Delivery doesn't have to be unhealthy. I've heard on numerous occasions, clients claimimg that none of their delivery options offer healthy food. I guarantee they do, it might not be what you're used to ordering and therfore dont want to eat it but it doesn't mean it's not there. I recommned you have two go to choices, mark them as favourties on Seamless or Caviar for those nights when you're too busy to cook.
Don't be afraid to mess up in the kitchen! Start with simple recipes – One of my favourite cookbooks right now is "Tasty-latest and greatest" it has lots of healthy choices, and some not so 😉 Then, start tweaking and experimenting to make them your own. Perfection has no place in the kitchen – sometimes your favorite dishes come from "mistakes." If you've got kids, get them involved. I loved cooking with my mom when I was little and I'm super comfortable in the kitchen as an adult becuase of it.
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Disturbia - DVD review
As teen movies go Disturbia certainly manages to reach new heights based on its dubious concept which can only be described as Alfred Hitchcock meets council estate chic.
The elaborate opening car crash sets the tone for jumps a-plenty as Shia LaBeouf's angst-ridden teen Kale gets over his Dad's death the only way modern day teens can; by punching his teacher. His comeuppance is a summer holiday spent under house arrest with only last years must have fashion accessory (an electronic tag) for company. Never fear however as soon there is plenty to entertain him in the guise of fit-and-she-knows it Ashley (Sarah Roemer), comedy companion Ronnie (Aaron Yoo) and is he/isn't he murderer Robert Turner (David Morse).
The drama of Disturbia's opening, however, only serves to highlight its uselessness in terms of what it contributes to the whole piece. Obviously it's designed to ensure we feel sympathetic to Kale but by the time the film reaches the hour mark you'll be so far towards the edge of your seat that you'll have forgotten why it is he can't leave the house and spy on Turner anyway. The film's conclusion is similarly pointless as director D. J. Caruso sacrifices all sense of tension and dread for a messy miss-match of genres and ideas which never leaves us in any doubt about each respective character's fate.
Disturbia's opening can be ignored but it is its end which spoils a fantastic middle section where Caruso shows real talent to increase the tension through clever suggestion rather than overt horror shtick. LaBeouf similarly turns his angst-ridden Kale into a sympathetic character whose frustration draws the audience in to a point where you really don't mind when he treads on thin ice spying on a near-naked Ashley in her bedroom and subsequently her pool.
Occasionally Disturbia is too-ready to revert to simple scare tactics (jumping cats, hands on shoulders, etc.) but there is enough crafted tension here to keep you confined to your seat without the need for a smartly crafted ankle bracelet.
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Sleigh Bells opened for Pixies opened for Weezer. I didn't realize Sleigh Bells was even performing until I sat up and saw her jumping around onstage. She's awesome, high energy, but the sound wasn't set up very well. Pixies shortly after, better sound but compared to playing in smaller venues I don't think this show was 100%. This was my third Pixies show and of all three they seem to perform best at Ryman auditorium. Sound setup still seemed off, but that's my only complaint. Great energy, great set list. This was my first Weezer show and holy crap there was no point where I had time to sit down. Plenty of classics, great covers and a mash-up, and an acoustic set performed for the grass seats out of a tiny boat after Cuomo scootered offstage in a captain's hat and jacket. Set design went from happy days themed to garage themed to present day tour replete with pyrotechnics during the final encore (Suzanne). KId friendly, easy parking, plenty to do before. Pricey drinks.
Both Pixies and Weezer were spot-on last night. Neither band spoke much to the audience...they just came out and totally delivered on both performance and sound. I've always loved Weezer, but there's just nothing like seeing them live...everybody knew every word to every song...talk about a band that truly found their audience and knows how to keep them. The only downer was having to pay $30 for parking. Performance-wise, I don't think it could have been any better.
Solid show, have always loved The Pixies. Their newest bass Player I believe is a far step above KD. 1st Weezer show for me, I was impressed. Hits plus some good spins on older songs like Ah Ha, Sabbath, Zombiez, Green Day, Toto. Well done Weezer and Pixies.
Weezer played a fun set mixing their hits with some fun e80's covers and mash-ups. They were on point, their sound guy was not. Bass and reverb were over amped, drowning out mids and melodies. Saw Kings of Leon at PNC last year and sound was pure and concert enjoyable. This one was a batlle. Band and fans deserved better.
Missed first half of Pixies b/c of traffic. Wow, no Monkey Gone to Heaven. Caribou and Gigantic were amazing. Weezer put on a terrific show. Tremendous fun.
Great fun evening and crowd - Weezer was great but their sound system was horrible. Sad to see the sound guys ruin amazing guitar and rock. Also, come on 1/5 hrous to get out of a parking lot and then an hour home. WRA can do better and should for the facility they have - which is amazing.
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On September 6, 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco hosted The Future of Economic Development and Revitalization Post Redevelopment to address the recent elimination of redevelopment in California and how this change might affect efforts to attract private capital and finance projects that in particular have benefited economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Participants were invited to gain a deeper understanding of the tremendous role that redevelopment played in the economic growth of local economies and learn about tools and partnership opportunities that can fill the gap.
Presentations and videos from this conference are now available on our website.


With a quick-loading head, this brilliant yellow floating line signals every twitch, pause, and stop, giving you a better chance to hook-up with delicately feeding fish. tip may be cut back if you use larger, heavier nymphs. 90' length, with a 27' taper, and a 63' running line. Also features a welded loop for easier leader connections.


bareMinerals call this their "first ever pure brightening serum foundation". It does have a thin, silky texture - and when you read the ingredients below, you'll be as intrigued as I, as there are no silicones or no oil in this silky stuff. Apparently, you should use one to two drops for a sheer coverage, three to four drops for medium coverage and five to six drops for full coverage. Fair enough, so far so (more or less) true, but you'd be better off layering those drops - so create your sheer-to-medium coverage, then wait a minute, blot, and add another layer. It does layer nicely in this way. I haven't found it gave me true full coverage, however, more like a "fuller medium".
bareMinerals call this a "natural" finish. Not a bad description - it really does give a lovely look to your skin, like you've dialled back time and you're more youthful and bright eyed and bushy tailed. No two ways about it, I have been seriously impressed with this the last few days I have been using it.... on application at least. More on that later.
This needs powdering in the oilier areas, and faded and broke up a little in my t-zone as the day progressed, so I can't see it suiting terribly oily skinned lads and lassies - but it did work fine on my dry and normal areas perfectly. So I'd say that's the target right there: dry to normal.
Here's where this truly beautiful looking foundation lets you down - I got about four hours out of this. Each time I tried it, with or without primer, with or without finishing powders or sprays. I was really disappointed, as this really does look beautiful. It just doesn't last terribly long.
No splodge/swatch sorry - I have been working from samples and I don't have photos. There's quite a range of shades though, and quite a range of undertones. The bareMinerals site has a tool to help you try to find your correct shade, but I never trust these things; you're far better off getting yourself to a counter and trying them out yourself. I've been using Bare Natural (#07) was was maybe a tiny smidge too pale for me (MAC NC23-25 at the moment), I could live with it, shade-wise (if it lasted long enough that is).
I found a paddle brush or a stippling brush best for this foundation. It was a little mask-like when applying with my fingers, and I found that the skin on my fingers "drank up" quite a bit of it, which meant I had to use quite a bit more than I should. A sponge should work just fine, but I haven't tried it. bareMinerals sell a custom-made buffing brush they want you to use with this foundation, it's basically a buffing brush out of which a hole has been cut in the centre! A bit of a gimmick, to be honest, and not necessary - any such brush will do just fine.
This contains an SPF of 20. Ingredients-wise, titanium dioxide features highly on the ingredients' listing (11%!), along with a bunch of minerals, some filler ingredients, plant extracts, hyaluronic acid, mica, silica, iron oxides. It doesn't contain any silicones, perfumes, parabens, water or oils. bareMinerals claim that this is a "breakthrough tone-correcting mineral foundation and skincare serum in one". Not sure I 100% agree with this one - there are some skincare ingredients, but nowhere near enough to get remotely excited about. However the lack of parabens, silicones, oils makes it an interesting formulation! With that high levels of titanium dioxide, I'd expect a lot of flashback. Price-wise, €31 is the usual price for 30ml, you'll find it for around €28 online on Debenhams.ie right now.
Look here for more info. I absolutely love the look of this foundation, it does what other more expensive ones do (yes, I'm pointing my accusatory finger at you, Chantecaille), but at a significantly smaller pricetag. On the other hand, it just doesn't last, excuse my language, piddling time on my face. So unless you want to truck it around with you for touch-ups, which I don't have time for personally, I wouldn't bother.


The Federal Reserve may consider buying more U.S. Treasury securities than planned if U.S. economic data show weakness, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Thomas Hoenig told Market News International.
The economy will expand at least 3.5 percent this year, Hoenig said in an interview. He reiterated he would like to "normalize" monetary policy by shrinking the Fed's balance sheet and raising interest rates, the news service said.
The Kansas City Fed president expressed concern over rising land prices, Market News International said. "I don't predict bubbles, but we certainly are beginning to see an acceleration of prices in this part of the country that I haven't seen since the late 70s or early 80s," he was quoted as saying.
Hoenig lost his vote on monetary policy this year as part of an annual rotation. He favored tighter policy as the lone dissenter in all eight decisions last year.


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Q: When is it time to create a 2nd database? I have a mysql database which has grown to over 200 tables in it. I know this isn't a performance problem, but most admin tools I have aren't organized well enough to manage this number of tables easily, and I am thinking of putting some (new) tables into a 2nd database just for my own sanity.
Has anyone else gone down this path, and was it worthwhile, or did it end up being more trouble than having one monolithic database?
Edit: Thanks for all the answers, although I was looking for some real-world experiences rather than hypothetical advice, sorry I can't pick a right answer.

A: Personally, as along as all the tables in the database are for the same application, I would recommend keeping them in the same database.  If you run into performance problems, you should get more hardware. The most important reason not to split them up, is that no matter how much you think there is a partition in the data, you will inevitably need to join tables across the two databases which is a very costly, in terms of performance, operation to do.

A: This is a similar question, one where the developer did that. They didn't have near that many tables, but some of the comments tell of how annoying it can be.

A: I think you are having a tool problem, not a database problem! My advice would then be to change your tools, not to break your database in multiple parts. The short term "advantage" (having a shorter table list) will lead you to multiple long term problems, like managing code to update/extract data among your multiple databases.

A: Not sure what you'll gain. You'll have the same number of tables to maintain, just spread around more. Unless you can partition them in some reasonably logical scheme, you'll just be making them more difficult to find. If they are interrelated, then you make the relationships more difficult to express.

A: I currently have a database with 600 tables in it and growing and I haven't had a problem.  I use MySQL Query Browser and MySQL Administrator without issue, are you having any specific problems?

A: I'd prefix your table names with something meaningful so you can find the tables you need more easily.
I agree with everyone else though .. 2 databases equals a coding nightmare, not to mention maintaining them (backups, restores, etc.)

A: Are these 200 tables part of one application? If not, then i'd recommend having one database per application, or at least one for every big application.
If all of them belong to the same app, I would not go to a second database because I think that's going to cause more problems (managing queries etc.) than it solves. Maybe a little bit of refactoring to use fewer tables?

A: If you want to start moving some things out to a second database make sure to do it with purpose. I do this when I realize some of the data will be reference data for several projects I'm working on.  It becomes my "reference" database.
Then my database list would look something like the following:
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project2
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Fostering a love of reading has many rewards! As your children assemble next year as the 2nd grade class of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School, we will join in the common purpose of growing in knowledge and faith through the love of books! So, throughout the summer, let us be connected through books in the magnificent world of reading.
The first part of the second grade summer reading requirement will require the students to read ten books from the lists provided below. Please record the books read on the attached reading log sheet.
The second part of the second grade summer reading requirement will require students to pick one book from their reading log and complete a reading follow-up assignment. The attached form is the follow-up assignment that needs to be completed on the chosen book.
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Atrocious Day for Leavine Family Racing as Chevy Partnership Ends
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By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer
The final race for Leavine Family Racing as a Chevy Racing team never got off the ground. The team, in its' third full-time season, lost 26 laps due to an oil leak under the parade laps for the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Next season, the team will be a member of the Toyota Racing Development camp.
Regan Smith in the teams' No. 95 Dumont Jets Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 started well behind the preverbal eight ball. In the car designed to be a tribute to LFR's original driver, Kasey Kahne who was sidelined earlier in the season, had a message, "Thanks Kasey!" on the TV Panel.
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series 'super sub' was left chasing others throughout the entirety of the race in a bid to climb from last-place. Despite the difference in speed of Smith's car versus those ahead of him, there was never enough time for him to gain positions, ending the race in last, 14 laps behind Tanner Berryhill in 38th, and 27 laps behind the leader.
In three full seasons with Chevrolet, LFR earned two top-five and five top-10 finishes. The organization's best finish, fourth-place (twice) came with Kasey Kahne and Michael McDowell at Daytona International Speedway. McDowell earned the teams' only non-restrictor plate top-10 finish at Homestead in 2016.
LFR's best finish in Owner's Points 26th, came in 2017 with McDowell. The team ended the 2018 season 27th in Owner's Points.
Next season, LFR will assume the position that Furniture Row Racing, which is shutting down, currently holds. With a Joe Gibbs Racing alliance, the team will bring Matt Dibenedetto into the fold as it intends to move up the running order.
Tags : Chevy Racing, Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Kasey Kahne, Leavine Family Racing, Matt DiBenedetto, Michael McDowell, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Regan Smith, toyota racing development
About Seth Eggert
Seth Eggert has followed NASCAR his entire life. Seth is currently pursuing a writing career and is majoring in Communications and Journalism. He is an avid iRacer and video gamer. Seth also tutors students at Mitchell Community College in multiple subjects. He has an Associate's Degree in History.


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The Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Building Foundations
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ResearcResearchers have thought about how storm surges and rising sea levels will hurt the built environment along the coast. But what about the effects of climate change that aren't as easy to see? A new study by civil engineers at Colorado State University investigates the hidden costs of building foundations due to sea level rise. They suggest a way to check things and fix them so that saltwater corrosion doesn't cost as much to fix.
Researchers at CSU's NIST Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning think it's important to plan ahead, especially since there are more than 16 million buildings along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. "This is a slow-moving disaster," said lead author Charles Scawthorn, a professor in CSU's civil and environmental engineering department. "It's not like an earthquake or hurricane, where you can see the devastation and then start rebuilding." "With sea-level rise, it's a long-term problem that will continue to get worse."
What's Going on Underneath Our Feet?
To investigate how sea-level rise will impact building foundations, Scawthorn and his team performed chemical analyses of samples taken from foundation walls in New Orleans. It was exposed to saltwater during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They found that saltwater can cause significant corrosion, even in concrete that is just slightly damp.
"We assumed that as long as concrete is dry, it's safe from saltwater," Scawthorn said. "But we found that just being exposed to humid air was enough to trigger corrosion in these concrete foundation walls."
What This Means for Homeowners
The results could affect homeowners all along the coast, some of whom may not even know that their homes are in danger. Corrosion can cause cracks and chips, but it can also weaken the structure of concrete, which can lead to expensive repairs or even cause buildings to fall down. And since 16 million buildings are in danger, the cost of fixing them could be huge.
"If we don't start planning now, this is going to be a huge issue for coastal communities in the future," Scawthorn said. "We need to find ways to protect our infrastructure from saltwater damage, both above and below ground."
Scawthorn and his team have made a tool to figure out how likely it is that saltwater will damage building foundations. This will help reduce the hidden costs of rising sea levels. The tool is currently being tested by engineering firms as a beta version. It will help engineers figure out which buildings are getting weaker and come up with ways to protect them.
Scawthorn said, "It's important that we start thinking about all parts of resilience when we plan for sea-level rise." "We will all have to deal with this problem at some point, so we need to be ready."
As sea levels continue to rise and storm surges become more common, it's important to think about the slow-moving disaster happening right under our feet. Saltwater can do a lot of expensive damage to building foundations if nothing no one does anything. To help solve this problem, researchers at Colorado State University have made a tool for figuring out what the risks are. This tool also shows how to deal with them. When we plan for sea level rise, we need to start thinking about all aspects of resilience. This is because this is a problem that will affect us all in the long run.
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Instruments4africa is a nonprofit (501c-3) organization for the development of youth and the preservation of music and the arts in Africa. Our goal is to facilitate creative cooperation between Africa and the world. Our center of operation is in Mali, West Africa, where we sponsor underprivileged youth to receive a quality education and mentoring in the arts. By focusing on the child, the family, the community, and the culture, instruments4africa strives end the cycle of poverty through education and mentoring.
Instruments4africa was founded by Paul Chandler and his wife Tama Walley. Paul is an artist, educator and producer living and teaching in Mali since 2003. He has produced events and organized projects in Mali for National Geographic, NY Times, Carnegie Hall, USAID, Johns Hopkins, US Department of State, and BONO's non-profit organization DATA.


The client is a swimming coaching company for babies and toddlers located in the Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland. For quarter of a century, the client has taught parents how to train their babies to swim. The clients' swimming coaches are the highest-trained baby swimming coaches in the world. They are also the only ones who have obtained the national governing body's (Swim England's) highest teaching qualification for under 5 year olds.
Endorsed by England's national governing body for swimming (Swim England), they take more underwater baby photography than any other baby swimming coaching company globally.
The client schedules a photo shoot at the end of every term, specifically when a baby is between three and nine months old. They also provide toddler, sibling, and family photos (sometimes using a dipographer who swims with the baby in front of a professional photographer in their underwater studio).
The client needed a partner to manipulate these images (background, water, baby etc). The images were required for their website to showcase a preview of their expertise and coaching methods to potential customers. The images would also be given to parents who desired photos of their child swimming.
On perusing the client's need, O2I offered a free quality test (trial). The client sent O2I four folders with nine images each via Dropbox. O2I allocated two resources for one week to complete the trial.
We recreated the background, manipulated other elements like the babies' limb. Each image required different levels of manipulation - light, medium, and heavy. A quality check was scheduled for two days and the trial proved successful.
Based on this success, the client visited O2I's delivery center in India and signed a full-time contract to manipulate 45,000 images per month (collected from all their branches).
The client mentioned that O2I had performed favorably when compared to its previous design partners both in terms of costs and precision manipulation. Another factor that was appreciated was our turnaround time. The client commended our robust infrastructure and facility during their visit to O2I.
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Medulla Oblangata and its Functions
The medulla oblongata is one among the many parts of the human brain which is majorly positioned in the part of the human brain known as brainstem. This part of the brain is encompassed in the larger part of the brain called the hindbrain.
The medulla oblongata is the section of the hindbrain that is closest to and has a connection down to the spinal code. Direction-wise, medulla oblongata is slightly lower in status compared to the pons and antecedent to the part of the brain known as the cerebellum.
In the case where an injury occurs to the medulla oblongata, this is a major cause of the defect of major nerves causing serious sensing related defects.
Among the major related problem which may arise from the injury effect of the medulla oblongata include loss of coordination of movement, losing the ability to feel touches, laboring when one decides to swallow something and the failure of the functioning of various muscles of the human's body.
The uppermost part of the medulla is what makes a formation of the number four part of the human brain known as the cerebral ventricle. The cerebral ventricle is majorly consisted of what is known as cerebrospinal fluid and formed in a manner that it has a state of continuity with the cerebral aqueduct.
Consumption of illegal drugs and other harmful substances to the body causes failure in the efficient functioning of the medulla oblongata.
Another most probable cause of the failure of the appropriate function of the body is an overdose of illegal drugs or substances which hinders the body from performing some of its most important responsibilities. The medulla oblongata has various functions which include the following:
Functions of the Medulla oblongata
The medulla oblongata like any other section of the human brain plays vital roles in a human body. A variety of the number of roles played by the medulla are as outlined below:
Body movement co-ordination
The medulla controls various body movements and co-ordinations which is majorly facilitated by the existence of numerous nuclei of the cranial nerves, whose location is the medulla. It controls all manner of involuntary movements of the body.
The involuntary movements of the body which majorly rely on the medulla for control include during the speech movements, movement of the shoulders, movements of the head and the ingested matter movement in the alimentary canal in the process of digestion.
Regulating the body's Autonomic functions
The medulla is in charge of the human body's autonomic activities. Among the many human body's autonomic reactions controlled by the medulla include: swallowing, breathing, sneezing, the act of the alimentary canal in humans known as digestion and the functions of the heart, its components and blood.
Body autonomic functions are those functions which are in a state of unconsciously controlled by the body.
Transfer of signals of the nerve between the brain and the spinal code
With the help of the type of nerves known as motor neurons or sensory neurons, which originate from the midbrain and forebrain, they go along to the medulla and as part of the functions of the medulla relay information from various parts of the body to the brain.
Facilitation of these nerves enables the medulla to receive various reactions to the body's messages. This information is always transferred between various types of nervous systems which are the central nervous systems and the peripheral nervous system. This message is always conveyed to the thalamus, where it's now catapulted to the cerebral cortex.
Features of the Medulla Oblongata
The medulla oblongata has within it various entities or characters which help it in the full execution of its functions effectively. The following are the various features of the medulla oblongata.
Fasciculus gracilis
This would be defined as a bunch of nerves or a line of nerves that are majorly found in the dorsal column which is also known as the medial lemniscus route which is majorly used by the spinal code and relays messages from the lower body organs to the brain.
Olive- this exists in two's and acts as the host of nerves which act as the interconnections between the medulla oblongata and the part of the human brain known as the varoli's bridge and the cerebellum. These are the nerves that also make a connection between the medulla oblongata and the spinal cord.
Median fissures
This part of the medulla oblongata would be defined as shallow, majorly located between two sections of the medulla oblongata which are the rear part of the oblongata and the front side of the oblongata.
This would be described as a white substance in the brain that is structured in sets of two found in the medulla which harbors a particular type of nerves known as motor fibers of a set of two tracts known as corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts.
The above-named tracts are both defined as the pyramidal tracts. The distinction of the lower pyramids is set when is happens the fibers come into a state of the crossing.
There is the existence of a myelinated and unmyelinated type of fibers for the nerves. Myelinated fibers which are in another term the white matter has a cover or sheath of myelin which is in the matter a combination of lipids and proteins.
The most important benefit of the sheath is offering the insulation benefit to the axons with a major promotion of adequate and standard connection of communication compared to those fibers which are not myelinated which are in other words known as the gray matter.
The gray matter part of the medulla is the one that harbors most of the cranial nerves.
The medulla is the part of the human brain that acts as the interconnection between the brain and the spinal code. It takes a cone-shaped part of the hindbrain. The inside parts of the medulla are sectioned into two sections namely:
Ventral medulla
The partition of the brain is composed of various sections that had been defined above. Various sections of this part of the brain include the following: the cranial nerves, pyramid, and olives.
The location of the pyramid is the central location of this section of the medulla which is made of separation by organs known as the anterior median fissures.
Tegmental medulla
The tegmental part of the medulla is comprised of grey matter which is surrounded by a white matter. The grey matter is another definition of the non-myelinated as the white matter is another definition of the myelinated. This is the section of the medulla from which the cranial nerves emerge from and they ventrally exit the medulla.
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Are you ever subjected to the "doppler effect" while horse-riding on duty?
Dear mr. mountie
Are you ever subjected to the "doppler effect" while horse-riding on duty?
Dear Singe
For those who are not aware, the Doppler effect, named after the mathematician Christian Doppler, is the apparent change in frequency of a sound as perceived by an observer moving relative to the source of the sound.
Christian Doppler was destined to become a stonemason, like his father, but he was a weakling more suited to academic pursuits, hence, he devoted his life to mathematics until his untimely death from lung disease in the beautiful surroundings of Venice.
To get back to your question, the most appearant evidence of the doppler effect whilst horse-riding on duty would be when engaged in high-speed (gallop) pursuits of Ice-Cream vans, since (as I'm sure you're aware) the Ice-Cream Van jingles start automatically when the van exceeds 23 mph. Such pursuits does on average result in some distortion of the frequency of said jingle.
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Here, I have taken the liberty to connect dots in hindsight with one of the largest ventures in the bio-fuels space i.e., KiOR. The idea not to point fingers at respective personnel, but to learn a lesson and design improvised sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow.
Catalysis has played a very important role during the 2nd half of the 20th century in the development of refining and petrochemical industries. Exhibit 1. Indicates some of the important dates that marked their history. With the exception of steam cracking, which has always played a leading role in petrochemicals, the importance of purely thermal processes declined steadily over the years, in favor of higher performance catalytic processes.
The proliferation of new catalyst compositions led to the expansion and optimization of the traditional refining processes. The developments were rapid and have led to the formation of the International Zeolite Association, in 1973. In addition, companies such as Haldor Topsøe (Denmark), UOP (USA), Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) (France), Axens (France), Snamprogetti (Italy), Johnson Matthey (UK), Fortum Oil (Finland), Gasum Oy (Finland), Criterion (USA) affiliated with CRI Catalyst, Shell Global Solutions and Zeolyst International, Süd-Chemie (Germany) now part of Clariant (Switzerland), W. R. Grace & Company (USA), BASF (Germany), Exxon Mobil (USA), Pacific Coast Oil Company now Chevron (USA), Total (France), and many more have developed and licensed commercial technologies for various segments through the years focused on certain specific fractions.
These catalysts were designed for specific reactions – relevant to the petroleum based processes shown in Exhibit 1, and represent significant advances in the field.
Whilst the fundamental underlying chemistry works. Using traditional zeolite catalysts for upgrading biomass – an oxygen rich macromolecule is an inherently incorrect pathway, if the goal is to design a 'optimum' bio-refinery that utilizes all of the biomass. The development of such optimized catalysts is still in its infancy. A good example of such progress is IH2 technology developed by the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) of Des Plaines, IL.
Exhibit 1. Some Key Dates in Development of Refining and Petrochemical Industries.
Now, let's take a closer look at the T/P parameters for petroleum and bio-based processes. Exhibit 2, shows a qualitative diagram of the regimes of temperature and pressure at which petroleum and bio-based feedstocks are typically processed. Petroleum processes are usually conducted at elevated temperatures, and many of these processes are carried out in the vapor phase. Thermochemical processing of biomass-derived feedstocks, such as gasification, liquefaction, pyrolysis, and supercritical treatments involves high-temperature treatment of biomass. Bio-based feedstocks are usually treated at mild temperatures, and most of these processes are carried out in the liquid phase. Reactions such as hydrolysis, dehydration, isomerization, oxidation, aldol condensation, and hydrogenation are often carried out at temperatures near or below 400 K. Hydrogenolysis, and hydrogenation reactions are usually carried out at higher temperatures (470 K), and aqueous-phase reforming is carried out at slightly higher temperatures (500 K) and at higher pressures to maintain the water in the liquid state (>50 atm). Vapor phase reforming of oxygenated hydrocarbons can be carried out over a wide range of temperatures and at modest pressures (10 atm).
Given the fundamental nature of chemistry, conceptually it was obvious for many in the field given their pivotal role in crude oil refining, zeolites can potentially also play an important role in biomass conversions based on the high similarity between these two. Both conversions require the degradation and transformation of a complex feedstock towards useful components. However, based on the higher oxygen content of biomass compared to crude oil, there are also some major differences affecting the outcomes.
First, where crude oil refining is mostly a gas phase process, biomass conversions take mainly place in condensed phase, mostly aqueous media, which has major implications on the stability of the catalysts. Common industrial zeolite catalysts are mainly designed to withstand gas phase processes, which does not necessarily mean that they also endure in aqueous conditions. The latter becomes particularly relevant when the stability of metal particles in zeolites is considered. By further establishing the stability mechanisms of the zeolite catalysts in aqueous phase conditions, stable zeolites may be designed with simple procedures, which are essential for industrial processes.
Despite the success of acidic zeolites in biomass valorization, the exact nature of the active site in polar aqueous solutions is still vague. Due to the reactive nature of biomass derivatives, it is in some specific cases preferred to use basic sites instead of acidic ones. For example, basic catalysts have much lower deactivation tendencies and consequently higher yields in the aldol condensation of aldehydes.
Due to the low stability of some high-oxygenated components, it may be necessary to convert these products immediately to more stable ones. Therefore, strategic combinations of the active sites are essential, in which the amount and strength of the present functions must be optimally balanced. Moreover, as this balance is in some cases very thin, it is recommended that all active sites are easily accessible for the reactants. When the active sites of one of the catalytic functions are, for example, significant less accessible, the ratio between both catalytic functions is drifted away from the optimal point resulting in an excess of the other catalytic function(s) leading to unwanted side reactions or lower yields.
Bio-based refineries may only be competitive with crude oil refineries when the entire entity of the feedstock is used. In other words, it is important to develop valorization paths for every incoming stream (cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, triglycerides, turpentine, amino acids etc.) to minimize the amount of feedstock that will end as waste or is burned off. In addition, the role of the pre-treatment is often overlooked (or avoided by using model compounds) in biomass research. Nevertheless, the use of industrial feedstocks often requires some specific changes to the used catalysts. Therefore, integrating industrial feedstocks in the designed lab-scale processes is, from an industrial point of view, at least as important as the catalytic process itself.
The catalytic applicability of zeolites in various biomass processes is, often performed in batch reaction systems. Thereby catalyst deactivation by cokes deposition is not critically addressed. Here, testing in line linked set-ups or even better in continuous mode is necessary and will give a better insight in the process design or in the feasibility to scale-up for industrial use. For example, due to the high oxygen content of biomass and the lower stability of the intermediates, severe coking may occur. Inventive reactor set-ups, where inspiration can be derived from petro-chemistry, could give a solution, Exhibit 3.
Biomass components are solid substrate due to their high oxygen content, which hampers the interaction with solid catalysts. This may lead to low space-time yields, by, for example, relatively high catalyst-substrate ratios, occasionally up to 1 or 2. Finding alternatives to increase the interaction between the catalyst and the substrate may be crucial in decreasing this ratio. To this end, it is important, instead of focusing merely on the catalytic process, to pay more attention to the engineering aspects of the processes.
Research and development of catalysts does not end when active and selective powder catalysts are developed. Besides the upscaling of the process itself, another important hurdle should be taken, namely the transformation of a research catalyst to an industrial catalyst. Such industrial catalysts contain, besides the active phase, multiple additives to provide desired physical, chemical and mechanical properties. This is exemplified by FCC catalysts, where around 10 wt% of the industrial catalyst may constitute the active phase (USY zeolite). The other 90% comprises binders, catalyst matrix, fillers and other additives. Some of these components, like silica–alumina materials, also exercise a catalytic role by pre-cracking the large oil molecules which facilitates the diffusion towards the active phase. As biomolecules are also bulky molecules, the use of an active pre-cracking matrix, whether or not preceded by a thermal/chemical pre-treatment step, may be an essential element for an industrial bio-refinery catalyst. Here, the differences between both feedstocks will lead to important alterations pertaining to FCC catalysts. There is, for example, less need to design catalysts with active components for the removal of traces of N and S, while hydrogenation of double bonds and/or deoxygenation will be largely in focus, i.e., FCC process whilst good, is probably not the be-all and end-all of biomass upgrading.
Petroleum feeds usually have a low extent of functionality (e.g., OH, CO, COOH) which makes these feeds directly suitable for use as fuels after appropriate catalytic processing. In contrast, functional groups must be added to petroleum-derived feeds to produce chemical intermediates, and the challenge lies in the ability to add these groups selectively (e.g., to add CO groups without complete oxidation of organic reactant to carbon dioxide and water. Unlike petroleum which contains limited functionality, biomass-derived macromolecules (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) contain excess functionality for use as fuels and chemicals, and the challenge in this field is to develop methods to control the functionality in the final product.
The "upgrading" of woody biomass essentially refers to oxygen removal and energy densification, which converts the woody biomass i.e., biomass-to-liquids (BtL) while retaining as much hydrogen as possible. Preferentially, the products generated are chemically fungible to their petroleum counter-parts, and, if necessary, are able to be processed further with existing refining technologies so that no new large investments are needed before their introduction can be realized, especially with respect to transportation fuels. Of course, the product distribution would be biomass-dependent. However, the maximum theoretical yield one may achieve is in the vicinity of 35-40% based on dry biomass. The key lies in selective deconstruction of biomass to retain the available oxygen and divert to the bio-chemicals space over bio-fuels, Exhibit 4.
Based on the fundamental laws of microeconomics, one may think of economies of scale, i.e., factors that cause the average cost of producing something to fall as the output volume increases. Economies of scale were the primary drivers of corporate gigantism in the 20th century and were fundamental to Henry Ford's revolutionary assembly line, with a more recent example from Nevada, United States, the Tesla Gigafactory with battery production. This continues to be the spur to many mergers and acquisitions within the renewable industry today.
Economies of scale, however, have a dark side – diseconomies of scale, Exhibit 5. The larger an organisation becomes in order to reap economies of scale, the more complex it has to be to manage and run such scale. This complexity incurs a cost, and eventually this cost may come to outweigh the savings gained from greater scale. In other words, economies of scale cannot be gleaned forever. Some might even quote the Ringelmann Effect, discovered by French agricultural engineer Maximilien Ringelmann (1861-1931).
Exhibit 5. Diseconomies of Scale. The rising part of the curve – Long-Run Average Cost curve illustrates the effect of diseconomies of scale. Beyond Q1 or Critical Mass (Ideal Start-up Size), any further addition will increase per-unit costs.
Incremental disruption – try not replace a 100+ -year technology petroleum industry based in a short span.
Source: Dr Kapil S Lokar, 2017-05-02.


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[S65] England & Wales Christenings, bapt., Fanny Killick, parents Joseph & Sarah, Keston, Kent, fhl 992525.
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Photos: North Country Festival of Trees
The North Country Festival of Trees runs through Sunday at The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls. Tickets are still available for Breakfast with Santa on Sunday.
Scheduled events:
6 to 8 p.m., The Stockbridge Band
8:30 to 10 a.m., Breakfast with Santa, tickets are $15 for adults and children. Children can enjoy the morning with Santa and offers children and parents a private viewing of the festival before it opens to the public. Includes a full breakfast. Call 518-832-6113 for more information.
1 to 1:30 p.m., Queensbury Middle School Holiday Ensemble String Group
1:30 to 2 p.m., St. Mary's St. Alphonsus Middle School band
2 to 2:30 p.m., St. Mary's St. Alphonsus Middle School vocalists
The Festival of Trees runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day; general admission is $8, seniors $5.
Kenny Heath, 4, hugs Santa on Wednesday during a special event at the North Country Festival of Trees in The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls.
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Fiona Ficarrotta, 4, on Wednesday admires the display of multi-colored lollipops in the Children's Wonderland at the North Country Festival of Trees in The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls.
The North Country Festival of Trees in The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls runs through Sunday.
The North Country Festival of Trees in The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls runs through Sunday. There are more than 160 decorated trees and wreaths available for purchase to benefit the Prospect Center in Queensbury.
There are more than 160 entries in the 28th annual North Country Festival of Trees at The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls.
The North Country Festival of Trees in The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls runs through Sunday. There were more than 160 decorated trees and wreaths available for purchase to benefit the Prospect Center in Queensbury. Here, Jamieson Smith poses as an elf in the Children's Wonderland and sensory experience at the festival.
Gavin Carty, 7, who was visiting from Windsor, Vermont, on Wednesday, admires the decorated trees at the North Country Festival of Trees at The Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls.
North Country Festival of Trees a wonderland for all
This year's North Country Festival of Trees, hosted at the Queensbury Hotel, offered sensory experiences to children on the Autism spectrum and benefitted the Prospect Center.


Stage 1 will consist of nine North America teams, six European teams and one Asia/Pacific team, and all travel and accommodations for qualifying teams will be covered. Each player will collect over $3,000 as part of the regular season prize pool of $200,000. Make it through your pool and you can compete for an additional $500,000. This means Stage 1 will total a whopping $700,000 in total prizes. All prizing is subject to all applicable rules and eligibility requirements for the Global Pro League.
The 16 teams will be split into four pools, and starting April 20, four back-to-back weekends of competitive play will take place. Each weekend will be devoted to one pool at a time – the top two teams from each pool will advance to the playoffs, the third place team won't make playoffs but will earn a spot in Stage 2, while the fourth place team will go to the Relegation Playoffs happening just before the CWL Anaheim Open. More news on the relegation playoffs to follow.
The Stage 1 Playoffs are set to take place May 26-28 when the top eight teams go head to head in a double elimination bracket.


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Home Football GKFC bid adieu to head coach Fernando Santiago Varela
GKFC bid adieu to head coach Fernando Santiago Varela
August 17, 2020 - 7:43 pm
Kozhikode, August 17: Gokulam Kerala FC have announced that head coach Fernando Santiago Varela will not be continuing his role at GKFC. The process to appoint a new manager is underway.
The Argentine-Spanish coach had two stints with Malabarians – in 2017-18 and 2019-20 season. In the first season, he won Kerala Premier League and had to return back to Spain due to personal reasons before the start of ILeague season.
He returned to GKFC next season and helped the club win the prestigious Durand Cup. He also helped us reach the semifinal of the Sheikh Kamal International Cup held at Chittagong in Bangladesh. Further, he mounted an exciting ILeague challenge but had an abrupt end due to the Covid19 pandemic.
Throughout his career, at Gokulam Kerala FC he helped to develop many exciting young players. GKFC management has thanked Fernando Santiago for the achievement.
"We would like to sincerely thank Fernando for what he has achieved at the club. His contribution to the club is significant and will never be forgotten. During his tenure at Gokulam, he has worked hard and we express our gratitude for the achievements he made for the club," said VC Praveen, the president of Gokulam Kerala FC.
"The search for a new manager is underway and we hope to make an appointment in a decisive and timely manner," the president further said.
"I want to thank the club for having trusted me, firstly thanking the president, the players, and all the Staff. Wishing the best to Gokulam and also a special hug for all the fans," said Fernando Santiago Varela.
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Governance is key
The key to the problem of data leakage can be laid squarely at the door of poor information security governance. As information security governance is a sub-set of IT governance, then the starting and finishing position rests with the CIO, says John Mitchell.
I am constantly amazed at CIOs who have no clear governance programme in place to ensure that their function can not only support current business objectives, but also help to extend the enterprise into the future. After all, IT departments only do two things: facilitate the development of new business solutions and deliver existing solutions to its clients.
In order to do these it must have a suitable organisational structure, excellent staff who are managed by appropriate policies, standards and procedures and a relevant way of measuring performance. So IT governance is all about putting a framework in place which enables the management of IT to meet business objectives with suitable success metrics.
Rather than reinvent the wheel each time it makes sense to pick up best practice from throughout the world and this is where the International Standards Organisation (ISO) comes in. As IT only do two things and as the way they deliver these things is pretty much the same regardless of language, culture, or technological maturity it seems an ideal candidate for a number of ISO standards.
There are now national and international standards for IT governance, software development, service delivery, information security and business continuity. Indeed the whole of IT is now covered by just five standards. The standards themselves have a standard format: part 1 is the code of practice and part 2 provides guidance on the implementation of part 1.
All the standards require some sort of policy statement and as a policy is simply a statement of intent these should be concise and to the point. For example, there are only two possible security policies and as they are mutually exclusive your company can only adopt one of them.
The first states that everything is open to everyone unless specifically restricted, while the second states that everything is locked down unless specifically derestricted. The implementation of either of these policies then requires the adoption of appropriate standards and procedures requiring the identification of assets which are either to be restricted, or opened up and the allocation of appropriate privileges to the people.
Apart from the official standards there are a host of good practice out there which have been identified by ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI).
These two organisations use a common umbrella open standard titled Control Objectives for IT (CobiT) which sits above the international and national standards and provides examples of good practice and measurement frameworks to enable organisations to implement good IT governance in an economical way.
As an assurance professional (auditor) I tend to use a fairly simple process to gauge the governance maturity of any IT function. This is based around the maturity model concept which was initially developed by the Software engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon university and extended by ISACA to cover the major IT processes. Basically you can take any process and measure it on a scale of 0 through 5.
0 Nothing in place to manage the process
1 Initial consideration is given to process management
2 The process is repeatable, but depends on individuals for its success
3 The process is defined and documented
4 The process is managed and measurable
5 The IT process is integrated with the business process.
You will notice that full compliance with any of the standards forces the IT function to level 4 as, not only is the process defined, but it is also measurable because all the standards require the collection and analysis of metrics to prove compliance.
Some standards, ISO 27000 (information security) and ISO 20000 (service delivery) move the IT function to level 5 by integrating the IT processes with the business processes. ISACA has defined 34 common processes used by IT departments and provides a maturity scale definition for each one. This enables me, with IT and the business, to assess the function's maturity in the key areas.
It's then up to the business to decide whether they are satisfied with their current level, or would like to improve on it. ISACA also provides an anonymous benchmarking service. I was a bit shocked to find that the average for Information security was 2.8, which is below defined process. Worrying, isn't it?
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Q: WCF - same service on different IIS .svc endpoints with multiple interfaces I am trying to achieve the following:

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*Have one 'full' set of services for consumption by internal apps

*Expose a subset of these methods to 3rd parties

The way I have tried to go about this is to create one service that implements two interfaces
For example:
Public Service Interface
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://www.myurl.com/public/2011/10")]
public partial interface IPublicService
{
    [OperationContract]
    ResponseObjOne OperationAvailableToEveryone(RequestObjOne request);
}

Private Service Interface
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://www.myurl.com/private/2011/10")]
public partial interface IPrivateService
{
    [OperationContract]
    ResponseObjOne OperationAvailableToEveryone(RequestObjOne request);

    [OperationContract]
    ResponseObjTwo OperationAvailableInternally(RequestObjTwo request);
}

Service class to implement both interfaces
public class Service : IPrivateService, IPublicService
{
    ResponseObjOne OperationAvailableToEveryone(RequestObjOne request)
    { }

    ResponseObjTwo OperationAvailableInternally(RequestObjTwo request)
    { }
}

I would now like to be able to configure this to run as two separate endpoints in IIS. So I have an .svc file with the following:
<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true"  Service="Adactus.Pulse.SOAServices.Service, Adactus.Pulse.SOAServices"  %>

And added the following in the web.config:
  <service name="Service">
    <endpoint address="/public" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="IPublicService" />
    <endpoint address="/private" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="IPrivateService" />
  </service>

But if I browse to the .svc file I now see all operations in the WSDL and if I add /public to the URL I see a 404. So how can I achieve this?
Ideally I would like to add another .svc endpoint and be able to specify the interface as well as the service implementation class in these svc files. Then I can lock down access to the svc in IIS to secure the internal service.
the key is that some of the operations are exposed in both contracts and I don't want to duplicate their implementation.
Any ideas? Am I going about this in the wrong way?
Cheers,
Rob

A: While it doesn't answer your question, I would definitely not design it this way. I would create a single class library that includes both interfaces and the implementations for them and then I would create separate WCF projects that expose the different interfaces.

A: Observations: Your Service class to implement both interfaces seems wrong. both interfaces have same method name OperationAvailableToEveryone infact you have to implement your interfaces explicitly.
I even have same query. Infact you cannnot browse with http://localhost:8001/service.svc/public instead http://localhost:8001/public/service.svc. still you can create proxy with http://localhost:8001/service.svc and you use it as normal and your client enpoint address looks like
    </client>
        <endpoint address="http://localhost:8001/SOAService.svc/public"
            binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IPublicService"
            contract="SOAService.IPublicService" name="BasicHttpBinding_IPublicService" />
        <endpoint address="http://localhost:8001/SOAService.svc/private"
            binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IPrivateService"
            contract="SOAService.IPrivateService" name="BasicHttpBinding_IPrivateService" />
    </client>

Hope this helps.


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Suddenly Royal
Posted on September 30, 2015 by RCherry
Coat of arms of the Isle of Man "However you throw me, I will stand"
When my wife told me she'd recorded a new program on the grossly misnamed The Learning Channel (TLC) entitled Suddenly Royal about an American who is trying to claim his title as the King of Man, I was appalled. We had lived there for five years and I did my Masters' thesis about the Isle of Man during the 17th century and read a lot of Manx history. I knew his claim was rubbish, at best. However, we decided to watch it for the scenery of a place that was near and dear to our hearts. Sadly, so far we've seen too much of "King" David "Drew" Howe and far too little scenery.
Bonnie Prince Charlie
A Pretender With A Real Claim
So, you may have seen King Ralph and think it's a similar case, a long-lost relative inherits the throne when everyone else suddenly kicks the bucket. Not so. Drew had his ancestry done and found out that he is the direct line descendant of Lord Thomas Stanley, the last man to hold the title of King of Man. I'm assuming that's what he found, but no proof of this has ever been provided. I'm reminded of "Prince" Michael Stewart, who I met in 1990. He was a pretender (unproven claimant) to the throne of Scotland, saying that he was descended from an unrecorded, yet legitimate, son of Bonnie Prince Charlie. He refused to show me his proof, saying the Queen didn't have to prove her claim. Ever hear of him? I thought not. Last I knew, he was still living in a one-room apartment in Edinburgh. Maybe I'll tell more of his story another time.
Drew was an "auto-service manager" living in Frederick, MD, when he found out about his "royalty." He posted an official claim to be the King of Man in the London Gazette in 2007 and, because no one protested, it's official now. Or so he says. "Prince" Michael Stewart did the same thing decades ago. Since he is now universally recognized the King of Scotland, that must work. Right. I'm thinking of posting a notice there that I'm the King of Sky. I mean Skye. Medialife Magazine: One definition of the word "pretender" is "a person who pretends." Another is "a claimant to a throne." On the show, he's a pretender in the first sense. He pretends to believe that his claim isn't silly and that he's going to the island not because he's being paid to by the TV show but because he's trying to press his claim. He and his wife, Pam, and their 12-year-old daughter, Grace, pretend that the things they do and the things that happen to them aren't set up for the cameras. Drew says, "A couple days ago, the local paper on the Isle of Man came out attacking me."
Hmmm. I wonder how'd I'd feel about someone claiming ownership of all of California because of a Spanish land grant?
World Tin Bath Championship, Castletown Photo by BBC News
Drew sets off to win the hearts of the Manx people by entering the Isle of Man Tin Bathtub Race in Castletown. Organizer David Collister described it as, "People just like to have fun and the spectators come because they like to see people get wet and they like to see people sink. It's two hours of family fun and slapstick entertainment involving household tin baths that your granny will have used in front of the fire." Drew dresses in a clownish king costume and participates. I guess that, since the Queen did not, that makes him a winner. Or a wiener. Definitely a pretender in the first sense.
If "King" Drew wanted to participate in an event that would gain the respect of the Manx people, he should try the long-running, world-famous TT Motorcycle Road Race. There's nothing slapstick about it and it takes real cajones to ride in it. Click here to find out why.
However, he is advised on how to be the new "King of Man" by two upstanding members of the British nobility and long term Manx residents: Lady Colin Campbell and Lord Kevin Couling. Well, maybe not. First neither of them live on the Isle of Man. Secondly, there is a matter of character. You be the judge.
This Is NOT Lady Colin Campbell. Copyright Problems. Click here for a photo.
In spite of her name, Lady Colin Campbell is not Scottish. Lady Colin Campbell, a.k.a. Lady Poison Pen, was previously Georgia Ziadie. She was born in Jamaica to a Lebanese father and English, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish mother. She had a terrible childhood and her marriage to Lord Colin Campbell, younger brother of the Duke of Argyll, was just as bad. It lasted fourteen months and she divorced him, claiming abuse and that he was a drunken addict. Yet, she continues using his name forty years later. Why? Perhaps because it does give her more credibility as a writer of exposés of the Royals, from whence comes the Lady Poison Pen title.
According to the Daily Mail: We are talking in the wake of a vociferous outcry in the media this week at the salacious and utterly unsubstantiated allegations in her new book The Untold Life Of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
If she doesn't draw definitive conclusions in the book, she does hold all manner of gossip up to the light for examination.
For one thing, she suggests that the Queen Mother — as well as her younger brother David — was the natural child of her father and the family cook, Marguerite Rodiere, because her mother was too fragile to have another baby after a nervous breakdown following the death of one of her older children.
The second bombshell is that the present Queen and her late sister Princess Margaret were conceived by artificial insemination, because their mother didn't like sex . . . .
She points out in her book that the artificial insemination story has been doing the rounds as a rumour in some circles for years (which is certainly true) and that she had it 'from several sources'.
Which, naturally, doesn't mean it's true. And, happily for her, since all the players are now dead, no one can prove the point one way or the other.
There is no doubt that she loves to shock and can be horribly poisonous. Indeed, much of what Lady Colin says should, I suspect, be taken with a large pinch of salt.
No doubt, she sees "KIng" Drew as a way to get more publicity for her books, as well as a paycheck from TLC. But surely the soft-spoken Lord Kevin Couling, who Drew said, "works with a lot of royal families," is far better. Right? I'll let the press describe him and his companion. Mrs. Victoria Ayling.
This Is NOT "Lord" Kevin. Copyright Problems. Click here for a photo link.
According to the Mail on Sunday: Victoria Ayling, a high-profile 'trusted ally' of UKIP leader Nigel Farage, joined the openly racist party and attended its rallies as a student, according to her former husband, a friend and even her own mother.
A Mail on Sunday investigation has also discovered Mrs Ayling is being investigated by police after allegedly making abusive comments about her former husband – who is a transvestite.
The Mail on Sunday can also reveal that Mrs Ayling and her new partner, Lord Kevin Couling – who purchased his title, the 64th Lord of Little Neasden (my emphasis)– are also being investigated by police for an alleged hate crime against Mr Ayling.
But does "Lord" Kevin agree with Mrs. Ayling's politics? Spiegel online quotes him:
"Nowadays, you almost have to be ashamed to be British," says her (Mrs Ayling) partner, Kevin Couling. In school, children learn a great deal about the Holocaust and the women's suffrage movement, he says, but not much about the country's history. "They can't even name the British kings." Besides, says Couling, Polish and Latvian immigrants are taking away jobs in the asparagus fields.
I feel sorry for all those native-born British who lost their asparagus-picking jobs to a bunch of Slavs. But Kevin came to England from New Zealand, bought his title, and is taking a paycheck from TLC that could have gone to a native-born British lord, so maybe he shouldn't speak. According to The Armorial Register Limited, "Lord" Kevin is "Kevin Derek Couling, Lord of the Manor of Little Neston," a title tied to the estate rather than hereditary. Don't look for famous lords and ladies in that registry, they're not there. Furthermore, Kevin registered his coat of arms in Serbia! Cheaper, I'm sure, and maybe he got a few Serbs in to help pick his asparagus.
Finally, here is a caveat posted on the Armorial Registry website that should tell you who registers their arms there: The Armorial Register Limited is aware that at the present time proving the validity of the ownership of a manor and its associated right to be known as "Lord of the Manor of" is fraught with difficulty. There are an ever growing number of businesses on the Internet only too willing to satisfy a seemingly endless consumer demand for "titles" and it seems that Manors and the right of their owners to be known as Lords have become the easiest target for less than scrupulous dealers. Our best advice is Caveat emptor "Let the buyer beware".
Now that you have the cut of "King" Drew's advisers, what about any validity of his claim? Could he be king? No. In spite of what was said on the show, the Stanleys were the LAST kings of Mann, not the first. Haraldr Óláfsson termed himself King of Mann and the Isles in 1237 and at least six other rulers after that held that title before the Stanleys. Thomas Stanley made the ruler of Man the Lord of Mann instead of the King of Mann in 1504. That cannot be changed. The Isle of Man was sold to the Crown by the Duke of Atholl in 1765. It doesn't matter who anyone is descended from, the Queen is also the Lord of Man now. Any Manx schoolchild knows this. Of course, you have to be bright enough to read a little history.
House of Keys Logo
Lastly, notice that "King" Drew pushes his claim with no one who has authority on the Isle. To date, no MHK (Member of the House of Keys, the Manx parliament) has been on the show. No Deemster, or judge, has chatted with him. His Excellency Lieutenant Governor Adam Wood has not received him at Government House (as I was received by His Excellency Sir Timothy Daunt while I lived there). Instead, he tries to push his claim with a few locals in pubs and with people who do not have any authority. When the "King" met with the Curreys, grandmother Heather, son Richard and grandson Cosmo, they gave him the go-ahead to pursue his claim. "King" Drew acted like they were his only possible rivals. I was puzzled. Who were they? The short answer: no one who had any say in the matter. The long answer is below, but feel free to skip it. Unless you are really into history. I'd love it if you read it, since it took a lot to dig all this up. I will understand if you don't.
James Stanley- 10th Earl Of Derby
Under the Stanleys, the title Lord Strange (an English title) was given to the son of the Earl of Derby until he inherited the earldom. When James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, died in 1736 "without issue," the title of Lord Strange and its barony, along with the Isle of Man, went to John Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, through the Stanley female line. Since the earldom had to go only through the male line, it went to a distant cousin. At the death of the 9th Duke of Atholl and 14th Baron (or Lord) Strange, James Thomas Stewart-Murray, in 1957, the title of Lord Strange and the Barony of Strange went into abeyance. Charlotte Murray, the third oldest daughter of the 4th Duke married Admiral Sir Alan Drummond. They had a son, John. John had a son, Malcolm. Malcolm had a son, John, who petitioned to regain and received the title of 15th Lord Strange from the Queen in 1965, but no land came with the title. The title of 17th Lord Strange is currently held by Adam Drummond, who is one of five children and has two healthy children of his own. Interestingly enough, he lives in a small cottage next to the castle that his mother, Baroness Strange, left with all her money to his youngest sister. That's a story that would be interesting to pursue, but not here. The 15th Lord Strange's second daughter is Heather, who married Lt. Andrew Currey. Her son is Robert. His son is Cosmo. The chances of Cosmo becoming Lord Strange are little better than mine of winning the lottery. And I never buy any tickets. None of them have any claim on the kingship, lordship or any other title regarding the Isle of Man.
What is the opinion of the Manx about their "King?" According to The Guardian: On Isle of Man websites, residents' comments range from bewilderment to genuine concern. Mick, from Douglas, wrote: "What started out as an interesting and amusing story of a seemingly self-delusional American has now turned into something quite serious, as the monetary amounts stated are huge. Surely the authorities must intervene." Kim wrote: "King David- get over yourself! You are NOT our King – you will never be our King. If you've got any respect at all you will give up this silly claim."
So why has "King" Drew continued on this idiotic quest for seven years? He claims it's for his daughter, but the kid seems bright enough not to really believe his delusions. So, is he deluded, a raving lunatic or something else? It wasn't until TLC started pumping money into this that he flew to the Isle. Shrewd. He and his family are only there for six weeks. Wise. Then, according to Medialife Magazine, "This may all seem harmless, but that same Telegraph story alleges that Drew was involved with a company that was selling supposed noble titles for as much as 90,000 British pounds (my emphasis). This isn't mentioned in the premiere." He's been doing this since 2007. According to IOM Today:. . . Noble Titles company's website has been altered to include King David's title and photograph. Among titles available are a dukedom for 90,000 or you can become a marquess for 80,000. The title of count will set you back 70,000 a countess 60,000 and 50,000 to become a viscount. The website states all proceeds will go to the Malawi Missions Project Charity by instruction of the King of Mann, excluding 'investiture, regalia and administration costs'. Uh, greedy? As backers of Hollywood movies have often learned, "costs" can eat up every invested dollar. Or pound. So what exactly is King Ralph . .. uh, Drew . . . uh, David? I'll let you be the judge. If you can stomach the show enough to watch it for the spectacular scenery. And if it survives. Again, according to Medialife Magazine, "The true story behind 'Suddenly Royal' might be funny, or dramatic, or tawdry, but the creators of the show seem to have neither the talent nor the intention to tell it."
In closing, why do I care enough to write this? Because I love the Isle of Man and had many friends there who thought Americans were decent people. If any of the Manx watch Suddenly Royal, their opinion of us will be that we are rude, crude and ignorant. "King" Drew slurping his soup from his spoon and tucking his napkin under his chin? Sure, I know it was orchestrated, with a slim, attractive wife accepting the behavior of her tub-of-lard husband, but "King" Drew went right along with it. The Isle of Man can't hate the publicity they're getting from the show, but they also can't have gained any respect for Americans. We are buffoons of our own making. Thank you, Drew, and TLC for harming the image of Americans in the eyes of the Manx, the British and the European viewers. Your show is truly un-American. As Kim on the Isle of Man said so well, my message to Drew is, "If you've got any respect at all you will give up this silly claim."
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