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Inv. #1023A. Five volumes. Chapman, George (Trans.) The Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts 1930-31, Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, England. "His Iliads and Odysses, Translated according to the Greeke by George Chapman." Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell. Five Volumes. Vol. 1 and 2, The Iliad; Vol.3 and 4, The Odysses; Vol.5, Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise; His Hymns and Epigrams. Woodcut frontispiece portraits of Homer and woodcut title-page borders in the first and fifth volumes, woodcut dedication page, forty-eight full-page woodcut illustrations (one preceding each book of The Iliad and The Odyssey), woodcut section title-border for "Achilles' Shield," all by John Farleigh. Original publisher's binding of one-half crushed red Levant morocco over tan buckram boards, gilt lettering on spines, uncut edges. Number 360 of 450 numbered copies. An excellent set of this marvelous production from the premier publisher of fine books. ; Woodcuts; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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Issues raised by patients in survey
Below are comments made by patients, highlighting areas they feel the practice could improve it's service. The discussion of these took place in our group meeting and the outcome is available on the survey results tab above.
Appointments have to be booked three weeks in advance but if they are all taken (especially if you want to see a particular doctor) you have to wait until the next block of appointments are reloaded- why are they not done on a rolling basis? Same day appointments are a nightmare, the phones are always engaged and when you do get through all the appointments are gone. I have had to turn up physically very early in order to try and get an appointments - this is not practical if you are dealing with elderly people or if you have young children. Please think of something to improve the system.
From my answers it will be obvious that in all the years that I have been a patient ( twenty years) I have had excellent treatment from doctors, nurses and reception staff.
In other countries they separate the sick from the well. Over the last few years, things are improving.
Getting an appointment with the GP and not having to wait three weeks.
More ease for booking appointments punctually of appointments. Keep a chair free for the BP machine in waiting room and make patients aware of the machine.
Making an appointment with a chosen doctor is difficult and could be improved however the staff are all great.
Make it possible to see the same doctor - continuity of care
Nursing team, more resourceful, more support
Better queuing on the phone and less waiting time for appointment availability.
Annual health checks are provided at other surgeries but not here. Why?
Long wait at 8.30am for same day visit to see a doctor.
It Is difficult to build a relationship with a doctor because having to wait a few weeks to see the same doctor is ridiculous.
Booking an appointment on the day is almost impossible. The wait till a date to a doctor is very long.
Larger notices about using mobile phones.
People using mobile phones in the waiting room is very annoying.
Request to speak to GP to be acknowledged.
Telephone booking.
I suffer from white coat syndrome and this is the only practice I have felt comfortable at.
Appointment booking online.
Very happy with the service both doctors and receptionists provide
Telephone system
trying to get an appointment in the morning is difficult, even with the new number.Also, elderly people may not be able to queue in the cold in the morning.
New number is never answered.
Telephone system at 8.30am
Very satisfied
More information needs to be provided about how to contact a doctor on the phone etc..
Getting appointments
Prescription should be processed quicker.
new number is never answered.
Appointments system.
Appointments system.
Contacting the District Nurses is very difficult. They do not always wash their hands on visits and they should.
The new Phone number is always engaged.
Booking an advance appointment is not easy as many are saved for same day emergencies.
Improve prescription service. Patients should not have to come into surgery twice to collect - phone or email.
No answer or information on queue times on new phone number.
Appointments - I had to try for three days to get an appointment.
Customer service of staff.
More appointments available outside of normal working hours.
Appointment system at 8.30am
Appointment system
Waiting time for appointment with doctor.
The practice is very heavily oversubscribed, so the 'same day' appointment system does not always leave you with the Doctor of your choice. If it were possible to make an appointment with a particular doctor at a sooner time this would be helpful.
Make next day appointments available.
Very pleased with the service.
Prescriptions are never ready.
Hardly ever use the practice so everything is satisfactory for my needs.
Answer the phone, pre-bookable appointments are too far ahead.
Telephone contact; being on hold (as number 1 in the queue) for 15 minutes.
Great staff!
Firstly, the waiting time for an appointment is terrible. Doctors can run over an hour making you wait for you allocated appointment time. Secondly, booking an appointment is frustrating.
Appointments. This 8.30 system is hopeless.
Phone lines are always engaged at 8.30am. It is frustrating after waiting twenty to thirty minutes the appointments are all gone. There must be another option.
Appointments system, Would it be possible for two or more people to do the appointments system in the morning. It is very very expensive to hang on for so long.
More appointments and Doctors.
A pool of appointments so you can see the doctor sooner rather than later. It's always 1-3 weeks.
Often put on hold whilst ringing for a long time. Also, 0844 number is very expensive from mobile.
Appointment system
Difficult to get through on the phones, but once through an excellent service is provided.
Booking appointments in person for next 2/3 days.
Booking appointments. If people do not show for appointments, blacklist them.
Appointment times available via the phone in the morning really needs to be improved.
Phoning for same day appointments, waiting for twenty minutes and not receiving one.
Appointment system is very very poor.
Making appointments; the system is greatly overloaded. It is very difficult to get through, when you do, you are put on hold and then all the appointments are gone i.e. on 13/2/2013 I phoned at 4.10pm and was put on hold for 18 minutes. This is unacceptable and inefficient.
Getting appointments seriously lets this practice down.


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A lot of people have the mistaken notion that cars shouldn't be used to tow.
Here's the basic idea…
|Image via SouthBayRiders.com
This is a Smart car towing a KTM XCR-W. This guy claimed to get 33 mpg while towing at an average speed of 65-70. The trailer looks to be an inexpensive, garden variety flatbed, such as those you can buy almost anywhere.
This picture illustrates (rather effectively) that a car can tow a motorcycle and trailer.
To be sure, the total weight here is less than 1000 lbs.
I called and asked the following question to a local Toyota dealer, a hitch installation company, and a trailer sales company:
Can I safely trailer two lightweight motorcycles behind a Toyota Camry?
In all three cases, the vagueness of their answers frustrated me. I got the impression they wanted minimal responsibility in determining what I should or shouldn't tow. They basically said, "As long as you don't exceed the tow rating on the vehicle or the hitch, you should be fine…in theory." (In fact, the Toyota dealer I contacted neither sells nor installs aftermarket hitches.)
After considerable research online (where confusion and contradiction reigned supreme), I dragged out my vehicle's owners manual, flipped to the index, and located the page on Trailer Towing.
Here's what I figured out for my Camry:
(Disclaimer–read your own manual, and do your own math, before you tow.)
1) For your safety and the safety of others, you must not overload your vehicle or trailer.
2) Before towing, make sure the total trailer weight, gross vehicle weight, and trailer tongue load are all within the limits.
Total Trailer Weight (trailer weight plus its cargo load) must not exceed 2,000 lbs.
- So this means my Camry's towing capacity (aka tow rating) is 2,000 lbs.
- I can tow 2,000 lbs of Total Trailer Weight behind the car
- The trailer has its own separate axle and weight limits, which have nothing to do with how much the car can pull. Trailers have their own certification label and specs. This is the least of my concerns since I know the trailer won't collapse under the weight of my 2 dirt bikes.
- For motorcycle hauling, calculating gross trailer weight is simple because you're dealing with known weights:
- Weight of the Trailer
- Weight of the Bikes
|Lightweight motorcycle trailer
Suzuki dr-z400
Honda Xr650L
|Total Trailer Weight
|1,013 (well under Camry's Tow Rating)
- My GVWR from certification label on the doorjamb: 4,180 lbs.
- The total weight of the loaded car has to stay under this.
- Has nothing to do with the weight of the trailer.
- 4,180 minus 3,120 (Camry's curb weight) leaves 1,060 lbs available for people, luggage, fuel, hitch, tongue weight.
- Safe towing and stopping requires GVW stays below GVWR.
|2 adult men (180 x2)
|All luggage and gear (est)
|400 <–stay below
|18.5 Gallons Gas @ 8 lbs each
|Hitch – Draw-Tite Class 1
|Trailer tongue load (see below)
|Added Vehicle Weight
|Curb Weight
|4,161 (leaving 19 lbs to spare)
- The hitch will be rated for this load
- Distribute bikes on trailer so that 9-11% of total trailer weight is loaded onto the hitch via the trailer's tonue. (I'll use the bathroom scale technique)
- Never load more weight behind the trailer's axles than in front. 40% in rear; 60% in front.
- Main tongue weight issues: too little downward pressure on the hitch can lead to trailer sway; too much can lead to steering problems.
|Bob's Total Trailer Weight
|Approximately 10% on Tongue
|Load distribution (bikes only=664 lbs)
|398 front (60%); 266 back (40%)
Side note: A transmission cooler may be a smart idea, but since it doesn't seem to be a safety issue (just an out of pocket expense if the transmission burns up), it's the least of my concerns, especially considering my total trailer weight will only be about half of the Camry's maximum tow limit of 2,000 lbs. Keeping well under the limits is how I prefer to roll.
I had considered adding several other links I found on the internet, but since they generally just added a bunch of extra complication and vernacular, I decided to leave that out. In the end, I found my owner's manual explained everything I needed to know.
I will add this though…
My plan is to have U-Haul install the hitch on my car, because instead of buying a trailer (which I'll then just have to store at home), I'll simply rent a lightweight trailer whenever I need to, which, in reality, will be infrequently. Even at $20 per day rental fees, I can rent a trailer once a month for several years before matching the price of buying my own.
Men tend to buy things they don't really need, such as chain saws, lawn tillers, trailers, etc.
Last note, I spent way too long on this post, and blew a weeks worth of other topics to make sure I understood everything correctly. I nearly said to hell with it, but I'm glad I didn't. I needed to get a solid handle on the math of towing motorcycles with a car. If I discover anything else important, I'll come back and update.


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In the stubborn opacity of Chinese communist politics there are few ways for people to know what is going on at the highest levels of power. But for decades, there has been a pretty reliable bellwether: the front page of the newspaper.
This principle was demonstrated in a starker way than usual recently, when the Beijing Daily on March 31 declared that "the general secretary should not be the highest authority over the party's Central Committee," and that "collective leadership should be emphasized."
At the time, Hu Jintao, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, was in Cambodia.
Then, four days later, it reversed itself (Hu had by that time returned). The article about "collective leadership" was deleted from the website, and a prominent editorial was run instead, saying: "Keep firmly in mind the general secretary's earnest instructions." This phrase, and "Let's live up to the general secretary's earnest instructions" appeared four times in the short 1,000-character piece.
Chinese analysts believe these competing editorials, laying down various political lines, are a way of gauging elite struggle inside the Party's top circles of power. Since Wang Lijun, the police chief of Chongqing, attempted to defect at a U.S. Consulate in February, and his boss Bo Xilai was sacked, the struggle between opposing factions in the Party has intensified.
The March 31 Beijing Daily article was written by Wang Yunsheng, an associate professor in the School of Marxism Studies of the Renmin University of China. It was titled "When Did Our Party Start to Call Its Supreme Leader 'General Secretary'?"
In the last portion of the article, Wang said, "Our Party always emphasizes and implements collective leadership. Although the general secretary is the highest leadership position in the Party, it is not the highest leadership entity."
Wang cited the Party's constitution to bolster his point. His editorial argued that, actually, the role of the general secretary is merely "to preside over the daily work of the secretariat and convene meetings inside the Party."
The fact that Beijing Daily published the piece is significant, analysts think. The Party chief of Beijing is Liu Qi, a member of former leader Jiang Zemin's faction. Jiang—now apparently on his deathbed—was the champion of Bo Xilai, the now ousted former Party chief of Chongqing, and Zhou Yongkang, the security czar. Analysts think that Liu Qi may have been trying to offer some rearguard ideological support to Zhou through the well-timed editorial.
Liu Qi's support for Jiang Zemin is shown most prominently in his efforts at persecuting practitioners of Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual practice. Jiang launched the campaign in 1999, and promoted cadres, like Bo Xilai and Zhou Yongkang, who would carry it out most reliably. He inserted such officials into the Politburo Standing Committee to maintain the campaign and prevent his legacy—the political mobilization movement—from being overturned.
Click this tag or www.ept.ms/ccp-crisis to read about the most recent developments in the ongoing power struggle within the Chinese communist regime. Intra-CCP politics are a challenge to make sense of, even for veteran China watchers. Here we attempt to provide readers with the necessary context to understand the situation. Get the RSS feed. Get the Timeline of Events. Who are the Major Players?
Readers of news on the Chinese Internet noted closely the dueling and contradictory editorials. "I am so confused that my head feels dizzy," one reader wrote on Sina Weibo.
Wang Xinfeng, a blogger, wrote: "These articles help me realize the so-called rumors about infighting are actually very true."
Another netizen simply wrote: "A tornado is coming."
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Delicious Gen Y Cheating
Home baking has been the latest hit craze for a while. I'm no exception – most of my friends have been force fed my sweet treats at some point or another. My russian fudge making ability even features on my CV (and got me my first job out of university). But there is a big difference between home baking now, and home baking in my grandmothers day. It all comes down to one word; practice.
My grandmother would have had a few core recipes which she used over and over again. Mastering then modifying each one. But me and the rest of Gen Y have a more scatter-gun effect, we want to make all the things. So although Gen Y makes a huge variation of tasty treats, sometimes our results can be unpredicted.
Which is why I am so very glad that companies are starting to make cheating so easy. My latest discovery is Sainsburys crusty bread mix for less than 70p. Its not full of E numbers and the like, in fact, all that is in it is wheat flour, sugar, salt and yeast. I know some of you will be rolling your eyes, because I could have combined those myself. My defence: most baking muck ups occur through the almost infinite variations that can be made – seriously there are over 3million results for 'basic bread recipe'.
So I went ahead and made the glorious crusty bread. It had all the good feeling of home baking, but with an almost guaranteed result. Check it out below, I had it with marinated eggplant, peas, goats cheese and rocket. Yum.


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Episode 108: Youmacon, Podcast Detroit Shows, Live Broadcast from Blackfinn
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So we got brave and dove through the traffic and chaos of Arts, Beats and Eats to get to the back room of the Blackfinn for episode 108 of our weekly live podcast. We were joined by Morgan, the organizer of Youmacon, as well as a few of our fellow Podcast Detroit shows to talk about what they have going on, what their shows are like, and why you may want to check them out as well…
Everything you want to know about Youmacon can be found at www.Youmacon.com.
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Mums and dads help to shape National Children's Digital Health Collaborative
Forging ahead with its mission to help make Australia the best place in the world to raise healthy children, and to be raised, the National Children's Digital Health Collaborative this month held a very successful first workshop for consumer representatives from across the nation.
Patients, carers and families are at the heart of the Collaborative's exploration of how digital health technology can improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people living in Australia.
Held in Sydney on 18 June, the workshop gave the Collaborative's consumer representatives the opportunity to share their stories and experiences and to gain a deeper understanding of their important role in the Collaborative.
National Children's Digital Health Collaborative consumer representatives. L-R: Julie Whitlock, Katie Viviers, Tere Dawson (Facilitator), Jocelyn Neumueller, Alexandra Martiniuk, Darrin Smith, Tania Harris, Harry Iles-Mann, Shantelle Rennie, David Bunker.
"This is such an exciting initiative, and I'm thrilled to be able to contribute my thoughts and ideas to the design of digital solutions and tools that will ultimately impact on my child's development throughout his life," said Shantelle Rennie, a first-time mother of three-month-old Harrison, from East Gosford in NSW. "I am all for anything that makes it easier to keep track of this important information about my child's health and wellbeing."
Further workshops will be held in coming months to on-board more consumer representatives, with four consumer representatives assigned to each of Collaborative's governance committee and advisory groups.
Their involvement is helping to ensure the voice of the consumer is central in the design of all of the Collaborative's digital health initiatives, alongside the voice of clinicians and other key stakeholders.
The role of the Collaborative consumer representatives is to:
- Add value through representing and promoting consumer views, ideas, suggestions and concerns on antenatal care and children and young people's health and wellbeing
- Promote, encourage and support consumer participation at all levels of the Collaborative
- Review and help to identify consumer requirements for the Collaborative's initiatives
- Ensure that the voice of consumers is included in the design of the Collaborative's initiatives, and supporting co-design between consumers and clinicians
Led by NSW Health in partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency, the Collaborative is currently in a Discovery phase, engaging with clinicians, nurses and IT staff in the pilot locations to learn about the current work practices, the people involved and the systems used.
Its first initiative, the Child Digital Health Record, which is being led by NSW Health in partnership with Victoria, identified pilot sites and starting engagements in Blacktown, Mount Druitt, Doonside, Dubbo and The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
The second initiative, the Digital Pregnancy Health Record, will commence from July at Brisbane's Mater Hospital and is being led by Queensland Health in partnership with South Australia.


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Nuclear Deterrence
What is Nuclear Deterrence?
The strategic concept of deterrence aims to prevent war. It is the justification virtually every nuclear state uses for maintaining nuclear arsenals, including the UK.
The concept of nuclear deterrence follows the rationale of the 'first user' principle: states reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in self-defence against an armed attack threatening their vital security interests.
Possession of nuclear weapons could be seen as the ultimate bargaining tool in international diplomacy, instantly giving any nuclear state a seat at the top table.
The Coalition government has committed to maintaining Trident, the UK's submarine-based nuclear deterrent. The Royal Navy operates 58 nuclear-armed Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles and up to 160 nuclear warheads on four Vanguard-class submarines, one of which is always on patrol.
The Foreign Secretary confirmed in May 2010 that the UK would hold in its stockpile a maximum of 225 nuclear warheads; this includes 160 operationally available warheads, plus additional warheads needed to allow for routine processing, maintenance and logistic management.
In March 2012 the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, confirmed that HMS Vengeance, one of the Royal Navy's nuclear deterrent submarines, would undergo a £350m upgrade, expected to take three-and-a-half- years. HMS Vengeance is the last of the four ballistic submarines to undergo a complete overhaul and refuel.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee authorised a British nuclear weapons programme in 1947, two years after the USA dropped its first atomic bombs on Japan.
Already in 1945, a general purpose Atomic Energy Research Establishment had been set up at Harwell and in early 1946 a production facility based at Risley was established. In June 1947, Windscale on the Cumbrian coast was named as a safe site for the production of plutonium.
On October 3 1952, the UK conducted its first successful nuclear test, in the Monte Bello Islands off the north-west coast of Australia - and Britain became a nuclear power. The Blue Danube air-delivered bomb entered service in 1953.
A 1958 agreement gave the UK access to American nuclear weapons design information, and in 1962 the US agreed to provide information about its submarine-launched missile system, Polaris. The first Polaris submarine, HMS Resolution, went to sea in 1968. Polaris was later modified in the early 1970s to a uniquely British system known as Chevaline.
In 1980, the Thatcher Government announced plans to purchase the new US Trident missile system, to replace Polaris. The final replacement took place in 1996, and left the UK entirely dependent on the US for its nuclear submarine technology.
Labour announced plans in the 1998 Strategic Defence Review to scale down the UK's nuclear arsenal: to reduce the stockpile of warheads from a maximum of 300 to under 200 (along with 56 missile bodies). The last of the RAF's WE177 nuclear bombs were taken out of service in March that year.
In December 2006, the government proposed that after Trident expired in the 2020s, the number of nuclear warheads should be cut further from 200 to a maximum of 160.
Although the UK's nuclear arsenal guaranteed its continued global influence in the Cold War, it was the nuclear deterrence developed between the USA and the USSR - the belief that any attack would lead to massive nuclear retaliation and 'mutually assured destruction' - that maintained the temperature between the 1950s and 1990s. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 provided a stark example of both the precariousness and effectiveness of deterrence at the time.
Efforts were made during the 1960s and 1970s to reduce superpower nuclear arsenals and to prevent nuclear proliferation. 187 countries signed up to the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, including the five nuclear powers of the day: the USA, USSR, China, France and the UK. The Treaty aimed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology and to encourage peaceful nuclear co-operation.
However, a number of other states have developed nuclear weapons since the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, including India, Pakistan and Israel.
At a historic summit meeting of the UN Security Council in September 2009, significant steps were taken to reinvigorate the Non-Proliferation Treaty. At the meeting, presided over by President Barack Obama of the United States, 14 heads of state and government unanimously agreed to adopt Resolution 1887 - the UNSC's first comprehensive action on nuclear issues since the mid-1990's.
The Council called on all states to sign up to the NPT and to set "realistic goals" to strengthen, at the 2010 Review Conference, all three of the Treaty's pillars - disarmament of countries currently possessing nuclear weapons, non-proliferation to countries not yet in possession, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy for all.
It also called for all states to refrain from conducting nuclear test explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as possible. In addition, the Council urged the Conference on Disarmament to quickly negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissile materials for explosive devices.
Following difficult negotiations at the NPT Review Conference in May 2010, all of the states finally agreed on a series of action plans to revitalise the Treaty and increase efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Concern was also expressed at the 2010 Conference about the lack of progress made in the Middle East and it was decided that a conference should be convened in 2012 - to be attended by all States of the Middle East –"on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction."
Finland is to host the conference, scheduled for the end of 2012, but there have been reports that Israel remains reluctant to attend and suggestions that the conference could now be postponed until 2013.
The threat to humanity as a whole from nuclear weapons has led many to oppose them since their development.
In the UK, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament waged a long campaign that was most famously embodied in the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, which protested outside the RAF base chosen as a base for US ground-launched missiles from 1981 to 2000. From 1960 to 1989, the Labour Party was committed to unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Nonetheless, deterrence and Mutually Assured Destruction did prevent nuclear war between the USA and USSR, until the collapse of Communism.
Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of the nuclear threat has changed dramatically. The greatest nuclear fear today is that nuclear weapons find their way into the hands of terrorists or 'rogue states', either through autonomous programmes of development or technology passed on, particularly from the former Soviet Union or China.
A policy of deterrence is useless against terrorists, and is less useful against 'rogue states' such as Iran and North Korea, both of which are believed to possess nuclear weapons, because their motivations are not easily understood.
The UK maintains a sub-strategic 'tactical' nuclear capability: 'battlefield' nuclear weapons that are not part of a deterrent strategy. In the past, this role was performed by air-delivered WE177 bombs; today it is performed by Trident.
Although the Strategic Defence Review said the shift from WE177 and Polaris to Trident had reduced the UK's megatonnage of warheads by 70 per cent since the 1970s, Trident is a much more powerful weapon than its predecessors. It has a range of 4,600 miles (compared to 2,500 for Polaris and Chevaline), three times the targeting capability, permitting each missile to hit 48 targets.
When the government was drawing up plans to replace Trident in 2006, anti-nuclear campaigners and many in the Labour party argued Britain should abandon the weapons system altogether. They argued against replacing Trident on moral grounds, saying it would breach the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and they also questioned the cost - about £1 billion a year between 2012 and 2027. But the government insisted nuclear weapons were a vital part of Britain's defence.
This continues to be the view of the present Coalition government, although it has committed to a "value for money" review of the Trident programme to ensure it is maintained as cost-effectively as possible.
In May 2012, the MOD announced that it would continue to invest £1bn a year over the next five years on facilities at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in order to sustain its commitment to the nuclear deterrent.
Later that month the MOD also confirmed that it had awarded contracts worth £350m to UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines to replace the Vanguard Class submarines. The first Successor submarine is due to be delivered in 2028, and although a final decision on the design will not be made until 2016, the MOD said detailed work had to be undertaken now in order to ensure the new submarines would be "the most technologically advanced, to protect our national security."
However, the Government has also stressed that it will "press for continued progress on multilateral disarmament."
But the protestors remain as vociferous as ever, particularly in Scotland where anti-nuclear campaigners have called on the newly-elected SNP government to fulfil a manifesto pledge to press for the scrapping of nuclear missiles and a halt to their replacement.
The Trident II D5, currently in service, is supplied by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It is a three stage, solid-fuel missile, 13 metres long, more than two metres in diameter and weighs more than 60 tonnes. Each missile can carry up to 12 nuclear warheads and each Vanguard-class submarine can carry up to 16 missiles.
From 1994 the Royal Navy's Vanguard-class submarines, equipped with the Trident weapons system, succeeded the Polaris missile boats which had maintained a continuous strategic nuclear deterrent for the United Kingdom for almost 30 years.
The current Trident submarines are giant vessels, 150 metres in length and displacing 16,000 tonnes when submerged. In spite of their huge size, they are among the quietest submarines in the world and are extremely difficult to detect.
The submarines' nuclear reactors produce enough power to supply a small town and need to be refueled only after years of operation. The boats produce their own oxygen and fresh water and this enables them to remain at sea almost indefinitely. They can circumnavigate the world underwater if necessary, and patrols lasting several months are routine.
Source: Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)
"This Government is committed to maintaining a continuous submarine-based nuclear deterrent. The contracts announced today with BAE Systems, Babcock and Rolls-Royce symbolise an important step towards renewing our nation's nuclear deterrent into the 2060s."
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, commenting on the £350m worth of contracts awarded to UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines – May 2012
"Being a nuclear weapons state comes with the most solemn of responsibilities and that is why we must work together with our allies to make sure the secrets of these weapons stay safe and out of the hands of terrorists."
Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey – March 2012


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This Sept. 7, 2012 file photo shows Kanye West at the Alexander Wang collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. (Photo by Dario Cantatore/Invision/AP, File)
The Kanye-Obama Feud Continues
West also addresses Confederate flag controversy
By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff
There's little love lost between Kanye West and President Obama, and West has issued the latest salvo: In an interview with Hot 107.9 this morning, West said he felt used by the president and is basically over him, the Washington Times reports. "I'm not gonna mention him no more, I'm past that. That's out my thoughts. That's lowering my priority of thinking at this point," he said. How about the fact that Obama seemed pretty chummy with West while he was campaigning? "I just think that we're pop icons, and the president likes to use that type of thing just to be down," West explained.
"I don't care if someone's the president or not," he continued. "I care about thoughts and how you helping people and what you bring to the world." He also mentioned his controversial use of the Confederate flag, AllHipHop.com reports: "You don't ever know what I'm trying to do. Black people stopping other black people from getting checks. What black people don't know is that racism is something that white people don't even have to do anymore because we hate each other more than white people hate us. It's like a real estate on racism—it works on itself. People got bills. Don't nobody care about the Confederate flag on that type of level." It's been an eventful few days for West: Yesterday he lectured at Harvard. Really.


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Madeleine Albright once said, "Anybody who thinks the world would be a better place if run by women doesn't remember high school."
I think about that. I remember the power players in my own high school. And I think about Hillary Clinton and women voters.
Studies of adolescent female power reveal a world of alpha girls and beta girls. Women never forget which side of the social fault line on which they spent their formative years. Men, generally speaking, can't relate. Their social demarcations - less subtle, but likely not as lasting - tended toward wedgies and slamming people into lockers.
It is the alpha girls who rule fashion, determine dance steps, set the lexicon, assign seats in the cafeteria, and make the iron-fisted judgments about who is in and who is out. Certain alpha female chimpanzees maintain their dominance over their rivals by killing their young. High school girls just cause eating disorders.
The beta girls, by contrast an equally gross generalization, are accomplished. They get the grades. They excel in sports. They play instruments. They run the student council. They are known, but not revered.
Even if we reinvent ourselves in college, and then reinvent that reinvention as adults, I don't think any of us ever fully escapes the gravitational pull of our middle and high school years. The people you like now are very likely to be the same people you liked then.
All of which brings me back to Hillary Clinton.
Laura Sessions Stepp, who writes extensively about adolescents and families, wrote in a 2002 Washington Post article about "gamma girls." They are smart, accomplished, funny, friendly, so universally well-liked, that they transcend alpha and beta.
True, but I don't think the gammas are created whole. They came from the emotional ranks of alphas and betas, but just repackaged on the power of their intellectual and emotional intelligence.
I would say Hillary is a gamma, except for that part about being universally well liked. And there in lies the issue that her campaign doubtless finds maddening.
Is she the alpha girl who is winning just like she always did? Or is she the beta girl who, forgetting her place, wants to walk right past the cool kids table to sit in the most powerful chair on earth.
Either way, Hillary has a tough job dialing up just the right balance of toughness and femininity - so much so one assumes her speaking notes say: "sniffle here" ... "throw your head back and laugh easily here."
People don't hate Obama. They don't hate McCain. Opponents would simply rather they not be elected president.
What exactly did she do to arouse such emotions among the ranks of the female Hillary haters?
There are many interesting theories.
There is the argument that professional woman don't like her because no matter what they accomplished, she has accomplished more. This is a woman who was chosen to give the valedictory address at the Wellesley convocation. Not content to tell the assemblage to change the world and smell the roses, she polled the student body, solicited ideas and poems, beautifully captured the turmoil and hope of the times, got a standing ovation, and her speech was featured in Life Magazine. Top that, miss thing!
Older women - who, in fairness, are also among her strongest supporters - don't like her because she is too much like a man - willing to do what a girl's gotta do to get what she wants. If there is a collateral body count -- well, suck it up, wuss-boy.
Younger women don't like her because she is one of the over 50, empty nested, cohort of women prone to experiencing their own private summers who Tina Brown recently profiled in a Newsweek column. "Written on their forehead everyday," she wrote," is "Invisible Woman" ... women who "find themselves steadfastly dissed and ignored." To a certain generation, then, she's still not one of the cool kids.
Maybe I'm making too much of this. Maybe it's like Madonna said when Elliott Spitzer was chasing Martha Stewart through the underbrush. "There seems to be something about blond, powerful women that just pisses people off."
But I think I'm on to something.
Try this: Ask your friends who Hillary reminds them of among the girls in their high school. Almost everybody has an answer.


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New Delhi: Hockey India on Wednesday named an 18-member national women's squad for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games to be held in Gold Coast, Australia from April 4. The Indian team is grouped in Pool A along with Malaysia, Wales, England and South Africa. They will begin their campaign on April 5 against Wales. The 18-member squad will be captained by ace striker Rani while experienced goalkeeper Savita will shoulder the duties of vice-captain.
Savita makes a return to the team after being rested for the recently concluded tour of South Korea. Rajani Etimarpu is the reserve goalkeeper while the defence is packed with experience and grit in the form of Deepika, Sunita Lakra, Deep Grace Ekka, Gurjit Kaur and Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam.
Monika, Namita Toppo, Nikki Pradhan, Neha Goyal and Lilima Minz will form the midfield while Rani, Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navjot Kaur, Navneet Kaur and Poonam Rani, who returned to the squad during the South Korea tour, will form India's attack.
The Indian team is currently ranked No.10 in the world and are expected to face stiff competition from higher ranked teams such as World No.2 England, World No.4 New Zealand and World No.5 Australia.
However, India's chief coach Harendra Singh is confident that the team can cause huge upsets on the back of winning the five-match series in South Korea.
"We have played with the same set of players for a long period so the players have formed a great understanding between themselves which was evident during our 2017 Asia Cup triumph. The team also performed well in South Korea to beat a higher-ranked side and we will be looking to cause a few upsets and aim for the podium as the morale is high going into the prestigious Commonwealth Games," he said.
The coach also welcomed the inclusion of the experienced Savita, who is currently in Oman undergoing a goalkeeping coaching course.
"Savita is an integral part of the team and brings a lot of experience in goal for us. She has played over 200 matches for her country and has performed in crucial matches of big tournaments. Therefore, it is good to have her back in the team as she helps the defensive and offensive players as well by imparting her expertise," the Junior Men's World Cup-winning coach said.
India won the gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in England after defeating the hosts 3-2 in extra-time in the final. They took silver at the 2006 Commonwealth Games after losing to hosts Australia in the final.
However, the team has only managed to finish fifth in the 2010 and 2014 editions of the quadrennial tournament. But skipper Rani is confident that her team can repeat the feat of 2002 and 2006 in Australia.
"We go into the tournament in good form after winning the series in South Korea and while we have only finished fifth in the two previous occasions, this time we will look to finish on the podium as we have a great set of players with a mixture of experience and youth," the 23-year-old said.
"The team's hunger to win will certainly be a key factor in us performing well at the Games."
Goalkeepers: Savita (vice-captain), Rajani Etimarpu.
Defenders: Deepika, Sunita Lakra, Deep Grace Ekka, Gurjit Kaur, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam.
Midfielders: Monika, Namita Toppo, Nikki Pradhan, Neha Goyal, Lilima Minz.
Forwards: Rani (captain), Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navjot Kaur, Navneet Kaur, Poonam Rani.
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I saw this video by Jesse Woodrow and knew I needed to share this with you. We are seeing Biblical Prophecy coming to pass right before our eyes. These are the last days before the Lord comes for His Bride and brings His judgment upon the earth. You must run to Him before it is too late. The day is fast approaching and once it is over, your chance may be gone.
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Jun 16, 2017
Texas Songwriter Under Fire for Song About Missouri
"Traitor. Texas forever, bitch!" read a tweet from @txgirl696969 this past Friday, and that's one of the nicer responses Barton has received. He's also seen his previously ascending single drop off the charts when his album including "White River Hills" was released.
Barton is flummoxed by the situation. "Literally, all 97 songs I've ever written before were either about Texas or took place in Texas or were named after a city in Texas," he explained. "But it's like I cheated on my wife or something, writing about Missouri." Barton says he was touring through Missouri and Arkansas and simply thought the White River Hills area was beautiful and wanted to express it in song. He never expected his budding career to hit a brick wall because of it.
He's had bookings cancelled across Texas in the wake of the controversy. Someone even tore the "Don't Mess With Texas" sticker off his tour van. "Casey Donahew called and cursed me out," said Barton, shaking his head. "and Kevin Fowler pulled his tour bus up in front of my house and forced me to hand over all his CD's that I owned."
Apparently, Barton told us, there are only a certain number of acceptable locations in songs for artists of his ilk. Texas is always king. Oklahoma is fine sometimes. Louisiana will work for songs with zydeco instrumentation. Mexico, of course, is great. Nobody writes songs about Arkansas. Deviation from these unwritten rules leads to black-balling and questioning of loyalty.
At press time, Wells Barton was planning to re-release his album Stars and Bars and Cadillac Cars with "White River Hills" replaced by a new song, "Texas is My Only Girl," but it remains to be seen if too much damage has already been done.
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Hot Tubs Pipestone, MN Dealer Shares Three Helpful Tips for Social Wellness Month
New, Used Hot Tub, Portable Spa and Swimming Pool Dealer Serving Pipestone, MN Publishes Three Ways to Create a Healthier Lifestyle. Offers Free Portable Spa Test Soaks to Local Residents.
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"When looking for ways to live better and get healthy, we usually start with diet and exercise. These are in the forefront of everyone's mind and the obesity epidemic is a serious reminder of how important those two aspects of personal healthcare are," said Tom Junck president of Combined.
"Relationships are the focal point of social wellness month. This month is set aside to help people realize how important the people in our lives are to our mental and emotional well being," continued Junck. Here are three ways to create a healthier lifestyle with social wellness.
Smile, Laugh, and Talk – Laugh a lot. Being able to laugh at situations and get along well with others go hand in hand. Having a good outlook and laughing at our own downfalls, and finding the humorous side of other people's mistakes rather than getting upset helps lighten any bad situation, and is better for our health.
Don't be afraid to talk to strangers. While most of us have been taught that talking to strangers is bad, as adults, we sometimes take that to the limit and shy away from talking to anyone we do not know. That limits our ability to make new acquaintances, and it also makes daily living lonelier. Don't be afraid to smile at others, and strike up conversations when standing in lines, waiting for appointments or commuting on public transportation. It isn't necessary for us to push ourselves on others. If another person isn't open to talking, we can still smile and know we did what was best for us.
Reach Out and Touch Someone – This one might be best used with those that are closest to us, but make contact with others. Touching brings us closer and makes stronger bonds between people. Give loved ones hugs for no reason, hold hands with spouses and children when walking or even sitting on the couch and watching television. Too often we are isolated even in a busy house with lots of people all around.
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"To help people understand how hydrotherapy can help improve overall their health and well-being, we will provide free hot tub test soaks during the entire month," commented Junck. "We want to encourage local consumers to check out the benefits of a relaxing soak in an energy efficient hot tub for themselves."
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I first came across Hi-Res Music at CES 2002, where they were sharing a stand with AIX Records (see this page from the SMR Group's CES 2002 report). After explaining the concept of this website to him, their representative was more than happy to part with a few review samples including the disc that is the subject of this review.
Before we get to that, a few words about Hi-Res Music. The company was formed in the summer of 2001 by David Swartz, Michael Stern and Mark Waldrep of AIX Records with the aim of re-mastering original master tapes and releasing the very best recordings of the last 50 years in two-channel, high-resolution, DVD-Audio format. Notice I said "two-channel", for Hi-Res Audio eschews re-mastering in multi-channel, but adopts the "purist", highest quality, least tinkering with the original approach. I suppose you could think of it as Mark Waldrep's two-channel alter ego or the DVD-Audio equivalent of Classic Records 96/24 DVD-Video format re-masters (or "DADs" as Classic Records refers to them). Hi-Res Audio's website describes their process and it appears that no detail is spared in the production of these limited-run discs.
I really didn't know anything about any of the performers on the three discs I was given at CES, so I just picked one at random for this review. I was a little taken aback when I read the liner notes before listening to the disc. The Larry Goldings Trio is an "organ trio", with Larry Goldings on Hammond B-3 organ, Peter Bernstein on guitar and Bill Stewart on drums, cymbals and gongs. To your jazz-organ-neophyte reviewer, the Hammond organ conjures up visions of cheesy 'fifties TV shows, but a little research quickly changed that view. All three of these guys are very accomplished musicians in their own right: Goldings is currently touring with James Taylor and Nicholas Payton; Peter Bernstein has played with many top jazz artists including Lou Donaldson, Cecil Payne, Lee Konitz, Clifford Jordan, Melvin Rhyne, Joshua Redman and Junior Cook; and Bill Stewart has performed with the Pat Metheny trio, Maceo Parker, Joe Lovano, Joe Henderson, Micheal Brecker, Charlie Haden, James Brown, Lee Konitz, Jim Hall, James Moody.
Any misapprehensions that I had that this disc would not be my cup of tea were immediately dispelled when I hit the play button. From the very first snaps of the drum at the opening of the first track, 'Crawdaddy', it is clear that this disc is something special. "Laid back" is the description that first springs to mind about this track (and indeed the whole disc). 'Crawdaddy' sets the scene for the whole disc and its organ theme is one that will stay with you. The title track 'Moonbird' continues in the same vein but with the guitar taking the lead first, followed by the organ. This track is a little more upbeat than the first, but still very much in the mellow mould. The third track, Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock', features some interesting cymbal and gong work from Bill Stewart, and it comes over crisp and well-defined – no sizzle or fizz – and it is not overpowered by the guitar or organ. 'Christine' has some interesting changes in tempo to keep the listener drawn in. More great cymbal work in one of my favourite tracks from the disc 'Empty Oceans', again no splashy artefacts (pardon the pun), even during the crescendo passages. Track 6, 'Xoloft', picks up the tempo a little and the drum solo really has punch. There is another memorable theme and some great jazz guitar work from Peter Bernstein in 'Comfort Zone'. The final track on the disc, 'I Think it's Going to Rain Today' rounds out the disc nicely and the theme on the guitar is silky smooth.
This disc receives very high marks in the fidelity category. Hi-Res Music certainly seems to have lived up to their charter. The MLP track has a real "in your room" presence, despite being only two channel. The instruments blend together perfectly, obviously in large part due to the skill of the performers, but the recording and mastering have not spoiled the cohesion. The front image holds up pretty well even when the listener moves off-axis. The MLP track also lends itself well to some surround processing – (purists look away) switching my MC-12 out of analogue bypass mode and into Music Surround mode (a variation of Lexicon's proprietary Logic 7 algorithm), yielded very pleasing results. I could hear no difference between the MLP track in DVD-Audio mode and the 24/96 PCM track in DVD-Video mode which is just as well as they are the same track (the DVD-Audio track is just compressed into MLP format). My DVD-Video player will pass a 96kHz PCM track via its digital output so I was able to listen to the PCM track at its full resolution (ie without downsampling to 48kHz). Again, in straight two channel mode the resolution is very impressive. Applying some Lexicon processing is a little easier on the PCM track. As well as Music Surround, I also experimented with the new Nightclub mode in v2.0 of the MC-12 software and it works very well on this kind of material – all I needed was cigarette smoke and alcohol to complete the picture. This album was originally released on CD by Palmetto Records in 1999, but as I do not have a copy, I was unable to compare the DVD-A version to the CD.
If you are looking for a raft of extra features you will be a little disappointed by this disc, but, to be fair to Hi-Res, stuffing a disc full of extras does not really fit with the stripped bare, two channel, approach to their releases. The extras are limited to reproductions of the original album art and some background information about Hi-Res.
All in all, this is a thoroughly enjoyable disc, especially for those two-channel purists who cannot just yet bring themselves to indulge in multichannel audio. It just shows the fantastic results that can be achieved by taking a great recording and exercising great care in the remastering process.


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