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TEC-22 bolt doesnt recock hammer.. HELP
Hi there, iv recently got my hands on a intratec 22 and it has been one prob after another. well really its been the same prob everytime heres the deal. I can only fire 1 shot at a time. it wouldnt expel the spent shell. so i bought a volquertsen extractor. now it either ejects fine and throws a rnd in the chamber but doest reset the trigger. or the shell gets smashed like the bolt didnt go far enough back for it to exit. or it jus fires. the bolt doesnt move...
so i started my process of elimination.. I only fire stingers and thunderbolts. (still doesnt cycle. I cleaned it very well.
while cleaning the bolt on the underside rear where it makes contact with the hammer loooks like its been shaved.. Could tht be a groove formed from normal wear and tear? can a bolt go bad? iv looked at new ones online and they r perfectly rectangle. | <urn:uuid:9d49e38a-fe4c-4072-9095-b350a659ba91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showpost.php?p=952610&postcount=1 | 2013-05-21T20:10:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940265 | 212 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On Easter Sunday, Eli looks to get back in Nucky’s good graces at a Thompson family reunion. While Richard and Tommy spend the day as guests of the Sagorskys, Gillian stays athome and makes a sacrifice to improve her future. In New York, after dinner and prayers, Gyp heads downtown in search of a blessing – from Joe Masseria.
Episode number: 3x7 Airdate: Sunday October 28th, 2012
The episode begins and Eli carries a box of Easter Eggs around his yard and looks around. Harrow comes to Gillian's room and reports that everyone is out of the house, as she requested. Harrow has some guys from the legion hall coming over for an Easter meal. She tells Harrow she feels "murderous," and says, "A man has no idea what we go through every month". After Harrow leaves the room though, she gets up out of bed pretty spryly. Margaret and Nucky are taking the kids to meet their cousins. Gillian is welcoming Roger. Roger wants to get down to business, but Gillian says they should eat first. Nucky, Margaret and the kids arrive at Eli's house. .. | <urn:uuid:38ae83c7-7f70-4097-af1e-deec4a1138cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tvrage.com/Boardwalk_Empire/episodes/1065205738 | 2013-05-21T20:11:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971696 | 248 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Orange Routes
Use Tel Aviv Orange (Tapuz) Routes for regional tours.Four simple walking and driving tours around Tel Aviv and Yafo.
Start at 5 Shalom Aleichem Street (between Hayarkon and Ben Yehuda Streets) and follow the clearly marked orange posts for the route of your choice.
Do We Own Them Or Do They Own Us?
I've always suspected that cats are actually the true masters of the place and that we are quite mistaken when we think we own them... Tel Aviv offers plenty of evidence that it is rather the cats who rule us -- they are omnipresent! The specimen pictured here guards the entrance of an apartment block in Pinsker Street and is respectfully greeted by everybody walking by.
Better Homes and Gardens in Neve Tzedek
Okay, so it is not a "true" burnt orange, it is only the color of burnt orange, or would you prefer the color Sienna....but anyway this home just stands out from its neighbors, both in the architecture and also in its upkeep. It is still being lived in and obviously the people who live there love the old building, it is just a pleasure to see.
But as you can also see there is a wider range of architecture here in Neve Tzedik, from the small to the large and the important to the trivial. Whatever you like it is worth taking a walk around this wonderful area. I do hope that Tel-Aviv manages to preserve and do better on the upkeep here.
Keep on Kosher
“KOSHER” comes from ´Kasher´ and means “fit” or “proper”. It is applied to the food that Jews are allowed to eat. According to the Bible only animals that are ruminant are considered kosher. These animals are killed according to the traditional rabbinical ritual that removes any trace of blood. Milk and milk products cannot be eaten with meat, and shellfish is avoided.
During the Passover Festival, only is possible to eat unleavened bread.
you do need a sweater!
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Is sin a reality or illusion? Is sin a descent into a state of ungodliness? I believe so though many may differ in opinion.
The pleasures and delights of persons given to self-love
Most of us have been beguiled into relationships that have turned out pretty rotten. How some people can tempt others into deep feelings and then turn them away like flotsam on the wind.
Wishes which were written on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata
Have you ever searched inside of yourself or looked up at the sky wondering about what really is beyond the mind of man/woman. The endless quest for eternity. The meaning of space and time. This is my take on it....
As a writer, I can write about almost anything. This is written in dedication to an egotistical and cruel frenchman I once knew.
Most of us have an ego. Some have an inflated ego larger than life. It's essential to put the ego through a gym and a workout program to hone it to right shape.
Series of poems aimed at guys (or girls) who simply can't take a hint. "No" sometimes (okay, most of the time) really means "NO". When it's over, it's over.
Do you manage several online writing portfolios on different websites? If so, then you can understand how challenging it can be to successfully manage all of these portfolios at once. This article shares why not to get caught up with vane page views when managing online writing portfo...
My poem is a message, you may try to decipher it if you will
The piece is about vanity and how it effects ourselves and those around us.
Young woman on a luxury liner thinks she's being photographed. When she learns that the photographer's subject is not her but the old lady poet next to her, she becomes enraged. What wrong with him?, she is perfect and young.
Tattoos...You either love 'em or hate 'em.. ..A form of Body-art that goes back to 12,000 BC, and can be as individual and creative as its wearer.. A very lighthearted poem on a popular form of self-expression..
A short story on the feelings of feelings. Even feelings leave the other feelings during the time of crisis. Strange!!!
I wrote this a couple of weeks ago for somebody, decided to publish it now. A bit of pain, a dash of uncertainty, some love-oriented thoughts and sentiments. One of my few poems that actually rhymes.
Ooh, narcissism! Generally I don't indulge in it to this extent, but eh. Loss of love often brings out the worst in people. This poem is one of the bravest things I've ever written, because it makes me look so awful. :P
A DIY guide to converting most any bedroom dresser into a unique bathroom vanity.
A late-night poem, born of lack of sleep and thought soup.
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OK this isn't a huge contest but I'm going to give away my third realm to whoever wins. The theme is anything and you have about a week to complete your entry, you will be allowed to have your creation when the contest is over and all materials are allowed including bedrock.
1st prize: my third realms to your desired dimensions, can be upgraded when i rank
at the moment this realm is allowed 8,388,608 voxels
2nd prize: i will do a project with you or build something for you
3rd prize: a troll-face pixel art
so there you have it. Oh by the way, any stupid or extremely bad entries will just be plain deleted by me, no one will get any ranks since it is a free-build realm.
go to /realm alienator142 contest to build!
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Marteau Rouge / Evan Parker: Live (2009)
Saxophonist Evan Parker performs here with a France-based trio at a Paris venue, in a wily acoustic-electric exhibition and one that transmits yet another side of the artist's musicality. Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recordings for ECM Records are designed upon a large group layout. On this 2009 release, the electronics are placed a bit more in the forefront, where liquefying guitar and synth lines slice and dice through the numerous avant-garde metrics.
The foursome generates a sense of urgency amid intriguing dialogues and streaming treatments, and strikes an asymmetrical balance, awash with lucid imagery, that spans catastrophic events and hardcore noise-shaping motifs. Parker's legendary circular breathing techniques come to fruition during the piece simply titled "Deux." Here, the saxophonist devises a whirling string of notions atop Makoto Sato's rolling and tumbling drum patterns. On "Quatre," the unit initiates a garrulous free-form series of thematic incursions sprinkled with guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros' odd tunings and distortion-drenched notes.
"Six, Au temps des cerises" features Jean-Marc Foussat's electronically phased voiceovers, while Parker's sax work seems to be treated with live electronics type manipulations. Moreover, the artists perpetuate a broad sound, constructed upon dark layers and bizarre deviations. With Foussat's synthesizer work and Pauvros' radical guitar phrasings, Parker finds himself in the middle of an irrefutably captivating array of musical circumstances.
Hence, an avant-garde gala that offers thrills a minute. Parker's craftsmanship and wit shines radiantly throughout this largely vibrant performance devised on flickering exchanges and a transportable wall of sound.
Track Listing: Un; Deux; Trois, Tourne mon Coeur; Quatre; Cinq; Six, Au temps des cerises; Dix; Onze, Douze, Quand, tout sera rouge.
Personnel: Evan Parker: tenor saxophone; Jean-François Pauvros: guitars, voice; Jean-Marc Foussat: synthesizer, VCS3, voice; Makoto Sato: drums.
Record Label: In Situ
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I’m the Washington D.C. bureau chief for Forbes and have worked in the bureau for more than two decades. I've spent much of that time reporting about taxes -- tax policy, tax planning, tax shelters and tax evasion. These days, I also edit the personal finance coverage in Forbes magazine and coordinate outside tax, retirement and personal finance contributors to Forbes.com. You can email me at firstname.lastname@example.org and follow me on Twitter @janetnovack.
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Exposing the tax games of billionaires. A cover story with the provocative title, "How To Cheat On Your Taxes".
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Co-authoring (with Laura Saunders) a 1998 Forbes cover story, "Tax Shelter Hustlers", which got the Treasury and Congress to focus on the spread of X-rated corporate tax shelters.
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Wall Street (as New York bureau chief for the late Dallas Times Herald) and Harrisburg’s State Street (as state house bureau chief for the late Philadelphia Bulletin.)
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As a cub reporter, I helped deliver the Bethlehem Globe-Times from the back of a truck during a snowstorm.
Where I'd Like To Be 10 Years From Now
Still awake and thinking.
It doesn't put you to sleep.
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The deficit. The bond market. My 401(k).
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On Oct 23, 2012, Lightray from Carlsbad, CA (Zone 10a) wrote:
The attractive blue color is a nice addition to the garden. One of the easier to grow of the blue cycads if it gets sufficient sun and good draining soil. I get good blue color even within half a mile of the beach in North San Diego County, where we often see May Gray and June Gloom to start the summer.
On Oct 30, 2011, BayAreaTropics from Hayward, CA wrote:
This is a sun worshipping plant. If you dont have a spot that gets near sun up to sundown light,it will not do well. I have a plant that looks to be a seedling but is already four years old+ with a stubby (and now exposed by accident due to its pot being knocked over) caudex that is trying to push out a single frond. It's a long story of trial and many errors with an expensive,delicate plant.
But-think of it as a light needy cacti and you are much closer to having them do well,then thinking of it as a Sago or wet climate cycad.
On May 29, 2001, BotanyBob from Thousand Oaks, CA wrote:
This plant belongs to the Gymnosperms (cone-forming plants) though it's really not very closely related to most other Gymnosperms like pines. It looks a lot more like a palm than anything else. Typical to most other cycads, this plant has a short, succulent trunk full of starch, which is the 'life's blood' of the plant. The roots can be hacked off, as can the leaves and cones, and as long as the trunk, or caudex as it's called, is intact, it will usually recover. This characteristic makes this plant relatively easy to transplant.
Originally from Southern Africa, E horridus is a very spiny and interesting plant, having bizarrely twisted leaves that erupt out of the top of the caudex (sort of palm-like) and incredibly spiny, stiff, blue leaflets (hence the 'ferocious' name). This species is a highly sought collectors item and larger specimens are often sold for thousands of dollars. It is also very slow growing and it can take decades for a seedling to mature to the point of coning.
Like most cycads, overwatering may cause rotting of the caudex, especially if the soil is not very pourous. This species is particularly drought tolerant and can go many months without any water, as long as the caudex is healthy. Cycads with this bluish coloration seem to be the most tolerant of full sun and intense heat, and are slightly more tolerant of frost, too (this plant can easily tolerate temps in the mid 20s for a short time). However, cold, wet winters in moisture-retaining soils may rot the plant. Also humid climates are tough on the bluer cycads and they tend to wither in climates similar to southern Florida or Hawaii. Southern California and Arizona climates are perfect for this species.
Fertilizing is routine. Most cycads can tolerate quite a bit of fertilizer, though they can be burned by too much (especially if granules are dropped into the crown of the plant).
Fertilization occurs in nature by having insect vectors pollinate the female cones after being on the male cones. In cultivation there are no suitable pollinators ( in the US, at least) so all pollinating must be done by hand. Eventually plants sucker or 'pup'. These pups can be cut off the main plant and rooted in pumice, though care must be taken not to overwater these pups or they will easily rot.
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
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There's a group of colleges that see huge investment in startups founded by graduates. So which schools graduate the most entrepreneurs?
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Testive is one of those Boston-based companies that you just can't help get excited about. Angel investors agree and have backed them with a big seed round.
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The influx of investment money is a relatively new and exciting experience for the education sector. Over the past couple years, we've seen millions of dollars poured into the 'hottest' startups in education. From Chegg to Coursera, there's been a renewed interest in shaping the future of education.
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Watch out Blackboard. There's a new big fish in the pond. Desire2Learn, a Canadian education technology company founded in 1999, has just announced that it's secured $80 million in funding. That's huge for the edtech world.
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What if your school got about $60,000 to spend on technology, training, and implementation? What would you do? That's the question 380 schools in Poland are now answering.
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and professional worldwide mosquito-killer, has a simple new post up today on his blog GatesNotes. In it, he describes the effects some of his billions of dollars in investment in scho... | <urn:uuid:480ee54b-67ed-4422-8608-2ceacff3692a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://edudemic.com/tag/investment/ | 2013-05-24T04:48:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954648 | 315 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Training with indigenous women, an international student competed in the NYC marathon.
Working 14-hour days isn't so bad when you get to watch a Wings' game in the middle.
Workshops and leadership training for GRPS athletic administrators may impact student retention.
A Grand Valley graduate takes his Laker sports experience to his new job with the Big Ten.
Senior Kent Games was awarded an invitation and scholarship to a Florida workshop
Liz Henk was honored by Mich. Athletic Trainers Society as high school trainer of the year.
Doug Woods was inducted into the Michigan Athletic Trainers Society Hall of Fame in May.
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The following will be the bulk of sub-section 3.4 in the report A Question Mark Over Yarmouk, regarding the fake "Holocaust" tale of the Khamis Brigade Shed Massacre. I must say "hidden" isn't really the best word for it, but it helps to make it seem like there's some friggin' mystery being solved here.
Tweets and E-Mails
The first clues of the mass-killing at Yarmouk ostensibly came in from escapees , in accounts first publicly mentioned on August 25th. At uncertain daylight times less than 48 hours after the event. Munir El-Goula and his brother (Amr Dau Algala?) of Mansoura, Tripoli, and Abdulatti Musbah Bin-Halim of Zlitan, spoke to Channel 4 and the Telegraph, respectively, in pieces published late on the 25th but since becoming obscure. Their accounts are conveyed in some detail in sub-section 2.2. But an unusual, and perhaps the first version of the witness story came with a message first tweeted by “dovenews Libyan™” at 7:05 am on the 25th:
“Gaddafi forces executed 170 detainess [sic] in #Alyarmook military base, only 4 detainees mangd 2 escape 2 from #AzZwayia & 2 from #Hey#Alforjan” [DNL]The number 170 is fairly close to the 180 dead that Bin-Halim would report that day, and he was among four alleged escapees being treated for injuries at Tripoli Medical Center. But three of these were from Zlitan, and none from Zawiyah. “Hey Alforjan” refers to the neighborhood (Hey/Hay/Haya) of Khellet al-Forjan, in which the Yarmouk base is situated. There are no locals from there specified among the escapees. At least three escapees are from Az-Zawiyah (“Mohammad,” Hussein Al-Lafi, and the person who’s gone by Mohammed Bashir and Bashir Mohammed Al-Sedik/Germani and ”Omar.”)
This early report of 170 dead was echoed by one Joanne Leo, as found in a compilation of tweets and other messages at the Libyan Uprisng archive (generally the source for the messages cited below). As luck would have it, this pro-rebel info-activist was able to add a fifth escapee from her own knowledge. She listed the same four “Plus 1 another: My uncle (from Alziziyah) who escaped from Yarmook CONFIRMS this, he said at least 150 massacred.” [LU] Alzizyah may refer to Al-Azizyah, a town just southwest of the airport, 10-15 miles from Yarmouk. This is another hometown not specified in later accounts; it was mostly Zlitan people.
Later in the day “Free Libya,” an apparently affiliated account, shared “Some bittersweet news” that “my uncle from my mum’s side has escaped from the Yarmook Military camp prison, badly tortured.” But that was followed shortly with “my family in Hadba are all free. The FF came and liberated them completely last night: Allahu Akbar” [LU] Al-Hadbah is a long road, but part of it passes in front of the Yarmouk base.
Between the witnesses and the tweets, these earliest reports would be the grimmest. There were as many as 200 original prisoners, as few as four escapees, and no more than 18 who survived. These stories were first widely circulated only the following day, along with the Amnesty International report issued early on the 26th specifying 23 known escapees. From there the story took its current form with more witnesses, more press reports and, by the 27th, photographs and video.
But there was one other earlier version yet, with the massacre first learned of from direct discovery of the bodies by people under the banner of the Misrata Military Council. Since just after their mid-August elimination of black Tawergha, the MMC’s information center briefly updated the media with Twitter messages, or tweets from ICFMMC. According to the account’s activity page, this practice ended after five days and 36 tweets, and never resumed. The last entry of August 23 announced the return of some prisoners to Misrata. [ICM] By the morning of the 24th they instead sent their heavier new information by e-mail, sent to the UK Daily Telegraph and apparently to no other media. The Telegraph’s “as it happened” log announced at 6:15 AM, ten hours after the alleged massacre:
The Information Center For Misurata Military Council claim to have found 140 bodies in a Tripoli prison. They claim the prisoners were killed by grenades thrown into their cells. So far 13 bodies have been recovered. [T1]While the location of this find wasn’t specified, the use of grenades in a prison and the approximate number of dead both matches only with the Khamis Brigade shed massacre. "Cells" in a jail are mentioned, as opposed to an open hangar, requiring quite a few grenades, and there is no mention of these found corpses being burned, to the bone or otherwise. However, the eerie similarities forced the CIWCL to follow the thread of this find as far is it could.
By the evening of the same day, the Misratans were adding information to the picture with what seem to be tweets “frm Misrata military council” (but from no still-available channel of their own). A sequence of four messages were re-sent by a Jess Hill/Jessradio, from about 8:17 to 8:22 pm on the 24th. [JRT] Compiled together, they read:
1/4: "We have found possible mass murder in Tripoli prison. We believe event happen abt 4 days ago." 2/4:"Drs at main Tripoli Hospital know more. Prisoners were locked up, grenades thrown into their rooms." 3/4: "So far only retrieved 13 bodies. All badly burnt. Trying to get understanding from city morgue." 4/4: "A survivor we believe took the cloths of dead man & played dead for 10 hours until FLF free him." [JRT]
Four days prior would mean the 20th, putting the massacre three days before the discovery suggested by their previous e-mail. The fourth tweet adds “a survivor,” the first one mentioned, just about 24 hours after the now-accepted massacre date, and four days after by their reasoning here. How he was saved within ten hours is unclear; that’s the time-span between the Aug. 23 massacre and the first rebel e-mail, not between the Aug. 20 event and anything yet known.
If this first survivor is added to the previous revelations, as many as six escapees were already mentioned, with perhaps none of them being among those later publicized and examined in this report. On the following morning, at 9:40 AM, the Telegraph had a more detailed update with a second e-mail building on the flashes Jessradio passed on:
A [rebel] statement said: "Over 140 were killed, no more than 10 survived. Doctors at main Tripoli Hospital know more. Prisoners were locked up, grenades were thrown into rooms that contained many of them. This was followed up with many gun firings. So far only managed to retrieve 13 bodies. All badly burnt. Unclear if this was main cause of death [was because of] grenades. Potentially many prisoners were burnt alive. Unclear at the moment. We are trying to get understanding from city morgue." [T2]
As late as the 26th the Telegraph reported on “unconfirmed reports of as many as 140 bodies being found at one of Gaddafi’s notorious prisons,” adding that “a spokesman for an opposition group said the bodies had been burnt but showed signs of having been killed at close quarters possibly by a grenade.” [TME] With these updates, the MMC’s information center helped clarify this is almost certainly the same mass-execution the world would soon be hearing a different version of. Besides the number and blasted state of the bodies, there are few others among the Tripoli massacres that featured any burning of bodies. What “recovered” means here (pulled out of the shed?), and why only 13 had been, is unclear. How many of the others were burned, how badly, and when they had been burnt is also unstated.
With this dispatch the Misratans claim to know almost nothing, and hoped the hospital (presumably Tripoli Medical Center) looking at the survivors, and/or the morgue which presumably had the 13 recovered bodies, would be able to tell them what happened. If these early messages referred to a separate massacre, there was no further news on what the experts said, and the story of the 140 corpses ended abruptly, with a major Gaddafi crime fading to total obscurity just as the very similar Yarmouk massacre came to the fore. The CIWCL finds that rather unlikely.
The ten or less survivors were never heard from, unless they’re the same as the witnesses emerging of the shed massacre. But that would mean the rebels had found the remains - which were ostensibly in the loyalist-held base - almost three days before they would later acknowledge being able to do any such thing.
Echoes Across the Gap
Between that first story cut short on the morning of the 25th, and the full emergence of the case under study on the 27th, was a short, awkward period that was not quite silently awkward. One disjointed yet useful insight on those days comes from rebel commander Jamal Al-Ragai/Rabbani (see sub-section 1.4). He told Robert F. Worth of the New York Times he was transferred from Yarmouk to the prison at Qasr Ben Ghashir, escaped from there on August 21, left the area, and re-grouped with his troops in Tajoura, to the east. He says he spent those days nowhere near the site of the Yarmouk and Qasr Ben Ghashir massacres, but once the city was mostly liberated, Worth wrote “Ragai’s own concern, he told me, was to free the 150 prisoners at Yarmouk.” [RWN]
His convoy of fighters finally drove southwest to rescue the prisoners, by best reading, on Thursday the 25th. “At about midday,” Worth writes, “Ragai said, he got a call from one of the other fighters on his cellphone. The man had reached the Yarmouk prison and seen the deserted grounds. “It’s too late,” the man said. “Everyone is dead.”” [RWN] In crafting this story either from memory or from things he knew, it made sense to have the shed site accessible by mid-day on the 25th. Apparently he just didn’t realize that was still too early to match with what others were saying. If it was deserted and the shed was accessible to a single man, why were armed rebel forces still fighting for another day or longer to be able to do the same?
From the 25th on, Yarmouk was widely named as the place where 150 were killed with grenades, with no mention of conquest, body discovery, or burning. But another version surfaced on the 26th, with NTC commander Abdel Majid Mlegta, “head of operations for the takeover of the capital,” telling AFP it happened inside Muammar Gaddafi’s compound. In reference to what could only be this massacre, he said “in Bab al-Aziziya there was a mass murder. They killed more than 150 prisoners. The guards did it before running away. They threw hand grenades at them.” [FP2]
Interestingly, the compound was a place that was acknowledged as overrun by rebels on the 23rd or earlier and thus, arguably, it was the place those 140-150 bodies were found, after some earlier massacre. There is no mention here either of burning, and again, there is no mention after this of any 150 blasted bodies there, or anywhere else, except behind the Yarmouk base.
While none of these early witnesses mentions the victims being torched, dead or alive, one line in Andrew Gilligan’s report for the Telegraph, August 25, stands out. “Rebels said Gadhafi troops later tried to burn the bodies to destroy the evidence.” It’s unclear how they would know that so early. In fact, the best estimates have the bodies were burnt primarily on the 25th or even later, quite possibly even after this report. As covered in the previous article, the Misrata Military Council first introduced the notion of burning late on the 24th, with only a first 13 seemingly charred.
These first mentions sound greatly different from what would later be shown. “Tried to burn” and even “badly burnt” are not the same as successfully charred to skeletons. If these are the same batches, as logic strongly suggests, it seems they were burnt yet further while under rebel control. And it’s therefore worth wondering why they failed to mention the initial burning upon first discovery of the semi-charred bodies. | <urn:uuid:345ea0a8-de60-4b77-be67-b961fe637f6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/04/shed-massacre-report-hidden-thread-of.html | 2013-05-24T04:33:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976492 | 2,840 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Well, here I am sitting in Christchurch again. I thought about calling this post "The First Shall Be Last" when I realized that I arrived in New Zealand on the first day of 2007 and then again today, the last day of 2007. But this surreal deja vu feeling I've been having all day won out.
Every step along the way of this trip so far has been similar but subtly different than last year. I feel like I'm in a dream or somehow reliving the past. I'm staying in the same bed and breakfast with the same friendly owners (and the same dog sleeping on the porch). My room is one door down from my room last year. I'm walking around Christchurch seeing the same shops and restaurants, knowing my way without needing a map. I spent the morning at the clothing distribution center again getting all the same cold weather gear from all the same Kiwi workers. It's almost like the last year hasn't passed. Of course, I'll be lucky if I still have this deja vu feeling when I'm staring at hundreds of penguins again in McMurdo, but I'm not holding my breath.
After reading some of my old blog posts from the end of my trip last year, I'm remembering just how miserable I was and just how much I wasn't expecting to be coming back down here. That's part of the reason this all feels so weird. But slowly, the excitement is creeping back in. I think when I get hit with that first blast of Antarctic air it'll be back (at least for awhile, before every last ounce of energy gets sucked out of me completely at Pole and I'm left with nothing but a vacant stare...)
We're scheduled to leave Christchurch for McMurdo on January 2nd. Tonight, though, is New Year's Eve. Some of you may remember my tortured post last year on New Year's and the international dateline, but there's no need to worry about anything like that this year. Ryan and I will be out on the town having a good time (if we can stay awake, that is...) Happy New Year's everyone!! | <urn:uuid:98434798-eec9-47e0-9f96-8d180b75a4d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://michelangelo-on-ice.blogspot.com/2007/12/deja-vu-all-over-again.html | 2013-05-24T04:19:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956189 | 437 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This article comprises of three parts. In part one, the various opinions regarding the birth-date of the beloved Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam are mentioned. In part two, the history of celebrating this day will be documented.
The Date of the Prophet's Birth
It is a commonly held belief that the birth-date of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam is the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, in the 'Year of the Elephant', which is the year that the Abyssinian Emperor Abraha attacked the Kaʿbah with an army of elephants. However, most Muslims are unaware that there has always been great controversy over the precise date of the Prophet's salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam birth, and it is quite possible that the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal is not in fact the strongest opinion on the matter.
There is no narration in the famous 'Six Books' of ḥadīth that specifies when the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam was born. Rather, the only narration that exists specifies the day he was born, and not the date. Abū Qatāda narrates that a Bedouin came to the Prophet and asked him about fasting on Monday, to which the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam replied, “That is the day I was born on, and the day that the revelation began” [Narrated by Muslim]. Therefore, the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam was born on Monday. But Monday of which month, and which year? For that, we need to turn to other sources. Again, no standard source book of ḥadīth mentions any precise date. However, there is a tradition of disputed authenticity, in the Sunan of al-Bayhaqī [vol. 1, p. 79] states that Suwayd b. Ghafla narrated, “The Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam and I were born in the same year, the 'Year of the Elephant.'” Certain other evidences also indicate that he was born this year. Hence, from the extended books of ḥadīth, two pieces of information can be gleaned: that he was born on a Monday (and this is confirmed), and that he was born in the 'Year of the Elephant' (and this is most likely correct).
When we turn to books of history, a number of dates regarding the birth of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallamare found. Ibn Isḥāq (d. 150 AH), the earliest and most authoritative biographer of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, states, without any isnād or other reference, that the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam was born on Monday, the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, in the 'Year of the Elephant'.1 Between Ibn Isḥāq and the birth of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam lies almost two centuries, so some more proof is needed before this date is settled on.
Another extremely important early source, Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 AH) in his Ṭabaqāt,2 mentions the opinion of a few early authorities regarding the date of his birth. In order, they are:
1) Monday, 10th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, the 'Year of the Elephant'.
2) Monday, 2nd of Rabīʿ al-Awwal.
3) Monday, no precise date.
4) The 'Year of the Elephant', no precise date.
It is interesting to note that Ibn Saʿd, one of the most respected historians of early Islam, does not even list the date of the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal as a possible candidate. Of course the last two opinions are correct and do not clash with any specific date, but by quoting earlier authorities who only gave this information, it can be noted that the precise birth date of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam was not known to them, hence they only gave the information they knew.
Ibn Kathīr (d. 774), the famous medieval historian, also lists many opinions in his monumental al-Bidāya wa-l-nihāyah regarding the birth-date of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam.3 He states that the majority of scholars believed that the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam was born in the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, but differed regarding the precise day of the month. Some of these opinions are:
1. 2nd Rabīʿ al-Awwal. This was the preferred opinion of Abū Maʿshar al-Sindī (d. 171 AH), one of the earliest scholars of sīra, and of the famous Māliki jurist and scholar, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (d. 463). It was also listed by al-Wāqidī (d. 207 AH) as a possible opinion. [Al-Wāqidī is one of the most reputable early historians of Islam, despite his weakness as a narrator of ḥadīth].
2. 8th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal. This was the opinion of the Andalusian scholar Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456 AH), and many of the early scholars. Imām Mālik (d. 179 AH) reported this opinion from al-Dhuhrī (d. 128 AH) and Muḥammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim (a famous Successor), amongst others. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, while subscribing to the first opinion, said that this opinion was the opinion of most historians. Ibn Diḥya (d. ~ 610 AH), one of the first to write a treatise on the birth of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, also considered this date to be the strongest opinion.
3. 10th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal. This has been reported by Ibn ʿAsākir (d. 571 AH) from Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir (d. 114 AH), a descendant of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam and an alleged imām of the Shiʾites. It is also the opinion of al-Shaʿbī (d. 100 AH), a famous scholar and student of the Companions, and al-Wāqidī (d. 207 AH) himself.
4. 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal. This is the opinion of Ibn Isḥāq (d. 150), who reported it without any reference. In other sources, it is reported as the opinion of Jābir and Ibn ʿAbbās, but there is no isnād found in any primary source book to them. Ibn Kathīr writes, “…and this is the most common opinion on the matter, and Allāh knows best.” I could not find this opinion attributed to any other authorities of the first few generations of Islam.
5. 17th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal. This was the opinion of some Shiʾite scholars, and is rejected by most Sunnī authorities.
6. 22nd of Rabīʿ al-Awwal. This opinion has also been attributed to Ibn Ḥazm.
7. In the month of Ramaḍān, without a specific date, in the 'Year of the Elephant'. This was the opinion of the famous early historian al-Zubayr b. al-Bakkār (d. 256), who wrote the first and most authoritative history of Mecca, and some early authorities agreed with him.
8. 12th of Ramaḍān, in the 'Year of the Elephant'. This opinion was reported by Ibn ʿAsākir as being held by some early authorities.
These are the most predominant opinion regarding the date of the Prophet's salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam birth. However, this is by no means comprehensive – for example, a modern researcher has concluded that the 9th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal is the strongest candidate for the exact date, whereas a few earlier authorities even disputed the very year, claiming that it was ten, or twenty-three, or forty years after the 'Year of the Elephant'.4
Why is the opinion of the 12th of Rabī al-Awwal so popular?
As can be seen, there are numerous opinions regarding the precise date of the birth of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, some of which differ about the month, and others even the year. However, an overwhelming majority of historians and scholars agreed that he was born on a Monday, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, in the 'Year of the Elephant', which corresponds to 570 (or 571) C.E.
Within the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, more than half a dozen opinions exist. Out of all of these dates, the two dates of the 8th and the 10th were in fact more popular opinions in the first five centuries of Islam, and in particular the former opinion was given greater credence. Why, then, is the date of the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal considered the most popular in our times, so much so that most people are unaware of alternate opinions? This question is all the more compelling in light of the fact that Ibn Isḥāq narrates this opinion without any reference. This can be explained, and Allāh knows best, by two factors.
Firstly, the popularity of Ibn Isḥāq himself. His book of sīra is a primary source of information regarding the biography of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam. Since his bookis a standard reference for all later writings, many scholars simply copied and pasted his opinion, disregarding the other opinions (some of which were given more weight by earlier authorities).
Secondly – and this perhaps is a stronger factor – the first time that a group of people decided to take the birthday of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam as a public day of celebration (i.e., the inception of the celebration of the mawlid) , it so happened that they chose this opinion (viz., the 12th of Rabī al-Awwal). Hence, when the practice of the mawlid spread, so did this date. This also explains why Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, writing before the conception of the mawlid in the fifth century of the hijrah, stated that the most common opinion amongst historians was in fact the 8th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, and yet Ibn Kathīr, writing three centuries later, after the mawlid had been introduced as a public festival, stated that the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal was the most common opinion.
The exact birth-date of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam has always been the subject of dispute amongst classical scholars. Nothing authentic has been reported in the standard source books of tradition, and this fact in itself shows that it was not held in the significance that later authorities did. The 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal is a strong candidate for being the exact birth date of the Prophet salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, but the 2nd, 8th and 10th are also viable and well-respected positions, with the 8th being the weightiest.
As to who was the first to celebrate the mawlid, and how it spread in Muslim lands, that shall form Part II of this article, insha Allāh. | <urn:uuid:fdc4f327-8f06-43ee-9cef-9ba4e73d02cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://muslimmatters.org/2009/03/11/the-birth-date-of-the-prophet-and-the-history-of-the-mawlid-part-i-of-iii/ | 2013-05-24T04:46:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963225 | 2,614 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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After increasing for three consecutive days, oil futures fell on Monday, the 16th of July 2012. The main reason for this sudden mood shift in the market was due to the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabo, stating that the expected economic recovery of China for the second half of this year was yet to gain momentum. [...] | <urn:uuid:e5fd420e-5c9f-4534-8327-7ea0a2146fc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oilinsights.net/ | 2013-05-24T04:46:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949199 | 667 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I am getting some confusion on whether M-theory accepts many-worlds interpretation. Can anyone show me the reasons or rebuttals for the possibility of the many-worlds interpretation in M-theory? Thanks.
This contains no new information but since nobody else seems to jump in I thought I could transform my comment into a short answer.
Many-worlds is just an (dont know how useful ...) interpretation of QM and is not (directly) related to M-theory or to the large number of vacua it has as solutions. These are two separate issues or concepts which are sometimes confusingly both called multiverse. So M-theory does neither refute nor accept the many-worlds interpretation. | <urn:uuid:4b64a287-612e-4034-bc5a-e76de91b423a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22222/m-theory-and-many-worlds-interpretation | 2013-05-24T04:21:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948925 | 151 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
No, this post isn't about my love for the Spice Girls, which I have mentioned once before, and despite the fact that there is talk of another reunion. It just so happens that the lyrics from their famous hit "wannabe" fit perfectly with what I want to discuss today.
I'm curious, I want to know what you, as writers AND readers, want more or less of in the market. Here's the thing, I don't write for trends, I write what I'm most passionate about. I will say that when I first began writing I worked on a Vampire story. Not in the trend we've recently seen where the girl falls for a Vamp, but rather the whole "wow these are bad mothereffers and we better haul a** if we don't want to end up as soulless, blood sucking monsters." I shelved the idea after the fire fizzled out. It's still an interesting concept because I really want to see more creeptastic vampire stories, but I have other projects that are calling to me right now.
Here's what I would like to see represented more often in the books I read:
- Boys with feelings. What's wrong with the guy who cares, who doesn't act like a douche one second and a witty charmer the next just because he can? Sure he may have daddy issues (and maybe a few mommy ones) but that doesn't mean he can't be nice. That's not to say I want a guy who cries every time he watches The Notebook, but someone who feels and cares enough to be there. I hate it when the nice guy gets pushed aside for the cocky jerk. Ladies, there's nothing wrong with going for the guy who treats you with respect.
- I also want more smart girls. A girl who gets good grades, that isn't labeled as a nerd for arming herself with knowledge, a girl who can kick butt and save the guy every now and then. I've heard so many complaints about Mary Sues, and I second that proposal to stop the insanity. A girl can be awesome way before a boy walks into her life. Adding some eye candy can just be a plus.
- I'll be the first to admit that I'm a sucker for romance. I'm much more likely to enjoy a story if there's some kissing involved, but let the characters fall in love over time. They can be attracted to each other before L-O-V-E factor comes into play, but saying "I love you" after only a week or month, and sometimes even a day of knowing each other isn't realistic. Work with the tension, the growing feelings, I think the pay off is much better when you take this route.
-Maybe you don't care about any of these things but would much rather see a specific genre represented. I love sci-fi and high fantasy and there's not enough in the YA market. And of course, books targeted for boys.
Okay, so maybe I missed something that you feel very strongly about, I want to know what that is. So, I ask again, what do YOU want, what do you REALLY REALLY want? | <urn:uuid:764dc061-268e-4ae1-91a2-3ae1b9ebb9eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://prernapickett.blogspot.com/2011/10/tell-me-what-you-want-what-you-really.html | 2013-05-24T04:26:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979376 | 658 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The Fifth Avenue afternoon parade was interrupted yesterday when Acting Captain Eggers led a raid on an alleged distributing place for poolroom news, situated in an office building within a half block of the Waldorf-Astoria. The raiders were armed with sledge hammers and axes, and, in spite of a sincere desire of the chief raider to avoid publicity, he had to make his coup before an audience of a thousand promenaders. | <urn:uuid:2c4aae71-c111-4e94-9771-d8bd28971169> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F01E4D7133AE733A25753C2A9629C946497D6CF | 2013-05-24T04:56:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923852 | 147 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
About this society
To preserve the surfing culture, history, integrity and spirit of the Bells Beach Surfing Recreation Reserve for future generations
An open letter to the community from the Bells Beach Preservation Society:
The Bells Beach Surfing Recreation Reserve, the worlds first surfing reserve, was created in 1973.
As a result of population pressure and increased tourism, Bells Beach is at a critical point in its history. The reserve’s manager, the Surf Coast Shire, is struggling to manage the reserve and is planning changes that will affect the character of Bells. Once the changes are in place they will be irreversible. The things you enjoy most about the reserve, and currently take for granted, could soon be a thing of the past.
With this in mind, we have formed the Bells Beach Preservation Society to preserve the surfing culture, history, integrity, and spirit of the Bells Beach Surfing recreation reserve for future generations. We aim to give a voice to those who use and value Bells Beach, and to engage the Surf Coast Shire, and the government, in real community consultation about what is best for Bells.
Our immediate concerns for the Bells reserve are:
- The urgent need for improvements to the existing infrastructure, most importantly diverting the stormwater to prevent further erosion of the beach.
- Unregulated, unlicensed and dangerous tourist coaches in the reserve and the Shire’s proposal to use the Winki Pop carpark for 5 coach bays and a toilet block.
- The unsustainable use by the tourist coaches of the existing toilets which the Shire’s own officers describe as “barely meeting EPA requirements”
- The need for meaningful discussions about the impact of commercial surfing events on the reserve and on the recreational users of the reserve.
We don’t claim to have all the answers but our holy grail is wolds best practice in every aspect of the reserve. Please have a look around this site and let us know what you think. | <urn:uuid:8927e267-5547-40eb-80ad-3ab56ac17dd8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://savebellsbeach.com/?page_id=2 | 2013-05-24T04:19:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921785 | 415 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I am really sorry for such a sad news pal
is there a next rank where people can post without waiting 10 mins??
I wish that my country have these kind of internet speeds.. my internet is 1 mbps/s and I download this max of 200 kbs/s
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Miles here is so embarrassed to be dressed as a dinosaur, he won’t look at his owner. Which is fair. With a costume that fantastic, why is he at home, on the couch, and not starring in some parade somewhere to show off how amazingly adorable he is?!?! I get you, Miles.
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The Bonackers (6-8) will need to win five of their last six games to advance to the Class A playoffs. They have a three-game series coming up with first-place Bayport/Blue Point (11-2), with two of those games at home, and will conclude the regular season with a three-game set with Elwood/John Glenn, with two games on the road. Teams must finish with an above-.500 record in league play in order to advance to the postseason.
East Hampton beat Glenn handily, 13-4, in the two teams’ first meeting of the season, and suffered a narrow 4-1 loss to Bayport.
On Friday, the Bonackers avoided the sweep by beating Shoreham, 14-5. Plenty... more | <urn:uuid:f71d12c3-3474-4a49-8cac-8e19859f7196> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/General-Interest-EH/422444/Bonackers-Drop-2-Of-3-In-Series-With-Shoreham | 2013-05-24T04:26:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95493 | 161 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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DescriptionA set of power control widgets to optimize battery life on your android device. Designed with a modern round toggle button with indicator lights to show status.
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**Note Android does not allow developers direct access to GPS settings anymore so GPS widget opens locations system preferences menu. Also only GPS settings changes made through widget are tracked with status light to save battery drain caused by constant "listening" to GPS system status. | <urn:uuid:bee097c9-e2c5-4af2-8b81-c12c99124884> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.silberware.widget/Silberware-Power-Toggle-Widget | 2013-05-24T04:46:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.790032 | 186 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
E-mail the Juice Crew with your questions and comments HERE!
Greg, who is originally from the Bay Area, moved to Fresno after finishing college at the University of California Riverside. He began at B95 in 1996 and hosted the Afternoon drive show before moving to Mornings and becoming a founding member of the Juice Crew in 2001. He loves to spend time with his kids, and is a huge football fan. Here is Greg repin' his beloved 49ers with his two girls, Tatiana (above) and Farrah (below).
Brooke Mueller is back in familiar territory -- rehab -- because she now confesses she has a big problem with a powerful drug.
Sources close to Brooke tell TMZ ... Charlie Sheen's ex-wife #3 says she has addiction issues with Adderall -- a psycho-stimulant commonly used for ADD.
TMZ broke the story ... an unresponsive Brooke was rushed to the hospital last week after OD'ing on drugs. Brooke is privately acknowledging she took way too many Adderall pills and it put her in the danger zone.
Brooke --who checked into rehab tonight -- won't bump into any walls in the middle of the night because she knows the facility very well -- she's been there before. She'll be living there for an undetermined period of time.
Brooke's attorney, Yale Galanter, tells TMZ, "Brooke was uncomfortable with the way Adderall was making her behave."
Galanter also insists Brooke had no illegal drugs in her system when she OD'd last week.
Brooke is on probation in
Galanter adds, "Brooke continues her lifelong battle with drug addiction by taking these steps herself to prevent a further drug relapse." | <urn:uuid:1eeb482b-8a4a-4277-bef5-d15c3a189ca3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.b95forlife.com/pages/juicecrew.html?article=10632484 | 2013-05-24T04:40:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973401 | 356 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Congratulations to Y tu mamá también star Diego Luna, 30, and wife Camila Sodi, 23, who are getting ready to welcome baby no. 2!
In a statement to PEOPLE, given through manager Jorge Mondragón , Diego said:
We want to confirm that Camila and I are expecting our second child. We’ve celebrated the news and it has brought great joy to our lives.
The couple, who will celebrate their 2nd wedding anniversary next month, are also parents to 17-month-old Jerónimo. | <urn:uuid:870be32d-55b5-4f23-a143-003ede1cee4e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.celebritybabyscoop.com/2010/01/26/diego-luna-wife-expecting-second-child- | 2013-05-24T04:25:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906559 | 116 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Cityleases.com Canada Apartment Rental Service: Cityleases.com advertises Canada rental housing. Canada rental housing postings at Cityleases.com include apartment rentals, houses for rent, condos to rent, townhouses to rent, sublets and rooms for rent. Canada rental housing postings at Cityleases.com are posted by Canada landlords, Canada property managers, Canada property owners and Canada roommates. Canada tenants search rental housing to contact these Canada landlords and rental managers. All renting is done between Canada landlords and Canada tenants. Cityleases.com does not negotiate rental contracts for Canada landlords and Canada tenants.
Landlords representing properties can use the "landlord" link above the Canada links to begin posting their Canada rentals. Landlords, property mangers and rental property owners in Canada can post standard rental listings for free or post premium rental listings. Once a tenant finds a Canada rental they are interested in, the tenant contacts the landlord by telephone and/or email.
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Solutions manual available for qualifying instructors
Bringing the material up to date to reflect modern applications, Algebraic Number Theory, Second Edition has been completely rewritten and reorganized to incorporate a new style, methodology, and presentation. This edition focuses on integral domains, ideals, and unique factorization in the first chapter; field extensions in the second chapter; and class groups in the third chapter. Applications are now collected in chapter four and at the end of chapter five, where primality testing is highlighted as an application of the Kronecker–Weber theorem. In chapter five, the sections on ideal decomposition in number fields have been more evenly distributed. The final chapter continues to cover reciprocity laws.
New to the Second Edition
The book includes mini-biographies of notable mathematicians, convenient cross-referencing, a comprehensive index, and numerous exercises. The appendices present an overview of all the concepts used in the main text, an overview of sequences and series, the Greek alphabet with English transliteration, and a table of Latin phrases and their English equivalents.
Suitable for a one-semester course, this accessible, self-contained text offers broad, in-depth coverage of numerous applications. Readers are lead at a measured pace through the topics to enable a clear understanding of the pinnacles of algebraic number theory.
Integral Domains, Ideals, and Unique Factorization
Noetherian and Principal Ideal Domains
Algebraic Numbers and Number Fields
Applications: Equations and Sieves
Prime Power Representation
The Fermat Equation
The Number Field Sieve
Ideal Decomposition in Number Fields
Appendix A: Abstract Algebra
Solutions to Odd-Numbered Exercises
Richard A. Mollin is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary. In the past twenty-five years, Dr. Mollin has founded the Canadian Number Theory Association and has been awarded six Killam Resident Fellowships. He has written more than 200 publications, including Advanced Number Theory with Applications (CRC Press, August 2009), Fundamental Number Theory with Applications, Second Edition (CRC Press, February 2008), An Introduction to Cryptography, Second Edition (CRC Press, September 2006), Codes: The Guide to Secrecy from Ancient to Modern Times (CRC Press, May 2005), and RSA and Public-Key Cryptography (CRC Press, November 2002).
This is an introductory text in algebraic number theory that has good coverage … . This second edition is completely reorganized and rewritten from the first edition. … Very Good Features: (1) The applications are not limited to Diophantine equations, as in many books, but cover a wide range, including factorization into primes, primality testing, and the higher reciprocity laws. (2) The book has a large number of mini-biographies of the number theorists whose work is being discussed. …
—MAA Reviews, April 2011
This book is in the MAA's basic library list. The Basic Library List Committee considers this book essential for undergraduate mathematics libraries.
Praise for the First Edition
This is a remarkable book that will be a valuable reference for many people, including me. The book shows great care in preparation, and the ample details and motivation will be appreciated by lots of students. The solid punches at the end of each chapter will be appreciated by everybody. It deserves success with many adoptions as a text.
—Irving Kaplansky, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
An extremely well-written and clear presentation of algebraic number theory suitable for beginning graduate students. The many exercises, applications, and references are a very valuable feature of the book.
—Kenneth Williams, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
This is a unique book that will be influential.
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Four Years and 364 Days to Build a Creamery...
and I may be overly optimistic about the 364 day part!
A goat dairy at the nascent Pennyroyal Farm vineyard began as a conversation early in 2007. After two years of planning, foundations were laid for the barn and milking parlor in a freshly planted vineyard just east of downtown Boonville, a secluded town in California's Mendocino County. The 70' by 100' barn was designed to comfortably accommodate a milking herd of 108 goats. The milking parlor permits 36 goats to enter at a time, filling two raised platforms between which the milker is stationed. While construction proceeded on the dairy buildings (which allowed me to relocate my herd from Sonoma County to the site of the future farm), planning and the convoluted permitting process were tackled for the creamery. | <urn:uuid:49170796-514f-45af-b6f3-e386a992a5e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.culturecheesemag.com/taxonomy/term/487 | 2013-05-24T04:33:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962583 | 174 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On April 30, 10,000 students gathered at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia to compete in the 19th annual FIRST Championship. Every year FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) hosts a robotics competition for high school students to build and operate robots. The students are given kits containing hundreds of parts and six weeks to build a robot that could compete in a soccer-like game called “Breakaway” where the robots had to climb over obstacles and score goals on the other teams. This year’s winning team was composed of three teams from across the country, “Beach Cities Robotics” from Redondo Beach, CA, “The HOT Team” from Milford, MI, and “Bobcat Robotics” from South Windsor, CT. You can see a full list of the winners here.
This year’s kits were full of supplies donated by companies eager to help young people get mor involved and more interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education and careers. One such company is igus® who has created the Y.E.S. program for students in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Igus’ Y.E.S. (Young Engineers Support) supplied Energy Chain cable carriers, igus® plastic bearings, igubal® spherical bearings, and DryLin® linear bearings to the FIRST robotics kits.
Y.E.S.’s mission is to provide donations to students who show a passion for engineering and they continue to donate through competitions such as Botball, and Best Robotics. | <urn:uuid:4351890f-7b9e-4725-91ab-7bedb5423c02> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&doc_id=211779&piddl_msgorder=asc | 2013-05-24T04:33:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956129 | 330 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
How to ‘burn’ a big diamond
Not literally, you understand, that would be silly (although it’s a little known fact that diamonds do burn…).
No, this is about selling a diamond at auction, but perhaps not giving it the best chance of maximising its value.
Ritchies Auctioneers in Toronto, Canada have a fine jewellery sale coming up on Sunday 13th November, and they’re lucky enough to have been entrusted with a diamond weighing 50.24 carats – the sort of stone which would normally be sold at auction by one of the world-famous auction houses in Geneva, New York, or increasingly, in Hong Kong.
Now a diamond like this (in fact, any diamond) needs a bit of romancing. It’s worth commissioning some fabulous photography, and perhaps asking a copywriter to put together a compelling story about the diamond, about what makes it so special and so alluring.
But what do we have here? Well, we have a photo (right), but it’s not exactly the world-class imagery that a 50ct diamond deserves — we get no idea of scale: this diamond could weigh 0.05ct or 0.50ct.
This looks like a (low quality) technical image shot on home equipment: top view, side view – it’s clinical, not the least bit emotional.
Bizarrely, the auction house chooses to mention a GIA certificate (apparently it’s VS1 clarity and J colour) but doesn’t tell us the certificate number or provide a pdf of the cert on their website.
Why would that be? My guess is that the diamond is a pretty poor cut and the certificate says so (it doesn’t look that great). Chances are that a diamond which has been cut to hit a weight threshold (i.e. to just beat 50 carats) is not the most Excellent cut.
Lastly there’s the ‘back story’ of the stone. We don’t need to know the buyer’s name – of course he has the right to privacy – but what we are told about the buyer and the diamond’s background is very vague and seems to detract from, rather than add to, the diamond’s allure and value.
A report (including video) can be found here, and the buyer is described as a Belgian hotelier who, because of the economic turmoil in Europe, has been ‘forced into auction‘ of the diamond. We’re told that one of the reasons the buyer has chosen the auction sales route is because it ‘guarantees him confidentiality‘. Yes, well, I think we can all draw our own conclusions from that…
The Managing Director of the auction house talks about “things of this calibre” being “liquidated“. He adds “We’re liquidating. This is a quick sale” – hardly romancing the stone, is it?
Meanwhile, the lead gemologist of the auction house says “I’ve never dealt with a diamond like this before“. His best guess is that the diamond was mined in South Africa, but admits he doesn’t know for sure.
Hmmm… not sure that I would want to buy a used car from these guys.
The stone is described as a “$10 million diamond”, but that’s retail, apparently, so they only expect to get $4 to $4.5 million for it at auction. Extraordinary.
And this from the same team, according to this report, which sold a pink diamond last year for $2.3 million having previously valued it at $8 to $12 million.
Anyway, good luck to them. We’ll bring you the auction result – if they publicise it…
UPDATE, 15th November 2011: Ritchies report that they sold the diamond for $3,107,500 – some distance short of $10m ‘retail’ and their pre-sale estimate of $4 to $4.5 million. | <urn:uuid:7d547300-5db2-4dc4-bd6b-0ddbb3e19a1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.diamondthrills.co.uk/2011/11/how-to-burn-a-big-diamond/ | 2013-05-24T04:41:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962557 | 868 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Your daily dose of Devils news...October style!
- Pete DeBoer is close to naming a captain - Fire & Ice
- Mentally, Johan Hedberg is sharp - Fire & Ice
- Adam Larsson has made the roster. This is a surprise to no one - NJ.com
- The Devils believe they can win the cup! - NJ.com
- Creep for the weekend: some interesting NHL plush dolls - Puck Daddy | <urn:uuid:b7dad257-3629-47f8-97d3-935e7f2177f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inlouwetrust.com/2011/10/1/2461528/devils-in-the-details-10-1-11 | 2013-05-24T04:32:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.845369 | 93 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Bloomberg reports that more hedge funds will register with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission than the SEC first predicted, expanding the reach of one of the most controversial requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act. The deadline to register with the SEC is tomorrow.
The agency expects to receive about 1,300 registration applications, which is almost double the 750 advisers the agency predicted in July. The Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, which administers the SEC’s examination and inspection program for registered investment advisers, has hired 60 additional staff in the past 18 months, partly reflecting anticipated scrutiny of hedge funds.
When the SEC completed the registration rule in June it estimated the cost of registration at $9.6 million based on an estimate of 750 advisers spending almost 38,000 hours to comply with the rule. It looks like that cost estimate was on the low side…Subscribe to Integrity ResearchWatch by Email or in an RSS/XML reader | <urn:uuid:a889dc24-b4bb-472f-a67b-10ebecd3ab0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.integrity-research.com/cms/2012/03/29/more-hedge-funds-register-than-originally-expected/ | 2013-05-24T04:26:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951393 | 192 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The past decades have seen a broad structural shift towards services in the Canadian economy. Services have increased from just over half of Canada's gross domestic
product (GDP) in 1961 to two-thirds today. The percentage of workers employed in services is also on the rise. It employs about three Canadians in four - compared to just over half in 1961 - and between 1990 and 2006 services created more than 90 percent of new jobs and in 2006, 331 thousand new jobs were created in the services sectors, while about 16.5 thousand jobs were lost in the goods sector.
Services are, on balance, more knowledge-intensive than other sectors and therefore employ proportionately many more well-educated workers than other industries. For example, almost 20 percent* of workers in the services sector have post-secondary education. Interestingly, some of the best-paid jobs in Canada are in the services sector - in financial, legal, advertising, computer software and engineering services.
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|Research and development||1,434||1,043||702||159||754||68|
Source: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada website (Office of the Chief Economist webpage)
* 2005 data for United States and European Union is available. 2004 data was used because more recent data is not available for “Other Countries”.
|Computer and |
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Source: Statistics Canada, Canada's International Trade in Services, Catalogue no. 67-203-XWE,
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AnandTech has posted today that it doesn't appear that the new iPhone expected next month will have an NFC chip. As you likely know, NFC stands for near field communication, and it's a technology for transmitting purchase information wirelessly. Some mobile phones have these chips, which let users touch a mobile-payment terminal with their phone as they leave a store to make payment. This is more common in other countries, but in the U.S. adoption has been slowed by the many competing systems. The most widely used may be PayPass, which is used by Google Wallet on Android phones. AnandTech says that the phone doesn't seem to be designed to accommodate an NFC chip and that, despite rumors to the contrary, the new phone may not have this feature. iMore suggests that Apple might simply accomplish the same thing without an NFC chip, such as via Bluetooth. | <urn:uuid:79f5b4f4-a1b7-419f-9823-9698ae01b40c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/5/new-iphone-may-not-have-nfc-chip-used-mobile-wallets | 2013-05-24T04:46:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980969 | 177 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Royal or regal stations
are those eligible for a Royal cascade
, such as Park Royal
, King's Cross
, Queen's Park and so on. During a Royal cascade, Blue
Royal stations gain a 25% increase in their token weightings
See the station cascade link for a list of other possible cascade types.
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The former Canterbury, Waikato, Auckland, South Island and North Island prop played a total off 77 games for New Zealand, with 32 of those full-on Tests.
He led the Kiwis in the four-match series with the Lions in 1959 as his side ran out 3-0 victors, with one match drawn.
"Today is a very sad day," said New Zealand Rugby Union chairman Mike Eagle.
"We have lost one of New Zealand's great heroes and for the rugby community we have lost a much-loved patron and champion of rugby.
"Regarded as one of the great All Blacks legends, Sir Wilson also made significant contributions to the community through his work with sport, charities and business.
"We extend our condolences to Lady Elisabeth and to their family as they remember a much-loved husband, a father and a grandfather."
Whineray became the first New Zealander - and only the fourth person overall - to be inducted into the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame in 2007, four years after being named patron of the NZRU.
He was awarded an OBE in 1962 and was named New Zealand's Sportsman of the Year in 1965, the same year that he called time on a wonderful career.
He was knighted for services to rugby and business in 1998 having gained a masters from Harvard University after his rugby retirement, with his roles in business including the chairmanship of the National Bank of New Zealand and director's positions with Auckland International Airport and APN News and Media. | <urn:uuid:cb34bff9-f089-423a-8ef1-b212f483a930> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lionsrugby.com/news/4967.php | 2013-05-24T04:41:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982271 | 316 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Are Knowledge Bases Enough? A Comparative Study of the Geography of Knowledge Sources in China (Great Beijing) and India (Pune)
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: European Planning Studies
Förlag: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
Using firm-level data collected through a survey in 2008 followed by semi-structured interviews with firms in 2009-2010, this article systematically compares the geography of linkages of the software industry between two regions, one in India (Pune) and one in China (Great Beijing). In contrast to what the literature on knowledge bases and regional innovation systems argues the paper points out to marked differences both in the organization as well as in the geographical spread of the knowledge sources in the software industry between Pune and Greater Beijing. The paper suggests that the literature of knowledge bases could benefit from incorporating the insights from strategy studies as well as innovation systems studies.
- Social Sciences
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By Anu Passary email: email@example.com | Jan 14, 2013 09:04 AM EST
Finnish smartphone maker Nokia has a slew of Windows Phone smartphone offerings like the Lumia 920, Lumia 820, Lumia 620, and Lumia 510 to name a few, which cater to all budgets. Now, the company has launched the Nokia 505 in Mexico and a video of the phone's unboxing has popped up online on YouTube.
Nokia announced the budget friendly Lumia 505 earlier in December 2012 and the device is exclusive to Mexican carrier Telcel. The Lumia 505 is a variant of the low-end Lumia 510.
Making carrier-specific variant of its Lumia smartphones is not new for Nokia. The company made the Lumia 810 and the Lumia 822 variants of the Lumia 820, for T-Mobile and Verizon, respectively.
The Lumia 505 unboxing video on YouTube is courtesy the Mexican carrier Telcel. The 6-minute long video shows the new phone in action, along with all the accessories that come in the package.
The Lumia 505 packs in a 3.7-inch AMOLED display, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera (which does not boast Carl Zeiss technology), a 1300mAh battery, and 4GB of on-board storage. The Lumia 505 runs on Windows Phone 7.8 and comes with 256MB of RAM.
There's no front-facing camera on this device, which is surprising, considering that these days even entry-level smartphones feature front-facing camera for video chats.
The Lumia 505 is priced at 3,499 Mexican pesos (approximately $277) and is available in red, black, and pink.
Check out the Lumia 505 in action in the video below.
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by National Football Post
June 03, 02011
For the rest of the summer, the National Football Post will be breaking down every team in the Football Bowl Subdivision to identify which players could warrant the most interest from NFL teams in the 2012 NFL draft.
Therefore, today we take a look at the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Childs is more than just a big body.
WR Greg Childs: No. 85 (6-3, 217)
A tall, long-armed wide receiver prospect with a big wingspan and great body control when asked to adjust to the catch. Is a strider down the field who isn’t real shifty off the line when asked to beat press coverage. Can fend off corners with his length/physicality and track the football vertically, but isn’t a guy who initially can get behind defenders and separate. Lacks great straight-line speed as well; looks like a 4.55 guy. Makes most of his big plays adjusting to the throw and simply high pointing the throw, as his ball skills, body control and coordination are all very good.
Is a much better route runner than given credit for, especially in the three-step game. Does a nice job when lined up off the line slow playing his route, selling the fake with an outside jab/shoulder fake and accelerating through the inward breaking routes. Uses his big body to box out defenders and has a tremendous area to throw at when asked to go get the football.
Is an above-average blocker on the outside as well and is willing. Not overly physical, but his long arms and big frame allow him to initially stick to defenders through contact. Does a better job creating yards after the catch than you would think for a bigger wideout, consistently attacks throws and runs through them, allowing him to gain momentum into the catch and initially break a tackle and/or outrun his defender. A natural plucker off the football who extends his long arms and can make some tremendous catches off his frame.
Missed the final part of the 2010 season with a patella tendon injury.
Impression: He knows what he is and plays to his strengths. Looks like a big, coordinated possession type receiver at the next level who can win in the three-step game and create some big plays for a team in jump ball situations as well.
WR Joe Adams: No. 3 (5-11, 190)
Looks smaller and thinner on tape than his numbers indicate. However, is a good athlete who has some wiggle off the line getting into his routes. Sets up his routes well from the slot. Does a nice job changing gears, selling the shoulder fake and displays the balance/fluidity to sharply get out of his breaks with a burst. Snaps his head around quickly and locates the football. However, isn’t quite as sharp/precise as a route runner when asked to run routes at full speed, gets leggy out of his breaks, gears down and struggles to generate the same kind of burst. Is inconsistent plucking the football. Lets far too many throws go through his hands and needs to do a better job securing the catch on all areas of the field. Looks a bit weak in the wrist. Adjusts well and isn’t afraid to take a lick over the middle, but looks content to trap the ball on his chest too often. At his best running vertically down the field. Demonstrates good straight-line speed, has a second gear when he can put his foot in the ground and track the pass. Is a tough guy to overthrow.
Showcases some shiftiness off the line vs. press when he wants to get behind corners, but lacks the physicality to fight off defenders when trying to gain an inside release. Is coordinated/shifty with the ball in his hands. Possesses above average “make you miss ability” and can create after the catch. Isn’t real physically built and isn’t going to break many tackle in space as he gets tripped up easy by tacklers.
Impression: An explosive athlete who can go get the football down the field and has some savvy to his game setting up routes. However, is inconsistent catching the football and as a route runner. Nevertheless, does enough well to make a roster and see playing time both from the inside and out. An ideal fit for Philadelphia running the deep crossers.
WR Jarius Wright: No. 4 (5-10, 180)
An undersized, shifty little receiver with good balance and footwork as a route runner both from the outside and from the slot. Does a nice job selling routes inside, cleanly is able to break down, keeps his feet under him and generates a burst/separation out of his breaks. Has the body control/balance to do the same on the outside vs. off coverage. Eats up the cushion quickly, drops his pad level well on a dime when asked to run the deep out and can separate or even turn the play up the field on a double move. However, struggles to get off press coverage initially off the line. Isn’t real long/physical, can be re-routed initially and slowed into his route.
Exhibits the ability to adjust and pluck throws off his frame, but looks content to simply trap passes against his chest when thrown on target. Tracks the ball well vertically and can get behind defenders off the line, but isn’t a guy who’s going to win in jump ball situations. A tough kid though, will hold onto the football in coverage, take a lick and still come down with the catch. Displays good short-area quickness with the ball in his hands and has the initial burst/speed to outpace angles in space. Has some real savvy about his game underneath, recognizes coverages well, sits down in soft spots underneath and works his angles well toward the quarterback
Impression: A coordinated slot guy who is sharp as a route runner, tough over the middle and knows how to get open vs. man and zone. Struggles vs. press and is an inside player only at the next level, but has the skill set to make a roster and carve out a niche.
ICONBequette has a motor that runs non-stop.
DE Jake Bequette: No. 91 (6-5, 271)
A thick, physically built defensive end prospect who possesses the frame to play the run at the next level. Sits into his stance well and can generate leverage off the snap. However, lacks a great first step when trying to reach the corner. Doesn’t have the ability to consistently threaten the edge at the next level. Tries to drop his pad level when trying to flatten out, but isn’t real flexible. Tends to drop his head and bend at the waist and initially can get under blockers, but then pops upright and can routinely be pushed past the pocket. Demonstrates a great motor and works hard in pursuit and most of his outside pressures come off his motor/power and not first step burst. Doesn’t have much of a counter off his outside rush either.
A linear rusher who struggles to change directions at speed. However, does have some savvy off the snap. Will work the jab step to the edge and cleanly shoot the C-gap, fighting his way into the backfield. However, is at his best as a push/pull guy. Displays a strong bull rush, gets his hands under the pad level of defenders, keeps his base down, feet under him and can overwhelm on contact. Not overly sudden when asked to disengage through contact and change directions, but creates havoc in the backfield and will work till the whistle. Has experience playing on both sides of the line of scrimmage at the college level and I could see him doing the same in the NFL as well.
Is a solid run defender, plays the run game with integrity, finds the football quickly and works hard in pursuit. Not overly fluid/flexible when asked to break down closing from the backside, but works hard to get there and puts himself in position to consistently make plays on the ball carrier. Comes off the ball low when asked to anchor, gains inside leverage with his strong hands and not only can control blocks on contact, but does a nice job disengaging and making a play on the back. Lacks ideal range, but has some stack and shed ability when run at.
Impression: Not a special athlete, more of a savvy power player, but works hard rushing the pocket, has a great motor and can play the run. A rotational guy early on who has the ability to earn a starting role as a 43 overachieving DE at the next level, potentially can play on either side, but more of a base end.
LB Jerry Franklin: No. 34 (6-1, 241)
A stout, thicker inside linebacker prospect who displays a natural feel and demonstrates above-average instincts in all areas of the game. Reads and reacts quickly to the run game inside, picks his way through traffic, plays off blocks and breaks down well in tight quarters. Less effective in space, has the short-area quickness to make a pulling lineman whiff, but doesn’t have the initial burst to quickly close and make a play on the football. Is a solid wrap-up guy, but doesn’t generate a ton of snap into contact. Would like to see more of a “pop” in the hole, more of a catcher. Isn’t overly rangy, locates the ball well and is quick to close, doesn’t have a second gear when closing. Stays patient when lined-up off the edge in an “over” call and keeps his outside leverage, but not a guy who will make plays from backside. At times doesn’t trust himself when he sees a potential big play, puts himself around the football shooting gaps inside when attacking downhill, but will slow his feet into a tackle and see an angle outpaced. Doesn’t anchor consistently in the hole, doesn’t create a ton of force attacking downhill and can be sealed from the play once a lineman gets his hands on him.
Displays natural balance in his drop in coverage. Keeps his feet under him and possesses decent fluidity when asked to redirect and open up his hips. Gets good depth in his drop and feels routes develop around him. Keeps his head on a swivel and is tough to fool in zone coverage. However, doesn’t generate much of a burst when asked to stick his foot in the ground and drive on throws off his frame. Plays with only one gear and despite his compact frame doesn’t generate much explosion in any area of the game. Nevertheless, breaks down well after the completion and is a consistent wrap up tackler.
Impression: A coordinated middle linebacker prospect who picks his way through the line of scrimmage, finds football and can hold his own in coverage. However, would like to see a more explosive element to his game in all areas. A solid MLB prospect, not the top-tier senior backer many are making him out to be in my view.
LB Jerico Nelson: No. 31 (5-10, 214)
An undersized outside linebacker who possesses the frame more so of a defensive back. Has a thick set of legs, but narrow through the upper body/waist. Plays fast. Runs well in pursuit, can track the football sideline-to-sideline and is at his best as a chase player vs. the run. Lacks the frame to hold up physically at the point of attack at the college level and can easily be washed out of the play. Struggles to shed/fend off blocks even vs. receiver when lined up in the slot.
Looks very fluid/balanced in his drop in coverage. Displays natural bend off the line sitting into his stance, opens up his hips cleanly when asked to redirect and generates a good burst out of his breaks closing on the throw. Will line up over the slot routinely and has a good feel for diagnosing routes, quickly drives on the football and holds up very well in space. Has some savvy as a blitzer, makes himself small, explosive off the line and finds a way to knife his way into the backfield and cause havoc off the edge.
Impression: A tough, rangy kid who holds up well in coverage and I like him as a college player, but where do you play him in the NFL? Body type says strong safety, but he’s not physical enough to even warrant a high grade in that area as a defensive back.
S Tramain Thomas: No. 5 (6-0, 198)
A solidly built free safety prospect who isn’t afraid to mix it up and attack the run game downhill. However, struggles to set the edge, lacks balance into contact and can routinely be blown out of plays. Will run the alley inside and is a solid wrap-up guy in tighter quarters. However, isn’t a real consistent open field tackler and will struggle to bring down backs in space and doesn’t take the best of angles in pursuit in any areas of the game. Plays out of control at times and will whiff on his fair share of tackles.
Isn’t as instinctive as you would like at the free safety position. Gets caught with his eyes in the backfield, will bite on play fakes and take himself out of plays. However, displays natural movement skills. Sits into his drop well, keeps his feet under him and looks balanced out of his breaks. Generates a burst when asked to click and close on throws in front of him and displays the ball skills/coordination to adjust and come down with the grab. Runs well for the position in the secondary, plays fast and has good enough speed to play in the deep half. Gets a bit upright and leggy when asked to turn and run in man coverage. However, does well in off, staying patient in his drop, reading the route and calmly opening up his hips and redirecting.
Impression: An NFL-caliber athlete, but struggles with instincts at times and isn’t a real consistent tackler. Nothing more than a later round pick because of it at this stage.
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Itasca, IL – The National Safety Council today released its estimates for traffic crashes for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend which begins at 6 p.m. Fri., May 27 and ends at 11:59 p.m. Mon., May 30.
The council estimates 471 traffic fatalities over the traditional summer kick-off weekend and another 25,400 disabling injuries from motor vehicle collisions.
The council also estimates that 393 people will survive the Memorial Day holiday because they will be wearing seatbelts and that another 115 lives could be saved if all wore safety belts.
For the past six years, the Memorial Day weekend has averaged 8.7% more traffic fatalities than similar non-holiday periods.
NSC issues fatality estimates for major holiday periods to draw attention to the need for drivers to exercise safe driving practices especially when a significant number of drivers are expected to be traveling on our roads and highways.
To ensure a safe Memorial Day weekend, NSC recommends drivers:
- Establish and enforce a driver’s ‘distraction-free zone’ especially in cars equipped with electronic devices including cell phones, video games and global positioning systems.
- Make sure all passengers are buckled up and children are in age-appropriate safety seats.
- Allow plenty of travel time to avoid frustration and diminish the impulse to speed.
- Drive defensively and exercise caution especially during inclement weather.
- Don’t drink and drive. Even moderate consumption of wine or beer impairs reaction time and driving judgment.
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Located at the end of Val Resia, the highly spectacular Babe peaks close off the entire Canin mountain range to the south. This itinerary ascends the gully between Baba Grande and Slebe, before ascending up the east slopes of Baba Grande to reach its summit. Bivacco Costantini is an ideal base to split the itinerary into two days, so as to render the long approach from Stolvizza less problematic. Time and conditions permitting you can also climb the nearby col Sella di Infrababa Piccola.
Access: from Resiutta drive up Val Resia to Stolvizza
Departure: Stolvizza 573m
From Stolvizza follow the road to the bridge which crosses river Resia and then ascends steeply up the opposite side. A long false plateau leads to the hairpin bends and then quickly on to Coritis (1.00 hour). Continue along the road, which now narrows, to cross onto the hydrographic right past beautiful copper beeches and up to a riverbed. Leave the road immediately after this via a steep leftwards ramp (signs for Casera Berdo and Bivacco Costantini del CAI Manzano) up the forest track which, after a hairpin bend, joins with path No. 731 (alternatively follow with path in it's entirety, but this is harder going). Markers on the trees lead the way out of the forest and to the clearing Casera Berdo (1.30 hours). From Casera Berdo coast the forest and enter the Babe gully. Ascend this in the center, up 40° slopes and past the Mulac, where Bivacco Costantini is located. From Passo di Infrababa Grande continue right searching for the easiest route past the steep rocky section to then, via an obvious line, reach the crest to the right of the summit. Ascend this quickly to the top (2.00 hours)
Descend along the line of ascent. The descent to the bivouac is demanding. At circa 1300m remain in the gully past the occasional patches of vegetation, instead of descending to Casera Berdo di Sopra. At 1030m join up with the forest track which leads to the taza mao houses. Continue along this left to a fork which leads to Casera Còot: descend down this to Coritis and Stolvizza.
Normal ski mountaineering equipment
Tabacco foglio 27
Carta del Parco Naturale delle Prealpi Giulie
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Blade 120 power just quits in flight.
Does anyone else have this same problem? Sometimes when I fly my 120 like tonight I was flying out side the heli just looses power and signal and falls to the ground. Tonight it fell on its top and did some damage. I have fresh batteries in the heli and transmitter. How far can the heli fly away from you before you loose signal? I am using the transmitter that came with it the rtf model. If it does get out or range is it supposed to just die?
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[Sir] Henry Fowler
written an extensive, but not authorative, biography of Fowler which concentrates
excessively on his many, and varied, external activities, rather than on
his great contribution as an engineer: partly because the Author has clearly
failed to read what Sir Henry wrote and spoke about.
Michael Rutherford's The era of Sir Henry Fowler. (Railway Refections [No. 33]). Backtrack, 1997, 11, 501-9. examined Fowler in the usual Rutherford style. Several sources are listed which fall outside the period covered by Jones, notably an appreciation by Baldwin, and an important paper by James Clayton. On the other hand it was written prior to Chacksfield's biography. "Direction in new design, if it came, was more by accident and lack of interference than by purpose. It certainly didn't come from Fowler. The Garratts (Anderson's variant) were an example of where the CME should have put his foot down..." The illustrations include Sir Henry Fowler in Scout uniform with Dr H.H.Bemrose Scout commissioner for Derbyshire at the naming of Boy Scout. There is a remarakable comment by Sir Henry on "the disgraceful state" of the nation's roads whether for cyclists or for light motor cars in his contribution to Robson's paper on steam lorries.
See also Fowler locomotives
with James Edward Anderson
2445/1911 Improved automatic control of dampers for superheaters in locomotive and other boilers. Applied 13 June 1911 Accepted 10 August 1911.
2446/1911 Automatic control for cylinder bye-pass valve on locomotive or steam engines. Applied 31 January 1911. Accepted 26 October 1911
12884/1911 Improvements in steam superheaters. Applied 23 May 1911. Accepted 22 February 1912.
with William Chatterton
16533/1912 Improved fire extinguisher. Applied: 15 July 1912. Published: 17 October 1912
Own papers: this list is still incomplete (mainly due to the dominant agrarian nature of Norfolk): there are further incomplete references to papers by Fowler presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1897 and in 1922 and to the Institute of Metals in 1933, and to the Faraday Society in 1921.
Chisels. Engineering, 1916, 101, 195.
Midland Railway specification.
Chisels. Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs, 1916, 90, 141-5. Disc.: 145-82.
Consumption of fuel in locomotive practice. Engineering, 1930,
130, 380. Bibliog.
Abstract of a British Association (Bristol 1930) paper .
Effect of superheated steam on non-ferrous metals used in locomotives. Engineering, 1922, 114, 374.
The electrification of English main line railways.
Proc. Instn mech. Engrs.,
1922, 102, 317-30.
A discussion meeting chaired by Sir Henry Fowler. Concluding, Sir Henry welcomed the pertinent points raised by Dr. Kapp. There were many points with regard to the criticism of steam and electric locomotives which might be dealt with if there was time, but the consideration they wanted to lay hold upon was whether it was going to pay to electrify our main lines. There was no insuperable electrical or mechanical difficulty in the electrification of main lines, but there was a difficulty in regard to the financial side of the problem when they were dealing with a low density of traffic. He would again quote his friend, Mr. A.W. Gibbs, who said the difficulties were more mechanical than electrical. The electrical side of the problem seemed to be perfectly sound. There were certain mechanical difficulties. One of them, unfortunately, had not been touched upon, that was the question of low centre of gravity and wheel arrangement.
Fractures in locomotive boiler tubes. Engineering, 1921, 111, 466-7.
Latest types of steam and internal-combustion locomotives [in:] Institution
of Civil Engineers Engineering Conference, 1928. London, Institution of Civil
Engineers, 1928.214 p.
with Gresley, H.N. Pp. 147-52 (Disc.; 152-68): a general survey.
Lighting of railway premises: indoor and outdoor.
Proc. Instn mech. Engrs.,
1906, 865-906. Disc.: 906-41.
Presented when he was Gas Engineer at Derby. Includes arc lighting, oil lamps and gas lighting; the use of a portable photometer for assessing lighting in passenger stations; the cost of gas mantles; fuel consumption; the use of incandescent electric lamps; and the problems of lighting goods yards, locomotive sheds and workshops. Hughes, his former chief, contributed to the Discussion (pp 917-20)
Locomotive boilers. Rly Engr, 1924, 45, 81-5; 117-23; 179-83;
237-40; 301-5, 427-31. illus., 53 diagrs., 2 tables.
with Symes, S.J.
Locomotive brasses and bronzes. Metal Ind., 1922, 20, 461-2.
Effects of superheated steam.
Locomotive railway traction. Engineering, 1935, 139, Silver Jubilee
Section (May 3rd) p. 32 + plate p. 28.illus.
A general survey of the period; 1910-1935.
Locomotive repairs. J. Instn Transp., 1929/30,11
,59-66; 73-89. Disc.: 67-72. 6 illus., 3 tables, 11 facsim. forms.
The Derby "progressive" system of locomotive repair. Noted that probably the most important work done on the mechanical engineering side of a railway is the maintenance of locomotive stock in an efficient condition..
The maintenance and repair of locomotives.
Trans. Instn Loco. Engrs,, 1913,
3, 1-15. (Paper No. 14)
Address by the President without discussion: boilers received the most treatment and were regarded by the speaker of being of primary importance. Topics examined included pitting and corrosion, burning of the firebox and expansion/contraction which led to grooving. Wear of the motion and cylinders, wheels and axles and boiler mountings were also considered.
Metallurgy in relation to mechanical engineering.
Proc. Instn mech. Engrs.,
1922, 102, 331-5.
with H.S. Hele-Shaw
Some notes on production: Presidential Address. Proc. Instn Automobile
Engrs, 1920, 15, 6-31.
Mainly the application of the Midland Railway's mechanized accounting and stock control techniques. Thomas Clarkson, the retiring President observed: "I feel particularly happy in retiring from the Presidential Chair knowing that Sir Henry Fowler has taken my place, because I am sure that the Institution could not ba piloted by a better man than by Sir Henry Fowler, who has by, sheer merit and ability won for himself a very high place in' British engineering, and he occupies the position, as you know, of Chief Mechanical Engineer to the Midland Railway Company."
Address by the President.
Proc. Instn mech. Engr,
1927, 113, 723-47.
Two themes were intertwined: the significance of George Stephenson and the significance of metallurgy on mechanical engineering. "I have always been impressed by the fact that George Stephenson seemed to be not only conversant with, but an expert on all that was known and of interest concerning mechanical engineering in his day." "In 1848, Dr Pole translated, from the German, Alban's book on a high pressure boiler, which was in fact an interesting water-tube boiler" (running at 1000 psi). "I have always been impressed by the fact that George Stephenson seemed to be not only conversant with, but an expert on all that was known and of interest concerning mechanical engineering in his day." Standardizing materials: (steels, brasses, bronzes); steel manufacture, metallography, fatigue, radiology, education and higher pressure boilers. Several quotes from Ecclesiasticus: "They will maintain the fabric of the world; and the handywork of their work in their prayer." Aspinall gave the Vote of Thanks pp 746-7.
Railway carriage lighting in
Railway mechanical engineering: a practical
treatise by engineering experts. London, Gresham, 1923. Volume 1:
Considers lighting with oil gas before turning to electric lighting. Even lighting by rape seed oil is considered.
The recent development of the steam locomotive and its future aspect. Proc.
Wld Engng Congr. (Tokyo), 1929, 15, (3), 1-15. Disc.: 16-18. 11
diagrs. Bibliog. (Paper No.253) .
A world survey of locomotive development with the topics of high pressure boilers and turbines accentuated .
Solid crank axles. J. Instn Loco.
Engrs, 1925, 15, 130-43. Disc.: 143-55; 323-34. illus., 6.diagrs.,
2 tables. (Paper No.177).
Results of metallurgical research carried out by H.A. Treadgold under Sir Henry Fowler's supervision.
Steels for locomotive purposes. J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1922, 12, 106-27. Disc.: 127-33. (Paper 115).
Superheating. Proc. Instn mech.
Engrs., 1921, 101, 649-52.
with John Dewrance
Superheating steam in locomotives. Proc. Instn civ. Engrs., 1914, 196: extract below
Transport and its indebtedness to science. Engineering, 1923,
116, 377-80. diagr. Bibliog. (footnotes).
Abstract of a( Liverpool 1923) British Association paper .
International Railway Congress Association. 11th Session, Madrid, 1930. 2nd
Section. Question 5. Locomotives of new types. Bull. int. Rly
Congr.Ass., 1931, 13, 97-8.
Comment on the operating costs of the Ljungstrom turbine locomotive
International Railway Congress Association. 11th Session, Madrid, 1930. 2nd
Section. Question 6. Improvements in the steam locomotive. Bull. int.
Rly Congr. Ass., 1931, 13,115.
Notes on the savings which resulted from the equipment of the Claughton class with Caprotti valve gear.
Fowler as compiler
The question of reduction of the cost of traction: lubrication of axlebox
for all rolling stock: Report No.3 (British Empire) : Subject 4B for discussion
at the 10th Session of the International Railway Congress Association, London,
1926. Bull. int. Rly Congr. Ass., 1925, 7, 313-87 .8 diagrs.,
Review based on questionnaires.
Discussion on other's papers
Armstrong, J.C. Pulverised fuel locomotives.
J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1929,
19, 90-2. (Paper No. 239).
Sir Henry opened the discussion with some rather penetrating comments:26 years ago, his then chief, Samuel Johnson, sent him to look at a boiler in London whicli vas fired by pulverised fuel, having in his mind the question of its adaptation for locomotive purposes. There was trouble with this boiler, owing to the fact that thc basic slag, which was formed badly, corroded the firebrick which lay in the furnacethis is a trouble with all boilers using pulverised fuel, although Armstrong has not mentioned it. In one of the boilers which he had seen in Germany using pulverised fuel, very little firebrick was used, but hr believed the difficulty had been met by arranging a very large number of burners vhich gave a short flame. One of the greatest difficulties in introducing powdered fuel in connection with electric light plants has been due to this particular point, even uhen some of the combustion chambers were of very large size. The difficulty experienced with a powdered fuel 1ocomotive used in America was similar and overcome by the use of very short flames.
Fry, Lawford H. Some experimental results from a three-cylinder compound locomotive. Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs., 1927, 113, 955-61
Sir Henry commented on the performance of three-cylinder compound locomotives and the Royal Scot classes.
Gresham, J.N. (Paper No. 184 Vacuum brake ejectors. J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1925, 15, 335-48. Disc.: 349-63.
Sir Henry Fowler (351): leak tests very dependent upon size and shape of hole: had collaborated with Gresley on testing. He also noted that with long trains the dimensions of the pipe were very important. He also refered to Fig. 4 as it shows how essential it is that the vacuum creating apparatus, whatever it is, is at the highest state of efficiency. There is a difficulty getting drivers to understand that there are certain conditions which allow him, if he will take the trouble, to work very much more efficiently in maintaining the vacuum. The figures which are given are particularly interesting with regard to the question of the 15 mm., ejectors. We have had some experience with them, but:feel that with an ordinary train one is running pretty near the margin when using them. A vacuum-fitted wagon is one of the worst offenders as regards leakage, due to the maintenance of the train pipe. On the locomotive side, care need to be taken in the fitting of the pipes on locomotives: he had figures which show the very great variation and losses which one can have even on the locomotive itself, necessitating a very much larger amount work being done by the ejector which creates the vacuur owing to the fact of the poor fitting of the pipes.
Gresley, H.N. High-pressure
locomotives. Proc. Instn Mech, Engrs., 1931, 120,101-35.
Sir Henry Fowler (138-9) commented on other high pressure locomotives, on the oil separator on the Löffler boiler, and on the chimney and smoke deflectors fitted to No. 10000
Kelway-Bamber, H. (Paper No. 182). Railway carriage
bogie trucks in service. J. Instn Loco.
Engrs., 1925, 15, 335-48. Disc.: 349-63.292-8. Disc.:
Sir Henry (298-301) noted the lack of slipping on Underground trains between Charing Cross and Strand and wondered if this was due to hot wheels: tyres became hot in service. He also made observations on the loads on bearings: 7¼ tons on LER as against 19¼ tons on the GIP. Col. Graham (301-2) noted that the dryness of the Underground system reduced the risk of slipping; he also made observations on bearing pressures and on brakes acting upon wheel flanges.
Robson, P.W. Road transport by steam-vehicles.
Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs.,
1920, 99, Disc.: 662-3.
Sir Henry Fowler (662-3) said that, having been the first observer of a steam-driven lorry which went out on official trial in this country, at which trials he had the pleasure of meeting a prominent Member of the Council, he could not help looking back and seeing the great developments which had taken place in these vehicles since that time. He had been particularly interested in what the Author had said with regard to electric vehicles, because he represented a firm which had, he believed, the largest fleet of this type of motors in the country, which they found extremely useful for town deliveries. He was sorry the figures which he could put forward, and which had been published quite recently in Motor Transport, could not be compared with those the Author had given, because the latter had evidently been chosen from typical heavy working under good conditions of loading; these conditions were one of the great essentials for getting the best service not only out of steam-vehicles but any type of motor, and one which railway companies had very gwat difficulty in finding. In view of the constant changes in the rates paid for labour at the present time it would add materially to the usefulness of the Paper if the Author would state, in reference to the figures given on page 642, the date to which these figures applied, as this would be of use for future reference.
With regard to the life of vehicles, his firm purchased two motor vans in 1903 which had only just been disposed of, although for a very considerable time they ran for twenty hours out of the twenty-four. They had a few steam-vehicles, one of which had already had a life of sixteen or seventeen years. A tractor built at Lincoln had a life of about ten years and was still working satisfactorily. One point which had not been touched upon, but which was of vital interest from a warehousing standpoint, was the fire risk with steam-vehicles. That subject had received much greater consideration of late years than in earlier times, but it was a factor which militated against the use of steam-vehicles under certain conditions. He was sorry that from a purely railway standpoint he could not discuss the question which the Author had touched upon in the early part of his Paper in the time at present at his disposal. It must be remembered, however, that motor-vehicles at present ran on a permanent waythe roadswhich was practically speaking free. He lived on the side of a main road between two cities about 60 miles apart, and he knew the difficulty he experienced in using a push-bicycle over that road at the present time, and more so with a fairly light car on four wheels. Undoubtedly this question of roads was a subject which must be handled before the motor-vehicle could be satisfactorily dealt with on the lines suggested by the Author, as many of the roads were at present in a disgraceful state. Until a central authority was established, the roads would not be put into a condition in which they could be used for steam or petrol traction to the greatest advantage, and the question naturally arose as to who was to pay for this. He did not wish to discuss the question of the new taxation of vehicles, but he thought it would hardly meet the state of things which the Author laid down as likely to occur in the future.
Wagner, R.P. (Paper No.
Some new developments of the Stephenson boiler. 5-21. Disc.: 21-47. J. Instn Loco. Engrs., 1930, 20, Fowler p. 24
Sir Henry Fowler (24-5): I agree with Mr. Maunsell that the Paper we have heard requires a great deal of discussion and also a great deal of thought. To begin with, in the first part of the Paper reference is made to the question of a corrugated firebox, and no doubt the Author will remember that the Jacob box of the Santa Fé Railroad of America was on the same principle, but for various reasons it has been abandoned. In the box with which Mr Wagner is experimenting, I am rather doubtful whether trouble may not be experienced owing to the "breathing' which must take place in the corrugations. Something will probably also depend upon the class of water used, and I think difficulties may arise with water which gives a hard china-like scale which might crack along the corrugation and lead to subsequent corrosion.
With regard to the interesting proposal of increasing the number of superheater elements in the smoke tubes, I would point out that one railway in England has adopted for many years elements comprised of six small tubes in each superheater flue tube as against the normal arrangement. On the old Midland Railway, we have tested an engine so fitted, but it did not meet with the success we had hoped.
Coming to the main point of the Paper, which refers to the proportions of the tubes, one can compare the suggestion of Mr. Wagner of area of free space to area of surface of tube with that of Mr. Lawford Fry, who has, as is well known, done such a great work on the proportions of the ordinary boiler tubes, and who advocates that the ratio between the diameter of a tube and its length should not exceed 1 to 100, and it is interesting to note that in the case of a plain boiler tube, if the ratio A /S is 1 /400, as recommended by Mr. Wagner, this is identical with Mr. Lawford Fry's proposed maximum ratio mentioned above.
I would like to know how the figures on Fig. 9 were obtained, because they are of very considerable interest. It is also interesting to see the efficiencies which Mr. \Vagner has given, for after all, one's own children are always much better looking than anyone else's, and I would like to say that on my Company's "Royal Scot" engine, on a run in which we reached l,300 drawbar h.p. and an average speed of about 52 miles, the average boiler thermal efficiency is found to be 80½ per cent.
I have made a tabulated list (see abstract of paper) of boiler proportions which are looked upon as fairly satisfactory and efficient. The manufacturing question comes in with regard to the first three, because they have the same tube plate. We look upon the first boiler; G.7, as probably being the best proportioned one, and it will be seen that the ratios for it vary considerably from those according to Mr. Wagner's proportions.
I have also taken the ratio of internal diameter to length for one of the boilers guoted by Mr. Wagner and I find that this ratio is 1 to 112, somewhat in excess of Mr. Lawford Fry's maximum. I would, however, say that I am not at all in favour of tubes 22 feet in length and of the diameter given.
This is based on A.F. Cook, Radford. Baldwin and Westwood (and in part on Chacksfield). Fowler was born at Evesham, Worcestershire, on 29 July 1870. His father, Henry, dealt in furniture, including antiques. The family were Quakers. The family enjoyed rowing and celebrated Christmas by swimming in the Avon. He was initially educated at the local Grammar School and then attended Mason Science College, Birmingham, between 1885 and 1887 and studied metallurgy under Professor T. Turner. He served an apprenticeship under J.A.F. Aspinall at Horwich from 1887 to 1891. He then spent four years in the Testing Department, working under G. Hughes, whom he succeeded as chief of the department. From 1895 to 1900 he was Gas Engineer of the LYR, transferring to the MR in the same capacity in the latter year.
He was a strict teetotaller, extremely energetic being involved in football, cricket and hockey. He could keep goal or wicket with equal facility. In his spare time he devoted much of his time to the Boy Scout movement, being also keen on cycling and the collection of coins and medals.
Radford: Henry Fowler had joined the Midland Company on June 18, 1900 at a salary of £350 per annum in the position of Gas Engineer & Chief of the Testing Department, from a similar position on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Horwich. He was to be in just the right place at the right time and reap the full fruits of the clash of personalities soon to develop between Deeley and Paget. Fowler became Assistant Works Manager on November 1, 1905 in succession to Paget. In 1905 he became Assistant Works Manager at Derby, and Works Manager in 1907. In 1907 he was sent to North America to study work management. Two years later he succeeded Deeley as CME. During World War 1 he was seconded to the Ministry of Munitions, being Director of Production from 1915 to 1917 and then Assistant Director General of Aircraft Production. He was knighted in 1918 for his war work.
In 1923 he became Deputy CME of the LMS and Mechanical Engineer, Derby, succeeding Hughes as CME in October 1925. Although notable progress was made in locomotive design under Fowler with the introduction of the Royal Scot 4-6-0, the 2-6-4T and the 0-8-0, he failed to exercise the technical lead and the strict control needed to overcome traditional hostilities and to fuse the CME's department into a unified team. Cox is especially critical of this period.
Fowler had a keen interest in research, particularly in metallurgy. Under his influence the LMS sponsored a major investigation into the behaviour of copper in fireboxes, and he had a reputation for being expert on aspects of boiler materials and design. This interest in research was eventually the means whereby he was removed from the post of CME without openly being down-graded. In 1930 he was given a new post of Assistant to the Vice-President for Works (Research and Development). In this post he pursued his research interests for several years to the Company's benefit, and was responsible for laying the foundations of the LMS Research Depart ment, which in turn formed the basis of the British Railways research organisation. Fowler was also interested in training, and maintained close contact with premium apprentices and pupils for whom he was nominally responsible. C.S. Lake noted that Sir Henry had told him that "he had no enemy but the clock"..
Fowler retired in 1933 and died on 16 October 1938.
Carpenter, George W. biography Oxford Dictionay of National Biography
Hamilton Ellis (The Midland Railway) adds something to the strange relationship between Deeley, Paget and Fowler: On January 1, 1904, Deeley became locomotive superintendent, Paget was made works manager, and Fowler assistant works manager. In spite of their work together, Deeley and Paget were an ill-assorted pair, though both excellent men. To make matters worse, while Deeley was Paget's chief, Paget was a son of Sir Ernest Paget, Bart., chairman of the Midland company, and had wonderful ideas of his own which he intended to put into practice at his earliest convenience. Already people wondered, without speaking, which was really the Sultan and which the Grand Vizier. the background still was Henry Fowler, the Lord in Waiting.
Dow's anecdote is worth adding: At the time corridor tenders for the London-Edinburgh non-stop runs were being considered one of Sir Nigel's daughters found her father one evening on all fours in the family dining-room, squeezing his great bulk through the narrow space formed between a wall and a row of chairs, set side by side. To his daughter's astonished exclamation, 'What on earth are you doing, father?' came the reply, 'If I can get through this, my biggest engineman can' Curiously enough, there was a parallel incident in the career of the late Sir Henry Fowler, the distinguished C.M.E of the old Midland, and of the L.M.S from 1928 to 1931, who was in the habit of cycling round Derby Works to save time. On entering his office one day his assistant, H.G. Ivattson of H.A. and later C.M.E of the L.M.S and now of the London Midland Regiondiscovered Sir Henry on the floor endeavouring to get himself through the round back of his office chair. When Ivatt expressed his surprise Sir Henry explained that he wanted to find out whether or not he could get through a certain type of locomotive firehole which happened to be the same size as the hole in the back of his chair!
Radford tells a similar tale: So far as his employment is concerned, he was extremely particular about boilers and fireboxes, being happy if he could put on a boiler suit and tinker about. He was easily irritated, but this did not last for long, and his usual reply when faced as he was on one occasion by an estimate of six months for a new cylinder pattern was "I want it in three". And that was the end of the discussion. His tours of the Derby Works, while the manager there, were usually made by bicycle, he being easily recognisable in his strawyard hat. He would ride around the Shops inside and out and if he chanced upon someone committing a misdemeanour he would remonstrate with him and then instruct the offender to "clock off" and come back on the morrow, punishment indeed in those days of small wages !
Rudgard (Presidential address Instn Loco. Engrs) stated "On the former Midland Railway, with which I was particularly associated, a tribute is due to the memory of Sir Henry Fowler. His collaboration with Cecil Paget, and their understanding of the running shed angle, helped to produce a school of design which was pre-eminent amongst all the railways forming the London Midland and Scottish in 1923 for reliability and low repair costs, and which, continuing under the LMS, lent itself admirably to the introduction of developments in motive power practice and organisation; Sir William Stanier carried on the good work".
Westwood considered that Henry Fowler was an engineer of all-round ability with (according to Westwood) no great talent in any direction. During his terms of office new designs were built but these could rarely be called his own designs and in some cases were introduced without his genuine approval. As a young man he was involved in the early years of automobile engineering, but ... after he became Chief Mechanical Engineer, Midland locomotive design seemed to stagnate, but this was largely due to the civil engineering department's aversion to larger locomotives; double-heading was preferred to track renewal. Fowler did, however, build his solitary 0-10-0 for banking on the Lickey Incline. After the Railway Amalgamation Fowler became assistant to the chief mechanical engineer of the new LMSR (Hughes) until the latter retired. As chief mechanical engineer in succession to Hughes, he allowed a kind of 'Derby imperialism', foisting Midland practice and design on to the constituent parts of the LMSR. This was resented, and also meant that the Midland 'small engine' policy infected the whole LMSR, Britain's largest railway. However, it was one way of promoting standardization, and Midland locomotives were very robust and cheap in construction and repair. Fowler's proposed 4-6-2 compound, designed to provide the LMSR with a locomotive large enough for its needs, was never built. The superintendent of motive power (J. Anderson) appears to have been the most potent source of opposition to Fowler's proposal; in the end, the LMSR., with scant reference to Fowler, ordered the Royal Scot 4-6-0 from the North British Locomotive Company instead of accepting Fowler's proposed 4-6-2. The introduction of Garratt locomotives also seems to have been more the work of Anderson than of Fowler. Among new designs in the Midland tradition of this period were 2-6-2 and 2-6-4 tank locomotives, the last being the most successful of the Fowler designs. His 0-8-0 was a relative failure, and his proposed 2-8-2 was never built. The peak of Fowler's career was probably 1914-18, when he proved an excellent organizer of munitions production (for which he received a knighthood). See: B. Haresnape, Fowler Locomotives (1972).
From examination of what Sir Henry actually reported it is obvious that Fowler has been grossly maligned by history and by E.S. Cox and Hamilton Ellis (journalist and painter). Certainly, the birth of the LMS was one of the most disastrous corporate events of the twentieth century. In retrospect it was absurd to attempt to merge the LNWR and the Midland Railway. Jenkins (footnotes objects to this statement, but my KPJ view tends to have hardened with the years and should be cast into print) It would have been like bringing the Great Western into common ownership with either of these giants. The LNER worked because the North Eastern was able to retain sufficient status through its contribution to the new company of the brilliant General Manager, Wedgewood, and this enabled Gresley to achieve brilliance. The Southern only worked once it became a greater South Western (the Lord Nelson was a partial failure or success).
A structure which would have tolerated autonomy to remain at both Crewe and Derby might have worked and such a system was briefly contemplated by the LNER. It is probable that both Hughes' and Fowler's reputations might have remained unsullied in such a situation. Unfortunately, the Fowler Pacific was intended for the WCML, and it might have been almost as good as Stanier's earlier attempts: it would certainly have had a less troublesome boiler and left on his own Fowler would have gleaned much from Gresley. The negative contribution of Anderson requires further research
One gets the impression that Fowler was an amiable man with a great interest in people, and although (like Collett) he appears to have been less interested in locomotive design, although more so than has been given credit) he was a considerable engineer with interests in metallurgy, a vital element in locomotive design, and in boilers, and it is tragic that Fury (the high-pressure locomotive should have met with disaster due to metallurgical failure of one of its tubes. The paper on superheating must have been comparable with Gresley's one on high pressure boilers, and this emphasises that Fowler has been badly treated by commentators. His comments on George Stephenson are highly perceptive and contrast sharply with some of the rubbish written by intellectual minnows. Fowler was clearly a brilliant scientific engineer and he must have been extremely well-equipped to assess George Stephenson's extraordinary genius. He must certainly have been a most likeable man: Marjorie Bulleid, Ivatt's daughter, wrote that "The Fowlers were always very kind on Railway Congress meetings".
The following is taken from Cox's Speaking of steam which quotes from Fowler's magnus opus: "From the very dawn of locomotive history the possibility of superheating was being thought about. . . R. Trevethick was the first to apply the system to locomotive engines, and in 1828 he wrote that he was building a small locomotive boiler in which he proposed to heat the steam in small iron tubes as it passed from the boiler to the cylinder. From his patent No 6308 of 1832 it is evident that it was his intention that these tubes should be placed over the fire itself. . . In 1839, Messrs Hawthorn patented a smokebox superheater, while between 1850 and 1870 numerous devices were brought out including examples of practically all the types which have been experimented with in recent years. .. . It seems to have been recognised early that in order to obtain the best results, a fair degree of superheat was necessary, but in practice it was found that this led to trouble both with the valves and the packing. . . . After 1870 use of superheated steam was gradually abandoned and its extensive practical use is a matter of very recent date."
Fowler went on to state that Dr Wilhelm Schmidt began in 1895 to apply to locomotives the knowledge he had gained in the use of superheated steam for other purposes, and in 1897 he produced his first practical design. His previous experience had indicated that the best results were to be looked for in the use of a high degree of superheat, and his successful redevelopment of the process was greatly indebted to the practical trials carried out by Herr Robert Garbe in charge of motive power on the Prussian State Railways. The Schmidt superheater passed through two preliminary design phases before it arrived at the form in which it is known all over the world today. Originally a nest of superheater elements was situated in a vast central tube 1ft 8in diameter connecting firebox to smokebox. Secondly, a superheater entirely within the smokebox was devised, the temperature of the hot gases as they emerged from the small tubes being supplemented by what came out of an additional single large empty tube of 1ft diameter. In both these cases the problem of keeping these large tubes tight in the tubeplates proved insurmountable and the final manifestation was to divide the saturated steam in a header, and pass it down multiple elements placed inside a number of flue tubes of approximately 5in diameter, the steam thus superheated returning to separate compartments in the header, whence it was conveyed by suitable steampipes to the cylindersthe ultimate and basic Schmidt lay out.
This layout proved so wonderfully flexible in permitting by suitable proportions any desired degree of superheat, and relative volume and velocity of hot gases issuing into the smokeboxes and was so simple and cheap and reliable, that in spite of many intermediate variations by engineers who thought they knew better it remained practically unchanged until the last days of steam. Not so was the ancillary gadgetry which was at first thought necessary for its successful use, nor the designs of valves and piston packing which were developed to cope with the high steam temperatures attained. Although many attempts were made, some of them partially successful, to retain slide valves, use of piston valves became general, and since these bore the brunt of the highest temperatures conveyed by the incoming steam, their design was critical. Fowler describes the history of the inception of the Schmidt wide piston valve ring which was for the first two decades and more in almost universal use:
Cox: Locomotive panorama v.1 fp. 4: shown with L&YR officers and with Gresley, O'Brien, Hughes, and Aspinall at a formal function in 1912.
Bibliography (about Fowler)
Appointment as CME Midland Railway. Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev.,
1910, 16, 5.
Chacksfield, J.E. Sir Henry Fowler: a versatile life. Usk(Mon): Oakwood
Slightly disappointing in that too little attention is paid to his considerable technical expertise.
Cox, E.S. A modern locomotive history: ten years' development on the L.M.S.- 1923 to 1932. J.Instn Loco. Engrs, 1946, 36, 100-41. Disc.: 141-70; 275-6. (Paper No. 457).
Glover, F.G. British locomotive design, 1923-1947. Part 3. The work of Henry Fowler and the advent of the Stanier regime on the L.M.S.R., Rly Mag., 1965, 111, 10-13.5 illus.
A broad introduction.
Lake, C.S. Some C.M.E.s I have known. ll Sir Henry Fowler. Rly Mag., 1942, 88, 287-90 + plate f.p. 257. 8 illus. (incl. port.)
The LATE Sir Henry Fowler. Rly Gaz., 1938, 69, 674.
The LATE Sir Henry Fowler, K.B.E.. Rly Gaz., 1938, 69, 685-6. illus. (port.)
MEMOIRS: Sir Henry Fowler, K.B.E., L.L.D., B.Sc.. Proc. Instn mech. Engrs, 1938, 140, 600-1.
NEW "Royal Scot" locomotive, L.M.S. Ry.. Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev., 1930, 36, 363.
The naming ceremony of No.6169 The Boy Scout performed by Sir Henry Fowler, acting in the capacity of a former Scout District Commissioner
Nock, O.S. Steam locomotive : the unfinished story of steam locomotives and steam locomotive men on the railways of Great Britain. London, Allen & Unwin, 1957. 233 p. + 32 plates. 106 illus. (incl.. 29 ports.)
Includes a biographical portrait of Fowler.
OBITUARY, Sir Henry Fowler, K.B.E.. Loco. Rly Carr. Wagon Rev., 1938, 44, 336.
The RAILWAY portrait gallery : Sir Henry Fowler, K.B.E.. Rly Mag., 1925, 57, 237. illus. (port.)
The RAILWAY portrait gallery : Sir Henry Fowler, K.B.E.. Rly Mag., 1931, 68, 36. illus. (port.)
Alcock. John F. in Discussion on Doherty, J.M. Evolution of the internal combustion locomotive. J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1946, 56, 235-68. Disc.: 271 et seq. (Paper No. 558)
noted that around 1932 Sir Henry Fowler went to America to see the progress made with diesel locomotives there, and on his return decided to carry out what must then have appeared to be large scale experiments. Very satisfactory and encouraqing results were already being obtained with two trial diesel locomotives, the first being the Hunslet 150 h.p. and the second a 250 h.p. Armstrong Whitworth diesel-electric type. Then there were the early Avonside diesel locomotives. Both these locomotives which had previously been on loan were purchased by the LMS and Sir Henry obtained a grant from his board of £30,000 tor experimenting with various types of diesel locomotive. At the time it seemed a tremendous sum and it certainly bought something like ten shunting locomotives, of about the 30-ton mark. It was from these early experiments which lasted several years, that the LMS eventually standardised on the 50-ton 450 h.p. diesel-electric locomotive for shunting purposes, but it has always been his view and still is that the only reason the diesel-electric was selected was because in those early experiments all the diesel-mechanical units were from 150 to 200 h.p. only, while the diesel-electric units were from 250 to 300 h.p. On shunting work and particularly on hump shunting and fly shunting on which all the locomotives were tried, the larger, heavier and more powerful locomotives were obviously bound to be the more useful in moving the traffic. He was quite sure that had it been the other way round and had the diesel-mechanical units been the more powerful and heavier ones, then they would have prevailed just as easily. As it was, the 200 h.p. diesel-mechanical unit was fully proved at that time and ever since has more than justified itself, and it is indeed strange that in the last 25 years the wheel has turned a full circle and British Railways are now using large numbers of 200 h.p. 30-ton diesel-mechanical locomotives.
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Rush Limbaugh, football owner
October 13, 2009 - Steve Murch
I'm not a Rush Limbaugh fan. I won't get into the politics of it, but he and I wouldn't see eye to eye. Though like everyone, there is some common belief. We all have some shared beliefs, just different ways to achieve them.
However, that being said I believe Limbaugh has as much right to put in a bid for the St. Louis Rams as you and I. Probably more since I can't afford it and most of you probably can't either. Put the politics aside for just a moment. This is America, the land of opportunity.
The NFL, like every company in the country that has franchises, makes its potential owners (franchisees) meet certain criteria. If they potential owner meets said criteria it's on to the next step. In the NFL, that next step is likely a vote by the other owners. To backtrack just a bit, there is no guarantee that the Limbaugh group's bid will be the best bid – but let's work under the premise that it is. The other owners – essentially Limbaugh's potential partners since the NFL is one very expensive fraternity or club – then decide whether to accept him or not. Up to now, it's the money, not the rest of who he and his partners are.
Now is when his politics will kick in to play. This will play itself out in the vetting process. We've let him bid on the Rams, now is when his political views and more importantly his life views (he has made disparaging comments about blacks in general and Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's Disease to name two) come into play. This is where the current NFL owners will have to weigh the pros and cons of Limbaugh and company. And remember, he isn't the only person in this group trying to purchase the team; he is simply one of the investors.
The NFL owners now have to decide whether the possible boycotts and other conflicts will be worth it. It's hard to imagine that any athletes will want to play for him, given his comments on blacks. While 75 percent of the league is black, the other 25 percent have played along side these athletes throughout their own careers so it's unlikely they would play for Limbaugh either. It's also hard to imagine many coaches jumping at the opportunity to play for a team where the athletes aren't excited to play. Or won't come there once they're free agents.
There will be those who will coach/play/attend the games because they love the game or want a chance. However, if the top coaches and athletes don't go to St. Louis because of its ownership, how many fans will turn out for an inferior team? Fans vote with empty seats.
It's all a risk, just like any investment. Maybe none of that would transpire if the Limbaugh group eventually wins the bid and buys the team. Maybe it's just the loudmouths opposed to the possible new owners getting all the attention right now. Maybe even they will disappear if the sale goes through. Which is exactly why Rush Limbaugh should be allowed to bid to own the St. Louis Rams – we have to let the process play itself out. Call it a very expense game of who blinks first.
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Remember When: A Community Review
10 years ago: Oct. 16, 2002
Lately, Joel Nido has been getting a lot of attention — both at work, and when he stops at a gasoline station to and from work. “People seem to laugh,” said Nido, who plays the role of Puck at the Renaissance Festival. “There’s something about a 5-foot-5 person who’s shirtless, wearing a vine across his chest, horns on his head, a furry tail and hoofs that tends to make people laugh.” Puck is a character in Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” written in about 1595. (Joel was a junior at Tonganoxie High School and had participated in school productions.)
Births: Emery and Jessica Folsom, McLouth, announce the birth of a daughter, Jordyn Lane, Sept. 18, 2002; Lt. Col. Kato and Dr. Leah Stevens Waage, formerly of Leavenworth, announce the birth of a son, Carl Stevens Waage, born Sept. 23, 2002, at Rikshowpitalet in Oslo, Norway.
Tonganoxie artist Phyllis Barker paints characters on the wall at Tonganoxie Public Library. Library director Beckie Borella asked Barker and Barker’s daughter, Lisa Dent, to dress up the library walls with storybook characters. (To plan what designs to use, Borella asked children she saw in the library what characters they’d like to see.)
Tonganoxie firefighter credited with securing $58,000 grant. (Shown was Brady Mikijanis, who works as a professional firefighter at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Leavenworth, and was also a six-year volunteer firefighter in Tonganoxie. He first learned the department had received the grant when he read about it in the newspaper. On Oct. 1, the department received the official news. Mikijanis said it was a matching grant, the city’s share being $8,700 and the federal government contributing $49,470.)
25 years ago: Oct. 7, 1987
Tonganoxie Nursing Center Resident of the Month: (Shown was Mr. Edwin Russell Berg, born in 1886 in Fairmount. He was married 66 years to Mabel Unfurberg and worked as a mail carrier and a farmer.)
Springdale News: Myron Schwinn, biology teacher at Manhattan High School has been selected to receive the 1987 Outstanding Biology Teachers Award for Kansas. Myron is the son of John and Ruth Schwinn and attended schools in this area, having graduated from Easton High School.
Services for Tara May Cline, 13, Winchester, formerly of Kansas City, Kan., who died Oct. 2, 1987 in a one-vehicle accident four miles south of Winchester, were at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Jefferson County North Middle School, Nortonville. She was an eighth-grade student.
Middle School Students Best: Washington, D. C., “Where are the fittest students of all?” At Tonganoxie Middle School in Tonganoxie. Their school has won the 1987 State Champion Physical Fitness Award, presented annually by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) and the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).
The Tonganoxie Community Historical Society held their first picnic at the museum site on the Mildred Young Farm, which she presented to the society to be used as their future museum. The buildings were formerly used as a dairy operation. After lunch, the group was taken on a tour by President John Cass Lenahan, Sr., who explained what was to happen, and Mr. Ted Duncanson, Chairman of this project, told how they were going to fix up the inside of the buildings. They also visited the spring down in the pasture which feeds a well. There were a lot of enthusiastic people planning for the future. (Article and picture of group by Helen Schilling.)
50 years ago: Oct. 25, 1962
Last Saturday the voters of school district No. 6 approved the letting of bonds valued at $621,000 for the purpose of erecting a new high school at Tonganoxie.
Births: Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Miller, Claflin, announce the birth of a son, Lawrence Brian, born Oct. 14, 1962; Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Bruggeman of Boulder, Colorado, announce the birth of their daughter, Rondi Virginia, Oct. 15, 1962.
This is a plea from approximately 30 boys of cub scout age. We need den mothers so we can get into cub scouts. So far only 18 boys have a place to go for their den meetings but the other 30 of us are left out. (A meeting was set up for Oct. 30 and Mrs. Harold Putthoff was to have registration blanks.)
An open house honoring the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Foley Sr., will be held from 2-4 p.m. on Oct. 28 at the home of Mrs. Mary Cook.
75 years ago: Sept. 30, 1937
Jarbalo, Sept. 27 — Louis Somers, 95, a resident of Leavenworth county for the past 50 years, died at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the home of his son, William Somers, three miles southwest of here. He was born in Saxony, Germany, Sept. 15, 1842.
Jerry Loveall died in Leavenworth Sept. 25, 193, at the age of 73 years, 10 months and 10 days. He has lived in the Jarbalo vicinity for 40 years, except for brief absences in Colorado.
Believe-it-or-not: Kansas City, Kan., woman was helping herself to watermelons on the Anna Murphy farm near Bonner Springs. A hired man saw someone in the dusk, fired and wounded the lady with gunshot. She has sued the owner of the farm for $20,000.
Dr. David Parker reports the birth of a daughter Sept. 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Lehmann of near Reno. She was given the name Cletus May.
From “It Happened in Kansas” by F. A. Cooper: Chris Krehbiel of Moundridge recently attended a Salina sale and bought a mule that he thought was an exact duplicate of one he had at home. It was! The mule he bought was his own. It had been stolen the night before, brought to Salina and entered in the sale.
100 years ago: Oct. 10, 1912
The Postal Savings Bank at Oskaloosa received $15 in deposits the first year.
A Republican meeting Saturday. That sounds rather good after all the abuse Republican policies have had to undergo the last few years.
Esther Lillie, six months old daughter of George and Lizzie Cook, residing three miles northeast of town, died last week, and was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery.
The Methodist preacher is working up a fund for the purpose of building a barn on the parsonage property. The work requires a horse, hence a place for the horse and buggy.
A 13-pound boy arrived Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Grady, two miles west of town.
R. H. Dewees was out from Kansas City this week. Early in the campaign he was an ardent Bull Mooser, but thinks the movement is dying out in Kansas City now.
Mrs. L. C. Myers died at her home near Florence, Marion county, last Friday evening and the funeral was held Sunday. Mrs. Myers was raised in this neighborhood and was a sister to Enoch Worland and Mrs. Leroy Sample. Some years ago she moved with her husband to Marion county.
Sixty men are picking and packing apples in the Missouri Valley Orchard six miles northwest, and in a few days, 20 more men will be added to the force. Most of the men at work in the orchard are outsiders, being impossible to secure enough help around here to take care of the crop. The picking of the Jonathan and Ben Davis apple crop is finished and the yield was found to be light. At present the Mammoth Black Twigs are being gathered, and the other varieties will be handled later on. The orchard company has a big cider mill, and the culls are being worked into cider. | <urn:uuid:b9e86ffd-bc17-4fcb-83b1-99f528013307> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tonganoxiemirror.com/news/2012/oct/23/remember-when-community-review/ | 2013-05-24T04:42:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977598 | 1,802 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The poet John Keats called autumn a “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.” Let’s leave the “mellow fruitfulness” for November - October is all about the season of mists. We’ve asked Jeopardy! smart-aleck Ken Jennings to fact-check the spookiest Halloween lore he could dig up and fill us in on all these monstrous misconceptions.
Spooky Myth #2: Witches Were Burned at the Stake at Salem.
Before I get into this one, let me stipulate right up front that every Women’s Studies paper on the Salem witch trials was exactly right. The trials were a fascinating and tragic confluence of screwed-up religious, political, and sexual dynamics, and twenty people were executed for the stupidest of reasons.
But, despite what you think you remember from history class, none of the “witches” were burned at the stake. Burning witches was a common pastime in Europe beginning in the 15th century, claiming thousands of victims over the next three hundred years. But colonial America never burned its witches; hanging was in style by then. All of the executed Salem defendants were hanged, except for Giles Corey, an eighty-year-old man “pressed to death” under boulders, defiantly refusing to answer the bogus charges against him. Another five alleged witches died in prison.
The words “Salem” and “witch” are both misleading ways to refer to the hysteria, by the way. Though the most famous proceedings—the ones immortalized in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible—took place in Salem Town, three other surrounding villages held their own hearings as well. And not all the executed Satan-socializers were female witches. Giles Corey was one of six men executed, and even two dogs were marched to the scaffold as accomplices. I guess once you’ve started terrorizing women and old people, it’s just a short jump to puppies.
Quick Quiz: What politician released the famous “I am not a witch” video to her YouTube channel in 2010?
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This sounds vaguely familiar:
Levi Johnston quits oil field job
PUBLIC SCRUTINY: Rules say he needs diploma for apprenticeship.
By WESLEY LOY
Published: January 5th, 2009 11:06 PM
Last Modified: January 5th, 2009 11:57 PM
Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to work in an electrical apprenticeship program, Johnston's father said Monday...
In a Sunday newspaper column, Anchorage radio talk show host Dan Fagan questioned how Johnston could take part in ASRC's apprenticeship program without a high school diploma.
Fagan said he understood federal regulations require all members of apprenticeship programs to have a diploma.
I could swear I made that very point way back when, perhaps as a comment on a post. Lord, but it's tough being right all the time. But it's a cross I'm willing to bear for you folks.
P.S. Still waiting for that shotgun wedding. I'm sure my invitation was just lost in the mail. Yeah, I'm sure that's it.
AFTERSNERK: There is just so much delightful dumbfuckery in that article. I like this bit:
When Levi realized last year that he and the governor's daughter Bristol were going to be parents -- Bristol gave birth to a baby boy on Dec. 27 -- Keith Johnston said he counseled his son to start work on a GED and to apply for jobs.
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Dow AgroSciences announced today that its affiliated cottonseed company, PhytoGen, has reached 10 percent of the total U.S. cottonseed units sold noting outstanding growth in leading high value markets, continued investment in the cotton industry, and an ongoing commitment to cotton globally.
"Dow AgroSciences has a rich history in the cotton market with more than 50 years of experience working with cotton growers and researchers to bring new ag chem products and new varieties to market," said Stan Howell, vice president of the North America market for Dow AgroSciences. "One of our key strengths is our innovative breeding program bringing new agronomic and trait combinations to cotton growers from coast to coast."
Around the world, Dow AgroSciences has advanced key milestones in cotton. The company has gained registration for WideStrike® Insect Protection in Brazil and it has advanced WideStrike® to Phase 2 regulatory trials in India.
"Cotton being a key crop globally is very important to Dow AgroSciences and a crop where adoption of biotechnology traits has been the most rapid of any crop," said Antonio Galindez, president and CEO for Dow AgroSciences. "And our pipeline development in cotton continues to grow as Dow AgroSciences plans to introduce its new herbicide tolerant trait technology in the U.S. in cotton in 2015."
Dow AgroSciences and PhytoGen are continually looking to the future to find ways to enhance the profitability of growers’ operations. PhytoGen will showcase its first entry into the mid- to full-season market with PhytoGen brand PHY 565 WRF. PhytoGen is introducing this and a limited number of other new varieties in 2010, including a new nematode-tolerant variety.
Dow AgroSciences LLC, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is a top-tier agricultural company that combines the power of science and technology with the "Human Element" to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. Dow AgroSciences provides innovative technologies for crop protection, pest and vegetation management, seeds, traits, and agricultural biotechnology to serve the world’s growing population. Global sales for Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, are $4.5 billion. Learn more at www.dowagro.com
®PhytoGen is a trademark of PhytoGen Seed Company, LLC.
®WideStrike is a trademark of Dow AgroSciences LLC
®™Roundup Ready is a registered trademark of Monsanto Company.
PhytoGen Seed Company is a joint venture between Mycogen Corporation, an affiliate of Dow AgroSciences LLC, and the J.G. Boswell Company.
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- The Bureau of Economic Research has released its 2013 Economic Forecast. It is available in both print and powerpoint form.
- The Bureau of Economic Research has conducted a study on the economic impact that removal of the Universal Service Fund will have in Missouri. This study is available here.
- The Bureau of Economic Research has partnered with the Missouri Council on Economic Education to form the Center for Economic Education (CEE) to serve Southwest Missouri. This new center is housed within the Bureau of Economic Research and is an extension of the Bureau's objectives to disseminate information. The CEE promotes economic and financial education in schools via teacher workshops, grant funded activities, and seminars.
- Powerpoint slides from the Bureau's presentation on the economy to the Rotary Club
- Cost/Benefit Analysis of the Missouri Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program is now available at the Bureau's Publications link
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The son of white trash asphyxiation, CAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (Wave Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is a 2011 Pew Fellow, and a 2012 Ucross Fellow. He is the editor of the online video poetry journals JUPITER 88 and Paranormal Poetics. Visit him here. | <urn:uuid:8dfbcd4e-ea13-4794-b874-d578e1ec931b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eveningwillcome.com/bio-caconrad.html | 2013-06-18T06:24:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902359 | 153 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Barbara Peterson had the unique ecumenical background to become the founder of Interfaith Community Services, now celebrating 25 years of service. She was:
• Raised Swedish Covenant and attended a church-related high school in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• Graduated from Presbyterian-related Macalester College in St. Paul, majoring in elementary education.
• Married and later divorced a United Church of Christ pastor while living in a Chicago suburb.
• Graduated from Methodist-affiliated Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.
So, it wasn't so surprising that then-Rev. Barbara Smith decided, as a single mother of four children, ages 8 to 15, to accept a multi-denomination position at the University of Arizona in May 1978, shortly after graduating from seminary.
"It was my 40th birthday," she recalls of the move to Tucson, "and my responsibilities were with the UCC, Presbyterian and Disciples of Christ students."
Pastor Smith worked the campus position for four years. "During that time (in 1980), we were able to get holistic health pioneer Grainger Westberg to come here (from Chicago) for a one-week seminar about his belief that true healing involves the body, mind and spirit."
Dr. Westberg was founder of the nationwide parish nurse movement in the early 1980s, linking the health care system to many faith communities. A Lutheran clergyman, he also founded 13 holistic healthcare centers in Illinois.
"I'd always been interested in holistic medicine, and that seemed to reinforce my focus in workplace years here," Smith said.
Two years later, that experience helped her shift to a spiritual counselor role at the former Alvernon Family Clinic (1982-84) and finally to an associate pastor role at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.. One of her two responsibilities there: older adult ministry.
"We had an all-day workshop, examining old-age issues – help in the home with food and many other things," she remembers. "We discovered many things with that process.
"It also reaffirmed that we are all one in God, and raised the question, 'Why can't we (different congregations) do these things together?'"
Thus the 1985 beginning of Northwest Interfaith Center, which, in early 2005, was changed to Interfaith Community Services because its current scope had expanded to the Greater Tucson community.
"Four congregations (Capilla del Sol Christian Church, Casas Adobes Congregational United Church of Christ, St. Mark's United Methodist Church and St. Andrews) had been working together on a telecare program at that time." Telecare had volunteer callers checking daily with homebound persons living alone.
That was the starting core for ICS. Cortaro Vista Community Church and Third Church of Christ the Scientist came shortly thereafter. Now the ICS network is a still-growing 56 faith communities and more than 600 volunteer workers.
In calendar 2009, ICS provided 49,708 individual services to 36,300 persons. More than 98 percent of the outreach organization's clients fall under the federal poverty guidelines.
"As we learn more about other faiths," says Smith, 72, who married St. Andrew's member John Anderson in 1996, "I've always believed we become stronger in our own faith."
The first ICS challenge was a food bank operation after a phone call to then-Tucson Food Bank director Punch Wood brought the message: "There are hungry people out there (in the northern Tucson tier)." Then volunteer care services to the homebound and a Good Samaritan emergency assistance program.
"Within five years, we knew well that this program was going to make it," says Smith, who remembers only six persons came for food during ICS' first week. "It took on a life of its own."
Early days found ICS headquartered in a trailer – "Andy's Annex" – in the St. Andrew's parking lot. The program's first year had 25 to 50 volunteer workers, she recalls. In March 2001, the organization moved to its present location on the grounds of Christ the King Episcopal Church, 2800 Ina Road.
Over its 25-year history, three persons – Smith-Anderson (1985-92), June Head (1992-2002) and Bonnie Kampa (2002-present) have led the way. "I've always been the visionary-type person, June helped us become financially stable with grant writing, and Bonnie has brought a real professional perspective to the organization."
Interestingly, ICS always has remained focused on a three-word mission – Love, Cooperation, Service. "That's really a prayer for the world, isn't it?" says Smith-Anderson, who retired from St. Andrew's in mid-1999.
ICS has room Nov. 11
Openings still exist for one of Interfaith Community Services' major fund-raising and friend-raising projects – the 'We Care' Golf Classic Nov. 11 at Tucson National Golf Course.
Single player cost, including a Mexican buffet, is $150 for the scramble event. Foursome cost is $600. A $250,000 hole-in-one shootout event also is planned. For more information, call Diane Luber, ICS development director, at 297-2738.
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Review: The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Earth is no longer our own; the souls rolled in and took it right out from under us, leaving few survivors. Melanie, one of the few remaining “wild” humans, refuses to fade away when a parasitic soul is forced into her body. Warned about the difficulties of possessing a human, Wanderer is unprepared to deal with Melanie’s spirit and independence, and their struggle against each other leads to a grueling journey about life, love, and humanity. The Host is a GraveTells Recommended Read!
- Title: The Host
- Series: n/a
- Author: Stephenie Meyer
- Prominent Characters: Melanie, Wanderer, Jared, Ian, and Jamie
- Recommended Reader Age: 16+
- Sexual Content Level: Light
*** This review is SPOILER-FREE! Read on with confidence! ***
Now I know you’re thinking “wtf is this? I’m a romance fan, not sci-fi!” and I can sympathize. I debated over reading it until the decision was made for me and the book gifted to me. So, I ventured in, and I have to admit the first 10 chapters or so are really (seriously) slow, because it’s all world building. I decided to keep trudging through though. Best. Decision. Ever.
We start off with Wanderer being inserted and finding out Melanie remains a consciousness with her in her head. Wanderer struggles with this predicament as Melanie works her hardest to protect her memories and loved ones left behind. However, as time goes on, Wanderer learns about Melanie and her life as her walls start slipping, resulting in an uncomfortable alliance. This is where all the fun begins.
I can’t really tell you more because you should find out for yourself, but I will say that while I would have liked to see Wanderer fight a little harder when shit got critical, the author stayed true to her character which I really appreciate. Wanderer learns what it really means to be human, and Melanie learns that the souls may not all deserve to be hated and feared. This story contains the unconditional love of family, friendship, and a very complicated love triangle. It also contains some really neat ideas of other alien worlds.
Is there something you’ve neglected to share?
“They called me Lives in the Stars, then. Wanderer, here.”
“Lives in the Stars,” she whispered, her eyes somehow, impossibly, getting wider. “Rides the Beast.”
I suppressed a groan. “You lived in the second crystal city, I guess.”
“Yes. I heard the story so many times…”
If you liked The Host…
If you enjoyed The Host and are looking for more romantic sci-fi adventures and survival stories, check out Shelly Crane’s Collide. It is a paranormal romance between a “visitor” and a human with mild sexual content and is a sweet story that also involves the bonds of family and friendship as a group of people struggle through an invasion.
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haha! I use to work at scholastic book clubs and designed those flyers. Brings back memories. Hooray for Alfie!
Congratulations Jenn. I used these flyers when I was teaching First Grade! They were so much fun...and yes, it does bring back memories. My only regret is that I am not teaching now,and holding this one in my hand. Then I could say, "Wow, boys and girls, I know this wonderful illustrator!"
That's great Jenn! Alfi is such a sweetie. Anette Heibergwww.wynlen.no
Had to share this with you! My daughter Hayleigh (age six, in kindergarten, WONDERFUL reader) used her OWN money to order that spring collection!!!!
Jennifer I think that's awesome! Tell Hayleigh that I hope she enjoys the book.
She got the collection yesterday! Guess which one she read to me first??? LOLI just showed her your reply about you hoping she enjoys it (I let her read it) and she is thrilled that the author and illustrator of the book talked to HER!! LOLShe read it to me and to her sister and her dad and to her little brother! (Who by the way LOVED the part where Alfie tries to steal the cookie with the fishing pole!!)
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It’s been a while since our last post, horror lovers, and for that we apologize! With all of the holiday travels, crazy life and pre-production of our upcoming horror film series, it’s glad to finally be back from the dead to share with you some excellent horror projects coming your way from some seriously talented artists. And what better way to ring in the New Year than with a good old fashioned 80′s throwback slasher flick, from Slasher Studios:
LAHorror.com got some insider information on this film from the filmmakers themselves Kevin Sommerfield and Steve Goltz, who are currently raising money for this gory feature film, and trust me, these guys know how to make a slasher flick. So do yourself a favor and check out this project, because, let’s be real, there hasn’t been a great slasher flick in far too long…
LAHorror: I know you guys are the slasher experts, so tell me: What’s going to make Don’t Go to the Reunion stand out from the crowd?
Kevin Sommerfield: Don’t Go to the Reunion is really our ultimate 80′s slasher homage to everything that we love and cherish about the slasher genre. We are going back to the basics: a likable final girl, characters you actually care about, a ruthless, nonstop killer. We also plan to use all practical effects on this slasher. CGI has it’s place in film but I don’t think it really belongs in the slasher genre. The blood, the gore, the carnage…everything is going to be done on set with some great deaths planned out.
Steve Goltz: This upcoming film will give our fellow slasher fans what they have been craving. With a slasher drought among us, horror fans are in need of a fun story with likable characters and creative deaths. This is exactly what we will give them. The story itself will give the movie goers something to talk about after the film and the fact that this will be made by slasher fans, for slasher fans, will make this all the better.
LAHorror: Tell us a little bit about the set-up and the characters. And what’s the deal with this killer??
KS: Don’t go to the Reunion centers around a horror loving geek named Scott. He cherishes horror movies more than life itself. When the popular kids at his high school decide to play a prank on him, Scott thinks his life is over. Skip ten years to present day and the popular kids from high school are getting together for a little class reunion. Little do they know, someone may have followed them there and they mysteriously disappear one-by-one. Throughout this all, the audience is left to wonder if Scott has come back for revenge or is it someone else all together. Possibly even one of the original popular gang…
SG: The true horror fans will love the characters. I am so excited to see the characters take life and watch the performances on screen. We definitely have the go-to slasher characters, but some with a modern twist. They are fun and clever and all bring something to the table that helps out the story.
LAHorror: Without spoilers, what kind of gore can we expect from Don’t Go to the Reunion? Can you give us a peak into your favorite kill from the script?
KS: Without a doubt my favorite death from the script involves a split open torso and a fire poker. I’ll leave the rest up to the audience’s imagination…
SG: Well, we don’t want to give too much away, but the fire poker death will be a great visual experience and the final death of the film will definitely leave the audience in awe. All in all, lots of blood and gore and as with every Slasher Studios film, all practical effects!
LAHorror: All the slasher greats have a memorable final girl. In Don’t Go to the Reunion, what’s your final girl’s motto: Fight? Or flight?
KS: Definitely fight. Our final girl Erica is no shrieking violet. I wrote her as a testament to my favorite final girls in slasher history. Much like Ginny in Friday the 13th Part 2 or Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Erica isn’t about to go down without a fight and, in the end, she realizes it is up to herself to survive the night.
SG: This final girl encapsulates all the great, strong, independent final girls who came before her. We were not looking for a weak final girl or performance. This girl is rough and tough.
LAHorror: Your short films pack a lot of punch in a little time. How are you guys approaching this project differently than something shorter? Are you ready for the challenge?
KS: It was definitely a change of pace. Between Teddy, Blood Brothers, and Popularity Killer, we killed a series of a dozen characters in a total running time of about 40 minutes. Here we had a chance to give the characters a little more depth and flesh out the back story of each. I want the audience to get to know these characters so they actually feel something when they die.
SG: What I love about shorts is that a lot can happen in a little amount of time. This really helps keep the audience glued to the screen and their interest level high. Teddy moved at a break-neck speed and really sold a lot of people on the film. No downtime to bore the viewers. So, we know going to the feature, we had to keep up a steady pace. With the serious parts, the outrageous deaths and the comedy squeezed in as well, this script really has a great mix of emotions and will for sure keep the audience on their toes.
LAHorror: Anything else you’d like to share about Don’t Go to the Reunion?
SG: Don’t Go to the Reunion has been on our minds nearly every minute of every day for longer than I can even remember. Film is our passion and this feature is something we have worked so hard on and will continue to do so. We are both overly excited to begin filming and can’t wait for that first screening with an audience full of horror fans like ourselves!
KS: All I can say is that this script and this movie has been my baby for the past year. I can promise that fans of the 80′s slasher will find a lot to enjoy here from the creative death scenes to the shocking ending. To quote Cotton’s character at the end of Scream 2, “It’ll make a hell of a movie.”
Intrigued?? Please visit the “Don’t Go to the Reunion” kickstarter page! There you can not only help this film get made, but you can view all of their short films mentioned in this interview. So do yourself a favor…and Don’t Go to the Reunion…
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Award-Winning New York Music Therapy Program Expands
The Music Therapy Program at Northern Westchester Hospital Receives 2011 Spirit of Planetree Award, Launches Class for Outpatients
The program is offered by the Integrative Medicine Program, which received a 2011 Spirit of Planetree Award for supporting the hospital’s mission of improving the health and wellness of its community members through the power of song.
People who want to reduce anxiety and stress with the help of the same music therapy techniques applied in hospital settings can take part in free workshops through Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York
The program, Relaxation and Stress Management through Music, was developed with help from community neurologists, a team of psychiatric physicians, and a strong partnership with CenterLight Health System’s Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF).
The classes are held from 10:15 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays in NWH’s Health and Wellness Room at the Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center in Mount Kisco, New York.
Participants in the program may take part in a drumming circle or play various percussion instruments, improvise music, and talk about rhythm and style.
“People learn how to use music as a coping mechanism and see how it helps us,” said Ariel Weissberger, the IMNF music therapist who runs the program. “Connecting with yourself and others helps you connect with your emotions and brings about a sense of empathy and belonging.”
Patients at NWH work with a dedicated music therapist in various settings to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs. The music therapists visit patients on both the medical surgical and the behavioral health units.
“Some are able to sing, play along or request a song, while others benefit from music by listening or reacting with a smile, a tear or a comment depending on the circumstances. Some are cheered up by the end of the session, while others relax and fall asleep,” Weissberger said. “In some cases we get to see a patient’s bright side that we may not see otherwise.”
The response from patients who participate in NWH’s Music Therapy Program has been extremely positive. Attendance, which is not mandatory, ranges from 85-100% participation. Data analyses from patients who choose to participate show an increase in engagement, with a decline in depression and overall anxiety.
To register for the workshop, call (914) 242-8168.
Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) provides quality, patient-centered care that is close to home through a unique combination of medical expertise, leading edge technology, and a commitment to humanity. Over 750 highly skilled physicians, state-of-the-art technology and a professional staff of caregivers are all in place to ensure that you and your family receive treatment in a caring, respectful and nurturing environment.
NWH has established extensive internal quality measurements that surpass the standards defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) National Hospital Quality Measures. Our high quality standards help to ensure that the treatment you receive at NWH is among the best in the nation. For a complete list of our services, please visit www.nwhc.net.
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The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, part of CenterLight Health System in the Bronx, is an internationally recognized non-profit agency that offers groundbreaking music therapy programs to maintain and improve patients’ physical, emotional and neurological function.
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KVR DC: Kevin Ferguson Pondular
The grid on the screen is your “pond.” Playing notes or clicking creates ripples in the pond. The friction and viscosity parameters control how the ripples move and evolve, and the motion in the pond affects the sound of the synth.
This synth is really nice to play with. The interaction with the pond is playful and quite a bit mesmerizing. Oh, and it sounds great too!
The pond can be controlled in a number of ways. The number of squares can be changed by setting the amount of rows and columns. Frict sets friction and controls how fast ripples die out. Visc sets the viscosity which changes the size of ripples to small (fast moving) and big (slow moving) ones.
The delay effect can be turned off if you prefer to use external effects and MIDI controls can be mapped (or learned with your hosts’ MIDI learn tools).
The ? control is my favorite. It creates a random synth patch and control map. I just love synth with good randomize controls, so thumbs up for that.
Another nice feature is that the mod wheel changes colors used in the pond. Pondular also allows you to make your own control maps.
I still have many entries to check, but Pondular made a great first impression. You can download Pondular from the KVR Developer Challenge page.
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Established in 1927, the Beer Store is a chain of retail outlets in Ontario, Canada that sells over 350 different kinds of beers across more than 430 stores. This year, four of those locations are in a pilot program to test a new concept store that includes a revised logo, identity, and interior and exterior redesigns, that have all been designed by Toronto-based Jackman.
A few more interior details from the Beer Store on Danforth Ave., Toronto. Source: Canada.com.
Well, this is fun, isn’t it? I mean: Beer! The old logo, despite the unimaginative serif, was fairly decent with the “B” showing a beer through it and tipped at an angle ready to drink. The new logo takes a more interpretative approach with an abstract representation of beer by putting a white dab of foam atop the mug-shaped “B” set in an industrialized sans serif that makes the whole brand feel like the Victoria’s Secret store that men don’t have. Men will rise from their man caves to go to this store. The same bold approach has carried into the stores with a lot of slab serifs and hard-edged, condensed sans reproduced big in manly finishes. It would take years to rollout the look across all locations but I would say this pilot test is ready for a flight. (See what I did there? Pilot store? Pilots fly? Beer flight? Yeah, that’s why I get paid the big bucks).
Today I am dedicating Friday Likes to a single project.
Google Visual Assets Guidelines
For such a long time Google had ignored its aesthetics in favor of its algorithms, functionality, and ad-selling superpowers that we just took it for granted that any Google product would look like shit, starting with its barebones home page and unadorned search results. There is nothing wrong with simplicity and straightforwardness but that didn’t mean stuff had to look like just one step above Netscape circa 1999. For a company infamous for battling (and testing) over 41 shades of blue their visual design was always disappointing. But things have been changing dramatically over the last couple of years with every product getting handsome and beneficial aesthetic improvements that enhance the experience making information easier and more pleasant to access. Logos are flatter, icons are clearer, typography is better typeset, and colors are more consistent. And when you look at this two-part project posted on Behance you will see where it’s all coming from — if not the exact ingredients that you might encounter on a day-to-day basis at least the principles and driving decisions that inform the way Google looks-and-feels today. The guidelines themselves are also excellent: clear, well written, entertaining, and simply pretty to look at. Who would have thought? [Part 1 / Part 2].
Established in 1866 as Herberts, then purchased by DuPont in the 1990s when it was renamed as DuPont Performance Coatings, and most recently purchased by asset manager, The Carlyle Group, the newly renamed and more independent Axalta Coating Systems is a global provider of liquid and powder coatings to automotive, transportation, general industrial, and selected architectural and decorative customers. Axalta employs 12,000 people across 35 manufacturing plants and seven R&D centers around the world, it has over 1,800 patents held or pending, and revenues of more than $ 4 billion in 2012. The new name and identity, both realized by Futurebrand, were announced last week.
An essential first step in building a fullscale brand program was creating a name that connotes front-runner status. Firm yet memorable, Axalta celebrates the company’s unparalleled focus and drive to win. It cues upward motion and underscores the ambition and status that set the company apart. Paired with Coating Systems, the name speaks to the global, integrated suite of solutions the company offers. — Futurebrand case study (PDF)
Next to the new name, a new identity was easily the most marked symbol of change. Inspired by the idea that a company built for performance must be simply brilliant in all aspects — its products, people and attitude — we developed a bold, reflective “A” to serve as the company’s logo mark. Embedded with a forward-looking road, the logo symbolizes Axalta’s performance and category leadership, with a brilliant finish that cues a passion for coatings. — Futurebrand case study (PDF)
I’m conflicted. There are moments when I hate this logo and moments where I love it. Or, at least, there are moments that show very interesting potential. It’s a shiny “A”, for Axalta obviously and for the lustrous coatings they produce, and the glossy effect is both cheesy and effective. It’s smartly done in that it clearly communicates a glossy finnish and is not just an arbitrary gradient; it looks best when the logo is small, but up close it screams Adobe Illustrator tutorial. The “A” also represents the white, dashed lines on a street which Futurebrand touts as a “forward-looking road”; it’s an interesting concept but it drives the identity into looking like a car insurance company or road service assistance. The wordmark is a nearly impossible combination of characters to kern properly and I have to say this was done as best as possible — seriously, you give it a try. There is a slight disconnect between the rounded, glossy “A” icon and the stiff wordmark. I’m not a big fan of the logo, but then you see an application like the signage below and it really makes you reconsider. That is one “A” I would like to lick.
In application, the “A” can take on different textures and colors, which is both expected and pretty. There is also a secondary swath of coating that can be used across brochure covers and web backgrounds. The typography works better with the icon than the wordmark does with the icon and it does help communicate that future-y feeling necessary to give “coating” a bit of an edge. One of the more interesting applications is directly above, with the icon as a transparent version, it starts to go beyond the expected. Overall, as I said, there are good things and bad things about it, but definitely an improvement over being a DuPont sub-brand.
Scheduled to open in 2014, The Battle of Bannockburn project is a partnership between the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Historic Scotland to create a new visitor centre and landscaping at the site of the original battle of 1314 that, as described by NTS, is “one of the defining moments in Scottish history, [where] King Robert the Bruce routed the English forces of King Edward II to win a much-longed-for freedom for the Scots.” The identity for the project was designed by The Beautiful Meme with consultation from Bruno Maag of Dalton Maag; the logo was first released in July of 2012 and it just caught a second wind after winning the Best Identity of the Year at the UK’s Design Week Awards.
Like The Battle of Bannockburn experience itself, our identity demands engagement. The unusual approach of each character representing an aspect of the battle or its historical impact results in a logo that asks our audience to make an investment, to spend time and thought in revealing what the identity is saying. Such an immersion is rewarded with depictions of weapons, strategy, terrain, pride and nationhood. The aesthetic of the logo is dark, brutal and spiky, reflecting the realities of battle. Stylistically, the characters reflect contemporary app icons and game graphics, as well as more traditional heritage illustrated visuals. — Brand Book (not available online)
Like individual units in an army, each character can be dispatched separately to do battle for the brand through marketing, merchandising and fundraising. The ability to break apart the logo also allows for an identity that can be hacked. We anticipate some sectors of our target audience (particularly students) creating new versions and letters, using images within the letterforms, employing single letters to begin sentences similar to illuminated manuscripts, or even making 3D or animated versions. — Brand Book (not available online)
All captions below are from the brand book.
The B illustrates the tight packs in which the Scots would group together, known as Schiltrons. The men would brandish pikes ready to spear oncoming troops.
The A shows the tip of a regular infantry arrow that could be fired by archers to pierce flesh up to 100 yards away.
This N represents a cavalry horse in its charging position. In total 2700 battle hardened horses were used at Bannockburn.
This N represents a common medieval chainmail pattern. The chainmail worn could weigh up to three stone.
The O represents the head of a morning star or mace. This brutal weapon was often used by soldiers on horse back.
The C represents the sabaton armour that was generally worn by higher ranking infantry. It would protect feet, shoulders and arms from hacking blows.
The K represents the head of an axe or turn-pike. Robert the Bruce used a battle axe to attack and kill Sir Henry de Bohun – the axe sliced through his helmet and split his skull in two.
This B represents the rampant lion that was emblazend on English and Scottish shields and flags. Only after the battle did the lion become associated with the Scottish.
The U represents the style of helmet used in the battle. Although they limited vision they would protect from stray arrows and light weaponary strikes.
The R represents a plan of war. The ingenious tactics used by the Scots to defeat the English were crucial to the battle’s outcome. What was lacked in numbers was made up for in strategic positioning on higher ground.
The N represents the Declaration of Abroath. As a result of the battle, this important document was created on 6th April 1320 and declares Scotland an independent country.
How to say this in a professional, critical, constructive manner? This logo is fucking awesome. To elaborate, I guess, this is a concept that could have been executed so horribly and so wrong that it would make a Game of Thrones betrayal scene look like Nashville. The weight and balance of each character and the details within it are all perfectly in tune and there is enough detail to understand the different things each letter is trying to communicate even without the explanations above. Except the first “N” — the horse — which I had not picked up on and then just blew my mind. The logo is spiky and dangerous and it immediately communicates medieval warfare in a way that is contemporary and exciting. So, yeah, I stand by my initial assessment: fucking awesome.
Late last month, Major League Soccer announced that a new expansion team will join the league in 2015: New York City Football Club (NYC FC). This will bring soccer to the New York metropolitan area and perhaps also ignite yet another “crosstown” rivalry — a la Yankees vs. Mets, Knicks vs. Nets — with the other MLS team, New York Red Bulls that play in the less glamorous suburb of Harrison, New Jersey. Less than a month after the announcement, two soccer and design aficionados have taken it upon themselves to design a proper identity for the new team.
I really like the subway token feel of the primary mark, it’s the first use of the multi-stroke trend that makes sense and actually adds meaning to the logo. The secondary mark feels a little flimsy by comparison and hard to read at smaller sizes. Typography is edgy and contemporary. Cap looks almost like it belongs on a cop or firefighter, hence: win.
I love the old-school feel of the FC monogram and the ambition that you wouldn’t even need to say “NYC”. I bet legal would have a difference of opinion. The flared approach to the pentagon is a nice contrast to the more basic shape of Hyperakt’s proposal and adds to the vintage feel. Unis are sexy. The hoodie is something I need, hence: win.
Burgers that go boom, logos that turn corners, and hearts to melt your eyes are all part of this week’s Likes.
For Boom Burger, a Jamaican-infused burger joint in London, local firm Yawn Creative spared no subtlety when it came to making the identity feel explosive or Jamaican. The color palette screams reggae and the main logo and secondary icons are all about to literally go boom. And… plantain fries? Need. [More].
Public Art Fund
A non-profit in New York, Public Art Fund helps fundraise, organize, and mount contemporary art exhibits in public spaces around every corner of the city — which is what the logo, in the shape of an arrow, represents. Designed by Tender Creative (now part of VSA Partners) the wordmark is a deceivingly simple execution that in the wrong hands (and with the wrong kerning) would have been a disastrous result. The identity uses bright magenta (obviously not shown above) for added impact and the arrow can also be adapted to the different exhibits (as shown above). [More]
What would Friday Likes be without Mexican firm Anagrama? Their latest is for Cocolobo, a Mexico City boutique for high-end women’s clothing. A stark color palette and unassuming Didone provide the luxury aesthetic while the red heart provides a restrained burst of edge. The heart patterns, which could be cloying as hell in another project, look downright sexy. [More]
Originally established as the Minnesota North Stars in 1967, the Dallas Stars have been playing in the “Big D” since 1993 and are the only professional ice hockey team in Texas. They have won one Stanley Cup (in the 1998-99 season) but have missed the playoffs for the past five seasons. Looking to spice things up, the Stars unveiled its new uniforms and logo yesterday — although the logo leaked through the team’s mobile app at the end of May — designed by Reebok.
“We looked at every team in Dallas, in Texas, anything that surrounded us, bordered us or felt that was relevant to us,” said Walsh. “We looked at the different logos around the league and decided what we liked and didn’t like about all of them. Then we created this 36-page brief to the NHL and they were floored by how detailed it was, and we kind of laid out a direct path to Reebok of where we wanted to go.”
Reebok responded with four designs, which the Stars didn’t like. But they liked elements from one of them.
“This is where the process started to turn,” said Walsh. “Once we got the initial stuff from Reebok, we started really internally becoming creatively involved. This is where all the different variations of the jerseys started to come together because we were able to do it faster than they were. We were able to do it in the same day in most cases.”
Main logo, detail. “‘I’m excited. My hope is the logo is one that they’ll love,’ Gaglardi said. ‘It’s one that is void of any word mark, but I think any fan will look at it and see a D and a Star. There’s only one Big D, so I feel the logo will be pretty easily recognizable. I love its simplicity.’”
Alternate logo (used on shoulder patch). “When we went to the new D and Star, we lost any kind of word mark within the primary logo itself. That’s why we felt it was important to have the words ‘Dallas’ and ‘Stars’ on the shoulder patch.”
Alternate logo (used on pant shell). “‘One of the big discussions in our group was continuing the tie to the state of Texas because we are the only NHL team in this massive state,’ said Walsh. ‘We wanted the state of Texas represented somewhere, so we have a logo that does appear on the pant shell and it’s the D-Star and the state of Texas. We were always partial to our old shoulder crest.’”
The previous logo was pretty terrible: ugly typography, ugly color combination, and, well, just ugly and rusty. The new logo, by contrast and in the relative context of sports branding, is super pretty and shiny. That don’t mean I like it — I do, relatively speaking, but I don’t, in the larger context of logo design. It’s a vast improvement that maintains the structure and equity of the old one through the italicized star but brings in all the clichés of modern sports identity: more italic, more strokes, more bevels, more chiseling. At least the star-pointed “D” that they have come up with is an interesting monogram to begin with and then adding all the accoutrements. The alternate logos are fine and will probably help move merchandise for many years to come. The wordmark on its own is ridiculously italicized and every character and bevel looks distorted. Replacing the hard-to-reproduce and unappealing gold for silver/gray was probably the best move in this whole exercise. The uniforms (below) are just about fine, I don’t really have any strong opinions. Overall, the identity is a major improvement based on what they had previously but there is absolutely nothing new here that we haven’t seen in the last five years. (More stuff to see below).
“If you are going to go green, you want it to pop on TV,” said Walsh. “If you go too dark with green or a color like blue, it looks black on TV, even on high definition. We wanted our green to pop, so we went back and forth with Reebok several times. We brought in jerseys from different teams, different sports teams.
“We went back to Reebok and they found Victory Green. It was a mix between Kelly Green and Forest Green. Instead of Kelly Green having that one shade yellow too much, we needed one more shade of blue in there to bring it back. And when we did a television test, it looked unbelievable on TV. It really popped. We’ve been so dark and drab for so many years, we want this to pop. And it does.”
New uniform. Sexy shot. “‘There was not a single stone left unturned from what we did,’ said Walsh. ‘We have 236 variations of the uniform that we looked at. I had to go back and add them all up.’”
Logo and uniform unveiling event. Brief video introduction of the new logo at the beginning.
This morning I wasn’t very inspired or motivated by any of the tips sitting in my inbox — nothing against our wonderful tip-submitters! It’s not your fault there isn’t much interesting work and stories out there — so I thought I would showcase a preview of my favorite project from the winners of the 2012 Brand New Awards designed by Landor‘s San Francisco office: Nine Suns is a new luxury winery in Napa Valley with three-digit dollar bottles available only to registered members. In introducing the wines, the product of a Chinese family, Landor created a name and identity that references and honors their Chinese heritage in a subtle and unexpected manner.
Nine Suns references an ancient Chinese legend where ten suns took turns rising in the sky. When they grew tired of the routine and decided to raise all at once, lakes dried and crops perished. The God of Archery was summoned to save the land. He aimed. Nine suns fell, leaving the one needed to keep heaven and earth in perfect balance. The story and archery references the art and science of wine making. The calligraphy, God of Archery and the three legged sunbirds dress the brand in mythical flair. — Provided text
This image has been edited to remove the contact information that was shown on the back of the business card.
At first glance, the project is already stunning, with a simple and sophisticated look that fits the high-end wine category but also stands out for its unexpected graphics. However, it’s the details that deserve the attention. Like the fact that there are nine circles (for the nine suns) in the otherwise abstract wordmark. Or the tiny archer on the business cards taking down the suns. Or the orange top on the cork. And there is a few more details I’m holding back to show on the BNA book and website. But even from this preview you can see the nice tension of bold colors, thin lines, and full circles at play.
From Germany to Hungary to Singapore, a lot of good thinking in this edition of Friday Likes.
Haus der Kunst
Relative to how recent I like to keep the projects shown on Brand New, this one is from like the Jurassic era. 2011. Not sure how I missed it at the time. Interestingly it sort of precedes the 2012/13 trend of minimalist black-and-white museum identities. For Haus der Kunst, a non-collecting public museum in Munich, Base Design created an “elastic” logo with fixed letters at the start and end of the name with wacko kerning inside it, alluding to the “flexibility, resilience, and adaptability” of the museum. I could look at the above GIF all day. And, obviously, major bonus points for not using Helvetica. [More].
For Csaba Mózes, a professional masseur who has been blind since birth, Budapest-based Zwoelf created an identity with a pattern based on pressure points and the movements he uses during a massage. The resulting identity feels a little too trendy and techie for a masseur but the concept and idea is as strong as a knot on your neck right before a client presentation. To help Csaba appreciate the design, Zwoelf tricked out some of the materials with colorless relief paint gel so that he could feel the pattern. [More]
Located in Singapore’s financial district, Foodology is a food emporium that doubles as a restaurant and marketplace and covers every gastronomic taste. For their identity, local firm Somewhere Else created an academic-like seal to represent the ology-ness of the name and then went all flexible with the five different “o”s using abstract representations. The seal and the wordmark could use a little more unity but both are fetching and the whole project is a very comprehensive effort. [More] | <urn:uuid:71e8a97e-2ac3-4481-9997-2bcea7c7598b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://suckmypixels.com/category/logo-identity/ | 2013-06-18T06:17:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955528 | 4,810 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I Can Recall Away From Anything, Do Amazing Tricks But . . .
I can do recalls from anything, do amazing tricks, tug in the presence of great food rewards BUT . . . just remember, I am still a 6 months old puppy so I will also TP your room if I get the chance.
John and I were chatting at breakfast and we both kind of said at the same time; where is the puppy, he is awfully quiet. This is what we found.
“Who me? No really I just found all of this stuff here . . . maybe talk to Buzz about it.”
“See, I just had to get rid of all this stuff so I could bring your the roll!”
I won’t share this bit with John but I think I brought this on. You see when I was a kid our toy poodle used to LOVE to play fetch with the empty toilet paper roll. Every puppy since then I have, at one time or another, I have played with the empty toilet paper roll before I throw it out.
So on his own figured out how the “quick release” toilet paper roll holder works (aaaah there is no “release” you can just push it off) and wanted to start the game of fetch but needed to first remove all of that annoying paper that was covering the roll.
Not exactly a “puppy proof” toilet paper roll holder is it?
This all put me to mind to a Friday night when I was living in residence at university. A few of us went out for a drink, it was during mid-term exams so we left some of others in the dorm to “study.” One of my floor mates, Barb, decided it wasn’t cool to be left behind so she climbed through the open dormer at the top of the door into my room and not only turned the mattresses upside down, not only toilet papered the room, but left a note to explain why.
Barb, very proud of her handy work . . . I never did find out how her morning mid-term went:).
Faking disdain, a bubble blowing Susan in awe of Barb’s handy work.
Today I am grateful for entertaining puppies who make us laugh and bring back old memories. Shhhhhh no one mention anything about the retrieving of the empty roll to John okay?
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unfortunately for us all, blogger is not allowing me to upload photos today, so i'll try to be brief. (lengthy posts are only made more tolerable by the presence of photos.)
ten month stats:
weight: 17.0 lbs (first percentile)
height: 28.5 inches (32nd percentile)
fave wrasslin move: the lightning bolt
kid is fast and kid is hungry. his main activity at this point involves busting over to the dining room table and filling his hamster cheeks with anything his little hands can grab in the .2 seconds before i snatch him up and mouth-sweep him.
this month, he learned to clap and say 'dada.' i'm also somewhat confident he says 'hi,' but since it just sounds like, 'aaaaah,' i'm not positive. he's pulling himself up on the furniture, which he seems to think makes him a man now.
we're working (again) on getting him to sleep through the night. he was back into his old habit of waking every two hours or so and wanting to eat. needless to say, i was done entertaining that and for about the last week or so, we have been letting him cry it out. before now, i've been hesitant to be too strict about it, but since he's taking all his feedings from a bottle now, and i know exactly how much he's getting, i'm much less worried that he's legitimately hungry and am sure it's just habit at this point. so i've been somewhat heartless. but it's been a good week, and he's only waking up about once a night at this point, and once he gets himself back to sleep, he sleeps until 8:00 or 8:30. bliss.
he finally moved into 6-9 month clothing, and although he's still only in the first percentile, he gained an entire pound last month, so i'm feeling really good about that.
he had an eye doctor appointment, and will need glasses come march when he turns a year old. bummer, but i'm glad to catch it early, i guess.
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I am not feeling so hot today so I went shopping on DriveThruRPG/RPGNow from some dragon art.
In my search a company called Stainless Steel Dragon came up and they have a few products. I had a few bucks burning a hole in my pocket so I decided, what the heck.
The first thing I grabbed was the Ultimate Fantasy Photo Art Collection.
I grabbed it because it came up in a search for "Dragon art", there are no dragons in it. That was something of a disappointment, but I kept on going, after all there are a 150+ pages here.
The art varies from semi-serious, to cheesecake. It is all photos with fantasy style trappings and backgrounds. There are some topless women here (and me, fair is fair), but it is all of an artistic sort.
There are not many images here I can use in my games, but the ones that I can seem perfect. There is an African-American male vampire in this is perfect (and they must have also thought this since we get a couple of him), but my opinion was changed with the picture of the "witch" on page 101. Again it is a case of the right thing at the tight time for me. NOTE To publisher: I appreciate the names of the models, but is there anyway to know what page they are on? Ok, just who is the model on page 101?
The models are all attractive and we get a variety of types, genders and ethnicity here so that is certainly a plus. One of my first thoughts was there are a lot of good visual images here for a Ravenloft game or some other dark fantasy.
There are also 24 pages of "character sheets" featuring the various models (again the witch on 101 is back on page 150), plus a blank and a back page. Suitable really for most games, but certainly a FRPG in mind.
So while it was not exactly what I was looking for and I also like to buy art I can reuse somehow, I can't fault the publisher any of those.
Great fro printing out and using in a game as a visual aid. Or if there is a character you really want to detail then it's perfect if the character you envision is here.
NOTE To publisher 2: maybe small thumbnails of the pictures on the character sheets might be good on your website? That way if someone sees something they like they have a good reason to buy this.
In truth you get a ton of images for $5 (when on sale). Can't really complain about that.
EDITED TO ADD. You can find some of the images on their website, http://www.fantasyphotoart.com/
I found my witch and picked up the jpg for a buck.
I also checked out some of the other images on DTRPG/RPGN to fill in for other characters. Here is what I grabbed.
Water Nymph I would like to have one of this model as a witch/warlock too.
All are huge HiRes images. Most are right around 2542 x 3386.
I had actually picked up AoV: Fantasy Art (Reflections of Voldaria) in some sale a while back and forgot about it.
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I was born in Vancouver and grew up on Vancouver Island. After going to university in Victoria and Toronto (and achieving degrees in English Literature and Environmental Studies), I found myself back in Vancouver. For years, it was supposed to be a temporary stop on my way back to the island, but I guess I finally have to admit this city is where I live — and even that I enjoy it.
I write novels, short stories and poetry — mostly for children and young adults. I think of this blog as an extension of my creative writing and perhaps even of my art. It’s a place I can share writing, thoughts and visual images that don’t have any other outlet, and a place I can play around with words and pictures. Fun! And maybe (through people’s comments) I can find out if anyone else thinks in a similar way and get a bit of a dialogue going.
I chose the name “wildink” because it reflects my interest in “wildness” and my two creative pulls: art and writing (the “ink” part). For me, “wildness” is that untamed, unplanned creative force that flows through things. It’s crows, coyotes, weeds, graffiti art, intuition, inspiration, mystery….. things that thrive at the edges (of the city and of consciousness), things that push themselves up between the cracks. Catching sight of wildness keeps me going. Whenever eye strain gets the better of me, I leave my computer and explore the city by public transit, looking for signs of “wildness.”
In between the cracks, I make art.
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Superdogs perform at The Fair at the PNE. The annual Fair, an end of summer tradition for generations of British Columbians, features over 700 shows, exhibits and attractions that are free with admission. The 2011 Fair at the PNE runs daily through Labour Day, September 5.
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Loveland, Colo. – The Stockton Thunder picked up their first victory of the young season with a 5-4 win over the Colorado Eagles in a wild game at the Budweiser Events Center. The game saw a total of 25 penalties called and back-and-forth scoring in a frantic third period. NHL prospect Thomas Heemskerk picked up the win over rookie Mike Garman who was making his first professional start.
The teams played a penalty-filled first period, with 11 total infractions called. That trend led to the Thunder taking a 2-0 lead into the first intermission as they netted both goals on the power play, scoring in both portions of a 5-on-3 advantage midway through the period. Gabriel Levesque got the first goal and Kevin Baker got the second as those two continued to do damage against the Eagles this season.
The second period looked like it would pass without a goal until a late burst of scoring in the final minutes. At 18:39, Aaron Schneekloth lost an edge in the defensive zone, leading to a turnover that saw Garet Hunt quickly pass the puck to Matt Foy, who slipped it past Garman from the doorstep.
But less than a minute later, Colorado finally got on the board when Jack Combs threw the puck on net from deep in the left lane and Steve Haddon — playing in his first game of the season — flipped home the rebound to counter Stockton’s score.
Schneekloth atoned for his slip-up just 25 seconds into the third period by snapping a shot top-shelf from inside the right circle with the teams skating 4-on-4. But at 7:03, Foy got his second goal of the game by cleaning up a rebound in the paint after a shot from the left point. Then things really heated up.
The Eagles were awarded a 5-minute power play midway through the period and Jason Beatty cut Stockton’s lead down to a single goal once more when his shot from the point squeaked past the leg of Heemskerk. Moments later, Colorado nearly tied the game when Kyle Peto’s blast bounced off the goal post (the second Eagles shot to be denied by the post in the game).
It looked as if the Thunder put the game away when Jordan Foreman scored another 4-on-4 goal off an odd-man rush 18 minutes into the final frame, but that two-goal cushion was quickly cut in half again just 36 seconds later when Jon Landry buried a slap shot from between the circles. Colorado continued to put up a final push and nearly tied the game, but Stockton was able to escape with the win.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
After my last post, I was ready to try another funny styled post, but recent events, and the calendar have caused me to change my mind and go a different track. So, lets light this firecracker...
First, this upcoming weekend is Father's Day. A day for celebrating that finest of achievements, successful completion of amorous pursuits with a woman resulting in the creation of another human being. Of course, there are a lot more things involved to being a father. Dirty diapers, sleepless nights, cranky mommy, and a whole host of other "dream" conditions.
The funny thing is that most good men would never trade these for anything, because they love their kids, and they love their partner. This is part of their purpose in life.
And then... there is the man who wants to be a father with his wife or partner. This weekend, much like Mother's Day, guys wanting to be a father sit on the sidelines as eunuchs or second class wimps, not a part of society for the day. Kick in the Y.
Dave Thomas' Foundation for Adoption. Wendy's will give $0.50 from every Frosty sold on Father's Day to the Dave Thomas Foundation.
Now, THAT is a winning proposition. So, no matter if you are on a diet or not, depressed or not, go buy a Frosty and help children find their forever home. So that for some children, this will be their last Fatherless Day.
Finally, I have a friend, John, who has valiantly battled adrenal and liver cancer well beyond his expected life expectancy. He has been a great role model for grace during his battle. But, he is now approaching his last days. He has a daughter and wife who love him dearly, and are trying to deal with the medical treatments, emotional issues, and knowledge that soon the beloved daughter will be fatherless.
So, as I sit here writing this post, I realize that soon I will attending my friends funeral. So I really should shut up and not be so whiny. If my friend John has hope, why shouldn't I?
So, this Father's day, I choose to have hope. Hope that I will someday soon be a father. Thank you John for giving me hope.
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Newtown gunman's hard drives a challenge for FBI
A Connecticut state trooper mans a checkpoint on the road leading toward Sandy Hook Elementary Dec. 17, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo)
(CBS News) The computer hard drives found in the home of the gunman who carried out a murderous rampage on a Connecticut elementary school are presenting a real challenge to law enforcement experts, John Miller reports.Authorities found the smashed hard drives in the home of the gunman's mother, Nancy Lanza, who investigators say Adam Lanza fatally shot in the head Friday morning before driving her car to Sandy Hook Elementary, where he gunned down 20 students and six adults before turning the gun on himself.
(At left, watch Miller report on the kind of rifle used in last week's massacre)
According to people who have been working with the hard drives, Miller reports they were so badly damaged that authorities face a significant challenge in retrieving any data from them about Adam Lanza. The Connecticut State Police gave the hard drives to the FBI to see if any data can be recovered from them.
The hard drives aren't the only digital lead that investigators are pursuing. Miller previously reported that authorities are also trying to retrieve emails and text messages from the Lanzas' service providers.
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Re: The veil is lifting + Hello all
How about the next few lines where I say his evidence is circumstantial and anecdotal? Don't want to post that one, do you?
This is why this forum will only ever have one point of view, becuase when people come with any view which doesn't fit with the consensus they get shot down in flames and anyone else will not dare speak out of line again.
I've seen it before, people posting offensive replies to requests for software cracks when they pirate software themselves, you've got your little clique here and you don't want to risk falling out of conformity.
Maybe Icke is full of shit with the lizard stuff, in fact it's very likely he is, but how do you KNOW, FOR ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that he is? did he tell you? Have you done a DNA test on the Queen of England? No, you have not. You BELIEVE he is full of shit. And you know, you might be right, but that's all it is.... BELIEF. you don't have the right to tell me or anyone else what is true and what is not when it is just your belief, be it well founded belief or not.
If you look at the rest of my site, you will see *quite clearly* that the main focus of it is buying into belief systems and what we consider real and not real... I think it's all very relevant, and was illustrating a point that you have missed completely. Be that my own fault for how I conveyed it, or your own fault for jumping at the chance to shoot down another dumb Ickeite without looking at what I'm really trying to say.
Besides that it's a bit fucked up to just rubbish someone's beliefs (or what you THINK is someone's beliefs through jumping to conclusions) Would you say the same thing to a Christian? "What you believe is a big load of shit, pal" - Sure debate why you BELIEVE Christianity is wrong, but what you're doing is facsist... trying to make everyone else think the same way as you... you're no better than the government in this respect.
Think about it.
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Mavericks beat writer Eddie Sefko answered questions in a live chat Wednesday. Here are some highlights.
Comment From Guest ... How serious is Dwight Howard considering coming to Dallas? And do the Mavericks have cap space to bring in Deron Williams as well? If not will they attempt a trade to bring him in?
Sefko: Can anybody really know how much one person wants to come to the Mavericks? Or how much anybody really wants to do anything? All I can tell you is that Howard's agent is the same agent as Yi Jianlian's and the same agent as Erick Dampier's and the same agent as a lot of other players who have come through Dallas and whom Mark Cuban has made very wealthy. That can't hurt. As for getting both Howard and Williams, it will take some creativity, but it could be done, probably as you sugggested -- one of them maxed out with a free-agent contract and the other maxed out with a sign-and-trade.
Comment From Tommy Wu ... Carlisle was masterful last year in the playoffs. Even with a new team, any reason to think we don't have a legitimate shot to repeat, seeing the progress we have made as a team already in the first few weeks?
Sefko: I'll take my chances with Rick pulling the strings during and between games. They have done a commendable job of keeping this roster relevant despite the losses. Two years ago, if you'd have had the chance to have Lamar Odom, Vince Carter and Delonte West or Tyson Chandler, Caron Butler and J.J. Barea, honest people would have taken the Odom threesome. This is what makes it fun. If it works, we'll all salute the Mavericks again. If it doesn't, we'll bash them. They don't have a problem with that.
Comment From Leo ... Is this Jason Kidd's last season? Would he consider his Mavericks days the best? He's had an interesting career.
Sefko: He's already said he wants to play until he's 40. And yes, when you win a title with a team, that's the best stretch of your career, unless you win multiple titles somewehere else.
Comment From Space is SG ... Wanna get your thoughts on the possibly of the Mavs giving a serious hard look at the Russian phenom of Boris Szouzek?
Sefko: First I've heard of it. But if there's anybody in the world that can play basketball and has too many consonants in his name or, in this case, a bunch of Z's, then the Mavericks probably have him on their radar.
Comment From chu chu ... Did the mavs change uniform colors this year? something looks different
Sefko: Yeah, it's a subtle change, maybe a little darker blue or something. Dirk modeled the new look on media day. But it's not a huge change. You don't have to buy another jersey just to look right.
Comment From Guest ... In which city's rafters will Kidd's jersey be ? NJ or Dallas?
Sefko: Some day, it will definitely be in the AAC rafters. Not sure about New Jersey, although he was there for that franchise's best NBA days. Someday, I expect Shaquille O'Neal's jersey to be retired in both Miami and LA, so it could happen in two places for Kidd. | <urn:uuid:555beedf-b32a-4e35-a6e3-af55f829bd8d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-mavericks/headlines/20120104-sefko-dwight-howard-and-deron-williams-to-mavs-would-take-creativity-but-could-be-done.ece | 2013-06-18T06:34:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978105 | 716 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Broncos continued their unprecedented free-agent buying spree today by signing veteran running back LaMont Jordan to a two-year, $2.5 million contract.
The deal includes a $500,000 signing bonus so make no mistake, Jordan is not here as a look-see for training camp.
Jordan becomes the 10th free agent player signed by the Broncos since Friday and more are coming. The Broncos are visiting today with veteran quarterback Chris Simms, who would become the backup to Jay Cutler.
The team also has a three-year, $4.5 million offer sheet signed with restricted free agent David Anderson of the Houston Texans. Houston has until Friday to either match the Broncos' offer or work out a trade.
At this rate, Cutler may be the only Broncos player who returns for 2009.
No team has been more active in free agency than the Broncos, although the total contractual commitments to the 11 players, including Anderson, is $94.62 million, or $5.38 million less than the Washington Redskins gave $100 million man Albert Haynesworth.
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COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA
Department of Education
August 26, 2011
TO: Division Superintendents
FROM: Patricia I. Wright, Superintendent of Public Instruction
The purpose of this memorandum is to request the submission of the National Board Certification Incentive Award (NBCIA) Collection for the 2011-2012 school year. This collection requires verification of teachers employed by Virginia school divisions who are eligible for the National Board Certification incentive award.
The Virginia General Assembly, in Chapter 890, 2011 Appropriation Act Item 131.G., appropriated funds to pay incentive awards for teachers who hold National Board Certification, who are employed in a Virginia school division (as verified on September 30) for the 2011-2012 school year and who meet the criteria outlined in the Guidelines for Distributing National Board Certification Incentive Awards established by the Virginia Board of Education. The guidelines may be accessed at the following Web site: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching/licensure/guidelines_distributing_nbct_awards.pdf. An initial award not to exceed $5,000 and continuing awards not to exceed $2,500 will be awarded to eligible teachers subject to available funding. In accordance with the Board of Education guidelines, the procedure for disbursement of funds if the program is not fully funded shall be based on a 2:1 ratio. (The initial award would be twice that of the continuing award.)
The NBCIA application, accessible from the Virginia Department of Education’s Single Sign-on for Web Systems (SSWS) Web site (https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/ssws/login.page.do), will be used to collect information on teachers from Virginia public school divisions who meet the eligibility requirements for a National Board Certified incentive award. Each school division has a SSWS account manager who can provide your designated National Board program coordinator or human resources staff access to this application. Instructions for entering and submitting the data are available online as part of the SSWS-NBCIA application. Individual teachers are no longer requested to submit employment verification forms to the Department of Education.
For the 2011-2012 data collection, data must be submitted by the school division via the SSWS-NBCIA application by October 14, 2011. Once you have completed and verified your NBCIA data submission, print the National Board Certification Incentive Award Verification Report, including the list of national Board Certified teachers, and then fax the signed verification report and list to Ms. Eleanor Joyce, coordinator of National Board Certification, at (804) 530-4510, no later than Friday, October 14. Please note that even if you do not employ any teachers eligible to receive the incentive award, the verification report and signed affidavit must be returned to the Department of Education. In this case, the verification report will display a statement indicating that “There are no eligible teachers reported for this collection cycle.”
Meeting the established submission timelines and ensuring that all teacher information is complete and accurate are critically important because the calculation and distribution of incentive awards will be based on this collection. All National Board Certified teachers eligible for the incentive award must be identified through this process because funds may not be available if the names of individuals are identified after the collection window.
Funds for payment of teacher incentive awards will be electronically transferred from the Department of Education to school divisions, and school divisions will be responsible for making the incentive award payments to their National Board Certified teachers. The awards are taxable to the recipient and the school division assumes responsibility for insuring all taxes are remitted. Should the amount needed to pay the incentives in the fiscal year 2012 exceed the funds appropriated, the award payments will be reduced in accordance with Board of Education guidelines.
Questions regarding National Board Certification incentives may be directed to Dr. Mark Allan, director of licensure and school leadership, at Mark.Allan@doe.virginia.gov or (804) 371-2471, or Ms. Eleanor Joyce, coordinator of National Board Certification, at Eleanor.Joyce@doe.virginia.gov or (804) 692-0172. If you have technical questions regarding the NBCIA application and data submission, please contact Mr. Brian Mason, project specialist for teacher education and licensure, at Brian.Mason@doe.virginia.gov or (804) 225-2823. | <urn:uuid:f6e40a91-321e-4354-84c0-6638e343648e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2011/232-11.shtml | 2013-06-18T06:27:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916148 | 910 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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We’ve waited and waited, and today it’s finally here: The all new 2(x)ist RESORT range.
And we’ve got exclusive pics!
Maybe you’ve already seen the briefs and sports briefs pics, but today we show the never-before-seen official artwork for the trunk style. See it and the other gorgeous promo shots below.
A big thanks to our great friends over at 2(x)ist for sharing this with us.
Our first impressions? The RESORT range has the classic 2(x)ist design trades written all over it and the available cuts (contour pouch brief, sports brief and No-show trunks) will be well-known to any 2(x)ist fan.
We really like what we’ve seen so far, and we are extremely excited about the 68% rayon, 32% polyester fabric blend. Usually, a fabric mix like this means high breathability and a lightweight feel. Great for summer time.
We cannot wait to try them out.
We’ve spotted the RESORT briefs in several webshops already and you can get them for around $22 USD – trunks are $26.
Collection: 2(x)ist RESORT
Photographer: Roger Moenks for 2(x)ist
Creative Director: Jason Scarlatti
Model: André Ziehe for 2(x)ist
Agency: FORD Models
The summer is upon us in the western hemisphere so we look to the southern hemisphere for some hot trends in swimwear.
We’ve looked at two great suits from Tribe, a trend-setting Australian brand that specializes in the “funky, sexy, fun” look. Tribe has truly captured the suave styles of Europe and combined them with the cool panache of Australia.
And of the three swim suits by Tribe I had the great pleasure of trying out, I will tell you guys, I saved my favorite for last. It’s the Tribe Swim Brief, a classic bikini cut with a touch of extra flair from Tribe.
The Swim Brief comes in eight remarkable varieties; several tropical flavors, a bright swirling red sexy number and three spliced color combinations. I chose a navy brief with yellow and cobalt (blue) splicing, and I love it!
The brief is constructed of a high quality 80% polyester and 20% spandex material and crafted in a top of the line manner. The fabric is sturdy yet stretchy enough to be supportive and the pouch is double lined with the material for extra support and modesty.
The stitching is very secure and solid. This suit is made to be used, worn and to last. The pouch has a center seem fabrication giving you space to enjoy your wear in comfort and to truly highlight the shape of your package.
The pouch is a perfect size being roomy, unlike competitive swim suits, yet not overly bulky becoming awkward. The brief also come with a white drawstring on the inside of the waistband for added security. This is one great swim suit.
I was very excited to try this suit out, and as soon as it arrived at my house I could immediately tell just from feeling it that it was made with a higher quality than some other suits I have. It was definitely one I could wear with out worrying about it falling apart or losing it’s support or look.
I have some suits that are made to look good but not to last nor to actually be worn in the water, especially if you’re actually going to swim or be active. I could tell this suit could be worn in a competitive game of beach volleyball or for a long day at the beach or pool with a lot of physical activities and it will more than meet the challenge.
So I took the suit to the pool, unfortunately it isn’t quite summer yet so I couldn’t take it outside. I did wear it several times to an indoor pool I work at and a gym I go to and washed it in my machine air dried it and it still looks like new.
By the way it’s not recommended to machine wash as with any swim suit, but I am a rebel and always do. It even survived the super chlorinated pool that has bleached out several suits and rash guards I have.
During wear I was very comfortable, the brief wears well and sits comfortably with no riding, chaffing nor binding. I had very little adjusting to do. And I love the way it looks! This is a GREAT addition to anyone’s swimwear collection with a perfect balance between sexiness, fun and class.
Thank you Tribe!
|Style and look?||The style gives you an enduring masculine presence with a classic pool or beach appearance. This is a great suit that is definitely eye-catching yet at the same time not so loud or overstated that you would feel uneasy. And the color splicing really draws attention to your manly form.|
|Suitable for?||The beach or the pool, this is a suit that made not just to be seen or pranced around in but to be worn and put to use. No need to feel you have to go easy on it, slide it on and have fun.|
|Fit and quality?||The fit was great and the quality is with out a doubt top notch. All of Tribes suits and underwear are 100% Australian made with pride.|
|Is the price right?||The Tribe Swim Briefs come from $51.95 to $56.95 (all prices in Australian Dollars, $55 – $59 USD). So yes that is a little bit expensive I won’t lie. However I will tell you that the quality and style you get from Tribe’s swim suits are of the highest standards. If you are looking for a suit you can wear over and over this Swim Brief is worth the price because it will last.|
|Best thing about it?||The quality and construction of the brief. I love feeling so secure in it and knowing that it will take whatever I put it through. It’s comfortable, wearable and looks HOT!|
|Overall grade||★ ★ ★ ★ ★
TRIBE DOES IT AGAIN! 2 out of 3 suits have gotten a perfect score! Congratulations Tribe because we don’t just hand these out to just anyone but I honestly could not find anything wrong with it. And there really is nothing that I would change about it, except maybe make it $10 (Just kidding Tribe). I look forward to seeing what Tribe comes up with next. I know they have some amazing sales on underwear now to clear out this collection, which means a new one is coming! I better get to review them, AHEM. So thanks again Tribe and may all you men enjoy your summer in whatever sexy suit you sport.
|Buy it here||www.tribeunderwear.com.au|
Tribe is a brand that certainly has a style of it’s own. It seems most brands, not all, from Australia focus on the fun playful side of masculinity and give us underwear and styles that bring out that mischievous inner boy who never grows up yet contains the sexiness of an adult.
Tribe, however, has taken a more European approach to their style giving men a sophisticated, classy and elegant sensuality to their style and designs. This is completely evident in the Slim Side Brief – one of several styles available from Tribe.
Like all of Tribe’s underwear, the slim side brief gives men a daring and bold choice of fabrics and colors to choose from. The brief comes in “Burn Out”, “Abstract Mesh” and a red or black “Devore”, a velvet pattern on a fine mesh background. I took a look at two, the Burn Out and the Abstract Mesh.
The “Burn Out”, like the Devore, is a velvet pattern on a fine mesh background. The burn factor comes from the coloring a burnt orange blending in to a rusty brown.
The brief has a very regal quality to it, looking like the fabric you would find used as drapes in an elegant hotel. However, the material is as soft and stretchy as any high quality underwear you could find.
The fabric is 60% nylon, 30% polyester, 10% elastane giving it a sheer, sleek and stretchy quality. The brief wears well and is comfortable. It’s so light weight you almost forget you even have anything on.
When I first handled the brief I was impressed by its soft and smooth feel, and wearing it I wasn’t disappointed. It handled several wearing and washings and continued to stand up to the wear and tear and looks like it will last. Great quality construction and %100 made in Australia.
The subtle floral pattern in velvet almost gives it a feminine quality, however once it is on you, it holds your shape and is definitely a masculine flavor. The sheer quality gives a peek at what’s underneath but the pouch is lined with the same fabric giving a little extra modesty to the crotch. This brief scream sophistication and definitely is a very refined and sexy pair of underwear.
The “Abstract Mesh” has the initial appearance of a maritime bikini. It reminded me of a sexy merman or even what Aqua Man would wear in his down time.
I think this is due to the coloring, very aqua in shades of green and grey with a black abstract design. And the almost fish net-like appearance of the mesh makes it very aquatic. This too, like the burn out, transforms once it is on you and forms to your masculine silhouette.
When I first saw the brief I thought it had the appearance of a panty due to the thin almost frilly black elastic band. But this, too, changes once on you, when it takes a stronger and more supportive presence.
It is a hot pair of underwear that gives the look of refinement and pure male sexuality. This is not a boy’s pair of underwear. When I first put the brief on I could tell it was mesh, not that it was uncomfortable.
The fabric is a %94 polyester and %6 elastane making it sleek and form fitting. I don’t know if I would wear it as everyday underwear as the mesh can get a little irksome, although I did wear them for about 24 hours and they were fine.
One funny note; I woke up after sleeping in them with the typical situation down there, and noticed that my penis had the pattern of the mesh imprinted onto it! It wasn’t the most comfortable feeling, but again not bad.
This is a great pair of underwear to show off that high end chic man that you are. Tribe is a magnificent designer brand that will bring out the high class guy in you and display his as an asset to the world.
|Style and look?||These briefs have an amazing style that is at the top of its class when it comes to sophistication and manly elegance. The look they give you will without doubt draw attention to your style and speak wonders about the class you have.|
|Suitable for?||Special occasions where you want to make a better than good impression. I don’t think I’d use them as everyday underwear even though they are durable and comfortable enough to do the job.|
|Fit and quality?||The fit is great! The fabric is comfortable and breathable and the front pouch gives your boys the room they need to lay out happily. The quality is also great. The materials are sturdy and the construction is durable even though they have a very delicate look.|
|Is the price right?||Right now all Tribes Slim Side Briefs are on sale! The Abstract Mesh comes at $11.95 (was $37.95), and the Burn Out at $17.50 (was $43.95). These are high end designer styles and this is a great price. They will be at these prices until the stock is gone and the new ones come in. So get them while you can. The red and black Devore are also on sale.|
|Best thing about it?||The high style. Tribe is definitely taking men’s underwear fashion to places other brands haven’t. The sleek, sexy classiness of their designs showcases a side of men that is reminiscent of the glamor of the ageless gentlemen. A manly man in the sense of dignity, boldness and character. Underwear with a deeper masculine statement.|
|Overall grade||★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Tribe scores three stars with its classic designs for the Slim Side Brief. Even though the briefs may not do well as everyday underwear nor work in any occasion the original look and style Tribe has created with it’s debonair declaration of manliness deserves the stars! Thank you Tribe for allowing men to show off the gentlemanly side of their personality in a suave and sexy manner.
|Buy it here||www.tribeunderwear.com|
It’s almost summer in the northern hemisphere and it’s time to start looking at swim wear! First up is an amazing swim short from TRIBE underwear and swimwear.
Tribe’s products are 100% designed and made in Australia and have a very high quality to them that you will notice immediately. They pride themselves on men’s fashion that is ‘funky, sexy and fun’ and I believe they have succeeded in that mission.
They have a great selection of swimwear to choose from and we here at the Guys Underwear Blog are going to show you three, and first along the line is the classic Swim Short, check back soon for the other two.
The swim short from Tribe comes in an assortment of patterns and colors some even in themes. When I selected a pair I went for a very characteristic black, white and cobalt color blocked short, which has a square cut profile.
The main color being black trimmed at the top in cobalt with a wide side highlighting strip of white, a similar design comes in navy.
The bottom stitching around the leg is done in white and contrasts the black nicely. I love this look! It’s fairly simple and elegant, in a manly way, yet it’s bold colors pop out and bring your attention to the short and obviously the body with in the shorts.
The quality is great as well, these shorts are made to be worn. And what I mean by that is I have purchased swimwear that was made to show off but not to actively wear in the water and if you had planned on actually swimming, surfing or playing volleyball in the sand? Forget about it!
But the Tribe short will meet any water activity you throw at it. The construction is hardy with durable stitching, the fabric is not flimsy or thin but robust, yet still stretchy enough to form to your body for a sexy look.
The side’s white panels have a double layer of fabric as does the pouch for a little modesty and support in the water, where as the back and front sides have a single layer for hugging your silhouette securely.
The material around the waist covers an elastic band that keeps the short in place while giving enough that it’s comfortable and soft, and there also is a drawstring for extra securing. This swim short is perfect! At least in my opinion, I love black square cuts and the bold trim.
I was ecstatic when the swim short arrived from Tribe. It’s funny I told a guy at Tribe I was almost more happy to get the sweet box that the underwear and swimwear came in, it’s like a little black ring case but containing budgie smuggling goodies!
Of course the real joy came from the clothes. Again I love this short, I wore it the very next time I went to swim and it was terrific. The short stayed in place, no riding nor binding, and gave me support with out being overly constrictive like competitive swimwear nor too loose like some feeble just for looks swim wear.
The pouch is just right for recreational swimming, lounging, beach play and water fun. I also wore the short to my Life Guarding training class and even though I did have a pair of board shorts over them I was happy just thinking about the fact that they were on.
So they lived up to all expectations I have of swim wear. I washed the suit in my machine which I know all swimwear makers tell you not to do, so I don’t recommend it, and air dried it as suggested and it came through looking bright as new. And I know one of the pools I wore it to has really high chlorine levels all the time but the short showed no signs of fading nor wear.
Again, I love this suit, thank you TRIBE!
|Style and look?||The style is that of any European classic designer. It has a nice square cut form riding perfectly in place from your hips to upper thighs. And the bold, yet timeless, coloring and look gives you a masculine definition that will definitely get attention.|
|Suitable for?||Pools, beaches, parks, saunas, lakes… And so on. Any water activity. This beautiful suit was made to be worn and used while maintaining it’s designer appeal. Don’t be afraid to wear it and get some use out of it.|
|Fit and quality?||The fit is good, it’s not cut too small nor is it too large but the sizing fits snugly and comfortably. The quality is top notch. This is a suit that is made with pride and is going to last a long time.|
|Is the price right?||The Swim Short comes from Tribe at $62.95 AUS (about $65 USD) which is a little pricey. However I have to say it’s marvelous quality makes it a suit that will last a long time even with hard wear. It is worth the high price. It’s a good investment in a suit that will get you attention for years to come.|
|Best thing about it?||It looks amazing, has a great style and statement to it, it’s high quality makes it very wearable in even the harshest beach or water environments and it’s funky, sexy and fun!|
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tribe has accomplished a rarity here with the Black, White and Cobalt Color Blocked Swim Short earning a perfect five stars! I couldn’t find or think of anything I would change or make better about it. It looks hot and handles the wear – it accomplishes everything you need a suit to do. Although I am not going to lie, the only issue may be the price but you get what you pay for and this suit is worth that price tag. Thank you again Tribe and congratulations on your Five Stars, you earned them!
|Buy it here||www.tribeunderwear.com
Well, I like that one, especially for its modal/spandex fabric composition. Modal is my favorite underwear fabric of 2010, no question.
Anyway, for those of you guys who are more into briefs, you could consider the Tribe’s Trunk Brief as an alternative to the Short Boxer.
Specifically, I’ve been wearing the Cobblestone variant of the Tribe Trunk Brief. And without giving away too much, it’s safe to say that I liked this one as well :)
|Style and look||As practically all modern men’s underwear, the Tribe Trunk Brief is a low rise cut. But looks can be deceiving and with the sides measuring more than 6 inches (including the narrow elastic waistband), this style actually has the appearance of a full cut brief. This combination, as well as the defining back center seam, is an excellent way to sex up the classic brief.|
|Suitable for?||The Trunk Brief is mostly made from 94 % Polyester / 6 % Elastane fabric blend. The inside of the pouch, however, is lined in 100 % Modal. Overall, this means that the brief is quite breathable and suitable for all purposes, including sports activities. The cut and print both make for a sexy look, so you could easily wear this for nights out – and in :)|
|Fit and quality?||A nice fit due to the excellent stretch capabilities of the Polyester / Elastane blend. I wore a size M for a size 32/33 inch waist. No need to size up or down. Be aware, though, that the backside of the brief ends just below the buttocks. When first wearing the brief you may fear that the backside will ride up and expose your buttocks. I didn’t find this to be much of an issue, though.|
|Is the price right?||The Tribe Trunk Brief is priced at a premium, US $41 (AU $41). This is a hefty price tag. But hey, sometimes you just have to pay the big bucks if you want to stand out.|
|Best thing about it?||The modern low rise style combined with the look of a classic full cut brief is a winner. Brief fans will feel right at home in the Tribe Trunk Brief.|
|Overall grade||★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Look, production quality, and fit – can’t find much wrong with this nice brief by Tribe. Now, all we need is to get the American dollar back in shape so that Australian underwear can become a little cheaper :)
|Buy it here||www.tribeunderwear.com.au|
By the way, my friends over at Underwear News Briefs loved the Tribe Trunk Brief, too. Read their review.
Tribe is the brand behind that trunk that I liked so much the other week.
But Tribe is a much more versatile brand with so many more styles and designs. So, I thought you guys might like a sneak peak at some of their many other amazing swim and underwear styles.
And the best thing is, I arranged for you guys to get a HUGE…discount on Tribe products the next couple of weeks.
Use the code GUB25 at checkout to get a 25 % discount on ALL Tribe underwear and swim wear items!!
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Myth: College coaches will find me and contact me if I am good enough to play on their team.
Truth: College coaches cannot possibly know about every one of the thousands of student athletes good enough to play college sports. There are far fewer coaches than there are athletes. There’s not a recruiting budget on the planet big enough for a coach to know about every qualified athlete.
Myth: If I’m not being recruited, I should forget about a future in college sports.
Truth: There can be a successful college sports experience in the future of most varsity athletes. It’s up to you! Of course, this may mean that you compromise and go to a school that is not on your favorites list.
If you are determined to play, you can find a way. Start planning early, get a little better each day, and you’ll be surprised at how your dreams can come true!
Myth: Playing my sport at high school and in summer tournaments will get me noticed by the right school for me.
Truth: Get yourself on coaches’ radar screens and recruiting lists by sending out your information before you attend competitions.
Send a simple e-mail to coaches at colleges you like and where you fit the profile. Make sure coaches know your jersey number and your team’s schedule.
Only a small percentage of recruiters from any given college will be present at the tournaments you attend. Pre-market yourself to make sure you get noticed.
Myth: It is against NCAA rules for me to make calls to college coaches.
Truth: You can call college coaches just about any time. It is very difficult for a student-athlete to break the recruiting rules unless a college coach knowingly helps you break the rules.
Why haven’t you called a coach already? Fear of rejection? Don’t know what to say? Call and tell them who you are, and the coach will take it from there.
Myth: I should pay a recruiting or scouting service, video company or sports résumé company to help me get a scholarship.
Truth: You can accomplish these tasks on your own. Often, college coaches toss the mail from recruiting services into the trash. Coaches prefer to receive mail directly from student-athletes.
Fancy promotional materials or videos are not necessary to attract the attention of a college coach. Your skill is what matters. Your money is better spent paying a private coach to increase your skills.
Myth: It is my high school coach’s job to help me get a scholarship.
Truth: Your high school coach probably does not have the time to properly market each athlete on your team. He or she may not know what college coaches want or how to properly market you.
Few high school coaches have college contacts. Your high school coach’s job is to field calls, give you mail you receive at the school, and be a solid reference if you are deserving of it.
Myth: I just received a letter from a college coach. This means they’ll offer me a scholarship soon.
Truth: Schools send out hundreds—even thousands—of these letters. An offer of a scholarship will nearly always follow an offer for an official paid visit as a high school senior and an offer of a home visit by the coach.
Ask the college coach specifically what their level of interest is in you as an athlete for their program. Or have your high school coach make a call to find out. One letter—or even a few—is not an indication that a scholarship is forthcoming.
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The company is embedding HF and UHF RFID chips and antennas in thermosetting epoxy, to make the inlay rugged for industrial use.
Feb 06, 2013—Würth Elektronik embids has begun marketing a line of passive radio frequency identification tags designed for physically demanding use cases. Approximately a dozen industrial companies are presently testing its new EMBItag, which Würth Elektronik says is smaller and more rugged than most other tags currently on the market, enabling it to sustain further processing into other products. Each tag, encased in durable plastic, is intended to be integrated into components, assemblies or containers. According to the company, the transponders can be incorporated into an injection-molded plastic object, for example, making it a fixed part of a product.
Würth Elektronik embids is a division of Würth Elektronik, a German company that manufactures printed circuit boards (PCBs), electronic and electromechanical components, and photovoltaic products. Customers had been commenting to Würth Elektronik that there was a shortage of RFID solutions able to track parts through more rigorous processes involving high or low temperatures, as well as heavy pressure, such as might occur during industrial washing or painting. Throughout the past year, the company began experimenting with designs for RFID tags that its customers could use to track a product without having to attach a tag to it, but rather by incorporating a transponder directly into the product or one of its components, such as a circuit board. The result is the EMBItag, which the company now offers to customers looking to embed RFID tags into their own components, assemblies or other objects. Würth Elektronik has no current plans, however, to incorporate EMBItags into the PCBs and other products it produces.
Würth Elektronik's goal, says Gerolf Heldmaier, the head of the company's new business activity, is to provide a solution that falls between an ordinary RFID inlay and a standard hard tag, each of which has some drawbacks for certain use cases. A typical inlay—consisting of a chip and an antenna mounted on a piece of plastic film—lacks the rugged features needed if it were to be embedded into a piece of machinery. On the other hand, hard tags like the EMBItag are built with a rugged casing. The difference, Heldmaier says, is that EMBItags can be custom-made for a variety of use cases in low volume at a price that is often less than other hard tags. Like many hard tags, EMBItags are designed to be attached to an object via adhesive, screws or bolts, and they can also be built directly into items and worked into processes like injection molding, to prevent them from easily being knocked loose, according to a user's design requirements. Because use cases vary widely, the company's focus is not simply on providing a family of rugged transponders, but on custom-making what is required for the most challenging use cases.
"We don't see the standard EMBItags as our main focus," Heldmaier states. "The specific option to build up even a small quantity of special tags with a chip the customer wants and an antenna layout fitting best to the working area—that is the benefit."
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July 7, 1955
Transcribed by Pat Stubbs
* CALíS COLUMN *
THE LAW FAMILY
†††† On Sunday, July 3rd, the reunion of the Smith and Jackson Counties Law family, sometimes known as the Law-West reunion, was held at Castalian Springs, in Sumner County, with approximately 100 present.† A fine dinner was enjoyed at the noon hour on the grass around the old sulphur spring that gave the name to the place.† It was only about 60 yards from the big hollow sycamore tree in which Thomas Sharpe Spencer lived in the winter of 1778.
†††† The gathering of this family has been an annual affair for a number of years.† Next year, on the first Sunday in July, it is planned to meet again at the same place.
†††† The gathering Sunday was composed largely of the descendants of Byrd or Birdwell Law.† The members of the family do not know the name of his father.† However, they informed the editor of the Times that he married first a Miss Carver, by whom he had the following children:† James or Jim, as he was familiarly called, who married Betty, daughter of Harrison and Mila Matthews West, Lem Law, who married Miss Clint Dixon, daughter of Billie Dixon; Morris Law, who married Fannie, daughter of Lon and Verna Brooks Holland; and Dixie Law, who married Hade West.
†††† By his second wife, the former Miss Martha Carter, daughter of Wes Carter, Byrd or Birdwell was the father of Bose Law, married Cora Wilson, daughter of John Wilson; John Law, who married Audie Richardson, daughter of Shaver Richardson; Helen Law, who never married; and Bee Law, who married Bedford Mosley.
†††† The descendants of Byrd or Birdwell Law understand that they are related to the numerous Laws of Macon and Allen Counties, but they do not know the exact relationship.† However, we shall be glad to publish any information that may throw light on the connection.
†††† Below is given some account of the Law families listed in the Smith County censuses for various years.† In the year 1820, they were as follows:† Jesse Law, with three males under ten, and one from 18 to 26, Jesse, we are sure.† Females:† One under 10 and from 17 to 25, his wife, we are sure.† As readers perhaps already know, census records prior to 1850, listed only the name of the head of the family, and others were placed in certain age groups, with no name or names given.
†††† Next listed in 1820 was John Law, with three males under ten, and himself above 45 years.† Females: One from 10 to 15, and two from 17 to 25.† William Law is the next listed.† He had in 1820, One male under 10, two from 10 to 15, and one above 45, William, we would judge.† Females: One from 10 to 15, one16 to 26, three from 26 to 45, and one from 45 upward, Mrs. Law, we presume.† This embraces all the Law families in Smith County, Tennessee, in 1820.† Readers should take into consideration that Smith County embraced then the greater part of Macon County.
†††† In the census Index for 1830 there is not one Law head of a family mentioned in Smith County.† In the year 1840 we find the following heads of Law families listed in Smith County:† Henry Law, with two males under five, one from five to 10, and one from 20 to 30, supposed to have been Henry himself.† He had one female in his family, between 30 and 40 years of age.† If this was his wife, she was older than her husband which was frequently the case in that day and time.† Near neighbors of Henry Law 115 years ago were: John Parker, Elizabeth Parker, Mincy Coleman, William Canady, Alfred Butler and John West.† We would judge, from the list of neighbors, that Henry Law lived on the waters of the present Defeated Creek, or the waters of Salt Lick Creek, to the east of Defeated Creek.
††† †Joseph Law is next we find on the lists for 1840.† He had:† Males, two under five, one from five to 10, and one from 30 to 40, Joseph Law, we judge.† Females:† One from five to 10, one from 10 to 15, and one from 20 to 30, presumably his wife.† Near neighbors of theirs were:† William Craighead, Stephen Craighead, Thomas Martin, Jink Kemp (we are sure this is incorrectly spelled), Burrell Kemp, Fielding Kittrell, a relative of the editor's.† These neighbors lived on Defeated Creek in the long ago.
†††† Next on these lists is the name of Elizabeth, who was either a widow or an old maid.† In her family all were females, with one between 20 and 30, one from 30 to 40, and three from 40 to 50.† Near neighbors were:† The same families mentioned as being near neighbors of Joseph Law.† So we would guess that Elizabeth Law lived in 1840 on lower Defeated Creek.† There is one other Law family listed in the census of 1840, but we feel that this is most probably Lane instead of Law, as there is a question mark after the name Law; and one other reason for believing that it should be Lane is because of the fact that Jesse Lane was a near neighbor of the William Law with question mark.
†††† In the census of 1850, the names of all the members of the various families, their age and places of birth are given.† In this group we find the following Law families:† William Law, head of the family.
His wife was Nancy Law, each of them being 46 years of age in the year 1850, and both born in Tennessee.† sons and daughters were as follows:† John H. Law, 19; Elizabeth Law, 15; Hugh L. Law, 13; Mary E. Law, 11; Tabitha Law, nine; Addison Law, seven; Adenette Law, twin sister of Addison; all of the sons and daughters of this couple having been born in Tennessee.† Living with them was Charles McClollan, born in South Carolina.† Near neighbors: John Reece, Randolph Reece, Hubbard W. Reece, Edwin Matthews, John Hines and John Reece.† From these neighbors, we would judge that the family of William Law lived somewhere east of the present Defeated in Smith County.
†††† The next Law family listed in the Smith County census of 105 years was that of Jesse Law, who appears in the census records in the year 1820 and was then in the age group of 18 to 26. In the 1850 census, 30 years later, he is listed as being 57 years of age, which would accord fairly well with the age shown in the 1820 census.† Some years the census was taken earlier than others and this would account for a small discrepancy which sometimes appears.† Jesse Law was born in Virginia.† His wife, Polly Ann, was born in South Carolina, in the year 1795.† Their children still at home were: Americus, Birdwell and Jesse Law, all born in Tennessee.† We are of the opinion that the report of Sunday that Byrd Law was born in Ireland was most probably in error, for we are of the opinion that Byrd Law and Birdwell Law were one and same.† In fact, we believe we have been informed that Byrd or Birdwell Law had a brother named Jesse.† In 1850 Birdwell Law was 16; Americus Law, 23; and Jesse Law, 10.† Their neighbors were:† Elam Russell, John Murray, Silas Russell, Elizabeth Dean, John Donoho and Zebulon McDowell.† These neighbors indicate that Jesse and Polly lived in the vicinity of Defeated Creek.
†††† In the same general section as Jesse lived was another Law family, Pinkney Law, aged 29 years, and born in Tennessee.† His wife was Martha Law, aged 23, and also born in Tenn. Children: Mahala Law, four; Mary A. Law, three; and James H. Law, a year old.† All were born in Tennessee.
†††† Elizabeth Law is next on the list in the year 1850.† She was born in Virginia in 1791.† There seem to have been four sisters in this family: Elizabeth, Rebecca and Tabitha Law, all born in Virginia; and Demarons Law, born in Tennessee in 1819.† They evidently lived on Defeated Creek or just east of that stream.† We note that their nearest neighbors included:† Harrison West, supposed to have been the same Harrison West mentioned earlier in this article; Fielding Kittrell, also mentioned above, James Ray and Edward Pate.
†††† Milton Law is next mentioned in the family.† He was in 1850, 33 years of age and born in Tenn.† His wife was Parthenia Law, born in Tennessee six years after her husband.† Their children were:† Orean, five; Martin, three; and William J. Law, two, all born in Tennessee.† This family is presumed to have lived 105 year ago on Defeated Creek.
†††† James S. Law, 32, and born in Tennessee, is the last listed in the census of 1850 in Smith County.† His wife was Mary C. Law, 30, and born also in Tenn.† They had three children in the year 1850.† They were: Martha A., five; Mary E., four; and Louisa Law, one.† All were born in Tenn.† This is another family on Defeated Creek judging from the near neighbors.
†††† It is our conviction that all the Law families mentioned were residents of the east side of Smith County, not far from Defeated Creek.† If any readers finds we are in error on any point, we shall be glad to make any correction.
THE EVETTS FAMILY
†††† On last Sunday, July 3, 1955, another Middle Tennessee family met in annual reunion was that of the Evetts.† They met about ten o'clock in the home of Harry Evetts, at Ridgetop, Tenn.† A big dinner was much enjoyed by the crowd of 55 persons.† They plan to meet next year at the home of Harry Evetts' sister, Mrs. Jimmie Hill, also a resident of Ridgetop, meeting on the first Sunday in July, 1956.
†††† As the editor of the Times has been asked to give something of the name of the various Evetts families, as given in the census reports of Smith County, Tenn., in the years long gone by, we shall strive to answer this request.† We may add that there seems to be many different spelling of the family name and we confess we do not know which is correct.† We know that part of family now spells the name as given at the head of this article.† Others spell it Evitts.† In the census records, we shall give the spelling as the records do.†
†††† Joseph Avetts is the first we find listed in the census of 1820 in Smith County, Tenn.† His family: One male under ten, and one from 18 to 26.† Females:† One, from 16 to 26, presumed to have been his wife.†
†††† Next was Joseph Avetts, Sr., presumed to have been the father of Joseph Evetts. listed in the preceding paragraph.† Joseph, Sr., had:† One male from 10 to 16, one from 16 to 18, one from 18 to 26, and one above 45, supposed to have been Joseph Avetts, Sr.† Females:† One under ten, two from 10 to 16, two from 16 to 26, and one above 45, supposed to have been the wife of the head of the family.†
†††† In the records for 1820, we find a name that we think is meant for Avetts.† It is spelled, however, Anetts.† Joseph was the first name. He had a family of ten persons, including Joseph.† There were males:† One from 10 to 16, one from 16 to 18, one from 18 to 26 and one from 26 to 45, Joseph, we suppose.† Females:† Two under ten, one from 10 to 16, two from 16 to 26, and one from 26 to 45, supposedly Mrs. Joseph Avetts.
†††† David Averett appears next but we do not know that this is another variation in spelling.† He had: Males, two from 10 to 16, and one above 45, David himself, we are sure.† Females:† Two under ten, one from 10 to 16 and four slaves.† So he was quite well-to-do for that day and time.† If any reader knows that this is an entirely different family or merely a difference in spelling, you will do the editor a favor by letting us have the facts in the matter.
†††† George Abbetts is next listed.† This is the spelling of the name when we first heard it nearly 60 years ago.† He had:† Males, three under ten, two from 10 to 16, and one over 60, George, we would judge.† Females:† Two under ten, one from 10 to 16, one from 16 to 26, and one from 26 to 45, Mrs. George Abbetts, we suppose.
†††† Moses Avetts is next.† He had one male under ten, and one from 18 to 25.† Females, one from 16 to 26.† Hannah Avetts is the last member of the family listed in Smith County in 1820.† She had males, one under ten, and one from 26 to 45.† Females: One from 26 to 45, and one above 45.† We do not know how Hannah could have a male in her family from 26 to 45 years of age and she still be the head of the family.
†††† In the census of 1830, it seems that the name is spelled Evetts in each instance.† The first of this family to appear in the records is Samuel Evetts, who had the following males:† One under five, one from five to 10, and one from 20 to 30, Samuel, we are sure.† Females:† One under five, and one from 20 to 30, Mrs. Samuel Evetts, we would judge.† John Clardy, Robert Duff, Manning Campbell, Basil Foley and Elizabeth Burdette were near neighbors, but we do not know in what part of Smith County they lived.† However, we would suggest that they lived in the vicinity of Dixon Springs.
†††† George Evetts is the next listed.† One male under five, and one from 20 to 30; and one female from five to 10, one from 15 to 20, and one from 20 to 30 made up this family of 125 years ago.† Near neighbors were:† John B. Johnson, Cain Stafford, John Johnson, Joseph Gifford, Mary Wallace and Thomas Stafford.† This indicates to the writer that George Evetts lived in the vicinity of the present Hillsdale.
†††† William Evitts is next on the list.† He had:† Two males under five, two from five to 10, and one from 30 to 40, William, we would judge.† Females in his family:† One female from five to 10, one from 10 to 15, one from 15 to 20, and one from 20 to 30, his wife, presumably.† Near neighbors were:† Elias Johns, Samuel W. McMurray, William Cleveland and Joseph Evitts.† These two Evitts families lived, we are sure, on Dixon's Creek in that day and time.† This Joseph Evitts is the same man listed ten years earlier as Joseph Avetts, Sr.† He had, in 1830, one male from 15 to 20, and one from 60 to 70, Joseph, we suppose.† Females:† Five between 15 and 20, and one from 50 to 60.
†††† Joseph Evetts is listed next.† He had, males:† One under five, three or five from five to 10, and one from 40 to 50; and one female from 40 to 50.† The fact that our own great-grandfather, Major Gregory, lived next to Joseph Evetts would indicate that he lived on the waters of the Young Branch, sometimes called East Fork of Dixon's Creek, near Mace's Hill.† In Major Gregory's family were two males under five.† One of them was our own Grandfather, Stephen Calvin Gregory, born October 30, 1827.
†††† George Evetts is next in the lists.† He had:† One male from five to 10, two from 10 to 15, one from 20 to 30, and one from 70 to 80, George, we suppose.† Females:† One from 10 to 15, three from 20 to 30, and one from 40 to 50.† Near neighbors were:† David Smith, George W. Anderson, William Canada and John Goodman.† We do not know where these lived in Smith County.
†††† James Evetts is the last listed in Smith County in 1830.† We are not sure that this name is correct for it has a question mark after it.† Besides James is a male name, and the list shows one male between five and ten, and one from 10 to 15; and females, one from 10 to 15, and one from 30 to 40.† We are sure that there is some error here.
†††† In the census of 1840, the writing of the census takers appear to have been very poor and many errors crept in because of poor writing and the inability of the copyists to read the name.
†††† The first listed in that year was Moses Abbetts, spelled as we give it.† He had:† One male from five to 10, one from 15 to 20, and one from 40 to 50, Moses, we judge.† Females:† Two under five, one from five to ten, one from 10 to 15, one from 15 to 20 and one from 30 to 40, supposed to have been Mrs. Moses Abbetts.† Bichner Cardwell, Thomas Hines, Richard Kemp and Benton Kemp were near neighbors.† They lived, we suppose on Defeated Creek in 1840.
†††† David Abit is next on the list.† He had:† One male from 20 to 30, David, himself, we are sure; and one female under five, and one from 20 to 30, supposed to have been his wife.† Neighbors were:† Reuben Turner, Binian P. Lipscomb, John Halliburton and William Andrews.† We would judge that this Abit lived on Little Peyton's Creek above the present town of Pleasant Shade.
†††† Samuel Abbitt is next listed.† He had:† Two males under five, and one from 30 to 40, presumed to have been Samuel himself.† Females:† One under five, and one from 20 to 30.† Thomas Dias, Elijah Carman, Lovett Dias, William Wooten and Joseph Abbitt were near neighbors.† We would judge that they lived most probably on Dixon's Creek.† Samuel Abbitt had:† Two males under five, and one from 30 to 40.† Females:† One under five, and one from 20 to 30, supposed to have been Mrs. Samuel Abbitt.
†††† Two farms above or below Samuel Abbitt was Joseph, with the following in his family:† One male from five to 10, two from 10 to 15, two from 20 to 30, and one from 40 to 50, Joseph.† Females:† One from 20 to 30, and one from 40 to 50.
†††† Moses Abbitt appears as the last in the Smith County in the year 1840.† He had:† One male from 20 to 30, and one from 60 to 70, Moses, we are sure. Females, †four from 20 to 30.† This man lived on the waters of Dixon's Creek, we are sure, from the names of the neighbors whose places of residence have been preserved.
†††† In the 1840 census of Smith County, there are three Averette families listed.† They are:† David Averette, with one male between 30 and 40; and one female between 20 and 30, possibly Mrs. David Averette, one from 60 to 70, and one from 70 to 80.† His nearest neighbor on one side was Martin I. Averette, with one male under five, and one from 30 to 40; and one female from 20 to 30.† This family appears to have lived on the South side of Cumberland River, in Smith County.† Apparently living in the same general section of Smith County 115 years ago was William Averitt, supposed to have been the same name.† He had: One male under five, one male from 20 to 30, and one from 30 to 40; and one female under five, and one from 20 to 30, supposed to have been Mrs. William Averitt.† Now we do not claim that this is the same name as that of the Evetts family in various spellings, but we are wondering if the Evetts family did not originally spell the name Averette.† Any information from our readers on this point will be appreciated.†
†††† We have other facts on the family which we hope to give soon.† But the above is all we have time and space for at present.
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Remember the lessons
Published: Friday, September 28, 2012 at 4:42 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 28, 2012 at 4:42 p.m.
I had been sick with a nasty virus and was still reeling from the bug. But my first religion column was due, and I knew that I would have to write it that day if I was going to meet my deadline.
I didn't have the strength to sit up at the computer, so I grabbed a pen and a piece of notebook paper. As I lay back on the couch, I began to write. I wrote about my grandmother, my daddy's mother, and her spiritual influence on my brothers and sister, my cousins and me. I remember being so weak that I could barely scribble, but finally, after scratching out words to make sure that the length of the column was just right, my column was ready to take to The Dispatch. It was the first of many trips that I would make to the newsroom to drop off my religion column.
The year was 1996. I had been writing a guest column for a few years when this opportunity came for me to write a monthly religion column. I knew without a doubt that it was an answer to my prayers and that the Lord was calling me to share the lessons that he was teaching me. As the mother of three young sons, he was teaching me lots of lessons. I was blessed and grateful for the opportunity to share those lessons through the newspaper.
When I read my first religion column to my husband, he said, "Are you sure that's what they want? It sounds more like a story to me." Actually, I wasn't sure what The Dispatch wanted. But I knew that the Lord was leading me to share my stories, even if they were just plain stories about God's faithfulness in my ordinary, everyday life. "I really don't know what they want," I remember answering my husband. "But I can guarantee you that if I write a stuffy sermon or a dull Sunday school lesson, no one will read it." He never questioned me again.
So month after month, and year after year, I have shared my stories. I have laughed and cried as I have written my columns, and you have let me know that you have laughed and cried right along with me. You have also let me know that my stories are your stories, too.
One of the dearest calls I received was from an older gentleman who called to tell me how much he liked a column that I had written about my sister. He told me that when he read it, it became his story about his brother. For 30 minutes he shared with me his fond memories of growing up with his brother. What an honor it was for him to allow me to be privy to something so near and dear to his heart.
Again I was reminded that these weren't just my stories. These were our stories. I was just the one God had chosen to write them down.
One of my favorite stories in the Bible is in the 17th chapter of Exodus. In this Bible account, Joshua is leading the army of God as they battled against the Amalekites. These ruthless people had the reputation, recorded in Deuteronomy 25, of being the ones who picked off people at the back of the group of the children of God as they wandered in the wilderness on their journey toward the Promised Land. The Amalakites had targeted the worn and the weary of the group and had no fear of God.
On the day of the battle, the Lord had sent Moses to the hill with his staff in his hand to view the battle. As long as Moses held up his arms in prayer, Joshua and the army of the Lord was victorious.
I don't know about you, but through the years I have witnessed my share of raging battles. And like Moses, God has called me to go to the hill with my staff. Well, actually it was more like calling me to go to knees beside my bed, or to my prayer journal before my family woke up in the morning, or to my Bible at the midnight hour.
Yes, there are many times when he has called me to be the prayer warrior, the intercessor and the prayer advisor. Like Moses, I have raised my arms in prayer to the Lord, providing a prayer cover for my children, my husband, my parents, my church, my sister and brothers and my friends.
But lately my arms have become so tired with a weariness that has been hard to shake.
Maybe that is why I love this part of this story of Moses: "So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron (Moses' brother) and Hur (Moses' brother-in-law) went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up — one on one side, one on the other — so that his hands remained steady till sunset. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword." Exodus 17:10-13.
And so it is with me. Faithful friends and family are gathered close, holding up my arms when I no longer have the strength to hold them up myself. They are providing the power that I need to continue to cover my loved ones and my church in prayer.
Is there any wonder that "Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered …" ? Exodus 17:14.
Is there any wonder that he calls me to do the same?
So with the Lord's help and the help of those he calls to hold me up, I will continue to serve him. I will continue to be a prayer warrior and an intercessor. With you and me holding each other's arms to heaven, what a story we will have to tell. And you can be sure that I will write our story — and all the other stories to come.
For these are our stories to remember.
Donna Tobin Smith is pianist and Sunday school teacher at Bethel United Methodist Church in Thomasville.
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Jenson Chen / 23 / Pasir Ris, Singapore / English Major
What do you live for?
I live to piss off at least one person each day.
Well, to piss off someone is a way of making sure you count in someone's life. To make an impact, so to speak. And not just any kind of impact but something deep and meaningful, that changes something within them. The best kind of change being that which is uncomfortable because it propels you into deeper, unknown territory. Of course also because in pissing other people off, you sharpen your wit and rhetoric which makes you a better speaker, listener and asshole, which can come in handy from time to time.
What is some of the best advice that you have been given/want to give our readers?
I study words, I play with words, I work with words. Words surround and fill us, so why not study how people use them to what effect? My favourite activity is to try and describe things around me a practise I do whenever I am commuting. Have you ever tried describing another person's face? Try going beyond describing his hair and spectacles. What are the shape of his eyes? Are they droopy or bright and alert? Or his ears bent forward like a hawk, attenuated to their surroundings, or folded back like a beagle? It's to practise creating images, transferring ideas to other people using language, which I find sadly lacking in most people. It's like the other day, when I worked on a group project with Science and Engineering projects the other day and they honestly sounded like babies, babbling words in the hopes of getting the right idea when one would do. You know, Wittgenstein had this idea that that which cannot be spoken, must be passed over in silence, which really means that by knowing words, you know ideas and concepts you otherwise would not. Take zeitgeist, ennui or epiphany for example. Check out what they mean and discover how they encapsulate what you've always tried to say, in one word. So don't take words for granted.
...worry that life is too short.
Something random you'd like to say?
I don't consider myself Chinese. Only in South-east Asia, does the concept of race still exist. Elsewhere, even in China, people use "ethnic group" instead. It was used in colonial times to simply mark where one came from. Malays came from Malaya, Indians came from India and Chinese came from China. It was never meant to substitute your ethnic group/tribe, like the Javanese/Bugis tribes in Malaya, Bengalis and Punjabi in India and etc... So I wish Singapore would move that way, away from race and towards ethnicity, allowing everyone to discover who they truly are, rather than creating enclaves like Chinatown/Kampong Glam and telling us that's our heritage is. | <urn:uuid:7ae3846e-805f-4af1-8845-d3373ad43d0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wdilf.com/2012/04/0028-jenson.html | 2013-06-18T07:24:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969541 | 602 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
arikgub - 9:35 pm on Jun 28, 2012 (gmt 0)
the bad/good ratio is probably the most telling and easily computed one
Indeed, bad/good ratio is the first thing that comes to mind, but in my experience that's not the criteria used or at least not the whole story.
On the date of the Penguin update my eldest and the most authoritative site lost 50% of the traffic. The site was linked by almost every serious website in my industry and also favored by regional and national media. Sure, it had its share of spammy links like any site having that kind of visibility would, but the overall bad/good ratio was very low.
After Penguin, trying to figure out the nature of this update, I bought thousands of the spammiest possible links (xrumer, senuke type) to few of my weaker sites that had only a handful of links before that and used to rank for low competition keywords. Bad/good links ratio surely went through the roof, but not only that didn't hurt the sites, it even helped rankings. The only undesirable impact was the unnatural links notice in GWT, but the rankings actually improved a bit.
Overall, I am really puzzled by this update. Obviously, Google wants us to believe that spammy links hurt rankings, but I am not sure if there is anything more than FUD tactics to it.
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Age hardening is a type of heat treatment used in metallurgy to strengthen metal alloys. It is also called precipitation hardening, as it strengthens metal by creating solid impurities, or precipitates, in the alloy that prevents dislocations in the alloy's crystalline structure. Its name comes from the point in the hardening process in which the metal is aged, either by heating it for an extended of time or keeping it stored at a lower temperature for an extended period before use so that these precipitates can form. This treatment is used on malleable alloys, such as those made from nickel, magnesium, and titanium, as well as some types of steel.
Metal undergoing age hardening is heated to a high temperature, which varies according to the materials being used and the desired properties of the final result. For example, maraging steel is heat treated at about around 1510°F (about 820°C). Alloying materials are added and allowed to diffuse through the metal until the heated metal is supersaturated with them, meaning that the amount of these materials dissolved in the metal is higher than would be possible for a solid solution at room temperature.
Next the metal is aged. In some alloys, this is done by keeping the metal heated for several hours at a temperature lower than that of the initial phase but still much hotter than room temperature. Other alloys are stored for days or weeks at room temperature. At lower temperatures, it is no longer possible for all of the alloying materials to remain dissolved in the supersaturated metal, and so some of it undergoes precipitation and separates from the solid solution, becoming impurities spread throughout the metal. The temperature at which the aging process occurs affects how this precipitation occurs, and so influences the mechanical properties of the resulting alloy.
These impurities created by the hardening process strengthen the metal by interfering with the movement of crystallographic defects called dislocations, which result from misalignments in the atoms that form the metal's crystalline structure. Dislocations make metal more vulnerable to being irreversibly bent by outside forces. Their resistance to dislocation gives age-hardened alloys high yield strength and the ability to resist permanent deformation when under heavy strain.
Alloys created by the age hardening process have many uses, especially in applications where high strength and good performance at high temperatures are needed. Maraging steel is used in engine parts and in the construction of missiles and rockets. Age-hardened aluminum alloys made with metals such as nickel, copper, and zinc have frequently been used in the construction of aircraft. The alloy Rene 41, made from nickel alloyed with molybdenum, titanium, chromium, and cobalt, is used in applications involving extreme strain and temperature, such as jet engines. | <urn:uuid:c3cb0284-211d-4e8a-99a5-ca6435b562b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-age-hardening.htm | 2013-06-18T07:31:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950104 | 581 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- ante- + paschal (Wiktionary)
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A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Beformitables; previousness, past-referents, and origins.
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Poor usability and how brands and local authorities can work together for mutual benefit
One of the irritating side effects to working in the marketing industry is the unintentional automatic evaluation and critique of pretty much any form of communication we are exposed to.
And so last night in Casa Zeitgeist there was an unneccesary sense of frustration when reading a seemingly harmless and well-meaning letter from Watford Borough Council explaining the new ‘Communal Recycling Station’.
The front of letter introduced the new recycling scheme and explained the introduction of new communal bins with bright colourful stickers that would leave residents in no doubt as to what kind of waste went into each recepticle.
On the back was a ‘Handy Recycling Guide’ with tables showing which items did and, just as importantly, didn’t go in each bin.
Cunningly printed on the back of the original letter to save paper, the guide offered the opportunity to forever associate each colour with the appropriate contents.
At agencies we go on (and on and on and on) about the shopper journey and how effective communications can prompt behaviour change.
Whether this also happens are local councils is not known.
However, if the desired reaction to receiving the ‘Handy Recycling Guide’ was for thousand of households to pin it up on kitchen noticeboards or to take down beloved childrens artwork so that it could take pride of place on the fridge, one has to ask ‘Why the hell is it in black and white?‘
The sheet, reproduced below, misses a huge trick in usability terms. By saving money on coloured ink the council has made the guide a lot less user friendly as each colour is pointlessly represented by a slightly different shade of gray.
With spending cuts dominating the news the council’s decision to reduce spending on ink might be commended by some while others will point to increased environmental damage caused by coloured ink.
This would miss the point. The purpose of the letter is to introduce a new policy and encourage compliance. Doing it properly first time reduces the need for follow up letters and spoiled bins where people have thrown in general waste where there should only be glass or paper.
Making the most out of bad luck
While the council may have to cut its cloth ever smaller there is a fantastic opportunity to turn adversity into something positive.
Around the land there are plenty of brands for whom recycling is a topic of huge interest. They spend great deals of money communicating their ethical policies and would most likely jump at the chance to get their logo pinned up in kitchens around the land.
Identifying such a partner who would provide the required budget for some coloured ink in exchange for the guide being co-branded would not only save the council money but also increase the likelihood of residents changing their waste disposal behaviour.
As it is, the guide is only really fit for the bin. If only I could work out which one it should go in.
How will the snow affect the UK retail landscape?
While the news at the time focused on stranded air passengers, a crippled transport network and the need for some inventive parenting to explain why Father Christmas was unable to deliver presents on time, the after-effects of December’s heavy snowfall are now being felt strongly on the UK high streets and shopping centres.
With the tinsel and fairy lights still in full view, it has been a far from Happy New Year for the number of retailers forced to announce that their sales were lower than expected with the consquences ranging from store closures and job losses to profits warnings. Many cited the unwelcome cold snap as compounding difficulties brought about by the economic crisis, changing consumer habits and threats appearing from non-traditional competitors.
First to register concern were HMV, who admitted in an unscheduled trading statement, that like-for-like sales across its UK and Ireland outlets had plunged by 13.6% in December. Having seen other music and entertainment retailers, including Zavvi, Our Price, Tower Records and even Woolworths bite the dust in recent years it isn’t surprising that the entertainment specialist is feeling the heat while the rest of us freeze.
Zeitgeist has already touched on how ‘In some industries, the concept of owning something tangibly has become redundant;‘, with music and film sitting high on that list. More worryingly for HMV as the owner of Waterstones bookshops is Amazon‘s online dominance of the category and the rise of devices like the Kindle and regular smartphones that are likely to eat into book sales in the coming years.
While the sub-zero temperatures may have kept shoppers out of their stores the weather can’t take all of the blame. This weekend, this half of Zeitgeist bought a CD as a friends birthday present. A quick look online showed the item retailing on HMV.com at £8.99, however in-store I was obliged to pay £17.99. The Sales Assistant helpfully told me that the difference was because online sales are shipped from Guernsey. I rather suspect that the lower price has more to do with the fact that other online stores such as Amazon.co.uk and Play.com are also selling the item for £8.99 than where the item is shipped from.
It’s not hard to see why the bricks-and-mortar stores are in so much trouble when they have to sell items for nearly double the online price to cover their overheads. In this instance the extra cost doubles as a ‘Failure to Plan‘ tax for me, but increasingly shoppers will go online for their entertainment needs rather than paying a premium for the convenience of getting it immediately on the high street. Alternatively they’ll simply download or stream it and do away with the need for any physical material purchase.
This final option shows how behaviour change can be brought about with the right motivations. For years now, we have been encouraged to reduce unnecessary waste and raw materials to help the environment. However, it is the convenience of having music, film, games and books stored digitally, rather on discs in plastic boxes or paper, that has proved more of a driver than any desire to save the planet.
For Clintons this is the second such warning in six months and time will tell whether ‘strategic intiatives‘ taken by the board will have the desired effect or whether as a nation, a new generation is growing up to wish ‘Happy Birthdays’ and ‘Merry Chistmases’ via text message or social media sites.
Encroachment on their traditional market by the major multiples hasn’t helped Mothercare and brokers Seymour Pierce have questioned quite how much of their problems are down to the snow.
With the Christmas period so crucial for many retailers there may be more similar statements being prepared in boardrooms up and down the land. The slightly milder weather in early January may help ‘The Sales’ boost some bottom lines, but with a number of retailers choosing to delay exposing shoppers to the increase in VAT the bargain hunters may not spend enough to make up the shortfall, particularly if they are saving for a more expensive 2011. If a handful of retailers do go under it begs the question, ‘Who will take over their retail space and what will the retail landscape look like in a couple of years from now?’.
In the meantime we’ll have to wait and see what legacy the snow is going to leave in other sectors such as insurance, utilities and travel. Either way, it might be an idea to start saving now for those premiums and gas bills.
Shell and Renault might not leap to mind as producers of the most ‘green’ products in the market right now. Hence why both companies are trying to alter this perception by touting their so-called ‘green credentials’. In the past week, one brand has come off better than the other in managing these expectations.
Though unquestionably adept when it comes to social media – having in the past month launched their products on the latest incarnation of the Sims game, as well as the ubiquitous Facebook integration – Renault has fallen foul of the ASA twice over a period of five weeks. At the end of March, seventeen people complained that the company’s strapline for their new electric car, that it was a ‘zero-emissions vehicle’, was a fallacy, as it “did not take the full life cycle of the vehicle into account… the ASA adjudicated that if the car was charged using energy sourced from the UK’s national grid, CO2 emissions would be produced as a result.” The article also mentions a new set of codes by Defra meant to combat ‘greenwashing’ tactics. Yesterday, Brand Republic reported the ASA had banned a second Renault advert, when one person complained “it was using French rather than UK figures to make the claim that one of its electric cars reduces CO2 emissions by least 90%.” The ASA concluded the ad was “misleading”.
Where Renault has stumbled, Shell has not, with those wonderful JWT minds producing a simple but visually engaging advertisement that immediately speaks to the relative cleanliness and quality of its fuel.
One luxury brand not usually associated with such serious things like sustainability is Aston Martin. But then neither was BMW before it recently unveiled its prototype electric car (see headline picture). Campaign magazine reported yesterday that the manufacturer “is looking for an agency to handle the launch advertising for its Cygnet city car”. The project is being managed in conjunction with Toyota, based on that company’s iQ car. “a large proportion of Aston Martin drivers also own a smaller car, such as a Mini or smart car, which they use for their inner-city commutes or to do the shopping. Reports suggest that the Cygnet will cost around £30,000 and feature a low-emission economical engine.” It’s an interesting decision. Although one might initially blanche at the idea of Aston Martin producing a more economical car, as the above quotation illustrates, it is in fact very on-brand. In this case, why sell to half of the consumer’s automobile product purchase, when you can sell to it all? The model will, initially, only be available to those that already own an Aston Martin.
Zeitgeist is most pleased to see efforts being taken by the those industries with an environmentally questionable past to prepare for a cleaner future. Moreover, who’d have thunk it, but electric cars can be cool and fast (although UK hybrid and electric sales are unfortunately slipping). It’s clear from Renault’s example though that people won’t tolerate a greenwash. Perhaps the open-source project “c,mm,n“, will help. | <urn:uuid:82cfeff0-52f3-49b0-9d0a-cdc70bd8a635> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://zeitgeistandstuff.wordpress.com/tag/green/ | 2013-06-18T06:38:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960462 | 2,240 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Reading Paterno's words stating, "I thought I did the best thing for the football program," when talking about reporting the incident to the president, showed no mention of the victim - just concern for the football program once again. Again, Paterno showed little empathy, when he stated stupidly, "I never heard of . . . rape and a man." No mention that the victim was a kid. Had Paterno just fallen off the turnip truck?
The front page of the Daily News on Jan. 24 showed a section of the mural where Paterno's head is crowned by a nimbus - the same mural where Sandusky was seated at Paterno's right hand until weeks ago, when it was painted out because of his pederasty. Is the Daily News criticizing the idolatry, or is it an illustration of how high a place football is ensconced in our culture? Just like the Catholic Church sex scandal, you have to have a blind leap of faith to believe that there was no cover-up of these crimes on the part of Paterno.
I carve on Paterno's tombstone this epitaph:"He loved football more than his fellow man."
Watching is safety
With all the killings in Philadelphia, surveillance cameras have helped solve a large percentage of them. In this "free society," the more cameras that are installed the better, as long as they don't put one in my home. Anyone against the security these cameras provide must have something to hide.
No one has mandated submitting fingerprints for everyone or DNA samples for same. I believe that more important than the invasion of your privacy is public safety. | <urn:uuid:5a40ac05-69b7-4f7f-aead-4f224e56fb10> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-31/news/31008531_1_joe-paterno-surveillance-cameras-penn-state | 2013-05-19T05:13:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97485 | 342 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Art Deco Napier
Trip Start Sep 06, 2009
11Trip End Oct 30, 2009
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Anyway, I headed to Napier after Wellington. I had wanted to go back there and do the Art Deco guided tour. A friend of mine, Jan and I, did the self guided tour the last time we were here and missed out on the history and background of it all. This time it was much better. It was a good tour. Napier was totally obliterated in the earthquake of 1931. The town was rebuilt in two years and with the Art Deco theme. They used patterns like the Ziggurat motif, which is like steps going upward. They used this pattern a lot in the States. The Americans, at that time, were told to use the Ziggurat motif, which allows more sunlight to reach street level, like the Chrysler Building in New York. There was also the Zig Zag, the Sunburst, Spanish Mission style with Maori motifs, Spanish Maya style and they used pastel colours, which really brightens up the buildingswww.artdeconapier.com
I had met a South African woman, called Lucette, on the bus to Napier, who was working in Napier but trying to find a job in Wellington, so she could be with her husband and 2 sons. I met up with her and her friend Jen that evening, to go to dinner and they showed me parts of Napier which I never would have seen myself without a car. After dinner, I walked over to see the Art Deco fountain, which is lit up at night, with different colours and it's right beside the statue "Pania of the Reef". The last time I was here, Pania had been stolen. But they found it and it was put back in it's rightful spot, a short while later. They just had to glue her broken feather back on and she was as right as rain. Everybody climbs up on Pania and sits on her lap, to get their photo taken, so this Napier woman at the fountain told me, so I did the same.
The next morning too, Jen drove me up to Te Mata Peak, which is about 30 minute's drive from Napier. Gosh it was lovely up there but extremely windy. It definitely blew out a few of the cobwebs
I really commend the Intercity bus service. I found them to be very punctual, with very friendly drivers. In the South Island, every bus driver gave a historical and local commentary on most of the well known towns/cities that we went through
By the way, I'm now setting up a new travel blog website and my blog about my latest trip to New Zealand 2012 will be on it. So please be patient.It will be worth the wait.I will put the link to this new website, here, when it's live - hopefully in early July 2012! www.travelwithtina.net | <urn:uuid:68b4a9af-6638-4195-aaa3-970b820dff5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/flyingbat/1/1254759385/tpod.html | 2013-05-19T05:12:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980581 | 617 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
As president of Bethany Christian Services, one of the leading family preservation and adoption agencies in the U.S., one of my biggest (and oldest) dreams is to stop providing adoption services. Let me state clearly that my reason for wanting to stop isn’t because I’ll ever grow weary of uniting vulnerable children with loving families. No, I want to stop one day as a result of the success of social services programs keeping these children with their loving biological families. Unfortunately, with millions of vulnerable children around the world, including over 100,000 here in the U.S., we have plenty of work to do before my dream becomes a reality.
National Adoption Month—November—is upon us and efforts to raise awareness for adoption will take place throughout the month. In fact, this Sunday, November 4, is Orphan Sunday, a day when thousands of Christian churches across America and around the globe participate in events sharing a single goal: that God’s great love for the orphan will echo in our lives.
Last year, thousands of churches hosted or participated in Orphan Sunday events in support of vulnerable children. Such events are crucial in combating the global orphan crisis and we are grateful to all of the Christian ministries and the members of their congregations who are working diligently to help educate others to the plight of the world’s orphans.
Ultimately, Orphan Sunday, in concert with the thousands of other initiatives running throughout November, may lead to families opening their hearts and homes to waiting children. Additionally, it will also provide critical supplies and resources to children and families in crisis. Whether it is supplies such as food, clothing, or medicine to keep children and families healthy, or resources dedicated to education or job training to assist in breaking the cycle of poverty that often causes parents to abandon or traffic their children, without the continued dedication and compassion of the Christian community, efforts would be futile.
Our primary focus in November is on adoption in hopes of decreasing the number of children waiting for a forever family. At the same time, it's vital that we work to strengthen social services in the U.S. and abroad, as well as introduce and develop such services in countries where none currently exist. I have said this many times before and may sound like a broken record, but we must change the culture if we are ever to make a dent in the orphan crisis. That will only happen through strong child and family welfare programs in tandem with education and job training services, which will allow families to care for themselves.
Since it was started, Orphan Sunday has demonstrated substantial growth and generated tremendous momentum. We expect that this growth and momentum will continue this year and in the years to come. Just as importantly, over the past several years we have also seen a shift in various countries, including China and Haiti, to make a commitment to improving social services within their borders. It is this shift that will have the largest impact on decreasing the number of orphans and hopefully make my dream of no longer providing adoption services at Bethany come to life. Until that time, I ask for your continued prayers and support in aiding the world’s most vulnerable children. | <urn:uuid:44fd0ee3-a30e-4ded-b525-91cc9feea070> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.christianpost.com/every-child/153-million-vulnerable-children-12846/ | 2013-05-19T05:20:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966077 | 643 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Personally, I see a much bigger issue than potential racial friction in this situation. How can a private citizen of the United States legally decide for themselves to question the motives of another private citizen and then decide take action against them?
An unarmed private citizen who appeared to be breaking no law was stopped on the street by another private citizen who was not a civil servant or law enforcement officer of any kind, but was armed. A struggle that ended with the death of the unarmed private citizen was the result.
George Zimmerman is a private citizen. This is the issue that screams the loudest to me. How in the world can a private citizen simply decide that they are authorized to enforce the law with the same authority as those trained and hired to do that?
This case must go to court so that, if nothing else, a clear-cut line is drawn. | <urn:uuid:45d49020-aafd-4e14-940c-7864e2b51eff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cincinnati.com/blogs/letters/2012/03/29/why-can-a-private-citizen-act-like-police/ | 2013-05-19T05:12:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975704 | 173 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Using Turkish industry-level data from 1983 to 1990, we find that politically organized industries receive both higher protection and promotion than unorganized ones. Tariff rates are decreasing (increasing) in the import-penetration ratio and the absolute value of the import-demandelasticity for organized (unorganized) industries. Subsidy rates are decreasing (increasing) in the output-supply elasticity for organized (unorganized) industries. The results are consistent with the predictions of the Grossman–Helpman model and its extension in this paper. The mix of protection and promotion is inversely related to the ratio of their respective marginal deadweight cost measures.
Published Online: 17 Jun 2004
Field of Research
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Having moved from Portland, Maine, Mrs.
Edith Pride Elliott organized a new DAR Chapter in St. Cloud
in 1946. The first meeting was held December 16, 1946, with
twelve members. It was decided at this time to call the new
chapter "The Soldier City Chapter," pending approval of the
National Board of the NSDAR. This name was selected as St.
Cloud was settled in 1909 by Soldiers of the Grand Army of the
name of "Soldier City" was short-lived. A letter from National
indicated that this name was being used by another chapter.
The newly formed St. Cloud Chapter then called a special
meeting to choose a new name. Mrs. Elliott suggested that in
keeping with the "Soldier City" theme, the name should be an
American Revolution ancestor of one of the members of
the Chapter. Joshua Stevens, an ancestor of Mrs. Elliott, was
chosen as the new name for the Chapter.
Joshua Stevens was born in 1743 at
Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, and served at the siege of
Boston in 1775 and also in the Bagaduce Expedition in | <urn:uuid:9b70bc0f-4b24-47eb-8c94-0fa13e529ded> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fssdarchapters.org/joshuastevens/ | 2013-05-19T05:27:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971895 | 242 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Joyide on Fedora 11/rawhide
pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 17:20:50 EST 2009
Thanks for poking :)
> After a brief discussion with Jeremy, it appears that Fedora 11 in rawhide
> has had many boot issues on many platforms, and they're tackling them one by
> one. He promises to have a look at OLPC specifically on Friday.
Excellent news. In the mean time, even with boot issues, there's
nothing wrong with getting a rawhide based stream in progress so that
various other issues that will undoubtedly show up so that when the
boot problem is fixed we're already on the ground and can start
running. After all there will no doubt be other deps and composing
issues that need to be resolved. too.
Either way, ping me on or off list for any heavy lifting I can help with.
More information about the Devel | <urn:uuid:a3a17353-e8ed-427f-90f7-bac7da757ae8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-February/023025.html | 2013-05-19T05:35:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383263/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952636 | 195 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |