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As a child, I used to play "cops and robbers". The cops had to chase the robbers and, once they were caught, they would be thrown in jail – usually a cupboard or a demarcated area of the playground. In my childhood game, it was easy to distinguish between the "good guys" and the "bad guys". The cops were always good and the robbers always bad.
Today, things are far more complex. Since joining the South African Human Rights Commission just over two years ago, I have been confronted with the reality that even in the human rights field there is often no clear distinction between the good guys and the bad guys.
In the Andries Tatane case, the commission found that the police had used excessive force during a service delivery protest and violated the right to life. In the Chumani Maxwele matter, the minister of police was found to have violated the right to dignity of a student who had allegedly gestured with his middle finger to a police convoy transporting the president. And, as the Marikana commission of inquiry unfolds, we may see another example suggesting that the cops are not always the good guys.
It also appears that the robbers are not always the bad guys. In the case of Lenasia, many residents, who allegedly illegally occupied land owned by the Gauteng government, claimed that they were the victims of fraud and corruption. Whether some residents knowingly took advantage of what they perceived to be an opportunity or not remains to be tested in an appropriate forum. We do know that many residents paid cash for the land and were issued with a letter on the department's letterhead indicating that the land now belonged to them. Although an argument could be made that some residents should have known they were acting unlawfully, many residents were defrauded.
The Gauteng government's decision to bulldoze houses was met with general outrage from the public despite the fact that the government was acting on a court order.
The inability of the government to see its actions in the context of our recent history and its failure to recognise the symbolism of demolitions carried out by the apartheid regime was rather confounding. The Gauteng government appeared to believe sincerely that it was the good guy and that the Lenasia residents were the robbers.
Complexities of human behaviour
The simple notions of good and bad we ascribe to particular behaviour have been considered by numerous writers and philosophers ranging from Mencius to Machiavelli. In dealing with the complexities of human behaviour, these writers have helped me to make sense of human nature in the application of a human rights discourse. The truth is that I am still trying to figure things out.
The night before the formal reconciliation ceremony in the Reitz matter, involving four white Afrikaaner students who had filmed black African workers at the University of the Free State performing various humiliating acts, I had the opportunity of sitting around the table with the former students and the workers.
Two remarkable things struck me about the process. The one was the ability of the workers to forgive. I remember one of the workers saying to the former students: "You were our children and you will always remain our children."
The other was the students themselves. One often assumes that violators of human rights are evil. But these men were not monsters. In fact, they were just ordinary South Africans who were able to cause such humiliation and pain. And so I often marvel at our capacity as human beings to perpetrate such inhumane acts against one another, but also to have the ability to love unconditionally.
We all have the potential to play the role of both the cop and the robber. Our decision to take on a particular role (assuming we have a choice) is then either justified by circumstance or need. It is therefore imperative that, when we judge the actions or behaviour of others, we must also take a moment to reflect on the role we play and to challenge our established notions of good and bad.
Kayum Ahmed is the chief executive officer of the South African Human Rights Commission


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Measurements are becoming ever more accurate, instruments increasingly precise. Metrology as a branch of science focuses on measurement - reproducibility of measurement results throughout the world is key in this context. Hence it is essential in metrology to guarantee traceability from any calibration level to the primary standard. The primary standard is ensured by the national metrology institute and is the standard with the smallest measurement uncertainty in the respective country.
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Interlaboratory comparisons compare and analyze the results provided by several measurement chains. Here users benefit from the extremely small measurement uncertainty and excellent long-term stability made possible by strain gauge technology.

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I've been using the Bash history since a long time, but in a rather limited way. I'd use the "history" command,
!<num> to execute command again,
!* to get all parameters of the last command, and Ctrl-r to match previous commands.
This article by symkat showed me a lot more interesting history features.
Here's my personal list of what a productive developer needs to know about Bash history:
history: Show the history in case you get lost.
!<num>: Execute line again, where is the number shown by
- Ctrl-p: Browse the history backwards. Also on cursor-up, but doesn't make you leave touch typing position.
- Ctrl-r: Search backwards. Invaluable. Matches can anchor anywhere. Pressing it repeatedly shows older matches.
!$: Substitutes for the last word of the previous line. Very useful for doing something else with the same thing. For example, you might first say
ls -R very/long/path, then
du !$to show the directory's size.
- Esc-. or Alt-. (that's Alt-PERIOD): Like
!$, but Bash inserts the word into your current line right away, so you can check or modify it.
Also, setting the HISTCONTROL environment variable to "Ignoreboth" to ignore duplicate history entries and commands starting with a space is a must.


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At first, I didn't want to attend an all-women's college.
I wanted to be with men. I always thought women weren't as competitive as men. I felt like going to school with men would be more like the real world. But eventually Moore began to work out for me. I found that the women were just as competitive as the men would be.
It was the Depression, and unless you could get a scholarship, you really couldn't afford to go to art school. I had a full scholarship from the Philadelphia Board of Education. Some of the officials already knew my work.
Once I arrived, I fell in love with the small size of the College and the quality of the faculty at Moore. I remember Henry Snell, a painting instructor, who came to class in a surgical white jacket and used a long stick to point out a student's work without touching it.
He stood behind me one day, pointed at my work and said, "Well, my dear, I think you're going to be a portrait artist." It stunned me. I had no idea…I loved doing portraits but I wanted to do other things too, so the Illustration [major] worked out.
In my last year at Moore, I got a job at night in a small printer's shop where they were introducing offset printing.
I saw an ad in the newspaper saying they needed someone who could come and do drawings and paste-ups. So I did that job after school.
Shortly after that, an opportunity came up with the Sunday Evening Post that changed my life.
There was one day a week at The Curtis Publishing Company where the Post opened their doors and the art editor would invite you to come in and show him ideas for covers, so I began doing that, and they bought several of my ideas. And the editor finally said, "Now look Miriam, we bought a number of your cover [ideas], would you like to do a finished cover yourself?" I finally finished it, and they bought it.
Once the cover appeared in the Post, I got a call from an agent who said, "Come to New York, we can get you all the work you want." So I left for New York, and that's where I arrived in 1944.
I began doing illustrations for magazines and journals, including a major client,Woman's Day magazine. I called them "my meal ticket," my bread and butter account. They paid the rent.
For three weeks in October 1953, I was one of a half-dozen members of the Society of Illustrators (and the only woman) who traveled to Korea to sketch portraits of military personnel stationed in the war zone.
It was like art school where you had endless models. One after the other they lined up, with their hair slicked back and their clothes pressed. The original drawings were sent to their family and I would get letters back, thanking me.
I have taught art, written about art history for the Smithsonian and Harvard magazines, exhibited and won prizes in national and international art shows and illustrated and written for The New York Times, Fortune and other national publications. More than a dozen of my portraits are included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Perhaps one of the prizes I'm most proud of is the one I established myself at Moore in 1995 – The Miriam Troop '38 Portrait Prize.


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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
LSP-4 and LSP-5: update and pics
22 comments:
Keep them coming. Thanks for sharing
- 9 July 2008 at 01:26
Great pics Ajai. thx
- 9 July 2008 at 02:24
- Silent Lucidity said...
Thanks for the pics. BTW any news about the trainer version?
- 9 July 2008 at 09:54
- Ajai Shukla said...
will post pics of the trainer version too...
- 9 July 2008 at 11:36
Can I get the License building contract?, after all the requirement seems to be a shed with lots of square pipes with some coolies thrown in.
- 9 July 2008 at 11:53
- CM said...
Hi Ajai,
Ive read your articles over the last 5 years. Your perspective has changed and is welcome.
And you are probably among the very few who can track the LCA's progress quite closely and you are doing a great job at that.
3 years down the line I can already see how this blog, your pics and expeirience can become a bestseller book. Have you considered that.
And please advertise this blog on the newspapers. Youngsters should see this blog and get motivated.
- 9 July 2008 at 12:35
Why just youngsters I feel the whole babudom of MoD, services & DRDO need to be shown the blog and its comments. They need to told in no uncertain terms that their actions are being watched, scrutinized and judged very closely. The Indian tax payer is today quite well informed and gone are the information black out days in the name of national security. Arbitrary decisions and vested interests will not go unchallenged.
- 9 July 2008 at 13:03
anon @ 09 July 2008 11:53 : Please spare us to enlighten us with your divine knowledge crap.Haven't we seen enough of your kind already. There are better places out there to go and crap !
- 9 July 2008 at 13:10
which one will have the fuel stored in LCA ? wings ?
- 9 July 2008 at 13:18
- black eagle said...
ajai if possible get a detailed account of india's missile defence & phalcon AWACS (preferably with photos). Good job with this one.
- 9 July 2008 at 15:27
- Unknown said...
Thanks for the regular updates Ajai...
Your blog is indeed very enlightening and gives me the regular dose of emotional high! I agree with cm, you should advertise your blogs a little. I'm doing ym bit and have already added a link to your blog as one of my "favourites" on my blog...
Cheers and keep up the good work.
- 9 July 2008 at 17:59
TIA for trainer pics. The trainer is the next one to watch out for. The last picture was taken a while ago. It was in the advanced assembly stage similar to LSP2. I hope it flies soon.
- 9 July 2008 at 19:02
one minor mistake,
the fuselage is lsp-5. which is seen clearly in third and 4th photo. But good work ajai, apart from the minor problems. Is it not possible for you to get a tripod, or some professional to shoot a photo?
- 9 July 2008 at 20:49
Ajay can you comment on what exactly LSP-4 will incorporate over and above LSP-3. No need to respond if the info is classified.
- 10 July 2008 at 02:42
Please visit Cochin Shipyard and report on the ADS. Navals chiefs and raksha mantri's have been saying that metal cutting is on since 2005 and launch in 2010 with induction in 2013. I don't believe it and would like to see some photos to be proven otherwise.
- 11 July 2008 at 00:20
- Broadsword said...
No way are you going to get ADS pictures at this point in time. It's one of the Indian Navy's most classified projects.
Will be making a trip to Mazagon Docks at some stage in the next month or so. Hope to have pictures of the INS Shivalik from that visit.
- 11 July 2008 at 20:53
well you can dream cant you? might as well ask for pics of interiors of the ATV :D
Ajai the 3rd and 4th pics are of LSP-5 it is printed on the fuselage quite clearly.
- 12 July 2008 at 17:13
Jeez, it looks fugly.
I was thinking of a pic with gleaming metals and stuff.
Is this because of the composites?
- 13 July 2008 at 21:42
anon @ 13 July 2008 21:42: Exactly what looks fugly or whatever ? This is an combat aircraft assembly line not a Leo Mattel Toy Factory. What makes you make such unqualified comments ? Gleaming metal of what ? What "Stuff" ? UFOs ?
- 14 July 2008 at 05:34
lol...pathetic state of indian affairs...they are assembling this plane like its a cycle..
god save india..
- 29 July 2008 at 23:16
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- 4 August 2008 at 14:52
pl dont do this its not right to show the work place its can leak many other info .how u got the pic its illegal.pl stop showing pictures of Hangar.if you are a good indian
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A proposed law would codify the position of chief technology officer and establish a Digital Government Office that would review all major federal technology projects.
The U.S. chief technology officer will have expanded power to review major federal IT projects if draft legislation being discussed on Capitol Hill becomes law.
The Reforming Federal Procurement of Information Technology (RFP-IT) Act would create a U.S. Digital Government Office (U.S. DGO) to conduct the technology project appraisals and help agencies develop specifications for, and award, contracts. The bill would also codify the federal CTO position -- currently Todd Park -- and place the CTO over the U.S. DGO.
Authored by Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Gerry Connolly, D-Va., the bill is still in draft form and hasn't been officially introduced. But the legislation intends to overhaul how the U.S. government tackles mission-critical technology projects by having high-level leaders guide them before they go over-budget or off-the-rails.
In addition, the act lifts the threshold for a streamlined contracting process from $150,000 to $500,000, which may enable more businesses to bid on federal IT work without additional compliance regulations and costs.
According to a press release on Eshoo's website, federal procurement regulation is approximately 1,900 pages long, with each agency having its own "supplement" of rules that can run an additional 1,000 pages. The release also noted that studies show 94 percent of major government IT projects from 2003 to 2012 either failed, were over budget, or not completed on time.
"Our draft bill puts proven best practices to work by instituting a White House office of IT procurement and gives all American innovators a fair shake at competing for valuable federal IT contracts by lowering the burden of entry," Eshoo said in a statement.
Government Technology contacted Eshoo's office seeking an explanation on how a project would move forward under the RFP-IT Act. A representative said that a project being reviewed by the U.S. DGO can go a number of different routes.
If the office reviews a proposal and feels the agency submitting the project is equipped to handle it on its own, it'll be authorized to go forward. But if the agency – in the U.S. CTO's opinion – lacks the resources or experience, the project can assign a team to assist that agency with the process.
In addition to revising the IT procurement process, the RFP-IT Act also codifies the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. Established under President Barack Obama's administration, the program connects innovators from the private sector, nonprofit organizations and higher education with government experts. Under the bill, the U.S. DGO would be able to use the fellows, and the program would be placed under the U.S. CTO.
Although the bill seeks to solve a problem, it does add another layer of bureaucracy to an already complicated system. But a spokesman from Eshoo's office told Government Technology that the idea is for the U.S. DGO to be nimble and not hold up the process of approving contracts. He said the feeling is that a little extra time using best practices in the beginning of the procurement process could result in fewer failed and over-budget projects.
In an email to Government Technology, Rep. Connolly admitted the draft legislation is not perfect, which is why he and Eshoo are soliciting feedback from stakeholders. He added that there's a tendency by some to criticize those trying to improve federal IT management without offering concrete solutions themselves.
"The question to ask those in the federal IT community who adopt a defensive posture and are quick to take shots at our discussion draft is simply this: Are you truly defending the status quo?" Connolly said. "Are you truly more afraid of new, innovative acquisition methods than simply muddling along as the federal IT graveyard piles up with billion-dollar boondoggles?"


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[Chorus - Sleepy Brown]
Everywhere that I seem to go, all people they know
There goes that man
Cadillac's steady move, all ladies choose it
There goes that man
Been all around the world and I kissed every girl
There goes that man
Girl this ain't no kind of allusion, it's really that man
There goes that man
[Verse 1 - Duddy Ken]
Hey, when we step up out the play man
We bring that monster A game
Switchin or say through lanes
Green on my shirt like Tulane
Drunk and drivin in two lanes
Dirt Reynolds, that's the new name
Dip out and handle a few thangs
Bet I come back a rich man
Some of these cats is bitch made
My shift be like a switch blade
The doors, open this way
That man, went that a way
Chase cheese like a rat race
Push my button like there
And that's gonna get you nowhere
Just like you fuckin yourself
I've been all over the globe and hit a lot little spots (spots)
Met bitches that love the nigga, that's if she fucked me or not (not)
Trappin what's in my spot (spot)
Not movin, just got me no dough
It's like my money was slow mo'
I bought a car and got Mobile
My city's up on my shoulders
I'm takin life as we know of
Tranformin into a whole 'nother world and time
Beat up tracks and murder rhymes
Don't dare close the curtain, cause I'm just beginnin
Bubba was the beginnin but bitch I'ma end it
Hey, I'm that man, man
[Verse 2 - Bubba Sparxxx]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Shit, I'm a Dodge Rammer, god damn if I ain't two and 0
I'm competin and momma's eatin, so am I losin? No
But shit was movin slow, I had to switch machines up
Destiny don't always match with the shit you dreamed up
But Bubba ain't no cream puff
In my life, I've seen much
Held the thrills and the spills
Through it all, I kept it trill
Guarantee I never will ever feel as helpless
As I did these last couple years, I know you felt this
Really don't expect no forgiveness for "Deliverance"
Then again I offer no apologies, I meant the shit
Cause I lived the shit, truth is truth and that's the end of it
I'm up and runnin, bet my jersey's in the rafters when I sit
Watched it when I get a hit, everybody benefits
I'm far removed from innocence, a year older than twenty-six
Pussy just remember this, I ain't chose the path I'm on
If you want it, come and get it, as that man I stand alone (oh!)
[Verse 3 - Bubba Sparxxx]
Duddy! Haha
Uh huh, hey say, hey let the guns play
I just came with "Me, Myself, and I" like Beyonce
Let these suckers run they coffee coolers, I'm the truest
country motherfucker, bust and kill the talk, it's time to do it
Everything your idol do it, I can do it cock eyed
Three albums supplied, once I have not lied
That should mean a lot right?
Maybe when they open up the books, I can get a look
You must admit, I'm dope as fuck, true I ain't devoted much
of my raps to dope, I'm just a little to preoccupied with the truth, you know what's up
Sorry but I know this much, Bubba K is sen-sat-ional
That shit ain't no bull
Ain't no bull that I can't pull, I am him
That'll be the case, if I'm ridin rims or shinin them
Bubba baby, more trouble baby, ha I love you hate me
Ask your lady, is it maybe her that I've been pluggin lately
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I have been in this municipal circus for over 20
years, and in all those years I have never witnessed the level of
commitment and devotion to a city that Buzz (Busby) demonstrated
even in failing health. Health issues faced by Buzz for the last few
years would have felled a lesser person, but Buzz never faltered in
his commitment to the city of Lincoln, and I have rarely respected
an elected official as much as I did Buzz.
While I only had the pleasure of knowing Buzz for a few years, I
found his wit and insight refreshing, and you could always count on
him to come up with a wry quip.
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Buzz's knowledge of the city's finances was unparalleled, and his
oversight and expertise of the budget will be sorely missed. Every
time I see a red pen I will have a fond recollection of an instance
when Buzz was too ill to attend budget discussions and had Mayor
Snyder pass out red pens to everyone to cut the city's budget down
to a size that satisfied him.
City council meetings will just not be the same without Buzz, and
I will miss hearing Buzz say, "Move to adjourn," at the conclusion
of the every meeting he attended.
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Some sneaky spy photographers got some great snaps of a prototype Audi RS5 going around the Nurburgring recently. The RS5's powerplant hasn't been confirmed yet, but some speculate it will be receiving a detuned version of the RS6's 580 horsepower, 5.2-liter twin-turbo V10. Due to Audi's trend towards smaller (but frequently forced induction) engines, I'd suspect it's more likely we'll see a super- or turbo-charged version of the R8's 4.2-liter V8. At any rate, expect the RS5's power to exceed 500 horsepower.
As you can see from the photos, the 2011 RS5 has revised styling, but is slightly masked from the matte black wrap. The fenders are flared a bit, it has a wider track, the rear bumper is a bit beefier and has a new oval dual-exhaust, and the front fascia is flared with more angry-looking air intakes. It's sitting on the same 20-inch wheels found on the RS6, and inside them are big drilled rotors. The aftermarket Recaro seats you see inside the car are only for the prototype, but may hint at using lighter-weight seats for the production version.
Now, we're not even sure yet if the RS5 will be making over to our shores, but we're hoping the 2011 (or 2010) RS5 will be unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show in September.
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Fortunately, every category includes the "Other" option - any game you feel deserves an award that we've left off the list, please write in. (And don't worry, we'll make sure to resolve any spelling differences so that games get all of the write-ins they deserve.)On that note - every year, we get a number of write-ins for "None" in categories where someone didn't care to pick any choice. You don't need to do that - no questions are required, so if you don't want to vote for one, you can just leave it blank.
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This year's articles about programming #2010
In 2010 I was less focussed on programming articles on the blog than previous years, still I have managed to create some interesting articles with code in 2010. This is an overview of the activity:
Sync Web with Phone #html #javascript #scratchpad
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Since I started working for my company I've been exposed to PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), "It was developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, hacking and various other security issues."1 There are only a small amount of requirements that need to be implemented, although these can be pretty substantial for some customers. I can also be difficult to understand the details of these 12 requirements for compliance.2
Being a programmer by nature I've often been told that the nuts and bolts of what I do, the part I enjoy, are a little complex. PCI is something different, everybody can understand that credit card data needs to be protected from unauthorized access. Not just credit card data, but all data that could potentially be used in identity theft. Which means that a policy or control needs to be implemented to control this, and note any non-compliance.
PCI is just about protecting your "Cardholder Data":
I know first hand that most of the banks in the Netherlands, and in most of the world, are quick to discover credit card fraud. They are also quick to payout and correct the issue for the customer, because the chance that customers will loose faith in the bank is high if they don't. Yet ultimately these customers are still paying for all the fraud committed with all the credit cards. Banks, payment service providers or retail merchants, who have your Cardholder Data, have all the data needed for this kind of financial identity theft and fraud, and more…
It may seem obvious that this data is stored securely, credit card use is ubiquitous. Yet the large banks have had the same problems with data leakage as small retailers, which means the data must be secured from the customer right to the bank who finally processes the payment to avoid this type of leakage. The problem is that payment service providers or merchants have traditionally not done this. They may handle the temporary authorization requests for the PAN or use the Bank Identification Number (BIN) from the card number for routing the payments to the specific issuer, so they may need the number. That's fine, as long as they store the data securely and have a log of who accessed the data and why the data was accessed.
Now that's out of the way I can tell you what I'm doing, I'm playing with RSA Database Security Manager [now EOL'd] and RSA Key Manager. Simply put DBSM is a framework which encrypts the data as in goes into the database and decrypts it as it comes out. It's something that anybody who is paranoid like me had already been doing for a while, but the way I was doing it required me to write custom fragments of code for every application which needed to access the data. DBSM does it transparently, while at the same time checking the users who try to access it, so only the correct users gain access. RKM hooks into this by providing a framework for the policies or controls which grants the correct people/devices/programs a key to lock-up or unlock the data, different policies can be implemented for different types of data or device.
Now you know what I do.
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Now there's something you don't see every day
Here's what I was able to google about it's history
"...The Imperial Double Express was the "cover girl" on "Airgun World" vol. 10 no. 9, April 1987. There was also a one-page article, two-page centerfold photo, and a full-page ad from The Airgun Centre in Rayleigh featuring the gun (price: 550 pounds).
The gun was designed and built by Mike Childs of Skan electronics, aided by Chris Price of Helston Airgunsmiths. [Skan make amazing pump action air rifles - have a look here]
The Double Express was designed to give two shots at about 10 fpe apiece, from only 10 pumps. It has the appearance of an over-under shotgun, but the lower tube is the pump tube of course, the shot tubes are side-by-side in the upper tube. It was intended to be available in .177, .22, or .25 per the customer's choice; two calibers in one gun was do-able. Each barrel was controlled by a separate trigger, and adjustable for zeroing at any desired distance. Power was adjustable as in all multi-pumps.
The breech design was very unusual, a single lever opening the pivoting breech for loading, and then a large brass button sizing both pellets on their way into the chamber. It had a safety.
The gun was reportedly well-balanced and weighed only 7 pounds without scope. No open sights were provided..."
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A RARE .22 MULTI-PUMP PNEUMATIC DOUBLE-BARRELLED AIR-RIFLE MODEL 'DOUBLE-EXPRESS', serial no. 13, circa 1986, with blued, shrouded 20 1/2in. barrels, blued receiver with hinged loading gate to rear engraved 'THE IMPERIAL AIR RIFLE CO. LTD, ENGLAND' on the left hand side and 'DOUBLE-EXPRESS' on the right, chequered walnut half-pistol grip butt with ventilated rubber recoil pad, chequered walnut forend/pump-handle, the whole appearing little used (two spots of mild corrosion on the left hand side of barrel and pump housing, valves require service) TOGETHER WITH an 'OPTIMA' 1.5-4X20 telescopic sight
Provenance: Always intended as a limited edition, only 25 of these unusual air-rifles were produced between 1986 and 1987
Estimate £2,500-3,000
Between writing this post and posting it the gun didn't sell so I got an email telling me it was in the un-sold lots an available for £2,500. Nice very nice, but not for me.
This one went for a grand as recently as last year
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Mad About "Meat" Loaf
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 50 min.
Makes6 servings
- 1 package (6 ounces) fresh baby spinach
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- 2/3 cup mashed cooked carrots
- 1 slice whole wheat bread, torn into pieces
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup grated zucchini
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce, divided
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 3 tablespoons ground flaxseed
- 3 tablespoons ground walnuts
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon dried sage leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- In a large saucepan, bring 1/2 in. of water to a boil. Add spinach; cover and boil for 3-4 minutes or until wilted. Drain and squeeze dry.
- In a large bowl, combine 3/4 cup cheddar cheese, carrots, bread, eggs, zucchini, 1/4 cup tomato sauce, Parmesan cheese, onion, flaxseed, walnuts, oil, garlic, seasonings and spinach. Pat into a greased 8x4-in. loaf pan; top with remaining tomato sauce.
- Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 45 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining cheddar cheese. Bake 4-7 minutes longer or until heated through and cheese is melted. Let stand for 5 minutes before slicing.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 198 calories, 14g fat (6g saturated fat), 94mg cholesterol, 451mg sodium, 9g carbohydrate (2g sugars, 3g fiber), 11g protein.
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Wow! Made this for Meatless Monday and it's a winner. Great ingredients, easy to put together, tasty results. I followed the recipe verbatim and will definitely make it again.
Oct 6, 2014
Great! You would think it was made with meat. I changed a few things but tried to stick close to the ingredients I changed. I did not use the cheddar or parmesan cheeses. I subbed butternut squash for the mashed carrots. I used 1/4 cup of egg whites, I omitted the walnuts and used 3 tbsp. of bulgur soaked in water to soften up. Thanks for a great alternative from using ground beef or ground turkey. May never go back to "meat" meatloaf again.
Oct 6, 2014
Terrific! I loved this recipe. My husband couldn't believe there was no meat! My vegetarian teenager liked it, too!
Jan 31, 2013
Made this and my 3 kids loved it. Even my husband had no idea that it didn't have any meat in it. Will definitely make again! Delicious.
Sep 17, 2012
Wow, eating more of a plant based diet, I missed my favorite dish, Meatloaf! This hit the spot! Perfect in every sense. Texture, taste and smell!! I did edit it a little... here were my edits:*used 5 oz of baby spinach*used Veggies Shreds instead of real cheese (for both the Cheddar and the Parmesan)*used 1 cup of mashed carrots*used 2 slices of HPLC bread from Great Harvest Bread Company*used 1 cup of Zucchini*made my own Italian seasoning (equal parts of, basil, oregano, rosemary, marjoram, cilantro, thyme and red pepper flakes)*did not sprinkle more cheese on top, and did not put it back in the oven for additional time.
Feb 13, 2012
This was very different but good tasting. But it does take a lot of work to make.
Feb 7, 2012
This was quite good and filling. We really enjoyed it and will definitely make it again


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You know how I like to stay educated because I am a real Smarty Cat!
Shazam and Jazz, and you can read their stories in the links here linked with their names.
But why is this Lion sitting amongst pizza boxes?
So a thought I ponder, would I like horse poop as much as these Big Cats, or would these Big Cats like Catnip as much as I do, being a Little Cat?
Mom says I am not going to be able to test this theory.
Aramis. He was rescued from a private owner, where he was completely uncared for. Hey, he sticks his tongue out when he sleeps too, just like me!
Aurora, also rescued from the same private owner, in equally bad condition as Aramis.
Mom apologizes for not taking better notes on this Big World Assignment on the Big Cats' names. She did say she enjoyed herself very much and did not think she would, seeing Big Cats enclosed like this. The viewing areas allow visitors to be as close as 3 feet from the animals! All the animals are rescued so they are definitely living a better life now than with their previous owners.
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A teacher at the Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School in South Burlington is Vermont's 2013 teacher of the year.
Jay Hoffman, a technology education teacher, was honored Tuesday during a special meeting of the state Board of Education.
As teacher of the year, Hoffman will visit schools around the state and work with teachers. He is also a candidate for the National Teacher of the Year award.
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Beloved in Christ,
Greetings in the name of our incarnate God and Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ!
Glory to that Hidden One, Whose Son was made manifest! Glory to that Living One, Whose Son was made to die! Glory to that Great One, Whose Son descended and was small! Glory to the Power Who did straiten His greatness by a form, His unseen nature by a shape! With eye and mind we have beheld Him, yea with both of them.
Glory to that Hidden One, Who even with the mind cannot be felt at all by them that pry into Him; but by His graciousness was felt by the hand of man! The Nature that could not be touched, by His hands was bound and tied, by His feet was pierced and lifted up. Himself of His own will He embodied for them that took Him.
(Ephrem the Syrian, Hymn II on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh)
As we contemplate during this holy season what it means for the Hidden One to have made Himself known to us, my prayer for all of us is that, especially as this world remains so much in darkness and separation from God, the coming of our Lord Jesus in the flesh would inaugurate in us—perhaps anew, perhaps for the first time—a genuine intimacy with our God.
His love for us is so immense and powerful that He came out of His hiddenness and showed Himself, emptying Himself of His glory and power to become a man, a man Who suffered and was crucified for our sakes. And He Who was untouchable, became touchable by His own will. And so His birth into a life destined for death opens up for us new birth passing through death and into eternal life.
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
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It has been two years, twenty-six days, six hours, twenty-four minutes and thirty seconds since my eyes caught the first glimpse of my mistress, functional reactive programming. Her simplicity, beauty, and power has captivated me since, but she has teased me — all of us lonely fools, really — by slipping through my fingers every time, just as I thought I was getting to know her.
A year ago I swore off the cold bitch. She was transforming my life into a single, unhealthy obsession. I needed time to think. Time — there she is again. Maybe by giving myself space, I thought, I could stumble upon a packet of wisdom and finally capture her heart, without really looking for it. But that sort of distance is a lie, my life continues to be about her. Distance only makes the heart grow fonder.
Last week I bumped into her at work. I am not proud of what I did. Forgive me for I am only human, ultimately incapable of suppressing the basal instinct that has ruled my kind for millions of years. That's right, I implemented her, in the back seat of my Scala convertible. It would seem but a few hour fling on a whiteboard and an editor for the unprivy, but O how it intoxicated me! And it has not, as yet, ended in the heartbreak I have felt over and over again — she is quietly sitting in the back of my codebase, hardly a hundred lines, even doing some good if you can believe it. Maybe I am just fooling myself and this time will be no different. But, at the very least, I feel like I may have learned something.
Perhaps FRP is not the sparkling Holy Grail of interactive functional programming that we have made it out to be. Maybe we cannot find an efficient, general implementation because there is none. Perhaps what we currently know about FRP is what there is to know — a book of heuristics, a collection of experiences and wisdom that tells us which of its features will and will not work together. FRP is not a single feature, you know, it really is a rather large design space, and quite a lot can be done with only pieces of it.
What I did at work was remarkably effective: I sketched how our server would read in FRP language on a whiteboard, and then I implemented a framework which supported exactly the operations I needed and no more. It took hardly two hours, and there is no spacetime leak, no GC nondeterminism. The situation in FRP seems to be something like that of modern theoretical physics: we have a few different theories that all work remarkably well for different kinds of problems, and if only they would work with each other, we would have a unified theory. But mysteriously, they just don't seem to get along.
A unified theory is more than just something to please the eyes of pure functionalists — it is important to us because it would mean the fall of the IO monad regime. The book of heuristics I claim is FRP still needs a sin bin from which to retrieve the superglue that holds together the pieces of a complete application. So the school of semanticists cannot give a meaning to a complete program, only pieces of it. This makes us unable to prove things about a program, and unsure how to meaningfully compose multiple programs (eg. what kinds of things should and should not be allowed).
There are the quantum field theorists, attempting to bring gravity in to the regime of quantum mechanics; there are the string theorists, attempting to bring the rest of reality into the regime of general relativity. But I, as a physics layman, naively believe that neither of these approaches will end up being the workhorse of the eventual unified theory. I believe that said theory will come with a new way of looking at the world, rather than patching up the old ways. Maybe the expert in me can learn from the layman in me and try to solve the problem instead of clinging to the solution I think I desire.
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The Central Connecticut softball team will kick off NEC Tournament action Thursday at 11:30 a.m. in Moon Township, PA against Monmouth. For the first time in CCSU history, the Blue Devils have earned the title of Co-NEC Regular Season Champions. The 2013 squad has broken the CCSU single-season win record with 32 wins headed into the tournament and has earned the most conference wins in the history of the program with 16.
"The team is ready to go," Head Coach Jeff Franquet said. "We're just going to take it one game at a time and hopefully we can take care of business." CLICK HERE to see Franquet and the Blue Devils talk about the upcoming tournament.
Tomorrow's game will be broadcast live, for free, on www.NECFrontRow.com. Fans can also follow the action via LIVE STATS.
During the regular season, the Blue Devils traveled to Monmouth to play the Hawks in West Long Branch, NJ where they were handed their only NEC sweep of the season. Central is 2-6 with the Hawks under Franquet and 4-14 since 2004.
The first game in this season's doubleheader against the Hawks ended in an extra-inning loss for Central. The two teams remained scoreless throughout a full nine innings of play until the tie-breaker rule came into effect. The Blue Devils placed a runner on second, but were unable to drive her in. They didn't get another chance as the Hawks' placed runner was driven in in the bottom of the 10th to break the deadlock and take the game 1-0.
The Blue Devils fell to Monmouth 5-2 in game two.
Following the CCSU vs. Monmouth match-up in the double-elimination tournament, #1 Robert Morris will face #4 LIU Brooklyn in game two. The winners of both games will play at 10:30 a.m. on Friday. The two losing teams will play at 1 p.m. on Friday.


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Using Buttons
This example shows how to use Buttons from Jython. Three buttons should be displayed in the applet below.
The complete source code for this example is included below.
The init method creates three buttons with the appropriate labels. It also specifies the actions to be performed when the first and third buttons are clicked. These actions are specified using event properties. Finally, this method adds these three buttons to the applet (which is using the default FlowLayout).
The enable and disable methods change the states of the buttons as appropriate. Notice that this is done using the enabled property of the Buttons.


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Journal Workshop: How to assemble the perfect nature journal kit
January 9, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmFree
When you hit the trail for a day of nature journaling, you want to have all your favorite items at your fingertips. The more accessible you make your journal kit, the more likely you will be to get it out and use it. If your journal is buried somewhere in your backpack and it is a hassle to get it out, it is easy to say to yourself, "Oh well, I will draw the next bird". You can go like this all day and never get it out!
Everyone's kit will be different. We all have our favorite tools and materials. Your kit will be a balance between having the equipment you need and the inconvenience of extra weight and clutter. Bring your favorite materials and field sketching supplies. We will evaluate different systems and help your perfect your kit for you.
We will also explore some field sketching logistics such as how to hold your journal while you sketch outdoors, how to juggle binoculars, pencil, journal and other supplies, dealing with wind, and the nature journal quick-draw.
You can view a list of some of my favorite nature journal supplies and can order some materials from my store. Some supplies will be available for purchase at the workshop such as journal kit shoulder bags, waterbrushes, and compact binoculars.


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Center for Tropical Forest Science
A Global Program for Long Term, Large-Scale Forest Research
From 2004 to 2012, the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) was headquartered at the Arnold Arboretum. CTFS is global network of forest research plots committed to studying the ecosystem functions and diversity of tropical and temperate forests. The multi-institutional network comprises tropical research plots across Latin America, Africa, and Asia; and temperate plots in North America and China. CTFS monitors the growth and survival of some 4.5 million trees of over 8,500 species.
CTFS coordinates plots in Southeast and South Asia through partnerships with host-country institutions. Peter Ashton (Bullard Professor Emeritus and director of the Arboretum from 1979-1987) was instrumental in developing the Arboretum's fruitful and active involvement with CTFS plots in Asia. The sites were chosen to represent the major biogeographic areas of the region. They span a gradient of climates, soil types, and natural disturbance regimes and are located in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Taiwan, China, and Papua New Guinea. Plots outside of the Asia region are administered by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and are collectively referred to as CTFS, or as the Smithsonian Institute's Global Earth Observatories, SIGEO.


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If you would like to learn about a contemporary admirer of Machiavelli, take a look at a book by James Moore and Wayne Slater, two long-time observers of the American political landscape, entitled The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power. (1)
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Day's interest in writing started at an early age. "There were four kids in our family, the three girls all close together in age. We were home from school one winter day because we'd had a blizzard and Mom.… Well, she was practically pulling her hair out in an attempt to keep us entertained.
"We'd fought our way through any number of board games, had read all the books in the house and were basically making a total nuisance of ourselves. Out of sheer desperation, Mom told me that if I didn't have any books to read, I should go write one.
"So, I did. It was a historical. A Cinderella story set in the Wild West with a wicked stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. As I recall, those two stepsisters bore an uncanny resemblance to my own two sisters. I guess I was out of charity with them at the time!"
Those initial attempts, rooted in elementary school, continued all the way through college. "Although I'd thought about being a writer in high school, I majored in Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. I was going to be another Jane Goodall…right up until I went camping for the first time. It forced me to reconsider a lifetime spent without the basic necessities of life — like running water and flush toilets."
So she dropped out to reconsider her career choices. That's when she met her future husband, Frank. "It was a whirlwind courtship. We married five months after meeting."
The two went into business together, first running a film library in Berkeley, then remodeling houses in Seattle, Washington, before opening up a produce market. "Frank is great at retail. He's a natural salesman. But I'm not.
"With a retail operation," Day says with a laugh, "you have to be nice to the customers. That's tough since I'm an introvert who'd rather hide in the employee lounge with my nose in a book. When I became pregnant with our son, Matt, I told Frank that I'd like to find another line of work. He was incredibly supportive. He asked me what I wanted to do and without even thinking I said, 'Write. I want to write Harlequin Romances.'
The next day we drove into Seattle and bought our first computer." And the rest is history!
Well, not quite. "Harlequin returned my first attempt — three mercifully short chapters. They said that although my writing was competent, the plot of my story was melodramatic and my characters stereotypical.
Then tragedy struck. Day's younger sister, Nancy, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died the following year. "It was a very dark time," Day confesses.
"We'd recently moved into this tiny condominium outside of San Diego, California, and I didn't know a lot of people. My son, Matt, had just turned three and I spent the summer hiding in our home with the drapes drawn, playing with him. Finally my husband — out of sheer desperation — told me to start writing again or go get a job at McDonald's flipping burgers.
"It worked! I sat down and wrote a slapstick romance called Jinxed. After three months of depression, I needed some comedic relief and that book provided it. It was my first Harlequin Romance and I dedicated it to Nancy."
As for the future? "I have a ton of ideas. Last time I checked my schedule I was booked several years ahead. And considering I come up with book ideas all the time…well, let's just say that I have a lot of writing ahead of me!"
Described by Harlequin as "one of our most popular writers ever!" Day's tremendous worldwide popularity has made her a member of Harlequin's prestigious "Five Star Club," with sales totaling well over five million books. She is a three-time winner of both The Colorado Award of Excellence and The Golden Quill Award. She's won Romantic Times Magazine's Career Achievement, and Love and Laughter's awards, the Holt Medallion, the Bestseller's Best Award, and has received an impressive ten nominations for the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA© Award.
This information is shared from here. Day Leclaire loves hearing from readers so please do email her.
A January 2011 Silhouette Desire "I'm having your baby."
With those words, Emma Worth changed Chase Larson's life forever. Having been born on the wrong side of the marriage bed, the millionaire vowed no baby of his would be so cruelly labeled. There was just one thing that might keep him from making Emma his wife: their feuding families.
She'd never dreamed one night with Chase would bind them forever. The pregnant heiress desperately wanted to raise their child together, but only if Chase could forget they were enemies...
4 1/2 TOP PICK from Romantic Times Magazine! Leclaire's got a fine hand with sexy romance and troubled relationships. This is one of her best. Pat Cooper
Conflict: This would be my number one guess. In my Dante series, the heroes all have the ability to identify their soul mates when they first touch. They all (for the most part) resist it. They're not ready for anything that permanent. That creates conflict since, hey, you're stuck with her.
But it's not enough conflict. It's neither deep enough, nor serious enough. Conflict must be strong (meaning serious enough so it isn't resolved with a simple conversation) and it must be layered, meaning that when the initial conflict is resolved, it creates a new and more serious conflict as a result. OR it's layered because there are multiple (different) issues that all must be resolved before you reach a happily-ever-after.
In Claimed: The Pregnant Heiress, the heroine has a one-night stand with the hero. Their birth control experiences a glitch and in the opening chapters after she and the hero are reunited, she discovers she's pregnant with his child. That's not enough conflict to sustain an entire book since all they'd be going on about is how to handle the baby. Marry or don't marry. Whatever. Boring for nearly 200 pages.
In this case, the heroine is attempting to protect her hometown against the machinations of the hero's brother. More, deeper conflict. Certainly adds to the whole marriage issue since the heroine isn't real eager to hook up with the hero's family. Still not enough to sustain the book.
The final piece of conflict goes directly to character. The WHY she won't marry him and WHY he is insistant that they marry is the core nugget of what's holding these two people apart. The three in combination is what gives the overall conflict its strength and depth.
You can also have weak characters, who aren't consistent in their actions, who aren't well motivated in their wants/needs/goals throughout the story, or who haven't been fully developed or are sterotypes versus archetypes.
For instance, I might have a warrior hero archetype. So what? There are lots of heroes and lots of warriors. What makes my warrior stand out from the others? What makes the reader care about him? Okay, maybe it's because he fights for the underdog. Great, much better. But...why? You can't just say that without giving him something from his past that drives his determination to protect those weaker than himself. Maybe he had a mother or sister who was victimized at a time he was too weak or young to protect her. Better. Maybe someone died as a result of his inaction or inability to defend them. Ouch. Deep, emotional, haunting.
Now what if he's thrust into a situation where he must--not protect the underdog heroine--but destroy her for some reason? That's a strong character. That's a conflicted character.
Look at your characters and keep asking WHY. Why do they do X? What motivates them? Just as your conflict needs layers, so do your characters. And the conflict must be connected to the character and his goals, motivations, and/or beliefs in some powerful way.
It's also possible that a judge or editor may reject your story based on the strength (or lack thereof) of your plot. Your plot must be believable (within the romance fantasy world, lol, where we give a LOT of latitude to the word "believable"). I mean, I'm laughing as I write this because, well, come on! I'm the Queen of UNbelievable plots. Can anyone say Dante's Inferno??
Anyway, within the world you create you must sustain believeablity and your plot must make emotional and logical sense, with your characters acting consistently and believably in response to the conflict (or problems) you set up. You can't just have them fight because you know they need a reason to keep them apart. You can't just have them stuck together for convenience. They must have problems with each other and be either apart or together for reasons the reader is willing to accept.
Your plot must move along and not get bogged down or become boring. Readers want to be entertained, not put to sleep. Events must happen at a pace that keeps readers turning the pages. The story should be gripping. Have a surprise or two. Take unexpected turns. Not be one you've heard a thousand times before. Dont' be trite; be original.
And here's one that is a tough fact to swallow. You have to be able to write well, have a solid working knowledge of grammar and the fundamentals of writing. These can be learned. But if you can't write well, your story will also be weak--weakly written.
I watch American Idol. Love it. I can even carry a tune and have a decent ear. In fact, I have enough of an ear to know just how bad a singer I am in comparison to professional artists. I sing for my own pleasure, but I will never, ever, not in a trillion years be paid to sing. It reminds me of a line from Working Girl. Joan Cusack says to
Melanie Griffith: "Sometimes I like to dance around in my underwear.
Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will." The tough, tough fact is, some people who love to write simply aren't very good at it. That said...? It's one of the few professions where you can actually learn how to write and write well. But it takes practice and dedication and you must be a natural storyteller.
On being asked about adding layers :
That's fairly easy for me. If it bores me, it's going to bore the reader. It's basically part of pacing. I try not to get bogged down in long, descriptive passages and instead get the setting or clothing or everyday stuff across in broad, concise descriptions. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but it really isn't. I want to paint as vivid a scene as I can in as few words as possible.
That said, if there's a lot of narrative, it better have a lot of action to keep us both interested. I also don't do a lot of straight dialogue without tags. I want you in the character's head when she's interacting with the hero. I'll have a run of dialogue for a short span, but only if works for the story and serves a purpose, such as adding humor. But I try and allow you, the reader, to feel the emotions as much as possible since that's (for the most part) why you read romances.
And then I asked her if she uses critique groups and critique partners:
Hey, Nas Dean!
When I was first starting out I had a critique group. It was pretty much a disaster. Then I hooked up with a couple fellow romance authors and we formed a brainstorming group. That's where I need the most help--plotting and digging down deep to get to the core of the story so it's as emotional as I can make it. Humor comes easily, but it takes work to mine those deeper, longer lasting emotions. Since then, I've lost one member of the group and picked up another. We're a tight bunch. Really lovely to have.
Delighted to hear you enjoyed Claimed: The Pregnant Heiress. And I'm glad my mini-lessons helped. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm pretty passionate about what I do.
Sometimes I consider offering a class and having us rip apart one of my books and reconstruct it as a how-to lesson. And I'd choose my own just because I know how I went about plotting and writing it. But it would take a lot of time and I'm not sure I want to spend that much of my time not writing, if you know what I mean.
This mini lesson is shared from here.