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Beware of the Clay!

Rice Crispy Cake

Don’t try to build with this mixture!

When thinking about gathering building materials for building one of these ovens, one of the most important considerations is the mixture you need to construct the inner and outer oven layers. I suppose the fact that the oven is called a clay oven is rather confusing. These ovens are are not constructed using clay alone. The mixture we use is a combination of clay and sand -in fact we use more sand than clay in the mixture, somewhere in the ratio of 2 parts sand to 1 part clay. Maybe we should call them sand ovens?

So you might be thinking, is using clay alone really a problem? Well the answer is absolutely yes! Using 100% clay results in huge cracks forming in the most crucial layer of the oven (the internal layer) as the oven dries out. This often leads to catastrophic collapse of the oven which, I’m sure you’ll agree, is not a good thing. The confusion is particularly compounded when buying clay from clay dealers. More often than not, if you ask them you want clay to build a pizza oven, they will recommend buying clay which they describe as highly grogged, which basically means that it contains some pre-fired ceramic particles. Here’s an example:

This grogged clay is great for reducing thermal shock and shrinkage in pottery but has little affect when used to build these ovens. The double whammy is that grogged clay is normally more expensive than other types.

DON’T BOTHER BUYING GROGGED CLAY. Let  me say that again, DON’T BOTHER BUYING GROGGED CLAY, you’ll just be throwing money away.

So are clay dealers deliberately trying to pull the wool over our eyes by trying to sell us this stuff? Well, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and say no. Most people who regularly buy clay from dealers want it to make pots, sculptures etc, which will normally be fired in a kiln after it has been shaped. The firing process (at temperatures well in excess of 1000 degrees centigrade) drives of all the water and fuses the silicate particles together which creates the ceramic materials we see in all forms pottery.

These garden ovens NEVER reach the super-high temperatures created in kilns which means that, unless you intend on putting your oven inside a kiln to fire it (you can buy ovens like this) your oven will not become ceramic. I assume most clay dealers don’t know much about building this type of traditional, outdoor oven and so, inadvertently  recommend grogged clay as the material to buy.

The simplest way to think about the mixture we use to build these ovens is to compare it to those chocolate and rice crispy (or cornflake) cakes that kids make. In that example, hot molten chocolate is mixed with the course grained, but normally loose, cereal which, upon cooling, binds the particles together to form a structurally coherent, and significantly stronger, material. The clay:sand mixture is exactly the same. The sand is equivalent to the cereal particles and the clay, the chocolate. All the clay does is bind together the sand grains. It is the sand that creates the strength in the oven, as well as giving it it’s excellent thermal properties. Sand is silica, which is what glass is made from and glass, as we know, has excellent thermal conductivity and radiant properties. It also has an extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion which is why it prevents our ovens from cracking when fired to high temperatures.

So the next time you need to purchase clay to build an oven buy the cheapest stuff available. It really doesn’t matter what type of clay it is. For the purposes of building outdoor ovens of this type, clay is clay is clay.

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  1. Hi Simon, I wonder if you are still viewing this site as the dates are old?

    Quick question if I may, we built the oven with clay only obviously with disastrous results.
    If i break up the dome into smaller pieces & add water with that work or is that way too much clay to add water to?

    Many Thanks Tracey

  2. Hi, we have now finished our oven using grogged clay which we ordered online. Have only just read this bit of the blog😬 Otherwise we followed your instructions. We kept the sand in until the final layer was on, we are drying it out very very slowly and filling in cracks as we go, the sun really brings them out so we have now got a tarp up and are going to let it settle for a good month before lighting any fires in it. There is SO much conflicting information out there, and when I found ‘Pizza oven clay’ I thought my prayers were answered. Do you reckon our oven is doomed?!? Any tips for its survival?!?

      • We used it straight out of the bag, ‘pizza oven clay’ from the clay cellar and was assured when I asked that we wouldn’t need to add anymore sand. It has got quite a lot of sand/’grog’ already in but definitely not 3:1 ratio, I just wanted to check it wouldn’t completely fail!!

      • Hi. I have just made the same ‘mistake’, purchasing es180 in the hope that it would save me having to puddle. Since reading this I am now planning on mixing it 1:2 (clay : sand) with sharp sand as it looks very very clayey! Any advice before I get going?!

      • Sorry for the late reply, James. I’m sure it’s too late and you have gone on and built your oven. However, yes, always add sand to the mixture. Clay, or grogged clay on it’s on, will crack!

      • Sorry as well for the late reply only just got an alert, our pizza oven made with ‘pizza oven clay’ is going strong!!! We’ve use it quite regularly and I think there were maybe a few things we did that has helped it survive……
        We let it dry really really slowly
        We filled the cracks as they appeared
        My dad built a beautiful roof for it using shiplap which helped it survive the beast from the east etc
        It really is a thing of beauty now and changes colour and pattern with the seasons, and the pizza’s are amazing, I’ll send you some pictures if you want, my email address is

  3. I have built my third attempt at a clay oven. The first was pure clay (we got excited, I nkow I know) and completely cracked while still on the dome. The next was a mix of clay and sand and it also collapsed. Finally i got my third mix i thought right, cleared it out and a few days later it also collapsed.
    Any thoughts as to the culprit? Walls to thin? Too much clay? Too much sand? heeeelp

    • HI Pamela. Sorry to hear this – it sounds like a nightmare. If you follow the instructions on my blog (or in my eBook) you should not have any issues at all. I have never had a collapse in many years of building and teaching others to build the ovens. Make sure you use the correct ratio of clay:sand, the correct thickness of layers (7-10cm) and leave the first layer to dry somewhat before removing sand.

      I’m not surprised that the clay only version cracked though!

  4. Hey Simon, I wanted to thank you for your blog. I built my oven 3 years ago and it was a very successful project. I have cooked in it often since then. I work at a pottery supply company in Canada and we have always had a lot of people coming in looking for clay for various oven projects. While doing some research I came across your blog and I liked how you demystified the process and made it less intimidating. I was inspired to make my own oven following your design and having gained some valuable experience, I have a lot more confidence when I am asked for advice at work. I agree that the first clay that would pop into the head of a person with pottery experience would be one that is heavily grogged. Grogged clays are nice for building large, sculptural forms. But, yes, an oven is a different sort of animal.
    The most valuable things I learned from your blog and from building my own oven are 1) Use whatever clay you can get your hands on. I used a variety of different clays that I could get cheap, both moist and dry, and they all fulfilled the function they needed to. Follow the general rules about how much sand and or wood shavings to add and you’ll be fine.
    And 2) Get over perfection. Your oven will develop some cracks. It will occasionally require some repairs or maybe some modifications. That’s okay, it’ll still work great.

    I talk to lots of people who are looking to build an oven and everyone has a different design. I think there are many approaches. For me this oven is simple, low tech and it works beautifully 🙂
    Thanks again!

  5. I used grogged clay but also stayed with Simon’s sand-clay ratio…in fact I think I went with even more sand than he recommended because it didn’t feel quite enough yet. I am now going on 4 years with no internal cracks. The external layer cracks fairly severely (few cm wide) but they reduce when cool. I dust with water after use to smooth them out. The cracks may not look pretty, but haven’t caused any sturctural problems yet.

  6. Oh dear!

    I wish we had come back to your blog a couple of weeks ago, rather than hunting it out now to find out why we have such massive cracks in the first layer of our clay oven. I was hoping it was the heatwave that had dried it out too quickly but it looks like we’ve fallen in to the pottery sellers grog-trap, totally innocent on their half I’m sure – at worst probably just naïvety on their part and ours.

    We’re going to have to start afresh and the puddling just can’t be avoided. I don’t think the other-half will be best pleased with the news. At least we’ve caught it now before we get too far down the road!

    Thanks for your excellent blog, so much excellent information here.

    • I feel your pain Sam! Never mind though, it won’t take that long and you’ll soon be making delicious food and wowing your friends. Don’t forget to cover when drying the first layer in hot weather.

      Best of luck

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the way you carry it
Here’s a good summary of what I was trying to say, except it took me like a 1000 words. Sigh. 🙂

In my mind, there are several rivers of thought-distinct rivers all travelling in the same direction, with miles of space between them. In one river are all the earthly thoughts about who I am- the criticisms, the judgments, the pain, the memories, and all the debris and murkiness picked up over a lifetime of living. In the next river, there is the brisk and frigid water of this modern life- societal expectations, the stress of keeping up, the teeming rapids of work, sleep, tasks…the rush of one day careening into the next as time rushes by faster and faster while months and years pass. The third river of thought is older than time itself, much older than the other two. You can tell because it is neither muddy nor rushed, but it flows downstream peacefully, knowing it will always arrive where it is meant to be, that nothing can stop it. Though this river has always been here, it is hard for me to get to. I have spent most of my time being swept away by the other two, and by countless other streams and puddles and creeks that branch off of them. I find that the third river is difficult to reach sometimes, and though I love it most of all, it’s the hardest one to stay at. I am forever being pulled away, sucked back into the muddy waters of one, or the furious pace of the other.

I am not judging this experience, I am simply explaining it in a way that makes sense to me. Have you observed something similar in your own life? Because this is the best illustration for the layers of my unfolding life that I can come up with. There is the emotional and mental aspect, there is the physical, human aspect, and then there is the eternal, spiritual aspect.

In my short-sighted, human way, I have been struggling against the same exact issues since the very beginning of this blog. I suspected that was true when I started questioning the originality of my posts lately. It was confirmed when I took a little walk down memory lane this morning, and saw myself writing about the same feelings, the same moods, the same ideas- with slight variations, of course- over and over. The reason I find this more funny than alarming is a direct result of this spiritual hurricane season I have personally been going through, trying, inadequately, to convey here.

You see, I have been afraid and resentful of the muddy river of my emotions. I have allowed myself to get beat up by the debris of bad memories and sucked under by the weight of my own judgement. I’ve struggled to swim against the current, trying to go back and make sense of it all, not realizing that none of it matters, the past is GONE. This water only goes one way, and all along it’s been trying to move me forward, farther and farther away from those things. I’ve been fighting so hard in this river when all I ever needed to do was let it move me along. All I ever needed to do was let go.

And this cold river over here? The one that sounds like a thousand clamoring voices and all their opinions and expectations? I have been right out in the middle of that river, tumbling end over end, but no matter how fast I went, I never got anywhere. I can’t really get out of this river, not completely. But you know what? I found out that I can stay out of the middle where the rapids are, and along the edges, things move more slowly. I don’t have to keep up with anyone else to be happy- in fact, the opposite is true. The more I focus on just my life, and the people in it, the better I feel.

River number three, that nirvana where we all come from? We aren’t supposed to live there, I don’t think. Not all the time, not while we are earth-bound in these skin suits. That would be nice, but it wouldn’t teach us nearly as much about being people as the other two rivers (and all the other figurative bodies of water we cross, tides we get swept away in, currents that pull on us) do. We all have our own rivers. We all have to learn from them.

I have spent the bulk of my life in these waters and never named them or saw them for what they are. And because of that, I have fought and struggled and nearly drowned, yet never gained an inch. Every time my head breaks the surface and I get to take a breath, I’m in the same spot. I know this sounds grim, but I’m smiling as I write these words. I can break this cycle now and move on.

As long as I am a human being, I will continue to have human issues. I am here for a reason. I have been through what I’ve been through for a reason. The people in my life are here on purpose. That is all I need to know, which means the past can be forgiven, the pain can be released, and I can let go. I don’t need to be afraid.

As long as I need a roof over my head and food in my cupboards, I will have to participate, at the very least, in my own survival. But I don’t have to throw myself into the chaos completely. I do have some say in how much I allow myself to be swept up in the craziness. I can turn off the news, step away from social media, keep my consumption of bullshit low. Listen to my own voice, and let it guide me.

Releasing my fear of the first river, and learning to find my place in the second, I expect that there will be much more peace, much more time that I can choose to spend contemplating river number three. Who knows? Perhaps one day I’ll find the place where they converge. Now wouldn’t that be something?

I'm a single mom living life fully after years of intense addiction, trying to navigate life with grace-and failing spectacularly, sometimes. Learning to be a grown up In my 40's, without losing my lust for life, or my faith in humanity. Come, watch the antics. It should be fun (for you, at least).

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  1. I wrote almost the same post (but with different words, obviously, which now makes me sound rather crazy for saying it in the first place). Anyway. I wrote the same post some time ago – and I can’t find the damn thing now. You’re me. I’m you. We’re that weird Doctor Who story, aren’t we.

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  2. You’ve described the human condition. Exactly. The third river does merge into the other two, gradually, and quiets them down and melts away their seeming power. I practice TM, which is great, but I’ve also gotten very interested in more “wakeful” practices that calm down the first two rivers and let the third’s water flow in. Michael Singer (_Untethered Soul_) has an 8hr course that I listen to off and on over and over. Byron Katie also has her own way of understanding this. And the Release Technique people also have their own way. Of using life, and all the ways it grabs at us of river one, to release those attachments and judgments and fears and etc etc etc and be, more and more, inch by inch, more immersed in river three all the time, as we go about our days as a thick, dense, complicate, beautiful, particular human. I feel grateful to have access to these people who’ve found their own way of releasing into that river, and I learn from them. These techniques have the great advantage of getting me out of my head — they’re not about figuring this stuff out, they’re about letting go of the crap/blockages from a deeper level. Which is nice because I’ve utterly FAILED to figure them out of me 🙂 It has to happen from a different place, which requires letting go of control, which I’m not overly good at….

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    1. I’m not good at it either, but I think it’s really important to keep trying! I spent my entire weekend, basically, in a semi-silent retreat-I even turned my phone off for a while, which is unheard of for me. I always feel like I need to be doing something. The past 48 hours, I consciously did almost nothing. Since all this spiritual stuff has been coming at me, my need for peace has become so intense. I figure I better grab onto the chance to have it while I can, because that is not how life goes. Are you the one who told me to read Journey of Souls?

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It wouldn’t be overstating things to say I have been very excited to see what fellow book blogger Ronnie Turner would come up with for her debut novel and so I couldn’t have been more delighted to be invited to take part in the blog tour to celebrate its publication on 1 October 2018. I’m pleased to delclare that the result was not what I expected with her creation being more subtle and yet far more satisfying than many offerings in the psychological thriller genre.

Lies Between Us is three stories in one, with each one having a separate narrator. Their tales arouse both sympathy and horror along with firing up my nosiness as the author slowly reveals the secrets and lies that are lurking, sometimes in plain sight.

Miller’s story is downright creepy and begins in his childhood in the 1980s. Miller is the child that everyone avoids. Clearly disturbed he carries around the seven deadly sins in a rucksack on his back. But, as he grows he learns to hide these, not because he wants to be nice but because he knows it will allow him to get exactly what he wants.

In the present, successful writer John is happily married to Jules and they have a beautiful daughter Bonnie then one ordinary day while the two are having a minor tiff in the kitchen, Bonnie disappears. The despair is overwhelming and the police have few clues to pursue but they cling to hope as the kidnapper gives them proof that Bonnie is alive, for now.

Also in the present, Tim is in a coma and as his wife Heidi and young daughter visit daily, Masie the ICU nurse is on the side-lines, efficiently doing her job. Maisie is drawn to Heidi and the two begin a friendship as they sit beside the silent man watching and listening to the endless bleeps of the machines keeping him alive. But, Maisie has her own secrets and she thinks she detects that Heidi does too.

These separate stories were clearly signposted and each one had me enthralled in their own right but of course what I really wanted to know was how they were connected.

It was genuinely hard to believe that this book was the author’s debut novel, it was expertly structured with the pacing even throughout. I didn’t get the feeling that I was on a roller-coaster as I do with many in this genre only to find the final swoop is disappointing compared to the rest of the ride, it wasn’t that type of read which in my mind is to be applauded. Instead there was plenty to interest me not only in each of the narrator’s individual stories, but my mind was kept busy trying to connect the seemingly disparate dots.

Ultimately this is a story of obsession but we also meet love, loss, despair and damage to along the way. The genuine exploration of the effects of these was one of the things I enjoyed most about Lies Between Us. Too often I find, having read a wealth of books in this genre, the pointers to the emotions we have all met in our lives are used to move the story on but when examined in the cold light of day, are revealed as just that, devices. Ronnie Turner in slowing the pacing has allowed us to examine them in more detail and therefore experience them second-hand, with feeling.

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Genre: Psychological Thriller
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Ronnie Turner grew up in Cornwall, the youngest in a large family. At an early age, she discovered a love of literature and dreamed of being a published author. Ronnie now lives in Dorset with her family and three dogs. In her spare time, she reviews books on her blog and enjoys long walks on the coast. She is currently working on her second novel.

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  1. This sounds intriguing, Cleo. It’s not easy to weave three separate stories together to make a coherent whole, but it sounds as though it worked well here. And the characters do sound interesting! Glad you enjoyed this.

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The heater blower in my 89 Dg Wbx packed up recently and having spent all weekend changing the thing, the good news is I have a working blower but the bad news is now the air isn’t heating?!

I have bled the cooling system and having read some post on the matter, I have checked the control thingy above the spare wheel - it seems the cable might not be doing it’s thing now but having moved the arm manually to the other position, still nadda

I will clearly need to fix the cable issue but am foxed as to why no heating..

I had heating before the blower gave in, and having the removed to unit, the only thing I can think is that I might have mixed the hoses to the matrix when putting it back in the van - not sure if that makes a difference or if it could be an air lock in the matrix itself?

Kind of hoping it’s the latter but any thoughts?

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Classic case of changed too many things at once syndrome !

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    Saxony. Johann Georg I Taler 1630, Dav-7605, KM411, AU53 NGC, a commemorative issue, struck to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. The present ruler, Johann Georg I is on one side, and the ruler in 1530, John the Steadfast is on the other. A nicely toned example.

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    1896 25C PR69 Ultra Cameo NGC. Magnificent white on black contrast and pristine fields and devices may be par for the course on a modern proof Statehood Quarter, but to find this extraordinary combination of preservation and production quality on a nineteenth century Barber Quarter is remarkable. A couple of pinpoint obverse planchet flaws, which are strictly of mint origin, are all that deny perfection. As is often the case for the proof Barber series, the surface within and just beneath the ear is mirrored, the outcome of low device relief in the vicinity, and thorough die preparation by the dedicated mint employees of the day. Surprisingly, as of (9/05), the present piece is not alone at the PR69 Ultra Cameo level, and shares its status as finest certified with one other specimen.(#95682) (Registry values: N7079)

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    1914 25C PR64 PCGS. A hint of peripheral toning is noted on both sides. The luxurious surfaces are suggestive of a higher grade.

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    Coin Index Numbers: (NGC ID# 229S, PCGS# 2306)

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This Crypto Just Posted a Historic Breakout, Opening the Gates for a 50% Rally

Stellar (XLM) has seen some notable underperformance of Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto market throughout 2019 and even 2020, largely being caught within an extended bout of sideways trading.

Analysts are now noting that the crypto just broke above an important technical level that it has been caught beneath for many years, with the movement past this level being a notable development that could mean major upside is imminent.

Other traders are taking note of Stellar’s growing technical strength, as some are explaining that it could now target an upside movement as large as 50% in the days and weeks ahead.

Stellar Just Posted a Notable Breakout as Crypto Market Grows Bullish

The entire crypto market has been building greater strength throughout the past several weeks, primarily being led higher by Bitcoin’s notable climb from its mid-March lows of $3,800.

Stellar is one such crypto that has seen some notable upside during the course of this recent uptrend, although it has been lagging slightly behind BTC and many of its other peers.

It now appears that its technical strength is beginning to reach a boiling point, however, as it was just able to break above its Kumo cloud.

This marks the first break of this level that the cryptocurrency has seen since 2018, with this being a notable technical development that could mean it is about to see a parabolic uptrend.

Crypto analyst Josh Olszewicz spoke about this breakout in a recent tweet, saying:

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This isn’t the only positive technical factor currently playing to XLM’s favor, as analysts have also been pointing to the crypto’s overt strength seen against its BTC trading pair as a reason for why it may climb higher in the near term.

“Not many charts looking as good as XLM vs BTC right now,” another analyst noted.

XLM Could Rally 50% Due to This Strength

As for how high this technical strength could lead the crypto, one popular trader is explaining that he is now targeting a 50% upside movement in the days and weeks ahead.

His reasoning behind this is that XLM has been caught within a year-long accumulation pattern, with the potential resolution to this pattern being enough to catapult it higher.

“XLM Accumulation. Has been trading sideways for almost a year. Once this breaks to the upside, this thing will run fast and hard. First target is +50% away from the range high,” he said.

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Labyrinth of Desire

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‘We’ve walked on the moon, our species. We’ve filmed luminescent sea creatures in the ocean deep, peered into active volcanoes, and studied Antarctica before it melted away. But the human mind continues to be one of the most uncharted frontiers of all. From his beginnings as a photographer, Frank Rodick has consistently explored this terrain, breaching the crenellations of the cerebral cortex to probe the limbic system, where our animal selves hunker. A medium recognized for its excellence in recording surfaces, photography is a challenging tool for plumbing the recesses of the brain. However, because it so easily creates a mirror world, a place parallel to our own, photography is also adroit at recontextualizing recognizable subjects to create new meanings. Rodick exploits this paradox and, as his career progresses, continues to use techniques that sever images from conventional interpretation, pushing viewers to engage with them in a less straightforward manner.’
– Katherine Ware, curator and art historian, from Labyrinth of Desire: Work by Frank Rodick.

Frank Rodick is a Canadian photographer, based in Toronto. He began his photographic career doing black-and-white street photography, which developed into the series Liquid City (1991–1999).

Deborah Colton Gallery is founded on being an innovative showcase for the ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary Contemporary artists worldwide, whose diverse practices include painting, works on paper, sculpture, video, photography, performance and conceptual, and future media installations. The gallery aspires to provide a forum through connecting Texas, national, and international artists to make positive change.


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The Boy Who Fell to Earth

Author(s): Kathy Lette

Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son--who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch shortly after his diagnosis, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world.

Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising her eccentrically adorable yet challenging child, Lucy doesn't have room for any other man in her life. By the time Merlin turns ten, Lucy is seriously worried that the Pope might start ringing her up for tips on celibacy, so she resolves to dip a poorly pedicured toe back into the world of dating. Thanks to Merlin's candour and quirkiness, things don't go quite to plan....

Then, just when Lucy's resigned to a life of singledom once more, Archie--the most imperfectly perfect man for her and her son--lands on her doorstep. But then, so does Merlin's father, begging for forgiveness and a second chance. Does Lucy need a real father for Merlin--or a real partner for herself?

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Soldier describes scary late night encounter in Germany

First Trip to Hohenfels

For all of you that haven’t had the pleasure of visiting Germany, well hopefully you will get to go someday. However, you might want to steer clear of the US Army Training Facility at Hohenfels.

I had just arrived in country on January 3rd, 1996 and it was 20 below zero and I there were about 600 soldiers in the processing area. What the hell did I walk into? Germany didn’t need this many soldiers or did it? Was a war going on that I didn’t know about? Nevertheless, I processed and hopped on the bus to Schweinfurt and got to what would be my first duty assignment.

I luckily found a couple of soldiers that were in the class ahead of me at AIT so it was nice to see a couple of familiar faces but as soon as I could lay my bags down and get settled, they said we were heading out in a week to the training facility. What about in-processing? I wasn’t all that new to think that we wouldn’t be properly instituted into German and 1/7th culture. Needless to say, I was wrong.

A week later, we were in our FIST-V’s (Fire Support Team Vehicle) and heading to the trains to book ourselves a nice little trip to the beautiful countryside of Deutschland. We arrived and it was even colder there as it is more northern than Schweinfurt and I thought life couldn’t get any worse. Well it did. Yoast (a good friend of mine) and I had guard duty that night at midnight… a two hour shift. It started snowing heavily but we dealt with it. We just got out of Boot Camp and AIT- we were hardened soldiers. We thought we could handle anything or so we thought.

A few minutes later we heard some rustling in the woods and we had no idea what it could be. Small animal, sure it could be but this sounded pretty big so we called out like we were trained. “Stop- Identify yourself!” No answer. The sound got a little closer. We had no idea what it could be… Yoast thought it was a ghost of German soldiers coming back for revenge but that is ridiculous, right?

We started to back up and pull our M-16’s off our shoulders but a lot of good that would do. They had no ammo. What were we going to do beat it to death or just scare it away? Yoast was a tall guy… about 6’4” and weighed over 200 pounds but he clumsily knocked over the trash cans behind him. All of the trash from earlier (wasted food, etc) came flying out of the trash. All of a sudden we heard whatever was in the woods rush towards us and it wasn’t just one thing. There were multiple footsteps. He high-tailed it out of there and I was moving backwards at a good pace as well and that’s when I saw our foe. I should say foes rather. Three 500+ pound wild boars came flying out of the woods and ran for the trash. They attacked those cans like it was fresh meat and it was Christmas dinner. Needless to say, we knew from that point on to never leave trash close to the ground again.

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    Creepy #101 (Warren, 1978) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. Special "jaws of death" issue. Richard Corben cover. Corben, Alex Nino, Alfredo Alcala, and Pablo Marcos art. Overstreet 2006 NM- 9.2 value = $20. CGC census 4/07: 5 in 9.8, none higher.

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    Gayle Porter Hoskins (1887-1962) Original Illustration (1915-1920).
    Most likely a magazine story illustration.
    Oil en grisaille on canvas, approximately 15 x 30. Signed lower left.

    keywords: illustrator, painting, adventure, nautical, western artist, pulp artist, Howard Pyle student

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CURATORS INVITING VIDEO – Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

I’ve watched with interest the dawn of curators describing their exhibitions to possible attenders.  The small Dulwich Picture Gallery in London started really well with its director, Ian Dejardin.  In a few minutes, he would tell us what to see, in a quietly enthusiastic way.

Now this – the gallery has TWO curators having a discussion and walking around a collection.

Hands up anyone who’d like to see this exhibition, now?

Me too!  And yes, of course, it is a marketing tool, that couch has been placed there, just so – but they do look at least somewhat relaxed and it feels like a real conversation.  They walk amicably around the exhibition, both get to speak and say what they’re keen about in it – and I find it overwhelmingly inviting.

Bravo, Dulwich Picture Gallery!

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International Air Quality Conference to Take Place October 24–27, 2011, in Arlington, Virginia

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Technical Program to Feature U.S. Senator Kent Conrad and EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy

The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) announced today that the nation’s premier international conference on air quality, including carbon management, mercury, trace substances, SOx (sulfur oxides), NOx (nitrogen oxides), and particulate matter, will be held October 24–27, 2011, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in historic Arlington, Virginia, just minutes from Capitol Hill.

The Air Quality VIII Conference features keynote speakers U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) (invited), and Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The technical program, released Wednesday, includes over 150 presenters from 26 states, Washington, D.C., and 16 other countries.

“We have seen an upsurge of interest in this conference and expect a comprehensive program of timely presentations,” said EERC Director Gerald Groenewold. “While many factors contribute to air pollution and air quality, we are on the verge of major changes to environmental regulations in this country. With the ever-increasing global demand for energy and the need to ensure economically viable and environmentally conscious technologies, Air Quality VIII is the perfect venue to discuss air quality as a global issue and the associated challenges as they relate to the energy sector,” he said.

Air Quality VIII will include two streams of concurrent technical sessions, one focused on carbon management strategies, carbon-based policy and regulations, carbon capture and separation, and carbon capture and sequestration, and the other focused on air quality issues, mercury policy, regulations, health issues, particulate matter and mercury emissions, hazardous air pollutant measurements, and mercury control technologies.

The biennial event is sponsored by the EERC; the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory; and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Inc.; along with Signature Sponsor Solviar Solutions; Event Sponsors Calgon Carbon, Chevron, and Apex Instruments; and Exclusive Media Sponsor Pollution Engineering magazine.

Early-bird registration is available online. To receive the best rate on a full-access conference pass, register before August 15, 2011. Exhibit space for the Air Quality VIII trade show is also available. For more information about the conference, to register, or to reserve exhibit space, visit www.undeerc.org/AQ8.

The Air Quality VII Conference, held in October 2009, attracted over 400 registrants representing more than 220 organizations from 11 countries, 38 states, the District of Columbia, and six Canadian provinces, with an impressive lineup of keynote speakers, presenters, session chairs, and coordinators.


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Did you know that Chester Fritz Library is now active on social media? If you’d like to contact us, or just see what we’re up to, you can do so through Facebook or Twitter. We post updates about library hours, events that are going on, new books of note, and other interesting things that we’d like to share with you. We also welcome comments and questions.

You have to be a member of the services to follow the library on them, but you can always click on the Facebook and Twitter icons at the bottom of the library homepage (under the ’Social Media’ column) if you’d like to see the latest news without liking or following us. Check it out, and like or follow us to keep up with happenings at the library!


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Was WWE aka the Racists mocking the blacklivesmatter movement last night?

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Thargoid forces in the Witch Head Nebula have been defeated. A call to arms from Aegis Research received a considerable response from independent pilots, leading to a victory for humanity. The official establishment of a human enclave in the Witch Head Nebula was declared shortly afterwards. Professor Alba Tesreau has asked the galactic community to assist with station repairs in the area.

Professor Palin and his staff have finished installing equipment at Abel Laboratory on Arque 4 E. The engineering services formerly available at the Palin Research Centre are now available in the Arque system, along with any modules held in Palin’s storage facility.

The Alliance Festival of Culture focused on the Leesti system this week. A celebration of cinematic art was held at George Lucas station, featuring a wide range of traditional and interactive media.

In related news, the decision to stage the Alliance Festival of Culture opening ceremony in Lave has drawn a mixed reaction from residents. Supporters highlighted Lave’s decades-old membership of the Alliance, while critics have called the ceremony a political gesture aimed at the ruling independent faction.

And finally, the Federal Intelligence Agency’s campaign against the Red Family cartel has drawn to a close. While seen as a successful operation, kingpin Oberon Church remains at large. Investigations continue regarding cartel co-founder Jan Sandoval’s death while in FIA custody.

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Have a feeling this is a problem with my computer and not SSDR or my 6700.  But, just wondering if any others have seen the following:  at what appears to be random intervals my SSDR screen hangs for perhaps a half second or so.  Panadapter freezes, and the waterfall shows a black bar during the outage. Audio continues fine, and data is going out via DAX without apparent interruption. Best I can tell after a few experiments, this happens regardless of band, mode, and number of slices open.  This issue began yesterday - no such problems prior.

Computer is Win 7 Pro, i7, 16 gig memory, with an NVIDIA graphics card.  No graphics updates for some time.  No intentional changes to the computer (hardware or new software installation).  Only known changes are the normal Windows updates. Been a bit since I ran a DPC latency check, but never had any issues there.

Thanks for any suggestions how to go about additional debugging.

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  • Richard G7EIXRichard G7EIX Richard - EnglishmaninNC Member ✭✭
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    There are many tools out there to allow you to drill down into the processes to see where hiccups are occurring.   One I use on a daily basis is Process Explorer written by one of the Fellows at Microsoft - Mark Russinovich.

    You can leave the application running while you are running SmartSDR and watch for spikes in CPU, GPU, I/O and Memory.

    In the example shown on the page I have linked to - if you move your mouse over the graphs shown it will show you the process with the highest utilization at that time - so while watching your Panadapter, make a note of where the 'blip' occurs and see if you can see a process that is kicking in that may be causing the freeze.

    Using this utility, you can also perform a visual check for processes you have running in the background, scheduled updaters, AV, Malware Detection, toolbar utilities etc - and see if any are hogging CPU cycles.

  • George KF2TGeorge KF2T Member ✭✭✭
    edited February 2019
    If you drop the video load - less FPS, waterfall rate, does it help? May be taxing the video card some.
  • Steve N4LQSteve N4LQ Member
    edited September 2015
    This happened to me today for the first time. I was sending CW, about 27 wpm, and suddenly the screen froze for about half a second. Nothing else happened. In the past I've a couple of transmit freezes. When sending, suddenly the sidetone went silent and a few elements were not transmitted. I assumed this was the rig's fault. FLex 6300, Win 8.1....
  • DK1EYDK1EY Member
    edited February 2017
    Had the same "problem" here with a mid 2010 MacBook Pro i7 with 8GB RAM. With my desktop machine (i7, 4790K, 32GB RAM, GForce 780Ti) no issues!

    For me this excludes the Flex 6300 as the source of the problem
  • K1FRK1FR Member ✭✭
    edited September 2014
    Thanks to all for suggestions. Tonight, the display is rock solid.  Nothing changed that I am aware of.  If/when it occurs again will try out the suggestions.  Thanks again.  73, Tom K1FR
  • K1FRK1FR Member ✭✭
    edited September 2014
    Still have not had recurrence of issue. Played with waterfall and other display settings trying to induce it. Strange! Thanks again for advice. More if it happens again. 73, atom K1FR

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Since upgrading to 1.4 I've had a few instances of the SSDR s/w freezing on the screen. Just for 5 to 10 seconds and then all comes back to normal. I was just watching on Task Manager and the network traffic went to zero during the freeze. The PC continues to function normally so I don't think it has anything to do with the PC. It appears that the radio is locked up.
Wow! Just now while typing up this question it froze completely! And SSDR quit! Said 'radio not found'. I pushed the power button on the radio to make it shutdown and then started it back up and SSDR, all is good so far. That's the first time it has completely quit working.
Any idea what I should do to fix this?
It's a 6300 and it has been working just fine until this week.

  • Bill -VA3WTBBill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited February 2018
    A connection problem, 'radio not found'. Somewhere on the network, I expect the router.
  • Jim GilliamJim Gilliam Member
    edited September 2018

    Do you have your 6300 connected directly to the router? I had the same problem when I was using my 6500 with a wireless access point.

    Jim, K6QE

  • Dave KD5FXDave KD5FX Member ✭✭
    edited March 2017
    6300 and PC are both connected to my Cable modem/router. Same connection that I've been using for years. This all started since I went to 1.4 a week ago. No problems before that.

  • Jim GilliamJim Gilliam Member
    edited September 2018

    Maybe resetting the router would help. I have a Linksys, and I can do a reset from the computer.

  • Steven HessSteven Hess Member
    edited March 2015
    I would suspect your router or cabling.
  • Larry _ W8LLLLarry _ W8LLL Member ✭✭
    edited July 2018
    Refer to this ongoing thread concerning the same issue.

  • Dave KD5FXDave KD5FX Member ✭✭
    edited March 2017
    FIXED! Thanks everyone for all the tips. Reading the one about other PCs with SSDR I remembered that I did load 1.4 on my laptop and that's about the time all the problems started! It was running DAX and CAT in the background and I didn't realize it. I removed those from the windows startup folder, rebooted the laptop and now SSDR is working just fine on my main PC across the room!
    73 all, Dave
  • Bill -VA3WTBBill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited February 2018
    So good to know Dave, thought something was going on there, 1.4 should run well. Have fun....

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Continuing the discussion from Disk image corrupted:

I used an earlier version of Octo Print a while ago (Ver 13) and have now decided to upgrade to latest version. 0.17.0.
After downloading and extracting the image (letting Windows 10 extract the files). I try to burn the image using the latest version of Etcher. The image copies but Etcher says that while validating the image that there was 1 device failure. (I have tried multiple re-downloads and multiple SD cards).
I went ahead and revised the file for internet connection and country as instructed (Using Notepad++). I loaded the image into the Pi and accessed from my computer. Web connection works and Web cam works but cannot get printer to start printing or getting bed to begin heating. Not sure if the problem is from the image burn error or something else. My printer is an older generic Prusa type printer. I know I got Octoprint to work years ago. Any suggestions?

You may try Win32 Disk Imager instead of Etcher. Some versions of Etcher are known to be a bit picky...

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Or, go for the Raspberry Pi Imager, straight from the raspberry pi foundation. It worked well for me, just scroll to the bottom of the list for something like 'custom image'.

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don't extract the files. Etcher does that internally. Windows may be corrupting something


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The need for a new communication systems to cope with the demand of new services demanding higher performance, larger throughput, wider bandwidth and lower bit-error-rates, requires the development of new methodologies and techniques. Scientific conference RTUWO'17 is focused on the new techniques extending limits of currently used communication systems. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government institutions presenting novel research on wireless and optical communication systems. Conference calls for papers describing practical implementation activities, results and issues. Papers describing novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives are also encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Software-defined radio and cognitive radio
Signal processing for wireless communications
Energy efficiency and power management
Smart and mobile antennas and propagation
Practical implementation issues and performance evaluation
Spectrum management and regulatory issues
Electromagnetic energy harvesting
Global and local positioning systems in wireless networks
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Intelligent transportation system and vehicular communications
Wireless sensor networks
Machine-to-machine communications
MAC layer and routing protocols
Ad-hoc and cell-based networking
Multiple access and scheduling
Cooperative and distributed communications
Radio resource allocation, bit allocation, power allocation
Performance analysis, QoS and network management
Cross-layer optimization
Advanced wireless network technologies, architectures
Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration and interworking
Traffic analysis of wireless networks
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Advanced MIMO techniques
Ultra-wideband communications
Multicarrier communications
Channel characterization
Channel coding
Acoustic communication systems
Physical layer security
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Optical Signal Processing
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Photonic Communications Systems and Networks
High-speed Optical Communications systems and devices
All-Optical Communication Systems
Passive optical networks
Active optical networks
Energy-Efficient and Spectral-Efficient Optical Communication Systems
Microwave Photonics
Optical MIMO
Radio over Fiber (RoF) and Wireless over Fiber (WoF) systems
Optical Fibers and Fiber Devices for Optical Communications
Optical Amplifiers
Modeling and Optimization of Optical Communication Networks
Optical sensors technologies
Optical network management
Software-defined networks
Visible light communication
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Capitalizing on the New Normal

Disruptive innovation is usually heralded by sudden and unforeseen events such as a crisis, war, or necessity (one may recall the famous expression that necessity is the mother of invention). The current COVID-19 pandemic is certainly proving this point as the healthcare system scrambles to adapt and pivot to enormous upheavals in patient, provider, and payor relationships. Deferred procedures, postponed elective services, new workforce protective measures, and the availability of telehealth services as an alternative to in-person care are now quite known to many. Prompted by the swirl of change in healthcare operations, entrepreneurs are developing a multitude of ways to maneuver around many of the barriers to health and wellness that have been thrown up by the pandemic, and in the face of this challenge, the best opportunities are yet to come.

Virtual and (Mostly) Instantaneous Health Results

Many leading pharmaceutical companies have commercialized rapid COVID-19 testing kits, with claims of results in under 15 minutes. This has been enormously beneficial in terms of mitigating the spread of COVID, namely: by identifying those who may be sick or asymptomatic, reducing risk of exposure to the healthcare workforce, and by fostering more timely access to treatment for the patient who may be afflicted with the virus. The re-purposing of this technology, which when combined with powerful clinical assessment services such as robotic triage and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is fueling many new start-up ventures beyond COVID-19 testing, whose aim is to create platforms for patient health evaluations, modernizing the quaint early attempts epitomized in drugstore blood pressure machines from yesteryear. In doing so, a key goal for these ventures is to deliver virtual and almost immediate care plans, should they be required.
The industry is bringing in to focus a virtual encounter that may be visualized as follows.

• Step 1: The patient steps inside a small booth about the size of an old-style telephone phone booth, and sits down in a comfortable chair (an enclosed booth is necessary for patient privacy given HIPAA regulations).
• Step 2: The patient is asked to pay a fixed fee (pricing transparency and competitive commoditization of healthcare services are driving value-based healthcare to a flat rate model).
• Step 3: The patient confirms their identity, answers a health questionnaire, following which the actual clinical encounter begins.
• Step 4: Clinical encounter. This may include robotic blood draws to whole body scans. Telehealth and other digital health services may be offered.
• Step 5: The session is completed, the patient is offered a personal satisfaction questionnaire, and then they exit the booth.
• Step 6: The booth is disinfected using several anti-pathogen agents or systems.

A Digital Doctor Encounter

Affordability to offer the above services in the convenience and privacy of one’s home or even in workplace settings is coming, but we are not quite there – yet. Therefore, let’s examine the clinical encounter in our example above in a greater detail, as the entire process uses what the industry calls “Intelligent Automation”. What this fancy term really means is that the process of collecting information, analyzing the results, drawing inferences, and making recommendations is completely automated, relying on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is continuously shaped by expanding large data sets of Machine Learning (ML) over time. In plain language, the system ‘learns’ at the speed of a machine from every patient encounter. This could also include ethical and empathetic ‘rules’ that are personalized to the patient based on their preferences. The net result is that the doctor becomes completely digitized – and futurists predict tantalizing consequences.

Does this scenario seem far-fetched? Not at all, given the availability of cloud-based computing resources that offer deep machine learning coupled with sophisticated sensors. A case in point is the collection of patient vitals using non-contact technology. Vitals of interest will consist of the patient’s heart rate, their blood pressure (yes, indeed, blood pressure readings without an inflatable cuff and/or wearable sensors are truly possible), heart variability rate, respiration rate, and temperature. What is quite sensational is this information can be collected in mere seconds and made available to the digital doctor for assessment. Notwithstanding the convenience of non-contact vitals collection is the time savings (again, seconds, not minutes), and avoidance of the discomfort of having to get undressed, as in traditional encounters.

The Doctor on a Stick

Some may balk at the situation described above as being overly-simplistic. Consequently, let’s fast forward to where the industry is headed. Most of us have excitedly watched (and may be participating) in advance trials of new Consumer Digital Health technology such as proverbial ‘smart bracelets’, ‘smart rings”, and/or health-enabled ‘smart-watches’. The common denominator is that the traditional ‘smartphone’ has stepped back to become a platform aggregation point for such healthcare devices, serving to host healthcare applications, consolidate data, and act as a waypoint for data paths from the patient to a cloud service. These new Consumer Digital Health technologies are not just single purpose trinkets. They offer the consumer feature-rich capabilities to collect all sorts of relevant information that may be combined with seemingly unrelated inputs, such as one’s voice quality, to determine a relative state of health and wellness. Accordingly, gait analysis, changes in voice inflection and breathing rates, specific mannerisms, choices of words, facial expressions, environmental parameters (humidity, lumen levels, other) and vitals may be combined to deliver remarkably predictive estimates of one’s health and wellness acuity. When sampled over time, a remarkably accurate picture emerges of the patient’s true health state – one that is objective and somewhat insensitive to subjective interpretation.

What’s most intriguing is combining the latter with diagnostic sensors and digital personas (of a patient’s choosing). As an aside, the latter is particularly relevant as consistency of patient motivation for adherence to health behaviors is fundamental to ensuring optimal outcomes – clinically and financially.

With the diagnostic sensors, patient sweat, blood, urine, and other substances (one may think of a smart bathroom) are examined for signs of disease – existing or latent. In this way, the digital doctor becomes (somewhat unglamorously) a doctor on a stick – an “all in one” platform that combines subjective, objective, assessment, and planning roles for patient care, with almost immediate results.

The Future

We live in an immersive environment, surrounded by constant bombardment of digital media and services, made possible by ever-more sophisticated technologies and end-point devices. The excitement for newer, better, faster, and more experiential services pays homage to this trait. The entertainment, sports, hospitality, financial, and educational industries have longed recognized the value in embracing such capabilities. Healthcare is swiftly following suit, wrought by disruptive innovation sparked in response to the pandemic. That said, will all clinical encounters be 100% digital – likely not. Empathetic aspect of healthcare (human compassion), complexities of care (for instance, surgical procedures), and (for now) the unpredictability of human response to treatments will necessitate a hybrid model for some time to come. Nevertheless, the proverbial train has left the station, and we will see increasing convenience of care, timeliness of care, and precision of care in the coming years – not decades – thanks to the disruption that COVID-19 has caused in what was an industry that is often characterized as slow to change. With continuous focus on safety, quality, and value, the creation and mobilization of the digital healthcare workforce is well underway.

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Last week, my interview with Allyson Halm, the President of Adopt A Dog located in Greenwich, CT and Armonk, NY highlighted the incredible need we have in every town, city, and State in this United States of America TO ADOPT and DO NOT BUY a pet from either a Breeder or a Pet Store.

There are too many dogs and cats, puppies and kittens killed in Shelters every year because of Breeders, horrifying “Puppy Mills” and irresponsible people who allow their pets to reproduce.

Adopt A Dog sponsored the outstanding event this Saturday, in Greenwich, called “Puttin’ On The Dog.” So many wonderful, loving animals were there to greet everyone at this Festival…. and I was so honored to have the opportunity to be a Judge for “The Best Costume” Contest!

Check out Adopt A Dog’s Web Site and see the BEST FRIENDS that are waiting for adoption!

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Some truly shocking stats and yet more proof if any was needed that Labour’s attempt to spend their way out of these problems is failing and consigning a whole generation to the scrapheap.

Well done IDS. The question is whose listening and who will take up the recommendations?

Half of children in Inner London live in poverty - no they don't. And subscribing to the left-think that makes it possible to even make this absurd claim with a half-way straight face goes a long way to detailing, yet again, the painful inadequacies of IDS.

James Strachan

I think that ACT should go to Hackney or Lambeth or the other boroughs set out by the CSJ.

If ACT comes back alive and still with a mobile phone, ACT will be, if not wiser, at least better informed.

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Great work - Boris should be openly endorsing it.

Notwithstanding the fact that the last time my phone was stolen it was in millionaires' row in W1, it remains a boring fact that, only by subscribing to really quite absurdly far left definition of relative poverty is it possible to even begin making the ludicrous claim that half of children in inner London 'live in poverty'. To repeat: they don't.

In this country, 'Poverty' is a lifestyle choice.

That is the conclusion from this report.

this is shocking. it's a good job someone i.e. Ian Duncan Smith is actually doing something about it, its about time the rest of the politicians started becoming concerned about these issues. Good job Ian. What a shocking picture after 11 years of a labour government. they should be ashamed of themselves.

ACT, yes they do live in poverty. so what if its measured in a "left-wing" way. Don't be so pedantic. the facts show that these people live in relative poverty and we need to help them, not argue over whether its a left wing measure or not. It's that kind of extremism on the right that turns people off the conservative party. IDS is a great man and deserves our respect.

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I hate to imagine what the final bill will be like for the champu consumed this week in London – and the rest of the country – as Jubilee-mania sweeps the nation. There is a lot to be patriotic this year in the UK. We’ve already had the biggest chunk of the celebrations marking the Queen’s sixtieth year on the throne, just the thanksgiving to come today to draw it all to a conclusion (how many of the millions lining the banks of The Thames last night will find their way to church, today, mm?).

We’ve also got the Olympics to look forward to in the summer and, with somewhat surprisingly less gusto than normal, we have the Euro 2012 Championships, where football fans and experts are giving England ass much chance of winning as the bookies are for Prince Charles divorcing Camilla and walking Kylie up the aisle in her place. We have, however, seen a full year of the world of golf‘s top three spots occupied by Brits, with Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood swapping places at number one almost as regularly as The Guard changes at Buck House.

But another passage of events that is seemingly going by without remarkable fanfare is British Wine Week, with the consumer jury still out on whether the UK can actually produce a vino to rival the trending Californian, Australian and South African wines that have replaced the likes of hock, Riesling and Liebfraumilch on supermarket shelves in recent times (I had to put that in – my good lady is a huge fan of Deutshce Wein, so hard to get at your local superstore, these days). This raises the point, why go to the expense in attending cookery courses if your fashion sense for wine is outdated and the night becomes a damp squib because your choice from the wine cellar leaves so much to be desired?

English wine has transformed over the last twenty years

But, according to Alex Down, renowned blogger for The Riesling Revolutionary and from time to time the Great British Chefs website, British wine has emerged from a cocoon it was sharing beneath the same leaf as British cuisine in the last two decades and has turned into a beautiful butterfly, although still somewhat as fragile. This has as much to do with wineries and their masters upping their game in an attempt to rival the likes of South Africa whose wine production, since the end of Apartheid, has ballooned from 30m litres to 400m litres per annum over a similar time-scale.

The key behind the success of English winemakers has been to recognise that grapes that do well in hotter climes are not going to reap similar rewards in our own very temperate climate. Indeed, research and experimentation has seen winemakers in the UK develop the grapes best suited to our very unpredictable weather and has helped achieved two things.

Obviously, there are less failed crops but English wine – rather than try and emulate a Chilean Red or crisp white from the plains of Australia, has developed its own earthy taste, giving it a distinction and an identity it has never possessed before. There is much to be said for the reaction – some critics are appraising it positively, whilst others try to hand it the Phantom of the Opera’s mask as they daresn’t look upon its countenance, let alone let it slip past their lips. Much more to come from British Wine Week to try to persuade the consumer that it is not the enemy. Stay with me this week when take a closer look at the methods being used to bring us the perfect wine to accompany the recipes and menus we learn at our ever-growing market of cookery courses.

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