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Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Fish Tail Braid

The fishtail braid is a great summer hairstyle that is no-mess and fuss-free-- perfect for the long summer days on the beach. The fishtail braid is actually very low maintenance and requires very little technique despite how intricate the strands of hair actually appear.

To create this look section your hair into two parts, side-by-side onto one side of your face. Grab 1/4 inch of hair from one side and use your hand to hold that piece in place. From the opposite side grab 1/4 inch of hair from the outside of the section and cross it over to the inside of the first section. Repeat these steps until your braid is complete. Once you secure your hair with a hair tie, to create a messier or beachy look gently open the braid by pulling each section apart.

For a unique take on the fish tail braid, simply add fun colors of yarn or colorful rope to your hair to add a pop of color.

What's your go-to hairstyle for staying cool during the long summer months? Comment below and let us know.

Wild Side: Nail Art Designs

Nail care is probably the most forgotten and understated task for the busy modern woman of today. It seems like just yesterday we were all marveling over the exaggerated nails of the stars of the early 2000's comedic film, Baps. Since then our nail design has shifted into a more manageable and conservative nail length and we've brought the same techniques and tools used in everyday craft, beauty and DIY projects, and we've repurposed them to make them work for nail design.

Modge Podge, washi tape, make-up sponges, pain brushes, scotch tape and reinforcement stickers are all essential tools for creating these art inspired nail designs.

To create an animal print inspired nail, apply animal print nail strips on all fingers as your base, and then apply reinforcement stickers on each finger. Paint your nails with a cool complimentary color to your print. Start at the edge of the sticker and paint to the tip of your nail. To seal your design, add a top coat to make certain your design has extra protection.

Here are a few other inspiring nail art designs that incorporate traditional art supplies, and beauty tools.

Do you think social networking sites like Pinterest have made nail art a new trend in beauty? Comment below and let us know!


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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Sunday Feature 30

I've noticed that many companies that make apps for the iPad/iPhone provide free updates. For instance, the Angry Birds app has been updated with additional free levels. The Angry Birds "Seasons" app has been updated with free Valentines Day and St. Patrick's Day levels. This allows Evil Editor to fill even more of the hours he used to waste reading manuscripts, playing Angry Birds.

It's only right that Evil Editor provide an occasional update to his cartoon DVD, as many excellent cartoons have appeared on the blog since the DVD was produced. So, here's a sampling of them:

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Lucky Leaf Blueberry Coffee Cake

Lucky Leaf Blueberry Coffee Cake

I went to Camp Blogaway over the weekend, and to celebrate I baked a coffee cake! This year Luck Leaf sponsored* my trip to Camp Blogaway and asked me to create a new recipe perfect for a weekend in the mountains. Along with some fun items to give to some lucky campers – like muffin liners, pie carriers, samples of their Premium Fruit Pie Fillings, and funky retro timers – I brought this cake to share. After dinner, while...

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Friday, October 09, 2009

War = Peace

I really thought it was a joke today, unless the definition of peace actually means war. I guess I must have really flunked the vocabulary lessons in grade school, or we are now in a worldwide Orwellian society. In case you missed it Obama was just given the Nobel Peace Prize, but to whatever it is worth the war criminal Henry Kissinger did too.

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert doesn’t begin until September, but renovations are underway at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater. The famed studio, which was home to David Letterman’s Late Show, has a temporary marquee up at the moment, alerting passersby that Angelo’s Pizza is still open during the rebuilding process. The pizzeria even has a pretty good celebrity endorsement.

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How to connect the amplifier to the speakers ?

How to connect the amplifier to the speakers ?

You have columns, but they play loud enough?And you really want to increase the volume, but it does not work?To increase the volume on the speakers you can use the amplifier.This article will examine how to connect the amplifier to the speakers.

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speakers And so from the beginning.Most of the columns are not intended for connection to an amplifier, so if you connect them to the amplifier, they simply can not survive.They are primarily burn the wire.The fact that the factory small diameter wires have in cross-section, i.e. they are much thinner than other wires, and if current is let them with greater power and voltage, it may cause a fire.So first you need to change the factory wiring harness on a more solid.

In addition, the factory wiring is quite a lot of resistance, and as a result lost up to 35% of capacity.You need to take the speaker cables having a cross section 2h1.5mm and strip that runs along one of the two strands.

If you do not have an amplifier, it must be purchased.

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addition also require acoustic kits and power cables.How best to choose the cables?If the power amplifier is 4x50 W, will suit the power cable, which in cross section is 8 mm.If the power amplifier 4x100 watts, then you need to buy a power cable with a cross section of 15 mm.As for speaker cables, they sectional should not be less than 2h1.5 mm.The set of cables needed and also the fuse holder and a pilot wire and line wire.

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further left to connect the amplifier to the speakers.But still let us first consider some nuances.When you connect the amplifier to the speakers, there is one golden rule: the power most speakers should be much stronger than the power of the amplifier, in extreme cases, power should be equal.If this rule is not followed, then your speakers will last a long time.

  1. First, proceed to regular posting replacement in columns.And it can not be removed.It can still be useful.Suffice it only to disable.After conducting a full-time disabled, you can begin to broach our speaker cable.They stretched, secured.Then connect it to the speakers, observing correct polarity.
  2. It remains to connect the speakers to our amplifier.Giving advice on how to connect the speakers to the amplifier, consider the simplest case.In this case connected to the column amplifier using a bipolar cable.Moreover, the cable may be attached to the columns or through a connector or without connectors, there is attached with screws to the outputs on the columns.To properly connect the cable to the speakers, you need to observe polarity.Usually cable terminals indicated polarity, if not, the red wire is positive.
  3. to the amplifier, this speaker cable is connected with, or forks, ieIt has a special connector, or just bare wires (power has special clips).

And so you already know how to connect the speakers through an amplifier.A few words about the speaker cable.It can connect to an amplifier using the following types of plugs: pyatishtyrkovy, for the bipolar socket with mechanical fastening, and a two-pole PCB socket.


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About the Tissue Viability Society

The Tissue Viability Society (TVS) is probably the world’s oldest society dedicated to all issues of tissue viability, a growing healthcare speciality that primarily considers all aspects of skin and soft tissue wounds, including acute surgical wounds, pressure ulcers and all forms of leg ulceration. 1980 was the year the concept of the TVS came about when like minded people got together to plan the first open meeting of the TVS and formal launch in 1981. TVS has been a UK registered charity since 1994, we are the only UK wound care society affiliated with EPUAP and EWMA. The Society attracts members from all health care professions and membership currently stands at approximately 600 practitioners and other interested personnel.

Ever since its beginnings the TVS has published a scientific and clinical journal. In its first format this was called Care – Science and Practice (issued from 1981 to 1990). In 1990 it was renamed the Journal of Tissue Viability and since January 2008 has been published by Elsevier Ltd. The scientific and clinical content of the Journal is managed by an Editor and prominent Editorial Board and articles are subjected to a rigorous review process, which in 2013 secured an impact factor greater than 1 ensuring that publishing in the JTV is a significant achievement for authors.

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The TVS aims to improve outcomes for people with wounds through the sharing of information, the promotion of research and increasing the awareness of all aspects of good clinical practice in wound prevention and management.

Our goals are to:

  • Promote multidisciplinary partnership at membership and trustee level, by means of our national conference, research communities and specific projects.
  • Promote the involvement of our membership and our engagement with them, so that the Society gives a voice to our members and reflects their opinions and needs.
  • Showcase UK developments within tissue viability across the specialities within a scientific and peer-reviewed framework.
  • Raise the profile of tissue viability and patient needs by collaborating with the Department of Health and National Commissioning Board.
  • Develop a robust and sustainable Journal of Tissue Viability.

Engagement with members
Improved engagement with our members has been a focus for the TVS for several years as it is a cornerstone of our work and development. The TVS aims to be a society for members that means something and has tangible results. We want to speak on behalf of our membership in order to raise the profile of tissue viability within the UK and the Department of Health.

To this end the Society has:

  • Improved its links with independent Regional Groups, contacting them directly to ask their views on TVS developments.
  • Feeding back on behalf of members on NICE guideline development, working with NHS England and assisting the Department of Health in understanding the impact of their policies for TVNs.
  • Arranged Writing for Publication workshops to encourage members to get their work published and support the JTV.
  • Collaborated with other organisations such as the MS Society to improve patient knowledge and care.
  • Awarded scholarships to allow members to attend national and international conferences.
  • Implemented new projects specifically to address areas of membership concern such as Pressure Ulcer Reporting and recording Unstageable Pressure Ulcers.

Engagement with the wider community
The TVS largest single area of activity is its annual conference. Each year the TVS aims to link its conference with themes or concerns that have arisen in previous years.

The annual conference underpins TVS core values by promoting:

  • Membership engagement
  • Excellent education and scientific content
  • A showcase for UK developments
  • No sponsored symposiums or product focussed sessions
  • Abstracts that demonstrate how practice is improved
  • Abstracts which are peer reviewed and blind to ensure quality
  • A focus on multidisciplinary working
  • Profits are reinvested in the Society and spent to the benefit of members.

Other ways in which the TVS communicates effectively with non-members with regard to advances in tissue viability are through:

  • Our website: sharing information on wounds and tissue viability; sending out newsletters; and fielding questions on a wide range of topics.
  • Attending other wound care conferences, both in the UK and internationally.
  • Organising Regional Study Days to bring wound experts to local audiences.


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Saturday, Iris Hidding visited my studio for an interview for House of Prog.
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After the interview, another listening preview for the upcoming REMY album took place.

As soon as the details about the broadcast of the interview are known, you will get to read it here!
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14 May 2008
The smoking ban may tip the next election the Tory way
Just over two years ago I argued that a smoking ban might just be a good thing in the long run. It would act to remind ordinary working class of just how much the middle class vermin wanted to control them, and just how little their opinions counted for these days. Back in March of this year I predicted that Labour will lose the next General Election. The only thing that I want to add to that now is that the smoking ban looks set to be a rather bigger issue than I thought when I made the prediction.

Across the country more and more working class people are uniting around a growing banner of opposition to the smoking ban. The ban effects us every single day because we are the ones who still smoke. As I said in that March 2006 posting, the ban is galvanising people into action. I just didn't expect that it would happen so quickly, nor that the opposition would manage to organise itself so well.

Luton is not a place that you think of when it comes to working class militancy, but that town is one of the places where the two Labour MPs face defeat at the hands of working class activists who are outraged at the smoking ban.

The pubs themselves look set to become Tory campaigning offices, with their walls plastered with anti-Labour propaganda, in much the same way as they were a century ago when faced with the threat of the temperance backed Liberals.

This is an issue that is still under the political radar, but it is rapidly becoming a very big issue on the council estates that Labour needs to win if it is to remain in government. As I have said elsewhere, in a world in which the two main parties are in pretty total agreement on economic matters, then social issues are what divides them and how people vote on those social issues will decide the outcome of the next election.

Smoking looks set to become one of the very big issues. If David Cameron wants to win as much as he seems to, then he should offer repeal of the anti-smoking legislation as part of his Tory Party programme.

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Land Rover - Things to do: After the trip to keep your car healthy

You have just returned form a successful off road trip with everything intact. You have unloaded your gear and cleaned out your car. Are you done? Not if you want to keep your car in good working condition.

While you have been having fun, your car has been working hard in harsh environments. You checked over your car before you left. You should go over it again right after you get back.

Here is the basic after trip checklist that I use:

Clean frame and bulkhead

A pressure washer is a good tool to own. One of the best things you can do to preserve your frame is to pressure wash the underside of your car right after you return from a major off road trip.

Dirt and mud buildup on top of the frame and in cranny's along outriggers creating conditions for rust. The top rear cross member is particularly vulnerable.

Pressure washing your frame to clean off dirt and salts will add many years of life to your frame. Make sure that you get the underside and front of your bulkhead, especially around the pedal boxes and other places where mud and dirt can get trapped.

Back to the checklist

Inspect and grease all fittings

Grease all your fittings, even if you greased them just before you went on the trip. Water from wading and pressure washing gets into tie rod ends and universal joints where it causes rapid wear of moving parts.

Ideally you should carry a grease gun on the trail and grease all the fittings as soon as practical after a water crossing.

Back to the checklist

Clean swivel balls and seals

Clean the swivel balls and the outside edges of the swivel ball seals. Rust pits ruin swivel balls. Sharp grit particles ruin seals. If you have leather gaiters, the openings should be facing down so that water can drip out. Check to make sure that they are not retaining water. Sometimes they trap water and create conditions for rapid rusting of the balls.

Back to the checklist

Check for water in gear oil and top off reservoirs

If your car waded through water you should check to see if you got any water into the gear oil reservoirs. Open the drain plug to see if contaminated oil comes out, then top off the fluid if it looks OK. If you were on a long hard trip, you just might consider renewing the gear oil anyway.

Back to the checklist

Check for water in brake wheel cylinders

If you have been doing extended wading, water has probably entered into your brake wheel cylinders. It can get into the space between the rubber boot and the piston. Once there it will cause oxidation of the piston and the cylinder walls causing rapid wear. If you have an after market ferrous metal brake cylinder and park the car for a week or more, the piston can rust tight to the cylinder wall keeping it from working (been there and done that).

So if you have been doing extended wading, it wouldn't hurt to pull the drums and lift the dust covers to inspect for water in the cylinders and particles that may have worked their way in behind the drums. It never hurts to inspect lining wear and adjust the brakes anyway. Don't forget to put a spot of anti-seize on the flat head screws that hold the drum in place.

Back to the checklist

Check rear axles for stress

If you have the standard Land Rover rear axles, remove them for inspection. Most axles do not break on the trail. They get stressed on the trail and break on pavement as you are pulling out from a stop or turning a corner.

Look for signs of twisting at the inside edge of the axle splines. If there is any indication that this area is not perfect replace them right away. Go without if you do not have a new set ready to reinstall. If one axle shows sign of distress they are probably both crystallized and near breaking. It is a lot easier to replace a stressed axle than to remove a differential to force out a stuck axle stub.

Back to the checklist

Check engine and transmission mounts

If you have completed serious off roading, you have stressed your engine and transmission mounts. While you may not need to replace a broken mount right away, you will before you do any additional off roading. Take a jack and apply some upward pressure under the engine then examine both front mounts for separation or cracks. Do the same for the transmission. If one or two look bad, order replacements. If one or more are broken, replace all of them. The others have had to take up the stress normally handled by the broken mount. I prefer using the diesel engine mounts because they are stronger than the petrol mounts.

Back to the checklist

Clean air filter

If you have been on dry dirt, clean your air filter. An oil bath can collect an amazing about of dirt in a short time.

Back to the checklist

Visually inspect frame & undercarriage. Check fasteners for tightness

After you have cleaned off the frame, crawl under the car with a good work light and a set of wrenches to inspect the underside and make sure that fasteners are tight.

  • Go over the frame carefully to look for new cracks.
  • Go through the undercarriage and check tightness of such things as 'U' bolts (60-70 ft. lbs), shocks, steering box, exhaust system mounts and prop shafts.
  • If you have the old style axle breathers, remove then and give them a good cleaning. If you have the new ones, make sure that the tubes are not clogged.

Back to the checklist

A complete after trip inspection may take most of a day but your car will stay in better condition, parts will last longer and your breakdowns will be less frequent.

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NSAIDs marketed for human use may not be safe for other species, so do not give your pet any medication that has not been prescribed by your veterinarian. The most common side effect of NSAIDs is gastrointestinal irritation (stomach upset) and ulcers. In addition, kidney and liver damage has been reported on a rare occasion. If your pet is taking NSAIDs, you should report any sign of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or loss of appetite to your veterinarian, and the medication should be discontinued. NSAIDs can have unexpected side effects in certain individuals. Pets receiving NSAIDs on a regular basis should have regular blood and urine tests to monitor for toxicity.

Stronger pain relievers may be required in severe or advanced cases of osteoarthritis. Some of the drugs that may be indicated to allow a patient to function or even exercise more comfortably include Tramadol (a narcotic), gabapentin or amantadine (drugs that modify pain perception) or Duralactin (a dried milk protein concentrate derived from hyperimmunized cows).

Administration of joint supplements can be helpful. Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfates such supplements. Although these supplements have been around for more than 20 years, they have only recently gained widespread popularity. Omega-3 and 6 essential fatty acids (EFAs) are also gaining popularity in the management of osteoarthritis.

Sources of Omega-3 and 6 include fish oils (especially salmon oil), as well as oils derived from flaxseed, avocado and soybean. Special dog foods are now being formulated with these ingredients to promote maximum joint health. Unlike NSAIDs, human supplements can be given at home, though there is no regulation of nutritional supplements. As such, consumers should be aware that there may be no guarantee of product purity or consistency between manufacturers or batches.

Furthermore, your veterinarian may recommend injecting the precursors to joint fluid into the joint space. Hyaluronic acid, or hyaluronate (Legend®, Hi-Visc®), and polysulfated glycosaminoglycan or PSGAG (Adequan®) injections may improve the quality of the joint fluid by providing a source of these joint fluid building blocks. It is presumed that healthy joint fluid means better lubrication and nutrition to the articular cartilage. Although the hyaluronate and PSGAG molecules may only be present for a few days to a week, the effects may be more long lasting. A loading schedule of weekly and twice-weekly injections may be needed initially.

Stem cell therapy is gaining favor as a minimally invasive treatment option for osteoarthritis. Fat is surgically harvested from your pet. This fat tissue is processed and undifferentiated precursor cells (stem cells) are isolated and concentrated. This process may require a few days, and afterward these cells are then injected into the affected joint. These are your pet's own cells and thus pose no risk of transmitting disease or rejection. Surplus cells are stored at sub-freezing temperatures and can be injected at later dates without the need to surgically harvest more fat.

Alternatively, actual stem cells can be retrieved from bone marrow, sent to the laboratory and cultured. After two to three weeks in cell culture, enough stem cells have grown to be injected into the affected joint. Although growth of new healthy cartilage is not expected, clinical improvement may be noted for many months. Stem cells might be expected to be most effective when combined with surgeries that alter the biomechanics of the joint.

Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is also gaining some interest for treating musculoskeletal injury and osteoarthritis. For this process, a blood sample is drawn from the patient, spun down in a special centrifuge and separated into various layers or components. The plasma layer that has high concentration of platelets is retrieved and injected into the affected tissue. This is PRP. PRP is not stem cells, but like the fat derived cells, it is a stimulator or recruiter of the body's own healing mechanisms.

Radiation therapy can also be used to decrease the pain of a joint by damaging the nerve endings responsible for pain sensation.

Despite all available treatments, there is no known way to reverse osteoarthritis. In the end, when nonsurgical management is no longer effective in controlling the clinical signs, surgeries – such as off-loading osteotomies (cuts made in the bone to shift the weight to healthier regions in the affected joint), partial or total joint replacement (Hip, Knee and Elbow joints can now be replaced), joint excision ("Excision Arthroplasty"), joint fusion (Arthrodesis), or denervation (Neurectomy) – may offer return of pain-free use of the affected limb. Your pet’s surgeon can discuss appropriate medical and surgical options with you in more detail.


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Stories from PA History
Labor's Struggle to Organize
Labor's Struggle to Organize
Overview: Labor's Struggle to Organize

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Address to the Journeymen Cordwainers, by John McIlvaine. Philadelphia, PA,...

Since the early 1700s, Pennsylvania's working people have led American labor's efforts to form unions, workers' cooperatives, federations, and benevolent organizations. Based on the desire for material improvement of their working conditions - and often the survival of their families - working Pennsylvanians have struggled hard for the right to have their own protective organizations to ensure safety and decent working conditions, and for laws to reinforce fair treatment on their jobs. Unions, however, were never a foregone conclusion. From the earliest days of colonial settlement to the present, unions have been the hard-won fruits of difficult struggles.

The obstacles were enormous. Work stoppages in North America date from colonial times, but printers in Philadelphia, demanding a minimum wage of $6 per week, staged the new nation's first documented strike for higher wages in 1786. Philadelphia's Journeymen Cordwainers became the first union to be convicted of engaging in a criminal conspiracy when it went on strike against master craftsmen and city entrepreneurs in 1806. From these beginnings, Pennsylvania workers continued to seek protection of their jobs and benefits through unions.

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Confrontation between jobless workers and police, Reyburn Square in Philadelphia,...
Divisions within the working class along ethnic, linguistic, and racial lines often made union organization difficult. The relative prosperity of the workers at various periods in American history also tended to delay the organization of unions and to undermine struggles for legal rights and safety. And the structure of Pennsylvania politics sometimes militated against workers finding elected officials to champion the legislation needed to serve their interests.

More often than not, state and federal courts firmly upheld employers' rights to manage their workers, resulting in further violent clashes when companies felt empowered to resist workers' efforts to unionize. Employers hired company detectives and private police against strike agitators and union organizers. State militias and federal troops were sometimes employed during the most violent confrontations, and local police kept track of and harassed labor organizers from the 1860s to the 1970s.

In the aftermath of World War I, "red scares" in the United States flared into the infamous Palmer raids, and the mass arrests of labor organizers and other suspected subversives. With the rise of the Cold War after World War II, the federal government again cracked down on political radicals and the left wing of Pennsylvania's labor movement.

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Uriah Smith Stephens, founder of the Knights of Labor, circa 1900.
Against these forces, Pennsylvania workers forged some of the largest and strongest unions in the country. National leaders sprang up from local organizing efforts. Indiana County's William H. Sylvis founded the Iron-Molders' International Union and later led the National Labor Union during the 1860s. Uriah Stephens of Philadelphia and Terence V. Powderly of Scranton led the Knights of Labor, the most important national union between 1871 and 1886, which grew to some 750,000 members. Pennsylvania's anthracite miners in Schuylkill, Carbon, and Northumberland Counties organized the Workingmen's Benevolent Association in 1868, and Pennsylvanians played an important role in the formation of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in 1876.

Pennsylvania's early and nationally significant industrialization put its skilled craft workers, textile mill operatives, miners, and steelworkers on center stage of labor activism through the nineteenth century. Yet in the most important industries where they found employment, such as in mining and steel, wages were chronically low, hours long, and benefits for injury or family crises notoriously insufficient. From the Civil War until 1877, the secretive Irish-based Molly Maguires worked to organize miners in the anthracite region until they were smashed by railroad executive Franklin B. Gowen.

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Riot of 1877: Ruins and Rioters. Looking East from 14th Street.
Undaunted, Pennsylvania coal miners staged a succession of job actions and strikes throughout the nineteenth century, culminating in the great anthracite strike of 1902, which resulted in a 10-percent wage raise and a small reduction in work hours, but failed to achieve union recognition. Nevertheless, United Mine Workers under John Mitchell's leadership grew to encompass all coal mine workers, and President Theodore Roosevelt's intervention set the pattern for non-violent arbitration in labor relations, after which the union expanded its membership and spread throughout the bituminous coal regions of western Pennsylvania.

Intervention in the anthracite strikes of the 1920s by Governor Gifford Pinchot brought the eight-hour day, and soon state legislation subjected the "coal and iron police," private police forces controlled by companies, to stricter standards of conduct. But as Pennsylvanians shifted to new sources of heating and industrial production, unionized miners faced painful structural adjustments within the industry.

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Jones & Laughlin steel mill workers voting for union representation, Aliquippa,...
Pennsylvania's railroad and steel industries witnessed similar worker unrest and violent clashes. Pittsburgh and Reading were the scenes of widespread property destruction during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The pitched battle between Pinkerton agents and striking steelworkers at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel works in 1892 shocked the nation. During the great steel strike of 1919, company officials in the greater Pittsburgh district and Monongahela River Valley sabotaged efforts to organize workers at every turn, and the strike ended in utter defeat.

During the Great Depression, Pennsylvania again emerged as a center of American labor organization, as western Pennsylvania steel workers formed a center of strength with the Steel Workers Organization Committee (SWOC). By then, the hardships of the country's worst depression drove workers to unions in unprecedented numbers. It was a dispute over the right of SWOC to organize workers at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation's Aliquippa plant that led, in 1936, to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of the Wagner Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Relations Board. In 1942, SWOC became the United Steelworkers of America.

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Soft coal miners return to work, Red Lion, PA, June 1, 1946.
New challenges faced Pennsylvania workers during the Cold War as the globalization of markets brought heightened competition among companies across international borders. Deindustrialization left Pennsylvania's once mighty industries a mere shadow of their former selves by the late 1970s; hundreds of thousands of workers lost jobs, pensions, and the rising standard of living that blue-collar workers struggled so hard to gain in previous years. Workers could no longer assume that they would work for the same company for a lifetime, or with the same skills.

Mergers and takeovers led by multinational corporations, outsourcing, subcontracting, and the use of temporary workers all changed the face of labor-management relations and forced workers to learn new skills. Increased competition from domestic and foreign sources and the deregulation of many industries forced companies to cut back the costs of labor to stay competitive. At the same time, the increased costs of providing health benefits caused many smaller companies to cut back or to eliminate this benefit for most employees.

Union membership has declined significantly since the 1970s, especially in the original industrial workers' organizations. Strikes, which were an important vehicle for making gains in wages and working conditions, became even harder to win in recent decades. At the same time, the need for unions has remained as strong as ever, and many new ones formed during the 1970s and 1980s in the ever-growing sectors of white-collar and high-technology jobs. These organizations no longer fight against child labor or excessively long work weeks, as the movement did for much of the nineteenth century. Instead, pressing concerns often involve health care, equitable pay for similar skill, fair treatment on the job, short staffing or forced overtime, and retirement security, especially in the face of multinational corporations cutting back on all of these basic needs.

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Thursday, 27 May 2010

Found a nice Reverse Image Search tool

You can upload a photo or point to a URL and it attemps to find similar images.

Friday, 21 May 2010

pdf / magazine search and Issuu

Google's pdf option is very useful to find pdf files/magazines, I created a query in the compact format.

Also Issuu (for publishing) is very nice, although not all publishers also have PDFs on their site, I've put it under the pdf category.

Thursday, 13 May 2010 alternative

It seems that it is still possible to use the nice interface if you replace

Fixed for now.


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When you need periodical publications, contact us for high quality low cost printing. We have large web offset print shops in France, Spain, China, Korea, Mexico, design firm, and the USA. If you want printing in Asia, printing in China is unnecessary. Korea features massive management, quality and logistical advantages over China.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

I'm a little late with this recap, but I have an excuse. I was stuck in Antarctica and I couldn't leave without first figuring out which one of my friends was infested with alien blood. Took me a while but I figured it out. It was the Oatmeal guy. I thought he just had diabetes, but nope, total Alien blood. What a dick.

Last week's Movie Knights event was co-hosted by none other than David Effing Correia, who wisely chose to show John Caprenter's remake of The Thing From Another World, aptly titled "THE THING". As our second to last Movie Knights event, the crowds are getting larger, louder, and more rowdy (we even almost had one rape and 2 bayonet stabbings last week! COOL!) and in turn, we are having fun. So here is a fun little photo recap last week:) And this week, for our FINAL MOVIE KNIGHTS event, I am showing my favorite thriller drama ever, "THE ROOM"! This weds, come on!!!

The Night started off with with some tongue, as surprise guest Kurt Russell accosted artist Lucien Shapiro's mouth!

And though he looked constantly concerned, Kurt Russell seemed to be honored that super-talented (and beautiful) artist/designer Hannah Stouffer was hanging out drinking elk's blood and dancing.

He then conned Hannah into a loving headlock while his chest-Kurt stared creepily at her.

There was no gratuitous pizza shot this week, so you get a REMIX of an old one!

When fans draw while watching movies at the store, and make awesome art within like the 2 hours we are hanging out, it makes me really happy.

I try to draw also, but I still get nervous and just scribble ghosts with boners and flying squishy heads.

Oh, hello CAGE, what are you doing here? Hmm, are you possessed? maybe Kurt Russell's perfect imitation of his shirt mesmerized you. And Dave Correia, why are you so far away, this was your night? Perhaps you, too were mesmerized by Chest-Kurt.

"So, umm, Dave?" said Kurt Russell, "you mind if I talk for a long time about my chest?"

Some people can't hang with Kurt Russell's rage.

From left to right: Chris McCreary, Robert Bowen, Jeben Berg (mouth agape), Ken Harman, and Kurt Russell who, luckily, was very alert and spotted danger right at this moment, saving the others from doom.

Alright, Dave Correia, show that dang movie already!!!

Wait! Before the movie starts, let all the girls look at my ass-thing.

Dude you're STILL sleeping??

After the movie ended, Sean Leopard, Kurt Russell, and Dave Correia held a cool raffle where 4 winners received a giclee print of one of the greatest THING-inspired paintings EVER MADE, by the host himself, Dave Corriea! Look at this THING!

This 11" x 14" print (along with a ton of other cool stuff) is available NOW on
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You can purchase the print by CLICKING HERE or on the pic above.

Almost everyone stayed until the end, and this was the biggest Movie Knights photo yet.

Then, as if the Antarctic God's warmed my heart, the actual monster dog featured in the opening of The Thing just wandered in and made the night extra special. Man, Kurt Russell AND the dog? Such a good night. See you tomorrow when we channel the spirit of TOMMY WISEAU!!!!


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When I was a child, I associated colonnades and porticos with history of art manuals. On those occasions, family or school instructors took me to visit buildings clad in columns. In those outings, I awoke to the presence of those supporting artifacts and my initial awe turned into a vertiginous sense of belonging, as if I had a special right to live among them, either as hero, saint or king. These places were usually churches or civic edifices of majestic size, and columns help the narrative of the building, empowering the purpose of the construction.

With the passing of the years, columns began appearing in my dreams, although not as a match to my childhood reveries. In those situations, they often sprung from the ground like menacing trees blocking my escape from an anguishing maze only to reappear days later as a gate to a mysterious mansion. Their regular presence, devoid of specific messages, magnified the dream wrapping it in operatic scenography.  I began thinking of them as an interchangeable ingredient, nourishing both my wakeful state and my sleep.

In my travels, I lay a loving eye on these elements. Their basic supporting function is rarely on display in contemporary architecture. Unseen steel columns have replaced the theatrical force and intensity of the classical orders. Structure and decorative appeal have parted ways. Either as standing ruins of ancient buildings or as living examples of how architecture can instruct us, they represent strength and balance, support and nobility. Virtues shared in the collective dreams of their makers, faintly echoing in ours.

La Malcontenta, Veneto.

Ca d’Oro, Venice

Saint Nicolas des Champs, Paris

Cloître des Bernardins, Paris

Capilla de Santa Lucía, Ceceda, Spain


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The FACETS project aims at conceiving paradigms of computation that depart significantly from the Turing concept of contemporary IT systems and make use of the complex and ongoing dynamics seen in brain activity. Paradigms of computation will be studied, where the complexity is the determining part of the computational process rather than being something to be avoided. In particular, one goal is to show how diverse computational architectures can emerge from the dynamic succession of transient states of activity distributed across the network and constrained by the intrinsic connectivity.

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To this end, the FACETS project works towards laying a theoretical and experimental foundation for the practical realisation of novel computing hardware, which exploits the concepts experimentally observed in the brain. Such hardware systems will be beneficial for a broad range of experiments ranging from tests of neuroscience models to experimental studies of novel concepts in information processing which exploit the complex dynamics, the diversity of computing elements and the plasticity of the biological example.

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17 Dec 2009

When Victor Smetacek and his colleagues cruised to the Southern Ocean in January 2009, they hoped to launch straight into pouring ten tons of iron sulphate into the waters below. Instead they spent days on board cranking out a risk assessment of their experiment, making the case that their plans were legal.

This kind of experiment had been done a dozen times before with little fanfare. The scientists were mainly interested in understanding iron’s role in ocean ecosystems. But because their results would also be crucial for testing the feasibility of a particular plan to cool the climate, fierce opposition met the experiment by Smetacek — an oceanographer from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany — and his Indian collaborators. Infusing the ocean with iron could stimulate the growth of plankton blooms, which theoretically would draw carbon down into the deep sea, keeping it out of the atmosphere for hundreds or even thousands of years.

By early 2009 such ‘geoengineering’ schemes had become the subject of serious scientific discussion. With emissions still rising, scientists had started to warn that deliberate climate control might be a necessary last-ditch attempt to curb warming and its deleterious impacts. “There’s a sense that the world is getting out of control,” says Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist and climate policy expert at Princeton University in New Jersey. “That’s what’s led some scientists to refocus on geoengineering.”

Early research shows that various schemes such as pumping sulphate aerosols into the sky or spraying saltwater above the oceans could, in theory at least, cool the planet — some perhaps by a few degrees or more. But research also suggests that there could be unintended — and ugly — consequences, such as widespread drought and substantial ozone depletion1, 2. Added to those concerns are the ethics of intentionally interfering with the climate, creating a legislative nightmare. “Geoengineering is the most serious governance concern that we’re going to be facing in the next couple of decades,” argues Maria Ivanova, director of Yale University’s Global Environmental Governance Project. “It’s really about planetary survival.”

Yet there have been no laws in place specifically aimed at regulating geoengineering, precisely because there has been no need. The science community’s growing interest in more research into potential approaches, however, has led to fears that experiments could easily get ahead of efforts to regulate them. Such was the concern of those opposed to Smetacek’s plans.

Back in 2008 the project, named Lohafex, had been given the green light from the London Convention, which governs dumping in the open ocean. The Convention opened a loophole specifically to allow ocean-fertilization experiments. But as Smetacek and colleagues set sail, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the German Ministry of Environment and a Canadian watchdog organization called ETC Group tried to stop the experiment. “There was no accepted legal authority, so there was a task team at our institute trying to solve this whole thing,” says Smetacek, who found the experience “really nerve-wracking”.

Full steam ahead

Besides its impact on research, the legislative situation — hazy and full of holes — means that any nation or company, or even an individual with the will and financial means to do so, could start to interfere with the climate.

In fact, companies are already moving ahead on developing and testing various approaches. Two such companies, Climos and Planktos, both founded in the past five years, hope to fertilize the oceans using the same method being tested by Smetacek and to sell emissions offsets for the sunk carbon. “When Planktos and Climos entered the picture, the dread of unregulated commercial scale-up was enflamed,” says Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, who was not involved in the research.

Caldeira is not against private-sector involvement in geoengineering, however, and has lent his scientific expertise to another company, Intellectual Ventures, based in Bellevue, Washington. Intellectual Ventures has filed for several patents for climate-altering technologies. One, called StratoShield, would use a long hose suspended from balloons to send sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere. Intellectual Ventures says on its website that “we do not expect or intend that our climate technology inventions will make money” and that it’s doing the work for the public good. Caldeira says he would donate any profits from the technology he has advised on to charity.

But the possibility of profit from carbon credits has led to fears that the cash incentive could push geoengineering ahead too fast, or in the wrong directions. Already, evidence exists that the profit motive can lure unscrupulous companies into the market. In November, the US Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Pennsylvania-based company, the Mantria Corporation, with operating what regulators called “a $30 million dollar Ponzi scheme”, saying it used exaggerated claims and aggressive marketing to con people into investing in biochar sequestration.

Proceed with caution

The thought of mavericks tinkering with the climate, whether for money or for the greater good, could lead some to conclude “that maybe we ought to have a global taboo against doing this”, says Granger Morgan, an engineer and director of Carnegie Mellon’s Climate Decision Making Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But there are legitimate reasons for allowing geoengineering research to go ahead. As no climate-altering technique has yet been tested at a large scale, there are a lot of uncertainties. “We know how to do this right now,” Morgan says. “What we don’t know is the cost or the unintentional consequences.”

To try to get a better handle on the possibilities, many experts are calling for more research. Among supporters of the idea, a common argument is that geoengineering could be a back-up plan in case the world doesn’t manage to cut greenhouse gases enough or the climate turns out to be more sensitive than we thought. There could be a planetary emergency where the climate crosses a tipping point — say, with the potent greenhouse gas methane pouring from thawing Arctic permafrost — and heats up much faster. “If those long-tail possibilities turn out to be reality, we may wake up one day with a billion people at risk and actually need to do something,” says Morgan. In a case like that, he argues, geoengineering could look much more appealing.

Another popular argument for research is that it’s necessary to avoid a big mistake. Suppose, says Morgan, “a major state finds that because of climate change it can’t feed its people and starts doing [geoengineering], or decides it’s a lot cheaper than mitigation”. Then the world could face tough decisions about whether to condone geoengineering or try to stop it. “If we haven’t done the research,” Morgan says, “the international community has to fall back on a moral argument, as opposed to a science-based argument.”

But while testing schemes such as ocean fertilization on a small scale is one thing, far more contentious are ‘quick and dirty’ plans to alter the global climate. Such proposed schemes include ‘cloud ships’ that would spray seawater into the air to thicken ocean clouds, and — most popular of all — various methods of pumping sulphate aerosols into the upper atmosphere, where they would reflect sunlight and cool the planet quickly, just like huge volcanic eruptions do.

Studies of past volcanic eruptions — such as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines — suggest that sulphate aerosols could be used to cool the climate by a few degrees or more, but that they could also eat away at the ozone layer or slash rainfall worldwide3, 4. More worrying still are the unknowns. “Compared with mitigation, it’s much harder to predict the outcome,” Oppenheimer says. “If you reduce emissions, you’re moving back along the limb you walked out on, but with geoengineering, you’re not.”

Legal labyrinth

Regulating geoengineering research will thus be tricky, but necessary. “If you don’t legitimize this, you better not attempt it, because you’re likely to be attacked,” says John Steinbruner, director of the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland in College Park, who thinks that maverick attempts at regulating the climate could lead to violence.

Many see the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — the same body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol and its successor that’s now under negotiation — as the logical authority to control these activities5. But others say that because geoengineering techniques are so varied, trying to create a global treaty to cover them would be a disaster. “It would take a very long time to negotiate it,” says Steve Rayner, director of the University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. “That would mean that in the meantime either things go ahead unregulated, which would be a bad idea, or that you go ahead with a moratorium until you get the regime in place, which would also be a bad idea.” And the field is not quite ripe for a meaningful review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), argues Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute, a think tank based in Washington DC. “The IPCC mainly prepares reports based on reviews of the literature, [so] it would have a difficult time addressing this challenge early in the process.”

But regulation could begin without the advent of a new global treaty. As Smetacek and colleagues found out, existing treaties can also be interpreted to cover some approaches. One geoengineering proposal involving mirrors orbiting in space to deflect sunlight would probably be regulated under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. Sulphate aerosols could be covered under the Montreal Protocol, which bans key ozone-destroying chemicals, since the aerosols could eat away at the ozone layer. But the aerosol approach could also fall under the UN Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, originally put in place to stop power plants’ sulphate emissions — a common cause of acid rain — which were crossing borders in Europe and North America.

And if a country felt it was being targeted by hostile geoengineering, this could bring the 1978 Environmental Modification Convention, now largely dormant, off the bench and into play. “It does have the provision that if some nation says they think another country is ruining their weather, it can trigger a [UN] Security Council meeting,” says science historian James Fleming of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

But since none of these environmental treaties was originally designed with geoengineering in mind, bending them to this new purpose could lead to a “governance trap”, warns Jason Blackstock, a physicist and international relations expert at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Then the world could get locked into a certain approach to governing geoengineering, even if it’s far from ideal. For sulphate aerosol geoengineering, for example, “the Montreal Protocol, in principle, could be applicable — but is it the right [instrument] for that?” he asks. “Its function and role is to ban substances, not to evaluate risks and benefits of field tests.”

Responsible research

As a first step to guide further research, the London Convention has pulled together a science advisory board. “The objective was to try to come up with a sensible set of regulations,” says board member Richard Lampitt, an oceanographer at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. And a wider discussion about how to move forward on geoengineering — involving scientists, policymakers, watchdog organizations, ethicists, legal experts and security experts — is gathering steam. In addition to a review of geoengineering options conducted this year by the UK’s Royal Society6, several groups in the US — including NASA, the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Sciences — have organized meetings to weigh various approaches.

1. Lenton, T. M. & Vaughan, N. E. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 9, 2559–2608 (2009).
2. Bala, G. et alProc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105, 7664–7669 (2008).
3. Trenberth, K. E. & Dai, A. Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, L15702 (2007).
4. Tilmes, S. et alJ. Geophys. Res. 114, D12305 (2009).
5. Lin, A. C. Issues Legal Scholar. 8, 3 (2009).
6. Shepherd, J. et alGeoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty (Royal Society, London, 2009); Link

books I've read on failure & grace

The World Without Us
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Tipping Point
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Mason's favorite books »


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A guide to 2016

Scarborough Spa

14 - 16th February

Top Secret Blues Festival

Scarborough Spa

11th – 13th March

Flying Scotsman

North York Moors Railway

12th – 20th March

Scarborough Book Festival

Scarborough Library

13th – 17th April

Spring Cup Bob Smith Trophy Races

Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough

16th & 17th April

Whitby Spring Goth Weekend

Whitby Abbey

22nd – 24th April

Tour de Yorkshire

across the county

29th April – 1st May

Festival of Speed Bike & Car Hill Climb

Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough

1st & 2nd May

Spring Steam Gala

North York Moors Railway

6th – 8th & 13th – 15th May

Pickering Game & Country Fair

Pickering Showground

21st & 22nd May

Festival on the Moor

Danby, National Park Centre

27th – 30th May

Malton Food Lovers Festival

Malton town centre

28th & 29th May

Duncombe Park Country Fair

Duncombe Park

30th May

Robin Hoods Bay Folk Weekend

across Robin Hoods Bay

10th – 12th June

Awesome 70’s and Heritage Diesel Weekend

North York Moors Railway

17th – 19th June

North Yorkshire Country Show

South Otterington

19th June

Jazz & Blues Festival

Burton Agnes Hall

1st – 3rd July

Swinging 60’s Weekend

North York Moors Railway

2nd & 3rd July

Duncombe Steam Rally

Duncombe Park

2nd & 3rd July

Whitby Sea Festival

Whitby Harbour

8th – 10th July

Classic Cars & Vehicles Weekend

North York Moors Railway

9th & 10th July

Great Yorkshire Show

Ryedale Festival

across the region

13th – 30th July

The Great Seaside Vintage Fair

Whitby Pavilion

16th & 17th July

Saltersgate Farmer’s Hunt Show

Saltergate, Hole-of-Horcum

23rd July

Ryedale Show

26th July

Scarborough Seafest

across the town

29th – 31st July

Thornton-le-Dale Show

3rd August

Osmotherley Show

6th August

Danby Show

10th August

Hinderwell Show

Hinderwell, Saltburn-by-the-Sea

12th August

Whitby Regatta

across the town

19th – 22nd August

Whitby Folk Week

across the town

19th – 26th August

Rosedale Show

Rosedale Abbey

20th August

Egton Horse & Agricultural Show – Egton

24th August

Burniston Show

Burniston, Scarborough

29th August

Staithes Arts & Heritage Festival

Staithes village

10th & 11th September

Castleton Show

17th September

Whitby 60’s Spectacular

Whitby Pavilion

23rd – 25th September

Scarborough Jazz Festival

Scarborough Spa

23rd – 25th September

Autumn Steam Gala & Beer Festival

North York Moors Railway

30th September – 2nd October

The October Seaside Vintage Fair

Whitby Pavilion

8th & 9th October

The Railway in Wartime

North York Moors Railway

14th – 16th October

Whitby Pavilion

21st – 23rd October

North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group ¬50th Anniversary

North York Moors Railway

29th & 30th October

Whitby Goth Weekend

Whitby Abbey

4th – 6th November

Santa Specials

North York Moors Railway

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Baby Shower Centerpiece

This week's LSHD blog project is a centerpiece I made using the PNG file from the "Zoo Safari" file. I found the idea of the centerpiece on pinterest. The pictures were printed on white card stock then mounted on foam and cut out. The base is diapers rolled up and tied together with ribbon.

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  1. This diaper cake centerpiece is way too cute. The animals on top really works well. What a great baby shower decorating ideas for boys. Love it!


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Miami-Dade considers ordinance ending pit bull ban

First reading is set for October 5

Miami-Dade CountyOn October 5, 2016, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners is scheduled to hold a first reading on an ordinance to end the community’s “pit bull” ban. The meeting is set to begin at 9:30 a.m at the . Commission Chambers, Second Floor 111 NW 1st Street Miami, FL 32128. If the ordinance passes on this first reading, it will be assigned to a committee and a date will be set for a public hearing.

Concerned dog owners in Miami-Dade County are encouraged to contact their county commissioners prior to Wednesday’s meeting and respectfully state support for repealing the pit bull ban.

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FAKC President's Message

By Susan Smith

This is an election year!! It gives you an opportunity to meet with those running for office by attending "meet & greets", town hall meetings, public forums, debates and other public events. You can elicit opinions/attitudes from candidates on canine issues which will show them that these issues are important to you. Ask candidates policy questions rather than their opinions about specific organizations.

Some suggested questions:
1. Do you support the right to own and/or breed purebred dogs of one's choice?
2. Do you support limiting the number of animals someone can own?
3. Do you support the right to keep purebred dogs that are not spay and neutered?
4. Do you believe there is a pet overpopulation problem? If so, what do you believe is the cause and how would you resolve it?

Make sure to let the candidates know that their positions on these issues will impact how you vote!

Consider taking a few hours to stuff envelopes, answer phones, make calls or put up signs for candidates to show that responsible dog owners care about legislation and will support those who will protect their rights.

See you in Orlando at the FAKC Annual Meeting on Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at the International Palms Resort, 6515 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819, 407-351-3500.

I look forward to meeting your club delegates,

Sincerely, Susan Smith, President

USDA adds hobby breeders
to pet "dealer" regulations

 Applies to 5 intact females of any species

Rescue groups now must be licensed

"Puppy-back" deals are included

USDAThe Obama Administration has added pet breeders with over four breedable females (of any pet species -- not just dogs) to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) definition of a "dealer" under the federal Animal Welfare Act. This rule change takes effect on November 18, 2013. The new rule likely will subject thousands of hobby breeders to the same USDA licensing, inspections, animal identification and recordkeeping, handling, care, treatment, and transportation regulations which previously have applied only to commercial pet dealers.

The rule change will apply to any breeder with more than four intact females on her premises, who sells the offspring as pets, and whose buyers are not all physically present to observe the animals prior to purchase and/or to take custody of those animals after purchase (i.e., not face-to-face). While the rule change was intended to cover sight-unseen Internet transactions, it also will include sales negotiated by telephone, with the dogs shipped to the buyers, even if the breeder and buyer have had a long-term relationship with each other.

The definition of "breeding female" includes dogs, cats, and small exotic and wild mammals which are bred and whose offspring are sold as pets. Any combination of these female animals which total more than four would apply. The exemption refers to the aggregate number of intact females on the premises whose offspring are sold as pets. APHIS states that it will assume that any female that is capable of breeding may be bred, regardless of the bitch's age.

The rule change also is expected to adversely impact stud owners' puppy-back agreements. If the stud owner sells a puppy not bred on her own premises, she would not be exempt from the licensing requirement. Non-resident co-owners of breeding females would qualify for the four-or-less exemption, provided that no more than four breeding females are maintained on their premises. Private rescue organizations are not exempt if they operate in a manner that requires them to be licensed as dealers. This includes paying licensing fees and adhering to the facility standards of the regulations.

Details of the APHIS rule changes are here. The APHIS specifications for handling, care, treatment, and transportation are here. Click here for an AKC chart showing whether the APHIS rule affects you as a hobby breeder. See also this NAIA analysis.

Not an member of FAKC yet?

If your Florida dog club is a member of the American Kennel Club (AKC) or an AKC licensed affiliate, your club may join the Florida Association of Kennel Clubs.  Download a Membership Application now!

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All AKC puppies
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As part of the “front lines” of purebred dogs, AKC relies on its loyal breeders to communicate the benefits and importance of AKC registration to their puppy buyers. To ensure a strong future for you, your fellow breeders, and all purebred dogs, AKC needs all of its breeders to make a concerted effort to ensure that every puppy in each litter you have bred gets registered with the AKC. AKC has implemented a new initiative to help you accomplish this goal.

PupsThe AKC has begun sending all breeders who register a litter an email asking them to provide us with their new puppy buyers’ contact information. The email includes information on our new Online Litter Record Service. This service allows breeders to supply AKC with new puppy buyer contact information in an easy-to-use online format. If the breeder does not want to use the new online service, a link to a printable version of the litter record is also available.

The new puppy buyers will then receive an e-mail or letter from AKC detailing the benefits and importance of AKC registration. The new puppy buyers will only be contacted by AKC. Their names will not be sold or used for any other promotions or marketing when given through this initiative. As you have experienced, puppy buyers tend to be more concerned about caring for their new puppy at the time of purchase, and often forget about one of the most important steps of responsible dog ownership – AKC registration. Our goal is to reinforce their decision of purchasing an AKC puppy and to educate them on the many benefits that they can receive with registration.

AKC is dedicated to promoting responsible dog ownership and educating new puppy buyers about registration benefits and the important programs that every registration supports. Registration dollars help AKC fund important educational programs, support the research of health issues through donations, and continue to subsidize AKC events. Our registration numbers also help us to maintain legislative influence and ensure that like-minded organizations continue to support the AKC through alternative revenue programs and sponsorships.

With your support, and by working together, AKC will be able to take the necessary steps to ensure its long and healthy future as the nation’s preeminent purebred dog registry. For more information or to use the new Online Litter Record Service, please click here. Please note this service can be used for recent or past litters.

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AKC considers new
dog club category

To be called "Companion Clubs"

Also makes NOHS an opt-in event

At their February 12, 2015 meeting, AKC's board of directors' discussed plans to create a new category of dog clubs, called "Companion Clubs". These clubs will be for owners that desire social activities built around providing fun and educational things to do with their dogs.

Companion Dog clubs may become licensed to hold companion events -- obedience, rally, agility, tracking -- plus the Coursing Ability Test. They would be encouraged to promote CGC training/testing and to hold AKC recognized events such as Barn Hunt, Flyball or Dock Diving. AKC's board of directors intends to discuss the new club concept again at its March meeting.

In another action at the February meeting, AKC's board decided that the National Owner-Handled Series (NOHS) should cease being mandatory and become an opt-in program, effective January 1, 2016. This decision will permit clubs to hold other non-regular conformation events without having to incorporate NOHS in their schedules.

Pinellas ordinance would make seller of a litter a 'Pet Dealer'

Hearing set for February 21 in Clearwater

Pinellas County, FloridaThe Pinellas County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to hold a public hearing and consider changes to the county animal ordinance at its February 21 meeting, at BCC Assembly Room, 315 Court Street Clearwater, FL 33756, beginning at 9:30 AM.

Among other provisions of concern, the proposed ordinance would define a person who sells one litter of cats or dogs per year as “pet dealer” and require compliance with kennel and breeder permitting requirements, zoning, payment of significant fees, and inspections.

Under this proposed ordinance, standards for animal care and sanitation for “pet dealers” and “kennels” would be established by the Department of Animal Services with no legislative or community oversight. Further, permits could be suspended or revoked at the discretion of the director.

The proposed ordinance provides that inspections of “pet dealers” shall be conducted without notice, and the inspector shall, at a minimum, be given access to and the opportunity to inspect and photograph the animals, premises and records. As written, this would include the private residence of a dog owner designated as a “pet dealer”.

The proposed ordinance also strikes a section of existing law that requires that animals confined outdoors with direct supervision at events such as a dog show or field trial shall be provided sufficient water to maintain normal hydration. Instead, it would make it both a negligence and cruelty violation if a dog in these circumstances were not provided continuous access to water. This change would negatively and unreasonably impact owners and handlers of supervised dogs that are, for short time periods, without continuous access to water while crated briefly at ringside or while given access to an exercise pen during an event.

The proposed ordinance would reduce oversight of “rescue groups” by striking a section of existing law which requires that records of animals impounded or picked up by such groups must be made available for inspection by the Department of Animal Services at the impounding agency, at any time, upon the department's request. Only monthly reporting would be required. This is potentially problematic for owners of lost pets that are found or impounded by such groups.

Pet owners are urged to contact their county commissioners in advance of the meeting and also to attend the public hearing to express their concerns.  Persons wishing to speak should arrive early and complete a speaker card. Each speaker may speak up to three minutes. Comments may also be submitted by calling (727) 464-3458. Cliek here for additional details.

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Sign up by Aug. 31 for the earlybird rate

The 2016 National Animal Interest (NAIA) Annual Conference is set for November 5 and 6 in Orlando. Its theme is "Working with Animals at the Intersection of Love and Science". NAIA states that "our understanding of the history and evolution of domestic animals is growing, best practices are improving and being implemented on a wider scale than ever before, and breakthroughs in genetics, health, and behavior are emerging at a breakneck pace!"

Sign up now -- no later than August 31 -- for the earlybird rate of $175.00. Details are found at this link.

From The Dog Press:

"Animal control seizures - constitutional knowledge
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Read The Dog Press' July 2015 article on animal control agency unlawful seizures of your dogs: "Understanding that civil asset forfeiture is theft of private property could protect your animals from illegal confiscation" on line.

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Economic impact of AKC
dog events in Florida

AKCThe American Kennel Club (AKC) now represents more than 5,100 dog clubs nationally, including 178 clubs in the State of Florida. The AKC sanctions thousands of dog events each year, which generate significant economic benefits to local communities in addition to the millions of dollars AKC dog owners in Florida spend annually on their dogs.

Here are the statistics for the State of Florida over the past three years:

2012: AKC licensed and sanctioned 637 events in the state of Florida, in which more than 143,130 dogs participated.

2013: AKC licensed and sanctioned 703 events in the state of Florida, in which more than 145,260 dogs participated.

2014: AKC licensed and sanctioned 731 events in the state of Florida, in which more than 151,300 dogs participated.

The AKC conducts ongoing research regarding the economic impact of AKC events in localities throughout the state, as well as of AKC registered dogs in the state. Surveys demonstrate that exhibitors at AKC conformation dog shows spend an average of $512 per show weekend. This means spending by AKC dog show exhibitors for a show weekend could inject more than $1.5 million into the local economy.

"Why Breed Specific Legislation Does Not Work"

AKC's new webinar and legislation website

The AKC's Government Relations department has released a webinar, "Why Breed-Specific Legislation Doesn’t Work", which explains breed-specific legislation (BSL) and outlines why breed-specific laws are not a good solution to the dangerous dogs problem. It’s available here on YouTube and easy to share with club members, local dog owners and your legislators.

AKC's Government Relations department also has launched the online AKC Legislative Action Center (LAC), which will make it easier for dog lovers to learn more about and advocate on key legislative and regulatory issues that impact dogs and dog ownership.

Fla. legislature passes bill criminalizing fake service dogs

Florida State HouseBoth houses of the Florida legislature have passed a bill (HB 71) which makes it a misdeameanor to misrepresent using a service animal and which defines the requirements of public accommodation businesses to permit the use of service animals.

The bill also requires public accommodations to permit use of a service animal by an individual with a disability under certain circumstances, and to prohibit public accommodations from inquiring about the nature or extent of an individual’s disability, and provide conditions for public accommodations to exclude or remove a service animal.

The criminal penalty would apply to a person who knowingly and willfully misrepresents that he is using a service animal and is qualified to use a service animal, or as a trainer of a service animal. The bill will be presented to the governor for his consideration, and if he signs it, it will become law as amendments to Section 413.08, Fla. Stat.

Our advocates at the
Florida legislature

Read here about our representatives before the Florida legislature, Mixon & Associates (M&A) and its principals, cavalier King Charles spaniel breeders M. Juhan Mixon, Pat C. Mixon, and their daughter, Corrine Mixon.

H$U$ "Promises"H$U$ Watch

H$U$"Our goal is to make the public think of breeding dogs and cats like drunk driving and smoking."
                                       -- Kim Sturla

FAKC - War Room

FAKC’s War Room is where to go to battle anti-pet legislation. All of your weapons are there for you to send your messages to your legislators:

The Actual Bills & Ordinances
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LIKEWe are crawling into the 21st Century, which includes creating a Facebook page. There are many ways to communicate these days, and Facebook seems to be one of the easiest for many dog owners. So feel free to click on our Facebook icon in the upper left corner of the page.  And, if you like what you see, let us know by clicking the LIKE button, too.

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Animal Rightists are behind forced neutering, dog limit laws

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Welcome to Spotlight Sunday!
Today we will be spotlighting one of Fantabulous Cricut’s newest designers.
Let me introduce to you to Suzanne from Cricut Craftin Grammy.
Before we show you some of Suzanne’s incredible creations we thought you would like to get to know her a little better. We asked her a few crafty questions.
1. When did you start scrapbooking/paper crafting? Why?
I started scrapbooking over 25 years ago when my daughters were born. At that time I used a lot of stickers, tracing stencils, and fancy scissors. When the girls went away to college I really didn't scrap anymore until 3 years ago when I bought my first Cricut Expression. Now I scrapbook for my three granddaughters.
2. What is your favorite type of project to make (i.e. cards, LO, mini-albums, etc.)?
I love making everything but scrapbooking is probably my favorite. I like the larger space to work with.
3. What is your favorite product to use on your projects?
Besides paper Stickles, ink and chalk.
4. What is your favorite Cricut cartridge?
That is a tough one. Probably A Child's Year and Lacey Labels. Favorite font cartridge is Storybook.
5. What do you do in your spare time, when you are not paper crafting?
Spend time with my 3 amazing granddaughters 18 months, 9 months and 2 weeks. I also love to read. To be honest when I am not paper crafting I spend a lot of time on blogs, the Cricut message board and looking at scrap and Cricut magazines. Then there is always craft shopping too.
Any other info you would like us to know about you:
I retired from teaching school after 33 years just over a year ago. Now, besides crafting, I take care of my middle grandchild full time during the week. I am thrilled to be a new member of the FCCB Design Team and to be working with so many wonderful creative ladies.
Here are a few things that you will find on Suzanne’s blog:

We are so excited that Suzanne is now part of the FCCB team! Make sure you visit Suzanne’s blog to discover all the wonderful things she has to share with you.
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  1. Wonderful creations, and glad to get to know you a little better. Excited to be working with you on the FCCB DT! :)Amy A

  2. Congratulations on 33 years of blessings lives and now getting to pour loving in a grandchild. My grandmother kept me and it made for a wonderful relationship (and probably many gray hairs for her).

    Love your projects and will check out your blog! =) J

  3. Suzanne, we are all so happy to welcome you to our FCCB family! I have admired your work for some time now and am so happy to be working with you on this fabulous design team!

  4. Beautiful work Suzanne! Happy to be working with you on this fabulous team!

  5. Suzanne you know that I am your biggest fan! Your projects always "wow" me, well you wow me with all your talent my friend!! Congrats on being highlighted and being one the DT with FCCB!!! Suzanne will not disappoint at all, you all are in for a real treat with her projects!!!

  6. Suzanne - so great to read more about you! I'm in awe that you find time to scrapbook for your three grandchildren; I have a hard time keeping up with just one book for my little boy! Way to go! Your creations are wonderful, and I'm so happy to work with you on the FCCB DT!!!

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton

Review by Saiph

I read this book for my formal paper topic in my British Fiction class, and it is one of the coolest books I've read all semester. Chesterton is one of my favorite authors. Just some background info: Chesterton was a journalist, poet, and essayist from about the 1890's to 1936 when he died. He's most remembered for his rapier wit and his Christian apologetics. TMWWT is semi-autobigraphical of his experience in the pessimistic days of the 1890's when he was coming of age as a writer and feeling the first pulls toward the Christian faith. I'm taking most of this review from my paper, so that's why it might sound a little stiff. *l*

Many consider The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare to be G. K. Chesterton's masterpiece in the realm of fiction. The story of detective Gabriel Syme's struggle against the Supreme Council of bomb-throwing anarchists begins much like Chesterton's popular Father Brown short stories about a Roman Catholic priest who also solves murders. However, Thursday quickly crosses the borders of Father Brown and Sherlock Holmes and enters the world of Kafka's Metamorphisis. What begins solidly in the world of detective fiction ends mystically in the world of the surreal. The story of one detective fighting six anarchists quickly changes into the story of six philosophers chasing one man, whose name is Sunday.

The novel begins as a detective story. The hero, Gabriel Syme, is a member of a special anti-anarchist police force lead by a mysterious commander who only takes appointments in a pitch dark room. By tricking the rash anarchist poet Lucian Gregory, Syme infiltrates the Supreme Council, led by the universally feared and physically huge Sunday. The members of the council all have code names corresponding to the days of the week, and Syme takes the seat of the recently deceased Thursday. The plot thickens when Syme discovers that the men he originally thought were his arch enemies are all comrades from his own task force. The bewildered detectives return to Sunday to demand answers, and then things get really weird.

Chesterton was never very secretive about what the ending of the novel meant, or who Sunday really is, but I'll leave it a mystery for those of you who want to read it. I do highly recommend seeking out his commentary on the novel after you read it.

Perhaps one of the best things about the book is the prose. It might take some getting used to for first time readers of Chesterton (it sure did for me), but I've come to love his vividly poetic descriptions.

Another nice thing about the book is you don't have to buy it. *l* Besides being nice to the pocket book, this is also a plus because Chesterton's work is sometimes hard to get a hold of. It's in the public domain, so quite a few web sites have the text online. I've included a link at the bottom to the version with the easiest to read format.

(Slight Disclaimer for That Site: There's a quote under the picture of Chesterton that makes it look like it's a summary of his opinion. It's NOT. That quote comes from the villain of the novel and is precisely the opposite of G.K.'s views. Silly Bartleby people. Bah!)

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