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Book Review: Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain By Danny Goldberg
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Since his death, Kurt Cobain has become a mythological figure due to his large impact on music and untimely death. With the countless books, movies, and documentaries about him, it's hard to know what he was really like. His penchant for lying in interviews makes this even harder. Former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg draws on his own memories, along with interviews from Cobain's family, friends, bandmates, and peers to show us the man he knew in the new book Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain.
Whereas other Cobain books read like depressing eulogies panting the rocker as a tragic figure, Goldberg's book is a celebration of his life. He recounts Nirvana's meteoric rise to fame with pride and gushes about Cobain's talent and art like a proud father. Along with retelling the band's biggest moments, like their Unplugged performance and the making of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, he also shares rare moments unknown to fans, like how much Cobain worried about finances, him obsessively watching MTV seeing how often Nirvana's videos were played, and his struggle to maintain indie cred while reaching the masses. He addresses the many sides of Cobain, depicting the rocker in a new light.
Goldberg didn't know Cobain as a tortured soul. Instead, he shows us the person he knew by giving us a rare glimpse of his other sides, like the savvy businessman, the activist supporting LGBTQ and Women's rights, and the passionate family man. Instead of talking about his gloomy side, he talks about how nice he was to whomever he worked with, from record executives to promoters. He fondly remembers Cobain as sweet and humorous; someone who liked to crack jokes and play pranks. But Goldberg admits he had a dark side, which could strike at any moment. He describes moments where Cobain is a "control freak" and a "man child" if he didn't get his way. Even bassist Krist Novoselic says Cobain could be "mean and vicious." These comments aren't meant to portray Cobain as a bad person. Rather, it grounds him showing he was human just like the rest of us.
We also get a rare glimpse at Cobain's vulnerable side. Goldberg speaks about the mounting pressure he faced to keep Nirvana popular, write a successful follow up to Nevermind, and the aftermath of the infamous Vanity Fair piece. Considering how guarded he remained in the press, we had little to no idea the battles Cobain felt he was facing on his own. He tried to keep it together, but Goldberg reveals how the pressure affected him when the cameras were off leading to erratic mood swings and increased drug use. Reading about this tumultuous time helps us see why Cobain felt heroin gave him a moment of peace.
The final chapters discuss the last time Goldberg spoke to Cobain after a failed intervention and his tragic death. He even talks about the funeral, the chaotic aftermath of his death, and murder conspiracy theory, which he dismisses. The way Goldberg questions what more he could've done, it's clear that 25 years later Cobain's death remains a harrowing moment for him. And like others who knew him, his untimely passing still shocks and saddens him to this day. Yet, the book ends on a positive note as Goldberg looks back on Nirvana and Cobain's effect on music and how their contributions can still be felt to this day. He expresses gratitude for having the chance to spend time with him and seeing his legacy live on.
Serving the Servant is a loving tribute to Cobain that attempts to separate the man from the myth. It's an honest account of Goldberg's limited time with the artist written out of love and great respect. This book does what most Nirvana books fail to do; give us something new. Most books do nothing but rehash the same Nirvana stories and theories. Reading about the many aspects of Cobain is fascinating and helps us understand the rocker a bit more. It's clear Goldberg is proud of the time he spent with Cobain and instead of telling a tragic tale, he celebrates Cobain's life, his legacy, and the gift he shared with the world.
Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain is out April 2 viaEcco.
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Back in March I reviewed a financial history book called Devil Take the Hindmost. In that post I listed how America 2008 was starting to look like Japan 1990. One of the items I mentioned was in regards to accounting.
2. Central bankers turned a blind eye to banks that wouldnt write down bad debt.
The longer they wait, the worse it ultimately will be. The long Japanese Recession (1989-2003) was caused by precisely this refusal to take the markdown, and engage in all manner of delays, excuses, procrastinations. Eee-diots — This only will make it worse!
When the people with capital to invest no longer trust the accounting, they withhold further investment. Without new investment you aren't going to pull out of a recession.
One of the reasons America has always been an economic superpower is because we've always held a high standard when it comes to accounting and protecting the interest of investors. We make mistakes, but those mistakes are recognized and ultimately fixed.
Today FASB stated that we know the books are cooked, but we are going to turn a blind eye. This is banana republic accounting. And it is one of the reasons I don't hold a single long position in any stock right now.
Banana Republic accounting and communist finance. FNM and FRE are publicly traded companies with both equity and debt held by investors who got greater interest than t-bills, because there was supposed to be greater than zero risk.
Now they are back-stopped with tax-payer money. Our money …and the real irony is that the largest debt-holders are China and Japan …so US taxpayers are sending money to asia to cover their bad investments.
Are you annoyed yet? Unless you don't make enough to pay income tax you should be.
Good post though MAS. Bernanke has said that ALL Japan needed to do was to come clean with their bad debt and they would have solved their problems much more quickly. So what is Ben doing …tons of auctions which allow the banks to continue to hide their bad debt for much longer.
The FED is clearly in DEFLATION panic mode now. That analysis seems to be missing from the major financial media.
>> That analysis seems to be missing from the major financial media.
– They (pick bank) will need no more capital infusions.
– All real estate is local.
– Real Estate never drops in value.
– Buy now or be priced out forever.
– Buy and Hold is the best strategy.
– The emerging markets will decouple.
– The Fed is concerned about inflationary pressures.
Understanding financial history is a more valuable skill than reading a balance sheet.
The implication of course that we would launch into a new bull market in the 2nd half of 2008.
This is just brilliant marketing!
– The imagery of the wilderness.
– The implication that you will miss your chance if you sell your shares now.
– The clear vision of the rise on the other side.
– The market as a forward looking mechanism.


We tend to take storage for granted these days, as you can pick up a 1/2 TB disk for about £100. which considering the first computer I owned was a ZX81 with no storage other than a cassete drive and an 8K ROM is pretty amazing. However there are still plenty of ways to use storage up, one way that works quite well is to format your drive with the wrong block size and then store an ArcGIS server Map Cache on it.
My laptop is currently running Windows vista, but for ArcGIS server stuff I tend to use a windows 2003 Virtual server. I was doing some experimenting with performance and using different image cache tile sizes and swapping between fused and Layer caches. One interesting thing that this highlighted was the fact that the disk block size can have a huge effect on the amount of storage taken up by the map cache.
The Virtual server I was using had a default virtual hard disk that has a block size of 4K this is fairly standard, although you can vary it when formatting the disk, for example my media server at home has 64K blocks as this gives better performance when accessing large files.
The Default size in ArcGIS server when creating a map cache is 512×512 pixels, for the vector data and rendering I was using these came out at about 5-10Kb in size. To compare performance I created the same cache with 128x128px tiles. I was expecting that in general the total size of the cache would be slightly bigger, because there would be more images (16 times as many), but they would all be 16 times smaller in pixel size and maybe 10 -15 times smaller in file size. There is going to be some overhead in image headers and maybe the png compression would be slightly less efficient, however for the same data at the same cache levels, the information content and total file size should be much the same, regardless of tile size.
In reality what I found was that the 128 pixel tiles took up almost 10 times the total storage space than the 512 pixel tiles. The reason for this was the disk block size was too large. The average size of each 128px tile was about 400 bytes. however with the block size at 4096 bytes, each file occupies a whole block on disk which means most of the space in each block is wasted. The data I was using was an extreme case, The data was very sparse so a lot of the small tiles were completely empty but were still occupying 4K on disk. This is compounded if you build a separate cache for each layer with small tile sizes, as each tile is much less likely to have any data in it but will still occupy a whole block. If on the otherhand your data contains a lot of detailed imagery, smaller tile dimensions will not be as inefficient as most tiles will contain information regardless of how small they are. They will still take up plenty of space but at least you will be using it efficiently. The key is getting the block size large enough to contain the small tiles without wasting too much space.
So the moral of this story, is that in order to make best use of the storage that you have you should format the disk with a suitable block size for the data that you will store on it. If you expect to have a lot of small and possibly blank or near blank cache tiles you should use a small block size such as 512 bytes. If your data is dense, and your tiles larger then you can get away with a larger block size. Normally for data you don't really have to worry about the inefficiencies of disk block size as the numbers are so small, but if you are building industrial size map caches, the number of tile images can be in the 100's of millions. Use the right block sizes and the cache can provide huge performance and usability gain, use the wrong block size and the gains will be at the cost of a lot of wasted storage.
Thanks for the article. The new release of ArcGIS Server 10 includes compact cache storage. This solves the problem of wasted block space.


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This guide is an introduction to juvenile record clearing in New Braunfels and Central Texas. An individual can remove some Texas juvenile criminal records. Eligibility determines the action, meaning what a person can seal, expunge, or non-disclose from their criminal history.
First, your attorney must understand your criminal history. Second, they must determine whether you were a juvenile or an adult when the offense occurred.
Who is a juvenile?
In common usage, a juvenile may mean 16 years old and under, 18 years old and under; or 21 years old and younger. However, a juvenile is ten to sixteen years old under Texas law. An adult is seventeen and older. Sealing of records governs clearing offenses that occurred as a juvenile. Expunction and nondisclosure are the two main mechanisms to clear an adult conviction.
Expunction, nondisclosure, and sealing of records legally entitle a person to deny that the arrest occurred. All three remedies hide the record from the public.
A Summary of the Three Action
1. Expunction
Expunction, defined by chapter 55 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, basically applies to cases dismissed without punishment, pardoned by the governor, or acquitted by a jury. It also applies to a completed deferred adjudication on a Class C misdemeanor.
Expunction is a right; if the person is eligible, a judge does not have the discretion to deny an expunction. Expunction is the most powerful remedy of the three mechanisms and results in the erasure of a record.
2. Nondisclosure
A person is eligible for nondisclosure if they completed a deferred sentence on a crime punishable by jail time. Some misdemeanors can be non-disclosed immediately after completion of community supervision; some misdemeanors require a two-year waiting period. Felonies require a five-year waiting period. Some offenses, like crimes involving family violence, are not eligible for nondisclosure. A judge has discretion whether to grant or deny a nondisclosure—such an order hides a record from the public. However, this action does not destroy the record, and several entities designated by the legislature can see a non-disclosed record. Section 411.081 of the Texas Government Code describes nondisclosure.
3. Sealing of Records
Texas law governs sealing a juvenile record. Sealing of records results in a sealed juvenile record with the clerk of the court. It is not as strong as expunction but stronger than nondisclosure. Sealing of records is also available for more dispositions than expunction and nondisclosure. While an adult conviction can never be expunged or nondisclosed, a judge can seal many juvenile crimes.
Contact me for a free case review if you want to clear a juvenile criminal record in Comal County or other Central Texas counties such as Hays County, Guadalupe County, Travis County, or Bexar County.
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Debates of Sept. 28th, 2010
House of Commons Hansard #72 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was data.
Seniors CPI Protection Act
Bowen Shares
Baha'i Community in Iran
Quatre Lieux History and Genealogy Society
Niagara Food Festival
Louise Bellemare
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canada's Economic Action Plan
Mario Laguë
G8 and G20 Summits
Firearms Registry
Employment Insurance
Presence in Gallery
Opposition Motion—Long Form CensusBusiness of SupplyGovernment Orders
An hon. member
Firefighters.
Dan McTeague Liberal Pickering—Scarborough East, ON
The hon. member quite rightly pointed out firefighters.
They are nurses, demographers, small businesses, the backbone of our economy, and municipal officials. While many of them in my province are embroiled in municipal campaigns, it is coming up as an issue. They are concerned about the ability to determine needs effectively, particularly in larger urban centres, but also in smaller urban centres. For instance, I think of my friends where my parents live, in Peterborough, Ontario. There is grave concern about what this will mean down the road.
It also means, for many people in this country, the ability to make decisions based on changes in the demographics of our country.
It may be tough news for the Conservatives, who would like to rely on information that is thought up or that perhaps some kind of pollster out there gets for them. The reality is that we are taking a perfectly good system, under the pretext that some people were intimidated into responding, and we are throwing away something that is vital and fundamentally important for understanding who we are and for planning where we are going to go.
I know that planning, forethought, and doing things down the road may be a problem for the Conservatives, because frankly, they do not want to plan ahead. They want to navel gaze and divide and conquer.
I have a question for the hon. members, and I hope that they can answer this: Why is it good enough to force rural Canada to use a long form census but not urban Canada? What is it that they have against rural Canada that they would force them into that kind of situation?
I know that this is hard for the Conservative Party to accept, and I see that they are finally animated. A simple answer would have been to create a voluntary response by removing the criminal section instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I know that it is difficult for the Conservatives to understand this because for the first time in 17 years, I have now come to understand that no Conservative government, no Liberal government, and no provincial Liberal, New Democratic, or Conservative government I know of has ever ventured or suggested what the government has obviously done.
Against an overwhelming, absolute understanding by media and organizations across this country, the government continues to act like modern-day Luddites in the face of what is a very important document for better understanding this country.
I know that it is a problem for the hon. members over there to understand how that information is used even for the composition of this House of Commons and for understanding how programs are allocated and how small businesses make their determinations in various census areas, CMAs, across this country. If they are prepared to throw it out, I say that it is a very sad day for intelligence and the ability to come forward with information that is so vital to the country we now have.
I understand that hon. members can get animated about this, but frankly, most of them were never consulted either about the decision by the industry minister. It must be nice to be able to do the cat calling, or whatever it is that is being done over there, but the reality for us on this side of the House is that a bad policy has ensued from a very bad decision.
Why does the government not just admit that it is wrong? Why does it not have Canada's bigger, wider interests at heart? Why is the Conservative Party not prepared to stand up for Canadians and understand that we are going down a road that will have an important determination as to the policies that will be developed in the House of Commons? I am appealing to the government's sense of understanding the importance of census information. It seems to me that what has been lost is the government's concern about bringing forth proper facts and information.
Hon. members have talked about intrusion and I understand that some people are uncomfortable in answering questions on the long form census. That has happened in the past. However, the facts do not bear out the government's concern. The privacy commissioner appeared before the parliamentary committee established at the urging of the Liberal Party to review this wayward decision by the Minster of Industry. There were, if members can believe it, three official complaints in the past 10 years, and the Conservative Party is prepared to turn everything over on its head in order to make a partisan point. I am not sure what that point is.
I ask hon. members simply to consider removing the criminal sanction as opposed to destroying a perfectly good regime which not only works for Canadians, but also is the envy of the world.
For many the long form census is an important issue, but I remind colleagues in the House of Commons that it is also a constitutional obligation. It is in our Constitution. Every nation has done a census since the Roman times.
It is important and vital. Believe me when I say it is important for people to understand that if we do not have an accurate picture of the nation as it goes ahead, it is very likely that we will wind up making bad policy for the country. People are not going to be able to get reliable information to make proper, effective and responsible decisions about this country.
To the hon. members on the Conservative side of the House who are following their industry minister over the hill in this matter, I would suggest very strongly that they reconsider the position they have taken and do what they believe is necessary. If they are concerned about the criminalization of an individual, I would point out that it has never happened. I think it is very important to recognize that not one person in Canada has ever been incarcerated for not filling out a long form census.
Is this a policy in search of a problem? Is this a solution in search of a problem that does not exist? Is the government responding to some kind of unspecified, unnamed fringe perspective about what these long form censuses are about?
Our demographics are changing. We have an aging population. A lot of new people have come to this country. There is a shift between the rural and urban parts of this country, and a shift back. Some regions in the country are doing very well; others are not. The most important way in which we can be precise in understanding who we are as Canadians is to allow the long form census in its current form with the amendment provided by the hon. member for Westmount—Ville-Marie to simply remove what some perceive to be the offending part, and that is the criminal aspect of it.
We talked about privacy and intrusion. There are other areas where there is a requirement to divulge information and there is the promise under sanction that no one can divulge information that would lead to a potential privacy conflict. We know this, for instance, with respect to Revenue Canada. I hope the government understands that this also applies to individuals' medical records and their personal information. These things are guaranteed under law. Access to them is privileged, and it ought to be privileged.
When Canadians have an understanding of what is being proposed by the Conservative government, and to which the Liberal opposition is saying no, it is very clear that common sense will prevail.
People understand. I think it has been a horrendous summer for the government. It has taken a number of very controversial decisions. The government thought it could float this as a trial balloon, but it has seen this one shot down in flames.
I call upon all members of the House of Commons to recognize the significance of the organizations that are asking that the long form census be restored. These groups are not known to make public commentary. They are, however, the bulwark of our nation. Our nation is crying out to the Conservative government. I ask the government to listen to what these groups have to say. It should do the right thing, be reasonable and stand up for Canadians.
The Deputy Speaker Conservative Andrew Scheer
The hon. member will have five minutes for questions and comments after question period, but now we will move on to statements by members.
Bowen SharesStatements By Members
John Weston Conservative West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Andrea Bastin and Michael Segal on the safe arrival of their beautiful twin boys, Will and Charlie, on the wonderful island community of Bowen in the riding I represent.
Bowen has taken the noble effort as a community to step beyond its borders and reach across the ocean to help others. As a part of Canada that has resources to share, Bowen has taken on the challenge of establishing an outreach in Ghana through the project known as Bowen Shares, which works to fund a small orphanage in Ghana.
Through Bowen Shares, Andrea and Michael heard of the need for parents to adopt two small boys from the orphanage, Will and Charlie. Showing great character and supported by many people on Bowen, Andrea and Michael braved a lengthy and difficult process to adopt the boys from Ghana. The family persevered and this past month, Andrea, Michael and their son Finn were united with Will and Charlie on Bowen Island.
I stand in this House today proud of their efforts and I congratulate the whole Bowen family. We as a nation are a richer place for the arrival of Will and Charlie.
Baha'i Community in IranStatements By Members
Shawn Murphy Liberal Charlottetown, PE
Mr. Speaker, for decades now, members of the 300,000-strong Baha'i community have suffered relentless persecution at the hands of the Government of Iran. These incidents have been documented by the United Nations and have received international condemnation.
These attacks reached new heights in March and May of 2008, when seven leaders of the Baha'i community in Iran were arrested and charged with espionage. Since then, the violation of norms of international jurisprudence, in other words, their arrest, prolonged solitary confinement, denial of access to their legal counsel, false charges, sham trial and subsequent sentence communicated verbally to their lawyer, has been universally condemned.
I am calling on the government to call in the Iranian chargé d'affaires, head of the mission, and to call on the Iranian government to stop the persecution of the members of the Baha'i faith and to immediately release the seven leaders of the Baha'i community who remain imprisoned in Iran.
Quatre Lieux History and Genealogy SocietyStatements By Members
Robert Vincent Bloc Shefford, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the Société d'histoire et de généalogie des Quatre Lieux on its 30th anniversary. Through its various activities and publications, this non-profit organization showcases the history of the rural communities in my riding, including Saint-Cézaire, Saint-Paul d'Abbotsford, L'Ange-Gardien and Rougemont.
Headed by Gilles Bachand, the history society is made up of volunteers who work hard to share our history with all Quebec families, including our youth.
I would like to take a moment to call attention to two volunteers with the history society: Aline D. Ménard, a founding and still-active member, and Marie-Paule Rajotte LaBrèque, a Quebec historian who donated much of her personal collection of history books to the organization.
Once again, congratulations and continued success to the Société d'histoire et de généalogie des Quatre Lieux.
Niagara Food FestivalStatements By Members
Malcolm Allen NDP Welland, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Niagara region will celebrate local farmers and food producers at this weekend's 17th annual Niagara Food Festival in the city of Welland. The festival, which attracts thousands of visitors every year, focuses on regional producers from Niagara and the surrounding area. This region, rich in agriculture, produces food that is high in quality and diversity.
In the last decade, food imports have risen almost 50% which has left our local producers struggling to stay afloat. In Niagara, that struggle has been exacerbated by the closing of CanGro, the last fruit cannery east of the Rocky Mountains. Now, canned fruit is produced offshore, with less rigorous inspection than what was previously done at CanGro in Niagara.
In addition to supporting our farmers, buying local also helps the environment by reducing travel distances. It revitalizes local economies and promotes a healthier lifestyle.
I would like to congratulate the organizers of the Niagara Food Festival for promoting locally grown foods. I encourage all Canadians to think homegrown and to support their local economy by buying from their neighbours.
SeniorsStatements By Members
Jeff Watson Conservative Essex, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Canada's seniors.
Thanks to our government, October 1 is Seniors Day in Canada. This a chance to thank the men and women who have done so much to build our communities and our country.
This builder generation defended Canadian values in two world wars, rose from the hardships of the Great Depression and forged Canada's road to prosperity through the 20th century. They built a seaway and highways to connect us and gave us a true north strong and free. Now they are our sages and form the backbone of our volunteerism.
We owe our seniors so much. Our government, on behalf of Canadians, is doing so much to show its thanks, from historic support of our veterans, to important pension reform and major tax savings, to increased investments in affordable housing and community projects for seniors, safer streets and neighbourhoods, and a seat at the cabinet table.
This Seniors Day, I ask members to join me in saying thanks to our seniors.
Status of WomenStatements By Members
Raymonde Folco Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
Mr. Speaker, on October 1, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, with particular attention to situations of conflict.
On behalf of all women, I am calling on the Prime Minister to take into account the status of women in cases of violence and in Canada's peace operations. I am asking that all Canadian Forces training guidelines include the protection of women's rights and needs.
Canada reaffirmed its position in the final declaration of the Global Parliamentarians Summit on population and development held in Ottawa in 2010, and in the recommendations by the G8 leaders. These declarations include universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and care and support for women with HIV or AIDS, a condition that must also be part of every new peace accord.
Public SafetyStatements By Members
Kevin Sorenson Conservative Crowfoot, AB
Mr. Speaker, our Conservative government is committed to placing the interests of victims ahead of the interests of criminals.
We are investing $50 million in the Drumheller and Bowden Institutions. That is 96 new medium and 50 minimum security spaces to be created by 2013 in both institutions.
We anticipate 2,700 more spaces in men's and women's facilities across Canada in the future.
Over many years, my constituents have consistently called on the federal government to keep their communities safe by keeping dangerous criminals behind bars until they have served their time, not releasing them into the streets automatically and much before they are ready.
Our government takes very seriously our responsibility to build stronger, safer communities across Canada.
We are investing in the resources that members of the law enforcement community have been telling us they need. We have already hired over 1,000 additional RCMP personnel.
We understand that there is a cost to keeping dangerous criminals behind bars. We believe—
The Speaker Liberal Peter Milliken
The hon. member for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie.
Louise BellemareStatements By Members
Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC
Mr. Speaker, today on Parliament Hill a reception is being held in honour of my long-serving riding assistant, Louise Bellemare, who has been working for the House of Commons since 1988.
This year the Bloc Québécois is celebrating its 20th anniversary and it is thanks to the dedication and commitment of people like Louise Bellemare that our party has maintained the confidence of Quebeckers.
Through her diplomacy, her ability to listen and her immense empathy, Ms. Bellemare has also been second to none in supporting people through the ins and outs of the federal public administration.
Today, the members of the Bloc Québécois want to acknowledge the excellent work of Louise Bellemare, a woman who has never counted the hours when serving the people of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie.
Canadian ForcesStatements By Members
Blake Richards Conservative Wild Rose, AB
Mr. Speaker, this government believes that each and every ill and injured soldier and veteran is a Canadian hero and they and their families deserve our support to help deal with new challenges.
We are allocating $2 billion to provide enhanced allowances to those who have been seriously injured.
Today our government announced the legacy of care platform to further increase the assistance that we offer to severely injured Canadian Forces personnel and their families.
We will be providing barrier-free transitional housing to those Canadian Forces members who are in rehabilitation.
During that time we will assist by providing support for day-to-day living challenges such as transportation to medical appointments, child care and respite care.
This government recognizes the valuable contributions military families provide those members recovering from serious injuries.
I am proud to be part of a government that supports our military personnel and our veterans.
This government is listening and acting.
Pierre Elliott TrudeauStatements By Members
Dominic LeBlanc Liberal Beauséjour, NB
Mr. Speaker, today we remember a remarkable prime minister, one of our nation's greatest builders. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, had a profound impact on Canadian society.
From the creation of the Official Languages Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to his hand in advancing Canadian women by the appointment of the first woman Speaker of the House, Speaker of the Senate and Governor General, to his broadening of Canada's relations with countries such as China and Cuba, Mr. Trudeau's legacy continues to shape Canadian policy today.
Mr. Trudeau's list of accomplishments was remarkable. Above all, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was a great family friend, and we will always have fond memories of him.
I also know that Mr. Trudeau would smile warmly if he could see his son, the member for Papineau, serving in this House with the same passion that marked his service.
Canada's Economic Action PlanStatements By Members
Andrew Saxton Conservative North Vancouver, BC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday our Conservative government updated Canadians on the progress of its economic action plan. The detailed report showed the plan is working. It showed that the plan is injecting $22 billion in major stimulus into Canada's economy this fiscal year.
It showed that close to 23,000 economic action plan projects across Canada have funding committed. It showed that close to 97% of those projects are under way or already completed, and it showed that Canada is creating jobs, 430,000 net new jobs since July 2009.
In my riding of North Vancouver, work is well under way on a number of projects, including a new state-of-the-art film centre for Capilano University and a new track and field and indoor soccer facility at Windsor Secondary School.
Clearly, Canada's economic action plan is delivering real benefits for everyday Canadians. In the words of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, it has been effective and has created a lot of jobs.
Jobs and the economy, that is what our Conservative government is focused on.
Disaster ReliefStatements By Members
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, the flooding in the north island highlights again the inadequacies of disaster relief. As residents of Newfoundland have already discovered, it may take weeks to learn who will be eligible for financial assistance to rebuild their lives.
Full assessments happen after waters recede, but as people are moving their belongings to higher ground they want to know that financial help is on the way.
When floods happened in Duncan last December, our community was shocked at the news that landlords would not be eligible for assistance. Some tenants lost their homes because their landlords did not have the funds to repair or rebuild.
For first nations, disaster relief assistance should not come at the expense of other programs as it did in Kashechewan where special education funds were used to pay for emergency expenses.
People need to hear today that their federal government will be there to help them when disaster strikes.
Aerospace IndustryStatements By Members
Daniel Petit Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Mr. Speaker, today, the Minister of Public Works and Government Services met with representatives of Canadian companies who came to Ottawa from all over Canada to express their support for the investment our government has made in the F-35 joint strike fighter program.
This investment in Canadian aerospace companies all over the country will create jobs, economic growth and opportunities over the next 40 years.
By replacing a plane that is at the end of its lifespan, the government is showing its continued support for the armed forces, and is injecting money directly into the Canadian economy, thus creating jobs.
Our government supports families in Quebec and Canada who earn a living working for our aerospace companies. The opposition continues to play political games and to jeopardize the thousands of jobs that this kind of investment will create in the decades to come.
QuebecStatements By Members
Christiane Gagnon Bloc Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, following in Don Cherry's and Rex Murphy's footsteps, there is another employee of CBC, Radio-Canada's English counterpart, who is engaging in Quebec bashing.
Earlier this week, after fans at the Bell Centre let the goalie know how disappointed they were, Jason Davidson, a sports producer, criticized sovereignist Quebeckers on CBC's and Hockey Night in Canada's Twitter account. He admonished separatist Canadiens fans to stop booing Price. He added that he knew it was idiots of their type.
This is not the first time we have heard discriminatory and racist remarks about Quebeckers on Hockey Night in Canada and the CBC.
And even though the producer in question has apologized, how is it possible that such remarks are tolerated in a crown corporation when part of its revenue comes from taxes paid by these so-called "idiots"? This sort of behaviour would never have been tolerated on the French-language Radio-Canada network.
Mario LaguëStatements By Members
Michael Ignatieff Liberal Etobicoke—Lakeshore, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise here today to pay tribute to a great Canadian—a husband, a father, a colleague and a friend: Mario Laguë.
Mario was a Quebecker and a Canadian, a man of great vitality, charm and energy.
He was so full of enthusiasm that when he cheered for the Montreal Canadiens, he could be heard three houses away.
As director of communications in my office, he always managed to keep his cool, his sense of humour and his sense of irony.
Mario Laguë was proud to have been a Canadian ambassador, a public servant, and an adviser to prime ministers, but he was proudest of his family: Caroline, Arianne and Clara. We thank them for sharing Mario with us.
Today we pause and reflect in this chamber. In the public life of our country, there is a void where a boisterous, courageous and funny man once stood.
Au revoir, Mario.
We miss him.
Royal Galipeau Conservative Ottawa—Orléans, ON
Mr. Speaker, this summer, we were all deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of Mario Laguë, the opposition leader's director of communications, at the age of 52.
Throughout a distinguished career, the late Mario Laguë served his country with dedication both in Canada and abroad. His numerous roles included serving as director of communications for Canada's 21st prime minister, the Right Hon. Paul Martin, as Québec's delegate in Venezuela and in Mexico, as Canada's Ambassador to Costa Rica and as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet in the Privy Council Office.
Mr. Laguë was a skilled communicator whose legacy includes devoted service to his country.
On behalf of all government members of this House, I would like to extend my sincere condolences to his wife, Dr. Caroline Vu-Nguyen, his two daughters, Arianne and Clara, as well as his friends and our colleagues in the official opposition.
Our thoughts and prayers are with them and we share their grief.
Government SpendingOral Questions
Etobicoke—Lakeshore Ontario
Michael Ignatieff LiberalLeader of the Opposition
Mr. Speaker, yesterday evening at a public forum in Outremont, a woman asked why the government was spending $16 billion on airplanes when there is a serious shortage of funding for affordable housing in Quebec.
My question is for the Prime Minister.
Can he explain to this woman why he needs to buy this particular plane at this price on an untendered contract while ordinary Canadian families are having trouble making ends meet?
Calgary Southwest Alberta
Stephen Harper ConservativePrime Minister
Mr. Speaker, F-35s will replace our CF-18 fighters, whose useful life will end at the end of this decade. This purchase has the strong support of the Canadian Forces and the unanimous support of Canada's and Quebec's aerospace industry, which is one of our largest employers.
Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister were to participate in an open public forum with open questions, I think that he would have a hard time convincing Canadians that he shares their priorities. He would have a hard time convincing the woman who asked that question yesterday evening.
I would like to ask the question again. Why this particular plane at this price on an untendered contract when ordinary Canadian families have other pressing social needs?
Mr. Speaker, this company was selected by the former Liberal government. This purchase has received strong support. Our Canadian Forces need these planes. This purchase has received strong support from an industry that is one of the country's largest employers. This is very important for the economy. Those of us on this side of the House are not playing political games at the expense of the aerospace industry or our Canadian Forces.
Mr. Speaker, we are not playing political games. We are asking questions to which Canadians want clear answers.
Even the United States Pentagon cannot tell us how much the plane will cost. The costs are skyrocketing. We are in the middle of a $54 billion budget. The bid was not competitive.
How can we go to a town hall anywhere in Canada and explain this choice to Canadians when there are so many other priorities that are pressing on hard-pressed Canadian families?


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Football League sponsor auctioning footballs used in Sky Bet Championship clashes
As announced in late-2015, the Football League sponsor Sky Bet is auctioning 12 limited-edition Mitre match-balls used in Sky Bet Championship games in aid of The Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.
The commemorative Cardiff City match-ball up for auction was used in the 2-0 victory over Reading from November 7th.
In 2014, Sky Bet and clubs from The Championship worked together to raise over £118,000 for The Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal through a similar campaign. The money raised helped to provide ongoing support for services such as the Legion's work with wounded, injured and sick Service personnel at the Battle Back Centre in the West Midlands.
All money raised this year will go towards supporting vital services such as The Royal British Legion's Family Holiday Breaks, which gives the families of serving and ex-Service personnel the chance to take a family break away from the strains of everyday life.
Supporters can bid for this one-of-a-kind match-ball by clicking here. We'd like to thank all Cardiff City fans for their continued support of The Royal British Legions' Poppy Appeal.


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Oxnard woman dies after being hit by pickup
Jeremy Childs
A 32-year-old Oxnard woman died after she was hit by a vehicle in Oxnard, police said Saturday.
The crash took place at 9:25 p.m. Friday near Robert Avenue and Oxnard Boulevard.
Through an investigation, authorities said they learned a 67-year-old Santa Paula woman was driving north on Oxnard Boulevard in a Chevrolet pickup when it hit the victim, who was crossing the street.
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The victim suffered serious injuries and was taken to Ventura County Medical Center, where she later died as a result of her injuries.
The driver of the pickup remained on the scene and cooperated with investigators, police said. Investigation into the crash is ongoing. Anyone with information for investigators is asked to contact Officer Mike Wood at 805-385-7750 or via email at mike.wood@oxnardpd.org


Sedgemoor is a local government district in the English county of Somerset. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance; Grade I structures are those considered to be "buildings of exceptional interest". Listing was begun by a provision in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947. Once listed, severe restrictions are imposed on the modifications allowed to a building's structure or its fittings. In England, the authority for listing under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 rests with Historic England, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; local authorities have a responsibility to regulate and enforce the planning regulations.
Sedgemoor is a low-lying area of land close to sea level between the Quantock and Mendip hills, historically largely marsh (or moor). It contains the bulk of the area also known as the Somerset Levels, including Europe's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track.
There are 53 Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor, 14 of which are in Castle Street, Bridgwater. In 1723-1728, Castle Street was built on the site of the demolished Bridgwater Castle, as homes for the merchants trading in the town's port. Outside the town of Bridgwater, the largest concentration of Grade I listed buildings are in the village of Cannington, where the 12th-century Cannington Court and 14th-century Church of St Mary were both associated with a Benedictine nunnery. Cannington is also the site of the 13th-century Gurney Manor and Blackmoor Farmhouse, which was built around 1480 with its own chapel. Most of the Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor are Norman- or medieval-era churches, many of which are included in the Somerset towers, a collection of distinctive, mostly spireless Gothic church towers. Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Halswell House, where the south range was built in the 16th century for Sir Nicholas Halswell and the main north range in 1689 for Sir Halswell Tynte. The most recently constructed building in the list is the Corn Exchange in Bridgwater, built in 1834.
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^ a b Historic England. "Blackmoor Farmhouse (1175359)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ a b Historic England. "Halswell House (1058950)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ a b Historic England. "Corn Exchange (1205740)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "Bridgwater Arts Centre No 11 and 13 Castle Street (1197363)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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^ Historic England. "Church of St Edward King and Martyr (1177353)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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^ Historic England. "Church of St John the Baptist (1173117)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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^ Historic England. "Church of St Margaret (1060186)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "Churchyard cross about 10 meters south of the Church of St Margaret (1178278)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "Parish Church of St Mark (or Holy Cross) (1252187)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary & All Saints (1058934)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary the Virgin (1174351)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "Church of St Michael (1251356)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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^ Historic England. "Church of St Michael & All Angels (1296062)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
^ Historic England. "Church of St Michael & All Angels (1344664)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter (1173050)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter (1060138)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "Church of the Holy Cross (1344695)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "Gothelney Manor Farmhouse (1060185)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "The Lions and Attached Pavilions, Balustrades, Gate Piers and Railings (1279714)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "No 1 Castle Street, Bridgwater (1297184)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
^ Historic England. "No 2 Castle Street, Bridgwater (1280699)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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^ Historic England. "No 16 Castle Street, Bridgwater and attached wall (1297186)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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We've all had a long swim, bath or shower sometime in our lives and come out looking like a prune. Wrinkly hands, feet, fingers and toes – but why? Have you ever wondered how this happens? Have you ever wondered why it happens? After all, it doesn't look or feel that good.
Up until the early 2000's, the main theory of how fingers and toes wrinkled in water was that you simply were filling up with water. The dead skin (keratin) cells, which are thickest on your hands and feet, was meant to absorb water causing you fingers and toes to swell and thus to wrinkle.
However, there were a few holes in this theory. Firstly, your hands and feet have less volume when wrinkled in the bath. So they've actually shunk, not increased with the water. Secondly, researchers observed way back in 1936 that fingers with damaged or severed nerves did not wrinkle, no matter how long they stayed in water. So how could it simply be a matter of your fingers and toes filling up with water?
In 2003, a more robust theory was offered. Vasoconstriction. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mus.10323/abstract As your hands and feet have a very high concentration of sweat glands, water passes through the skin of your hands and feet more easily. The water moving into your fingers and toes dilutes the levels of salt in your skin, which is highly regulated by your body. This dilution weakens the tissue cells in your hands and feet which triggers nerves to close down blood vessels. As the blood vessels are now somewhat closed down, the volume of your hands and feet shrinks. The shrinking occurs unevenly due the structure of the tough work areas on your hands and feet. So on a micro level, some areas of your hands and feet will shrink more than others, this unevenness is what causes the wrinkles.
Further research has suggested there is an advantage to water wrinkly skin for us humans. If you think about racing tyres, and you'll start to understand what I'm talking about. Race cars use slick flat tyres in dry conditions for the best grip, but then change to wet weather tyres with grooves for the best grip in wet, rainy conditions. The grooves help channel water away allowing the flat surface to grip. In 2013, an experiment (http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/2/20120999.full) tested this theory via moving wet marbles and fishing sinkers to and from different containers while timing the results. In the experiment, people who wrinkled their hands for 30min in water prior to the test managed to complete the slippery tasks, on average, 12% faster than those with unwrinkled hands. There seemed to be no advantage or disadvantage for moving dry objects with wrinkled hands which might explain why we don't have wrinkled hands all the time. Outside the experiment, it is suggested that wrinkled hands are less sensitive and damage easier which also could explain why our bodies don't wrinkle all the time.
It is thought that wrinkled hands and feet might have given our human ancestors an advantage when it came to hunting and gathering in wet environments. Some interesting thoughts for when you are next pruning up.


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Population Council To Prioritise Education On Child Marriage
Teenage pregnancy prevalence in the country is estimated at 17.8 per cent and child marriage at 23.6 per cent, according to the World Bank's collection of development indicators, 2019.
A Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in 2014 put the percentage for both situations at 14 per cent, which experts consider alarming and need maximum attention.
The National Population Council (NPC) says this year it would prioritise educating young people and parents on teenage pregnancy and child marriage due to its high prevalence across the country.
The NPC would do this by focusing on the harmful effects of teenage pregnancy and child marriage on the individual, the community and the nation.
Although the figures represent a marginal reduction of an average of four per cent over the previous year, the council said it remained alarming and required maximum attention.
The Executive Director of the National Population Council (NPC), Dr Leticia Appiah, stated this when a team from Breakthrough Action; a non-governmental organisation that is focused on communication for health projects, visited her outfit to discuss ways to facilitate transformational change in reproductive health.
She said teenage pregnancy and child marriage contributed to high population growth, stunted growth rate and reduced cognitive development which was in the rise in the country in recent times.
"Teenage pregnancy and child marriage are high risk factors that are critical to population growth and the dynamics of development, they also contribute significantly to malnutrition in children which ultimately affect physical and cognitive development and ultimately productivity and by seeking to put an end to it we are on the right track to having a healthy population," Dr Appiah added.
She, therefore, called for a national debate on the role of teenage pregnancy and child marriage on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by the year 2030.
"The nation cannot boast of sustainable development when we still have such high percentages of teenage pregnancy and child marriage in the country," she noted.
A 2017 research by the Maternal Health Survey(MHS) revealed that the Western Region recorded the highest percentage in teenage pregnancy of 19 per cent, followed by the Volta Region with 18 per cent and the Upper East Region with 17 per cent.
The research also revealed that the former three northern regions recorded the highest percentage in child marriage, with 16 per cent in the Northern Region, 8 per cent in the Upper West and 17 per cent in the Upper East Region.
One major cause identified apart from cultural practices that cause young girls to marry at an early age was parental negligence.
It was realised that parents played a pivotal role in the lives of teens and negligence of the role leads to negative results.
"There is the need for parents to have an active reproductive health education for adolescents to avoid having numerous young mothers lose out in school because of early childbearing and teenage pregnancy," she said.
"The other causes of teenage pregnancy and child marriage which are low socio-economic status, peer pressure and sexual abuse and media influence all brings us back to parental care and influence. Parents are, therefore, influential in this regard."
Dr Appiah mentioned that the council would increase its presence in all districts to monitor and work with the existing regional representatives in the 16 regions in order to get accurate and timely feedback that would reach the specific needs of every teenager in the country.
She also stated that the council would collaborate with the media, local government and traditional authorities to embark on educational outreach programmes in schools and local communities.
"Reproductive health issues and programmes that have been formulated in the past have always focused on the young teenagers, almost leaving out the parents or guardians who happen to be the major stakeholders in the lives of these teenagers".
"Therefore, this year, the National Population Council will channel more of its programmes and interventions to target the parents as well," she stated.
The team from Breakthrough Action, during the meeting, briefed the executive director of the population council on their major communication for health television (TV) programme, You Only Live Once (YOLO), which had been airing on some selected television stations and other social media networks.
The YOLO TV series ended at the end of last year after five series.
While the organisation seeks sponsorship to ensure continuity of the television series, the leader of the delegation, Chief of Party, Breakthrough Action Project, Mr Sylvester Segbaya, said the organisation would use both the traditional and social media platform to solicit feedback on the YOLO series.
The feedback received, he said, would be used to review and improve the next YOLO series.
Additionally, the organisation would run a temporary programme that would be aired on some selected radio stations to sustain education on reproductive health, Mr Segbaya said.
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Great internal communication relies on having effective ways of reaching people.
You can have the best IC strategy in the world, but if you don't have any means of communicating with your employees, you won't be able to carry it out.
There's a long list of 'channels' that you can use for internal communication, from staff magazines to face-to-face meetings. Knowing which ones are right for your organisation and how to manage them effectively will save you a lot of time and money, as well as helping you meet your objectives.
Choosing the right channel for a particular message and audience is one of the great skills of internal communications.
Like many internal communicators, I found my way into this fascinating discipline through managing channels – developing the staff magazine at City of London Police into a multi-award-winning newspaper that also won the respect of its readership.
Throughout my career in internal comms, I've managed aspects of intranets, staff publications, team-briefing systems and engagement events among other channels.


About three years ago I had to cut a some trees to make room for a new fence. One of them was a wild growing apple. It did not really look like it had a bow in it so I tossed it in my "maybe some day" stave pile. After a year or so I split it and found out it had almost 180 degree twist so I quickly tossed it on the burn pile. Somehow I never burned it and a few weeks ago I felt like trying something weird so grabbed this stave and chopped a pyramid shape out.
Worked it to floor tiller and clamped it up to heat the twist out. Well... I heated it pretty darn deep but only got half of the twist out. This apple wood did not really want to keep the heated shape!
The stave also had some funky stuff going on the back with a large hollow area and a dogleg on one side. Needed two more heating sessions to get the dogleg out and got lucky with the string going dead center at the handle area. Handle was a bit too thin for my liking and had a bit of a rotten area so I glued on a piece of maple and yew.
Tried to match the irregular back shape to the belly while tillering. Tiller shape looks really funny with the extreme twist, weird bumps and hollows but got it to 28 and called it done.
There was one knot on the side around mid limb which fell out. I drilled that out and epoxied a cutoff piece of apple in.
The cambium has lots of different layers with browns and even bright red colors in it. Left some of it on the bow and added some extra stain to accentuate it.
To match the bright color I added a padauk arrow pass and a handle wrap from an old purse from my wife's aunt who passed away last year. She used it for years so it has a nice patina and we are sure she would have loved the new purpose!
It ended up drawing 45@27 and despite the prop twist is a surprisingly smooth shooter! Maybe the twist even adds to the smoothness?
No idea if this will last many shots but it sure was fun to make!
Don't burn me! Don't throw me away... I will be a good bow honest... just gimme a chance to show you!
Those "I'll just have a go" bows sometimes turn out the best.
Very nice, hard to beat a pyramid design, simple and effective.
What I find to be neat is the way that the limbs being twisted in symmetry actually cancelled each other making for the string to track properly. Beautiful work and great save on a piece most wouldn't take on.
Yup, that's a keeper Great job! Full draw?
I love that pyramid profile and the color of the back of the bow. Excellent job as usual!
"How'd you like them apples"? I love it.
I'm a big fan of apple bows and yours is top shelf.
I guess you can make a silk purse out of a sows ear. That bow is beautiful. Your bowyer skills are top notch.
Can you guys see the full draw picture?
Very well done Leon. I can't access the full draw pic though. I tried copying and pasting the url with no luck.
Oh well, I'm sure it looks as good as the rest of the pics.
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NASA launched its Mars helicopter Ingenuity from the surface of the Red Planet earlier Monday, marking the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
The solar-powered helicopter first became airborne at 3:34 a.m. Eastern Day Time (EDT) (0734 GMT), a time the Ingenuity team determined would have optimal energy and flight conditions.
The Ingenuity team confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA's Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT.
Altimeter data indicates that Ingenuity climbed to its prescribed maximum altitude of three meters and maintained a stable hover for 30 seconds, according to NASA.
It then descended, touching back down on the surface of Mars after logging a total of 39.1 seconds of flight.
NASA revealed a first black-and-white image taken by Ingenuity from the air while hovering over the Martian surface, using its navigation camera which autonomously tracks the ground during flight.
"The Mars Helicopter project has gone from 'blue sky' feasibility study to workable engineering concept to achieving the first flight on another world in a little over six years," said Michael Watkins, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
"That this project has achieved such a historic first is testimony to the innovation and doggedness of our team here at JPL, as well as at NASA's Langley and Ames Research Centers, and our industry partners. It's a shining example of the kind of technology push that thrives at JPL and fits well with NASA's exploration goals," he said.
Ingenuity arrived at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover. The helicopter is a technology demonstration with a planned test flight duration of up to 30 Martian days.
Deployed to the surface of Jezero Crater on April 3, Ingenuity is currently on the 16th Martian day, of its 30 Martian days flight test window.
Over the next three Martian days, the helicopter team will receive and analyze all data and imagery from the test and formulate a plan for the second experimental test flight, scheduled for no earlier than April 22. If the helicopter survives the second flight test, the Ingenuity team will consider how best to expand the flight profile.
NASA will gain its first hands-on experience operating a rotorcraft remotely at Mars. These datasets will be invaluable for potential future Mars missions that could enlist next-generation helicopters to add an aerial dimension to their explorations, according to the agency.
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Retford and the poppy
A strange natural sodium light fell lengthways across the land from a low sun as I drove early into Nottinghamshire. It dribbled through the windscreen and illuminated my advancing nostril hairs as I regarded my tired, shabby reflection in the rear-view mirror, starkly confirming for me the futility of any further grooming now my 35th birthday has slipped past. I parked up in Retford by a large and long abandoned council estate pub, working class grandeur being torn down piecemeal by sycamore saplings, ribboning the tarmac of the car park and easing their sinews into the masonry.
Papa's chippy wasn't open yet, but it already smelled of mushy peas warming up. A tattooed publican was straightening his poppy flags, seasonal hanging-baskets of remembrance. Retford was getting ready for market day.
I got straight to work, setting up for a busk on the main street against a blank shuttered door by the end of the Cashino, a tawdry portmanteau for our times. I hadn't been playing ten minutes when a man stopped me.
"Excuse me, are you local?"
"I'm afraid not, I've come over from Manchester way."
"You see I run an amateur dramatics group and we're working on a production of 'Ladies in Lavender'. Have you heard of it?"
"No.." Where was he going with this?
"Well it was made into a film starring Judi Dench, and it's about these two sisters who live in a remote fishing community in Cornwall."
"And one day they find a young man washed up on the beach, and they nurse him to health, and it turns out he's a Polish violinist."
"But we can't find anyone capable of playing a shipwrecked Polish violinist round here and I just wondered.."
Usually I like to go with the flow of events, and take on whatever the street throws at me, but a month's unpaid work as a washed up violinist was somehow a little too close to home.
"It's a bit far from Manchester I'm afraid."
"Oh well. Let me know if you change your mind. You can find us in the little theatre round the corner."
His hopes crushed, he headed away. A few moments later I was stopped again.
"I'm from Manchester way."
"Ah, you see my wife plays violin, but not like you."
Mistaking this for a compliment I said '"Well, thanks."
"No," he said wistfully. "She plays difficult, complex pieces."
He thought about it a bit.
"I wish she'd stop making it so Damn hard for herself and play something easy once in a while."
And he headed off, can of Dulux matt emulsion in each hand, white handlebar moustache maintaining watch over proceedings. There's definitely a type of gentleman of a certain age who stops you to tell you something they know about music without asking you anything about yourself, as if knowing they like Mahler is somehow useful information to you. It's an entitlement I suppose. These conversations always end when they run out of facts about music they know, and without any sort of useful point having been arrived at. A silence descends with me unable to contribute, not having been involved in the monologue so far, and they walk off without leaving a coin, their wisdom surely reward enough. Thank goodness I'm not a woman doing this I sometimes think. I imagine if I were, I'd get twice as much money and four times as many idiots to deal with. There's certainly a blessed anonymity in being an increasingly middle aged bloke with old clothes and a bald head.
I played on and the conversations kept coming. My next visitor was a tall Chinese lady with a preposterously fluffy white dog. She latched onto me from a distance and arrowed through the street towards my spot, dog trotting alongside.
"Hello, oh I am really enjoying the music. This is my dog, Snowy Pearl Chow Chow, he's on Instagram! He has hundreds of followers. I love your violin, why are you in Retford? You should go somewhere better! Dead end here, I have a camper van." She spoke in fast chopping sentences with a strong Chinese accent.
"I'm just here busking for a couple of days. Where are you from?"
"Ah you can see I'm not a local, yes. I'm actually from Hereford, but I know what you are thinking, she does not sound like she is from Hereford! This is because I grew up in Leeds! Haha! You should go to Hong Kong, do you have a degree? You could go on a worker visa, oh they love the violin there, you could play it at night and teach English in the day! Oh it would be so good. My Chow Chow, he's such a good dog. You can follow him on Instagram. Are you on Instagram? You could follow each other on Instagram!"
She was a phenomenon, a breathless whirlwind of words and barely connected sentences. 6ft tall in flats and looked you in the eye with a true confidence. Had I created her as a fictional character, I'd quite rightly stand accused of copying a stereotype, yet her she was, going full pelt at me like this, needing no encouragement at all. And then she was gone, Snowy Pearl Chow Chow obediently in tow, on to the next person. It suddenly dawned on me that this was a performance rather than a person. I whipped out my notepad and scribbled down as much of the conversation as I could. Like me, she was working the street as well, playing the stereotype, her morning's work to get some more Instagram followers for her dog. I resumed mine.
An older lady came slowly along, and dropped 60p into my case, before pausing, taking a good look at what was already in there, and remarking regretfully "Oh. You're doing quite well."
A little later, a man stopped right in front of my pitch, oblivious, and held a long phone conversation with someone of whom he demanded "Are you peeling onions? ARE YOU PEELING ONIONS?" in an increasingly agitated manner. After a couple of minutes of this, he suddenly hung up and hurried off.
It had been an action packed morning, and I was ready for lunch. I picked up a hot pie and a sandwich from the cavernous 'A.W. Bacon and sons, est 1938', a veritable department store of bakery and butchery, and wandered the town.
It was the week before Remembrance Sunday. There were a lot of poppies about, and not just pinned to the lapels of the passing shoppers. Every other shop had a remembrance themed window display. I documented a few of my favourites. The Air Ambulance charity shop offered a poppy covered bookcase full of paperback spy thrillers. Mind UK's poppy display housed the complete Dad's army scripts. Not to be outdone, the Edinburgh Woollen Mill had a fashionable display of camouflage trousers amongst their poppies. A decorative metalworker had created large poppies with centres made of melted and deformed vinyl records. I looked closer, and the records he'd chosen to sacrifice were German Hammond-Organ albums. Good though the subversion of this art was, my winner for the day was an independent charity shop whose magnificent poppy window featured 'The young Hitler I knew' in hardback as their centrepiece.
Faced with this bewildering series of juxtapositions, I took my pie and sandwich and sat by the inert and ossified Sebastopol cannon (Rated #11 of 18 things to do in Retford on Tripadvisor) to think it over. This Russian cannon, claimed by the British in the Crimean war in 1855 and plinthed two years later, was retrieved to Retford of all places and set up as a monument to the fallen of that particular foreign adventure. Almost melted down for the Second World War effort, it was saved by local dignitaries for whom the Crimean war still held enough personal meaning to make the symbolism worth preserving. Now it feels impossibly lost in history, a random cannon from Russia, meaningless and incongruous, though symbolically it meant much the same to the citizens of Retford in the Victorian era as our war memorials do to us today.
The difficulty with the poppy, it seems to me, is what a nakedly powerful symbol it is, so simple and susceptible to being filled with new meaning. Symbols can sometimes overpower their first given meaning. That straightforward design, the splash of colour so immediately visually distinctive against our dull British Autumnal apparel makes for a symbol clearly full of charge, even if you didn't yet know what the details were.
In my last blog, Cornwall Part 2, I spent a long time thinking about how the message so often dies with the story teller. The history books, the archives, the secondary sources don't carry the same sense of personal impact. With the rapid decline in the number of Second World War veterans left among us, the direct connection to the poppy is being lost, and for many is now an openly powerful symbol without an immediate personal connection.
Thus untethered from its foundation, the poppy is now a symbol ripe for new purpose, an increasingly empty vessel awaiting new content. This vacuum is being filled by all sorts of ideas. Some are awful. The widely shared images of people marching with a swastika tattoo on their neck and a poppy on their chest, and the people waving a poppy flag whilst giving a Nazi salute are particularly shocking examples. Most are much more mundane. The window displays I saw were not fascist or wildly offensive. They were simply confused, almost child-like. The poppy reduced to being a vague symbol of past war and present country.
We are as a people, unsure of ourselves. It comes, perhaps, of being the hegemonic power. There is nothing really to rebel against. Our culture and language dominant, World Wars won, subjugated by nobody. There is no greater power in our lives, no dominant force against which to assert our identity.
Brexit fits into this. Where others around us have suffered, it is because their interests have been adversely affected by an outside force, all too often the British, or within that the English. It perhaps therefore follows that if things are not going well, it must be through outside agency, after all, we're the English. Europe fits that narrative. As the only external organisation capable of effecting meaningful change on our lives, it follows that our problems must stem from this. To blame outside forces is much easier than to grapple with what we ourselves might do better. 'Change this one thing and it'll be fixed' is a compelling idea, particularly if you're too tired or beaten down to face the prospect of a long and difficult series of complex challenges. It is a simple idea with allure.
Within this narrative, the poppy has suddenly become an available symbol to a population that need to assert something, even if they're not quite sure exactly what. As the last WW2 veterans slowly slip out of the public discussion, the Second World War, like the first, starts to become distant and impersonal history in much the same way that the Sebastopol cannon attracts merely a ripple of confused interest, despite the deep symbolism it once bore. Words like 'Glory' and 'Remembrance', reread in a now secular world, lose their very specific Christian neutrality and take on more dramatic, nationalistic overtones. Glory not as the comforting religious sureity that the wasted innocent would be received into heaven, but a Godless and personal triumph in war of the righteous. Something to be nationalistically proud of, not crumbs of comfort in a hopeless mess.
This too rarely challenged sense of pride where once there was only sorrow appeals to an agitated and hurting English population seeking to make sense of a divided society, where the gap between rich and poor grows ever bigger, where the high street is fading away, the only growth area the homeless and hopeless. We wonder if only we could assert our Englishness some more, this could be overcome. The English flag itself is a somewhat debauched and tawdry symbol, immediately associated with football hooliganism. Too cheap for this greater calling. In the poppy, there is a sense of higher purpose and understated nobility that makes it a symbol suitable for those who couldn't bring themselves to wave the flag. A symbol that appears to offer togetherness in the strained union of the UK and a sense of identity in a shared past. It's a very English form of patriotism. Simplistic, understated.
People need symbolism and the poppy fulfils that need, and whilst there are some awful images of misappropriation of the poppy available to find, most uses of it just look a wellspring of undefined identity allied to a vacant and potent symbol.
Symbolism by itself though, is a short cut that bypasses the complex realisations of identity, a short cut where the symbol becomes the totem of identity itself, rather than a natural expression of an identity richly arrived at. The poppy here gets us no nearer to an expression of Englishness other than laying bare a clear sense of yearning and need.
That evening, I chewed the thought over with my friend Edwin in the Lord Nelson pub on Sutton on Trent. I told him about the window displays I'd encountered in Retford, and how they seemed to jar with the messages I'd been brought up to understand the poppy stood for, and my own consequent reluctance to wear one. He'd been taught in Berkhamstead school, which with its close links to the military had seen each many pupils go straight from school to slaughter.
"Remembrance is a constant, low level thing. It's there every day in the memorials on the Chapel Wall, the garden of Remembrance, and the stories attached to some of to the names, like, 'he was a bit of a shit' or 'he was shy but a brilliant mathematician'. It's a stark reminder when the same names on the awards plaques, cups, team captains, and in the school history books are the same ones as those on the lists of the fallen. Remembrance is about the hope for nobody having to do this, unwillingly or voluntarily, ever again. It shouldn't be a divisive symbol, but there's people on many sides trying to make it one: Trying to make it so you're either for it or against it whatever the current 'it' of the day happens to be; but to me it feels like it should be inclusive, not divisive. By making you feel uncomfortable in not wearing one, yet another way of making it a symbol of division, those seeking to divide people have then found yet another way to do so. It's meant to be your choice. My school felt very strongly that one should not be caught up in the populist upwelling of emotions."
I couldn't help but agree, and felt I should get myself a poppy the next day. My reasons for wearing it would be mine and mine alone, and nobody else need read too much into it. I still feared the the direction the poppy might travel in, but perhaps my refusal to wear it might only speed that up. I saw no Glory in it, only sorrows. A lull fell over conversation. The chatter of the pub washed over us. I took a sup of my pint. "Nice drop this, what is it?"
"It's called 'Bomber Command'"
Next day I was back in Retford. Yesterday had been market day, although the stalls had only really filled about half the square. There'd been cheap electronics, cheap clothes, a bit of fruit and veg. Nothing too remarkable other than the stall selling 'Zombie Apocalypse training', where two strapping young individuals in camouflage clothing holding air rifles had stood meaningfully in front of a screaming pockmarked blue mannequin head, offering the chance to prepare for the coming end times. It seemed entirely reasonable in the circumstances.
Today was different. It was the bric-a-brac market, where the heady world of market trading was thrown open to the amateur and enthusiast as well as the professional. It was infinitely more interesting. Nothing for sale was at all useful or had any genuine value, but there were oddities galore. One stall presented the splendid juxtaposition of second hand model railway equipment and new underpants. They must know their market. Another, brass sextants and a life size model walrus. My favourite was a stall completely buried in crocheted animals, all the work of one lady who was selling them very cheaply. Clearly an obsession where the main requirement of the stall was to clear the living room down a bit and make room for new balls of wool. I asked her if I could photograph the scene, and she said I could if she got out of the picture first. I did so, bought a crocheted bee for 50p and headed towards the busking spot.
It was already in use. A man wrapped in so many coats I couldn't tell how big he was had set up a small guitar and vocal amp and was singing away. He had a charity bucket for collection. I got a coffee and settled in to watch for a bit. The music was gentle and pleasant. I tuned into the lyrics.
"I didn't mean to hurt you, but I'm just a jealous guy…"
It didn't seem to matter, and coins were going into the bucket. I stepped over for a chat. His name was Paul and he busked for Cancer Research. He was a retired teacher, and this was his final busk of the year, as the cold was getting to be too much. He was really interested in what I was up to, and we had a good conversation, made awkward by the fact he'd left his clip on vocal mike turned up, causing his half of the chat to be broadcast loudly to the street.
He was nearly done, having been there an hour and a half already. I was soon set up and got a good session of my own in. It would soon be time to drive the 8 miles to Worksop and see what life was like there.
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Is it possible at all?

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Love is warmth, security, gentle discipline and guidance, the basis of a healthy relationship and passion. We see love in what we do and how we do it! Children feel love at many different level. Let's explore together and see what we can do to allow more love in our lives.
Colour: How it affects mood and influences behaviour.
Young children have a natural sense of colour and form. They instinctively recognise which colours support them, as compared to adults they are relatively unconditioned. All of humanity has a natural affinity with one particular colour group. This in turn, influences our response to colour schemes. Claire is keen to share not only how her knowledge of this system has helped her understand and positively support her daughter, but how you can do the same with your child.
Susannah Andrews is a mother, early years practitioner with experience in leading parent and child group sessions, childminder, enthusiastic, passionate and supporting simplicity parenting and the Steiner approach.
Has attended various courses and programs and is still constantly learning about early years and childhood development.
Claire Templer is a Professional Colourist, learned in the Colour Affects System which was developed in the early 1980s by psychoanalyst and colourpsychologist Angela Wright. This talk is an introduction to its unique approach to the psychology of colour and how it influences human mood and behaviour.
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//   Copyright 2015 Esri
//   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
//   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
//   You may obtain a copy of the License at

//       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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//   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
//   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Input;
using ArcGIS.Desktop.Framework;
using ArcGIS.Desktop.Framework.Contracts;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace GeoprocessingExecuteAsync
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This sample adds a tool button to Addin Tab. You click on the BufferGeometryTool button and draw a line
    /// on the map. The tool then passes the line geometry to Geoprocessing ExecuteToolAsync
    /// method which draws a buffer around that line.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// 1. In Visual Studio click the Build menu. Then select Build Solution.
    /// 2. Click Start button to open ArcGIS Pro.
    /// 3. ArcGIS Pro will open.
    /// 4. Open a map view and zoom in to your area of interest.
    /// 5. Click on BufferGeometryTool button on the ADD-IN TAB and then click on several points on the map to draw a line.
    /// 5. Double-click completes the line and the ExecuteAsync tool is called with this line as the input to Buffer (Analysis Tools toolbox) tool.
    /// ![UI](Screenshots/Screen.png)
    /// 6. Once the execution of the Buffer tool is complete, the buffered polygon as added to display.
    /// ![UI](Screenshots/Screen2.png)
    /// </remarks>
    internal class GPExecuteModule : Module
    {
        private static GPExecuteModule _this = null;

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieve the singleton instance to this module here
        /// </summary>
        public static GPExecuteModule Current
        {
            get
            {
                return _this ?? (_this = (GPExecuteModule)FrameworkApplication.FindModule("GeoprocessingExecuteAsync_Module"));
            }
        }

        #region Overrides
        /// <summary>
        /// Called by Framework when ArcGIS Pro is closing
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>False to prevent Pro from closing, otherwise True</returns>
        protected override bool CanUnload()
        {
            //TODO - add your business logic
            //return false to ~cancel~ Application close
            return true;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Generic implementation of ExecuteCommand to allow calls to
        /// <see cref="FrameworkApplication.ExecuteCommand"/> to execute commands in
        /// your Module.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="id"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        protected override Func<Task> ExecuteCommand(string id)
        {

            //TODO: replace generic implementation with custom logic
            //etc as needed for your Module
            var command = FrameworkApplication.GetPlugInWrapper(id) as ICommand;
            if (command == null)
                return () => Task.FromResult(0);
            if (!command.CanExecute(null))
                return () => Task.FromResult(0);

            return () =>
            {
                command.Execute(null); // if it is a tool, execute will set current tool
                return Task.FromResult(0);
            };
        }
        #endregion Overrides

    }
}


HOMEPOD wins PinAwards 2017 in IT entrepreneurship.
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Classic silver snake chain which features thin links, made up of lightly curved plates or bands, that are tightly woven together to form a continuous, sleek and smooth chain. Although their surfaces appears effectively closed, snake chains are very flexible making it an ideal contemporary pendant chain.
Chain is 1mm thick and 18 inches (450mm) in length.
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