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Extreme Peak Dawn Tides
June 27, 2018 June 21, 2018 Fred Jennings
I was really psyched for the weekend of June 15 to 17.
On June 15 to 16, there were high tides of 12.1 feet. On June 17, it was 11.9 feet. Since the marsh level is about 10 feet, this meant that two feet of water would be above the marsh. In terms of water volume in the estuary, it would be six to eight times what would be there on a 10-foot high tide.
And then the tide, in six hours or so, would fall 14 feet down to a low tide of about -1.8 feet. That's a whole helluva lot of water rushing out of the estuary in that amount of time. Bait fish can get up into the marsh grass to feed, and big stripers come in to feed on them. The water flows in the river are impressive, especially around rocks and other structured bottoms.
Magical things can happen on those extreme "peak dawn" tides. So in mid-June, I expected some fabulous fishing for these stripers! But, so much for expectation and calculation. The fishing was fun, and good, at times, but not that fantastic.
Another great thing about fishing is that you never know what will happen out there! Life is full of surprises, hazards, and unbelievable escapes from insanity that can arise without notice. There were a few of those on this weekend as well that I will relate.
I apologize that this may be a long post; there's a lot to tell about. I'll try to make it fun or funny!
On June 15, I went downriver with Rick Little of Shadcreek Flies, a delightful fellow who has spoken often at Trout Unlimited chapter meetings on a whole repertoire of topics, from Maine to Montana. He brought along his friend, Keith, and we met at 3 am, about 2.5 hours after high tide.
We were probably not out on the water until about 3:45 am due to our preparations in the predawn darkness. We shoved off, three in my canoe, brimming with hope and excitement!
We got no fish trolling down to the Island against a brisk NE wind of about 10 knots. Due to this wind, I had them both fish on the back side of the Island with a right-hand cast, while I tried the front side throwing my back cast due to the wind.
Rick caught one small fish there and Keith had a hit, while I had nary a touch on either the front or back sides where they were. So, we headed on down to the Boathouse Stretch (where no one else was fishing; my father taught me long ago to respect people who had hiked in to fish a place, and keep our distance, since we had a boat and many more options than they had on foot), where we trolled most of the upper part with no hits but stopped to wade the lower section.
Rick got a fish at the point, and I got one just upstream of there, both small. Keith had one hit. So, we had a bit of a slower start than I'd expected that day. We didn't tarry there very long and trolled past the dock with no hits on our way to The Rock. We stopped there and anchored the canoe in deep enough water on a short line where it wouldn't ground out for a while, and we started high up on one of my favorite flats, full of great expectations.
Rick ended up catching about five fish at the very top of the stretch, and on Keith's very first cast, he hooked into what turned out to be a very nice fish but it didn't run very far or fight as hard as I'd have expected. But, once he had it in close, it started to look like a pretty good fish, so I asked him if he wanted some help with it.
With his assent, I waded up to him and he led the fish over to me and I ran my hand down his leader and grabbed the fly which was hooked solidly in its lip. The fish was about 28" long, and as I took out the barbless hook I saw what looked like a fin in its mouth. Hmmm. That's strange, I thought. What the hell is that?
When I looked down into this fish's gullet, all I could see was about a 16" fish (maybe a striper) totally plugging this fish's gullet, partially starting to get digested but very clearly a recent victim!
And, this fish took a fly? There was no way this fish could have swallowed anything more; its gullet was blocked. I've never seen anything like that before. Greed hath no bounds, I suppose! Or else that fish just struck out of habit or instinct, without really thinking about food or hunger. In any event, it was one of those strange and wondrous situations that happens when fishing, that one never expects.
I suggested that they stay up near the top of this stretch, after fishing a ways down the flat with only one 18" fish near the top and no other strikes. I fished all the way down the flat – over a quarter mile – without even a strike. So after that, I hiked back up to the canoe and we headed for Hog Hole, which can often be good, though it calls for a tough up-current paddle to get into that area.
We had enough time left on the falling tide to make it there and to fish, at least for a short time. Keith and I each got a fish there, but Rick caught nothing and then it stopped – as this spot often does – so we headed back down to the main channel before the tide turned against us.
We paddled downriver a bit further to a steep bank where we stopped, and we each had one fish in that stretch before the tide slacked totally, and we had a bite to eat while we waited for the boats and buoys to turn with the rising tide. Once that happened, we paddled up to the Channel Bar and tried fishing there, as that can be a good stretch at times just after the turn of the tide.
We each had a few fish there, but then it slowed down so we paddled back upriver, trolling through the water we'd fished before with no hits – so it was good that we didn't waste too much time stopping to wade and cast in that stretch – and then crossed over to fish the point again.
I got a fish right off, but that was the only one we got there so we headed for Osprey Flat, as that can be good on the early incoming tide as a cul-de-sac for fish, but it held no fish that day. So, we crossed to the island where Keith got one on the back side but no one else had a hit there. So we headed for home at about 11 am.
I was a bit disappointed, due to my high expectations, but we all caught fish. Rick had about 10 fish, Keith had five fish and I had five fish casting and two more trolling. So, we collectively had over 20 fish, including Keith's strange 28" striper. We all had a great time fishing together, which is the most important thing. It was a delightful trip.
On Saturday, an ideal "peak dawn" tide with departure at 3:30 am (two hours after high tide and 90 minutes before sunrise, which I define as "first light"), my dear friend Dick – who fished with me at Grand Lake Stream – and I went downriver together without any clients. We had both enrolled in the Why Knot Fishing North Shore Annual Striper Tournament and were psyched for some great fishing.
But, the trip started a bit slowly; we got nothing trolling to the island and nothing there either. Our next stop at the dock stretch, however, paid off pretty well. Dick caught 10 fish there, all pretty small, I believe, while I five 5 fish there, three of them 16" to 18" long and the other two were 20" and 22".
There were five people fishing across the river on the point, so we kept our distance. It turned out that some of them were fishing the tournament, too, but they only caught a few small fish in that stretch. I had thought briefly about measuring and getting a photo of my 22" fish at the dock, but decided not to bother. It turned out not to matter at all.
After that, once The Rock was showing enough that we thought we could wade that flat, we headed on downriver to that section of water which has always been good for big fish, if they're there.
I asked Dick whether he wanted to start high on that flat or below me, and he opted to wade upstream a bit from where we left the canoe. Dick got several fish up there, and I got a few where I started as well, all about 16" to 18" long. Then, I fished down most of the rest of that flat with nary a touch, until I was about a quarter of a mile beyond the canoe when I had a hard strike and was onto a running fish. I remembered this time to strike twice simply to set the hook well.
This fish took about 150 yards of line out into the river, and we argued over that line for a bit, but eventually I brought her in to shore and dragged her up on the sand for a photo and measurement for the tournament. I don't like taking them out of the water, much less for the length of time it requires to measure and photograph them, but did so as quickly as I could and then carried the fish back into the water and, after a brief revival effort saw, her swim off into the depths once again. This was a nice healthy fish that put up a pretty good scrap for her size.
At that point, I hiked back up to the canoe to start down that stretch once again. Dick at this point was about halfway down the flat, and I heard him cursing, as he had hooked into another good fish and it had taken his fly, leader and entire shooting head with it when the knot broke from his shooting head to his running line.
So, he trudged back to the canoe to leave his rod and take one of my spares to fish with, as his other rod had a floating line and he wanted to get the fly down. He went back to where he had lost that fish, and I started again up at the top of that stretch for a second pass, wondering whether I should have measured and photographed my 22" fish that I had caught up at the dock.
I think I caught a few more smaller fish at the top of the stretch and then hooked into a nice 28" striper that I landed fairly quickly after it ran out 50 to 100 yards of line on me. So, I measured and photographed that fish as well, thinking that these two fish might be a winning combination for the tournament, which is based on the combined length of one's two largest fish.
The previous year I had won my "fly-shore" division of this same tournament with 30" and 19" fish, but I didn't think that'd be enough this year. But 30" and 28" might be a winning combination. So, I was pretty happy at that point.
I went back up to the top of the flat, while Dick continued to work his way down the rest of the flat with my spare rod, and, suddenly, he let out a curse. He had had a solid hit from a very big fish and screwed it up and immediately lost the fish. Argh.
Don't we hate when that happens? We've all done it. Indeed, it's a miracle when we're successful with a very big fish. To illustrate, then, shortly after that, I had a really solid take from a very big fish, and all hell broke loose. I wrote up the story for Joe Gugino at Why Knot Fishing because it was a good one. Here is what I sent him, along with the pictures of my three biggest fish of the morning:
The 33″ fish comes with a story! This big fish grabbed my fly and started to pull very hard, but my reel jammed and wouldn't turn, because a loop of line had caught on the reel post! Argh!
I don't know why my line didn't break at that point; I was sure that it would. My rod was pulled almost flat down the line. But, for some miraculous reason my line and knots held.
And, then, the fish gave me a very brief respite from this hard pull and I was able to remove the spool from the reel and untangle the line from around the reel post. Whew!
Without warning, suddenly, the fish bolted and ran off. Yikes! When that happened, the reel spool jumped out of my hand and flew 20 feet in front of me into the deeper water there. What the hell do I do now?
Well, I still had hold of the line that was streaking through the guides on my 6-1/2 foot two-weight rod, so I kept it tight and realized that the only way I would be able to land this fish is to let her take out enough backing to completely spool me so I could get the reel spool back into my hand and then get it onto the reel very quickly and hope that the fish would have tired enough by then that I could reel her in.
Well, she took about 250 yards of line out, and was WAY downriver from me (and into some buoys that I was worried about but didn't have much control over the situation at that point)! Then, suddenly, she bolted again and started to run out line very quickly, taking out another 50 yards or so quickly enough that I suddenly saw the spinning reel spool come up from the depths to about a foot (or 18″?) below me underwater and I quickly grabbed and managed to catch it before it sank to the bottom again!
I frantically stuck it on the spindle in the reel housing but it wouldn't seat because it was spinning so wildly on this fast running fish. But finally she slowed down a bit, and I had a chance to seat the reel spool into the housing with a welcome click! OK. Now I had a very large fish on a reel that was grinding a bit with the sand that the spool had picked up from the bottom of the river, and that fish was about 300 yards downriver from me at that point. Yikes! What an insane situation. But I thought I still had a chance, and a better one than five minutes before!
However, I wasn't out of the woods by a long shot. I think that my fish had also gotten the line against a mooring downriver because I couldn't feel anything actively pulling. I feared that I'd lost this fish. But, then I felt a faint pulse, so I kept the pressure on and sure enough could feel that fish, but only faintly. I was lucky, as when the fish started to come back upriver, it came back on the same side of the buoy as the line was, so suddenly I could feel her again. But, she was still pulling very hard.
I slowly worked in more and more line, wading out as far as I could to keep her away from some other nearer buoys as best as I could, and slowly regained line. When I finally had her only about 100 yards out, I started to think that I might even land this fish after all.
I slowly brought her toward me as I walked into the shallows and up onto the sandy flat, while bringing her into the shallows (where she did NOT want to go), and put up some strong resistance to my pressure, but eventually she got into shallow enough water to turn her onto her side and then I knew that I'd won.
I pulled her up onto the sand and as I got her up far enough to approach her and try to get a photo, the knot at my fly snapped but I had already beached her at that point. So, I was able to land this magnificent fish, even though Murphy had been in total control of the fight!
I should have lost this fish at least five times during this battle, with a jammed reel (the line should have broken but, for some reason, didn't), then taking the spool out of the reel and into my hand, then the spool flying out of my hand and into the deeper water in front of me, my unexpected good luck in grabbing the spool when it couldn't spin quickly enough to keep up with this hard-running fish, which brought the reel spool miraculously up from the bottom so it suddenly appeared in the water below me because the fish was taking line so fast, and then not being able to seat the spool on this fast-running fish (but not losing it into the water again), and then having the fish pause for long enough for me to seat the spool into the reel with 300 yards of line out, and then with the briefly grinding sound of sand in the spool that didn't last very long (fortunately!) so the reel didn't totally jam again, and next having the line rubbing against (and caught on?) a mooring buoy or rope but not breaking, with the fish coming back up without fouling that buoy, and actually ending up landing that fish, which process finally broke off the fly once beached!
The Gods must have been smiling on me – or laughing at me – that morning, to allow me to get away with that totally insane series of potential disasters. It still amazes me that I didn't lose that beautiful fish, which took me at least 20 minutes (and perhaps as long as 30 minutes) to land successfully. I don't know why I lucked out with that fish, but it makes a helluva story, doesn't it? Quite some craziness…. Mostly dumb luck…. A LOT of dumb luck…. With perhaps just a little bit of quick reactions that saved me a few times as well.
I thought that one was worth writing up. The whole situation was so completely insane and out of control, but I got away with it! A true comedy of crises.
After that bit of excitement, I trudged back up to the top of that stretch and caught six more fish up there, including ones that measured 20", 21" and 22". At this point, Dick was way down at the bottom of the stretch, but the tide was slacking, so he trudged all the way back up to the canoe, and we had some sandwiches while we waited for the tide to turn.
We both put on our rain jackets because a NW wind was starting to kick up pretty strongly to about 10 knots, so we were getting a bit chilly. Then, once the tide had started to move inward, we hiked all the way down to the far end of the fish-able stretch (about three-quarters of a mile) and started back up toward the canoe, with Dick leading the way.
I caught only two fish in that entire stretch that had been so good to us on the ebb, a nice 22" fish that fought like a tiger (I thought it was much bigger), and another about 18" near the canoe. Dick caught only two fish in that entire stretch as well, he said.
So, we went back up to the dock to try there, and we each got one fish in that stretch. At that point, we were both pretty tired and Dick had to get back for a luncheon with his family, so we quit at about 11 am and skipped the island on our way home.
All in all, it was a very good day. Dick said that he had caught about 20 fish that morning, and I'm not entirely sure how many I caught, but I'd guess it was 20 to 25 fish, with some pretty nice ones in the mix, including two at 20", one at 21", three at 22", and 28", 30" and 33" fish as well.
As it turned out, I won my "fly-shore" division in the tournament, and I won a nice WADE rod and CHEEKY reel for the largest fly-caught fish in the tournament as well. Someone in the "boat-spin" category got a 50" fish that morning, too!
So, you might consider checking out the website for Why Knot Fishing; they run some great tournaments and are also a really interesting community of younger anglers full of excitement about this beloved pastime.
On June 17, I took Michael out again. I had taken him out previously on May 26, and he had caught some fish trolling but none casting. Because he was a lot of fun to fish with, and I liked his attitude, I invoked my "Fish Guarantee" and this was his "freebie" trip with me.
We met at 4 am and were on the water by at least 4:30 am. It was pretty flat calm for the first half of our trip together, which was nice and made for easy casting.
Michael got two fish trolling down to the island, while I had only one short hit. At the island, I got no fish on the front side and five fish on the back side, including one 18" and another of 20", but Michael had only a few short strikes.
I hoped that we weren't going to have a repeat of his frustrating situation of only catching trolled fish and nothing while wading and casting! In any event, after a while we headed downriver to the dock where we had had decent fishing the day before.
I got three fish there, including one of 20", and Michael had a strike but no hookups. So, we didn't stay there long, but headed for The Rock. We started at the very top of that stretch, with Michael leading me down the flat, and he caught two fish there at the top of this stretch and I had a few as well.
Then, we worked all the way down that half-mile flat that had treated me so well the day but without a touch from a fish, not even one strike! So we walked back to the canoe, and I had him paddle from the stern while I stood up in the bow to see if I could see any fish through my polarized glasses, and I didn't see a single fish on the entire flat. That is VERY unusual, but it explains why we had no strikes! So, we headed for Hog Hole.
I got two small fish at Hog Hole, but Michael didn't get any there. We decided to head out the back way and fish an area I seldom try, which I call The Kitchen. We saw some fish on minnows en route, but couldn't catch them so we stopped at the mouth of that back channel to have some lunch and wait until the tide turned.
Once the tide started moving upriver, we paddled up to the Lunch Rocks stretch and fished there for about an hour in a brisk NE wind of about 10 or more knots. I caught about six more fish in that stretch and Michael caught a few there also. I had a lot of short strikes, too. After that, we had another sandwich and then paddled back to the island where we each had a strike but no fish. So, we quit fishing at about 12:30 pm and were back at the float at 1 pm.
We had a great time together. Michael caught five fish in all (two trolling), and I got about 18 fish, with two of about 20" in length. Michael's casting is much improved!
What interests me is that we had two very slow and tough days of fishing, with surprisingly scant activity in places where I'd expect to catch fish, sandwiching one very productive day. One never knows with this fishing.
I fished the whole length of Rock Flat with nary a strike on Friday and Sunday, while it held a mess of big fish on Saturday when we were there at the very same tides. There weren't that many boats in the river this last weekend, so that's not the reason. One is left to wonder and to theorize about why things happen the way they do, which is a great thing about this sport.
Tight lines, everyone! This is the season to be out fishing. The weather is warm, the fish are here. Don't let the time go!
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Why Governments Hate Secession
Decentralization and SecessionWorld History
02/18/2020Ryan McMaken
When the Soviet Union began its collapse in 1989, the world witnessed decentralization and secession on a scale not seen in Europe since the nineteenth century.
Over the next several years, puppet regimes and states-in-name-only broke away from Soviet domination and formed sovereign states. Some states which had completely ceased to exist—such as the Baltic states—declared independence and became states in the own right. In total, secession and decentralization in this era brought about more than twenty newly independent states.
This period served as an important reminder that human history is not, in fact, just a story of ever increasing state power and centralization.
Since then, however, the world has seen very few successful secession movements. A handful of new countries have come into being over the past twenty years, such as East Timor and South Sudan. But in spite of many efforts by separatists worldwide, there have been few changes to the lines on the maps.
This has certainly been the case in Europe and the Americas, where from Quebec to Scotland to Catalonia to Venice demands for independence have been met with trepidation and sometimes outright threats of violence from central governments.
Countries Don't Like to Get Smaller
This is partly due to the fact state organizations—that is, the people who control them—have little motivation to give up the benefits conferred by bigness. States that control larger geographic areas and larger populations have greater ability to project their power and get more power.
Greater size means a larger frontier that can act as a physical buffer between the state's enemies and the state's economic core. Physical size is also helpful in terms of pursuing self-sufficiency in both energy production and agriculture. More land means greater potential for resource extraction and acreage devoted to food production. From the state's perspective, these activities are good things because they can be taxed or expropriated.
In terms of population size, state control over larger populations means more human workers to tax, and, potentially, more highly productive urban workers. Historically at least, larger populations also provided personnel for military uses.
Thus, states that control large territories and populations are able to directly control larger and more diverse economies within their borders. This means more tax revenue, which in turn means greater military capability. Naturally, state organizations are not inclined to abandon these advantages lightly, even when secession movement express a desire that they do so.
Why States Sometimes Get Smaller
Sometimes, though, states are forced to contract in size and scope. This usually happens when the cost of maintaining the status quo becomes higher than the cost of allowing a region to gain autonomy.
Historically, the cost of maintaining unity is raised through military means. Examples of this tactic being successfully employed include the cases of the United States, the Republic of Ireland, and some of the successor states of Yugoslavia.
But secession and decentralization have also often been achieved through bloodless or near bloodless means. This was the case in Iceland and throughout most of the post-Iron Curtain states.
Bloodless secession movements, however, only occur when the parent state is weakened by larger events beyond the secession movement itself. Iceland, for example, seceded in 1944, when World War II ensured that Denmark was in no position to object. The post-Soviet states seceded when the Soviet state had been rendered impotent by decades of economic decline and (in 1991) a failed coup. Nor is it a coincidence that India gained independence from the United Kingdom in the years immediately following World War II. It is likely the UK could have held on to India through military means indefinitely, but this would have come at a very high cost to the British economy and standard of living.1
It is possible to envision largely "amicable" separations. The model for this is the separation of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand from the the United Kingdom. But even in these cases, British control over these Commonwealth states' foreign policy was not totally abandoned until after World War II, when the British state had been weakened by depression and war. Moreover, the British state assumed that these newly independent states would remain highly reliable geopolitical and economic allies indefinitely. Thus, the geopolitical cost of separation was perceived to be low.
Mega-States Are the Ideal State
In cases where the seceding state is perceived to have differing cultural, economic, or geopolitical interests—which is true of the overwhelming majority of cases—the parent state is, all else being equal, likely to meet demands for secession with much hostility.
Although liberal ideology has diminished the perception among much of the world's population that bigger is better, most government agents—who are by nature decidedly illiberal—see things differently. For them, the ideal state is most certainly a large state.
Those who delight in the generous application of state violence have noticed that it is not a coincidence the world's most powerful states—e.g., the US, Russia, China—are those that control large populations, large economic centers, and large geographic areas with sizable frontiers. The combination of these three factors in various configuration ensures that existential threats to the regime are few and far between. Russia's relatively small economy—only a fraction of the size of Germany's economy—is mitigated by its enormous geographical frontiers. Its economy is nonetheless large enough to maintain a nuclear arsenal. China's per capita wealth is quite small, but Chinese territory and the sheer size of its overall economy ensures protection from foreign attack. The US's enormous economy and its huge ocean frontiers render it essentially immune to all existential threats other than large-scale nuclear war.
Large states such as these are limited only by the defensive capabilities of other states, and by the threat of domestic unrest and resistance. As Ludwig von Mises noted in Liberalism, states can take only as much power as their populations are willing to give it. There are limits to the public's generosity.
Totalitarian States Require Bigness
This relationship between bigness and state power has been illustrated in the fact totalitarian states are virtually always large states.
In her book The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt examines a number of nontotalitarian dictatorships that sprang up in Europe before the Second World War. These included (among others) the Baltic states, Hungary, Portugal, and Romania. In many of these cases, Arendt contends the regimes attempted to turn themselves into totalitarian regimes, but failed. This was largely due to their lack of size:
Although [totalitarian ideology] had served well enough to organize the masses until the movement seized power, the absolute size of the country then forced the would-be totalitarian ruler of masses into the more familiar patterns of class or party dictatorship. The truth is that these countries simply did not control enough human material to allow for total domination and its inherent great losses in population. Without much hope for the conquest of more heavily populated territories, the tyrants in these small countries were forced into a certain old-fashioned moderation lest they lose whatever people they had to rule. This is also why Nazism, up to the outbreak of the war and its expansion over Europe, lagged so far behind its Russian counterpart in consistency and ruthlessness; even the German people were not numerous enough to allow for the full development of this newest form of government. Only if Germany had won the war would she have known a fully developed totalitarian rulership.
Arendt was not an economist, but had she been one, she might have noted that the necessity of size is so central to totalitarian regimes because they are so economically inefficient. Contrary to promises of machine-like efficiency made by advocates of ever more powerful states, totalitarian states are absurdly wasteful both in terms of capital and human life. The same is true—to varying extents—for all regimes. But as the most centrally-planned ones—whether totalitarian or not—quickly become economic basket cases, large size is necessary. A smaller state would quickly exhaust its capital and its population, and the regime would collapse. Size can provide the appearance of sustainability for longer.
Cultural factors cannot be ignored, however. Arendt concedes this process of collapse can be drawn out longer in societies that are more ideologically tolerant of it:
Conversely, the chances for totalitarian rule are frighteningly good in the lands of traditional Oriental despotism, in India and China...
That region's relative tolerance for despotism is enabled by local ideologies that foster a "feeling of superfluousness," which according to Arendt "has been prevalent for centuries in the contempt for the value of human life."
Continued Movement toward Smaller States
Fortunately for humanity, the trend in the world today is toward smaller states. As numerous scholars have noted, the average number of states in the world is larger now than at any other time in recent centuries. Moreover, the rise of global trade has lessened the benefits of imperialism and expanding a state's frontiers and population. As Mises observed, freedom in trade negates the need for a state to acquire more of the world's wealth through militaristic or imperialistic methods. States often still seek economic "self-sufficiency," but the cost of this is so high, and the benefits of open trade so enticing, that more states are willing to accept trade as a substitute for "lebensraum." This can already be observed, as globalization has allowed small states to thrive, and small states have even acted to force greater discipline on large states through tax competition.
There are certainly exceptions to this. Some small states, such as North Korea, have maintained an economically isolationist and totalitarian stance—fueled both by internal paranoia and by real perennial threats issued by its enemies (especially the US), in the case of the latter. For the most part, however, the spread of markets (and promarket ideology) has raised the opportunity cost of militaristic expansion from the state's perspective. If offered the chance to expand at low cost, though, virtually all regimes would take the opportunity in a heartbeat. And this is why we will likely continue to see regimes enthusiastically resist secession within their own borders. States don't have many opportunities to expand their territories and populations. So they're not about to sign off on secession lightly. Nevertheless, new economic realities, wars, and demographic shifts may certainly affect the equation in coming years. And then we may again see a redrawing of maps of a sort not seen since the end of the Cold War.
Small Countries Are Better: They're Often Richer and Safer Than Big Countries
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1. The Republic of Ireland employed violence to obtain independence, although it is unlikely that Ireland would have obtained independence when it did had the British state not been weakened by the First World War.
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Sunday June 16th 2019 : Welcome Reception - 19h00
The welcome reception will take place on June 16 in the Musée Jean Lurçat, a museum of contemporary tapestry located in the Hôpital Saint Jean, a major Gothic-style edifice and one of the last remaining examples of a remarkably well-preserved large hospital complex. Built in the 12th century, it is today considered as one of the exceptional monuments from Angers' heritage. The penetrating ribbed vaults support the highly curved arches that are characteristic of the Pays de la Loire region and the unique Angevin gothic style, referred to as 'Gothique Plantagenêt'. A more detailed description with additional photos is available here.
Monday June 17th 2019: Guided visit of the city centre of Angers:
Discover the beautiful city centre of Angers and its long medieval history. Angers was the home of the Plantagenet Family. Henri II, king of England was also Duke of Anjou and built the former St John's hospital (as above). King René, born in 1409, is the main historical figure of Angers. Follow our guide through the little cobblestone streets of Angers, and get back in the past. Have a look at the massive castle of Angers, owned by King René, and which is today the most important historical monument of Angers.
Wednesday June 19th 2019: Symposium Banquet Dinner - 20h00
The Symposium Banquet Dinner will be organized on June 19 at the Saint-Jean barns.
Saint Jean barns is a part of the Hôpital Saint Jean which is a major Gothic-style edifice in the west of France, and one of the last remaining examples of a remarkably well-preserved large hospital complex. Built in the 12th century by King Henry II, it is today considered as one of the exceptional monuments from Angers' heritage.
The construction materials are typical of the region: slate for the base and limestone for the raised parts. The elegance and grace of the interior of the attic contrasts with the force and severity of the façade.
The place may be easily reached by foot from the convention center (15 min) but free shuttles will take you back to your hotels in the city center after dinner.
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Tommies Wall of Fame
Grant Harvey Centre
Joey George (2010)
Bryan Jones (2010)
John McAloon (2010)
Peter McKee (2010)
Walter "Bubsy" Mills (2010)
Vance Toner (2010)
LeRoy Washburn (2010)
The 1960-1961 Hockey Team (2010)
Pat Barry (2011)
John (Jack) Boyle (2011)
Kenneth Gould (2011)
Terry Gulliver (2011)
John (Jack) Hall (2011)
Keith Raymond (2011)
Pauline Bam-Marie (Horsman) Bradley (2012)
Don Grant (2012)
Edward Hospodar (2012)
Stephen Horsman (2012)
John Lordon (2012)
Men's Basketball Team 1962-65 (2012)
Patrick Glancy (2013)
Emily Hobbs (2013)
Bernie Keating (2013)
Bob Reid (2013)
St. Thomas Tommies Women's Volleyball Teams (2000-2007) (2013)
Father J. Arthur Scott (2015)
Crystal Cernivz (2015)
Callum MacPhee (2015)
Gordon Wheaton (2015)
Robert Mabie (2015)
Men's Basketball 2003-2004 (2015)
Mary Lou (Wolstenholme) Foreman (2017)
Nicole (Badry) Holubowich (2017)
Greg Morris (2017)
William McMullin (2017)
Men's Hockey 1966-1967 (2017)
Kirk Firlotte (2022)
Sue (Ross) Morkin (2022)
Ivan Rideout (2022)
Alicia Sterling (2022)
Ed Welch (2022)
Larry Wood (2022)
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All-star varsity athletes, teams and coaches, and even a 'Flying Father' are among those named to the first class of inductees to the new STU Tommies Sports Wall of Fame.
"Athletics has always been a big part of campus life at St. Thomas University," said president and vice chancellor Dennis Cochrane. "From its earliest days as a small academy on the Miramichi, young men were playing sports under the name of St. Thomas. It is fitting that we have chosen our centenary year to remember and celebrate the athletes who called themselves Tommies," he added.
"The timing couldn't be better to launch this honour," said athletics director and selection committee member Mike Eagles. "Honouring those legendary Tommies from the past is not only the right thing to do, it creates a strong bond between our current student athletes and those who competed in the 'green and gold' in years' past."
Eagles added that the selection committee sought and received many nominations, but decided to honour the Chatham athletes in this first class of inductees. It also wanted to use the annual Lou Chabot Memorial Game and the 20th anniversary of the death of one of the most beloved hockey Tommies to announce the first inductees. The first formal induction ceremony took place during Homecoming Weekend, July 2010.
2010 Sports Wall of Fame Gallery
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Bryan Jones
John McAloon
Peter McKee
Walter Mills
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Retailers face up to a brave new world
By Robin Mannering2011-09-02T00:00:00+01:00
Store owners affected by the recent riots are slowly rebuilding their businesses as they face up to a brave new world of retailing.
Some retailers are considering strengthening their security, but for the most part they are trying to claw back lost trade.
Kulbir Kapoor, who owns Best One in Clapham Junction, London, said business had been quiet since the riots, especially at night, "but people are more polite to us now because they realise how hard we work to make money".
He suffered only minor damage to windows and shutters, which prevented rioters from breaking in. "We'll be adding more security to the shutters," Kulbir added.
Dee Patel of Early to Late, London Road, Croydon, said: "Business is back to normal now. We close earlier, though, because we don't want to risk our safety. We've replaced the old shutter with a better one and bought more locks for the doors. We still get worried when a group of people come into the store in case they're going to cause trouble."
Manchester Spar retailer Paul Stone said he wouldn't be making changes to an already sophisticated security system. "Nothing would have deterred rioting on that scale," he said.
Minesh Patel of Quick Stop Express in Reeves Corner, Croydon, said: "It's slowly getting back to normal. My customers have been brilliant really supportive."
He said he was already well-equipped in terms of security. "The council-run Safer Croydon Radio System was really helpful during the riots; other shops kept us informed about what was happening. If there are any problems, you get on the radio straightaway. It only costs us £30 a month."
However, Minesh has other problems that won't be overcome so easily. "I've just heard that a Tesco Express will open across the road. There were rumours going around, but then the shop next door received a letter which was addressed to Tesco Express," Minesh said.
He added: "We're right outside the tram stop here, but lose 30 or 40 customers a day because we can't get an Oyster sales system."


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AMICI Project Augmented Interaction for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks in Industrial Environments
AMICI Project: An Overview
Development of new technologies, such as additive manufacturing, opens a lot of opportunities to make products which were impossible to manufacture before. But at the same time, new opportunities come with more complexity and often bring hazards for factory workers. One of the examples in metallic powder used in direct metal laser sintering.
Our vision of future factories includes smart multipurpose collaborative robots, supervised from distance by humans. The goal of this project is to develop teleoperated robotic platform capable of doing variety of tasks in the additive manufacturing cell, while being supervised and teleoperated by a human operator. In this scenario, the operator is isolated from the hazardous environment, but the complex task can be performed using operator's knowledge, skill, and intelligence.
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Dr. Kenneth J. Doka is a Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America. A prolific author, Dr. Doka's books include Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death, Ethics and End-of-Life Care, Beyond Kübler-Ross: New Perspectives on Death, Dying, and Grief, Spirituality and End-of-Life Care, Grieving beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Woman Mourn; Counseling Individuals with Life-Threatening Illness; Cancer and End-of-Life Care; Diversity and End-of-Life Care; Living with Grief: Children and Adolescents, Living with Grief: Before and After Death, Death, Dying and Bereavement: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare (a 4 Volume edited work), Pain Management at the End-of-Life: Bridging the Gap between Knowledge and Practice, Living with Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life, Living with Grief: Alzheimer's Disease, Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy; Men Don't Cry, Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief; Living with Grief: Loss in Later Life, Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow: Living with Life Threatening Illness; Children Mourning, Mourning Children; Death and Spirituality; Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss; Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged; Living with Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve; Living with Grief: At Work, School and Worship; Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents and Loss; Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs, Professional Responses; AIDS, Fear and Society; Aging and Developmental Disabilities; and Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice. In addition to these books, he has published over 100 articles and book chapters. Dr. Doka is editor of both Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying and Journeys: A Newsletter to Help in Bereavement.
Dr. Doka was elected President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling in 1993. In 1995, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Work Group on Dying, Death and Bereavement and served as chair from 1997-1999. The Association for Death Education and Counseling presented him with an Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Death Education in 1998. In 2000 Scott and White presented him an award for Outstanding Contributions to Thanatology and Hospice. Concordia College presented him with their first Distinguished Alumnus Award. He is a recipient of the Caring Hands Award as well as the Dr. Robert Fulton CDEB Founder's Award. In 2006, Dr. Doka was grandfathered in as a Mental Health Counselor under NY State's first licensure of counselors.
Dr. Doka has keynoted conferences throughout North America as well as Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He participates in the annual Hospice Foundation of America Teleconference and has appeared on CNN and Nightline. In addition he has served as a consultant to medical, nursing, funeral service and hospice organizations as well as businesses and educational and social service agencies. Dr. Doka is an ordained Lutheran minister.
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Learn the basic skills necessary to be able to use the ceramic lathe in an effective and creative way.
Preparation of the clay: dosage, mixing process, sieving.
Kneading of European and Eastern style: coordinate and master the movements of the kneading, learning to make the pella (mixed clay ready to be use in the lathe).
Know the operation of the lathe depending on the piece to be made.
Knowledge and correct use of the tools used in the lathe.
Positioning of the hands in the lifting and shaping of the pieces.
Finishing: decoration, addition of accessories and polishing.
People over 15 years old, willing and interested to start in the pottery.
Duration: 5 sessions of 3 hours, for three days (The student will need to stay 3 nights in Camagüey).
Casanova Pottery Workshop. City of Camagüey, Cuba.


The ViewSonic VNB108 will be run through the standard netbook test regime here at TweakTown. This includes Battery Eater Pro, iTunes Encoding and Media Transcoding.
Please note that no 3DMark or game tests are included for our netbook reviews since they are not powerful enough to run the graphics intensive tests. All systems are tested "as is", which means operating systems and drivers can and do vary and some come pre-installed with applications that may or may not affect performance. Any anti-virus or security applications are disabled and uninstalled before any testing is started as they can affect test numbers.
Battery Eater Pro is very hard on batteries so you are likely to get more run time in the real-world, depending on how you use the machine. Since we compare all laptops and netbooks the exact same way, though, it creates a fair and balanced playing field for our comparisons.
Under High Performance mode we see the VNB108 offer great battery life at 102 minutes, which is more than double that of the regular notebook from Hypersonic.
In Power Saving mode we can see that again the VNB108 offers great performance being able to provide almost three hours of battery life even with Battery Eater Pro stressing out the system.
For the iTunes encoding test I take The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights CD album in MP3 format and encode it to AAC format using iTunes and time the results with a stopwatch.
Here we see a rather typical result for the ViewSonic VNB108 netbook.
Again we see typical netbook-like results from the VNB108.


I've been wanting to make a set of cards to showcase the new In Colors since it has been one of my best sellers lately. I wanted to make cards that are easy to make and doesn't take a long time. Also, lately, I have been meeting great people who deserve a big "Thank You" so I wanted to make some thank you cards. So, with that in mind, I came up with this set.
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I love these Gilda! I am going to have to CASE them for my customer thank you cards!
These are very pretty cards, Gilda!
What a great start to your blog posting Gilda! Love these cards they are simply beautiful! Great idea and thanks for sharing.
This is a fabulous set of cards! I'm seeing some CASEing in my future! TFS!
What a fun set of cards, simple and beautiful.
I agree - great set of cards.
Great cards! They are just perfect to showcase the in colors!
These are BEAUTIFUL! What a great idea, thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for posting this on SCS! They are beautiful!
I agree with everyone...these cards are beautiful!!
What a beautiful design -- thanks so much for sharing the inspiration!


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Fiscal Impact: The City Council previously allocated funds in FY 2009-2011 budget to cover increases related to the professional development and staff training, and implementation and management of the Fats, Oils, and Grease Program. The program is proceeding on time and under budget.
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Posted by Cindy De La Torre at 6:41 pm
The Eleanor Roosevelt High School Senior Awards Night was on Thursday, May 14, 2015. We were honored to be able to present our Eleanor Roosevelt High School Share Your Passion Scholarship to three impressive young students. This year's Eleanor Roosevelt Scholarship Winners were Martha Rosario, Kyaw Kyaw Aung, and Eui Kyung (Pearl) Rhee.
We were delighted when we received a lot of wonderful entries this year from many inspiring young students. We originally had the intention of selecting one winner; however, after reading all the entries, we knew we had to select our three winners
Martha Rosario wrote an inspired essay about her desire to improve the environment and make the world a better place for us all. She wrote about how she used to disregard her surroundings and the pollution and litter that surrounded her. However, once she put things in focus and realized that the Earth was her habitat and a place that should be cared for and respected, that's when she started to see things through a whole new perspective. While she acknowledges that there is not a lot of money to be made with her chosen career; she feels that the satisfaction of knowing she is doing good, will make up for that lower pay.
Kyaw Kyaw Aung wrote about his admiration for his dad and his desire to become an engineer like his father. He originally did not fully understand his father's need to try to fix everything; he felt it was foolish when he could easily call a professional and have them finish the work a lot more quickly. However, he writes about how his impression of his father changed one day when he was able to see what a beneficial asset it could be to know how to fix all kinds of things. He soon began to understand his father's intrinsic desire to take things into his own hands and figure out how they work.
Eui Kyung (Pearl) Rhee wrote about her aspiration to play the flute and create beautiful music for others to enjoy, as well as to become a flute teacher, and/or a music therapist. She took us through the journey of her flute playing. Her passion for the flute was apparent right from the start; she talked about how she spent many hours in her bathroom practicing the flute so as to not disturb the neighbors. Eventually, when she joined the praise team at her church and began playing for individuals with special needs. Initially, she turned a blind eye to them and did not really acknowledge them; however, one day, she decided to pay attention to the audience she was playing for and that is when she saw how much joy her music brought them.
We want to give a huge thank you to these three wonderful and impressive young students, along with the rest of the scholarship participants; they inspire us to continue to devote our time and energy to working to help the youth in our community. We are sure that nothing but wonderful things await these young adults.
Aside from thanking the scholarship participants, we also would like to thank Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Pamela Snow (the Scholarship and Senior Awards Night Coordinator), and Jenna Gutman (School Counselor). We have nothing but great things to say about them. They dedicate their lives to helping the students in their school succeed and attain all of their goals. Overall, we really appreciate the students, teachers, counselors, and parents at Eleanor Roosevelt High School and we look forward to working with all of you for many years to come.
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Agnès Varda is the first female director to get an honorary Oscar
Posted by Phil on Sep 7, 2017 in All, Film, News | 0 comments
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to present Honorary Awards to writer-director Charles Burnett, cinematographer Owen Roizman, actor Donald Sutherland and director Agnès Varda. The four Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the Academy's 9th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 11, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
"This year's Governors Awards reflect the breadth of international, independent and mainstream filmmaking, and are tributes to four great artists whose work embodies the diversity of our shared humanity," said Academy President John Bailey.
Born in Mississippi and raised in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Burnett is an independent filmmaker whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the African-American experience. He wrote, directed, produced, photographed and edited his first feature film, "Killer of Sheep," in 1977. His other features include "My Brother's Wedding," "To Sleep with Anger," "The Glass Shield" and "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation." Burnett also has made several documentaries including "America Becoming" and "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property," and such short films as "The Horse" and "When It Rains."
Roizman earned five Oscar nominations for his work on "The French Connection" (1971), "The Exorcist" (1973), "Network" (1976), "Tootsie" (1982) and "Wyatt Earp" (1994). He began his career shooting television commercials before making his debut feature film, "Stop," in 1970. His other notable credits include "The Heartbreak Kid," "Three Days of the Condor," "Absence of Malice," "True Confessions," "The Addams Family" and "Grand Canyon." Roizman represented the Cinematographers Branch on the Academy's Board of Governors from 2002 to 2011.
With more than 140 film credits spanning six decades, Canadian-born Sutherland began his career with small roles in British and Italian films before his breakthrough in "The Dirty Dozen" (1967). Since then he has starred in such varied films as "M*A*S*H," "Klute," "Don't Look Now," "The Day of the Locust," "1900," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "Ordinary People," "Cold Mountain," "The Italian Job," "Pride & Prejudice" and "The Hunger Games" series.
Belgian-born Varda has been called the mother of the French New Wave. Her first feature, "La Pointe Courte" (1956) – which she wrote and directed with no formal training – is considered to be the film that inspired the movement. Varda has experimented with all forms of filmmaking from shorts to documentaries to narrative feature films during her more than 60-year career, including such works as the New Wave classic "Cleo from 5 to 7," "Le Bonheur," "One Sings, the Other Doesn't," "Vagabond," "Jacquot," "The Gleaners and I," her autobiographical documentary "The Beaches of Agnès," and her most recent work, "Faces Places."
Only one woman has ever won a competitive Oscar for directing – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given "to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy."


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Q: Different coil turns Why there is a different number of turns? Why there is not 8 turns on each side?

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Why there is not 8 turns on each side?

Because 6 is all that is needed to switch the gate. It's not like a push-pull driver which would be symmetrical.

So if I need 400V, there will be the same ratio? 5:3?

Yes. If you want to change the output voltage then change the number of turns on the secondary. Reduce to 4/5 = 80% of the turns required for 500 V.
I would not expect good voltage accuracy or stability from such a simple circuit.

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Some of the camera filters are specifically made for black and white film photography, and it is usually described by their color. For example, a blue filter would absorb the green and red color and allow only blue color to go thru, although most of the filters would not be perfect that they not only transmit the color of their own but there is also some adjacent color that would pass thru. A general understanding is the color filters are used to maintain natural tonal relationships like what we see with naked eye or to alter the contrast of the image by darkening or lightening the color tones.
Color contrast filters specifically for black and white film is usually very strongly colored and thus can absorb most of the color other than their own. The most common color contrast filters are the red, blue, green, yellow and orange.
The application of color contrast filters will take some understanding on the color and also a lot of practical session. A useful thing to keep in mind is the color triangle rules whereby the primary colors is the blue, green and red, then there is the secondary colors or yellow, cyan and magenta besides the primary colors. Thus in practical, you will see a blue color filter lightening the blue sky as well as lightening other objects in the image that is cyan or magenta in color. Contrary, objects that is red, green and yellow would be darkened.


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LBCGiraffe – Book 07 – The Miracle Inspector Review – GUEST
October 2, 2013 June 7, 2020 / Drneevil
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Venue: Giraffe Bar and Grill
Date: Tuesday 30th of July 2013
Address: 6 Greek Street, Leeds, LS1 5RW
THE MIRACLE INSPECTOR
HELEN SMITH
* * * * * SPOILERS * * * * *
Huge thanks as ever to our wonderful Superstar Guest star @AlisonNeale for providing us with this terrific write up. She has become the de facto leader of #LBCGiraffe (whether she knows it or not) and an truly great person to know!
From the Author (from Amazon)
My favorite dystopian novels are Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Children of Men by P D James (which was made into one of my favorite dystopian films, Children of Men, by Alfonso Cuarón).
The Miracle Inspector is a blackly comic dystopian novel inspired by my time spent volunteering as a mentor for exiled writers in London through British charity Freedom from Torture.
Rather than try to tell the stories of the people I met, I wondered what it would be like if I had to flee from London without money or possessions. How would I escape? What kind of reception would I get if I arrived somewhere without money or possessions, with little understanding of the culture? How would I know who to trust? That was my starting point. I hope people will finish the book asking some of the questions I started with.
About the characters
As I sat down to write, I had this image of a man and a woman sitting in their kitchen at breakfast time, unable to communicate–as if this was the 1950s and they had been locked into a stifling marriage for thirty years. But then it would become clear that they were very young –in their early twenties–and that the setting was a nightmarish future in which women have been stripped of many of the rights and benefits that we take for granted in modern society, and they have to be cautious about what they say, even in their own homes.The young couple are called Lucas and Angela. I wanted the first half of the book to be Lucas's story and for Angela to emerge more strongly in the second half as she takes responsibility for her life and starts to find her voice. I had a good idea of how the story would unfold before I sat down to plot it. I wanted this young couple to try to flee London and for everything to go wrong.If that sounds a bit heavy, I ought to say that although it's not as frivolous as my two earlier books, Alison Wonderland and Being Light, there's plenty of humor in The Miracle Inspector. I hope readers will enjoy it, despite the moments of sadness.
The Miracle Inspector by Helen Smith caused something of a split in opinion. In an issue that has arisen before when discussing dystopian novels, some readers wanted a feeling for the world but concentration on characters and plot, while others wanted detail, detail and more detail. This novel satisfied the former group: plotlines went unexplained and the causes of the strangely isolated London of the story were never fleshed out. Some book clubbers felt that what was known of the situation, while possible in our tabloid-obsessed society, could not have happened quite as rapidly as suggested. It was perhaps a little too 'convenient' to appear realistic.
However, there was some discussion of how scarily close the circumstances of women in the novel matched those of some countries today, and recent events in Egypt show how quickly existing freedoms can be lost. Book clubbers pointed out that, as we have seen in the UK, freedoms are lost bit by bit, in an almost inconsequential manner.
The fear of relationships and human interaction was certainly an interesting, rather modern theme, and the reactions of the escapees to life in Slough, with its nail varnish and online dating were quite insightful, although some readers felt they were a little simplistic: the point was delivered with a sledgehammer, someone said.
Perhaps our biggest problem with the book was that the characters were unsympathetic and the relationships unconvincing. It is possible that some further dystopian detail might have made up for this. What detail did appear was enjoyable, such as the havoc that UN peacekeepers were causing in the countryside, and the utopian ideal of Cornwall – not entirely unknown today!
The lack of detail was lauded in the torture scenes, and yet an oddly brutal murder scene earlier made us query the dual approach to portrayal of violence. Everyone, I think, liked the ending with its lack of resolution, which we felt worked well with the odd, varied pacing of the latter half of the book.
One particular complaint made here, but more generally applicable to dystopian fiction we've read so far, was (and I quote) that 'no one gets to enjoy a nice bit of sex'. Sex is often shorthand for a Bad Thing, be that an opiate or comfort blanket to avoid facing the bigger questions, or simply used to make a point of hypocrisy.
In conclusion, then, everyone agreed that the shining reviews in various newspapers and online seemed thoroughly at odds with what they had read and, sadly, the scores reflect this. This was not a satisfying dystopian novel but we all felt that there were some really good ideas that with a little more thought and work could have made a much better story.
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So gutted that I wasn't able to attend the meet up – I really enjoyed this book and would have loved a good debate about it!
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The Dallas Mavericks have protection for Luka Doncic in mind as they continue to build their roster around the young European sensation. The first trip to the playoffs in four years for Dallas ended with a first-round loss that left questions about whether opposing players were intentionally trying to hurt Doncic. The Mavericks responded by trading for James Johnson and his black belt in karate and using the No. 18 overall pick in the draft on Josh Green, a strong defender from Arizona. Dallas traded its best 3-point shooter to Philadelphia for another defense-first player in Josh Richardson.
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محمودی, جمشید, میرزایی, محمد, شایگانی, امیرعباس. (1397). توزیع پتانسیل و میدان الکتریکی در طول مقره‌های پلیمری خطوط انتقال HVDC با هندسه متفاوت و در حضور بارهای الکتریکی سطحی. مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز, 48(4), 1753-1763.
جمشید محمودی; محمد میرزایی; امیرعباس شایگانی. "توزیع پتانسیل و میدان الکتریکی در طول مقره‌های پلیمری خطوط انتقال HVDC با هندسه متفاوت و در حضور بارهای الکتریکی سطحی". مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز, 48, 4, 1397, 1753-1763.
محمودی, جمشید, میرزایی, محمد, شایگانی, امیرعباس. (1397). 'توزیع پتانسیل و میدان الکتریکی در طول مقره‌های پلیمری خطوط انتقال HVDC با هندسه متفاوت و در حضور بارهای الکتریکی سطحی', مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز, 48(4), pp. 1753-1763.
محمودی, جمشید, میرزایی, محمد, شایگانی, امیرعباس. توزیع پتانسیل و میدان الکتریکی در طول مقره‌های پلیمری خطوط انتقال HVDC با هندسه متفاوت و در حضور بارهای الکتریکی سطحی. مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز, 1397; 48(4): 1753-1763.
یکی از عوامل مهم و مؤثر بر توزیع پتانسیل و میدان الکتریکی و همچنین وقوع تخلیه الکتریکی در مقره‌ها، انباشته‌شدن بارهای سطحی برروی آن‌ها می‌باشد. بارهای الکتریکی به علل مختلف همچون وقوع پدیده کرونا، یونیزاسیون و غیره ایجاد و برروی مقره‌ها جمع می‌شوند. لذا باید درک کاملی از بارهای سطحی و رفتار دینامیکی آن وجود داشته باشد. در این مقاله، اثر حضور بارهای سطحی بر توزیع پتانسیل و میدان الکتریکی در طول مقره‌های پلیمری تحت ولتاژ DC موردبررسی و تحلیل قرار می‌گیرد. بدین منظور مقره‌های پلیمری با فاصله خزشی متفاوت انتخاب و سپس این مقره‌ها شبیه‌سازی و تحلیل می‌گردند. کلیه شبیه‌سازی‌ها به روش اجزاء محدود و با استفاده از نرم‌افزارCOMSOL Multiphysics® انجام و نتایج مورد تحلیل قرار گرفته‌است. نتایج شبیه‌سازی نشان داده‌است که حضور بارهای سطحی به شدت بر توزیع پتانسیل و میدان الکتریکی در طول مقره‌های پلیمری مؤثر و می‌تواند بستر لازم را برای وقوع تخلیه الکتریکی در آن فراهم آورد.
One of the main factors that lead to the reduction of the potential, electric field distribution and the insulating level is surface charge accumulation on insulators .In this paper, the effect of surface charges on potential and electric field distribution along an outdoor polymeric insulator under DC voltage is studied by computer simulations. Research has shown that the accumulation of electrical charges on the surface of insulators can affect the performance of the flashover. So to avoid the occurrence of unexpected flashover must have a thorough understanding of surface charge to be examined its impact on insulation performance under various stresses. In this current paper, electric field and potential distribution along standard polymeric insulator with different geometry were investigated in the presence of surface charges. Calculations of the potential and electric field are performed based on Finite Element Method (FEM). Numerical simulations were carried out in COMSOL Multiphysics® to study the effect of the positive and negative surface charges on potential distribution under DC positive and negative applied voltage. Simulation results show the importance of surface charges effect in potential and electric field variations and the performance of the flashover.
 A. S. K. N. A. Abbasi, "Contribution of Design Parameters of SiR Insulators to Their DC Pollution Flashover Performance," IEEE Transactions on power delivery, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1814 - 1821, 2014.
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 M. C. M.T. Gençog˘lu, "Investigation of pollution flashover on high voltage insulators," Expert Systems with Applications, p. 7338–7345, 2009.
 J. X. C. Y. S. C. H. J. Z. Zhijin, "Influence of low atmospheric pressure on ac pollution flashover performance of various types of insulators," IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 17, pp. 425-433, 2010.
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 S. G. J. Ehnberg and H. J. M. Blennow, "Effects of surface charge accumulation on impulse flashover voltage on silicone rubber surface," 13th Int'l. Sympos. High Volt. Eng. (ISH), p. 242, 2003.
 S. C. C. Muniraj, "Investigation of the arc activity on high-voltage polymeric insulators," International, vol. 2, no. 20, pp. 01-08, 2011.
 B. M. Y. V. S. a. S. M. G. Sarath Kumara, " Surface Charge Decay on HTV Silicone Rubber: Effect of Material Treatment by Corona Discharges," IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 2189-2195, 2012.
 Y. V. S. a. S. M. G. Sarath Kumara, "Simulation of surface charge effect on impulse flashover characteristics of outdoor polymeric insulators," IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vols. 1754-1763, p. 17, 2010.
 B. L. a. J. Kindersberger, "Surface Charge Accumulation on Cylindrical Polymeric Model Insulators in Air: Simulation and Measurement," IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 18, 2011.
 H. Sjöstedt, S. M. Gubanski, and Y. V. Serdyuk, "Charging characteristics of EPDM and silicone rubbers deduced from surface potential measurements", IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 696-703, 2009.
 محسن عسگری، احمد غلامی، «تحلیل توزیع میدان الکتریکی در مقره های پلیمری تحت شرایط یخ زدگی با استفاده از روش المان محدود»مجله مهندسی برق دانشگاه تبریز، 4. 47-54، سال 1393.
 Xie Jun, I. D. Chalmers, "The influence of surface charge upon flash-over of particle-contaminated insulators in SF6 under impulse-voltage conditions", J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Vol. 30, pp. 1055-1063, 1997.


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Terry Gilliam brands 12 Monkeys TV series "a very dumb idea"
EXCLUSIVE: Director responds to plans for a TV spin-off to the sci-fi thriller.
Terry Gilliam has said plans to adapt his sci-fi feature 12 Monkeys as a TV series is "a very dumb idea".
US cable network Syfy announced last week that is has ordered a pilot, based on the 1995 Universal Pictures feature which starred Bruce Willis as a convict sent back in time to gather information about a man-made virus that wiped out most of the planet.
Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Richard Suckle (Roven was a producer of the film) will executive produce the hour-long pilot, penned by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, who both worked on Fox sci-fi series Terra Nova, and production is set to begin in November.
Gilliam is not involved in the project and told ScreenDaily: "I know nothing about that. That's just ridiculous. It doesn't have anything to do with me and no-one has contacted me."
Asked his thoughts on a TV spin-off, he added: "It's a very dumb idea. That's what I think. If it was going to be any good it would have to be written by David and Janet Peoples, who wrote the film, otherwise it would just be another version of Time Bandits."
Time Bandits was Gilliam's 1981 feature about a boy who joins a band of dwarves as they jump through time looking for treasure to steal.
Gilliam's latest film, The Zero Theorem [REVIEW], premieres at the Venice International Film Festival today [Sept 2].
Click here for full interview
Looking back on directing 12 Monkeys, Gilliam said: "The script was just wonderful and the cast turned out to be just brilliant - and I didn't fuck it up too badly."
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Actor Olivia Colman sets out looking for a French ancestor but ends up travelling much further afield, to India, as she traces her family history
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Warnings are out from the Thai Meteorological Department this morning about heavy rains in some regions around the country. And irrigation officials are warning some provinces about local dam levels. Some southern provinces are forecast to get a drenching though to the end of this week. Meanwhile other parts of Thailand are in virtual drought!
Welcome to the weird, wild and whacky weather of Thailand's 2018 monsoon.
People living on the banks of major rivers in Thailand have been warned they face a serious risk of flooding. The Office of National Water Resources is warning people living along Kam, Songkhram, Oun, Kwai Noi, Kwai Yai, Pasak, Prachin Buri and Nan rivers should keep abreast of flood reports.
"Recent heavy downpours look set to increase water levels in these rivers," he said, adding that Nan province had been hit by 155.5 millimetres of rain in the 24 hour period ending yesterday morning. This rainwater will eventually flow into Nan River. Somroeng said the Mekong had already overflowed in many provinces, including Nong Khai, Nakhon Phanom and Mukdahan.
The authorities are also monitoring five major dams, Nam Oun in Sakon Nakhon, Kaeng Krachan in Phetchaburi, Vajiralongkorn and Srinakharin in Kanchanaburi and Khun Dan Prakan Chon in Nakhon Nayok. These dams are between 87 and 108 per cent full.
Although floods have already hit many provinces, Deputy PM General Chatchai Sarikulya said the TMD had found the country's overall rainfall to date was below normal levels.
"The PM has already been informed of the situation. We will get a clear plan around the middle of this month," Chatchai said.