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This week saw the most recent ballistic missile test on the Korean peninsula. We outline below four key questions about what happened, why it matters, how the US will respond, and what happens next. The North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programmes highlight the limits of coercive diplomacy and raise the possibility that the US President Donald Trump might be forced, unless (and even if) he tries to reinvigorate negotiations, to accept a nuclear deterrence relationship with North Korea, alongside a strategy of containment and covert action.
What happened?
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea) tested a ballistic missile in the early hours of Tuesday morning, which reportedly travelled a distance of nearly 600 miles in about thirty-seven minutes. Together with the missile's lofted trajectory of 1,700 miles, this performance has prompted experts to claim the test as a significant development in the North Korean ballistic missile programme, representing a capability at or near intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) range, potentially threatening as far as Alaska.
Why does it matter?
North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles for decades. It has also developed and tested nuclear devices since 2006. Events this week do not mean that North Korea has suddenly developed a deliverable nuclear deterrent: experts believe that North Korea already has a small number of nuclear warheads and the means to launch them into the Republic of Korea ('South Korea') or even Japan. The reason this week's test was significant is that it implies a significant step change in the range of North Korea's nuclear deterrent and its ability to threaten the United States directly.
Development of such a capability does not, of course, signal an intention to use it. In fact, the most obvious strategic justification for long-standing North Korean efforts to acquire a nuclear deterrent is that this capability would increase the security of the regime by deterring US military action against it. The plausibility of this argument is implicit in most of this week's coverage of US President Donald Trump's limited range of options for the 'pretty severe things' his administration is contemplating in response to the latest test. Most commentators agree that the risks of preventive military strikes are already too great, because of North Korea's current ability to deliver nuclear, biological, chemical or simply massive conventional counter-strikes against South Korea and Japan.
Put simply, North Korean thinking is that the stronger its deterrent, the less likely the Kim dynasty will be to follow the Hussein or Gaddafi dynasties into the dustbin of dictatorship history. It's not difficult to see why this is a persuasive argument in Pyongyang. As the then US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in October 2016, denuclearization is 'probably a lost cause' as North Korea sees its nuclear deterrent as its 'ticket to survival.'
If the North Korean nuclear programme is purely defensive, you might argue, what's the problem? Optimists about nuclear proliferation have made similar arguments in the past, pointing to the unprecedented period of relative peace between great powers in the nuclear era. In contrast, more pessimistic voices highlight the outsized risks of nuclear proliferation, especially in the case of smaller, poorer regimes of questionable stability and technical competence in safeguarding their respective nuclear arsenals from accidental or unauthorised use. For example, has Kim, fearing a pre-emptive US strike, delegated responsibility to more junior commanders to use existing biological, chemical or nuclear weapons to retaliate against South Korea? We don't know, but this possibility increases the escalatory risks of any potential US preventive strike.
Aside from the risks of nuclear accident or spiral of escalatory conflict, a North Korean nuclear capability to attack the continental US could reduce the credibility of its nuclear umbrella protection of allies like South Korea and Japan. Might this spark a regional arms race, encouraging South Korea and Japan to develop their own respective nuclear deterrents? If it does not, Kim Jong-un might feel emboldened to take more provocative or adventurist actions, e.g. further moves against any perceived rivals or enemies abroad, like the recent assassination, using a nerve agent, of Kim's half-brother in Malaysia. North Korea already acts like a pariah state, but its acquisition of a deterrent against the US might encourage it to act even more provocatively.
This week's missile test does not mean that North Korea possesses such a capability today. It is probably several years away from being able to launch a nuclear-armed ICBM attack on the US at any scale, but its rapid recent and likely future progress suggest that it will eventually develop this capability, absent a fundamental shift in underlying factors – not least on-going US-led efforts to counter this programme.
How will the US respond?
North Korea's very pursuit of a deterrent against US military action has sparked deliberations in Washington about whether preventive strikes might be feasible. The reason for this is simple: successive US administrations have expressed firm commitment to a denuclearized Korean peninsula and have repeatedly stated the unacceptability of a North Korean nuclear deterrent that threatens the United States.
The US has long pursued five parallel lines of policy towards North Korea:
- The large and long-standing US military commitment to South Korea and Japan, including a recent enhancement of South Korean missile defences with the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Aerial Defense (THAAD) system. THAAD is not uncontroversial: South Korean President Moon Jae-in has temporarily delayed its deployment amidst domestic concerns, whilst China and Russia fear THAAD's implications for their own nuclear-armed missiles.
- Over 25 tortuous years of post-Cold War US-North Korea diplomacy. Various inducements, including food and economic assistance, have been offered to North Korea in return for abandonment or at least suspension of its nuclear and missile programmes. These talks require the US to collaborate closely with its allies – most systematically as part of the 2003-09 six-party talks (between the US, North Korea, South Korea, China and Japan) – but have been marred by mistrust and bad faith. For example, President Obama tried to broker a deal for a North Korean test moratorium in February 2012, just two months after Kim Jong-un assumed office, only for the deal to be wrecked by a North Korean satellite launch the following April.
- In the absence of diplomatic progress, the US leads international efforts to (patchily) implement economic sanctions on North Korea, but progressive advances of North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programmes underline the limitations of this coercive diplomacy. As part of this and the broader diplomatic process, the US has tried repeatedly to encourage China to intervene more effectively to change Kim's course of action, assuming that China has greater influence over the regime, if only it were willing to use it.
- Since at least the second term of the Obama administration, the US has reportedly pursued a 'left of launch' cyber programme to disrupt North Korean ballistic missile tests, to say nothing of the possibility of other, still-as-yet unreported covert activities against the regime.
- The US has long invested in national missile defence, developing a controversial (because very expensive and of currently questionable efficacy) programme of interceptor missiles.
This patchwork of overlapping measures has not prevented continued development of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. A former US under secretary of state for arms control, Robert Joseph, wrote earlier this week about continuities in North Korea policy across the three most recent US administrations: whilst 'their rhetoric has differed markedly, all three presidents have accepted the same basic assumptions and employed the same economic and diplomatic tools with the same results.' What then are President Trump's options? His national security apparatus is reportedly considering a range of possible responses, including last-resort military action. The problem, as Ankit Panda and Vipin Narang wrote yesterday, is that the 'window for thinking about disarming North Korea by force without guaranteeing millions of fatalities has probably long closed.'
A preventive strike should be rejected because of the potential for escalation and massive casualties. Mr Trump is therefore left with various options that resemble amplified versions of his predecessors' diplomatic strategies, commencing with Trump's first six months spent in conversations about North Korea with South Korea, Japan and China. Now, like Mr Obama in 2009, Trump has witnessed a fresh North Korean missile test early in his presidency. The administration should respond by continuing to improve defensive and deterrent responses to North Korea's nuclear arsenal, as well as exploring options for more vigorous covert action to undermine North Korean weapons programmes.
Mr Trump should also commit fully to a fresh exploration of whether negotiations could be resumed along the lines of the six-party talks. He is likely to find a more willing partner in newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in than any counterpart Mr Obama had in Seoul. This changed dynamic could be important, but there are good reasons to be sceptical about the prospects for successful diplomacy, including genuine doubt about North Korean good faith and whether there is an agreement to be negotiated that would be acceptable to both Mr Trump and Kim Jong-un.
North Korea appears determined to retain its status as a nuclear-weapons state, so much so that it wrote its nuclear status into the North Korean constitution in 2012. US insistence on a North Korean commitment to denuclearization before negotiations restart is therefore likely to guarantee that talks won't happen. If Mr Trump were to waive this precondition, there is still the issue of the price of any deal – a combination of economic assistance, security guarantees, improved political and trade relations, even a formal peace treaty – that would persuade North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile tests. Could Mr Trump make such a deal? Would he even want to? He would encounter strong domestic political resistance, but as Leon Sigal noted earlier this year, the longer the US delays new talks, 'the greater the North's bargaining leverage will be' – a point underlined by this week's missile test.
Shifting gears on denuclearization, could the US accept some form of nuclear deterrence relationship with North Korea? The two states have sustained a relationship of conventional deterrence since 1953, and North Korea's first nuclear test was in 2006, so this provides some evidence that North Korea is amenable to the logic of rational deterrence. However, this may be a concession too far for Mr Trump, who would risk the political legacy of being the president who let North Korea finally develop a weapon capable of threatening the US. A president rhetorically committed to 'so much winning, you'll get tired of winning' is unlikely to warm to a policy easily depicted as losing.
Apart from political feasibility, there are legitimate doubts about whether a nuclear deterrence relationship with North Korea is a desirable outcome for America and the wider world. Although there is an argument that North Korea has been a more rational actor than many give it credit for, the Kim regime is also aggressive, insular and paranoid. Adding nuclear-armed ICBMs to the mix is a recipe for severe concern, whether regarding deliberate actions, nuclear accidents or miscalculation. Surely no-one is keen to replay the Cuban Missile Crisis, casting Trump and Kim as Kennedy and Khruschev?
The problem is that there may not be much of a choice. President Obama's approach of coercive diplomacy and covert action – sanctions and sabotage – probably slowed the rate of North Korea's progress, but reducing the speed of progress is not an effective curb on future development. Of course, Mr Trump should intensify these efforts. He should also explore new ways to counter the North Korean regime's information war on its own people. But sanctions, information operations and covert action are unlikely to bring about swift regime change.
The North Korean regime has demonstrated considerable resilience. It is unwise to bet on the Kim regime imploding under the weight of its own pathologies any time soon. If Mr Trump fails to restart fresh negotiations and secure a test suspension, it is only a matter of time before North Korea crosses the red line of developing a reliable capability to threaten the continental United States with nuclear attack. The cost of intervening militarily is already too high. The price and feasibility of a deal are unknowable without renewed talks, but the diplomatic well has been poisoned by the failure of previous negotiations. In the meantime, containment and deterrence are Mr Trump's only options.
Who knows what comes next?
As the late Kenneth Waltz once argued, 'no country will press a nuclear nation to the point of decisive defeat. In the desperation of defeat, desperate measures may be taken, and the last thing anyone wants to do is to make a nuclear nation desperate.' Assuming that North Korea has a survivable second-strike capability – and it would be supremely reckless not to assume this – the risk of attacking North Korean nuclear and missile sites is too great to contemplate, given the possibility of retaliatory strikes against South Korea and Japan, bringing the loss of hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives. As an aside, it is also worth pausing to consider how plausible it is to imagine that the US could commence serious attack planning and preparations, necessarily in concert with its South Korean and Japanese allies, without indicators and warnings becoming discernible to North Korea, either through its own intelligence gathering or a third-party tip-off. If Kim were to perceive any US military preparations in the region as a prelude to a serious attack on his regime, he may pre-empt such an attack by launching a major strike against South Korea and Japan.
Mr Trump might gamble, of course, that the appearance of credible preparations for a military strike might expedite more diplomatic urgency in Beijing, fearing the consequences of regime collapse in Pyongyang. Intensified pressure on the Kim regime might bring it back to the negotiating table, but the risk of miscalculation and miscommunication here is considerable. It would be better for Mr Trump to pursue a less coercive approach to the issue of talks, but even here there could be no guarantee that Kim would then negotiate in good faith. Moreover, even if Kim could be coerced or persuaded into good faith negotiations, his freedom of action may be constrained by domestic factors. Could the US and China offer Kim enough inducements to make him seriously consider a test moratorium, still less a roll-back, of North Korea's nuclear capabilities? Much would likely depend on the reliability of Kim's hold on power in the event of such a loss of face in his backing away from North Korea's proud, constitutionally-mandated nuclear status. In extremis, might North Korean hard-liners execute a coup d'etat if they perceived Kim to be losing his nerve and capitulating to America?
Mr Trump has plenty of options at the margins: improving defensive and deterrent measures; working to enhance the effectiveness of sanctions; further investment in US national missile defence capabilities; and possibly even intercepting future North Korean missile tests. But these incremental steps would only delay and increase the costs of North Korean nuclear and missile programmes: development and testing would doubtless continue, bringing ever closer the prospect of a reliable, nuclear-armed ICBM deterrent targeting the continent US. The strategic and political unacceptability of such an outcome is what motivates calls for a preventive military response, as advocated recently by US Senator John McCain. Even if North Korea's biological, chemical and nuclear munitions were insufficiently hidden or protected by the regime, it surely cannot be a high confidence assessment that a US preventive strike would eliminate the possibility of a survivable, second-strike capability. In this context, a preventive strike should be regarded as an unacceptably bad choice.
Mr Trump might fail to find the basis for renewed negotiations with Kim Jong-un. In fact, he may not even try particularly hard to find it. He will probably opt for a tougher, less 'patient' iteration of Mr Obama's sanctions and sabotage. Such a strategy would essentially guarantee that North Korea will further improve its nuclear and missile programmes throughout Mr Trump's presidency. With preventive action too costly and negotiations at an impasse, Mr Trump is left with the tripartite approach of containment, nuclear deterrence, and covert action to slow North Korean programmes and try to accelerate regime change. This is far from an ideal situation, but it is where we now are. For all the understandable focus on the Russia question, it is how Mr Trump handles North Korea that will be the most immediately consequential and defining foreign policy issue of his administration.


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And so what began with such thrill and commotion in the Trent Bridge sunshine six weeks ago ended with a farcical finale in The Oval's autumnal evening light.
That rollercoaster first Test apart, this has been an Ashes series lit up by irregular explosions of great drama rather than relentless theatre: Friday afternoon at Lord's, the final lunchtime in Manchester, Sunday evenings in Durham and south London. In that, it reflects the intrinsic nature of much Test cricket. The delights, when they come, are all the more dramatic for the necessary grind on either side.
In Ian Bell we have seen an England batsman who dominated with delicate touch throughout. Australia paceman Ryan Harris threatened in every one of the four Tests he played after missing the first.
The other outstanding performers, much like the overall narrative, have sparkled more sporadically - England's James Anderson with 10 wickets in Nottingham and then just seven more across the next six innings; Australia captain Michael Clarke, that brilliant 187 at Old Trafford but just 194 more runs at an average of 21 in his other nine knocks; Stuart Broad, 11 match-winning wickets for the hosts in the fourth Test after taking just nine in the previous 11 Ashes innings at 60 apiece.
While it ends with a scoreline that speaks of dominance, it has also frequently felt much tighter than a 3-0 should. Only 14 runs separated the two sides in Nottingham. The weather aided England when they lost both toss and control at Old Trafford and The Oval.
England emerged triumphant not because they turned out to be the superior team at all times in all departments, but because they were capable, in those decisive sessions, of reducing Australia to rapid rubble.
There is a great skill in turning the taking of one or two wickets into a full-scale rout, as Alastair Cook's men did in the critical passages of play. It takes a masterful bowler in relentless mood, a communal belief borne of previous triumphs, a ruthlessness when chances are offered.
Australia, when they worked their own openings, could only graze chins rather than deliver knockout punches.
Four times they took first-innings leads. Not once did they allow the opposition to pass 400. Despite that, they came within a laughable bad-light ruling of losing four in five.
Even in each of England's wins, they had a crowbar in the safe: at Trent Bridge, with the hosts four down in their second innings and just 66 runs ahead; on the first morning at Lord's, with England teetering at 23-3; at Durham, when England lost their third second-innings wicket with the lead at just 17.
On each occasion it was Bell who first rode the punches and then inexorably forced the tourists onto the ropes. No more can he be derided for that perceived inability to score big runs under immense pressure.
He made 109 in six-and-a-half intent hours on that low, slow Trent Bridge track, the same score in five hours at Lord's and 113 off 210 endlessly patient balls to set up the win at Chester-le-Street.
In 16 innings at home to Australia before this series he averaged 21. He ended the summer with 562 at 62, equalling the English record for a five-match home Ashes set by Denis Compton in 1948. Transformations have seldom been so spectacular or significant.
The tourists had a pace attack that could sometimes match England's. Where they were crucially outgunned was when the ball turned, as if often did on pitches made to exploit that predicted discrepancy.
As England opened up a decisive 2-0 lead in the first two Tests, off-spinner Graeme Swann took 13 scalps. His opposite number, teenage debutant Ashton Agar, managed just two despite his heroics with bat in hand at the start of it all. By the time Nathan Lyon had been recalled to narrow the margins, the damage had been done.
Swann would finish with 26 wickets, the most for England in an Ashes series since Ian Botham's 31 in 1985. Only Jim Laker among English spinners has taken more in an Ashes summer.
Bell apart, England's top order did not accumulate as they had in the preceding Ashes series, frequently shackled by good plans well set. Neither did an Australian line-up that only began to settle once the series was already lost.
It led some to bemoan the quality of the action on offer. This has neither the exceptional combatants of 2005 nor the close-matched drama of 2009, went the argument. Will this series therefore be remembered as fondly as the last two English Ashes wins on home soil?
To which context is everything. The circumstances that surrounded the series of 2005, as well as the way it was won, can never again be matched. England were not coming into these Ashes off 16 years of humiliating defeat; Australia did not arrive loaded with all-time greats. To compare any subsequent series to those extraordinary two months is to invite disappointment.
Even in 2009, England began as subordinates, whitewashed in the preceding series, dismissed for 51 by the West Indies a few months earlier, the leadership team of captain Andrew Strauss and coach Andy Flower new to the job and still trying to build fresh foundations from the wreckage of the Kevin Pietersen-Peter Moores regime.
Both then and four years earlier, overall victory was not assured until the final few hours of the last Test. In the comfort of this summer's margins - the urn secured with two matches still to come, the series won after one more - such cliffhanging ecstasies were lost.
It should not matter. England have now won three Ashes series in succession. Australia have failed to win a single Test in one for the first time in 36 years. In Cook's first 12 months of captaincy, he has won three series in four and not lost a Test in 12.
Not since David Gower's defining summer in 1985 have England won three Tests in a home Ashes series; after years of Antipodean ascendency, they have now levelled the overall Ashes balance at 31 series wins apiece.
These are reasons for praise and celebration. Whether such happy numbers will lead to similarly sunny times ahead will take longer to divine.
That Oval triumph in September 2005 will remain unmatched for its national impact and elation, yet it was a peak for that team that would not be scaled again. The XI that had taken the series lead at Trent Bridge would never play together again; a few months later, the survivors would lose in Pakistan and begin the slow slide that ended with capitulation in their next Ashes engagement.
August 2009 went the other way, signalling the birth of a new team under Flower and Strauss, the Oval marking Jonathan Trott's debut and the cricketing coming of age of Swann and Stuart Broad.
Over the next two years they would go unbeaten in series home and away, secure an unprecedented three innings victories in the Ashes down under, whitewash India at home and stand, albeit briefly, on top of the world.
This vintage of 2013 is somewhere in between, the hard core of 2009 yet to be fully buttressed by new additions and with cracks in the facade rather than any fatal fissures.
They were better than Australia this summer when it mattered most, and they deserved to come out on top. The winter ahead may prove both tighter and more testing.


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In contrast to many kids' bikes, Frog bikes are sized by the leg length rather than age, as this is the most reliable way of getting the right size of bike for each child. Age alone isn't a reliable measure as there is a large spread of "normal" leg lengths & heights for each age.
Please take the time to measure the rider's inside leg.
It's easy to measure:
Once you have measured the inside leg, use this table to find the right size of bike for your child. Note we give the AVERAGE inside leg length for each bike, with the saddle at its lowest setting (NOTE: It is worth highlighting, that there is tolerance on each side of this). At this height, the child will safely and comfortably be able to get their feet on the ground. Don't worry - Frog Bikes have long seat posts, so the saddle can be raised a long way as the rider grows.
We recommend that you go to a local store who will have many of our bikes available so the rider can sit on a bike. You will get help and advice on sizing, and get on-going service, as well as support. Our stores have access to our FrogFitTM App, where arm length, inside leg measurement and a rider's confidence level informs the model recommendation.
PLEASE NOTE we always recommend that you buy your Frog bike from your local Frog store, who will build it for you and ensure the fit is right for your child. Our bikes should always be built and checked by a qualified mechanic.
The first pedal 48 is a great value bike for 4-5 year olds with an average inside leg of 48cm (Please ask your local store to use our FrogFitTM app to get the best sizing for your child). This bike is a great confidence booster and can be used as a balance bike for a taller child by removing the pedals.
Wheel Size: 16" inch
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- Lightweight but sturdy Frame
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Available colours: Available in Red, Orange, Spotty, Pink, Union Jack and Green
All the Team Sky Kids' Bikes carry Team Sky's signature blue line. The blue line is like Team Sky's badge, and connects the whole team together in the shared ambition of being the best. It appears on everything - the bikes, kit, cars and even the team bus. With the blue line and distinct Team Sky colours on your bike, you can feel like a pro and part of the team.
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Six ZOOM IN titles span reading levels 1.0-8.9 (Levels A-H):
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The six ZOOM IN titles cover reading levels 1.0-8.0 (Levels A-H). There are 48 books in all. In each book, lessons range in difficulty from low- to high-range of the readability level to support differentiated instruction.
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Pomp and Circumstances: Best of British
1 Aug 2014
Barcode: 0825646256594
Composer: Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius
Other participants: Sir Simon Rattle, Jacqueline du Pré, Sir John Barbirolli, Vernon Handley
Symphonic liberation of the British Empire: In 1866 a German music scholar wrote that "the English are the only civilised nation without music". And it's true that the Victorians had a deep suspicion towards symphony music – some people even feared that its rousing emotional power would bring about the downfall of the British Empire! But the imperial tones of Edward Elgar's scores triggered a new trend: the rapturous Late Romantic works of Vaughan Williams, the sensuous Impressionism of Delius and the monumental sounds of Gustav Holst's The Planets rapidly established a significant national symphonic culture – with overwhelming pomp and circumstance.
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|Disc 1
|Jerusalem - Goldsmiths' Choral Union
|Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio - Moderato - Sir John Barbirolli
|Delius: Koanga: La Calinda - Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli
|Holst: The Planets, Op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity: Allegro giouoso - London Philharmonic Orchestra
|Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending, for Violin and Orchestra - Hugh Bean
|Crown Imperial - Coronation March - David Bell
|Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma": IX. Nimrod (Adagio) - London Symphony Orchestra
|Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 - Theme & Fugue - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
|Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Sir John Barbirolli
|Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39: I. March No. 1 in D Major (Allegro con molto fuoco - Trio - Molto maestoso) - David Bell
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Hello! I am a mom of 5, living in the beautiful city of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. My dream is to have more time for family trips, cross stitching, crocheting, reading, watching movies and contribute to the well-being of the community. My favourite words of wisdom is : 'Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well' -which I fail miserably when implementing.


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Strike Anywhere emerged in 1999 from Richmond, VA. Vocalist Thomas Barnett (ex-Inquisition), guitarists Matt Smith and Matt Sherwood, bassist Garth Petrie (ex-Count Me Out), and drummer Eric Kane took a staunchly political and activism-minded approach to hardcore and punk traditionalism, drawing comparisons in both sound and vision to such stalwart acts as Avail and 7 Seconds. After an initial EP, Chorus of One, Strike Anywhere (named such after an old Inquisition song) joined up with Jade Tree, which issued Change Is a Sound in August 2001. Exit English followed in 2003, and the rarities collection To Live in Discontent in January 2005. Strike Anywhere hooked up with Fat Wreck Chords for their next full-length, Dead FM, released in June 2006. Tours both home and abroad followed through the next year; Sherwood amicably parted ways with the band in March 2007 to be able to settle down at home. ~ Johnny Loftus
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The death of 'America's Oldest Teenager' Dick Clark has resulted in many tributes from rockers of all genres. Perhaps the most in-depth and heartwarming one however, comes from the desk of Alice Cooper.
Soon after the death of Dick Clark, Cooper opened up about how 'American Bandstand' enriched his childhood, the inspirational role that Clark played in starting Cooper's radio show 'Nights With Alice Cooper,' and more. Cooper released the following statement on his official website:
I used to come home from elementary school to watch 'American Bandstand'. It had all the new songs, all the new dances, and it had the happiest guy in the world presenting them to you. I had no idea that later in my career I would know Dick Clark on a professional level. I ran into him some years ago, and he said to me, 'Hey, Coop, if you had your own radio show, what would it be like?' I told him it would be more like the free form FM stations of the '60s, where the DJ's actually played what they liked and demographics didn't play a role. He said, 'Alice, why don't you do it then?' Just like that, my radio show, 'Nights With Alice Cooper', was born. It's been nine years later and I'm still on the air! And let me just add that NOBODY loved rock 'n' roll more than Dick Clark!
Cooper also released a personal letter (pictured below) that Dick Clark wrote the shock rocker after Cooper performed and helped host the 1990 American Music Awards.


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Jim and Joanne Jackson lead a series of night walks once a month during the summer in Descanso Gardens. It's a better opportunity to see the creatures that call the gardens home.
The couple, married 53 years, give their evenings as volunteers at Descanso. The next night walk is Friday.
They became curious about the gardens in the after hours, and asked to begin a night walk for the community, Jim Jackson said.
"Descanso is such a diverse place that it opens up many opportunities for people to ask questions on the night walk about what's the difference between this and that," he said. "One of the things that interests them more than anything are the different animals."
"It's a totally different atmosphere at night," Joanne Jackson said.
By night, the garden transforms into a space for raccoons, coyotes, bats, deer, rabbits, owls and frogs, instead of a place for people.
"There's no large crowd bustling about, there's absolute silence, except for the sounds you hear in the garden," Jim Jackson said. "The darkness makes it a world of its own. It takes on a whole different aura. When darkness falls, the garden is taken over by the garden itself. It's a very interesting place to be with the sounds and animals. It's solitude but not loneliness."
Garden spiders are the one animal that bring more interest and conversation among participants, Jim Jackson said.
"It's probably because of the fear," he said. "Almost everybody is in awe, even if they have an aversion to spiders, because when you're there in the daytime, you would never think there's a spider there."
As the weather gets warmer, the spiders get larger, he added.
The couple's adventures include running into packs of raccoons, finding 50 pairs of eyes staring. Coyotes have also followed the group during exploration.
"The night walks give a chance to explore Descanso with people, Joanne and I, who are interested in exploring it a little further," Jim Jackson said.
As the months get warmer, the bats will come out in greater abundance in search of insects, a sight that Jim Jackson recommends to visitors for his next walk.
"We enjoy sharing Descanso with people," he said. "It's a way to get away from the television. It's a very easy way to spend an enjoyable evening."
David Brown, executive director of the gardens, became familiar with the Jacksons and the tour after he began his job in summer 2005.
"In my first few weeks as executive director, I took the night walk with Jim and was both inspired and entertained by Jim's far-reaching knowledge of the gardens' colorful history and the various critters that take over that beautiful place when all the people leave and the sun goes down," Brown said.


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Conservatorium staff, students and alumni are celebrating a number of recent successes and awards.
Associate Professor Kathryn Marsh and Lecturer in Music Education, Dr Jennifer Rowley, have each been awarded grants in excess of $200,000 by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC).
Kathy Marsh's research on children's musical play has been featured in two programs, One, Two, Buckle my Shoe and Seriously Play, on the BBC's World Service. All of her field recordings will soon be accessible as a named collection at the British Library and some are currently available on the British Library website, Playtimes. The ALTC grant will fund a return visit for Kathy with selected students to the Tennant Creek area, to work with primary school children on songs developed by an indigenous poet in the local language. Outcomes of the two-year project will include guidelines for university and community partnerships that develop students' intercultural competencies, and transform their understandings of Indigenous culture.
Jennifer Rowley has been conducting research into the life-experiences that prepare students for tertiary music study and the ways in which students' identity shifts from musician to music teacher in their early years working in schools. The project to be supported by the ALTC involves providing tertiary students from the Performing and Creative Arts with skills to create an electronic folio (ePortfolio) to document their academic and artistic outcomes for future employment and enhanced employability in the arts sector. It is based on research conducted by Jennifer and Associate Professor Peter Dunbar-Hall at SCM and will be extended to students at four other Australian universities.
Dr Joanna Drimatis, part-time Lecturer in Musicology and Research Affiliate, has been awarded a prestigious State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship for 2011-12.
Her research project, Rediscovering Hidden Treasures: The Music of Robert Hughes will involve the investigation into the works for chamber orchestra by Robert Hughes AM (1912-2007) as well as provide a valuable opportunity to lay the ground work for a book on Hughes' life and music. The outcomes of the project will include the creation of new critical editions which will be published, performed and recorded.
On 23 July, Su-Yu Chen, a graduate diploma student in the Masters of Music Studies (Performance) course, won the Geoffrey Parsons Award of the Accompanists' Guild of South Australia. Geoffrey Parsons AO, OBE studied at the NSW State Conservatorium in the 1940s and came to be regarded as one of the finest accompanists in the world. To win this competition is a great accolade for an accompanist.
The Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir, directed by Senior Lecturer in Conducting and Music Education, Dr Neil McEwan AM, FRSCM, is celebrating two victories in the recent Sydney Eisteddfod. They won the Sacred Music and the Chamber Choir sections.
Violin student, Emily Sun, already a grand finalist in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year (to be televised on 3 September) won the first prize in the Goldner Competition on 29 July. The second prize was won by cellist Vincent Lo. Emily studies with Robin Wilson and Vincent with Georg Pedersen.
At the NSW Flute Society's annual Eisteddfod on 31 July, Kinsey Alexander, a Year 12 student at the Conservatorium High School, studying flute with Professor Alexa Still, won both Open and Intermediate Championships and the Open Concerto competition.
Former SCM students Alana Blackburn and Alicia Crossley were joint winners of the open section in the inaugural Don Cowell Recorder Competition in Melbourne, held on 16 July. Also among the five selected finalists was SCM graduate Joanne Arnott.
The Dean & Principal of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Professor Kim Walker, commented: "A lot of the hard work in music takes place behind the scenes: no-one applauds you for all the hours of scholarship and practice! It's good to be able to celebrate these public achievements of our staff and students, as they symbolise our constant pursuit of excellence. They are a well-deserved reward for a huge amount of effort, great insight and dedication."
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text: Govanstowne Farmers' Market returns for third season May 28, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Loyola University Maryland and the York Road Partnership will host the third annual Govanstowne Farmers' Market on Wednesdays from 3-7 p.m. between June 5 and Sept. 11, 2013. The market will be located in the parking lot of Loyola's Transportation and Public Safety complex at 5104 York Rd. Answering the call of neighbors who expressed a need for access to fresh, healthy food, the market will feature high-quality baked goods, dairy products, meat, eggs, produce, and more from a dozen Baltimore-area vendors including the Ferguson Family Farm, Shaw Orchards, and Dangerously Delicious Pies. Five craft vendors will also participate in the market this year. Cash, credit and debit cards ($5 increments), EBT/Independence Cards ($1 increments), WIC, SFMNP, and FVC benefits will all be accepted as payment. In addition to foods for sale, guests will be able to pick up recipe cards that use ingredients found at the market. Loyola students, faculty, and staff worked with Govans community members to create and organize the farmers' market as a project of Loyola's York Road Initiative, a collaborative effort to develop a plan to improve the quality of life for people living, working, and learning in the area. During "Loyola is Listening," members of the community identified the creation of a farmers' market as a No. 1 priority and an opportunity to partner with Loyola. Those same residents also recognized the need for a major grocery store in Govans, and the farmers' market will have the added benefit of generating data that may be used to recruit a grocery store to the area. In 2012, vendors sold more than $4,000 in fruits and vegetables at the market by accepting federal, state, and local benefits. Because of this success, the United Way chose the market as a pilot program for researching food access in low-income areas. A complete list of vendors and more information about this year's farmers' market is available on the Govanstowne Farmers' Market website. Questions from customers, vendors, and prospective vendors should be directed to Marie McSweeney at email@example.com or 410-617-5660.


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Singer/actress LIZA MINNELLI is heading to the small screen to make a guest appearance on hit U.S. music drama SMASH.
The TV show revolves around the creation of a Broadway musical and now producers have recruited real-life theatre icon Minnelli to star and perform an original song with actor Christian Borle during an episode entitled The Surprise Party, which will air in America next spring (13).
Executive Robert Greenblatt says, "Liza Minnelli is the essence of a multi-talented, singular showbusiness sensation, particularly for her extraordinary contributions to Broadway. So what could be more fitting than to have her legendary talent on a show that celebrates a world Liza has dazzled for decades?"
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When applied to blowers and pumps, variable-frequency drives (VFDs) offer energy savings. In mechanical applications, they allow fine adjustments that wouldn't be possible by other methods. Despite their popularity in multiple applications, they are not simple plug-in-and-forget devices. Because VFDs are full of electronics, they're susceptible to all sorts of problems — from incoming power disturbances to environmental hazards to wrong operation, not to mention one or two unexpected issues that may arise. The motors they drive present their own set of challenges.
I work with motors (from 300 hp down to 1/16 hp) and variable-speed drives on a daily basis. During my 24 years of practical experience, I've learned a great deal about troubleshooting different situations. Here's a list of practical tips to keep your motors up and running as well as common errors to avoid.
Start with baseline readings
Don't just take a motor out of the box, throw it in place, and hope for the best. Before putting a motor into full operation, take insulation resistance readings from phase-to-phase and phase-to-ground. Measure the insulation resistance of the windings using an insulation multimeter to determine what a good reading is. In addition, measure the starting and running amperage, the running voltage, and the leg-to-leg balance.
Measure the temperature at first startup (unloaded, loaded) and after a period of use. A motor may run hot because it's been used hard, is in a high-temperature area, or has a problem. Without knowing its normal temperature, it's difficult to tell which is the case. It's nice to know whether motors are running hot or not. A lot of times, you won't see any problems until the heat really builds up. For example, the inside temperature near the glass tempering ovens in my plant in the summertime is normally about 130°F.
You should also measure temperature using an infrared thermometer or a thermocouple connected to an insulation multimeter. It's good to compare results between the various methods.
Make other measurements periodically
Depending on your preventive maintenance (PM) schedule and the cost of unscheduled downtime, take additional amperage, resistance, and insulation resistance readings. Compare these readings to previous readings. If the measurements deviate by more than 5% to 10%, start looking for bad electrical connections or loose/ill-fitting mechanical connections. Has the load increased, the frequency of use changed, or have ambient temperatures increased/decreased?
Find out if the motor matches the application and was specified for the system, or if upgrades are needed.
Check the protection
Look at the protection systems, the overload contactors, and fusing. Is the overload set for full load amperes, or is it set too high or low? Is the fusing correct for the application? Overload contactors are designed to take care of overloads, while fuses and circuit breakers are intended for short circuit protection. Are they sized according to the load? Do the fuses blow without tripping the overload? Are the fuses rated properly?
If the fuses blow repeatedly, there's a temptation to replace them with higher-rated fuses. But if some time later the overload decides to short across itself and doesn't trip any more, suddenly those fuses that are too high will make the motor cook. That means a lot of back-checking, pulling out the manuals (if they're available), or looking at the nameplate data.
Don't change parts instead of troubleshooting
Some technicians will change out parts until the trouble goes away. This is an expensive way to troubleshoot, because most motors and drives start at $500 and up. It's not unusual to find that the same motor/drive that had failed may start working in another application.
This makes the job of finding the original problem harder, because the failure was only temporary. Was it the loading, application, or a combination of things that led up to the failure?
Cabling can be an issue, too
Check the line at the motor, not just at the panel on the wall, which may be 100 ft away. Power lines in hostile (e.g., high-temperature) areas, even when protected by conduit, may fail. Checking the voltage at the panel and not at the motor may result in replacing a perfectly good motor when the problem is in the wiring.
Look at the drive's setup and parameters. Check the acceleration and deceleration times. Are you running at line frequency (higher or lower)?
Make sure it's the right motor
Sometimes, motors are put into applications for which they are not designed. Inverter-rated motors make a big difference in the longevity of the system. Running a standard-duty motor at 50 Hz, for example, often leads to overheating. Similarly, running it at 90 Hz or 120 Hz may work for a while, but the motor can't accept that as a steady diet.
The duty cycle of the motors will help determine where and what application they are suited. A motor designed to run 8 hr a day, five days a week, will fail prematurely if it has to run 24/7.
Nameplate data is an important troubleshooting tool. It will tell the motor's service factor, the duty cycle, and more. It will also provide useful information about the protection circuits and fusing.
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Check for power problems
Many drive failures come from power spikes, phase loss, or undervoltages. After a power issue, it's important to measure the power to see if the problem has been corrected or is still happening. If you don't check the power after an outage, the drives will pay the price. When the power comes back after an outage, the machine operators may just automatically restart and try to run again. Suddenly, you start popping drives and burning up motors because of single-phase conditions.
Most newer drives have settings that will not let the system restart after a fault has occurred. I set up mine so that something like a missing leg of 480VAC is not overlooked, using phase loss indicators to help the maintenance staff look for problems.
Editors note: A similar version of this article originally appeared in Fluke Electrical News (Volume 7, Number 1).
Orchard is a senior technician for Intigral, Inc., Walton Hills, Ohio. He can be reached at [email protected].


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This Mum Has NAILED What Intimacy Is Like After Having Kids
Mummy blogger Mel Watts has revealed the truth about parent sex.
In a post on Facebook, Watts said "Did we just have a quickie? Like a daytime one,"
With one of their children at their neighbour's place and the other one asleep, Watts admitted to the world that it was the perfect time for her and her husband to spend some alone time.
"I mean I've been turning him down for long enough I felt bad," she wrote. "Knowing it was only going to take a few minutes, and I'll have a day of any food I want to eat, listen to any music I want and an early night. Sounds delightful right?!"
Watts says in the post that she'd had ''dad sex jokes' thrown at her all morning, and while it wasn't exactly romantic, she did feel a little bit ''obligated."
Before she even describes what happened she said that it was ''over before I knew it''.
She goes on to explain that she had turned her husband down a number of times ''But today," she wrote, " I thought the amount of effort he has put into every sexual advance it would just be plain mean of me."
The has she said that it is worth ''just going with it'' as her husband will now be ''happy for the next few days''.
Modern Mumma's post has now been shared over 4000 times with many relating to her candid and very accurate post of sex after kids.
One person wrote ''I cannot stop laughing, I am glad I am not that only one who feels like this.''
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The Craven County Genealogical Society hosts a �Genealogy Question & Answer Panel� as part of its monthly meeting on Tuesday.
The Craven County Genealogical Society hosts a �Genealogy Question & Answer Panel� as part of its monthly meeting on Tuesday.
The 7 p.m. meeting and panel discussion is at the New Bern LDS Church, 1207 Forest Drive, off Trent Road in New Bern.
It is a chance to bring questions about research, internet search, documentation of research, computer programs, genealogy-based societies and anything about genealogy.
The panel members are Lois Gregory, Victor Horrell, Barbara Kerr and Carolyn McCulley. The monthly meetings are free to the public. The society has a diverse membership representing not only Craven County and North Carolina, but also many other states.
Also, October is �Family History Month� and the society is sponsoring the lobby display at the New Bern-Craven County Public Library. The display theme is �Helping People Find Their Roots.�
The society receives many requests from all over the country. Judy Nelson, the society�s research coordinator, has spent a great deal of time assisting them in learning more about their ancestors.
A couple of items that are highlighted in the display include the connection that was made between World War II Airman, Sgt. James Jasper Lewis, who lived in Craven County and was buried in the Netherlands in 1944, and Lili Pasteur, who adopted his gravesite.
Another interesting item is the Harrison Cannon family lumber business, which was in the area around the turn of the 20th century and operated sawmills in the Riverdale section of Craven County and purchased timber rights throughout the area.
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IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Flat Tops Wilderness (map) in 1975 and it now has a total of 230,830 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Colorado and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionArthur Carhart's 1919 visit to Trappers Lake in the verdant embrace of the Flat Tops prompted him to be the first U.S. Forest Service official to initiate a plea for Wilderness preservation. No wonder he found the area so entrancing: behind Trappers Lake loom majestic volcanic cliffs, and beyond them a vast subalpine terrain reluctantly yields to alpine tundra (part of the White River Plateau with an average elevation of about 10,000 feet). Approximately 110 lakes and ponds, often unnamed, dot the country above and below numerous flat-topped cliffs. Roughly 100 miles of fishable streams are in the Flat Tops Wilderness. The valleys and relatively gentle land above the cliffs offers over 160 miles of trails. This is ideal country for stock-users and traveling cross-country. The hiking is inviting and limitless. Elk, deer and moose find the area quite pleasant in the summer. A skeletal forest of dead spruce and fir stretches across the higher slopes below the tundra, the eerie legacy of a 1940s bark beetle epidemic. In 2002 more than 17,000 acres burned around Trappers Lake and over 5,500 in the vicinity of Lost Lakes in the East Fork of the Williams Fork drainage amounting to almost 10% of the area of the Flat Tops Wilderness. The Flat Tops is Colorado's second largest Wilderness, a precious expanse of breathtakingly beautiful open land.
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Founded in 2003, the 168 Film Project is an incubator for writers and filmmakers to explore scripture and to practice their craft. The 168 Film Project challenge to filmmakers worldwide is to draw a random scripture and in just 168 hours (7 days) shoot and edit a short film. In the Write of Passage competition, writers craft a 12-page script in 168 hours.
We reduce barriers to production and create opportunities for pros and newcomers to just do it. Participants from diverse backgrounds and faiths forge dynamic, creative communities. All Filmmakers are responsible for their own budget, cast and crew.
What started as a ministry to local Southern California filmmakers has expanded to a worldwide movement. Many different countries compete in this international contest, some winning top honors.
We encourage fair treatment of subjects with emphasis on story and subtlety. But most importantly, filmmakers are encouraged to honestly portray the tale that God inspires through the foundational scripture.
"168" films uplift and inform the human condition, showing real consequences for actions and reflecting traditional, conservative Biblical values. Content rules do not require overtly Christian characters, just real ones. We do not permit swearing or use of the word "God" or "Jesus" as an expletive. There is no gratuitous sex, language, violence or drug use.
Filmmakers participate for the awards and recognition. There is nothing like the electric atmosphere at the 168 Film Festival as the winner is revealed from among all of the premieres. Casting agents come to see the many fresh faces. Because of the excellence of our artists, 168 is very well-respected and top films fare well in other festivals.
Some do it for the spiritual thrill ride and the many miracles they see during the experience. Many tell of an unexpected encounter with the God. We have seen salvations, people beating addictions and some deciding in favor of life instead of suicide.
See this haunting documentary of Verse Assignment Night 2007. During the Assignment in L.A., producers randomly select a stone with a hidden verse that will become the foundation for their story. Eight months after the tragic death of his daughter, Chris decided to make a 168 film in her honor. See what "randomly-assigned" verse was selected by clicking play.>>>
168 participation has been called "life-changing" by hundreds of artists. The hard deadline ensures that projects are finished. Artists know that if they are late submitting finished films, then they will be ineligible for awards and that would be devastating to their team. This teaches individual and team responsibility and gives everyone a common goal.
Christian or not, filmmakers have the same dream: to make a great film. They are fully invested. The pressure makes for an amazing bonding experience built upon their dreams and the Word of God. The difficulty of the contest forces many to their knees to pray for help.
"168" rules and structure direct participants to understand the foundational verse and translate it into relevant words and pictures. Quite often we see believers and non-believers actively working together to gain understanding of the Scripture. Sometimes "the lights go on" and lives are changed in astounding ways.
Many non-Christians are part of the nearly 2000 attendees who come to the 168 Film Festival each year. Every film's verse is voiced after screening. We think that is a good thing. This is more of God's word than many hear in a lifetime.
"I'm very thankful for the 168 Film Project. Within weeks of moving to LA, it helped me get connected to other Christian professionals, who have become long-term friends and collaborators. Most of the crew on 'CTRL Z' (his short film, adapted into a 10-part webseries for NBC Universal) were people I've worked with on 168 projects, or wanted to work with after seeing their films at the festival."
- Rob Kirbyson: Director of "Red Line," "Snowmen," (2010 Heartland Film Fest Truly Moving Picture Award), writer director, 168 Film "Pieces" (nominated for 12 awards in 2005) and 168 Film "Free of Charge" (Best Score and Best Actress-Marieke Douridas in 2006):
"John David Ware's 168 Film Project is one of the most unique, innovative, and needed ministries of our time. John Ware is harnessing the power of art and utilizing the medium of film through which to spread the Christian worldview. Further, he is touching lives- and effectively being salt and light within an industry that some Christians had written off as un-redeemable. I applaud the great work that is being done through '168.' John Ware is a visionary Christian leader, and I believe that the impact of his work will be very long term."
- Alex McFarland, President of the Southern Evangelical Seminary and the Veritas Graduate School of Apologetics, says of 168 Film:
"The 168 Film Project has made it possible for Icthus International to help more children in Latin America. We have used our 168 films in churches, small home groups, individual meetings, and in banquets to renew the vision among our donors and share Icthus. Our Mexico leaders were motivated by our 168 film to do their own. Keep up the work you are doing, John, it is a wonderful ministry."
- Don Weisbrod, President, Icthus International, a ministry to help Spanish speaking churches reach children with the Gospel in Latin America and the USA:
"I love the competition and creativity of the films, done with no budget. These are the skills the studios look for. Don't miss the chance to be a part of this!"
- Ralph Winter, Producer of X-MEN: Origins: Wolverine, former 168 Board Member and Juror
"168 catalyzes hands-on experiences of film-making, encouraging budding artists to explore and to reveal truth through beauty and story-telling."
- Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Founder and Board Member, The Veritas Forum
168 Film Mission: to illuminate the Word of God through the medium of film and assist new and emerging artists by equipping them professionally and spiritually.
Through our grass roots work, we are a catalyst for change in Hollywood and ultimately, the world. As a Judeo-Christian group, we aim to challenge the world's perception of Christians. We are a beacon for weary artists.
Our writing and signature speed filmmaking competitions provide positive pressure and practice of craft. We strengthen and encourage emerging filmmakers. The 168 pace, difficulty and community bonding experience shapes individuals in a very short time. The life-changing 168 process is an even more important measure of success than the films that are produced.
Mark 4:1 "Jesus taught them many things by parables..."
Isaiah 12:4 "Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted."
John 13:34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."