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In a Virus Free Fiji - the Coral Work Resumes!
Sarah and Keleni and Friends with Super Corals
Virus Free Fiji--A Victory for Communities and the Corals
FINALLY we are able to get moving again. With the COVID-19 virus now absent from Fiji, the shut down has at last been lifted. We are now back in our Fiji sites and working hard. These sites went through a bleaching and a hurricane during the lockdown, with no one to maintain them. Fortunately, the nurseries did amazingly well; all five coral nurseries and reef restoration sites withstood this onslaught of Mother Nature, with relatively minor damage. The coral nurseries now contain thousands of bleaching resistant "super corals", which are trimmed periodically to produce seed fragments for use in replanting patches of coral reefs after major bleaching kills the corals.
Here's a fascinating Corals 101 Fact: When we made the five nurseries, we saw astounding numbers of baby corals appear in the coming months, which researchers now say is related to the coral larvae being attracted to the smell of corals, and so we apparently created a strong settlement signal with our nurseries! So restoring the corals to a reef does not mean replanting the whole reef, but only to create a settlement signal with a few patches of concentrated corals.
For these Mamanuca Island sites, Corals for Conservation has been in a partnership with Plantation Island Resort for five years now, and the reefs around the resort have over time become a model training site, with the resort assisting with transport to the island, boats for the coral work, budget accommodation, meals, and free training venues. We have so far trained 38 Fijians to become professional coral gardeners, and two of these coral gardeners (Sarah and Merekelini), both University Marine Studies graduates, have worked as professional coral gardeners and guest marine educators at the resort for the past two years. Unfortunately, these women were laid off without pay in March due to the temporary closing of the resort, as Fiji stopped all incoming flights and all tourism. The resort was badly damaged by the cyclone, and all inter-island transport banned, so we were unable to do any coral related work. Once the ban on transport was lifted in early May, the resort went into intense action to repair the damage, so we were not yet able to come back in. When the major repairs were completed, the resort graciously invited me back, plus they brought the coral gardeners back on for two weeks of intensive coral work, which has just now been completed. Amazing progress was made: 1,000 corals were moved to safer waters free from "killer algae" smothering. We are all exhausted and nursing coral cuts-- I even sustained a bad toxic Crown of Thorns starfish poke to the finger.
Even though the resort is closed and without income, Plantation Island Resort has nevertheless agreed to provide housing, meals, boats for the work, and bi-weekly transport to and from the main island for our coral gardeners, if C4C can pay these two hard working women their wages. These stewardship efforts are so essential for the progress of critical reef restoration and nursery sites. We are writing up our results as a technical report and will be back soon, hopefully with a group of local trainees.
Professional Coral Gardeners Key to Reef & Resort Partnerships
While every resort has gardeners for the land, our goal is that all reef using resorts will take on coral gardeners for the sea, to care for the natural resources and to help the coral reef survive into the future. The coral gardeners work to counter any negative impact that tourists might have, while educating the guests, and helping the coral reef adapt to the warming waters caused by climate change. Our goal is for "Professional Coral Gardener" to become a certificate level profession and to create a hundred or more new jobs for bright young Pacific Islanders, so that pockets of coral reefs survive and thrive into the future under the care of loving and skilled hands.
As part of this initiative, and parallel to the strategy with the resorts, we work with indigenous reef-owning communities, considering them as a major part of the solution. We help by addressing poverty-driven overfishing of resources, and stimulating the restoration of fish and other marine resources, creating marine resource management plans, no fishing areas, and alternative livelihoods. The chiefs are interested in working with the tourism industry and government to create a permanent marine park for conserving the area, and C4C is facilitating this process.
Healthy coral reefs provide abundant fish, sandy beaches, and are a vital tourism resource. The biggest threat to the survival of coral reefs is Global Warming, as the ocean is becoming hotter with each passing year. Hot water causes the corals to become sick and to lose their colors- a process called bleaching. However, some corals are resistant to this bleaching, and can tolerate the hotter water. The reefs around Plantation Island Resort are very shallow, and have proven ideal for selecting hot water adapted, bleaching resistant "super corals," and our nurseries are filled with a diversity of these amazing corals.
In partnership with the resort we have so far carried out three local workshops starting in 2016. Since 2019, we have run three international "Coral Gardening for Climate Change Adaptation" workshops, attracting over 75 people from as far away as Brazil, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, Hawaii, Guam, Australia, Israel, and New Zealand. We are now going ahead and preparing to host our next series of Fiji-focused coral gardening training workshops at the resort, starting as early as July for Fiji. Then as flights reopen in the region, we plan to include regional trainees due to high demand for the program. We are submitting proposals to raise additional funding for this work, and the resort is willing to lower their charges to break-even cost, to help keep the resort functional.
During the Crisis Time an Opportunity to Re-invent Tourism Industry
This crisis is the best time to re-invent the tourism industry to become more sustainable and to better protect the environment. The tourism industry of the South Pacific greatly depends on the coral reefs, yet the old ways were damaging the environment. Coral gardening, if it is done by properly trained professionals, and as part of a wider conservation plan (and of course using the super corals), can help the corals survive into the future, while providing meaningful livelihoods for Pacific islanders.
JULY 15TH IS GLOBAL GIVING'S NEXT BONUS DAY: GIFTS FROM $250 TO $1,000 RECEIVE A 30% TO 50% MATCH.
Every gift is precious at any time. Your thoughtful donations continue to restore life to ensure a dynamic, thriving reef seascape--one of our planet's richest ecosystems.
Here's a link which includes a fun minute video from Northern Lau by Vatuvara Foundation: Watch--it's just like being with us> https://www.vatuvara.org/blog/2020/6/8/coral-restoration-in-northern-lau-for-a-healthy-and-safe-ocean?fbclid=IwAR05rltlFqB0tkTyNAbd9BYvtwZJPSUBOUj__kxYlW5hCPWtZr1EZ3mVEHM
Thanks for helping make this important work a reality,
Transporting corals to the new algae-free nursery
Volunteer helpers: Beka, Jope, and Joni
Securing mother corals to the nursery table
Mother corals will be trimmed to restore reefs
Team Coral: Keleni, Tevita, Austin, and Sarah
Roosters and Coconuts to the Rescue
Fiji Salusalu Rooster
The colorful roosters are coming into their own high season here at the Happy Chicken farm- time for rebuilding and improving the flock to meet the increasing need for baby chicks. The country is shut down due to Corona virus and imported chicks can no longer be flown into the country from New Zealand. Fiji normally imports over 20 million fertile eggs and chicks per year, providing poultry and eggs to much of the South Pacific region, but this crisis is affecting air transport.
If you've been following the hen and rooster tales recently, you'll recall our flock has taken some hard hits and suffered severe set-backs....so much so that we've had to sell off most of our six flocks and to rebuild the nucleus of our superior breeders from the chickens that were not affected. In Fiji we call the foraging local chickens "jangli chickens" - a Hindi word, as we have a lot of people of Indian descent here. The word jangli means "wild"- the same word root as "jungle".
Breeding and then Choosing Mr. Right Rooster:
We tried for seven years to bring in heritage chicken breeds from overseas, but it proved impossible, so we worked to create our own productive dual purpose (for both eggs and meat), mixed breed of chickens. We started by selecting the best local jangli roosters we could find and crossing them with imported shaver brown egg laying chickens, which were the only egg chickens allowed into the country from overseas. Every year we raised up at least a hundred of these mixed breed chickens, and we sold off the smaller roosters and hens, and kept the biggest and the most beautiful. So over the past ten years or so, we have produced a very productive mixed breed of chickens for the communities..... and the breed has gotten better with each passing year primarily through selecting the best roosters from each generation.
A good hen lays eggs for three years, but in mixed age flocks, (which most flocks are here), the farmers cannot tell how old each hen is, so it is just a guessing game for retiring hens from the flock. So we are now trying to create specific breeds of chickens so that the farmers can know how old their hens are, and so they will know which ones to select for culling (those that are ~4 years old). That is what my grandmother taught me, and really the only way to manage a multi-year flock.
Each breed is based on a unique color or form. On researching the internet, we found that for some breeds, the hens and roosters do not look anything like each other- so it's challenging, yet fun deciding which roosters to pair up with which sorts of hens, as I divide the chickens up into reasonable breeding groups, based on the closest heritage breeds. We have some real beauties here at the farm, and I include some photos below from two of the new breeding groups. From these groups we will soon collect the eggs and hatch the chicks and raise them up and then further select for size and color and egg production. We hope that after three years, we will have created several good breeds for the country.
I looked online yesterday at chicken breeds to try to figure out what some of my interesting chickens must be related to Norfolk Gray chickens, very rare breed, which seems to have somehow gotten to Fiji long ago. We are calling these gray/white fringed chickens "Saluasalu" chickens which means "flower lei". Many of the happy chickens look somewhat like the Welsummer breed, and others. In time we hope to produce breeds that look like Sussex, Australorp, Rhode Island Red, and Anconas. One of the new breeding groups is a shiny greenish black rose comb chicken-some with small red markings around the neck, and with beautiful gold and red roosters with a glossy greenish black tail. The Rose Comb birds are one of my best layers, but these hens also often hide their eggs in the bushes. The disappear for three weeks, only to reappear with a dozen fuzzy chicks following behind. For local farmers, these chickens will be important for hatching out their own chickens, and the rose comb eggs can be substituted for any eggs.
Addressing Impending Food Shortfalls Due to Covid-19 Import Restrictions:
Besides significant damage to the local farmers and village comunities from two cyclones since our last report, the most important development is that there is a developing shortage of imported egg laying chickens, which are required to maintain the egg industry of Fiji. The imported chicks are no longer available, as the cargo flights are so few. In 6-9 months a shortage of eggs is expected to develop, and this situation might last for up to two years. W ithout egg producing chickens and abundant eggs, coral reef fish and river prawns will be targeted and could quickly become overfished. Our challenge now is how can we produce more high quality egg producing chickens in larger numbers- and quickly in the hatchery?
With the culling of most of our hens last year, we are now getting only eight dozen eggs per week for hatching, not enough to scratch the surface of the needs. So I called Pranil, a local egg and organic vegetable farmer on the coral coast, as he has 330 young brown egg layer hens, and I proposed to buy 20 of his hens for crossing with some of my best roosters, as I had five surplus breeding roosters. What ended up happening is that I have given him five of my five best super roosters as barter, and he will give me ten dozen fertile eggs per each rooster, or a total of 50 dozen eggs, which I will hatch and begin distributing to the farmers as a 1/2 to 3/4 egg bird cross. Subsequent eggs from Pranil's farm will be hatched in our incubators and the chicks will split 50/50 between Pranil and the Happy Chicken project. The eggs produced from these Fiji egg layer chickens will be of mixed colors, as three of the breeding roosters hatched from a light blue egg, they will father hens which lay olive green eggs, as dark brown + blue = olive green. I will grow up 100 or so of these chickens, to see how fast they grow and how many eggs they lay etc for comparison with imported egg layers. Assuming that they do really well, we will then have multi colored layers available for free-range small egg farmers. That would help give the poor farmers of Fiji a boost. So fingers crossed that this will work out for maximum benefit for all. The first eight dozen of these eggs went into the incubator just yesterday.
Coconuts as Chicken and Human Food: Another long term vision is finally coming true!
After placing an order and paying for improved coconut seedlings four years ago, the seedlings finally arrived at the farm just two weeks ago! The 5,000 coconut seedlings came by boat and truck all the way from Taveuni Island, three hundred kilometers distant. When the trees mature in only five or six years, the they will bear magnificent large coconuts the size of soccer balls. So we are also giving out these wonderful coconut seedlings to communities and to farmers of our happy chickens. The coconuts make excellent chicken feed, as well as human food plus numerous useful products, such as virgin coconut oil, vegan coconut cheese, toddy sugar, toddy vinegar, and soap. We have begun training communities in production of these products, using coconuts already growing at the farm.
Salusalu Hens- Real Beauties
Fiji Rosecomb Rooster and Hens
Pranil and brother and their organic farm
Happy Rooster and Imported Egg Layer Hens
Coconut Seedlings by the Truck-load
Rooster Tales: Resplendent Chickens Food for Fiji
By Austin Bowden-Kerby, PhD - Corals for Conservation Founder
Fiji Rose Comb
The colorful roosters are coming into their own high season here at the Happy Chicken farm. It is a time for rebuilding and improving the flock to meet community needs for baby chicks, as the country is shut down due to Corona virus and imported chicks are not being flown into the country from New Zealand. Fiji normally imports over 20 million fertile eggs and day-old chicks and provides poultry and eggs to the South Pacific region.
If you've been following the hen and rooster tales recently, you'll recall our flock has taken some hard hits and suffered severe set-backs....so much so that we've had to sell off most of our six flocks and to rebuild the nucleus of our superior breeders from the chickens that were not affected.
In Fiji we call the foraging chickens "jangli chickens" - a Hindi word, as we have a lot of people of Indian descent here. The word jangli means "wild", and wildlands in India are known as "jungle". Everyone says that jungli chicken tastes so good, not like the mass produced (unhappy) ones raised on big poultry farms. The fresh eggs are also wonderful and of all colors- cream, brown, green and even light blue!
Choosing Mr. Right Rooster:
We tried for seven years to bring in heritage chicken breeds from overseas, but it proved impossible, so we worked to create a productive dual purpose (for both eggs and meat), mixed breed of chickens. We started by selecting the best local roosters we could find and crossing them with imported shaver brown egg laying chickens, which were one of two types of chickens allowed into the country from overseas (the other breed proved unusable). Every year we raised up at least a hundred mixed breed chickens, and from that we sold off the smaller roosters and hens, and kept the biggest and the most beautiful. So we produced a very productive mixed breed of chickens for the communities over time and it got better with each passing year.
A good hen lays eggs for three years, but in mixed age flocks, (which most are), the farmer usually can not tell how old each hen is, so it is just a guessing game for retiring hens from the flock. So we are now trying to create specific breeds of chickens, so that the farmers can know how old their hens are. That way they will know which ones to select for culling (4+ year olds). Researching on the Internet, we found that for some breeds, the hens and roosters do not look anything like each other- so it's challenging, yet fun. I am now dividing the chickens up into reasonable breeding groups, based on the closest heritage breeds I can find photos of. We have some real beauties here at the farm, and I include some photos below of the new breeding groups I have created. From these groups we will collect the eggs and hatch the chicks and raise them up and then further select for size and color and egg production, and after three years, we might get some very good breeds for the country.
That is what my grandmother taught me, and really the only way to manage a multi-year flock. I looked online yesterday at chicken breeds to try to figure out what some of my interesting chickens must be related to. Norflok Gray, a very rare breed, seems to have somehow gotten to Fiji long ago, also Welsummer. I can get Sussex and Australorps and Rhode Island Reds, and Anconas, or something that looks similar. One of the breeds is a black rose comb chicken with small red markings around the neck. With these beautiful mostly gold and red roosters, I get what seems to be one of my best layer birds, but these hens often want to set and hatch their eggs. I need to take some good photos of each group.
The hardest thing is to choose the right rooster for the hens of a particular sort, because the hens and roosters do not look anything like each other in many breeds.
If I create the breeds, will people keep them true to form? Or does it fall apart when I am gone?
Addressing Looming Food Shortfall Due to Covid-19 Import Restrictions:
Even more important development is that the chicks of the egg chickens that are needed to maintain the egg industry in Fiji are no longer available in Fiji as the cargo flights are so few. Thus in 9-12 months a shortage of eggs might develop. We do not know how long this situation will hold, but it might be for two years? Without chickens and eggs the poor coral reef fish will have no chance, so our time has come. How can we produce more high quality egg birds in larger numbers?
At the moment, we culled out 75% of our chickens late last year, as we had
had diseases and I was too involved with the corals, plus the hatchery manager resigned as she has a baby. So I am only getting about two dozen eggs a day, up from one dozen last week and only half a dozen the week before that. I have about 70 hens, and so I will be getting 4-6 dozen eggs per day by the end of June.
I called Pranil, a local egg farmer on the coast who I know, as he has 330 young brown egg layer hens. I had wanted to buy 20 of them for crossing with some of my best roosters, but what ended up happening is that I have given him five of my best super roosters as barter. Next he will give me ten dozen fertile eggs per each rooster, or a total of 50 dozen eggs, which I will hatch and begin distributing to the farmers as a 1/2 to 3/4 egg bird cross. Three of ten roosters hatched from a green egg, so I expect some olive egg layers.
Out of the cross, which is the result of dark brown + blue color gene, I will also grow up 50 or so of the chickens. That way I can see how fast they grow and how many eggs they lay etc. for comparison. If they do really well, then we will have layers of 3-4 colors available for free-range small egg farmers. That would really help give the poor farmers a boost.
So fingers crossed that this will work out for maximum benefit for all.
We are also giving out the wonderful coconuts to the farmers and especially those with happy chickens. 5,000 coconut seedlings (back-ordered from 2 years ago & when mature will boast magnificent coconuts) is a lot to deal with.
The chickens all seem healthy now and we sold off 60 of the smallest roosters as they were fighting. At least 7 of the best ones went into breeding on other farms- I could not see people eating those good ones. I still have too many, but how to part with such good stock? Saving them for when I find a farmer like Pranil with some good hens to cross them with sounds like a plan.
Our Reigning Super Star Rooster:
Let me introduce our prince of a rooster, Salusalu, so named because his showy neck rings give him the appearance of wearing a flower lei. He's plump, he's feisty, he's LOUD, he's irresistible, and I find him to be a spirit lifter and interesting company when I go about my morning seed scattering chores. He's so dominant that he gives me confidence the stock will gain increased hardiness during his reign.
Now there have been some mysterious happenings out at the chicken yard. For starters, Hurricane Harold blew through Fiji with a force not foreseen by anyone. The rain was pelting us for days prior and the wind was steadily becoming stronger. I had made my way out to board up the chicken keeper's house, as an extra precaution, and found I could not make headway back to my house. I retreated to shelter with the chickens and our three geese. Who knew what might happen, when POW, the neighbor's roof blew off. Even the tree where the horse was tethered teetered and fell, but the horse had enough sense to get clear. In all the commotion, it was difficult to assess damage.
Next followed nine days without main power, and our cistern of stored water was running down. Luckily, our hatchery has solar power, and that's where we recharged our phone batteries to stay in touch with the outside world.
Last week, I lost two roosters. I thought they had been stolen, but turned out this was not the case. The crafty fellows had ducked under a tear in the fence. Often I use what's on hand for repairs, so I proceeded to fix the spot. Why not re-enforce with the thorns of a bougainvillea? It soon became evident that what started out as a good idea, lacked a great deal in application. Yes, the fence was fixed, but I came away with my hands and face pierced and considerably worse for wear. In one of my better moves, I hired some neighbors to help with the bigger hurricane clean-up tasks.
Happy Chicken land is disease free and gearing up to a return of full chicken levels of 300 chicks per week. A big unknown in the food security of Fiji is whether New Zealand will become Covid-19 free. This is critical because factory bred chickens from there account for 20 million per year. We know these imported standard chickens are not well suited to our tropical climate, but for the present they account for a huge portion of the market. Our methods using natural foraging and supplementing with some other nutrition from unused parts of the coconuts is far superior, but the scale is small. Our plan is to continue breeding and sharing heat hardy, more self-sufficient chickens suitable for supplying villages and culturally the best way to go.
We are ever grateful to all you have done to make this vision of tropical happy chickens a reality. Your generosity has kept the breeding program alive during some bumps and now your help is bringing the production levels safely back up to capacity.
Salusalu (Flower Lei) Rooster
Salusalu Hens
Salusalu Chickens - Creating a New Breed for Fiji
Fiji Rosecomb Chickens Make Excellent Mother Hens

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French football expert Julien Laurens and the FC panel examine Fabinho's move to Liverpool and how the Reds' midfield will take shape in 2018-19.
Jurgen Klopp has said Liverpool's preseason will offer the perfect platform for new signings Naby Keita and Fabinho to adapt to learn and adapt to their style.
Keita and Fabinho were both present at Melwood on Monday to undergo testing as a total of 26 Liverpool players returned to the club after the summer break.
Speaking to Liverpool's official website , Klopp stressed the importance of having the duo in attendance right at the start of Liverpool's summer schedule, which will see them play nine friendlies, starting on Saturday at Chester FC.
"Very, very happy to finally have Naby here. It took a while," Klopp said. "Fabinho is also here and that's perfect for the moment.
"It's even better they can start from the first day with the training because they have to learn the most, they have to adapt to our style of play.
"We have nine games until the season starts and we will need them all. They all are important in a different way. They are here, we can start, that's good."
Those players who have been on international duty over the summer will return at a later date, having been granted an extended break.
Preparing for the upcoming campaign, Klopp wants his Liverpool side to build on their consecutive top-four finishes and appearance in last season's Champions League final.
"That's the plan," he added. "We are always ambitious, we are still ambitious, so we did a few nice things in the last couple of years, but we know as well that we can still improve so we want to build on the things we've achieved so far.
"We know all the good things, we know all the not so good things. Life is always [about] learning from your experiences, I hope we can show that.
"The first day is a testing day so the boys have to show how they worked through the summer period.
"I had a rest apart from being on the telephone for plenty of hours, but the boys will obviously have a programme -- and if they did it the tests will be good and we won't have to do that much physical work, but if they didn't it will be a little bit more intense!"
Ahead of the start of the preseason, Liverpool announced that Mohamed Salah had signed a new five-year contract at the club as a reward for his record-breaking first campaign on Merseyside.
"It is a fantastic sign, I love it," Klopp said. "It only shows the big difference this club has made.
"For the boys, they really know we are back on track. We are not where we want to be, but we are on a good way.
"These kind of players like him and Bobby [Firmino], they want to stay and be part of this in the future and that's really a fantastic sign. It's a big achievement for all of us.
"I really think the atmosphere around the club is again exceptional. That is what we all enjoy over the season and now we know that for quite a long time Mo Salah will be a part of it."


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Caption: TTC PCC 4438 (an A7-class streetcar built by CC&F in 1949) works the Dundas route bound for Dundas West Subway Station, westbound on Dundas Street about to cross Yonge Street during some trackwork. Pedestrians, in typical 70's attire, wait for the lights change to cross south, next to the usual Toronto Star, Toronto Sun and Globe & Mail newspaper boxes crowding the streetcar stop. Yonge Street was (and still is) a major transfer point between west-east streetcar routes and the Yonge Subway line, and one can just spot the stairway entrance to Dundas Station visible beside the streetcar.
4438 is passing the old iconic Brown Derby Tavern, which resided at the northeast corner of Yonge and Dundas from 1949 until 1974 (in this view, it appears to have been already closed with the entrance boarded up). The building was renovated and opened again with a row of small streetside restaurants and shops (see a 1976 view here), which lasted into the early 2000's when it was finally demolished for the current 10 Dundas East development. The Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's Victoria Building is visible in the background off of nearby Victoria Street (Ryerson was not yet a university until 1993).
Robert D. McMann photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
Photographer: Robert D. McMann photo, Dan Dell'Unto coll [482] (more) (contact)
Railway: Toronto Transit Commission (search)
Reporting Marks: TTC 4438 (search)
Train Symbol: Dundas (wbnd - Dundas West Stn) (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Dundas St. W at Yonge St. (search)
City/Town: Toronto (search)
There were a few sets of those illuminated signs still in use in the late 2000′s (notably at tne NW corner of Queen & Bay), but I think now they've all been replaced. They've become collector's items in the "road geek" hobby. Introduced in the mid-late 60s, a blue background indicated a north-south road, and a yellow background a west-east.
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Love those old light-up street signs.


How many conductors in the 220 receptacle?
in the main shop or in the sea can with the lathe. IIRC the power is in the sea can with the compressor in it so it would be more difficult to pull a 4 wire cct across to the second can.
What you have works from the power side but can cause a ground loop problem which is a whole nother can of worms.
3 conductors red, black,green. I know I could feed it your way by tapping one side to neutral, Inspector told me he frowns on that. I have done it on the hyd press, and his attitude is that anything that is plugged in, he will not worry about as long as the plug and breaker is to code. Anything plugged in is an appliance to him.
Mill is with the lathe. It has its own sub panel with #10 wire running to the main breaker panel to feed the mill and the lights.
Lathe is on another sub panel which also feeds the welders.
Last edited by Ironman; 11-19-2018 at 02:48 PM.
I think we have a communications issue A sub panel is a load center that accepts breakers. it would be fed by a four conductor wire Red Black White and Green.
A dryer receptacle wired to such a panel provides all required voltages with only one ground wire.
A three wire 240 VAC receptacle such as a welding receptacle provides red,black and green for a 240 volt machine such as a welder it does not provide a proper way to get 120 VAC Because using the ground as a current carrying return is potentially lethal if you develop a groung fault problem.
using a separate 120 VAC circuit for the controls means that you have two ghreen wires from the common distribution point to the mill they make a shorted loop that can have very large currents flowing through it because it becomes effectively a shorted transformer secondary.
The primary is the current carrying conductors is any or all wires in the loop.
In theory the magnetic fields generated by the current carrying conductors cancel exactly In practice it is close but not perfect and that uncancelled magnetic field will induce a voltage into the ground loop which will be converted to heat in the ground wire.THe magnitude of the induced current is pretty unpredictable and usualy quite low but it can be large enough to get the smaller cross section portion hotter that the wires temperature rating.
This can happen at any time it is not dependent on the machine or the power feeds using power.
The simplest way to eliminate this possible problem is to disconnect the smaller ground wire that feeds the control section . Then confirm with an ohm meter that you still have a low resistance connection from the machine to the disconnected ground wire. this breaks the loop but still provides proper safety grounding to the machine.
If you do not have that low resistance when the second ground is disconnected you have a dangerous wiring issue that need to be corrected.
That is correct. And how I did it. I thought you were asking about the wiring from the plug to the VFD.
I could disconnect the ground and do as you suggested, but I forgot to mention there is another path to ground which I have no intention of changing. The whole machine sits on a 1/4" thick plate that is part of the sea can floor frame which is welded to the screw piles going into the ground. The screw piles are accepted by the electrical inspector as my ground for the electric panel.
Last edited by Ironman; 11-19-2018 at 04:26 PM.
And while we're at it, I recently re-wired and upgraded the daughter and SIL's house panel to 125 amp from 60 amp and moved it to the basement.
It was a bit hairy as I had to do it live without pulling the meter. They did not want me to break the meter seal.
When I was done, they are all happy that the lights are brighter and the frig has quit making noise and runs quiet.
The voltage is where it is supposed to be, never checked it prior, and the wiring was quite "unusual" but nothing that should have caused the conditions that they say have improved.
So I wonder what I did that changed things.
As far as the drill press it's a 21" Cincinnati Bickford super service drill press. Later model with the square collum. Actually bought it from one of the metalworking YouTube guys down in south Georgia. Need to go pick it up.
This may give you some info. Manual is available too.
That would be the exact drill. I've followed Keiths channel for a few years. I had messaged him about a shaper I had seen on Craigslist and he offed me that drill.
I think it's way ahead of the older Cincinnati I have.
I would love to find one like that around here.
Went and picked up the drill from Keith Rucker today. Got to check out his shop. I like the Carlton radial drill he has that replaced this one.


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June 27, 2019 martin colyerIllustration, Lucinda Rogers, New York, Simon Esterson Leave a comment
In a "30 years ago" frame of mind, here's a brief post in the hope that some readers of Adventures in Commissioning would be interested to see (or support) Lucinda Rogers' wonderful drawings of New York over the last three decades.
"In my career as an illustrator I've worked for many different companies, publications, and organisations including the New Yorker, New York Magazine, the Guardian, Times and Telegraph; the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bloomberg and publishers Penguin, Bloomsbury and Little, Brown. This often means being sent out to draw people, places and things: the practice known as 'reportage'. But the New York drawings were not commissioned by anyone. They are my own project…"
Beautifully designed by Simon Esterson, there are 8 days to go to fund the last £10,000 needed for the project to become a reality.
Find the Kickstarter page here.
Interlude: Now you see it…
January 23, 2015 martin colyerBambi, Banksy, Graffiti Art, Richardson's Mews, Street Art, Walton Fine Arts, Warren Street Leave a comment
So we were driving home last Sunday, and a couple of workmen were at the entrance to the tiny street that leads into ours. We waved at them, gesturing that we'd park our car in the major street, and wouldn't make them move their wood and tarpaulin structure. It was similar to those put up by water or gas workers when they're doing repairs. We didn't think much about it until Michèle glanced down from one of our windows that overlooks the street. And saw this:
someone finishing off the artwork that they'd sprayed onto the wall. Much excitement followed, especially as it was extremely close to Banksy's style… a stencil of Bruce Lee, Je Suis Charlie written on his vest, some stars falling from the sky onto his yellow umbrella. There were two guys in Hi-Viz jackets, who did most of the tarpaulin construction, and someone in the middle with silver hair in a Toshiro Mifune kind of top-knot. We didn't want to disturb them so we took some discreet photos and went down to have a look after they had magicked their temporary hut away.
Then we found that it had a title, People Power, and was signed, Bambi, who turns out to be well-known in her own right as a Street Artist.
Great, we thought. That dull wall has been transformed with something quirky and interesting… until we arrived back at 11.30 that night from the cinema and someone had painted over it, leaving very little trace of our six-hour art gallery.
Interlude: Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
October 17, 2013 martin colyerEye Magazine, Hans-Jürgen Schaal, Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties, Robert Nippoldt, Taschen Leave a comment
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
Robert Nippoldt, Hans-Jürgen Schaal
Hardcover with CD, 8.5 x 13.4 in., 144 pages, £ 34.99
Review from Eye Magazine, Autumn 2013
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator Robert Nippoldt, a lavish telling of the story of Jazz in New York. Texts about the movers and shakers of the Jazz world at that time – Henderson, Hawkins, Ellington, Whiteman et al – are added to pieces on recording techniques and important locations, to summon up the glories of the Uptown world of Jazz in Manhattan in the era of Gatsby. Perhaps that explains its translation into English now, as it originally appeared in 2007 in Germany. These texts are set against Nippoldt's slightly crude hatched felt pen-like drawings, all done in black, brown and beige (to quote a Duke Ellington Suite).
Of course, the problem with handsome is that handsome is a lot about the facade. There are dynamic spreads that are seductive as you glance through, but on examination appear a little flimsy. This book, created art-first with a luxurious flatplan giving the drawings primacy over the space, somehow doesn't quite justify its size – even with the layers of fact boxes detailing recording careers and instruments played. These cute little touches – the use of musicians' signatures, instrument symbols and small drawings of the main players dropped into the text where their name appears – are nice, but the attention to detail falters when it comes to the type, with a truly nasty italic choice.
For every lovely touch (audience shadows on the front of Armstrong's stage, reminiscent of The Watchmen), there's a rather rotoscoped Joe Venuti. For every vivid Manhattan nightscape, there's a clunkily drawn cornet, not working hard enough for the space it occupies. There are some cool graphic ideas. There's a nice map of Manhattan showing the locations of the Hot Nitespots, and a brace of spreads with the waveforms of the 20 songs from the attached CD, along with a timing graph (only "Rhapsody In Blue", commissioned by Paul Whiteman from George Gershwin, is over 3 minutes 20 seconds, and continues by itself onto the second spread).
But, looming over all drawings of old musicians, is the great Robert Crumb. Looking back at Crumb you understand what's missing here – it's that lunatic passion that inhabits Crumb's line, that puts fire in the eyes of his portraits. In Nippoldt's hands they're pleasant enough photo-derived graphic representations, but they're not really alive. And the same goes for the text, a good enough introduction to the subject (albeit not impressive to the jazz scholars that I ran it past), but somewhere between the vivacity of a true comic-book tale and a proper work of scholarship. In the end I didn't quite know who it was intended for or where it will find its audience. Certainly anyone with more than a passing interest in Jazz would enjoy being reminded of these composers and singers and players, but whether they'd indulge the pages of blown-up record surfaces or annotated drawings of old gramophones, I'm not sure. According to the note at the back, "[Nippoldt's] screwball book projects put the fear of God into him and his publishers". I can see why.
Interlude: Linus Magazine
August 7, 2013 martin colyerFrank Dickens, Guido Crepax, Jeremy Leslie, Linus Magazine, Martin Colyer, Moroni's Old Compton Street, My Favo(u)rite Magazine, Ralph Steadman, Roland Topor, The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek 5 Comments
Written for the My Favo(u)rite Magazine Project, organised by Jeremy Leslie and Andrew Losowsky to raise funds to help Bob Newman, US art director and magazine lover, after he had a seizure and collapsed. The brief was: "Choose your favourite single magazine issue, and tell us about it. Any magazine, from any country, from any era."
Linus Magazine. Bought in Moroni's, home of magazines, on Old Compton Street, Soho, in May 1970, when I was still buying boy's comics full of war and derring-do. I loved Peanuts – who didn't? It had Snoopy on the cover, so it was an obvious purchase. But inside, a world unknown. Put together by Ralph Steadman and Frank Dickens, it ranged across the globe to find extraordinary things, all done in the name of comics. It was racy, it was smart, it was funny. It placed Dickens' none-more-British detective strip bang up against Guido Crepax's Nazis and nubiles from Milan. It had Fellini's sketches! It had The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek, where you read the strip then turned it over for the conclusion of the story, and the drawings miraculously made sense that way too… Coming across Roland Topor probably affected my entire career in magazines. As soon as I saw Brad Holland and Peter Till's work, I recognised the visual brilliance that I'd so admired in Topor. This was extraordinary stuff, and I never found another issue, but, like the Velvet Underground, its work was done.


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Sushant Singh Rajput case: petition filed in Supreme Court, this demand from CBI
Late Bollywood actors Sushant Singh Rajput Nearly six months have passed since his death. But still no conclusion has been reached on this. Now in this case Supreme court A petition has been filed in
It has been written in this petition that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) be directed to immediately submit the status report of Sushant case to the Supreme Court.
Let us know that CBI has been investigating this case for almost four months.
This demand was placed before the Supreme Court in the petition
According to the petition of Puneet Dhanda, even after four months, the CBI investigation showed nothing. In this case, the top court should order the CBI to file its status report in the court.
It is further written in the petition that the Supreme Court should also order the CBI to complete its investigation on the matter within two months. After this, file your report in the trial court and give a copy in the Supreme Court.
This was said in the petition
Dhanda further wrote in his petition that the CBI was not acting with full responsibility in the matter. According to the law, charges in serious cases like murder have to be filed within 90 days. While the agency seems to be failing in its work.
In this case, along with the administration, the name of our country is being tarnished in the entire world along with unnecessary delays.
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PIL filed in Supreme Court seeking direction to CBI to submit a status report in late actor Sushant Singh Rajput death case. pic.twitter.com/UyOqN3Qv7h
Riya Chakraborty had serious allegations
Let me tell you that in the Sushant case, the actor's family made many serious allegations against his girlfriend and actress Riya Chakraborty. Bihar Police Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) were also investigated in the investigation of the case.
Sushant was found dead on 14 June
Significantly, Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead on 14 June this year under mysterious circumstances in his flat in Bandra area. A case of suicide was registered by the Mumbai Police.
More than 50 people were questioned in this case. At the same time, it was also seen from nepotism-prone angle.
According to reports, Sushant was struggling with depression. Because of which he committed suicide. He was just 34 years old.
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SAN FRANCISCO - APRIL 29: Third Baseman Scott Rolen #17 of the Philadelphia Phillies leaps in the air after throwing the ball to first base against the San Francisco Giants during the game on April 29, 2002 at Pac Bell Park in San Francisco, California. The Giants won the game 8-5. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)
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What's open, what's closed on Veterans Day 2019
Rider University Veterans Day display (Kristine Brown)
TRENTON — Monday is both the official holiday for Veterans Day and the Monday observance, as the nation honors those who have served in the armed forces.
Originally known as Armistice Day, President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed it as a holiday in 1919 to be celebrated on Nov. 11, to honor World War I veterans. In 1954, the day was expanded to include World War II veterans, and the word "veteran" replaced "armistice."
NJ programs aim to keep vets from taking their own lives
Here's a list of what's open and closed for Veterans Day on Monday:
Federal offices
State offices (including the Motor Vehicle Commission)
U.S. Postal Service (UPS and FedEx will deliver and pick up on a normal weekday schedule)
Courts: local, state and federal
Bond markets: No trading. The stock market, however, will be open for regular trading.
Banks have the option to close on Veterans Day.
NJ Transit will operate on a normal weekday schedule.
National parks are open, with free admission for all.
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The Royal Ontario Museum plans to brighten up what amounts to its front porch on Bloor St. W., putting in some greenery and installing an outdoor event space. It's a relatively small thing, but it's another welcome sign that, after a decade of presenting an intimidating face to the world, the ROM has decided to make it easier for us to love it.
The first move came in December, when the museum reopened its grand entrance facing east onto Queen's Park. It was closed in 2007 when the stern, jagged "Crystal" addition opened on Bloor.
Visitors were forced to enter through sliding glass doors at the base of the Crystal. Then they had to pick their way through an entrance area that even fans of the Daniel Libeskind project conceded was confusing and sterile. Certainly not welcoming.
Intentionally or not, the ROM was sending a negative message: You have to really want to get into this building, and you're probably going to feel uncomfortable while you do it.
In fact, the whole Bloor St. entrance area has been a missed opportunity. The museum's director acknowledges that it's basically "a lot of hardscape" — in a city that's crying out for human-scale urban gathering spots.
The ROM won't come out and admit it, but jamming the "Crystal" onto the north face of the venerable museum hasn't worked well, especially if you believe that welcoming the outside world into a museum should be an essential part of its mission. It took 10 years, but it's good to see the ROM's leadership start to undo the damage.


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Apple's new iPhone strategy appears to be paying healthy dividends for the company, according to a new research note from analyst firm Canaccord Genuity. The iPhone 5s is outselling the older Samsung Galaxy S4 at all four major U.S. retailers according to the firm's findings, but the surprising twist is that the iPhone 5c is outselling the Samsung flagship rival at both AT&T and Sprint, too.
Apple could learn a lot from the fall of Burberry. The once-exclusive fashion brand became associated with trashy youth by greedily licensing out its signature tan chequered pattern for use on baseball caps and other cheap clothes. Suddenly, the rich clientele it had catered to for a century wanted nothing to do with Burberry. Could Apple's iPhone brand have the same trouble after selling the cheaper, color-splashed iPhone 5c?
Obviously there are a lot of differences between Burberry and Apple. Apple isn't licensing the iPhone name to be shoddily produced by another company. And people buy iPhones for their utility, not just their fashion. But by selling cheaper (than the 5s), loudly-colored phones, there's a chance it could negatively impact the perception of the status of the iPhone brand to more sophisticated luxury consumers.
That, more than anything, is the message of the iPhone 5C. In previous years, the arrival of a new iPhone was accompanied by the low-key repositioning of the previous model at a lower price tier — a strategy that allowed Apple to sell $99 iPhones, but didn't allow the company to advertise them as new, interesting products. The old models sat with quiet pride in the corner of the Apple Store as people flocked in to see the latest magic from Cupertino, heralded by no banner except that of glories past.
That's all changed with the 5C. It is less a new product than it is a vibrant reminder that Apple has the best marketing team in the business; the formerly staid and serious iPhone 5 all dressed up in a shiny new plastic suit and a thousand-watt smile, ready for a reintroduction alongside the more radically updated iPhone 5S.


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Asha is a survivor of the June 3 volcano eruption. She is a fabulous young dog in every way!
We brought Asha and her three tiny 4 or 5 week old babies (Lava, Lahar and Ceniza) in shortly after the June 3 volcano eruption of Fuego. The four dogs were found at ground zero. They were in pretty awful condition (previous to the eruption), and the babies were burned and very sick.
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Omar Cricket Club complete grand slam by annexing Naya Nazimabad's Peace Cup
Labels: Arif Habib, Hussain Lawai, Naya Nazimabad Lawai Stadium, Naya Nazimabad Peace Cup, Omar Cricket Club, Pakistan News and Features Services, PNFS, Qasmi Cricket Club
What a fascinating sight it has been to witness the flood-lit matches on the very pleasant nights of Karachi at the picturesque Naya Nazimabad Lawai Stadium whose settings resemble to those lovely cricket grounds of Australia and South Africa.
Arif Habib, Chairman, Arif Habib Group, deserves the credit for having developed such a magnificent cricket stadium in remarkably short span of time. His passion for the gentleman's game is well known and he has done a great service to the cricket enthusiasts of Karachi by gifting this wonderful ground to them.
The inaugural edition of the Peace Cup Twenty20 Cricket Tournament 2013, contested by some of the leading outfits of city, alongwith a few outstations ones, came to an end recently after the majority of the matches had been staged during the Holy month of Ramazan.
The Naya Nazimabad Peace Cup remained a spectacle for the participating cricketers as well as the large number of spectators who thoroughly enjoyed the close contests and, most significantly, complete 'peace' was observed in every match.
Omar Cricket Club extended their purple patch by winning the Peace Cup Twenty20 Cricket Tournament 2013 as they outwitted Qasmi Cricket Club by four runs in the tensely fought final on yet another beautiful night at the Naya Nazimabad Lawai Stadium.
Left-handed batsman Shaharyar Ghani and left-arm pacer Rumman Rais Khan were the stars of the final as Omar CC, despite a hat-trick by off-spinner Haris Ayaz, continued their march towards glory by annexing fifth local tournament. It was another feature in the cap of Nadeem Omar whose Omar Associates and Omar CC have dominated the local cricket scene.
Batting first, Omar CC was bowled out for 134 on the final ball of their innings. Shaharyar Ghani was the top scorer with 48 off 31 balls, hammering two sixes and four fours. Fakhar Zaman (32 not out) and Akbar-ur-Rahman (31) ensured a fighting total after the innings was rocked by the spin trio of Haris Ayaz (3-31), Wasim Ali (2-15) and Fahim Ahmed (2-24).
Qasmi CC failed in their pursuit of reaching the target of 135 although fine knocks from Zakir Malik (31), Mohammad Rizwan (25), Tariq Haroon (20) and Waqas Haroon (20) put them at striking distance. The raw pace of Rumman Rais Khan made the difference in the end as the youngster claimed four wickets for 15 runs to limit Qasmi CC to 130 for nine in 20 overs. Adnan Kalim (2-14) and Misbah Khan (2-20) also bowled superbly in what turned out to be a low-scoring thriller.
The prize distribution ceremony, in which cash awards of more than Rupees half a million were disbursed, was held at the ground immediately after the conclusion of the final with Samad A Habib, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Javedan Corporation Limited, being the chief guest of the night. Mohammad Iqbal, a former cricketer and Director of the corporation, also graced the occasion alongwith some other officials of the company, who had worked tirelessly to make the tournament a success story.
A total of 16 teams took part in the tournament and they were divided equally in four groups for the first round. The top two teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage of the competition having started with the quarter-finals.
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Cop Dressed as Donald Duck Sets Trap for Drivers, Rakes in $30,000 in Tickets in One Day
Melissa Dykes
Can you say "revenue generation"? No, I'm sorry, this is "catching dangerous criminals" (by first creating a dangerous situation so you can predictably label someone a criminal first).
Apparently the profession of police officer in America now amounts to little more than, well… What exactly is the word for this?
Entrapment much? Well, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Via The Free Thought Project:
Residents of a New Jersey town are disputing a recent trap that police set up for drivers this past Halloween. Last week, an undercover officer was dressed in a giant Donald Duck costume and paced back and forth on the sidewalk and street on a busy road.
Officers would then pull over drivers who failed to yield for the duck, and hit them with $230 traffic tickets. Police issued a whopping 130 tickets that day for a total take of $29,900.00.
It's like the cops all got together and said, "We really need another way of ripping off the American people we are supposed to be serving and protecting. Gee, I know! Hey Louie, you still have that creepy Donald Duck costume lying around?"
How is this "fighting crime"? An obnoxious guy dresses up as a giant duck and crosses the street over and over and over? If anything, that's putting himself and anyone driving in that area in danger just to rip people off, which would be the opposite of "protecting" by definition.
Most people see a person cross the street, they think that person is done. They don't think that person is going to immediately turn around and cross the street ten more times in a row…not to mention the spectacle of a man in a Donald Duck costume hanging out in the crosswalk probably held up traffic to begin with.
Do you think they teach people in those defensive driving classes to be on the lookout for a grown man dressed as a duck who may or may not be crossing the street several hundred times and basically working out in the crosswalk?
Wasn't there any other crime or anything of value going on in Fort Lee, New Jersey that day for the cops to do besides set people up to be ripped off? Or were they just that hard up for the cash? This sounds more like a mob tactic to shakedown town residents than something a respectable officer of the law should be wasting his time on.
Sadly, these traps are not only not new, they are the latest craze in law enforcement revenue generation.
The last time I wrote about this back in July, the Somerville Police Department represented in the video below wasn't even imaginative enough to give their officer a giant duck costume to make their point. It was just some guy nervously padding back and forth on the crosswalk.
As I said back then:
Where's the public education lesson here about crosswalk safety? Raising awareness to help pedestrians and drivers co-exist? There isn't, because what you just watched in that video isn't about that. Yes, drivers should stop for crosswalks, but if this intersection is really that busy and that dangerous for people to cross, they should put in a traffic light…not that most pedestrians cross the same street back-and-forth repeatedly for an hour in the first place…
And in that scenario, the responding cop who was raring to give out tickets is seen blowing through that intersection at top speed — the exact thing they are giving out tickets for! Good thing there weren't any pedestrians there.
If the police need to generate revenue that badly, why not have a nice bake sale and sell cookies like all halfway respectable organizations?
This is yet another shining example of the American police state in all its pathetic hilarity. Taxpayer funding is going to what? Protecting the taxpayers? No. Finding underhanded ways to take more of their funds. It should be called "taxpayer revenue generating."
What a joke.
Throw this on the pile of sleazy, underhanded police state tactics like Rahm Emanuel's administration making all of Chicago's yellow lights just 0.1 second shorter just to rake in an extra $8 million in new tickets; the fact that Keene, New Hampshire is suing a group of activists for putting change in people's parking meters because of the lost revenue generated by giving out parking tickets; and the cops in Waldo, Florida who finally outed their sheriff for enforcing illegal ticket quotas.
A retired police sergeant of 14 years wrote, "I am so annoyed at what is happening these days, in what I call 'indiscriminate revenue gathering' It is absolutely disgusting. The government and the Police Force need to hang their heads in shame."
He included a list of basic legal steps drivers can take to beat a ticket, which he says if even 10% of all ticketed drivers followed, would crash the whole system.
Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up!
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Residents can make full use of all of the shared facilities at 31 Place, which includes a lovely outdoor swimming pool set in a very pretty garden. Free parking is also provided for each resident and security is provided around the clock.
Residents can take a short stroll through this lively neighbourhood to reach Asok BTS station or Sukhumvit MRT station. On the way to this major transportation hub they will come across a wide range of shops, spas, bars and restaurants, which gives 31 Place a very prominent and interesting location in the centre of the city.


Brings a whole new meaning to the 'full kit w****r'.
Andy Flower has been axed as England boss after paying the price for the Ashes humiliation, and possibly in a sign Kevin Pietersen has won the power battle with his former boss.
England's worst-ever Ashes tour? Probably, but we've still managed to salvage some plus points from their humiliating Ashes walloping Down Under.
Kevin Pietersen has confirmed his desire to continue playing Test cricket for England.
Alastair Cook remains odds on to lead England in the next Ashes series despite their abject displays in Australia this winter.
When the end came at least it was quick. Australia delivered one final, painful humiliation to England as they completed a 5-0 Ashes series whitewash inside three days in Sydney.
England produced their worst collapse so far of a demoralising Ashes series as Australia moved within touching distance of a 5-0 whitewash in Sydney.
England made three changes for the final Ashes Test in Sydney - but it was the same old story as Australia wriggled off the hook to end day one on top.
Mitchell Johnson has accused England's batsmen of deliberately backing away from him in an attempt to psyche him out during this series.
Andy Flower has confirmed he intends to carry on as England coach following this Ashes series.
Alastair Cook has brushed aside questions over his future as England captain following a fourth successive defeat for his side in Australia.
In the end, the fourth humiliating defeat of this Ashes series proved the most painful as England were thrashed by eight wickets in Melbourne.
Australia require just 200 more runs to take a 4-0 Ashes series lead after England threw away a dominant position in Melbourne.
Piers Morgan was beaten, battered and humiliated when he took on former Australia quick Brett Lee in the MCG nets today.
England enjoyed by far and away their best day of this Ashes series so far as they seized control of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.
Kevin Pietersen compiled his highest score of this Ashes series but Australia got the better of the first day of this Boxing Day Test in front of a record crowd in Melbourne.
Graeme Swann announced his retirement from cricket overnight as England's catastrophic Ashes tour took another painful twist.


So, anyone who knows me well enough will know that im a superman nut job. Literally, i named my son after him (Clark, not superman, that would just be silly, also his mother will vehemently deny this but its true).
I have paintings (thanks to my bro), clothes, toys, whatever etc, but the one thing that every die hard superman fan should have is of course a costume. Now when i say costume, i don't mean a cheap rubies one you can pick up for twenty quid, no no, i mean their own proper superman suit.
This isn't something i made. In fact it was a raw cast from a mold used on Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. I bought it a few years ago and never touched it, mainly because i had originally planned to have it chrome dipped. Turns out whatever resin it was cast in wouldn't have stood up to the process, so i hand painted it instead.
I spent a week spot filling it with u-pol polyester paste to get rid of any small holes or imperfections, gave it a wet sand, primed and painted.
The end result wasn't too bad...but i still wish it could have been chromed!
The helmet is about half way to being finished now. Really all i need to do now is refine the edges (alot) the badge needs a bit more width and then the badge made and fitted. I'm also considering adding a bit more height to the raised red edges to make them more defined!
So ive finally decided to throw up some pictures of my Judge Dredd Helmet!
Originally i had wanted to make a more comic style version (and started a Pepakura version which ill post about another time) but after seeing Dredd3D and loving that helmet, i decided to give it ago.
This was a project i had wanted to try for a little while. Before i get to it theres a bit of back story i need to explain.
Im a massive Judge Dredd fan, have been for many years, read the comics, books and seen the flicks (both of them). I have always wanted a Judge Dredd helmet/costume/lawgiver, so naturally i thought seeing as halloween was round the corner i would get stuck in.
So! First up i decided to work on was the Lawgiver. For those not familiar with what that is, its the pistol used by the street Judges of Megacity One.
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Book Review, Little Fires Everywhere
We know at the beginning there is a family tragedy . In Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng spends the rest of the novel introducing us to the characters and circumstances that led to the hook. By the end we know who is responsible and why.
The story taps several issues, prominent among them the relationships in families and the secrecy between teenagers and their parents. Eleana and Bill Richardson are white and wealthy, residing in the community they selected to raise their four teenage children, three of which would probably attend ivy league schools. And then there was Izzy, the youngest, and the most difficult to raise, the neediest, and most emotional. Even her siblings are aware Izzy doesn't fit the plan Eleana , their mother, had for the perfect family system. Everything about Izzy doesn't fit.
The fire investigators said there were little fires everywhere and Izzy is missing, but so are Pearl and Mia, the Richardson's renters. There had been a conflict between the Richardsons and Mia. She had befriended a single mother whose child was in an adoptive placement. Parental rights hadn't been terminated and Bill Richardson would be the attorney representing the adoptive family. Simultaneously, Eleana is seeking the truth regarding Mia's past. Mia, the artist, spends most of her day with her creations, but to make ends meet she cleans and cooks for the Richardsons. Because Eleana suspects a betrayal, she is determined to investigate and discovers the reason Mia and her daughter move frequently.
The story touches on the interracial issues in adoption, surrogacy, abortion, class differences and the frustrations of a marginalized teenager. The inner rage of Izzy is released throughout the story and is relevant in today's climate of the rash of school shootings as a result of bullying and isolation. It's interesting that Ng's character chooses to victimize those closest rather than randomly shooting in an insitution, such as school.
As with most chaos, several situations could have been changed early if the characters had communicated or taken time to reason through their decisions, but these characters were true to life and living in their own insecurities and often made assumptions that weren't accurate. So in the end, there is some hope, but the damage has been done. I recommend this novel as a good read. Check it out on Amazon.


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River City Girls 2 and River City Girls Zero are on their way to Switch
News, Switch
River City Girls was a solid beat 'em up with tons of attitude, making a mark with its aesthetic and likable characters. Now, get ready to crack a few more skulls with familiar characters and some new ones — River City Girls 2 is on the way!
We are thrilled to officially announce River City Girls 2 – coming to PC and consoles next year! Return to the mean streets of River City with Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, & Riki – plus a few new playable characters! – for a fresh round of beat-'em-up action. Featuring 2p online co-op! pic.twitter.com/GX1t9IScRr
— WayForward (@WayForward) June 14, 2021
WayForward confirmed the news, promising new characters alongside the returning Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, and Riki. Past that and release platforms, not much else was shared. Physical copies will be available from Limited Run Games, who helped break the news alongside the announcement of a first-time localization for the game that helped inspire River City Girls in the first place.
River City Girls Zero is also on the way! It's the 1994 Super Famicom classic, Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka, in its original 16-bit glory, now with a new anime opening, manga cutscenes, and @MeganMcDuffee song – localized for the first time! Out on Switch late 2021! pic.twitter.com/TKeKc0HD2R
Shin Nekketsu Koha: Kunio-tachi no Banka will be released outside of Japan for the first time as River City Girls Zero! This 16-bit brawler is back with a new anime style opening, the same manga inspired cutscenes as River City Girls, and at least one song from the returning Megan McDuffee. It, too, will be getting a physical version on Nintendo Switch from Limited Run.
River City Girls 2 will be coming sometime in 2022, while River City Girls Zero will arrive late 2021.


Reliable sources in Pakistan have said that the acceptance of blood money by the heirs to the two Pakistanis who were killed by Raymond Davis on January 27, 2011, their withdrawal of the murder complaint against him, his release from detention in the Kot Lakpat jail of Lahore and his airlift from Lahore to the Bagram air base of the United States in Afghanistan and subsequently to the US naval base in Diego Garcia on March 16, 2011, followed an agreement reached between the Inter-Services Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency.
This was during talks held in Oman under the aegis of the Saudi intelligence under which the CIA has agreed not to run its own human intelligence network in Pakistani territory.
Under this agreement, while the US would be free to run its technical intelligence network, which provides TECHINT for the operations of the United States as well as Pakistan in the tribal belt, the US HUMINT requirements would in future be projected to the ISI, which has agreed to strengthen its HUMINT capability with assistance from the CIA.
To avoid embarrassing allegations of payment of blood money by official agencies of the US or Pakistan, it was reported to have been paid by the Saudi intelligence in the court before which Davis was being tried in Lahore on March 16.
1) Deployment of an increasing number of retired officers of the US intelligence community and Special Forces as contract employees in Pakistani territory without the knowledge and approval of the ISI for collecting HUMINT.
2) Ex-post facto grant of diplomatic status to them after they had arrived in Pakistan with official or ordinary visas by showing them as members of the staff of the US diplomatic mission in Pakistan.
The sources say the CIA has agreed to end both these practices. The agreement will not come in the way of the posting of regular staffers of the CIA under diplomatic cover in Pakistan for liaison with the Pakistani agencies. It will also not come in the way of officers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation being posted under diplomatic cover as legal attaches in the US missions to liaise with the Pakistani intelligence agencies and the police.
Raymond Davis, who was shown as a member of the technical and administrative staff of the US consulate-general in Lahore, had reportedly arrived in Pakistan with an official and not a diplomatic visa.
He was subsequently shown by the US as transferred to the US embassy in Islamabad, which upgraded his status to a diplomatic one. But he continued to function from the Lahore consulate. The unilateral upgradation of his status by the US embassy had not been accepted by the Pakistani foreign office.
The option of blood money had been there from the beginning, but was not seriously considered because the heirs to the two Pakistanis allegedly killed by Davis were under tremendous pressure from the Islamic fundamentalist organisations to not accept it.
The ISI refrained from pressuring them to accept the blood money, but once the US agreed to accept the ISI's demands in respect of HUMINT operations, the ISI intervened and persuaded the legal heirs to accept the money and move for the withdrawal of the prosecution of Davis.
Can ISI control the fallout?
The adverse public and jihadi reactions in Pakistan to the release were expected to some extent. The government is hopeful that the ISI, which handled the negotiations, would be able to contain the protests through its influence over the fundamentalist and jihadi organisations and prevent any new wave of reprisal attacks.
Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director-general of the ISI, has been given an extension of one more year from March 18, when he was due to retire.
But one should not over-estimate the ISI's ability to control the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Sunni extremist Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The recent assassinations of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab, and Shabaz Bhatti, minister for minority affairs, showed the limited nature of the ISI's control over these organisations.
The ISI has fairly effective control over the Punjabi Taliban organisations such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network, but its control over the TTP, the SSP and the LeJ is very weak.
Serious reprisal attacks could come from these organisations. Pakistan could be in for a renewed spell of reprisal suicide terrorism directed against the ISI and the political leadership.
Does the agreement also provide for the eventual release of Aafia Siddiqui, a US-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, presently in jail in the US after having been convicted on charges arising from her suspected collaboration with the Afghan Taliban?
The answer to this is not clear. Aafia's case is much more complex than that of Davis. She has already been convicted whereas Davis was only an undertrial.


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"Predators" Produced by Robert Rodriguez
Usually I'm not a fan of remakes or reboots, but 20th Century Fox's Predators (produced by Robert Rodriguez) is showing incredible promise. Instead of focusing on the predators themselves like in AVP, Rodriguez insisted on building strong characters to be the focal point of the film. He wanted a cast that would be comparable to the memorable characters of the original movie.
Playing a combination of mercenaries and convicts are; Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, and Walter Goggins — who are transported to another planet to be hunted by the predators. On the planet they meet a scavenger played by Laurence Fishburne, completing the main cast.
This alone is a great step towards rejuvenating the Predator franchise. The problem with the AVP movies was that the cast weren't built up; they weren't likable; they just weren't memorable. The audience only wanted to see the aliens and predators kill off the cast in a brutal fashion. There was no story with substance or a character arc to captivate the audience; to get them emotionally invested in the film.
Howard Berger, who worked with Stan Winston on the original Predator states that they're going back to the original designs for the new movie; they want to remain faithful to it. New alien designs have also been done to compliment Winston's on the world where the group are dropped off on. There's going to be a more focus on building suits rather than a reliance on CG, which I'm glad to hear.
The film is due for release on July 9, 2010.
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Walker Time May 7, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Sweet dude, i really enjoy it when its well designed suits rather then CG. Makes it seem more real and i feel it gives the actors more to respond to.
Timothy May 7, 2010 at 8:23 pm
That it does. It makes quite the difference for the actor to bounce off of.
Brian May 8, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Yeah, I really cannot wait for this film. It will definitely make up for both the AVP films in my opinion.


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US Coast Guard Requests Funding for Second New Icebreaker
Artist rendering of the Polar Security Cutter (PSC). Photo: VT Halter Marine
Published at: Feb 12 2020 - 08:14 / Updated at: Jun 29 2021 - 08:13
A year after securing funding for its first new heavy icebreaker in over 40 years, the 2021 Coast Guard budget includes $555 million for a second one.
Text Ryan Uljua
On Monday, the Trump Administration released its FY 2021 federal budget. In the budget request the US Coast Guard is tabbed to receive $555 million to fully fund a second Polar Security Cutter (PSC) heavy icebreaker.
Overall the Coast Guard's proposed budget in FY 2021 is $12.3 billion, which is a 0.06% increase from what the Coast Guard received for FY 2020. The FY 2020 budget passed by the House included $100 million to begin purchases of long-lead-time materials for the second PSC, but it did not fully fund the second PSC
In a major step, last February President Trump signed the FY 2019 Department of Homeland Security funding bill, appropriating $675 million for the PSC program, doubling the $360 million previously allocated to the program over the previous five years combined.
In April, the Coast Guard in turn awarded a contract worth over $745 million to the Mississippi-based shipbuilder VT Halter Marine Inc. to design and build the first PSC, the first new heavy icebreaker to be built in the US in over 40 years.
The contract awarded to VT Halter Marine includes an option to build two additional PSCs and the Coast Guard's 2021 budget makes it clear it intends to exercise it. In total, the Coast Guard has stated that it hopes to build a fleet of six new polar icebreakers in the coming years.
Tight timeline
After VT Halter Marine was awarded the contract, the company said it could to deliver the first PSC to the Coast Guard in 2024, with the potential second and third vessels delivered in 2025 and 2027, respectively, if the Coast Guard were to exercise its option. However, as recently as just last week a government watchdog agency doesn't believe the shipbuilder can deliver the vessels on time.
On February 5, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an assessment casting doubt on the proposed delivery timeline, stating that the anticipated timeline is based on Coast Guard needs rather than domestic shipbuilding capabilities and therefore recommending the service "develop a more realistic schedule." Coast Guard officials have reportedly vowed to address this criticism and update the program's schedule by the end of March.
Any significant delays in the delivery of the Polar Security Cutters could have a dramatic impact on the Coast Guard's ability to fulfill its missions in the Arctic and Antarctica. Currently, the Coast Guard only operates one heavy icebreaker, the 44-year-old USCGC Polar Star, which is nearing the end of its service life. Any delivery delays could leave the service with a gap in polar icebreaking capabilities.
Election uncertainty
Ultimately the White House's budget proposal released on Monday is just that: a proposal to Congress on what the Administration believes the annual federal budget should look like. It's the first step in a long process that Congress ultimately has the final say in.
Given that it's an election year, recent history suggests lawmakers could delay making final 2021 spending decisions—including whether to authorize the $555 million requested to fully fund a second new Polar Security Cutter—until after the November presidential election
Canada to Build Two New Icebreakers
Japan to Build New Icebreaker for Arctic Research


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