      client_rsa_pub_key = ret_request_params(:rsa_pub_key)
      remote_namespace = ret_request_params(:remote_module_namespace)
      force_delete = ret_request_param_boolean(:force_delete)

      opts = {}
      opts.merge!(namespace: remote_namespace) unless remote_namespace.empty?

      remote_namespace, remote_module_name, version = Repo::Remote.split_qualified_name(ret_non_null_request_params(:remote_module_name), opts)
      version ||= ret_request_params(:version)
      remote_params = remote_params_dtkn(:service_module, remote_namespace, remote_module_name, version)

      project = get_default_project()
      response = ServiceModule.delete_remote(project, remote_params, client_rsa_pub_key, force_delete)

      rest_ok_response response
    end

    #
    # Method will check new dependencies on repo manager and report missing dependencies.
    # Response will return list of modules for given component.
    #
    def rest__resolve_pull_from_remote
      rest_ok_response resolve_pull_from_remote(:service_module)
    end

    def rest__list_remote_assemblies
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      opts = Opts.create?(remote_namespace?: ret_request_params(:remote_namespace))
      module_name, namespace, version = service_module.get_basic_info(opts)

      version = ret_request_params(:version)
      version = compute_latest_version(service_module) unless version
      version ||= 'master'

      remote_params = remote_params_dtkn(:service_module, namespace, module_name, version)
      client_rsa_pub_key = ret_request_params(:rsa_pub_key)

      rest_ok_response service_module.list_remote_assemblies(get_default_project(), remote_params, client_rsa_pub_key)
    end

    def rest__delete_assembly_template
      assembly_template_idh = ret_assembly_template_idh()
      rest_ok_response Assembly::Template.delete_and_ret_module_repo_info(assembly_template_idh)
    end

    def rest__update_model_from_clone
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      commit_sha = ret_non_null_request_params(:commit_sha)
      version = ret_version()
      diffs_summary = ret_diffs_summary()
      opts = ret_params_hash(:task_action)
      opts.merge!(auto_update_module_refs: true) # TODO: might make this contingent
      if ret_request_param_boolean(:internal_trigger)
        opts.merge!(do_not_raise: true)
      end
      if mod_type = ret_request_params(:modification_type)
        opts.merge!(modification_type: mod_type.to_sym)
      end
      if ret_request_param_boolean(:force_parse)
        opts.merge!(force_parse: true)
      end
      if generate_docs = ret_request_param_boolean(:generate_docs)
        opts.merge!(generate_docs: generate_docs)
      end

      module_dsl_info = service_module.update_model_from_clone_changes?(commit_sha, diffs_summary, version, opts)
      response = module_dsl_info.hash_subset(:dsl_parse_error, :dsl_updated_info, :dsl_created_info, :external_dependencies, :component_module_refs, :pull_changes)
      # the possible keys in response are (with the subkeys) are
      #  :dsl_parse_error:
      #  :dsl_updated_info:
      #    :msg
      #    :commit_sha
      #  :dsl_created_info
      #    :path
      #    :content - only if want this dsl file to be added on client side
      #  :external_dependencies
      #    :inconsistent
      #    :possibly_missing
      #    :ambiguous
      #  :component_module_refs
      rest_ok_response response
    end

    def rest__create_new_version
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      version       = ret_version()
      diffs_summary = ret_diffs_summary()

      opts = {}
      opts.merge!(force_parse: true)
      opts.merge!(update_from_includes: true)
      opts.merge!(force: true)

      if ret_request_param_boolean(:internal_trigger)
        opts.merge!(do_not_raise: true)
      end

      if generate_docs = ret_request_param_boolean(:generate_docs)
        opts.merge!(generate_docs: generate_docs)
      end

      if do_not_raise_if_exist = ret_request_params(:do_not_raise_if_exist)
        opts.merge!(do_not_raise_if_exist: do_not_raise_if_exist)
      end

      rest_ok_response service_module.create_new_module_version(version, diffs_summary, opts)
    end

    def rest__set_component_module_version
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      component_module = create_obj(:component_module_id, ComponentModule)
      version = ret_version()
      clone_update_info = service_module.set_component_module_version(component_module, version)
      rest_ok_response clone_update_info
    end

    def rest__info_git_remote
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      rest_ok_response RepoRemote.get_git_remotes(service_module)
    end

    def rest__add_git_remote
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      rest_ok_response add_git_remote(service_module)
    end

    def rest__remove_git_remote
      service_module = create_obj(:service_module_id)
      remove_git_remote(service_module)
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The 2-star Hotel Amazonka is located in Gdańsk, 1.7 km from the Oliwa Cathedral and 2 km from the sandy Baltic beach. It offers rooms with free Wi-Fi and a seating area. All rooms at the Amazonka are bright and decorated with warm colours and wooden furniture. Each comes with cable TV, telephone and a private bathroom with a shower. Breakfast is served every morning in the hotel's restaurant, which offers traditional Polish and European dishes. Guests can enjoy a drink at the bar or in the nightclub. Hotel Amazonka is located 8 km from the centre of Gdańsk and only 3.5 km from the centre of Sopot. Free on-site parking is provided.


Tomorrow a 10-year-old son will take part in a city boy farm challenge. His first day as a hand at the Dixie Does Alpine farm of Bill and Becky Ensinger, who have cows, chickens and goats and run a little soap business online and at farmers' markets in Chattanooga. Mr. Ensinger says he has been developing a growing list of chores for the newcomer.
My own hand is on a different pulse. Of late it has been on economic and geopolitical megacycles and the rise of the nation-state. I feel inadequate to delving into these questions, even though my wife, Jeannette, moments ago gave me unwrapped a late and long-awaited birthday present, The Rise and Decline of the State, Martin van Creveld's 1999 classic. In this theme I have been reading Nesta Webster's book on the French revolution and am rereading de Tocqueville's incomplete study of the ancien regime. As I consider historical rhythms of peoples and races, I am drawn into thinking about this blond Tulis boy and his adventure on a fresh path.
I have followers of anthroposophy on the Swiss side of my family, and have enjoyed their sense of the organic and holistic elements of life that they believe must be studied. The followers of Steiner add a grand sub-Christian spirituality to their observations of nature. Even though we may not cooperate in his New Age thinking, we can hear out farmer Ott and see something fresh about God's creation.
In order to develop a certain quality to the rhythm a little chaos is necessary. Fixed rhythms apply to machines — not to living creatures. Therefore even the rhythms of the life of the herd need a bit of chaos for them to remain lively and healthy. We can learn to know the soul of the cow most readily through the rhythmical forming of their droppings as well as their patterns of grazing, chewing cud, and resting. This is the culture of dairy farming. And because they are not machines which can be fed the same way year in and year out cows should have variety in their feed.
In this open feeding custom, Mr. Ott says cows at Rheinau Farm follow the crop rotation and graze in a different pasture every year. He lets his cows socialize in the barn so "they are able to experience the point and the periphery in a social way" as they do in the fields.
My gift book is about the end of the nation state by a Dutchman who is a professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. This volume beckons me with an altogether inapposite sense of movement. Studying the decline of the nation-state is a source of terrific optimism, second only to that of my convictions as a Christian about the work of the kingdom of God among men. Our explorations of local economy touch the routine of the cow and the local farm. They touch on questions I hope you will pursue with me here at Nooganomics.com, and that is devolution and decentralization. How might our hometown prosper amid the long-cresting national and political calamity that is the United States? And as the U.S. falters, how can our state and city find opportunity and new vigor ?
Sources: Als Maike, "Biodynamic Cow Farming[;] these humble creatures foster spiritual connection through the rhythms of life," Lilipoh, Issue 71, Vol. 18, Spring 2013, pp. 64, 65. Mr. Maike's text is from Demeter Journal No. 15, Text Renee Herrnkind, Journalistinburo Schwarz auf Weiss, Wetzlar Germany. Mr. Ott's book is in German only, Kuhe verstehen: Eine neu Partnerschaft beginnt (Understanding Cows— a New Partnership).
‡ Wikipedia says anthroposophy "postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development. More specifically, it aims to develop faculties of perceptive imagination, inspiration and intuition through cultivating a form of thinking independent of sensory experience, and to present the results thus derived in a manner subject to rational verification. In its investigations of the spiritual world, anthroposophy aims to attain the precision and clarity attained by the natural sciences in their investigations of the physical world." You see its appeal.


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import logging
import os
import sys

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.files.storage import default_storage as storage
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

from mkt.commonplace.models import DeployBuildId

log = logging.getLogger('commonplace')

class Command(BaseCommand):
    def handle(self, *args, **kw):
        if len(args) < 1:
            sys.stdout.write('Pass repo name as arg (e.g., fireplace).\n')
            return

        repo = args[0]

        repo_build_id = DeployBuildId.objects.get_or_create(repo=repo)[0]
        old_build_id = repo_build_id.build_id

        if len(args) > 1:
            # Read the build ID from the second argument.
            repo_build_id.build_id = str(args[1])
        else:
            # Read the build ID from build_id.txt in the repository's root.
            build_id_path = os.path.join(
                settings.MEDIA_ROOT, repo, 'build_id.txt')
            with storage.open(build_id_path) as f:
                repo_build_id.build_id = f.read()

        # Save it.
        repo_build_id.save()
        print "Successfully changed %s's build_id from %s to %s in db\n" % (
            repo, old_build_id, repo_build_id.build_id
        )


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Defense & Shipyards
Navy looking at commercial options for 'Big E' disposal
By Hugh Lessig
Retired aircraft carrier Enterprise CVN-65 rests at pier side at Newport News Shipbuilding in this April 2018 photo. The storied carrier has been deactivated and the Navy is considering options to dispose of it. (Joe Fudge / Daily Press file photo)
The Navy says it plans to decide by late 2022 how to dispose of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and likely will turn to the private sector for help.
The former USS Enterprise, now rusted and gutted, sits pier-side at Huntington Ingalls' Newport News shipyard, where it was built and launched amid great fanfare more than 50 years ago.
Enterprise legacy anchored in USS Abraham Lincoln
By By Hugh Lessig
It remains to be seen whether HII will be involved in disposal of the Big E. The Navy has scheduled a public meeting June 18 in Newport News to hear comments on different options as it develops an environmental impact statement.
The ship's fate has been an open question for a few years.
Since the early 1990s, the end of the line for aging nuclear warships has been Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash. But that yard has handled older cruisers and submarines.
Disposing of Enterprise is a first-of-its-kind job, and the Navy has re-examined its traditional Pacific Northwest strategy with eye toward cutting costs and saving time.
The alternatives currently on the table:
Dismantle Enterprise at a commercial ship-breaker except for the naval reactor compartments. Those would go to Puget Sound for processing and disposal. The compartments would be divided into eight packages — one for each nuclear reactor — and shipped to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford site in eastern Washington, the longstanding facility for disposal of naval reactor compartments.
The same process as the first, except the naval reactor compartments would be divided into four heavier packages, not eight smaller ones
Dismantle Enterprise at a commercial ship-breaker, then cut apart the eight reactor plants into segments and package them into several hundred small containers for storage at an established DOE site or a licensed commercial waste facility.
Keep the Enterprise intact and mothball it. That would require "periodic maintenance to ensure storage continues in a safe and environmentally responsible manner," according to a Navy document.
The third option is of particular interest to Hampton Roads.
The Navy did not go into detail, but documents list the commercial sites for that alternative as Newport News and Brownsville, Texas, which is a hub of ship recycling.
Towing the Enterprise to Brownsville would be less expensive than transporting it around the tip of South America to Washington state, a necessary route because the ship is too large for the Panama Canal.
The third alternative also identifies three disposal locations, including DOE's Savannah River Site, a nuclear reservation in Aiken, S.C. The site is operated and managed by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC, which includes Newport News Nuclear, an HII subsidiary.
Newport News Shipbuilding did not offer specifics on its involvement, other to say that it "remains committed to support the Navy" as plans proceed. Company officials had publicly expressed interest in the dismantling when a commercial option was discussed in 2016.
A draft environmental impact statement would be available in early 2021, according to a Navy timeline. A final statement is scheduled to be released in summer 2022, and the Navy expects to select an alternative that fall.
A storied history
The Enterprise, also known as CVN-65, served the country from the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its final combat deployment came in 2012. Its configuration of eight reactors made it unique, the only ship of its class. Even today, CVN-65 commands a loyal following.
In 2018, the Government Accountability Office said using commercial industry to dismantle the ship could benefit the Navy.
If the Navy went the traditional route at Puget Sound, GAO pegged the cost at between $1 billion and $1.55 billion, with work starting in 2034.
A full commercial option would be $750 million to $1.4 billion and the work could start 10 years earlier.
For the 1st time, Norfolk Naval Shipyard's new commanding officer is a woman
Huntington Ingall's Hampton Center awarded first unmanned submarine work
CEO of Huntington Ingalls, America's largest military shipbuilder, calls Capitol riot 'despicable'
Huntington Ingalls' nautical drone business gets boost from Virginia Beach-based company
Portsmouth wanted to build waterfront apartments. Instead, the city is now eyeing shipbuilding.
At present, Puget Sound is recycling three submarines and 14 are awaiting recycling, said spokesman Matt Bailey.
[Top stories] A man drove to Virginia Beach to kill his wife. He ended up paralyzed and sentenced to 15 years in prison. »
"The pace of recycling has been fairly consistent in recent years," Bailey said in an email. The facility "averages about two reactor compartment disposals shipped annually."
It takes about a year to inactivate a sub and another 18 months dispose of the reactor compartment and recycle the vessel, he said.
A public meeting is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. June 18 at the Denbigh Community Center, 15198 Warwick Blvd., Newport News.
Also, visit https://CarrierDisposalEIS.com for a full explanation of the alternatives and history of the project.
Hugh Lessig
Hugh Lessig writes about Newport News Shipbuilding and other defense contractors in Hampton Roads. He occasionally writes about workforce training issues and military history. He previously covered the military and state politics for the Daily Press, where he began work in 1997.
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Bkm Capital Partners Announces Three Multi-Tenant Industrial Park Acquisitions While Raising $100M Commingled Fund
IRVINE, Calif., October 22, 2014 – BKM Capital Partners has acquired three multi-tenant industrial parks with a combined capitalization of $42.8 million on behalf of BKM Industrial Value Fund I, LP, according to Brian Malliet, CEO and Co-Founder of BKM. These are the first three assets to be included in the commingled fund, which targets final close in March 2015, and intends to acquire approximately $300 million of assets in the product type by the end of next year.
Formed in 2013 as the real estate arm of The Niru Group, BKM Capital Partners is a fund manager and operator platform targeting value-add, multi-tenant industrial real estate in the Western United States.
"We are active on both the acquisition and capital raising fronts as we near the close of a productive 2014," Malliet notes. "I believe we are the only fund manager in market specifically targeting value-add multi-tenant industrial properties in this geography. As such, we are excited at the opportunity to assemble within the fund an optimal portfolio of assets precisely fitting our investment criteria, starting with these three."
The first three acquisitions are Hayden Island Business Park in Portland, Oregon; Patrick Commerce Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; and Black Canyon Business Park in Phoenix, Arizona.
"Undermarket opportunities still exist in the multi-tenant industrial niche," he adds. "We have been successful in finding and acquiring properties at approximately 40 percent off replacement cost and 50 percent off peak market value on a per square foot basis. 'Buying right', as we say, and then fixing what is broken in each acquisition, are the fundamentals of our strategy."
Hayden Island Business Park
The 98,516 square-foot Hayden Island Business Park in Portland was at an 84 percent occupancy when BKM Capital Partners purchased the property for $5.964 million ($60.54 per square-foot).
"This location has virtually no competition, and is adjacent to a major auto auction site that supports dozens of related businesses nearby," notes BKM Capital Partners' Director of Acquisitions Brett Turner. "While the property was already at a positive cash-flow when we acquired it, it was leased at rents 40 percent below current market rates. With the right leasing, management and capital improvements, we anticipate re-leasing the park to capacity and obtaining much stronger rental rates."
BKM Capital Partners represented itself in the acquisition. The seller, the heir of a private investor, was represented by David Hill of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. The property is located at 2400-2422, 2511-2527, 2535-2541, and 2701-2703 N. Hayden Island Drive in Portland, Oregon.
Patrick Commerce Center
BKM Capital Partners acquired Patrick Commerce Center, a 223,009 square-foot industrial business park in Las Vegas, for $15.125 million ($67.82 per square-foot). Patrick's occupancy had dropped to just 55 percent prior to BKM's purchase.
"Again, in a market in which the vacancy rate is at 11 percent and headed lower, BKM will be able to quickly lease the property up to above 90 percent occupied, increasing underlying property value," Turner notes.
BKM Capital Partners represented itself in the acquisition. The seller, a public REIT was represented by Bret Hardy and Rick Putnam of Colliers International. The property is located at 2875, 2925 E. Patrick, and 6151, 6171, 6231 McLeod in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Black Canyon Business Park
Just prior to BKM's acquisition, the 219,410 square-foot Black Canyon Business Park in Phoenix lost its two main tenants within a few months of one another, dropping occupancy from 95 percent to 34 percent. With the property in need of major renovations, BKM Capital Partners was able to acquire the asset for $13.1 million ($59.71 per square foot).
"On this property, we will invest over $5 million to rebuild devising walls and separate the available rental spaces back into traditional multi-tenant industrial park spaces. More easily leasable space will lead to improved performance by the asset," Turner says.
BKM Capital Partners represented itself in the acquisition. The seller, a private individual, was represented by Robert Buckley, Tracy Cartledge, and Steve Lindley of Cassidy Turley. The property is located at 8102, 8126, 8146, 8152 N. 23rd Avenue, 8024, 8155, 8055 N. 24th Avenue, 8027, 8041 N. Black Canyon Freeway, and 2328, 2338, 2410, 2311, 2321, 2331 W. Royal Palm Road in Phoenix, Arizona.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, BKM Capital Partners is a fund manager that specializes in the acquisition and improvement of value-add multi-tenant industrial properties in metro areas across the Western U.S. Combining a deep knowledge of this niche product type with in-house capabilities including fund management and real estate operation, the firm continues to build on its proven track record to generate strong results in its investments.
Additional information is available at www.bkmcapitalpartners.com. Inquiries can be answered directly by Brett Turner, Director of Acquisitions, at bturner@bkmcapitalpartners.com, or Charlie Ittner, Director of Investor Relations, at cittner@bkmcapitalpartners.com. BKM Capital Partners is the real estate arm of The Niru Group.
Founded by Nima Taghavi, The Niru Group is a private investment management firm focused on opportunistic direct investment into real estate, private businesses, and philanthropic organizations. The company is known for combining operating expertise and entrepreneurial know-how to generate superior results in business and real estate acquisitions.
Additional information on the Niru Group is available at www.thenirugroup.com.
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In a rare and beautiful occasion, life friendships are formed from movie sets like the one between Gabrielle Union and Robinne Lee. Both actresses first shared the big screen together as fictional sisters in Deliver Us From Eva and from that one project a life long friendship developed. Now the two friends are playing opposite one another as enemies in the new BET series Being Mary Jane. Lee plays Avery, the wife of the man Mary Jane (Union's character) is sleeping with. Neither are just like their characters and in real life, they are closer than ever. While discussing the movie, we had to know how she felt about her friend's recent engagement.


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Modelling retention and dispersion mechanisms of bluefin tuna eggs and larvae in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea
Patrizio Mariani, Brian MacKenzie, D. Iudicone, A. Bozec
National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Knowledge of early life history of most fish species in the Mediterranean Sea is sparse and processes affecting their recruitment are poorly understood. This is particularly true for bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, even though this species is one of the world's most valued fish species. Here we develop, apply and validate an individually based coupled biological-physical oceanographic model of fish early life history in the Mediterranean Sea. We first validate the general structure of the coupled model with a 12-day Lagrangian drift study of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) larvae in the Catalan Sea. The model reproduced the drift and growth of anchovy larvae as they drifted along the Catalan coast and yielded similar patterns as those observed in the field. We then applied the model to investigate transport and retention processes affecting the spatial distribution of bluefin tuna eggs and larvae during 1999-2003, and we compared modelled distributions with available field data collected in 2001 and 2003. Modelled and field distributions generally coincided and were patchy at mesoscales (10s-100s km); larvae were most abundant in eddies and along frontal zones. We also identified probable locations of spawning bluefin tuna using hydrographic backtracking procedures; these locations were situated in a major salinity frontal zone and coincided with distributions of an electronically tagged bluefin tuna and commercial bluefin tuna fishing vessels. Moreover, we hypothesized that mesoscale processes are responsible for the aggregation and dispersion mechanisms in the area and showed that these processes were significantly correlated to atmospheric forcing processes over the NW Mediterranean Sea. Interannual variations in average summer air temperature can reduce the intensity of ocean mesoscale processes in the Balearic area and thus potentially affect bluefin tuna larvae. These modelling approaches can increase understanding of bluefin tuna recruitment processes and eventually contribute to management of bluefin tuna fisheries.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.027
Mariani, P., MacKenzie, B., Iudicone, D., & Bozec, A. (2010). Modelling retention and dispersion mechanisms of bluefin tuna eggs and larvae in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 86(1-2), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.027
Mariani, Patrizio ; MacKenzie, Brian ; Iudicone, D. ; Bozec, A. / Modelling retention and dispersion mechanisms of bluefin tuna eggs and larvae in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea. In: Progress in Oceanography. 2010 ; Vol. 86, No. 1-2. pp. 45-58.
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When you think of demons, an image of satan will most likely appear in your head. However, anime demon characters usually have the appearance of a human, and often times anime characters will be half demon and half human. Take Inuyasha for example, or Naruto, who had the spirit of the Nine Tails Demon Fox sealed inside of him. By the way, if you're a fan of Yu Yu Hakusho, you know that Kurama had a demon fox fused with his human body before it was cool. Anyways, the best anime demon characters aren't as scary as you would think they are! Vote your your favorite demon characters in anime, including good guys like Rin Okumara, and villains like Naraku.


Vashikaran Mantras are used to influences and attract mind of others. Vashikaran mantra can be used to control an specific person or number of people around you. There are various types of Vashikaran Mantras such as Kamakhya Vashikaran, Baglamukhi Vashikaran, Hanuman Vashikaran, Vashikaran Ritual/Anushthan, Kamdev Vashikaran, Muslim/Islamic Vashikaran mantra etc.
"Make one call and get your relationship problems solved"


The TH-DS Tubing Hanger/Adapter, dual strings type, is designed to suspend and seal the tubings in the D Tubing Head Spool.
- Split hanger type can be run and pulled independently.
- Available with one or two control lines, on request.


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2015/16 SEASON REVIEW - OCTOBER & NOVEMBER
A look back on our 2015/16 campaign...
The Saddlers recorded 11 points from a possible 18 in October to finish the month top of the tree.
After drawing 0-0 against a much-fancied Wigan team, we then beat surprise-package Burton 2-0 to go first – but slipped back to second after losing 2-1 against Chesterfield.
A professional 2-0 victory at Barnsley followed, before a topsy-turvy 4-4 thriller at Colchester.
The month ended with a Hallowe'en treat as Jason Demetriou's stoppage-time winner secured a dramatic 3-2 comeback victory over former leaders Gillingham which sent us top.
Milan Lalkovic netted against his former club Barnsley in October
Walsall ended November without a manager following Dean Smith's departure to Championship side Brentford.
Before his exit, the Saddlers enjoyed another satisfying month on the pitch, making progress in both league and cup.
Goals from George Evans and Anthony Forde sealed a 2-0 victory over Fleetwood in the FA Cup first round, while Tom Bradshaw netted in a 1-1 league draw with Sheffield United.
We then fell to a 2-1 defeat at Swindon, although we bounced back immediately with a 2-1 home success over play-off chasing Bradford, in what proved to be Smith's final game in charge.
Anthony Forde's curler sealed an FA Cup win over Fleetwood


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