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The Indigo Plaid Barney Cools Cabin Long Sleeve Shirt is smart casual as opposed to dumb formal. Our everyday shirt featuring a lightweight flanno construction that is soft to touch, easy on the eye and comfortable to wear. No one wants to look dumb formal!


A ketubah in the artists' classical style with the quotation from the Song of Songs, "I am my beloved and my beloved is mine". Signifying enduring love, depicted by the rose and the lovebirds.
The ability to customize the monogram above the rose is also available.
The Golden Leaf Green Mist Ketubah contains lots of bold colors and organic imagery. The text in the middle is highlighted with it's framing and color. This artwork is as eternal as your love for each other.
The flow of water, nature, wheat, barley, and olive leaves are all symbols of purity and wealth. The dancing figures symbolize the festivity of life, and enduring fiery energy in both body and soul. The tree of life at the base of the palm contains the word Chai (Life) in its roots.
The Children of the Sun White Ketubah exhibits beautiful design emphasized with a white background and striking colors. Nava took a very powerful and important symbol of the sun and added organic color and texture. The framing goes all the way around the text to really bring it out in a beautiful and artistic way.
The creation of life and energy through the unification of human and nature.
"Ki Haadam Etz Hasade"-Quote at the base.
soil, water, air, and fire (sun).
Human beings also require the same basic elements.
The 7 Chakras interlaced with the 7 Levels of the Kabbalah tree of life.
This ketubah design is called Dreamcatcher. A dove and a circle made of different layers of a variety of leafs are part of the imagery that adorns this ketubah design.
The Golden Leaf Beige Ketubah exhibits a white framing around vibrant colors and a whimsical design. The background of tons of colors really brings forth the text. This Ketubah is perfect for the couple that is looking for a striking design to go with their new life together as one.
The Hidden Place Ketubah has this peaceful circle surrounds with many motifs from Chinese folk art. The butterflies- a symbol of joy, Wedded bliss. The Phoenix- symbol of Empress, goodness, beauty long life, warmth, prosperity, peace, the sun The birds, Cranes, represents Longevity. The garden, a vast of vines, grapes, pomegranates that represents the seven species. Needle work of swans at top corners, delicate thins pens with an awesome light design. The butterfly in the center will enhance the text, with it's beautiful light background.
The Iris is named after the messenger of the gods and the rainbow linking earth with other worlds. The flag iris is supposed to have saved the life of sixth century Frankish king Clovis who saw flag irises growing in the Rhine River and so knew it would be shallow enough to cross and thus escape his enemy. Irises have been grown in Japan, China, Siberia, and almost the entire temperate world.
The Jewish mystical doctrine known as "Kabbalah" (="Tradition") is distinguished by its theory of ten creative forces that intervene between the infinite, unknowable God ("Ein Sof") and our created world. Through these powers God created and rules the universe, and it is by influencing them that humans cause God to send to Earth forces of compassion (masculine, right side) or severe judgment (feminine, left side).
The Milk and Honey ketubah by artist Nava Shoham depicts the seven species with which the land of Israel is blessed. This ketubah is available with a white or blue backing.


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Welcome to "Phil's Loco Photos"
Phil's Loco Photos
Welcome to my new home for "Phil's Loco Photos". This site hosts all my digital photos since 2002 and older scanned images from 1979-1993 and more will be added in time. Please bookmark "www.loco-photos.net" to save this site. To receive site updates please "register" as a guest on the site. Please contact me via the link below for any questions. Thanks for visiting!
28 May: British digital photos since 2002 uploaded to site. Captions were missing from 1994-2000 photos, now added. If any captions are missing please contact me so I can add them. Thanks
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About me My railway interest really started in 1972 when I went to school in York and was able to see the fantastic Deltic locomotives heading north on the express trains. After the Deltic's finished at the end of 1981 I soon got very keen on the railways in Germany with the last few years of the V200 locos, and then I really started exploring Europe and beyond. I always took photos of the trains I travelled with, mostly prints. In 2002 I started taking digital photos with the Nikon 5700 camera, I soon upgraded to the 8700 as technology improved. I then moved on to Canon EOS 300, then to EOS 5D but I'm not a fan of full frame. I therefore changed to a Canon EOS 7D, for my needs, nowadays I prefer to Canon EOS 7D Mk II with a L series 24-105 mm lens
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Another two week InterRail starts with a BA flight from Manchester - Wien via Heathrow, on arrival I buy my ticket and take the train to Bratislava for two nights. On the Sunday I head north to Púchov and then to Bohumín and back in Slovakia and a Sundays only train from Žilina to Bratislava with a new 350. Next day I do two rush hour only bits of track to Bratislava Novo Mesto and then very lucky to pick up two new 350s by total luck, and then a new Vectron to Trenčín for another new 350. I then made my way to Olomouc for one night. After two new 150 I take the RegioJet to Žilina (getting a diesel drag from Český Těšín - Třinec) and then my last of three Vectron's to Vrútky and then long journey to Praha for three nights. I made my way to Zábřeh na Moravě and had most of the day in the area, next day was from Masarykovo to Děčín and then most of the day on the busy line from Ústí nad Labem - Lysá nad Labem, scoring with a 122 Cargo loco piloting a service train. The next day was to Cheb via Ústí nad Labem and then to Plzeň and Alex train to Regensburg for one night. Early start to München and to Wörgl for the 103 to München and then to Mulhouse via Zürich, getting my last SZU Re456 in the process. First train of day from Mulhouse - Basel and then fell onto IC diversions between Basel and Olten running via 503 which is a single track line from Sursee to Olten via via Läufelfingen! On to Bern where my last Re460 appeared as booked, so taken to Zürich and swiftly to Luzern to cover Voralpen Express and any BLS Re465. No luck with my required SOB Re456 but did find 465.009 in action, one of my last four and then back to Mulhouse. I was back to Luzern next morning and managed to find 456.096 in action clearing my former BT fleet. North to Strasbourg checking out some Sybic turns and then on to Thionville for two nights. A long overdue visit to Luxembourg next day, got two new 3000 and three new 4000 which was a good result, the next day another new 3000 and then a 25500 from Metz - Nancy for a run out and then winner 1350 to Bruxelles and winner 2809 to Antwerpen. Further north onto NS metals and chase some of the brand new Traxx 186 locos on ICD services and ex cargo 2844 also, for old time's sakes 1737 to Zandvoort in the afternoon. North to Zwolle next day to and then back to Amsterdam and a few photos at Hoofddorp and a hotel near Schiphol for flight home next day on a Garuda Indonesian 777
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Category: Reading Non-Fiction 2014
Corvus: A Life With Birds by Esther Woolfson
December 30, 2014 ~ Margaret	~ 2 Comments
Corvus by Esther Woolfson is a remarkable book about the birds she has has had living with her; birds that were found out of the nest that would not have survived if she had not taken them in.
'Corvus' is a genus of birds including jackdaws, ravens, crows, magpies and rooks. The specific birds Esther Woolfson has looked after are a rook, called Chicken (short for Madame Chickieboumskaya), a young crow, a cockatiel, a magpie, two small parrots and two canaries. But it all started with doves, which live in an outhouse, converted from a coal store into a dove-house, or as they live in Aberdeen in Scotland, a doo'cot.
Although the book is mainly about the rook, Chicken, Esther Woolfson also writes in detail about natural history, the desirability or otherwise of keeping birds, and a plethora of facts about birds, their physiology, mechanics of flight, bird song and so on. As with all good non-fiction Corvus has an extensive index, which gives a good idea of the scope of the book. Here are just a few entries for example under 'birds' the entries include – aggression in, evolution of, navigation, in poetry, speeds of, vision, wildness of, wings'…
It's part memoir and part nature study and for me it works best when Esther Woolfson is writing about Chicken and the other birds living in her house, how she fed them, cleared up after them, and tried to understand them. Although at times I had that feeling I get when I visit a zoo – these are wild birds kept captivity and I'm not very comfortable with that, I am reassured by Esther Woolfson's clarification that reintroducing these birds to the wild was unlikely to be successful and indeed they lived longer than they would have done in the wild. Though Chicken and Spike (and the other birds) live domesticated lives they are still wild birds:
I realise that if 'wild' was once the word for Chicken, it still is, for nothing in her or about her contains any of the suggestions hinted at by the word 'tame'. Chicken, Spike, Max, all the birds I have known over the years, live or lived their lives as they did by necessity or otherwise, but were and are not 'tame'. They are afraid of the things they always were, of which their fellow corvids are, judiciously, sensibly; of some people, of hands and perceived danger, of cats and hawks, of things they do not know and things of which I too am afraid. 'Not tamed or diminished'. (pages 115-6)
At times, where Esther Woolfson goes into intricate detail, for example in the chapter on 'Of Flight and Feathers' I soon became completely out of my depth, lost in the infinity of specialised wing shapes and the complexities of the structure of feathers. But that is a minor criticism, far out weighed by her acute observations of the birds, her joy in their lives and her grief at their deaths – her description of Spike's unexpected death and her reaction is so moving:
I wept the night he died. Sitting in bed, filled with the utter loss of his person, I felt diminished, bereft. I talked about him, but not very much, in the main to members of the family, who felt the same, but to few others.
It's the only way, this compact and measured grief, for those of us who are aware that there has to be proportion in loss and mourning; we laugh at ourselves for our grief, trying to deal with this feeling that is different in quality, incomparable with the loss of a human being.
We felt – we knew – that something immeasurable had gone. (page 209)
Anyone who has lived through the death of a loved animal can recognise that sense of loss.
Corvus is a beautiful book and I have learned so much by reading it. I must also mention the beautiful black and white illustrations by Helen Macdonald – I think this is the Helen Macdonald who was awarded the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is For Hawk.
Esther Woolfson was brought up in Glasgow and studied Chinese at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Edinburgh University. Her acclaimed short stories have appeared in many anthologies and have been read on Radio 4. She has won prizes for both her stories and her nature writing and has been the recipient of a Scottish Arts Council Travel Grant and a Writer's Bursary. Her latest book, Field Notes from a Hidden City (Granta Books), was shortlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel Writing. She lives in Aberdeen. For more information see her website.
In Our Time edited by Melvyn Bragg
October 19, 2014 April 25, 2018 ~ Margaret	~ Leave a comment
I began reading In Our Time, A Companion to the Radio 4 series back in August and I've been reading short sections on most days since then, finally finishing it this morning. It is long book and I didn't want to read it quickly.
Melvyn Bragg has selected episodes on a wide variety of subjects encompassing the history of ideas – philosophy, physics, history, religion, literature and science. This book contains transcripts of 26 programmes, a selection from hundreds of programmes broadcast over eleven years. The benefit of having it in book form means that it's easy to pause, think, or re-read to make sure I was understanding the subject as much as possible.
The programmes are listed on the back cover – Darwin was covered by four programmes:
With such a wide range of subjects it's not so surprising that I found some more interesting than others, but I was surprised that some that didn't appeal from the titles were actually fascinating and I now know more about black holes and antimatter than before – how much I can remember is another matter! I'm not alone in this, as Bragg said in the Afterword, his:
… only regret is that in the more testing subject areas he finds that his memory after the programme will not retain some or even much of what made the programme intriguing. (pages 573-4)
But it's there in print, so I can refresh my memory at any time! I liked the fact that these are transcripts, not formal lectures, so that it comes across as conversations between experts with Bragg, every now and then asking the questions that someone like me, not knowing much about the subject, would want to ask. An ideal book for an eclectic reader!
It's not easy to pick out highlights as there are so many that fascinated me. As Halloween is approaching I'm remembering the chapter on 'Witchcraft', but others as diverse as 'Tea', 'Socrates' and the four 'Darwin' programmes also stand out. And where else could you go from 'Agincourt' to 'Plate Tectonics'?
In Our Time is broadcast each Thursday at 9am on BBC Radio 4. This week's episode was 'Rudyard Kipling'. This and all the other programmes are available as downloads.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (17 Sep 2009)
Source: my own copy
Leaving Alexandria by Richard Holloway
June 16, 2014 ~ Margaret	~ 4 Comments
I was browsing the biography section in the local library when I came across Leaving Alexandria: a Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway. I vaguely remembered that he had been an outspoken bishop who had resigned some years ago and I thought it would be interesting to read what had led up to his resignation. The blurbs on the back encouraged me to borrow the book:
This poignant memoir, written with integrity, intelligence and wit, lays bare the ludicrous and entirely unnecessary mess we have made of religion. (Karen Armstrong)
So compelling and so intense. Nobody, whether interested in religion or not, could fail to be intensely moved … What a deeply lovable man; and what a wonderful book. (Mary Warnock, Observer)
In the past I have read many books on religion, mainly on Christianity, but I am not currently a church goer and I know little about the Anglican Church and next to nothing about the Scottish Episcopal Church – Richard Holloway was the Primus of the latter. Reading Richard Holloway's own account of his beliefs and doubts was without doubt an eye-opener.
Leaving Alexandria is fascinating. Richard Holloway grew up in Alexandria, a town in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow. At the age of fourteen he left home to train for the priesthood at Kelham Hall in Nottinghamshire, the mother house of the Anglo-Catholic Society of the Sacred Mission, an order that trained uneducated boys for the priesthood in a monastic setting. Subsequently, he worked in Africa, the Gorbals in Glasgow, Boston, and Old Saint Paul's in Edinburgh before becoming the Bishop of Edinburgh. His resignation in 2000 as the Bishop of Edinburgh came when he was 66.
He had a controversial career, dubbed the 'Barmy Bishop'. He was an outspoken champion of progressive causes, but he had many crises of faith and at times was plagued with doubt, experiencing God as an absence. To me that sounds as though he wasn't sure about the existence of God. He ponders whether religion is a lie and states that it is a 'mistake':
I was less sure whether God was also just a human invention, but I was quite sure religion was. It was a work of human imagination, a work of art – an opera – and could be appreciated as such. The real issue was whether it should be given more authority over us than any other work of art, especially if it is the kind of authority that over rides our own better judgements. (page 343)
In the Epilogue he explained that he came to believe that
Religion is human, and like humanity it is both a glory and a scandal. It is full of pity and full of cruelty. Just like us. So is the Bible.
He went on that he had discovered his real dilemma:
I wanted to keep religion around, purged of cruelty, because it gives us a space to wonder and listen within. Purged of the explanations that don't explain, the science that does not prove, the morality that does not improve; purged in fact, of its prose, religion's poetry could still touch us, make us weep, make us tender, and take us out of ourselves into the possibility of a courageous pity. (page 345)
He resigned at odds with many strongly held Episcopal Church doctrines and beliefs, and precipitated by the publication of his book Godless Morality. It was because of the Church's insistence on rules, its attitudes towards women and homosexuals, and its inability to understand the nature of myth. But he had struggled all the way through, feeling himself a disappointment, often knowing that he was a 'double-minded man' and 'unstable, if not in all my ways, then certainly in many of my attitudes and opinions. Janus-like, I seemed able to look two ways at once, be in two minds about things.' My question is not why he resigned, but why it took him so long, and how had he become a bishop at all?
There are many things about Richard Holloway that I like, but overarching them all is his compassion and his honesty. There are so many passages I could quote, including this one describing the opponents of women's ordination:
'Oh the miserable buggers, the mean-minded wee sods.' (page 309)
I am sure that I have not really done justice to this book and refer to this review of Leaving Alexandria by Mary Warnock in The Guardian/The Observer 19 February 2012 and to an interview with Richard Holloway at the Gladstone's Library 26 February 2012.
The English by Jeremy Paxman
March 16, 2014 ~ Margaret	~ 7 Comments
The English: a Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman (an English journalist, broadcaster and author) is a very interesting book, described as:
A book on what constitutes Englishness, and what are considered the essential characteristics and values. Using literary sources and interviews, Jeremy Paxman attempts to define how "Englishness" has changed over this century, and what it is now both in our own and outsider's views.
It is full of historical information, but is a bit rambling, but even so it is very entertaining. He begins with 'Being English used to be so easy' and goes on to say 'It's all so much more complicated now.' And then proceeds to prove his point.
This makes it difficult to write about it, but easy to read. I like Paxman's style of writing, I could almost hear him speaking as I read. He's a person who has grown on me over the years and lately I've enjoyed his TV documentaries too. It's always been entertaining to watch his interviews, even if I didn't agree with his views – or his aggressive approach. It's toned down in this book, but every now and then his acerbic nature comes across.
The easiest way to describe the book is to look at the chapter headings. There are chapters on 'Funny Foreigners', 'The English Empire', and 'There Always Was An England' – in which he concludes 'the chasm between the imaginative England and the real England won't do any longer because it fails to reflect the lives of the majority.' Other chapters are about the 'Ideal Englishman', the 'True Born Englishman and Other Lies' and so on. But it's the index that shows the full breadth of the topics he covers, from the 'Abbey National Bank' to 'Zadok the Priest (Handel)'.
He writes about food, sport, football hooligans, language, individualism, education, religion, 'John Bull', cities and the countryside – the English idyllic village, class structure and social tone, attitudes to women, business and trade to name but a few topics. It's well researched and very readable, with a bibliography listing all the books he mentions plus others that presumably he has used.
It was published in 1998, so things have moved on a lot since then, but I still think it's a valid book. I've had it for about four years and was prompted to read it now by all the discussion about Scottish Independence, if only to see if he could clarify what it means to be 'English'. He points out the thoughtless way people have of muddling up 'England' with 'Britain', as if the Scots and Welsh do not exist (it annoys me too).
But I don't really feel any clearer about what is is to be 'English'. It seems there really is no such thing as 'the English' – we're a mixture of all sorts, or as Paxman puts it, The English are a mongrel race'. (page 59) It's hard to do justice to this book in one short post and there is so much more that I could write about – but it would be far better to read the book itself.
Reading Non-Fiction in 2014
February 5, 2014 ~ Margaret	~ 6 Comments
Most of my reading is fiction, but I do like to read non-fiction too. Last year I read 9 non-fiction books and would like to read more this year, maybe 12 which would average out at one a month. I've decided that I won't join any of the non-fiction reading challenges run by other bloggers but I'm going to record what I've read on my own personal non-fiction project for 2014 on this page – Reading Non-Fiction in 2014.
The photo above shows a small selection of my non-fiction books. I've got plenty more to choose from in different categories including Autobiographies, Biographies, Diaries, Letters, History, Philosophy, Religion, Writing, and Nature. I hope by the end of the year I'll have read at least one book from each category.
At present I'm reading a history book – Steel Bonnets: the Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George MacDonald Fraser. I'm planning on reading one non-fiction book alongside any novels I'm reading, but apart from that I'm leaving my options open and shall see where my fancy takes me.


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Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
New research suggests that large groups of people are better than a few experts at everything from estimating the true magnitude of things to diagnosing causes of problems to predicting outcomes. If this is correct, what does it say about the true nature of effective leadership?
by Jim Heskett
Are large groups of reasonably informed and motivated people able to make better decisions than a small group of experts? James Surowiecki, in his recent book, The Wisdom of Crowds, reports on a diverse body of work that suggests that they are. If the researchers whose work he chronicles are right, it could have profound implications for the role of leadership in organizations. And it should provide some comfort to all who, like Americans this month, vote to elect their leaders.
In addition to being reasonably informed and motivated, the "crowds" in Surowiecki's title, to be most effective, have to have three characteristics: diversity of points of view, independence from each other's opinions, and decentralization (with access to and the ability to draw on "local knowledge"). And they have to have some kind of mechanism for aggregating "private judgments into a collective decision." In a variety of situations researchers have found that the median view of members of a crowd is more accurate than all but a handful of individuals, and that no individual is able consistently to make decisions superior to those of the crowd. Large groups of people have been found to be better than a few experts at everything from estimating the true magnitude of things (as in guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar) to diagnosing causes of problems (as in determining that the O-ring seals were the primary cause of the Challenger disaster) to predicting outcomes (through, for example, market-mediated trading systems, so-called "decision markets," for predicting the outcomes of things such as presidential elections and even potential success in war).
Taken as a body, it may be possible that the findings of these studies could help us understand why some organizations are more successful than others, why organization size can matter, why decentralization and diversity works, and why lines of communication that enable members at all levels of an organization to make their views heard are so important. If this is the case, why is so little attention paid to this kind of research by corporate leaders? And what does it say about the true nature of effective leadership?
If the essence of leadership is, as my colleague John Kotter maintains, the ability to achieve "extremely useful" change, just what does this research say about how such change is best achieved? Does it suggest one more reason why we should put aside the concept of the imperial leader whose wisdom is questioned only at one's risk? What does it say about the need for leadership behaviors that foster learning, communication, and involvement from the bottom to the top of an organization? Is it the best argument yet for the idea of diversity, broadly defined, in organizations? Or is it a utopian dream forged in the laboratory by organization theorists in support of the mantra of decentralized management and its effectiveness—one which flies in the face of the often-expressed need to have everyone in the organization "on the same page?" What do you think?
To read more:
James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Societies, and Nations (New York: Doubleday, 2004)
John P. Kotter, A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management (New York: The Free Press, 1990)


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Phallobrycon est un genre de poissons téléostéens de la famille des Characidae et de l'ordre des Characiformes. Le genre Phallobrycon est mono-typique, c'est-à-dire qu'il n'est composé que d'une seule espèce, Phallobrycon adenacanthus.

Liste d'espèces
Selon :

 Phallobrycon adenacanthus Menezes, Ferreira & Netto-Ferreira, 2009

Notes et références

Références taxinomiques

Characidae
Characiformes
Characiformes (nom scientifique)
Poisson d'aquarium

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F-4K/M to F-4J would only need new fuselage halves, exhausts, wings, horizontal tail, nose undercarriage, cockpit, weapons...and decals.
Yes a new 100% new mould would be nice but I suspect it would also be wiser to lobby Airfix to rebox the new(ish) Academy F-4J considering the AFV tie up.
A whole new 1/72 US Phantom lineup would be nice considering Hasegawa and Fujimi kits are no longer reasonably cheap and easy finds in shops, Revell only did the F, and Academy the J. There's a gap in the European market for sure but if Airfix were to jump in they would need to step up their game and not repeat the irritating small errors on their UK Phantoms (notably the lack of very visible vents).
The academy "jolly roger" F4 was the most enjoyable F4 I've built but it was £30 plus shipping from the far east (and that was a couple of years ago) Reboxing it as airfix and I'll advance order it today The RAF also used F4Js so it's got potential in a few schemes.
In 1/72? Hannant's stock it at 26.99 along with the Showtime 100 and Red Devils boxings. I got a Jolly Rogers from a Facebook group for 24.00 posted. Probably the best in scale at the moment.
The Spey intakes are wider too, and there are at least 2 different shape leading edges for the inner wing pylons. The whole fact of this discussion illustrates just how close Airfix come with their Spey Phantom.
In 1/72. Thanks for the hannants tip. They carry an amazing range but their search option is less than ideal.
I've never had any problem with H's search engine. With the keyword, less can be more, but the spelling needs to be spot on.
If you search for say "F4 phantom" you get 20 pages of pe and resin upgrade parts, not necessarily the one kit - which they may or may not carry- coming up. I use xtradecal decals routinely but it's easier to find the sheet you want on eBay than hannants.
Use the pull downs to refine the search, eg. aircraft, kits only. You can narrow that down to manufacturer, current, new arrivals, future releases etc. Decals can be more of a problem, but sometimes you can get the hits you want if you name the units that you're after. For instance a search using Xtradecals, 1/72, Lancaster, 617 squadron takes you straight to a relevant sheet.
"1/72 Lancaster decals" on eBay works better. Not least it only throws up decals. I recently had a ridiculous situation where I was using eBay to get the product code for a set of sea king decals because the hannants website would only show them if I entered the product code.


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Dog the Bounty Hunter: '50 percent of the time' parents know where kids are
Yaron Steinbuch
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Parents of Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito remain mum after fugitive's remains ID'd
Bad Dog: How bounty hunter could 'sabotage' Brian Laundrie manhunt
'Dusty relics': Laundrie lawyer slams John Walsh, Dog the Bounty Hunter
Dog the Bounty Hunter thinks Laundrie's sister knows more than she's saying
Dog the Bounty Hunter, who plans to set up camp in Florida in his search for Brian Laundrie, said in a new interview that he is eager to speak with the fugitive's dad — noting that "50 percent of the time," parents know where their kids are.
The reality TV star — whose real name is Duane Chapman — told Dr. Oz on Tuesday that parents typically claim they have no clue where their children are after the kids are accused of a crime, the Sun reported.
"And after, they say, 'Dog, I couldn't, I knew,'" he said.
About "50 percent of the time," parents know where their children are, Chapman said, adding that "35 percent of the parents help."
The 68-year-old said he hoped Laundrie's folks, Chris and Roberta, will fall into that category. They have denied any knowledge of or involvement in the 23-year-old's disappearance.
Chapman — who joined the hunt for Laundrie on Saturday — was seen banging on the door of his parents' home in North Port, Florida, before Roberta called the cops on him, despite the fugitive chaser's vow to find their missing son.
Brian Laundrie has not been seen in public for several weeks. According to his family, he went on a hike in a nearby preserve and never returned.
Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, says he wants to speak to Brian Laundrie's father, and he claims parents know where their kids are "50 percent of the time."
William Farrington
Gabby Petitio and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, during their ill-fated cross-country road trip, which ended with Gabby's death.
Brian Laundrie's parents, Christopher (left) and Roberta Laundrie, leave their home on Sept. 28, 2021.
Dog the Bounty Hunter allegedly cut his honeymoon short to jump into the Brian Laundrie case. He was seen at the Laundrie residence on Sept. 25, 2021.
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"Well, you know, I wanna talk to his dad and explain the difference between involuntary manslaughter and murder one out of Wyoming," he told Dr. Oz, according to the Sun.
"In murder one, you're facing the death penalty. Manslaughter is a life sentence with the possibility of parole," he said. "I wanted to explain to him, 'I know exactly what you're going through right now. As a matter of fact, I personally went through it.' So, I just wanted to talk to the dad."
Brian Laundrie's father, Christopher Laundrie, has denied that he knows where his son is and claims he did not help him escape.William Farrington
In 1976, Chapman was convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to five years in a Texas prison. He had been waiting in a getaway car when he fatally shot a 69-year-old man in a fight over marijuana.
A massive FBI-led manhunt is underway for Brian Laundrie, who disappeared around the same time Gabby Petito's body was found.
Chapman interrupted his honeymoon with his new wife, Francie Frane, on Saturday to jump into the search for Laundrie, who was with Gabby Petito on a cross-country trip when the Blue Point native vanished last month.
She was later found dead at a remote Wyoming campground.
Laundrie returned home without her and was named a person of interest in the case, but has since vanished and is now the subject of a massive FBI manhunt.
Authorities have been scouring a swampy, 25,000-acre reserve near Laundrie's parents' home but have come up empty after nearly two weeks.
On Monday, Chapman said he has a lead on Laundrie that puts him miles away at the Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas County, where he said Laundrie and his parents were seen as recently as Sept. 8.
Laundrie, who has not been charged in Petito's death, was indicted last week for allegedly using someone else's bank card in the early days of her disappearance.
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Gregory Ferrara could be living in Pikesville, Ellicott City, or Silver Spring.
Pikesville, Ellicott City, and Silver Spring, MD.
North Charleston and Mount Pleasant, SC.
Lived in Roxbury, Boston, and East Boston, MA.


Dachshunds Unlimited has been a certified AKC Bred with H.E.A.R.T breeder for Miniature Dachshunds since 2011. We are committed to the health and welfare of our breeding stock as well as the beloved puppies born into our care. Our facilities are regularly inspected, and we have always passed with 100% compliance. We have also continued to meet or exceed all program requirements as specified by the AKC.
As part of the American Kennel Club's century-long commitment to advance the health and welfare of all dogs, the AKC has a new program called Bred with H.E.A.R.T. The program gives the AKC a new way to engage, encourage, and recognize those breeders who meet specific health testing standards and participate in continuing education.
Certifying that their breeding stock is health tested in accordance with the recommendations of their breed's AKC Breed Parent Club.
Promising that they will pursue AKC provided or AKC-approved continuing breeder education so that they stay current on the best breeding practices, including advances in canine health.
Agreeing to comply with the AKC Care and Conditions Policy, including inspections by the AKC, and promising to share with AKC health testing and continuing education documentation.
Accepting responsibility for the health and well-being of the puppies they produce and for complying with all laws regarding the ownership and maintenance of dogs.
Upholding the AKC's tradition of breeding purebred dogs that are happy and healthy.


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var path = require('path')
var util = require('util')
var logger = require('../logger')('micromono:service:local')
var crypto = require('crypto')
var Router = require('../web/router')
var Superpipe = require('superpipe')
var argsNames = require('js-args-names')
var Announcement = require('./announcement')

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exports.setupRoute = function(route, page, pageApiBaseUrl) {
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exports.startRPCServer = function(rpc, rpcPort, rpcHost, next) {
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Downton Abbey Creator Julian Fellowes Is Working on a New Period Drama Called Belgravia
It's based on his book of the same name.
By Caroline Hallemann
ITV/Epix
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes had a prolific 2019, and 2020 is already proving to be just as busy. In addition the next Downtown film, he's working on The Gilded Age, a period drama set in New York City in the 1880s. And other projects on his desk include a Netflix television series about soccer called The English Game, a project centered around the Rothschild Dynasty, one of the richest families in history, called Five Arrows, and a series about the Queen's art collection.
Fellowes's novel Belgravia will be made into a show for ITV in the U.K., which will also air on EPIX in the U.S. this year Here's what we know so far.
The first trailer promises romance and intrigue.
Watch it here:
But it will be different from Downton.
"I think there are bound to be some similarities because they're written by the same guy and there's a kind of limit to how many voices one possesses," Fellowes said at the Television Critics Association press tour in January, according to The Wrap.
"I think it is different from Downton because it has a tauter narrative. It's a single narrative; a completed story at the end. By the end of Episode 6, we've gotten to the end of the story. It isn't open-ended in [the same] way."
The book the show is based on, which is named for London's tony neighborhood, was originally published in 2016 in serial format through an app.
A historical drama (Fellowes's specialty), Belgravia opens on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo at a ball thrown by the Duchess of Richmond in Brussels. The story then takes readers 25 years into the future, when secrets from that night begin to be revealed.
"It's fantastic to be working again with Julian, a master storyteller," executive producer Gareth Neame said in a statement. "In Belgravia, he has painted a wonderful backdrop of 19th century society against which intrigue and dynastic power struggles will play out."
There are more than a few famous faces in the cast.
Alice Eve (Star Trek), Tamsin Greig (Episode), Philip Glenister (Outcast), and Harriet Walter (The Crown, Downton Abbey) will star in the project, per Deadline.
They've released the first photos from the series.
See a sneak peek of the show below:
The series will premiere on April 12.
Filming reportedly started last summer in Edinburgh's New Town. In an interview last fall with Town & Country about the new Downton Abbey film, Fellowes revealed that the project is coming along nicely. "I've seen the first four out of six episodes, and I'm really pleased with it, so I hope people enjoy it."
The trailer previously revealed that it will hit screens in 2020.
Want to read up before it airs?
The book's available on Amazon at the link below:
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia
Go Behind the Scenes of the Downton Abbey Film
How to Watch Downton Abbey
10 Essential Downton Abbey Episodes to Watch
Caroline Hallemann Digital News Director As the digital news director for Town & Country, Caroline Hallemann covers everything from the British royal family to the latest episodes of Outlander, Killing Eve, and The Crown.
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Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space. This suggests democracy is a spatial practice rather than an abstract professional field organized by institutions, politicians and movements.
Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces, conditions and circumstances in which emancipatory practices impact the everyday life of citizens. We ask: How do emancipatory practices relate with public space under 'post-political conditions'? In a time when democracy, solidarity and utopias are in crisis, we argue that productive emancipatory claims already exist in the lived space of everyday life rather than in the expectation of urban revolution and future progress.


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Stadium & Arena
High-Def Video Enhances Spectating Experience on Grand Scale
Paul Steinbach
High-definition video technology is enhancing the sports spectator experience on a grand scale.
THE BIG HDGigantic video screens suspended from the roof of Cowboys Stadium have become as much a focal point for Dallas fans as the game below.
Fans had not experienced football like this - anywhere, ever. When the Dallas Cowboys opened Cowboys Stadium on Sept. 20 in Arlington, Texas, they subjected an NFL regular-season record crowd of 105,121 spectators to a sensory bull rush. For many, the battle for attention was won not by the players toiling on the gridiron, but by the facility's center-hung video display - a Sony-controlled, Mitsubishi-manufactured unit weighing in at 1.2 million pounds and capable of producing high-definition images that stretched from one 25-yard line clear to the other.
"It was so big that I found myself watching the screen as opposed to the action on the field. It was like having a giant television in your living room," says Steve Stubert, who as Sony's director of sales and marketing for systems solutions was seated in a suite near midfield on opening night. "It creates a new experience. You can see things that you've never seen before in a stadium."
Like what? "Well, 70-foot-tall players."
"Cheerleaders, too," chimes in Chris Sullivan, national sales manager for sports venues at Sony. "I thought it was spectacular. The visual image is just breathtaking the first time you see it."
It would be another eight days before the two sideline-facing screens in the Cowboys' four-sided video configuration would be witnessed and certified by Guinness representatives as the world's largest HD displays. At nearly 11,500 square feet, each sideline screen is more than twice the size of the once-Guinness-recognized video board that Mitsubishi installed at the Atlanta Braves' Turner Field in 2005. "Because that board is in center field, chances are you're more than 300 feet away from it," says Todd Stih, Mitsubishi's East Coast regional sales manager. "It's a different experience with the Cowboys. Because it is center-hung, you are so close to it. There's no other installation where you have that big of a board - and at that close of a distance, it's just incredibly impactful."
While both Sony colleagues agree that the scale and positioning of the video hardware in Cowboys Stadium may never be replicated, high-definition technology in more typical sports venue applications is clearly here to stay. Says Sullivan, who formerly managed sales of Sony's once ubiquitous brand of video board, Jumbotron, the last of which was installed in 2001 and replaced two years ago, "It's never going to go back to standard definition."
For professional franchises, colleges and even high schools eyeing HD video as a venue upgrade, it pays to know just what comes with the seven-figure investment. For a board to be considered HD-ready, it must accommodate either 720 or 1,080 horizontal lines of pixels. Common configurations include 720p (the "p" represents progressive video scanning in which all 720 lines are scanned and displayed at once) and 1080i (in which separate sets of 540 "interlaced" lines of scanned video are shown alternately in such rapid succession as to present one solid picture to the naked eye).
A pixel is any light source capable of producing the full spectrum of color. This could mean a single cluster of through-hole red, green and blue light-emitting diode bulbs, or what's called a surface-mount device - one lens, roughly the size of a single LED bulb, that does the light-emitting work of all three. Their smaller size allows surface-mount devices to be spaced much closer together on a board than is possible with clusters of discrete through-hole LEDs (the distance between pixels is referred to as pixel pitch), and thus makes SMDs the only choice for indoor applications with pixel pitches ranging between 3 and 9 millimeters.
A minimum pixel pitch of 10 millimeters is required to accommodate discrete LEDs, whose brightness advantage over SMDs makes them better suited to outdoor applications anyway, particularly at pitches greater than 12 millimeters. Plus, viewing distances between fans and end-zone displays in football stadiums or outfield boards in baseball parks don't require tight pixel pitches to maintain image quality. Minimum viewing distance - the point at which a backpedaling person no longer sees individual dots on the display, but rather a complete and pleasant video image - may be as little as 10 feet from a board with a 3-millimeter pixel pitch, or somewhere between 150 and 300 feet on one with a 20-millimeter pitch.
"Resolution is only what the eye can resolve," Sullivan says. "I could show you boards with pixel pitches of 16 millimeters and 6 millimeters, and if you're standing several hundred feet away you couldn't tell the difference. As you get closer, you're going to start to see the resolution change."
The tightest pixel pitches are often prohibitively expensive, with only a few 3-millimeter installations in the world. "The LED density is just too high on them," says Marty Brown, video products marketing manager for display manufacturer Daktronics. "What you see a lot more of is 4 and 6 millimeter, and while that might not sound like a big difference, cutting your pixel pitch in half increases your LED count four times, because you're increasing density both vertically and horizontally."
The LEDs themselves can impact image quality. Earlier this decade, technology advanced to where each red, green and blue subcomponent within a discrete cluster is controlled independently as opposed to as a single unit. This has made possible the display of smoother curves and diagonal lines. But because discrete LED bulbs protrude from the face of the board, they begin to block each other when viewed at extreme angles - a phenomenon known as shouldering. The result is color shift, which can turn the whites of a video image pink, for example. This can be combated to some degree by staggering the pixel placements line by line across the board. Inevitably, though, viewing becomes prohibitive the farther the viewer is toward the side of the display. The best boards produce a quality image for fans within a radius of roughly 160 degrees, leaving a "blind spot" of only 10 degrees on either side.
Because the appearance of an HD image depends greatly on a board's brightness and contrast capabilities, several additional measures can be taken to enhance both. The board's background surface area between pixel lines can be coated in a black matte finish to help diffuse ambient light. Direct sunlight (and to a lesser extent ambient light) is combated with continuous or segmented louvers over each pixel row. "Louvers in general are necessary in direct sunlight, and that's all about contrast," says Brown. "You want your display face to be as black as possible."
The reason that through-hole LED shells are colored red, green and blue, other than they're easier to identify if spilled on the floor, is that they blend into the background of the video board better and reflect less light than would clear shells, Brown adds. Steps have likewise been taken to improve image quality in high-density indoor SMD installations by replacing the typically white lens covering each three-in-one pixel with a lens that is gray in color. But while this "improves contrast tremendously," according to Stih, extra current is required to ensure brightness levels remain unchanged.
Brightness and contrast are both measured in nits, which is the number of candelas per square meter of display surface. "You still can't beat through-hole LEDs for brightness," Brown says. "Through-hole LEDs are capable of driving a display to 7,000 nits, whereas even the high-bright surface-mount devices will get you to about 5,000 nits." Meanwhile, a desirable contrast ratio - the difference in brightness between a board's white video imagery and its black imagery - is 1,000 nits to one, though Brown cautions that contrast ratio is "the most abused spec in the video industry, whether you're talking about LED displays, plasmas or LCDs."
High-definition television, of course, is where this video revolution began, and the entire progression has been witnessed within certain sports venues. "If as a business person you're going to pay for a luxury suite to entertain clients, you have an expectation that the quality of the image in that suite is going to be similar, at least, to what you have at home - high definition," says Sony's Stubert. "Well, since in-arena or in-stadium production is done for both the scoreboard and for all of the displays within suites and concourses, then the venue has to upgrade its production capability to high definition in order to feed both. So it was actually the televisions that started to drive a lot of the transition."
Unlike the state-of-the-art Cowboys Stadium, which was designed for high-definition signals to drive its nearly 4,000 television screens and its large-scale video boards from the outset, some venues may upgrade their television capabilities first and replace their video boards later. Even in that scenario, video imagery on the big boards will noticeably improve, according to Stubert. "The signal quality that they feed the existing board has now gone up significantly, so the board looks better," he says. "You're sending it more information, and the board probably has the ability to resolve more information."
Perhaps the most important consideration when updating a board to receive HD video is seemingly the simplest - its physical dimensions. Like film, an HD signal carries an aspect ratio of 16 to 9 (standard video is 4 to 3), meaning if the board's dimensions aren't proportional to that wider format, the video will have to be reformatted to fit the screen. "Especially in football, you rarely see a 16-by-9 screen," says Paul Kalil, a 30-year veteran of the in-game entertainment industry whose company, Big Screen Network Productions, has produced video shows for some of the highest-profile sporting events in the world. "They may be 720 or 1080 in quality, but they've gone to a screen that's 50 feet wide by 20 feet high. So when you're getting the camera shots, you either have to conform to that and sort of pan and scan like the movies do when they put them on TV, or you have to segment your screen and put sponsors on one side and video on the other."
An HD control room can cost as much as the video boards themselves - millions of dollars worth of switchers, routers, tape decks and cameras - and yet the irregularly-sized boards may dictate that masking tape be applied to camera viewfinders so that their operators know exactly how to frame a shot for translation to the big screen.
Some hardware sizing decisions hinge on the amount of space vacated by the previous board. "Daktronics at times is as much a construction company as we are an LED display maker," says Brown. "We have teams of project managers and civil, mechanical and electrical engineers figuring out how to tie all this equipment into existing infrastructure. The client is going to say, 'We have this much structure, how do you propose we do this?'"
An upgrade to HD depends first and foremost on whether the space offers adequate height to accommodate either 720 or 1,080 pixel lines at the desired pitch. Width is less regimented, with some boards measuring twice as wide as the ratio dictates in those rare facilities where space allows. "You can have two signals, side by side, full HD," Sullivan says.
Dimensional concerns notwithstanding, today's large-scale HD technology - available only for the past eight years - has liberated the creativity of people like Kalil, who has been producing in-game entertainment since Dodger Stadium debuted the first full-color scoreboard in 1980. "Before, you had to make your fonts a certain size, you had to pick your colors a little bit more carefully - a blue next to red maybe doesn't read as well because of the resolution of those screens," says Kalil, who will produce the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the first Games to be staged using only high-definition digital imagery. "Nowadays, it's like sitting in your living room watching your plasma screen. The clarity is amazing, and you're able to cheat down a little bit on font sizes and do a lot more with the colors and depths of graphics because of how they translate to these high-def screens."
Cowboys Stadium presents Kalil, whose firm is slated to work Super Bowl XLV there in 2011, with some unique challenges. Having not yet experienced the center-hung boards firsthand, he anticipates a potential need to pull back from tight camera shots of players' faces and scale down otherwise large, complex titles and explosive graphics. "What that does is it allows you to take in more of the experience of the picture," he says. "Some of the fans are so close to that screen that they're not going to get a full sense of everything that's going on, so we may have to back down a little bit to make it appealing to everybody, whether they're close or far. It's not unlike sitting in the first couple of rows in a movie theater. Nobody really likes to be that close, because it can feel overwhelming."
Feeling somewhat overwhelmed by the Cowboys sideline screen on opening night, Stubert abandoned his midfield suite for one farther down toward an end zone. "Actually, I thought it was a much better experience," he says, "because then I could see both the action on the field and take in the screen at the same time."
Even if the Cowboys Stadium video model is never replicated, it should serve as exhibit A for what is possible with large-scale HD technology for the foreseeable future. Exhibit B, another Mitsubishi installation, can be found at the new Yankee Stadium, where the video board packs 8,601,600 LED lamps onto a 5,925-square-foot screen, compared to the 486,000 lamps in the 816-square-foot board that served the old stadium. "It's much denser, much more tightly packed with LEDs and can actually produce much brighter, much higher-resolution images," Stubert says. "The new LED boards represent generations of tremendous improvement over previous ones."
In fact, obsolescence represents the biggest threat to any investment in high-end, high-definition video technology. Industry insiders predict more widespread use of outdoor SMDs; expanded use of HD to include more scorer's tables, ribbon boards and even floor-mounted boards; and a deeper exploration of three-dimensional effects. "The technology will become obsolete long before the LEDs ever fail," says Mitsubishi's Stih. "We typically tell people that you're looking at a 10- to 12-year life of the product. That's when you should start looking at replacing it, because there will be other technologies and resolutions and image qualities - all these things that will change - and those will be the reasons to invest in a new board."
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Scent Intense (Eau de Parfum) is a perfume by Costume National for women and men and was released in 2002. The scent is woody-spicy. It is being marketed by Beauty San.
Mr. Bruyere had an urban synth pop vision of CN perfumes. Every CN scent has some kind of artificial and soft cloudy vibe. Scent Intense is a very balanced scent with possibility to feel every note per se, but resulting in new olfactory creation.
Similar to CN 21 artificial amber is the first note to detect. It seems this scent has reverse pyramid. Then follow hibiscus, soft jasmine note and sweeten tea that last forever. The base is made of milky sandalwood and patchuoli.
It is a skill to create such a powerful scent that seems so light and transparent. Although marketed towards women it is totally a unisex perfume.
A beautiful work of too early departed Laurent Bruyere. Apparently angels ran out of their perfumes.
This starts out very medicinal (astringent) smelling on my skin. It's not totally awful but it's a bit odd. Thankfully it settles down after an hour or so. It really does end up being quite nice. On me, what I smell mostly is the amber. A nice, warm amber with a touch of the freshness of hibiscus. It's lively and intriguing and leaves you feeling quite satisfied. It's nothing that we haven't seen before but it's comforting in its familiarity. I enjoy wearing it. It makes me feel confident and sophisticated. The lasting power is great. It has no trouble lasting all day. Technically this is a women's fragrance but it smells completely unisex and men can wear this easily as well.
Scent Intense is a like or dislike fragrance. Unisex, but it is definitely not me. Tea note is very dominant, this gives the composition a fresh, warm feel. Tea is underlined by amber and soft floral notes of hibiscus, jasmine, and some patchouli. I think it is a nice warm, fresh tea/amber dominant chypre floral, with refreshing qualities, but not for everyone. I gave my sample to a lady, and she loves it... No blind buy recommended!
I tested Scent Intense only minutes after I tested Scent Sheer, and I must say the differences are quite obvious.
Scent Intense, is not only an intensified version, but an entirely different composition altogether. I immediately detected the patchouli in the opening which had a rather dusty and leathery feel to it.
Beneath the strong, almost masculine notes, a sweet, milky jasmine note rises from the darkness bringing with it an interesting coziness.
Although bold and dark, Scent Intense does have a rather feminine smoothness. Some are saying it smells a bit like incense and I somewhat agree. However I think it smells like an inclosed space with the scent of stale incense rather than the burning, smokey kind or the incense stick itself.
Despite its rather gothic approach, I find this fragrance elegant, feminine and sophisticated. Perhaps even at times a little clean and powdery. While the patchouli and amber tend to dominate this fragrance, there is also a tar-like note blended with a 'raisin-y' tobacco note that only adds to the intrigue and the warmth.
The sillage and lasting strength are highly commendable, however I wouldn't expect anything less. It seems to be that Scent Intense is quite a popular buy on the niche market which pleases me greatly. This fragrance is kind of geared towards women that want to smell a little bit different, steering clear of smelling like a bouquet of flowers or fruit juice.


TERRY W. FLOOD; ROBERT C. CONN; FLOOD & CONN ENTERPRISES; JAY ANN FLOOD; TERRY W. FLOOD REAL ESTATE COMPANY, APPELLEES.
Before Mcmillian, Floyd R. Gibson, and Morris Sheppard Arnold, Circuit Judges.
Floyd R. Gibson, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Philomena T. Badami, Stephen J. Badami, Michael James Badami, Thomas Joseph Badami, Kimberly Ann Badami, John Paul Badami, Patrick Raymond Badami, Daniel Vincent Badami, David Christopher Badami, and Matthew Lawrence Badami (hereinafter "the Badamis") brought suit under the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601-3631 (1994), claiming the defendants discriminated against them, based on the size of their family, in their search for a rental home. After a two-day trial, a jury awarded the Badamis $1,100 in compensatory damages. Terry W. Flood, Robert C. Conn, Flood & Conn Enterprises, Jay Ann Flood, and Terry W. Flood Real Estate Company, (hereinafter "the defendants") do not appeal this verdict. The Badamis, however, appeal several rulings of the district court. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.
As the jury found in favor of the Badami family, the following facts are recited in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict. In June of 1994, the Badami family began a search for rental housing in anticipation of their relocation to the Kansas City, Missouri area from their current residence in Claremore, Oklahoma. Mrs. Philomena Badami contacted her sister-in-law, Ms. Bellafiore, who resides in the Kansas City area for assistance. On June 23, 1994, Ms. Bellafiore informed Mrs. Badami of a rental property offered in a local paper by the Terry W. Flood Real Estate Company.
From her home in Oklahoma, Mrs. Badami telephoned the real estate company and spoke with Terry W. Flood regarding a rental property located at 6008 North Michigan. Mrs. Badami informed the defendant that her family, which included her husband and eight children living in the home, was planning to relocate to Kansas City and wished to rent a home. Mr. Flood told Mrs. Badami that the 6008 North Michigan property had already been rented and was therefore unavailable. When Mrs. Badami asked about other properties for rent Mr. Flood informed her that nothing suitable for her family's size was available.
On June 25, 1994, Mr. Stephen Badami drove to Kansas City from Oklahoma. Mr. Badami obtained two lists of rental properties offered by the Terry W. Flood Real Estate Company. The rental lists were provided to the public free of charge and were available at the real estate office. On June 27, Mrs. Badami again called Mr. Flood to inquire about several properties on the rental lists. Mrs. Badami specifically inquired about six rental properties. Mr. Flood again informed Mrs. Badami that he had no properties available that were suitable for her family's size. Mrs. Badami requested a rental application but Mr. Flood reiterated that he had no properties large enough to accommodate the Badami family.
Although they had failed to secure permanent housing, the Badamis moved to Kansas City on June 30, 1994. The family spent one night at a hotel. The Badamis then placed their belongings in storage and stayed with family friends, the Millwoods, for the next fourteen days. During their stay with the Millwoods, the Badamis continued their attempts to secure rental housing.
In July of 1994, Mr. Badami contacted Mr. Flood regarding rental properties. In an effort to allay any fears regarding his credit-worthiness, as Mr. Badami was unemployed, he offered to pay Mr. Flood one year's rent in advance for a suitable rental home. Several days after this conversation, Mr. Flood informed Mr. Badami that he had located an available property for the family. Mr. Flood offered to rent a house located at 5519 North Seminole if the Badamis advanced one year's rent, at $1000 per month, as well as a security deposit of $3000.
The Seminole property was offered for rent to the public at $1000 per month with a $600 security deposit. Mr. Flood did not request, nor did he ever receive, a rental application from the Badamis. On July 7, 1994, Mr. Badami refused the rental terms offered by Mr. Flood on the Seminole property. This was the last conversation between the Badamis and Mr. Flood regarding any rental property.
After their two-week stay with the Millwoods, the Badami family moved into the home of Carl Palermo, a relative of Mr. Badami. The Badamis stayed with the Palermos for nearly four months while they sought to obtain a mortgage to buy a home. Mr. Palermo did not charge the Badami family rent. During this time, Mr. Badami secured two jobs to aid in the family's quest to qualify for a home mortgage. Mr. and Mrs. Badami testified that they had not wanted to purchase a home so soon after their arrival in Kansas City. However, their inability to find rental housing required them to purchase a house approximately one year ahead of schedule. In October of 1994, the Badamis purchased a house and moved from the Palermo home.
The Badami family filed this lawsuit on May 22, 1997, alleging that the defendants had discriminated against them based on familial status in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The Badamis sought compensatory and punitive damages, injunctive relief, and costs. Mrs. Philomena Badami pursued her family's cause pro se before the district court. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Badamis and awarded $1100 in compensatory damages. The Badamis appeal, alleging the district court erred in failing to submit the issue of punitive damages to the jury and in excluding some evidence of actual damages.
The Badamis contend that the district court erred in failing to submit the issue of punitive damages to the jury. At the jury instruction conference, the district court ruled that the record did not contain sufficient evidence to support a punitive damages instruction. Upon thorough review of the record, we find that sufficient evidence was presented at trial to merit submission of punitive damages to the jury. We therefore reverse the district court's ruling and remand for trial on the punitive damages issues.
The Fair Housing Act provides for the recovery of punitive damages by victims of discriminatory housing practices. See 42 U.S.C. 3613(c)(1) (1994). "[T]he assessment of punitive damages under the FHA is governed by federal rather than state law." United States v. Big D Enterprises, Inc., 184 F.3d 924, 932 (8th Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 120 S. Ct. 1419 (2000). Punitive damages are appropriate in a federal civil rights action "when the defendant's conduct is shown to be motivated by evil motive or intent, or when it involves reckless or callous indifference to the federally protected rights of others." Smith v. Wade, 461 U.S. 30, 56 (1983).
The Supreme Court recently addressed the meaning of the terms "malice" and "reckless indifference" as they relate to the standard for punitive damages in the Title VII context. See Kolstad v. American Dental Assoc., 527 U.S. 526, 119 S. Ct. 2118 (1999). The Court stated that "'malice' or 'reckless indifference' pertain to the [defendant's] knowledge that it may be acting in violation of federal law, not its awareness that it is engaging in discrimination." Id. at 2124. The Kolstad Court further explained that, although conduct justifying a punitive damages award is sometimes characterized as egregious or outrageous, it "is not to say that [defendants] must engage in conduct with some independent, 'egregious' quality before being subject to a punitive award." Id. at 2126. In the Title VII context, it is sufficient that a defendant "discriminate in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate federal law to be liable in punitive damages." Id. at 2125.
Although Kolstad concerned punitive damages in a Title VII employment discrimination case, and Wade addressed punitive damages in a 1983 civil rights action, we believe the same standard for punitive damages applies in the Fair Housing Act context. See Alexander v. Riga, 208 F.3d 419, 430-32 (3rd Cir. 2000) (discussing applicability of Kolstad to Fair Housing Act violations). Applying that standard, we conclude that the district court erred in refusing to submit the issue of punitive damages to the jury.
At trial, the Badamis presented evidence that at least one of the rental homes that Mr. Flood stated to be unavailable had not been rented on the date Mrs. Badami spoke with Mr. Flood. Mrs. Badami presented evidence that Mr. Flood had been in the property management business for twenty-seven years. Moreover, Mr. Flood testified that he was aware of the Fair Housing Act and its prohibition of discrimination in rental housing on the basis of familial status.
As regards the requested $3000 security deposit on the Seminole property, Mr. Flood stated that the additional $2400 he requested of the Badamis (the difference between the deposit requested of the Badamis and the $600 deposit requested of other potential lessees) constituted additional rent. Mr. Conn, Flood's business partner, testified that the extra $2400 was "additional rent to protect [the Badamis] at the end of their lease in case they couldn't at that time pay or could not find some place else to live." Trial Tr. at 126.
Mrs. Badami elicited testimony from Mr. Flood that he was unaware of the Badami's financial situation beyond Mr. Badami's unemployed status. Mrs. Badami also called Cathy Cox, the real estate agent who found the house that the Badamis eventually purchased. Ms. Cox testified that she did not believe the Badami family was financially unable to afford suitable housing in July of 1994. Mr. Flood admitted at trial that he discouraged the Badamis from submitting a rental application because he was certain the family would not be approved for some rental properties. Finally, Mr. Flood testified that he felt the size of the Badami family might be an obstacle in securing a rental home.
We find this evidence sufficient to justify the submission of a punitive damages instruction to the jury. We are not prepared to characterize the defendants' conduct in this case as egregious per se. However, a reasonable jury could find the defendants acted with malice or reckless indifference that their actions might violate a federal statute of which they were aware. See Kolstad, 119 S. Ct. at 2124-25; Tyus v. Urban Search Management, 102 F.3d 256, 266 (7th Cir. 1996) (finding that evidence of defendant's knowledge of Fair Housing Act and intentional disregard of the Act raised jury question on punitive damages issue). We therefore remand this case to the district court for a trial on the punitive damages issue.
The Badamis further contend that the district court erred in excluding certain evidence of actual damages. Mrs. Badami submitted to this Court an affidavit asserting that the district court excluded evidence of damages incurred by her family. Mrs. Badami alleges that the court excluded damages such as alternative housing costs, lost wages, and mental anguish and humiliation damages. Mrs. Badami avers that the conference during which the court excluded the evidence was off the record and urges us to consider her affidavit as a record of the court's ruling. The defendants have moved to strike the affidavit, and we hereby grant that motion.
Federal Rule of Evidence 103(a) provides that "[e]rror may not be predicated upon a ruling which . . . excludes evidence unless . . . the substance of the evidence was made known to the court by offer or was apparent from the context within which questions were asked." In order to challenge a trial court's exclusion of evidence, the issue must be preserved for appeal by making an offer of proof on the record. See Dupre v. Fru-Con Engineering Inc., 112 F.3d 329, 336 (8th Cir. 1997); Holst v. Countryside Enterprise, Inc. 14 F.3d 1319, 1323 (8th Cir. 1994). Mrs. Badami failed to make an offer of proof to the district court regarding the evidence allegedly excluded by the court.
Further, Mrs. Badami failed to follow the proper appellate procedure in her attempt to have this Court consider the excluded evidence. The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure provide the course of action Mrs. Badami should have taken. Mrs. Badami's affidavit is not entirely improper, as FRAP 10(c) does allow an appellant to prepare a statement recounting unrecorded proceedings before the district court. However, Rule 10(c) requires that the statement "be submitted to the district court for settlement and approval." Mrs. Badami failed to provide the district court with an opportunity to review, correct or approve the affidavit she submitted to this Court.
Alternatively, Mrs. Badami could have moved, pursuant to FRAP 10(e), to modify the record. Rule 10(e) provides that, when differences arise as to whether the record on appeal truly discloses what occurred in the district court, "the difference shall be submitted to and settled by [the district court]." Again, Mrs. Badami failed to provide the district court with an opportunity to correct any errors in the record. On appeal Mrs. Badami requests that, as she tried the case pro se, we forgive her procedural error. While we are mindful of the difficulties faced by pro se litigants, we must decline. Absent a record of the proffered evidence and the trial court's reasons for excluding it, meaningful appellate review is virtually impossible.
Even if this issue had been preserved on appeal, we have carefully reviewed the district court's rulings that are contained in the record and find no abuse of discretion. See United States v. Looking, 156 F.3d 803, 811 (8th Cir. 1998) (stating standard of review of district court's exclusion of evidence). We find the Badamis' other contentions on appeal to be without merit.
Accordingly, the district court's order denying the submission of punitive damages is reversed and the case is remanded for trial on the issue of punitive damages. The defendants' motion to strike the affidavit of Mrs. Badami is granted. In all other respects the trial court's decision is affirmed.


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Q: How can I replace words in a sentence while still keeping punctuation in javascript? I want to search through a message's contents and replace certain words with ones that match the ones that have translations.
Example input:
'I took a selfie with my bae next to a tardis. yolo!'
Filtered output:
'I took a self-portrait with my loved one next to a tardis. carpe diem!'
My code is translating the words, but only the words that do not have extra punctuation attached to the words like '.' and '!'. i.e. it translates to: 'I took a self-portrait with my bae. yolo!'
I am starting with an object of the words and their translations:
let blacklist = {
  'selfie': 'self-portrait',
  'yummers': 'delicious',
  'outchea': 'are out here',
  'bruh': 'wow',
  'doge': 'pug',
  'cilantro': 'soap',
  'bae': 'loved one',
  'swag': 'style',
  'yolo': 'carpe diem'
};

Here is my code to translate the words:
const message = 'I took a selfie with my bae next to a tardis. yolo!'

translate(message) => {
  let wordArray = message.split(' ');
  for(let i = 0; i < wordArray.length; i++) {
    if(blacklist.hasOwnProperty(wordArray[i])){
      wordArray[i] = blacklist[wordArray[i]];
    }
  }
  console.log(wordArray.join(' '));
};

A: I would suggest you an easier approach. Using RegExp object you don't have to care about the punctuation equality.

let blacklist = {
  'selfie': 'self-portrait',
  'yummers': 'delicious',
  'outchea': 'are out here',
  'bruh': 'wow',
  'doge': 'pug',
  'cilantro': 'soap',
  'bae': 'loved one',
  'swag': 'style',
  'yolo': 'carpe diem'
};

const message = 'I took a selfie with my bae next to a tardis. yolo!';

function translate(message) {
  return message.replace(/selfie|yummers|outchea|bruh|doge|cilantro|bae|swag|yolo/g, match => blacklist[match]);
};

console.log(translate(message));

A: Check out this snippet!

function translate(words) {
    var arrayWord = {
      selfie: 'self-portrait',
      yummers: 'delicious',
      outchea: 'are out here',
      bruh: 'wow',
      doge: 'pug',
      cilantro: 'soap',
      bae: 'loved one',
      swag: 'style',
      yolo: 'carpe diem'
    };

    for (var key in arrayWord) {
        words = words.replace(new RegExp(key, "ig"), arrayWord[key]);
    }
    return words.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + words.slice(1);
}
var translatedString = translate("I took a selfie with my bae next to a tardis. yolo!");
console.log(translatedString);

A: You can use .split(/\b/) to split the string on a word boundary
Here is an example:

var blacklist = {
  'selfie': 'self-portrait',
  'yummers': 'delicious',
  'outchea': 'are out here',
  'bruh': 'wow',
  'doge': 'pug',
  'cilantro': 'soap',
  'bae': 'loved one',
  'swag': 'style',
  'yolo': 'carpe diem'
};

var message = 'I took a selfie with my bae next to a tardis. yolo!'

function translate(message){
  return message.split(/\b/).map(w => (blacklist[w] || w)).join('');
};

console.log(translate(message));

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Lush Fab Glam Inspired Lifestyle For The Modern Woman: Fall Style Guide: Cute + Stylish Sweaters And Cardigans.
Fall Style Guide: Cute + Stylish Sweaters And Cardigans.
Whew, can you believe we are midway through October already! As the fall temperatures get cooler and we start thinking about the upcoming winter season, staying warm while looking fab is definitely on our priority list!
If you are due for a fall/winter wardrobe makeover or simply looking to add a few season appropriate pieces to your closet, you will love this style guide featuring the cutest sweaters and cardigans in playful prints with a stylish and feminine touch.
Featured: Scoot Your Fancy Sweater, Top Right: Bold Love Sweater, Bottom Right: Mystical Charm Sweater.
Featured: Bea & Dot Lay Of The Library Sweater, Top Right: Spot-On Style Cardigan, Bottom Right: To Be So Bowed Sweater.
Featured: No Worries Sweater, Top Right: Trickster Treat Sweater, Bottom Right: Champion The Paws Sweater.
Left: All Lovey Dovey Cardigan, Center: Warmhearted Welcome Cardigan In Blue and Bake Sale Away Sweater Right: Hale & Hearty Sweater.
Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr wears her over-sized v-neck sweater with a mini skirt and over-the-knee boots.
Actress Olivia Munn styles her heart-prints sweater with a pair of skinny jeans and peep-toe booties.
Finally actress Hailee Steinfeld also wears her whimsical lips print sweater over a white collar-shirt and styles it with a diamond print, flare mini-skirt and knee-high boots.
Miranda Kerr, Olivia Munn and Hailee Steinfeld.
Get The Look: The featured sweaters and cardigans are available online at ModCloth and include designs from their private label brand Bea & Dot. The sweaters come in a full range of sizes, so there's something for every fashionista. Click on the product names below the photos to shop the ones you love. P.S. Modcloth offers free shipping on orders over $50USD. Happy Styling!
Which sweaters/cardigans would you love to wear or gift? Share with us be leaving a comment below.


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