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Companies House: guidance for limited companies, partnerships and other company types
A collection of guides about registering, filing and disclosing information with Companies House.
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
See our guidance on the temporary changes to Companies House filing requirements.
UK leaving the EU
The UK formally left the EU on 31 January 2020. From 1 January 2021, some European entities formed under EU law will not be able to be registered in the UK.
This guidance explains which businesses will need to change their company registration from 1 January 2021, and how to do this. There will also be changes to some Companies House forms.
What information we make available to the public
Guidance about the public company register, including:
- what the public record is
- what information we make available to the public for free
- how the public can access information
- how long your information remains publicly available
- how to protect your home address and other personal information
Online filing
Find out about the benefits of our online filing services, and how to:
- send your information to Companies House online
- sign up for email reminders
- send your information online using software
Company incorporation, names and officers
This guide includes information and advice about:
- how to incorporate a limited company
- the type of company you wish to incorporate
- the company's officers
- choosing a company name including controls and restrictions
- disclosure of company name and other information
Confirmation statement
The guide covers:
- the confirmation statement (form CS01)
- share capital
- company registers
Submitting your confirmation statement online
You can watch our Confirmation Statement demo video with captions on YouTube (4m 23s).
Guidance for rules governing the filing of accounts of UK registered companies, including:
- accounting reference dates
- accounting records
- micro-entity accounts
- small company accounts
- medium company accounts
- dormant company accounts
You can watch our annual accounts video with captions on YouTube (1m 45s).
Changes to the company
Information about changes that UK companies need to file and the rules and requirements on submitting them.
Includes changes to:
- directors and secretaries
- PSC(people with significant control)
- company records
- resolutions
- change of constitution
- share capital
- re-registration
- charges
People with significant control (PSC)
Flat management companies
Use our interactive online learning tool to find out how to set up and register:
- flat management companies
- RTM companies
- commonhold associations
Mortgage charges
How to:
- register a new charge at Companies House
- tell us about any you've paid off
- register as a lender to file charges online
- make an application to rectify a charge
Company registers
This guide includes information and advice about:
- register of members
- register of people with significant control
- information on the central public register
- register of directors
- register of directors' usual residential addresses
- register of secretaries
Company strike off, dissolution and restoration
Information for directors, secretaries or company advisers about how to dissolve a company or restore a company to the register.
Includes information on:
- why a company may apply to be struck off
- when a company cannot apply to be struck off
- how to apply and who to tell
- how strike off and restoration notices are published in the Gazette
- withdrawing a strike off application
- objecting to a company's dissolution
- offences and penalties
- what happens to companies no longer in operation
- how to restore a company to the register by a court order or administrative restoration
Late filing penalties (LFP)
How an LFP will be imposed if your company accounts are not filed on time and how to appeal against an LFP.
The guidance explains:
- LFPs
- how to avoid an LFP
- what to do when an LFP has been imposed
- how to appeal an LFP
Registrar's rules and powers
This guide outlines the powers of the registrar of companies as per Part 35 of the Companies Act 2006, which also applies to limited liability partnerships.
The guidance explains:
- the registrar's powers which relate to the delivery of information
- the registrar's powers to amend the register
- other registrar powers
Restricting the disclosure of your information
How to restrict access to your information on the public register.
This guide will be relevant to you if:
- you're a director or LLP member that wants to restrict disclosure of your residential address
- you're a person with significant control (PSC) that wants to restrict disclosure of your residential address
- you're a PSC that wants to restrict disclosure of all your PSC information on the public register
- you act as an adviser to a company, LLP, unlimited company or SE
- you're seeking to suppress specified addresses from continuing to be published on the public register
- Restricting the disclosure of your information
- Restricting the disclosure of your information: Limited Liability Partnerships
- Restricting the disclosure of your information: (Scottish Limited Partnerships and Scottish Qualifying Partnerships)
- Overseas companies: restricting disclosure of your address
Liquidation and insolvency
This guidance provides a basic overview of insolvency and liquidation proceedings and summarises some of the rules that apply to:
- company voluntary arrangements
- moratoria
- administrations
- receivers
- voluntary liquidations
- compulsory liquidations
- EC regulations
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs)
- Confirmation statement guidance for LLPs
- Limited liability partnership incorporation and names
- Limited liability partnership accounts guidance
- Limited liability partnership registers
- Life of a limited liability partnership
- Limited liability partnership strike off, dissolution and restoration
- Late filing penalties: limited liability partnerships
- Liquidation and insolvency: limited liability partnerships
- Liquidation and insolvency: limited liability partnerships (Northern Ireland)
- Liquidation and insolvency: limited liability partnerships (Scotland)
Overseas companies
European economic interest groupings (EEIGs)
European public companies Societas Europaea (SEs)
Limited partnerships (LPs)
This guide explains what you need to do if you're:
- intending to register a limited partnership
- intending to be designated as a private fund limited partnership
- a limited or general partner of a limited partnership
- acting as an adviser to a limited partnership
It also contains guidance on People with Significant Control (PSC) for Scottish limited partnerships.
Cross border mergers
Cross border mergers involving UK companies must be completed and registered before 1 January 2021. After this, cross border mergers that use the EU cross border merger regime (Directive 2005/56/EC) will not be able to take place.
Read our guidance for information on changes to company registration from 1 January 2021.
Paper filing requirements
Guide to our official statistics
This guidance provides definitions for the main terms used in Companies House official statistics publications.
Our live webinars are designed to provide you with quick and useful guidance on a range of topics, at a time and place of your choosing.
During the webinar, you can ask us questions using the on-screen text box. Our online team of experts will do their best to answer all your queries, or direct you to helpful guidance.
Last updated 31 January 2020 + show all updates
Guidance added for changes from 1 January 2021.
Collection of webinars added.
Latest confirmation statement guidance added to collection.
LLP accounts guidance added to collection.
Collection title has changed.
Nationalities added to guidance collection.
Reference to PSC guidance for Scottish LPs added.
Scottish partnerships PSC guidance and restricting disclosure of information added to the guidance collection.
New confirmation statement video added.
Link to confirmation statement video added to the page.
Definitions to accompany our statistical releases guidance added to the guidance collection.
Reordered titles and names following the implementation of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act
Limited liability partnership registers added to LLP guidance collection
Company registers guidance added to the company guidance collection
LLP guidance for the confirmation statement added to the page
Confirmation statement guidance added to the collection of guidance
Rectification of charges added to the guidance
Draft PSC guidance added to the collection
New guidance added to collection: Company details on paper documents.
Inconsistencies guidance added to collection
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Okay, look, I'm trying to keep low-key about this. I don't want to make it into a whole deal. But I just finished the first draft of my new book, and OH MY GOD I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
I've been keeping my mouth shut about this, because from experience I know the moment I say, "This book I'm working on is going quite well," that's the first moment of a week of black, empty wordlessness. You just can't tempt the gods like that. So I have been very good. I haven't said anything to anybody, even though I have desperately wanted to grab someone and yell, "It's the best book ever! It's the best book ever!"
Now I should confess that I often become overly enamored with my own books while I'm writing them. It's a good thing, because if I saw them objectively, these staggering, newborn first drafts, I'd probably be so appalled that I wouldn't be able to keep working on them. Blind love at this point is a prerequisite.
And next, I'm sure I'm going to read this draft and discover the myriad ways in which it's not as wonderful as I thought. But that's also a good thing: just as I can't write if I'm in a critical frame of mind, I can't edit unless I am. So I need to change modes. I need to give it some tough love.
But before I do, I'm just going to say it: this has been the best writing experience of my life.
I did two things differently this time. First, I had a daily maximum word limit. I probably broke this more times than I honored it, but still, I think it was helpful. It was good to feel a little naughty when I wrote 800 words in a day. And it was good to be able to leave it at 200 words when the scene needed more thought, rather than feeling like I should push on with whatever I had at the time.
The second thing I did differently was refuse to plot. Well, I've always done that; this time I actively tried to destroy my own plotting. Whenever I realized I'd figured out what was going to happen next, I changed my mind. My goal was to avoid any kind of cruise mode, where I feel that the story is ticking along nicely and I don't want to screw anything up, so I just let things play out. This time I deliberately kept messing things up. Sometimes that meant I spent most of my writing time looking out the window trying to figure out what would happen instead. And by the time I got to the ending, all I knew was that it couldn't possibly be what I'd originally imagined.
I'm sure this helped my characters, because I constantly looked to them for the next step instead of trying to nudge them down my pre-determined path. And although I have a bunch of stuff I need to go back and insert to make the stuff I only thought up later work, I think the plot that grew out of this chaos is actually pretty good.
But most of all: oh man, it was such cool fun. I've had the best time.
(Note: I know somebody's going to ask about timelines, so: at a guess, I'll be ready to show this to my editor in maybe 6-12 months. If he decides he wants to publish it, then add about 12 months before it would appear on the shelves. I know, I know. Sorry.)


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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Answered Prayer
I know it's been quite sometime since I last updated this blog, but I've been waiting for a series of events to run their course before I gave a general update. Allow me to explain:
A few months ago (back in August, I believe), I was training with my California National Guard unit up at Camp Roberts. We had just found out that our anticipated deployment in early 2012 had been canceled, and I was wondering what I would do for full-time employment. Our battalion XO recommended that I check out the "Tour of Duty" website, where all Guard/Reserve job openings are posted. I did, and lo and behold there was one vacancy for a chaplain to deploy - with a unit from the Rhode Island National Guard. I immediately informed my Brigade Chaplain of this opportunity, and was told to "go for it."
When I called to get more information, I was told that the Battalion Commander was interviewing prospective chaplains to determine who he would want to take with him. A few days later, the commander called me and asked me if I wanted to apply for the position. When I told him yes, we went through a short interview and he said he would get back to me the next day with his decision. Tamara and I prayed about it that night, asking that if it was God's will for me to take this job that he would grant me favor in the sight of this commander and be offered the position.
The next morning the commander called me back and said that he had selected me to fill the available chaplain's billet and accompany them on their deployment!
So far, it seemed that God had answered our prayers and all that remained was to get out to Rhode Island and deploy with his unit, right? Wrong.
When I called my current battalion commander about this opportunity, he was very favorably disposed to letting me go, but said that it was up to his boss - the brigade commander. The brigade commander said I could go, but only if I could backfill my position - something that our state chaplain would have to do. When I called our state chaplain, I was surprised to find that he was unwilling to let me go; apparently, there is a chronic shortage of qualified chaplains in the California Guard and he was not about to let one go voluntarily, no matter how pressing my financial need was to find a job. The only way he would let me go was if I found a full-time job in another state, which would necessitate an interstate transfer. The only problem was that I didn't know anyone in Rhode Island and certainly didn't have any job prospects in New England!
A day or two later I was talking to my dad about all this, and he agreed that the only way I could go with this unit was if I was able to find a job in New England and do an interstate transfer. He remembered that our old pastor at the Virginia Beach Community Chapel - Dr. Harold Burchett - was living in Rhode Island, and did I want him to call and see what he could do? This set in motion a chain of events which resulted in a church in Attleboro, MA offering to create a position for me as their Military Ministry Coordinator - which would allow me to present my state chaplain with a letter of employment. This in turn would require California to release me to the National Guard unit of my choosing - which, naturally, would be the deploying Rhode Island unit.
After coordinating with the battalion commander and senior chaplains in Rhode Island, I moved out here on October 12th to get settled in to the area and begin working with the unit. However, my transfer was delayed due to some administrative issues. Finally, the paperwork came through last week and I was released from California and officially attached to Rhode Island. My new unit is already in the process of cutting me orders for the remainder of November and ensuring that I get paid for the weeks in October that I was out here.
As it stands now, our unit will get mobilized on November 27th, and will spend nearly two months training at Ft. Hood, TX before flying over to Kuwait. We'll be stationed at Udairi Army Airfield in Kuwait for nine months, and then will return to RI for about a month of redeployment training before being demobilized.
Thanks to all of you for your continued prayers and financial support during this time. Tamara and I have shared the conviction that this deployment was something that God was opening up for us, but it has been both a financial challenge and a test of our faith to wait for everything to line up in the right order. Praise God that He has brought us through all of these hurdles and that I am now able to begin ministering on a full-time basis to the men and women of the 1st Battalion, 126th Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), or 1-126th AVN (GSAB).
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Tech reseller, MSY, has been fined $203,500 in penalties by the Federal Court following a court case brought on by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over misleading consumer warranty rights.
In early November, the ACCC alleged MSY Technology sold computers, components, software and other tech products to customers, and made a number of false or misleading representations about consumer warranty rights.
The ACCC alleged that by making the representations, MSY and each of its related companies breached sections 52 and 53(g) of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
MSY hired Spranklin McCartnery Lawyers to present their case, the same firm previously hired to prepare its Warranty and Sales Policy.
In Federal Court documents, Justice Perram, said after the commencement of proceedings on October 28, the respondents (MSY) swiftly admitted all of the conduct alleged against them in the Commission's application, and fully co-operated.
The documents also detailed that from July 28 to October 28, MSY displayed notices at its North Melbourne, Box Hill, Clayton, Pascoe Vale, Cheltenham and Brooklyn stores which contained statements disclaiming or excluding MSY's responsibility for providing warranties to consumers for certain goods.
Justice Perram said a typical example of the statements involved was: "We are unable to offer refund or exchange for these items". The notices, price lists and receipts also contained statements which purported to restrict MSY's warranty obligations to consumers for goods referred to in them.
For example, one of the notices said: "all LCD monitors are cover[ed] against bright pixel defects by our 7 days DOA [dead on arrival] replacement warranty. Less than 3 Black Dead pixels... will not be covered."
The maximum penalty for each contravention is $1,100,000.
At the time of the institution of the proceedings, MSY did not have any compliance training or educational programmes for staff on compliance with the Trade Practices Act. But since then, adequate programs had been put in place.
Acting ACCC chairman, Michael Schaper, said this outcome serves as a timely reminder that the ACCC will take action against businesses which mislead consumers about their rights.
On top of the penalty handed out, the court has also ordered MSY to restrain for a period of five years from making false or misleading representations about a consumer's statutory warranty rights; implement a Trade Practices compliance program; display corrective advertising in each of their stores; publish a corrective notice on the MSY Technology website at www.msy.com.au, and pay the ACCC's costs.
Under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) amendments, which commenced April 15 last year, the ACCC can seek civil proceedings penalties of up to $1.1 million against corporations and $220, 000 against individuals for a contravention of various consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices Act (now the Competition and Consumer Act 2010).


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Saw one of our Forum members, Rich McG, up on San Gorgonio Mountain over Memorial Day. Howdy, Rich.
Rich's pack is one I hadn't seen before, a Mariposa Plus from Gossamer Gear. I hadn't seen a Mariposa Plus before. Looks like a good pack. I have a Mariposa (just a regular Mariposa) which I like quite a bit.


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Honor the Heroes of the Game, Preserve Its History, Promote Its Values & Celebrate Excellence Everywhere
"To me, a sack could be described as a play with a plot. You have ups and downs, and then all of a sudden, it's drawing to the conclusion, everybody is in suspense, it's building, and building, and boom, you have a hero.''
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(Alabama). . . 6'3", 243. . . Fourth player overall, 1989 draft. . . Defensive Rookie of the Year. . . Led NFL with team record 20 sacks; including NFL record seven sacks in one game, 1990 . . .Named to nine Pro Bowls. . .Accumulated most sacks in NFL during 1990s. . .Recorded 126.5 career sacks. . .All-NFL three times. . .All-AFC seven times. . .Born January 1, 1967 in Miami, Florida. . .Died February 8, 2000, at age of 33.
The Kansas City Chiefs selected linebacker Derrick Thomas as the fourth player overall in the 1989 National Football League Draft. A consensus All-America and Dick Butkus Award winner at Alabama, Thomas excelled as a pass rusher who set the school record for sacks.
His pass rushing specialty continued on the professional level as he amassed 10 sacks as a rookie for the Chiefs in 1989. He also added 75 tackles that season to earn Defensive Rookie of the Year honors. Following the season, Thomas was named to the first of nine straight Pro Bowls.
The 6'3", 243-pound linebacker showcased his talent in a big way during his second NFL season. He recorded a league-leading and team record 20 sacks that included an NFL record seven sacks in a game versus the Seattle Seahawks on November 11, 1990. He also recorded a team high six forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, 63 tackles, five pass deflections and 35 quarterback pressures. His season-long performance earned him All-Pro recognition for the first time, an honor he would receive two other times during his career.
His extraordinary pass rushing skills continued throughout his 11-season career that was tragically cut short by his death following an automobile accident shortly after the 1999 NFL regular season.
No player amassed more sacks during the decade of 1990s than the 116.5 sacks by Thomas. He finished his career with 126.5 sacks which was the fourth highest total by a linebacker in NFL history. Thomas had 10 or more sacks in a season seven times and recorded multi-sack games 27 times during his 169-game career.
In addition to his career sack total, Thomas also forced 45 fumbles, had 19 fumble recoveries, scored four touchdowns on fumble returns and added three safeties. His lone interception, which he returned for 20 yards, came during his final season in 1999.
Thomas, a member of the NFL's All-Decade Team of the 1990s, was named first-team All-AFC seven times during an eight-year stretch from 1989 through 1996.
His contribution to the Chiefs franchise was nearly immeasurable. Prior to his arrival in Kansas City, the team had made just one playoff appearance since 1971. In the 11 years that Thomas anchored the defense, the Chiefs finished first or second in the AFC West ten times, made seven playoff appearances, and won three division titles.
Championship Games
1993 AFC - Buffalo Bills 30, Kansas City Chiefs 13
Thomas started as the roaming linebacker. He recorded three tackles.
All-Pro: 1990 (AP, PFWA, NEA, SN, PW), 1991 (AP, SN, PW), 1992 (SN, NEA)
All-Pro Second Team: 1991 (NEA), 1993 (AP), 1994 (AP), 1996 (AP)
All-AFC: 1989 (UPI, PW), 1990 (UPI, PW), 1991 (UPI, PW), 1992 (UPI, PW), 1993 (UPI), 1994 (UPI), 1996 (UPI, PW)
All-AFC-Second Team: 1995 (UPI)
(9) - 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
At the time of his retirement following the 1999 season
[1st] Most Sacks, Game - 7 (vs. Seattle, Nov. 11, 1990)
[2nd] Most Touchdowns on Fumble Recoveries, Career - 4
[Tied for 2nd] Most Touchdowns on Opponents' Fumble Recoveries, Career - 4
[Tied for 2nd] Most Sacks, Game - 6 (vs. Oakland, Sept. 6, 1998)
Team Records
Chiefs' records held by Thomas following his last season in 1999
[1st] Most Opponents Fumbles Recovered, Career - 19
[1st] Most Opponents Fumbles Forced, Career - 45
[1st] Most Opponents Fumbles Forced, Season - 8 (1992)
[1st] Most Sacks, Career - 126.5
[1st] Most Sacks, Season - 20 (1990)
[1st] Most Sacks, Game - 7 (vs. Seattle, Nov. 11, 1990)
[1st] Most Safeties, Career - 3
[Tied for 1st] Most Safeties, Season - 1 (1994, 1997, 1998)
[2nd] Most Opponents Fumbles Forced, Season - 6 (1990, 1994)
[2nd] Most Sacks, Game - 6 (vs. Oakland, Sept. 6, 1998)
[Tied for 3rd] Most Sacks, Season - 14.5 (1992)
[Tied for 3rd] Most Sacks, Game - 4.0 (vs. Buffalo, Oct. 7, 1991; vs. San Diego, Nov. 8, 1992)
[Tied for 3rd] Most Defensive Touchdowns, Career - 4
Post-Season Records
[1st] Most Sacks, Career - 7.5
[Tied for 1st] Most Games Played, Career - 10
NFL Statistical Championships
Sack Titles: 1990
AFC Statistical Championships
Sack Titles: 1990
Team Statistical Championships
Sack Titles: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992*, 1996, 1998, 1999
* Co-leader
1989 Defensive Rookie of the Year (AP, PW)
1990s All-Decade Team
Full Name: Derrick Vincent Thomas
Birthdate: January 1, 1967
Birthplace: Miami, Florida
High School: South (Miami, FL)
Elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame: January 31, 2009
Enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: August 8, 2009
Presenter: Carl Peterson, former President of the Kansas City Chiefs. Thomas was represented posthumously by his son Derrion Thomas.
Other Members of the Class of 2009: Bob Hayes, Randall McDaniel, Bruce Smith, Ralph Wilson, Jr., Rod Woodson
Pro Career: 11 seasons, 169 games
Drafted: 1st round (4th player overall) in 1989 by Kansas City Chiefs
Uniform Number: #58


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To get Pierre, the White Sox agreed to send two players to the Dodgers, providing a list of prospects from which to choose.
"I've talked to my agent and nothing is set in stone with this trade," said Ely, who led the Southern League in wins and strikeouts (125). "I might not be traded. But if I am, I've got a lot of opportunities with the Dodgers and I'll make the best of it – just like I will if I'm not traded. Of course, you'd like to stay with the team you grew up rooting for. I'm a diehard White Sox fan. It could take a couple of weeks before something happens. I'm just going to take it one day at a time."


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NRCS volunteers have embedded in the U.S. military since 2003 and worked on conservation projects with local farmers in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of the nation's civilian effort in reconstruction. Each volunteer had unique experiences, shaped by local needs and the skills of the volunteer. For the next few months, NRCS will highlight the stories of these volunteers and feature them here.
Ag Adviser Returns from 18-Month Tour in Afghanistan, Culminating 35-Year Career at NRCS
It has been 35 productive years at USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for James "Drew" Adam. The NRCS District Conservationist from Vermont is retiring on a "high note" after recently serving in Afghanistan as agricultural adviser. Read More.
NRCS soil scientist returns to Afghanistan as capstone of career
Planting the seeds of a better future
Drew Adam is helping transition agricultural development from the NATO forces and foreign governments to the Afghanistan government.
Caroline Clarin and a dedicated group of Afghan agricultural experts provided over 9,000 people in Afghanistan with training in farming.
Greg Schlenz, a resource conservationist with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, helped Panjshir province in Afghanistan double its wheat harvest and escape subsistence farming.
NRCS Ag Adviser Recognized for Outstanding Service in Afghanistan
Michael I. Gangwer, a resource conservationist with USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service in East Lansing, Mich., helped to build agricultural irrigation expertise among the Afghanistan and Iraqi people.
An assistant state conservationist with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service recently received a top honor for his service overseas in Afghanistan, where he served as an agricultural adviser for two different tours.
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Secondary Glazing from Croft Glass -
Silence is Golden!
Style and design is paramount - Noise reduction is EVERYTHING!
Secondary Glazing involves adding an extra slim-line window in addition to your existing windows. Usually they have white frames, although we can supply them in any of 200 colours. They are made from durable aluminium so they will not rot and require little maintenance. Aluminium is naturally strong so the frames can be made very slim, making our secondary glazing discreet and unobtrusive.
The secondary units are easy to install behind your existing window and door reveals.
The secondary glazing can be manufactured with curved heads to accomodate arched windows and doors.
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- Listed Buildings, Heritage and period properties, as wells as Conservation areas.
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Pizza Girl: Statistical Analysis of a Delivery Shift: Part 1
How much time do I really spend driving during any given shift? How much time do I spend folding boxes? What is my average hourly rate per shift? On a delivery by delivery basis? How much better is it to take a triple instead of a double delivery? How much does a zero tip affect my effective hourly rate?
I often have questions like this, and the best way I could think of answering them was to track my every movement during a shift, so for three peak shifts (Friday or Saturday night) I recorded everything I was doing, from my clock-out time to the time I spent folding boxes (sometimes I feel like I do nothing but fold boxes, though as you'll see, the data says otherwise). Over the next few weeks I'm going to take that data and see what sort of useful information I can pull from it.
Here's an example of my raw data (you can view the full raw data here):
5:28: arrive
5:31: clock in
5:33–5:45: fold boxes (12 minutes)
5:45–5:48: work ovens (3 minutes)
5:48: routed
5:50: leave on delivery (11 minutes travel time)
6:01: arrive at delivery ($3 tip)
6:01: leave house (11 minutes travel time)
6:12: Arrive at store (24 minutes run time for 1 delivery)
6:12–6:15: work ovens (3 minutes)
6:15: routed
6:18: leave on delivery (15 minutes travel time)
6:33: arrive at house ($3 tip)
6:35: leave house (3 minutes travel time)
6:38: arrive at second delivery ($2 tip)
6:38: leave house (14 minutes travel time)
6:52: arrive at store (37 minutes run time on two deliveries)
6:52–7:02: work ovens (10 minutes)
I took that data and went crazy with a spreadsheet to figure out both the percentage of time I spent doing various tasks as well as the average hourly rate I made on each delivery as well as on the shift as a whole.
Before I start analyzing I want to give a few caveats:
- A few of the times are estimates. I would probably get yelled at a bit if I was pulling out my phone every time they asked me to come work the ovens so that I could record the time. I did however try to check the time and remember it for when I could record it.
- For hourly wage estimates I'm excluding the $1.29 per delivery gas/maintenance reimbursement that I get.
- Just to be clear, I get $7.50/hr while not clocked out on a run and $4.95/hr while I am clocked out on a run.
- These results are likely to be significantly different for weeknight shifts and drivers who are on a different pay-scheme than I am. It's also a very limited data-set, so it may not be completely representative of typical shifts (though they certainly felt typical.
- I consider a shift to be successful if I make at least $12.50 an hour. I chose this number because it is what I made at my primary job when I started delivering pizza and, since I couldn't get extra hours there, a second job would be worth my time if I could net the same wage. I've shopped it around with a few other delivery people and the consensus seems to me that it's a reasonable goal (when excluding gas reimbursement).
- I'm not a statistician. I took a class in college for statistics, but that's about it, and I mostly learned that data can be made to say whatever you want. I'm definitely open to improving my method if you find that I'm doing something wrong or that I'm not taking into account some variable is completely skewing my results.
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Idris Elba has been considered a front-runner to take over the role of James Bond after Daniel Craig, but the author of the latest book in the 007 series, Anthony Horowitz, doesn't think Elba would be a good fit.
But rather than simply say he would prefer to see someone else in the role, Horowitz described Elba as "too street" to play "suave" Bond, which has caused many people on social media to go out and defend Elba's potential casting.
"Idris Elba is a terrific actor, but I can think of other black actors who would do it better," Horowitz said in an interview with The Daily Mail. "For me, Idris Elba is a bit too rough to play the part. It's not a color issue. I think he is probably a bit too 'street' for Bond. Is it a question of being suave? Yeah."
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Horowitz praised Craig's Bond character, calling him a "terrific Bond" and added that his favorite movie in the post-Sean Connery Bond era is "Casino Royale." "Of the films after Connery, it is easily the best. Fantastic," he gushed. "A total return to the gritty seriousness of it."
Craig opens up to Esquire U.K. about the "lonely" character that is 007 in the magazine's October issue, and says he hopes that his version has left behind some of Bond's less attractive qualities.
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"He's very f--king lonely," Craig tells the magazine. "There's a great sadness. He's f--king these beautiful women but then they leave and it's... sad. And as a man gets older it's not a good look. It might be a nice fantasy–that's debatable–but the reality, after a couple of months...
"Hopefully," he adds, "my Bond is not as sexist and misogynistic as [earlier incarnations]. The world has changed. I am certainly not that person. But he is, and so what does that mean? It means you cast great actresses and make the parts as good as you can for the women in the movies."
Half of Bond's appeal, however, is his ability to woo, so how does Craig "update" Bond without making him seem "like a dinosaur"?
"There's a delicate balance to it," he says.
"Spectre" hits theaters November 6, 2015.
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As a child of the 1970s, like many in my generation, I have grown up somewhat in the political shadow of the decade before me. For the more conservative members of my family, the 1950s were a great source of nostalgia (especially in the '80s); but for my progressive and politically-engaged mentors and elders, the memories, victories and sometimes mythologies of the 1960s loom large over every movement my generation participates in or initiates. The specter of the '60s is both an inspiration – an ever-present image of a revolutionary moment my generation has not yet experienced, of what might still be possible in organizing and mass engagement of our society in the struggles of our times – and a nostalgia imposed upon us, that implies a moment passed, forever out of reach, or even a lack of faith that the generations to follow could ever do quite as much, or have truly revolutionary effects. This duality provokes a variety of responses in young activists, from hope and attempts to emulate both the styles and strategies of the '60s, to a rebellious exhaustion, a sense of being "over it" (which, in the worst case, results in apathy or reactionary politics), to a determination to show exactly how politically powerful the next generation can be, and how we do it differently. Still, those in the latter category have yet to receive the recognition deserved for the incredible activist and organizing work that is being done in our time; and perhaps we won't, until the children of the '70s, '80s, '90s, and the new millennium are the ones writing the history books and mentoring those who come after us.
Ironically, however, something that persists through these generational shifts in progressive work is both the ever-present and impactful relationship between political and cultural movements, and the struggle for the work of cultural organizers and arts activists to be fully recognized, understood, and valued.
Throughout the 1960s and the remainder of the 20th century, there was a strong relationship between political movements and cultural or artistic movements in the United States. In the Civil Rights Movement, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was closely connected to the Free Southern Theater, for example, and the Black Arts Movement arose directly from the political philosophy of the Civil Rights era and struggles for Black liberation that came before and were in motion around the world. The Chicano Arts Movement, with historically important arts activist companies such as Teatro Campesino, was inextricably linked with Latino/a struggles in the U.S., and the development of political and theoretical frameworks such as transnational solidarity among indigenous peoples, border studies and activism around the politics of borders and immigration. The Women's Movement saw the rise of more women in various forms of cultural production, from journalism and media to playwrights, and leaders of arts organizations and non-profits centered in feminist politics and methodologies. The Gay Rights movement gave birth to decades of solo performance art, and later during the AIDS crisis, the work of activist organizations such as Act Up! and allies could not be separated from mass cultural demonstrations such as Day Without Art and the AIDS quilt. The artistic movements, even if viewed by some as marginal, have always been central to the impact of political change on the hearts and minds of people.
Much of the current field we now know as community-based arts, or community cultural development, stems from these political movements and their cultural arms. In the early 1970s, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) began to employ many politically engaged artists in public service to their communities, providing work for some of the artist who are now leaders in this field, and led to the founding and growth of a whole host of non-profit organizations that are now in their 30s. (A lot has already been written about this, so it may be best to just refer those interested to some important resources: see Jan Cohen-Cruz's book Local Acts, a survey of community-based performance from its early roots, through its flourishing during the politically-turbulent 1960s; for articles about CETA and Community Cultural Development, see writings by Arlene Goldbard; and for a broad array of articles and documentation, visit the impressive Community Arts Network on-line archive at www.communityarts.net ).
Further left out of some of these histories is the arts-activist movement popularly known as Hip Hop. In the 1970s, Hip Hop was born as a community-rooted art form, consciously connected to grassroots activism, a way of empowering people of color across communities and promoting peace through poetry and dance battles rather than turf wars, with politicized and visionary leaders such as Afrika Bamaabtaa. Later in the '80s, as we know, Hip Hop became commercialized as its popularity as the music of a new generation grew, and corporate interests took control of its mass production for the mainstream. But Hip Hop activists never stopped their work in the streets, in the classrooms, in the underground media, in their local communities and in self-made global networks. From We Got Issues! and Rock the Vote engaging a new generation in the electoral process, to re-engaging students in their own education and increasing literacy through Hip Hop's lyricism, to Black Out Arts educating communities about the prison industrial complex, to global speak-outs such as Poets for Palestine, "Old School" Hip Hop practitioners stay true the roots of community aesthetics and the activist impulse to speak truth to power, stand up for justice, and believe in the possibility of change.
From the late 1970s and through the 1990s, the fight to integrate the radical ideas of the '60s into higher education, and to institutionalize certain concepts, hit academia hard. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus, was a hot-bed of student activism and a national leader in the movements for "multiculturalism" in education, and the development of departments such as African American Studies, especially in the '80s. New WORLD Theater, an activist arts program dedicated to supporting the development of new works by artists of color, was born in this climate (in 1979) and found a home within the institution supported, by a strong radical presence in academic and student leadership. In the 1990s, New WORLD Theater became a leader in supporting the cultural movement known as Hip Hop Theater, or "Future Aesthetics," ever-connected to its activist roots. Now, at NWT's 30th year, the political climate has changed so drastically at the University, much farther to the right than it was 30 years ago, that the administration has chosen to cut the award-winning theater, pointing to the recession as a reason for divestment. (Despite the fact that history shows us, from the New Deal in the 1930s to CETA in the '70s, that civically-engaged arts can be exactly one of the things that helps our communities rebound in times of economic crisis.)
So where are we now? Have we entered a new round of the Culture Wars? It would seem so, with the recent attacks by right-wing media, such as FOX News, on the Obama administration's engagement of the arts and culture sector, the NEA's participation in economic recovery funding, and engagement campaigns such as Organizing for America. We may indeed be in the back-lash we worried about, and we may be only at the beginning of yet another struggle over the legitimacy and importance of diverse art and cultural production in our nation. Hold on to your art, folks, it is on once again …
But even in the face of all the political regression of the early part of the 21st Century that we've already been through, followed by the excitement and promise that Obama's election has brought back to our popular imagination, and the quickly-following reality check that it's not going to be an easy road … there are still important cultural and artistic movements actively being born, reforming themselves and growing, in tandem with the politics of our time. The wake of September 11, 2001, and the fierce and immediate rise of Islamophobia, anti-Arab sentiment, pro-war fervor, and general xenophobia that subsequently seized the (not very) United States – even this has been met by formation and growth of a historic Arab American cultural movement. Also, an expansive and inclusive Asian American Theater movement has taken shape in recent years. And since the Seattle riots erupted in the late '90s, in protest of corporate-led globalization and the increasing imperialism of global capital (which we are now experiencing the collapse of), more and more activists, and more and more artists, are working together across identities and causes: working in the INTERSECTIONS, and making the connections that could actually change this dysfunctional world once again. Yes, from the 1960s to the 2010s, the work is still happening in the streets … and in the information highways … in the classrooms, the airwaves, the prisons, the war zones … and especially, in the places where politics and culture meet.


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Ancient Hula Hawaiian Style
Nearly a dozen vintage recordings of mele (songs or chants) for ancient hula have been resurrected, remastered and compiled on a new album, Ancient Hula Hawaiian Style, Volume 1: Hula Kuahu.
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It had a long journey," says Dr. Amy Kuuleialoha Stillman, the producer of Ancient Hula Hawaiian Style, Volume 1: Hula Kuahu, a labor of love that took nearly 12 years to come to fruition. Stillman, an authority on Hawaiian music historiography, worked on the album and wrote the liner notes in her spare time, while teaching American studies, ethnomusicology and hula at the University of Michigan. She also co-produced and co-wrote the Grammy Award-winning album, Ikena, and its Grammy-nominated follow-up, He Nani, both of which were performed by singer Tia Carrere and singer/songwriter and co-producer Daniel Ho. This fall, she returns to Hawaii to assume the role of Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she'll teach an undergraduate course on Hawaiian music and a graduate-level research seminar focused entirely on Hawaiian music historiography—the first time in the university's history that it has offered a graduate-level seminar on the subject.
Ancient Hula Hawaiian Style began to take shape in the early 1990s, when Stillman was corresponding with Michael Cord, owner of Cord International/Hana Ola Records. "I said it would be great to have an edition devoted to the chant material," says Stillman. "[Cord] immediately wrote back and said, 'Give me a call, let's talk.' It was very much on his radar. He simply needed someone who knew the tracks and the performers."
For 30-plus years, Hana Ola Records has been in the business of producing out-of-print, Territorial-era Hawaiian music recordings. The company's catalog includes approximately 152 albums of everything from classic Hawaiian slack key guitar to Japanese Big Band albums recorded after World War II. And yet the company had never produced an album of historic chants. "[Hana Ola has] so much hapa-haole material," says Cord. "I never realized that we had amazing traditional material until Amy brought it to life."
Many of these chants were sitting, perfectly preserved, in Cord's record room, a temperature-controlled, vintage-Hawaiian-music time capsule of sorts that contains about 5,000 records. "Despite the extensive catalog [Cord] has and all the things we've done over the last 25 years, the material on this album is something we couldn't address," says Harry B. Soria Jr., one of Cord's frequent collaborators and producers and the host of the 31-year-old Territorial Airwaves syndicated radio show. "First of all, I'm not qualified to do hula and chant. Second, we had always wondered about the marketability. Twenty years ago, we may not have considered doing this [album]. But with a generation of formal education in the Hawaiian language, this [type of project] became more of a realization, as traditional Hawaiian recordings are more and more sought after."
Stillman began by sifting through recordings from 49th State Records (Cord licensed the rights to 49th State's catalog in 1991), a recording company that opened up shop prior to statehood and produced hundreds of 78 rpm records during its heyday. Stillman identified the tracks she knew to be chants, and then expanded her search to include tracks from the historic Hawaiian Transcription, Bell and Waikiki record companies. "I just happened to have the licensing rights for some of the material, and the rest I got from other labels," says Cord. In the end, Stillman had enough material to fill two albums—the current volume, Hula Kuahu, and a second, Hula Olapa, which is slated for release in about a year.
Dating back to the early 1800s and recorded between 1930 and 1960, the mele featured in this first volume are known as hula kuahu, or altar hula. "This term, hula kuahu, refers to those hula that were transmitted in the presence of a kuahu (altar), during that era when the kuahu altar rituals were observed," says Stillman. The mele on the album are divided into four sections: The first group, hula pahu, is one of the oldest, most sacred forms of hula, and is performed with the sharkskin-covered pahu drum. The second, hula alaapapa, is accompanied by the ipu (bottle gourd). "The earlier hula alaapapa and hula pahu consisted of repertoire created under the indigenous (pre-Christian) system surrounded by ritual kapu," says Stillman. "The later 19th-century hula olapa came into being after the acceptance of Christianity, so the hula olapa was not sacred, from the time of the kuahu, in the same way that hula alaapapa and hula pahu were."
The third section, mele honoring Pele, is the album's only deviation from the strict definition of hula kuahu. These Kalakaua-era mele follow the standard, two-line-stanza structure of hula olapa.


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Background: I run my photography Lightoom 2 catalogue from an external WD Passport 500GB drive as I have Lightroom installed on both my PC laptop and my iMac.. so by having my full Lightroom catalogue on both machines (which works well by the way) I can access it all when on the road or back in the studio… without having to worry about duplicate lightroom catalogs, or merging them together. An easy solution.
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Great, thanks for the 12hr waste of time. So I don't recommend the 12hr command line way. After talking to a friend about it later the day he found a link to the Verbatim website, which documented the problems and suggested solution, which was to download the software for Verbatim drives (which mine was not) and format the drive from there.
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In 1862, as Lee carried the Civil War into Maryland and Lincoln prepared to turn the struggle for the Union into a battle of liberation, a bloody sideshow played out in Minnesota. Exasperated by broken promises and corruption among traders and federal agents, Dakota Indians launched attacks against settlers and the Lower Sioux Agency, setting off a conflict variously known as the Dakota War, the Sioux Uprising, Little Crow's War, and a handful of other names. Lincoln's Bishop: A President, a Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors by Gustav Niebuhr has joined a relatively short shelf of books devoted to the uprising.
The key player in Niebuhr's account is Henry Whipple, a New York native who became Minnesota's first Episcopal bishop and an advocate for better treatment of the frontier's original inhabitants, working to change a system in which Indians were victims of corrupt officials and unscrupulous traders.
Whipple's concern for the Indians was unusual for a nineteenth-century white American, and an especially unpopular position for any resident of Minnesota in 1862 after four Dakota hunters initiated the war by attacking white homesteads and killing five settlers. As often happened in Indian wars over the course of American history from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth, many whites reacted to the uprising by calling for the extirpation of the Dakota, assuming that all the Indians on the frontier had settlers' blood on their hands. As Niebuhr shows, the conflict was never so simple, even from its very beginning. Individual Dakota intervened to save the lives of settlers, sometimes because of previous acquaintance and sometimes out of simple humanity. Some whites, too, urged their vengeance-hungry countrymen to differentiate among the Indians, some of whom had converted to Christianity (partly through the efforts of Whipple, who supported Indian missionary efforts) and taken up farming. Whipple was thus the most prominent of a small number of people caught up in a volatile situation who nevertheless refused to engage in the collective demonization of the other that was so prevalent in white-Indian warfare.
The bishop wasn't unsympathetic to the plight of settlers in the uprising's path—in fact, he helped organize relief for white refugees displaced by the attacks and tend to the wounded—but he considered the Indians' poor treatment at the hands of the government the ultimate root of the problem. He had been lobbying authorities to reform Indian relations for some time before the revolt, having tried without success to bring President Buchanan's attention to the problem. Most men would have considered the outbreak of the Dakota War a most inauspicious occasion to persuade Washington of the need for better treatment of Native Americans, but Whipple was undaunted, heading to Washington, D.C. again in 1862 to plead the Indians' case with Abraham Lincoln.
The bishop's first impressions of Lincoln on the latter's accession to office had not been favorable. And, as Niebuhr shows in a chapter devoted to Lincoln's personal history of the Indians, the president wasn't unaware of the misery marauding Native Americans could unleash. After all, an Indian had murdered Lincoln's grandfather and namesake in Kentucky. As a young man, Lincoln himself had served in the Black Hawk War; while biographers tend to downplay this period in his life, emphasizing that he saw no combat, Niebuhr points out that Lincoln did witness firsthand some of the devastation of that war during his stint in the militia.
But Whipple had a few things working in his favor on his 1862 lobbying trip. The first was Lincoln's personal tendency toward leniency and mercy. Thirty years before, while a volunteer against Black Hawk, he had intervened to stop vengeful whites from murdering an Indian captive. His tendency toward clemency and compassion remained evident during his presidency, when he routinely spared the lives of condemned soldiers and favored a moderate course in dealing with a conquered South. Like Whipple, Lincoln seemed to have a sort of innate immunity to the urge to dehumanize the other side which is so common in warfare, especially war between different races and cultures.
Second, as Niebuhr argues, there was a sense in which the timing of his visit actually worked in Whipple's favor. The Dakota uprising coincided with a transformation in Lincoln's thinking about the Civil War. As the Minnesota frontier erupted in violence, the president had determined that more extreme measures were necessary to preserve the Union and was preparing to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln considered slavery a national shame and a cancer in the body of the nation which had finally led to the rebellion; similarly, Whipple referred to mistreatment of the Indians as a great sin which led to the devastation of the Dakota uprising. Thus, for some months before Whipple's visit, Lincoln's concerns had been along some of the same lines as the bishop's.
The timing of Whipple's trip was fortunate in another way. Niebuhr argues that by bringing Lincoln's attention to the poor treatment of the Dakota at the very time when the wounds from their uprising were still fresh, the bishop shaped the president's thinking about the Minnesota revolt, framing it as a symptom of the government's mistreatment of the Indians. As Niebuhr explains, "Whipple got access to the president before Lincoln heard any extended discussion about the war from anyone else in Minnesota. What the bishop managed to do was set the war within the context of federal government corruption and ineptitude. He created for Lincoln a lens through which to view the war."
Lincoln proved more receptive to Whipple than his predecessor, giving him access to government records of Dakota relations to help bolster his case. But there was still the matter of Indians captured in the wake of the uprising. A military tribunal sentenced over 300 of them to hang for participation in the war. Despite warnings that failing to execute them all would inflame white opinion on the frontier, Lincoln spared the lives of nearly nine-tenths of the condemned. The result was still the largest public execution in United States history, as thirty-eight Dakota men went to the gallows on December 26, 1862. And it's important to remember that Lincoln's record on Indian affairs was not spotless. Biographer David Donald notes that the president remained largely ignorant about Native Americans; like most other nineteenth-century whites, he considered Indians less civilized and more prone to violence than Euro-Americans.
Still, Lincoln's receptivity to Whipple's pleas for reform and his intervention in the executions are notable examples of Lincoln's leniency, his aptitude for mercy, and his basic humanity—the traits which have made him one of the most beloved figures in American history.
Niebuhr's book should spark wider interest in this often overlooked aspect of Lincoln's presidency and bring greater attention to Whipple's crucial role as a mediator between the government and the Dakota. It's an enlightening piece of historical research, but also a very inspiring book, a reminder that the forces which Lincoln famously called "the better angels of our nature" can work their magic even in the most violent and divisive of circumstances.
Michael Lynch is an incoming doctoral student at the University of Tennessee, a former staff member at LMU's Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, and a research fellow for the Abraham Lincoln Institute for the Study of Leadership and Public Policy. You can find him in the blogosphere at pastinthepresent.wordpress.com as well as on Twitter (@mlynch5396).


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Tween Reads
February 2017
"It was a miracle to live as birds do..."
~ from Alice Hoffman's
Recent Releases
The Dog, Ray
Linda Coggin
Fantasy. Life after death is a lot more furry than Daisy expected. Following her untimely end in a car crash, the 12-year-old girl is reborn into the body of a puppy named Misty -- but with all of her memories from her human life. When she runs away in search of her human parents, Daisy finds homeless 14-year-old Pip instead, who adopts her and renames her Ray as he searches for his own lost family. Even as Daisy's memories start to fade, you'll be charmed by her doggy narration and moved by this thought-provoking tale of second chances.
The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon
Fiction. Though his family remembers a time before they were forced out of their home in Myanmar, Subhi only knows life in the Australian refugee detention center where he was born. It's a hungry, filthy, and violent place (thanks to the brutally abusive guards), and Subhi's only escape is his imagination, where he visits the Night Sea from his mother's stories. When Jimmie, a local girl who can't read, finds her way into the center with a notebook written by her mother, Subhi agrees to read to her, kicking off a secret friendship. For another realistic, heart-twisting reads about young refugees, try Linda Sue Park's
A Long Walk to Water
The Lost Property Office
James R. Hannibal
Adventure. The trip to London is supposed to help 13-year-old American Jack and his family track down Jack's missing father. Instead, it leads Jack to his own hidden heritage as a member of the Ministry of Trackers, a secret society of detectives who share Jack's superhuman ability for finding things. Before he can absorb this shock, Jack is targeted by the villainous Clockmaker, who claims that Jack can save his father by completing a dangerous quest throughout the city. Fans of both action and fantasy will be drawn in by the breathless pace, steampunk gadgets, and bookish in-jokes in this debut adventure.
The Friendship Experiment
Erin Teagan
Fiction. Writing out standard operating procedures in her lab notebook helps sixth-grader Maddie organize her approach to her confusing life. Without SOPs, she's not really sure how she'd cope with her grandfather's recent death, her best friend's transfer to another school, and her sister's health problems (due to a blood disorder that Maddie shares). Her "How to Be Friendly" SOP, however, is challenged by irritating new girl Riley, forcing Maddie to question whether science really has all the answers. Similar to Ali Benjamin's
The Thing About Jellyfish
, this touching tale stars a smart, awkward girl who applies scientific strategies to her personal problems, leading to unexpected results.
Focus on: Magical Realism
Each of these intriguing tales blends everyday life with magical people, things, or events.
Alice Hoffman
Fantasy. It's rumored that there's a monster living in Sidwell, Massachusetts. But 12-year-old Twig Fowler knows better than to believe rumors -- especially since the "monster" is actually her older brother James, who was born with wings due to an old family curse. Their mom says that they have to keep James a secret, but when sisters Julia and Agate move in next door, Twig and James make friends with them anyway -- and in so doing, discover the chance to change their family's fate. For another quirky, quiet book that mixes magic with everyday life, check out Jane Yolen's
Centaur Rising
Wish Girl
Nikki Loftin
Magical Realism. Peter and Annie each have their own reasons for wanting to run away to the magical valley near their rural Texas community. Quiet, sensitive, and deeply misunderstood by his slowly fracturing family, Peter isn't sure he can keep going. Odd, artistic Annie calls herself a "wish girl" – as in Make-A-Wish, the program for kids with cancer. When family drama and the looming shadow of a risky cancer treatment overwhelm the two friends, they turn to the valley for safety, protection, and hope. If you're enchanted by author Nikki Loftin's poetic writing style, you might also enjoy her previous book,
Nightingale's Nest
The Lightning Queen
Laura Resau
Magical Realism. For Teo and Esma, destiny strikes during their childhood in the 1950s, when Esma and her Romani family visit Teo's Mixteco community in the dusty Mexican mountains. Teo is grieving the loss of his twin sister, but spirited Esma (who calls herself the "Queen of Lightning") puts "the spark of life" back in him. Though Esma's fortune-teller grandmother predicts that their friendship will be lifelong, even lasting into the lives of their grandchildren, readers are fast-forwarded to the present day, where Teo and Esma have lost touch over the years. Can their grandchildren figure out how to reunite them so they can fulfill their destiny? Find out in this magical and deeply moving read.
The Disappearance of Emily H.
Barrie Summy
Mystery. You'd think that the ability to see memories attached to objects would be useful when starting a new school, but it's not much help to eighth-grader Raine. She still has to put up with the school's mean-girl clique, whose bullying seems more sinister when memories reveal that they know more than they're telling about the recent disappearance of fellow student Emily. Though following Emily's memories becomes increasingly risky, Raine feels compelled to find the missing girl. Combining authentic middle school social drama with supernatural mystery, Raine's dogged search for the truth is bound to keep you turning pages.
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This isn't an actual code tip, but I found a Swing GUI designer for eclipse that's open source, and is actually quite promising. I believe this project is still active because there have been updates to the website recently, but the latest build was in May of 2009.
Even still, the only issue I've been able to find after preliminary testing is that the refresh of the code isn't done "automatically" (I think you have to save the code before GUI updates are made in the code, and I haven't figured how to get code updates to show up in the GUI, if it is possible). There's also not really any documentation that I can find, but I think for the most part the design is fairly straight forward and easy to use.
Project webpage: Visual Swing 4 Eclipse
Note: I don't know why, but I couldn't get the update site to work with Eclipse. However, you can install this plugin by downloading the latest zip from the downloads tab, and then put all the jar files into Eclipse's plugin folder.
A basic intro guide (what i've been able to figure out):
To create a class that can be updated by the plugin, go to the "create new" menu, and go down to Visual Swing Class folder. Choose the type of class you want.
To add other components to this list, go to Window > Show View > Other
then choose Visual Swing > Palette
This will show the palette for adding new components. The panel has most (I think all, but I'm not sure) Swing components. There's also a section for adding custom swing components. I have yet to test this feature out, but I have a feeling this feature might work.
edit: I tested out custom components, and I don't think there's code to actually allow you add your own components to the list, or at least I can't find any.


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Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, Game Two
April 15, 2011 – New York Rangers 0, Washington Capitals 2
Official Game Summary: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20102011/GS030112.HTM
Official Event Summary: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20102011/ES030112.HTM
* The Rangers were defeated by the Washington Capitals, 2-0, tonight at Verizon Center, in Game Two of their Eastern Conference Quarterfinals matchup. The Capitals lead the series 2-0.
* New York has begun a best-of-seven series with an overtime loss in Game One and a regulation loss in Game Two only once before, in the first round of the 1996 playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens. The Rangers won that series, 4-2.
* The Blueshirts were credited with 38 hits in the contest, including 18 hits in the first period. Ruslan Fedotenko led the team and tied for the game-high with six hits. During the regular season, the Rangers led the league with 2,333 hits and Fedotenko ranked fifth on the team with 150 hits.
* Dan Girardi was credited with four hits and a game-high, four blocked shots, and led all skaters with 23:41 of ice time.
* Brandon Prust registered four hits, all in the first period, and now leads the team and is tied for fourth in the NHL with nine hits in the playoffs.
* Henrik Lundqvist made 16 saves in net, and is now 0-2 with a 1.76 goals against average and a .922 save percentage in two playoff games. He has now appeared in 28 consecutive games, and has started in each of the Rangers last 31 playoff contests.
* Marian Gaborik tied for the team with four shots on goal, registered four hits and led all forwards with 23:18 of ice time.
* The Blueshirts' practice schedule for tomorrow, Apr. 16, is 1:00 p.m. at the MSG Training Center.
* The Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the Washington Capitals on Sunday, Apr. 17, at Madison Square Garden (3:00 p.m.), in Game Three of their Eastern Conference Quarterfinals match-up. The game will be televised live on NBC, and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio and www.newyorkrangers.com.


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This Friday and Saturday night at the Majestic Theatre, the San Antonio Symphony POPS goes to the movies with a show put together by guest conductor Carl Topilow. Topilow is the founder and conductor of the Cleveland Pops. You can read his compete bio by clicking here. He will also be featured as a soloist on the clarinet. The Express-News has a preview article (click here) and interview with Maestro Topilow. The great movie music will include selections from "The Wizard of Oz," "The Lord of the Rings," "Star Wars," "Jaws," "Rocky" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Simultaneously, the Brahms Festival continues with these performances:
Camerata San Antonio in collaboration with the San Antonio Symphony
Thursday, January 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Christ Episcopal Church
String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18
String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
Jun Yi Ma, violin | Bonnie Terry, violin | Allyson Dawkins, viola
Emily Freudigman, viola | Ken Freudigman, cello | David Mollenauer, cello
San Antonio International Piano Competition
Andrea Lam, piano
Saturday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall at Trinity University
Program will include Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
Andrea Lam, piano
San Antonio Choral Society: The Choral Works of Brahms
Sunday, February 3 at 4 p.m.
Laurel Heights United Methodist Church
Geistliches Lied, Op. 30
Sanctus from Missa Canonica, WoO 18
Ave Maria, Op. 12
Der Fiedler, WoO 33
Liebeslieder, Op. 52
Bartók: Four Slovak Folk Songs, Op. 78
Britten: The Sally Gardens
Schubert: Ständchen, Op. 135
R. Schumann: An die nachtigall, Op. 103
Barber: Sure on This Shining Night, Op. 13
Jennifer L. Seighman, conductor | Dr. N. Seth Nelson, accompanist
Musical Bridges Around the World
Sunday, February 3 at 6:30 p.m.
San Fernando Cathedral
Sonata in E-flat major for Violin and Piano, Op. 120, No. 2
Two Songs for Alto, Viola and Piano, Op. 91
Sonata No. 1 in G major for Violin and Piano Op. 78, No. 1
Dr. Anya Grokhovski, artistic director | Carolyn Sproule, mezzo soprano
Emanuel Borok, violin | Mark Cheikhet, viola | Elena Portnaya, piano
Fingers and Cords
Monday, February 4 at 6 p.m.
San Antonio Museum of Art
Haydn: Variations on a theme, Op. 56b
Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39
Hungarian Dances, WoO 1
No. 4 in F minor
No. 7 in A major
No. 5 in F-sharp minor
Drei Motetten, Op. 110
I. Ich Aber Bin Elend
II. Ach, arme Welt, du trügest mich
Spätherbst, Op. 92, No.2
Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op. 31, No. 3
Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (arr. two pianos) Movement V. lhr habt nun Traurigkeit
Trinity University Choir, Dr. Gary Seighman, director
Stephen Buck, piano | Shirley Yoo, piano
Call: 210-978-8121
The Brahms Festival is sponsored by The Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
Follow the Symphony on Facebook and Twitter.
The logo drawing of Brahms was created by Judy Geist. All rights reserved.


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Happy Holidays
(Al Cartwright is my mentor, the fella who gave me a chance in the newspaper world a few decades ago, a move that paved the way for me to land with the Phillies. Al was the Wilmington News-Journal Sports Editor who later served as a Publicity Consultant for the Phillies in 1970-71. He's been retired for some time but I'd like to continue one of his traditional "Ala Carte" columns, a take-off on the "Twelve Days of Christmas.")
Legendary letters written by Agnes Hollister to her beau:
When I answered the doorbell today, the postman delivered a partridge in a pear tree! What a thoroughly delightful gift! I couldn't have been more surprised.
With deepest love, Your Aggie.
Today, the postman brought your very sweet gift–two turtle doves!. I'm delighted at your thoughtfulness. They are just adorable. The partridge likes them, too.
All my love, Aggie.
Oh! Aren't you the extravagant one! I really must protest, though, John. I really don't deserve such generosity–three French hens! They are just darling, but I must insist: you've been TOO kind.
Love, Aggie.
Today, the postman delivered four calling birds. Now really. They are beautiful birds, but don't you think enough is enough? You're being too romantic. Besides, the partridge, the turtle doves and the French hens have eaten all the pears. You dear silly boy, you!
Hastily, Ag.
What a surprise! Today, five golden rings–one for each finger! You're impossible, but I love it. Frankly, all the birds squawking were beginning to get on my nerves.
All my love, Your Aggie.
When I opened the door this morning, there were six geese a-laying on my front steps. So you're back to the birds again, eh? These geese are huge. Where will I ever keep them? The neighbors are already complaining and I hate to think what will happen when the goose eggs hatch. I can't sleep through the racket now. Please stop, John.
Agness Hollister.
What's with you and the birds? Seven swans-a-swimming!!! What kind of joke is this, you sickie! The while house is full of feathers and broken goose eggs and this zoo is so noisy I couldn't sleep even if my bed wasn't full of you-know-what. It's not funny, so if you've got any more birds up your sleeves, you know what you can do with them.
I mean it, A. H.
I think I prefer the birds. What in God's name am I going to do with all these eight maids a-milking? It's not enough with all those birds messing, but eight maids had to bring their eight cows! I'm trapped and I can hardly breathe. Lay off, wise guy!
Agness H.
Nine ladies dancing, eh? How dare you call them ladies? The Health Department has subpoenaed me to show cause why the whole building shouldn't be condemned. The Vice Squad is staking out the place. If I ever catch you around here again–well, have you ever been skulled by a pear tree?
One Who Means It.
The cops are coming for you, as soon as they finished rounding up those 10 lords a-leaping. The place looks like the Gong Show. All 23 of the birds are dead–trampled by the lords. I hope you're satisfied, you low-life.
You Know Who
What are you–some kind of sadist? Now there's 11 pipers piping! And geez, do they play–even without the pipes. They've never stopped chasing the milkmaids since they got here yesterday morning. Some of them even chased the cows, so the cows got panicky and stepped all over the deceased birds. There's feathers and milk flying all over the house and the aroma has killed the pear tree. The neighbors have entered a petition to evict me.
You'll get yours! A. Hollister.
This is to acknowledge your latest gift of 12 drummers drumming which you saw fit to inflict upon our client, Ms. Agnes Hollister.
Any further correspondence with Ms. Hollister should be addressed in care of this law firm, inasmuch as the destruction of her residence was, of course, total.
Please do not attempt to make personal contact with our client, as Ms. Hollister has given explicit instructions to her attendants at Happy Dale Sanitarium to shoot you on sight. Fatally.
Naturally, a suite is being prepared against you, entered jointly by Ms. Hollister, the Postal Service, the Department of Health, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Federal Immigration Office, United Parcel Service and the Humane Society. The State Department of Mental Health is instituting a separate action with a different objective in mind.
Very truly yours,
Badger, Bender, Loophole & Mulford.
(Phillies Insider will take a holiday break. Be back after the New Year).
Peace to all!
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Wish you all the best for your holiday. 2012 may bring joy in your life.


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how's the car AA121? Any feedback?
Hi there,
OK...some first thoughts now I've passed the 1500 mile mark! Most of my miles have been on the road although I did spend an enjoyable morning at Dunsfold test track (home of the Top Gear TV show) which enabled me to drive the car on circuit.
Good Points First (most of which you would expect!)
* Overall build quality and finish. I'm really pleased with my colour choice and the way it picks out some of the folds, creases and subtleties of the bodywork and design.
* Delicacy and immediacy of the controls. Even compared with a Caterham this car transmits it's lack of mass/weight through to the driver without ever feeling insubstantial or "flaky"
* Performance. The car actually doesn't feel massively fast (even though it is!) in the same way that a Ferrari or Lamborghini can feel. I'm not sure why exactly - perhaps the lack of weight and inertia - but you really notice the performance when following someone and you start to wonder why they are going so slowly!!!
* Handling on track is sublime and not at all intimidating. It really feels trustworthy and adjustable.
* Individuality and rarity. I've never known a car to attract such attention and reaction - all positive I might add!
* The ergonomics and thoughtfulness of the controls on the steering wheel - it takes no time at all to get used to these and feel at home in the car.
Bad Points (minor niggles/observations rather than bad points really!)
* Gearbox takes some getting used to. You really need to draw up to a stop in 1st gear rather than stopping in 2nd and then selecting first before setting off again. If you don't do this I've found that the gearbox can get a little "confused" and the gear indicator on the steering wheel might not relay the correct information.
* The car is hard work to keep clean! Every time I drive it the exposed floors on either side of the car sweep up gravel and debris from the road. Washing the car takes some patience which can be satisfying/frustrating depending on your level of OCD as so much of the engine is exposed and the floors literally fill with water at their lowest point so you end bailing it out like a dinghy!!!
* The application of Amourfend is a must on the car - make sure you tick at least the mid range option on the configurator. There is no other car on the planet that needs this protective film more!!
* The refuelling at petrol pumps is a little tricky to do quickly without fuel blowing back and spillage.
* There appears to be a small problem with my car leaking a bit of coolant out of the LH radiator. It might just be my car but the unions need to be tightened.
* Although the "allen headed" fixings that bond the body panels to the timber floor have all been "thread locked" these do need some checks every now and again. I lost one which presumably just came loose and fell out. Likewise with the "star" head screws that hold the front light assembly in place.....these need the occassional check to make sure they are tight. None of this should be a surprise when you consider the body takes quite a lot of vibration from the drivetrain.
* Long journeys are tiring in the car even though I find it a relatively comfortable in the cockpit............my engine seems to be getting a little harsher and noisier and the resonances through the car can make it hard work to drive over long distances and at constant speeds.
* I wonder if the development of a small, clear aero screen/lip at the edge of the cockpit would help the wind buffetting. If you try and rest your head on the padded headrest whilst driving the wind seems to be more turbulent and it is uncomfortable.
Overall I'm so pleased to have bought the Mono. It has exceeded my expectations in so many areas and it is a joy to own and to drive. On top of that it has given me the opportunity to have the car on "Top Gear", at Monaco during the GP weekend and on display at The Goodwood Festival of Speed and Wilton House Supercar events all of which have added to the glamour of owning such a rare and desirable car.
Cheers to all and hope you get your cars soon!!!!!
Well, there it is, an owners review of the BAC Mono, the worlds first public review by an owner (that I am aware of). Certainly exciting for me and I know for a lot of folks sitting off on the sidelines as well. Great stuff, thank you for posting! 1500 miles is a good bit of seat time for a car like this and certainly enough to form some strong thoughts and opinions. Can't say any of it surprised me.
Shinoo's (US distributor) car had the same (presumably) leak at the hose connection on the left side radiator which was fixed by tightening a hose clamp. As well he noted the importance of clear-film (Armourfend in UK) was critical on certain areas of the body (preventing gravel rash).
Good to highlight the importance of gear selection when (previous to) stopping, sounds like one of those nuances that comes with owning a car with a true race gearbox.
At the Spring Mountain event the the BAC men mentioned they developed an aero device to reduce buffeting during their wind tunnel work. I have no idea if/when that will be offered as an accessory. Sounds like it would be well received by owners from your experience.
What an amazing group of experiences you have had with your car! Wow, sounds like a tremendous ownership experience so far. Lots of info for us deposit holders, prospective owners and enthusiasts to think about.
Congrats aa121! I'm dying to get mine.
Congrats aa121!
sooo jealous! and my deepest gratitude for this info as I am one that is sitting on the fence. I live in Dallas, Texas and there is a track TWS about 190 miles (305km) away. When you say long drive is that the distance you have traveled? Also, how much gear can you pack in the boot for a weekend track day?
The longest single journey I've done in mine is about 130 miles one way (260 miles round trip in one day). It was fine and I find the car cockpit a relatively comfortable place to be. Presumably you'll be wearing a crash helmet but I'd also be investing in some good quality, comfy in ear headphones (or maybe a set that can be fitted into the helmet's inner lining) so you can at least listen to an ipod and drown out some of the wind and engine noise over those distances. It is especially draining if most of the mileage is at a constant, monotonous motorway speed rather than zipping up and down the gears through twists and turns.....in much the same way a motorbike can be in this respect.
190 miles....is that really the closest circuit to Dallas......I guess we're very fortunate in the UK to have so many tracks in such a relatively small place!
Space wise - well, it's obviously limited but if you're wearing your crash helmet then the space in the nose is actually quite decent for packing squashy items such as spare clothes etc and the "tray" in the upper part of the bonnet (hood?) is also useful for small flat items such as a laptop, etc. Longer than a couple of nights away and you're going to need to get to a laundry or be happy to smell
Stop sitting on the fence and get it bought........you're only here once y'know!!
no no! There is a nice track about 50 miles away, its just that it's nice to try other tracks.
and I know!!! I should just order it! arghhhh....
Hey AA121,
one more question...how is reversing the Mono? A pain in the a$$?
lol AA121 saw your post here about the mono! glad to see you went thru with it! I find myself scouring the web for info on the car!