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Treasure Ship
By Priit J. Vesilind
It was a time to move on, to douse the fires and lick the wounds. The Civil War had ended in May, and the holy quiet that followed had evolved into a vibrant summer hum of opportunity. The defeated South lay poor and bitter, but the rest of the nation had turned, gratefully, back to making money.
In October William T. Nichols, a former colonel of a Vermont regiment, and his younger brother, Henry, put down 60 dollars each and stepped off a Manhattan pier onto the S.S.
, a steamship bound for New Orleans. They found stateroom number 13, stowed their baggage, and awaited the 3:30 cast off. The weather was heavy outside the harbor, so the steamship lay over until the next morning at Staten Island and embarked again at 9 a.m. on October 19.
Newly refitted from a warship back into a civilian steamer, her twin side paddle wheels turned by coal-fired boilers, the
carried 59 passengers, 500 barrels of freight, and a reported 400,000 dollars in coins. Hard money was scarce in the former Confederate states, and New Orleans was broke, so bankers and businessmen were shipping keg-loads of coins to take advantage of their inflated purchasing power. In New Orleans the same 20-dollar gold coin would buy twice as much as it would in New York.
Aboard the
were families with children, Army officers headed for new assignments, and businessmen like Nichols. Dressed in top hats and silk, the passengers breathed the warm salt air, played cards, and drank wine, happy to have survived the war.
Fate had not been kind to William Nichols, a 35-year-old veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg. He had just lost his daughter, May, to typhoid fever. He had also lost a small fortune in stock and wool investments. Now he was looking to the South to regain his footing, planning to continue from New Orleans to Texas, where he hoped to purchase real estate on the cheap. He took heart from the voyage. "The weather is beautiful, and the ship bounds on her way like a thing of life," he wrote to his wife, Thyrza, back in Rutland.
passed Cape Hatteras on Sunday, October 22, and by the next evening the wind had stiffened into a northeast gale. The ship was off the Georgia coast when the gale turned into what the captain, Edward Young, described as the "perfect hurricane." Steaming south at a furious rate, Young could not outrun it.
The end began with a table-clearing roll on Monday afternoon that sent dinner—pies, meats, vegetables, and condiments—tumbling to the floor. The ship labored as towering waves rushed across her decks. The soaked passengers huddled in their berths, sleepless, and in the nightmare clarity of Tuesday morning they saw the great paddle wheels stop, leaving the piston locked dead center and the ship adrift, at the mercy of the wind. Waves washed away the pilothouse and paddle-wheel boxes. Passengers and crew alike tossed cargo overboard to lighten the ship. Out went bolts of silk, ingots of tin, liquors, tobacco, varnish, and other heavy goods.
"I supposed I had seen something like confusion in battle," Nichols later wrote, "but the scene at this time was sublime. The ship had 300 tons of coal, and as she lurched from side to side, the roar of the coal and water sounded like Niagara, and the water on the outside dashing against the ship was another distinct sound and horrid enough of itself. The wind was howling through the rigging like the demons of the sea, and to make it a perfect hell, the men, excited and yelling to each other, begrimed with black smut and engine grease. It was desperation intensified."
Just before 2 p.m. on October 25, Captain Young gave orders to abandon ship. Crew and passengers climbed into four lifeboats and a raft hastily assembled from the ship's spars. The Nichols brothers clambered into lifeboat number 2, the last one lowered. As the
gave a final shudder and surrendered herself to the deep, the seas were rolling 40 feet high, tossing the lifeboats and dooming efforts to keep them together. The raft, without oars or sail, soon floated out of sight, helpless flotsam in the fury of the hurricane.
The 15 survivors in lifeboat 2 bailed with shoes and caps to stay afloat and pulled desperately on the oars, enduring a black, cruel night. The next day they rigged up a tablecloth as a small sail. "Thirst, more terrible than anything else I ever suffered, was added to our other calamities," Nichols wrote. "We had not one drop of water, and with all the labor we had performed it seemed impossible to live."
Friday, October 27, dawned with little hope. The survivors' throats began to swell from thirst, and Nichols put his deceased daughter May's gold chain and locket in his mouth to keep his tongue moist. When a sail came into sight, they thrashed toward it with fury, but it faded away. On the edge of despair, they took off their clothes and jumped into the sea, hoping to absorb some moisture.
And then came another sail. Though fatigued to the point of numbness, they pulled for more than an hour before they got the attention of Captain Joseph Blankenship of the
Horace Beals
. They were not able to stand up when pulled onto the deck of the schooner, but by Monday they were safe in Charleston port. The other three lifeboats also passed through harrowing days and were delivered by passing ships and search vessels.
"We suffered everything but death," Nichols wrote to Thyrza, "but thanks to God, arrived here this morning safe. Lost all our clothes and baggage in fact everything except the clothes we happened to have on—we have our money—I cannot write you but a note as we are about to take the train for New Orleans."
Those on the raft weren't as lucky. Adrift for eight days, all but two of 14 souls were washed off one by one, or simply leaped into the Atlantic in despair. The two survivors—the ship's quartermaster Oliver Martin and waiter James Noolan—were still clinging to the spars on November 2 when the Navy steamer
spotted them bobbing south of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. They had drifted some 250 miles north, riding the mighty Gulf Stream.
Ernie Tapanes puffed a hefty cigar and gripped the railing of the teetering 113-foot-long research vessel
. It was July off the coast of Georgia, the sea roiling with a mix of thunderstorms, sweltering heat, and six-foot swells. Tapanes, 35, was both investor and oceanic engineer at Odyssey Marine Exploration, based in Tampa, and the operations chief of the ship. In the company's latest effort to find the remains of the
, he and a crew of ten had been at sea for two weeks. Odyssey had heard of at least two other groups planning expeditions to search for the
. To deflect interest, the team was using the code name
for the steamship.
Finding the
would vindicate a tenacious 12-year research effort for Odyssey co-founders Greg Stemm and John Morris, Tampa entrepreneurs who were convinced that deepwater shipwreck recovery, despite its many difficulties, could be a viable business venture. The coins that went down in the
would now be worth much, much more than their face value.
Odyssey researchers had fed an amalgam of wind speeds, currents, bearings from ships' logs, newspaper reports, survivors' accounts, and lifeboat coordinates into computer models. Their crews had combed 1,500 square miles of ocean with side-scan sonar and a magnetometer and examined 24 promising targets. In the past two years alone they'd found a fighter jet, a custom sailboat, and a 19th-century merchant vessel filled with English pottery and Chinese porcelain. But the
had evaded them.
Ernie Tapanes was a true believer in the mission, but it was wearing him down. He and the team had covered all but the last section—the northernmost square of the search area. "With all the endless days, sticking to your guns, rolling out of bed every morning," he said, "you start questioning—do we have our information wrong? Is the ship findable?"
On July 7, with supplies dwindling and attention wandering, a blocky shape formed on the screen. "It's just a sailboat," said J. J. Jackson, one of the sonar crew. But sailboats are narrower, thought Tapanes, as he finished the survey block and took the ship back to Charleston for fuel and supplies, the sonar image rattling around his mind.
Odyssey badly needed a score—a quick infusion of success. Year after empty year, Stemm and his partner John Morris had been forced to dilute their ownership in the publicly traded company, selling shares until they were only minority holders.
"I know the shipwreck's out there," said Stemm, an intense 47-year-old with a quick, ingratiating smile. "Somewhere on this chart. I know it's there. We just have to stick it out." The company wouldn't go broke as long as loyal investors hung on, but the boys from Tampa were stretching their credibility. "This is painful," said Stemm. "It's just painful."
Using a higher resolution setting on the sonar, Ernie Tapanes and the
crew returned to sea for a better look at the sailboat-like object. They spent two arduous days, zeroing in on its shape, creating a three-dimensional sonar form. "I've never had an image like this," said a repentant J. J. Jackson. "It's almost like a photograph. It measures perfectly to what we know of the
The target wreck lay upright in 1,700 feet of water, about a hundred miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia. In the third week of July, Tapanes e-mailed the image to Stemm and John Morris in Tampa, labeling it "Sailboat #1."
Stemm and Morris knew from the sonar that they had a double-wheeled steamship. Now they had to prove it was the
. On August 2 the team returned with a small, tethered, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) fitted with manipulator claws and a video camera.
"It could barely hold its position in the Gulf Stream," said Tapanes. "We practically killed the thing." But the camera found a copper-sheathed rudder and the eerie skeletons of upright paddle wheels. The stuff of daily life was strewed across the seafloor—piles of bottles, stacks of shoes, bolts of silk for fancy dresses, elegant decanters, dominoes, porcelain dishes, bottled berries to make pies. Later they also found cases of slates, inkwells, and molded glass religious items—candelabras, votive candles—lying stacked like cordwood.
From the heap the claws recovered a brown bottle and a piece of wood. To comply with salvage law, Morris delivered the bottle and wood to a federal court in Tampa to "arrest" the site—to keep anyone else from tampering with it. At a hundred miles offshore, the wreck lay beyond the limits of authority that both the state of Georgia and the federal government had over cultural artifacts, but legal sanction was needed to proceed with recovery. The court granted Odyssey exclusive admiralty rights on August 6.
Now convinced that the wreck was the
and flush with rejuvenated investors, Odyssey purchased a newer, larger research vessel, a 250-foot-long former fishing trawler that the company named
Odyssey Explorer
. She would carry a massive new ROV named
, a 200-horsepower, seven-ton, tank-size robot equipped with powerful manipulator arms that could lift heavy objects as well as small objects gently. The site demanded industrial-strength gear just to get to the target and hold steady. "The Gulf Stream keeps the average Joe away," said Ernie Tapanes. "It protects the wreck."
William Nichols found a shattered economy when his train arrived in New Orleans in November. Reconstruction was in full, painful stride in the city, occupied by Federal troops in 1862. The cargo of the
, had it arrived on time, would have had immediate impact. Gold and silver coins had nearly vanished from circulation, and people yearned to feel the jingle in their pockets.
was only one of several ships due with hard money for New Orleans that week. As customers read in the
New Orleans Picayune
of October 25, "the
Evening Star
brought $376,412, embracing $100,000 to Mssrs. Brown, Bro. and company, $84,000 for the Citizens' Bank, $50,000 to the Canal Bank, a like amount to another party, $47,456 to Mssrs. Wm. Edwards and company, and $10,000 to Mr. J. Barker."
Back in the booming 1840s and '50s, when the city served as the commercial hub of the Mississippi watershed, the city's 13 banks held more than 12 million dollars in gold and silver. The New Orleans mint was one of seven that provided United States currency for nationwide distribution. But, to thwart the impending Union military occupation of 1862, the banks had whisked what hard currency they had left to hidden caches in river valleys, where they could be tapped by a retreating Confederate Army.
Throughout the war much of commerce ran on odd private currencies: scrips, banknotes, or trade tokens issued by department stores, even parish governments. Drinking-house shinplasters and five-cent streetcar tickets served as small change. The joke on the streets, wrote a citizen, George W. Cable, was that "you could pass the label of an olive oil bottle as money, because it was greasy, smelt bad, and bore an autograph."
Weeks passed before Nichols received a letter from his family rector in Vermont, George S. Howard, telling him that Thyrza had died from typhoid fever. She had hung on, he wrote, "in a state of painful suspense" until a telegram confirming her husband's survival from the wreck had arrived. "The excitement seemed to have kept her up, for when she heard from you, a reaction seemed to take place, and she was seriously ill. . . . She sank gradually under her disease until she peacefully breathed out her life without a struggle or groan."
In Texas Nichols purchased two cotton plantations and invested in a tannery, but later returned home to wrap up his old life. He married Thyrza's sister, Louise, then headed west with his surviving daughter, Lucy. In Illinois he founded a town he named Maywood after his dead, beloved daughter, May. He became a town patriarch, a shrewd businessman, and an inventor of farm implements such as the "Maywood scraper and ditcher" and the screw harrow, a revolutionary soil-cultivating machine.
In september, after three intense weeks of welding, refitting, and the installation of computer, survey, video, and archaeological mapping systems, the
Odyssey Explorer
embarked from Baltimore with a mission team of 23, including marine archaeologist Neil Cunningham Dobson, a Scot. Dobson had been under fire from his colleagues in academia. Most archaeologists, as a matter of principle, object to any excavation that results in the sale of artifacts. "The general feeling is that the archaeology will always be compromised if it is commercially driven," he said. "I feel that this is not fair. At the end of the day I don't care whether a university or a commercial company pays me to do archaeology. I do the same standard regardless. I am a professional." Only a commercial operation, he said, could afford a deep-sea recovery of the
As it roamed across the sunken steamship's skeleton, the ROV
sent back video that played on the monitor screens of the
Odyssey Explorer
, positioned in the sea above. Under the weight of the cargo, the ship's hull had collapsed like a cooked onion, and from amidships rose the paddle wheels and a 30-foot-tall walking beam, the metal frame that turns the crankshaft of a vertical steam engine. "There was a ghostliness about it," sonar technician J. J. Jackson said later. "You could almost feel when the boiler went cold."
Between a ruin of spars, the crew spied something brassy. The video camera zoomed in—the ship's bell!
carefully grasped the bottom of the cracked, heavy, 14-inch-tall hunk of brass and lifted it to the surface. Corrosion blurred much of the engraved name, but the last four letters were clear—SSEE. The
, built in 1853, had originally been christened the S.S.
. The bell had never been changed. Now it was beyond doubt; Odyssey had located its prize.
The coins were another matter. The
's jumbled remains sprawled over an area nearly the size of a football field and were covered by sand and hardpan coral. Unless the team was lucky, finding the money could take months of salvage work.
On November 5, ROV supervisor Jim Starr was about to go off shift, but they had time for a few more maneuvers. The big ROV had two main tools: a six-inch-diameter Venturi tube, like a giant vacuum cleaner that could either blow sand off or suck it in to clear a site, and a delicate suction cup called a limpet, which could pick up artifacts without scratching them. On the intercom, Starr queried Neil Dobson, who was watching on another monitor: "What do you want to do next?"
"I dunno. What do you want to do?"
"Let's test the Venturi system," said Starr. "We just made some repairs to it."
ROV pilot Gary Peterson deftly maneuvered
to a sandy spot near the
's stern. It wasn't an entirely random choice for a probe; the coins found in the wreck of the gold-rush-era steamer
Central America
in 1991 had been stored in a safe room near the stern. Technician Alan Smith turned on the Venturi tube and began sucking away the sand.
"Stop!" shouted Starr, peering into the monitor screen. "Turn the system off. I see a coin!" The camera zoomed in on the metallic ridge sticking out of the sand. "Nobody said anything," Starr remembered. "We were all stunned. And I finally said to Neil over the intercom, 'You interested in this?'"
Soon five more coins emerged from beneath the billowing sand. The team's hunch, indeed the whole exploration plan, had proved correct. They didn't even have a container ready to bring up the coins, however, so
scooted out and looked around the wreck site for something appropriate to use. Thus it was that the first 80 gold coins recovered from S.S.
were temporarily stored in a white enamel chamber pot.
Within days the Venturi unit revealed a cascade of gold coins, both ten-dollar pieces and twenty-dollar double eagles, spilling from the curved rim of a buried wooden keg. Many were pressed together in stacks like poker chips. On Thursday, November 13, the
Odyssey Explorer
pulled into its home port of Jacksonville with more than 700 gold and silver coins. Waiting was an expert coin assessor, Rob Westfall of National Gold Exchange, Inc., in Tampa.
"These are basically mint-state coins, never circulated," Westfall marveled. "And there's such a diversity of types. To my knowledge there's never been a hoard discovered of Civil Warera coins. This is just amazing."
Odyssey knew there would be other claimants. The U.S. government, for one, had launched an investigation to see if any of the money belonged to a Federal payroll, but that theory proved baseless. And in January 2004 the company paid 1.6 million dollars in compensation to the Atlantic Insurance Company, which had insured some of the
's cargo. Odyssey, it appeared, could keep the rest of the money.
Numismatists greeted the collection with awe. A number of individual coins were described as the finest ever found in their categories, and their composite value was estimated at perhaps 75 million dollars.
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, the great-great-granddaughter of William Nichols, teaches art history at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Joining an Odyssey voyage in February, she brought with her an heirloom gold chain and locket holding a miniature tintype of the first Thyrza Nichols. The photoengraving had held its sharpness over 135 years, and the eyes glinted sternly from a stiff, black New England habit.
She had just recently found letters from her family's past, in a musty old family trunk. "We didn't even know about the shipwreck," she said. "That was never talked about. I think it was only a detail of his life."
Indeed, there was more to the man than survival. William Nichols led the 14th Vermont volunteers against Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, he faced down the unquenchable sorrow of losing a wife and child, and he sired a family whose bonds proved wiry tough. The names Thyrza and Lucy alternated through the generations. His daughter Lucy named her daughter Thyrza. "That was my grandmother," said Goodeve. "My mother was Lucy, and here I am, Thyrza."
William Nichols's story was only one among the fortunes of the S.S.
43 surviving passengers. Even now, preserved in the silent flow of the Gulf Stream, the steamship informs us of a time of bold opportunity and national reconciliation, when men could beat their bayonets into plowshares and their swords into screw harrows.
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Little bells of EasterAuthor: Ida Scott Taylor
Tune: PORTLAND (Entwisle)
Published in 2 hymnals
Printable scores: PDF, MusicXMLAudio files: MIDI
1. Little bells of Easter, (1)we will gently sway,
Ringing chimes for Jesus on this happy day;
(2)Nodding, gaily nodding, like the flowers we love,
Singing praise all our days for the King above.
Bells of Easter gaily swinging to and fro,
Pealing out a gladsome lay as forth we go;
Jesus lives forever is the news we bring,
Blessèd tidings of salvation, Christ is king.
2. Little bells of Easter, (3)swinging all in time,
(4)Round about together hear our echoes chime;
Giving out the sunshine as we pass you by,
Singing praise all our days to the King on high. [Refrain]
3. Little bells of Easter, happy hearts have we,
In our master's service faithful let us be;
Ever moving onward (5)step by step we'll go,
Singing praise all our days while on earth below. [Refrain]
1 Swaying motion
2 Bowing
3 Swinging arms
4 Turning around
5 Marching
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #3804
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There's something special about Super Meat Boy. Never has a game caused me to curse as much (swearing per hour of game time (s/phg)) as this one. Never has a game been so fun and fluid, yet so punishingly hard and impossible to play while inebriated. Yup, there's something special about Super Meat Boy.
In Super Meat Boy, you play as Meat Boy, a giant square of meat with arms and legs. He has a girlfriend named Bandage Girl, and when she's captured by the evil Dr. Fetus, he sets out on the tried and true adventure of "saving the damsel in distress." What makes Super Meat Boy different from Super Mario Bros or any other "damsel in distress" game is that Meat Boy rescues Bandage Girl at the end of every level, only for her to be swept away and captured again.
This makes Meat Boy a rather interesting hero as he's both surprisingly good at avoiding all kinds of dangers and rescuing Bandage Girl, yet terribly inefficient in that he can never keep her rescued.
But, while Meat Boy always saves Bandage Girl at the end of a level, I've now begun to question his prowess at "knight in shining armor."
At the end of every level in Super Meat Boy, the player is greeted with seeing every death Meat Boy succumbs to before finally completing the level. There are many of these deaths. This is fundamentally important as most video games do not show you your deaths in a cruel yet amusing montage. In this way, I believe Super Meat Boy is a prime example of the Multiverse Hypothesis, though more specifically exemplifying Alternate Realities.
The Multiverse is the hypothetical infinite amount of universes that make up everything and every possibility. Our present universe consists of established physical laws and constants, but other universes within the Multiverse might forgo these laws and constants for something more interesting. We cannot pass the speed of light, but perhaps the speed of light is considered slow by the standards of a differing universe. Perhaps a differing universe lacks a dimension or has an extra one.
Now, Super Meat Boy never delves into such categories, so we must narrow our scope to Alternate Realities. An Alternate Reality is a direct copy of a current universe with something changed, and there can be an infinite amount of these as well. There exists a direct relationship between Alternate Realities, and in the case of Super Meat Boy, the relationship is when and how Meat Boy dies.
Every death of Meat Boy is a very real death in a differing Alternate Reality.
The player is greeted with this montage of deaths as a kind of reward for mastering a difficult level, but the character Meat Boy physically died over and over so the one correct reality could exist: the one where he saves Bandage Girl. The better you are at Super Meat Boy, the less Alternate Realities there will be, but there always be some since this game is excruciatingly difficult.
It's not probable or possible for Meat Boy to have an infinite amount of lives. His coming back to life every death via reincarnation goes against all of the philosophical and religious views of reincarnation. I suppose Meat Boy could live in a universe where at least one of those things is true, but that opens up a different kind of philosophical discussion. It also opens up a new kind of physical discussion as Meat Boy always reappears in the same place after his death, and that would make no sense even if he did have an infinite amount of lives or was being instantly reincarnated. It makes more sense that he's simply dying over and over in Alternate Realities.
The game even has its own evidence of this. Whenever you complete a level under a set time limit, you unlock a Dark World of that level. The Dark World is based off of the normal version of the level, though harder and sometimes physically darker. The idea of a Dark World is well used in other media, as is the idea of an evil clone from an Alternate Universe. Meat Boy's Dark World clone is merely a different copy of him living in a much harsher world with a more evil Dr. Fetus. Bandage Girl most likely nags him more for not saving her fast enough.
Meat Boy is a creature that we should both respect and pity. Love is a powerful emotion that gets people do to crazy and dangerous things, but I'm not sure it has motivated someone to go through a torture hospital and Hell, one right after the other, for a woman. At some point, the hero just has to realize that his specific woman isn't worth the effort. There are plenty of fish in the sea, as the saying goes, and surely 99% of them aren't as danger prone as Bandage Girl. And yet, Meat Boy never comes to this conclusion, and the power of his love drives him through every kind of physically terrible situation imaginable. And these terrible situations kill him in thousands of Alternate Realities until the one special Reality where love conquers everything but common sense.
Now, in every level of Super Meat Boy, you leave a trail of meaty blood as you walk, jump, and touch anything and everything. This is a persistent trail and continues on from one life after the other. If these were Alternate Realities, one might ask, why is this trail of meaty blood always there and always growing? Surely these aren't Alternate Realities.
This is a good point, but I must retort with: would you want to play this game without some kind of way to judge your mistakes? For the first few lives of any level, this meaty-blood trail is useful in gauging when to jump. It eventually becomes a kind of macabre paint, but for the player's first few lives, it really is useful. Super Meat Boy is already difficult, and I can't imagine playing the game without even this small bit of assistance, even if the assistance comes from my own mistakes.
I don't think the meaty-blood trail is really there in front of Meat Boy. This trail of failure is for the player only, residing outside of Meat Boy's reality. If Meat Boy constantly saw the pieces of his well-being thrown about the entirety of an area, he'd be forced to realize that this adventuring just isn't worth it. Failure is its own motivator, and seeing the failure of a thousand deaths should motivate even the most insane and stupid person to stop. If this trail were real, at some point in the game Meat Boy would yell to Bandage Girl, "you know, maybe we should just see other people." If he's nice, he'll follow with, "you can keep the ring," but the player wouldn't judge him if he followed with, "can you just mail me the ring back? I'm not going to jump through 30 saws and 12 lasers to get it."
There's a reasonably biological argument for the meaty trail of bloods nonexistence as well. Everything Meat Boy touches is doused with his own liquids, and such a creature leaving such a profound trail would eventually die from liquid loss. We also never see this trail of meaty blood during cut scenes, and if this trail were a persistent part of Meat Boy, it would surely show up there.
I've put a solid 20 hours into Super Meat Boy, and I've died 4593 times. Even the most star-crossed lover who has ever professed his life for his love would find that to be excessive. I find that to be excessive, and I'm the one who made Meat Boy die that many times.
There are 4594 Alternate Universes to my game of Super Meat Boy, and Meat Boy only lives happily ever after with Bandage Girl in one of those. That's either incredibly profound or incredibly shoulder-shrug worthy. Perhaps both.


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- 1 cup uncooked instant rice
- 1 pound ground beef
- 2 medium green peppers, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 jar (26 ounces) marinara sauce
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt-free seasoning blend
- 1/2 cup shredded Italian cheese blend
- 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Preheat oven to 350°. Cook rice according to package directions.
- Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef, green peppers and onion over medium-high heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in rice, marinara sauce and seasoning blend. Stir in cheese.
- Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish. Toss bread crumbs and oil; sprinkle over the top. Bake 8-10 minutes or until heated through and topping is golden brown. Yield: 6 servings.
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"Used red peppers just because I like them better. Delicious."
"Almost gave it 5. It was pretty good. Just need a little something extra to put it over to the 5 star mark. My husband really liked it and we will have it again. My kids complained that the peppers were too big though."
"We thought this was outstanding. Will make again."
"This was flavorful and easy, both a plus in my book. I took others advice and used 1 & 1/2 teaspoonful of Italian seasoning. Did not mix cheese in but layered it on top after putting in the baking dish then put Italian breadcrumbs over cheese. I baked for about 30 minutes uncovered and it turned out perfect. My family says this is a keeper!"
"It was not bad with the exception of those horrible bread crumbs. Leave them off and it is not bad at all. My hubby said the same thing He would not eat it a second time."
"I made this with my Foods class to celebrate "Dining In" day. It was quick and easy to make! We actually tripled the recipe to pass out samples to the lunch room! Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. My only change was using brown rice and Italian seasoning. I think it could have used some salt and pepper."
"I made this for supper tonight, and I will make it again. The only thing I changed was the rice. I used one cup regular brown rice instead of instant."
"I liked this. Thought it was tasty and fairly quick to make. I used Itaian seasoning."
"I tried this recipe and I did tweak the recipe by using ground turkey instead of beef, 1 yellow and one green pepper, 1 chopped onion, 1 can each (15-oz.) pizza sauce and Italian-style diced tomatoes, undrained, 1-1/2 tsp. seasoned salt, 1/2 cup shredded Italian cheese blend, 1 cup long grain uncooked white rice, 1/2 cup Italian bread crumbs and 1 Tbsp. olive oil. I'd also used 2 garlic cloves, minced. I didn't have the marinara sauce or salt-free seasoning blend available! I also sprinkled the meat mixture with the cheese, rather than add TO meat mixture, then I combined the bread crumbs and oil which I spread over top of the meat-cheese! I did bake this dish longer: a total of 1/2 hour as I'd basically cooked the ground turkey until browned and had added the onion, peppers, garlic-I'd used 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil to brown meat and a 6-qt. saucepan so I'd have more room to add everything needed for this recipe. I found this recipe to be tasty-I have rated it as a 4. I'm learning that sometimes a newly-prepared dish needs to "mature" in flavor and tastes better the next day!"


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The bear rears up and... whines despondently
Tuesday, Jul. 1, 2008 at 1:25pm
So we're officially in a bear market. You don't have to tell anybody in a publicly traded company about it, of course. We're in it every day. We feel it in a million different ways, in everything we do. Here are just a few:
- When you talk with a reporter covering your business, they can barely lift their heads from their tabletops. They sigh. They mutter. They can barely come up with coherent questions. "So..." they murmur into the phone, their hearts heavy with impending layoffs and industry doom, "... what's the rationale for your acquisition/divestiture/other again?" Much of the time, they haven't even read the associated documentation. They're just too sad to party.
- When you talk with an analyst about your business, they can barely lift their heads from their tabletops. They snarl. They growl. They are defensive about their indices. Their last six write-ups have been dead wrong for a variety of reasons, but analysts have a tough time being wrong, they are never actually wrong, not really. Something must be wrong with YOU that made them be wrong, so they are quite naturally churlish about your whole situation. There is no upside. Why do you keep talking about one?
- When you talk with sale people, they can barely lift their heads from their tabletops. Their knuckles are red with knocking on doors that will not open.
- When you talk to merchandisers, automotive manufacturers and others who must advertise in order to sell their products, they can barely... well, you know. They cannot buy ads because their have less free cash flow with which to do so, but if they do not sell ads they will not move product and so will not have cash to buy ads and move product. They are hamsters on a wheel, with the smell of yesterday's sawdust in their nostrils.
- When you talk to investors... it's not advisable. They will chew your face off if you do.
Except for the guys who saw the dark side all along. The short sellers. The crafty few who saw the whole thing coming all along and bet correctly on which way the water would spin on its way down the vortex. They're the ones walking down the Street, whistling a merry tune. Makes you want to smash them, don't it?
Money isn't printed in the basement at the NYSE or NASDAQ!
it changes hands~
Short sellers have always been the excitedly rich! I learned my lesson shorting the tech bust all the way to the bottom. Donald Trump and I didn't buy at the hieght, you can bet we'll be looking for bargains at next years fire sale.
Lately I have been afraid to walk past a new car dealership, the salesman look so hungry you might think that they would pull you in off the street, beat you unconcious and forge your name to a deal.
Since the bear is causing so much trouble, we should pull out a shotgun and shoot the bear in the head. We can then sell the fur for money. We can also make bear stew. Yum!
NEXT Year's fire sale, Roxy? The death spiral continues for another year? If so, this will make '87, the early 90's and 01-02 look mild by comparison. That's a mean bear....
Wall Street has blown so many bubbles in its time that it simply ran out of "GAS".
More beer and beans need to be ingested to get that "OZONE LAYER" replenished.
"They are hamsters on a wheel, with the smell of yesterday's sawdust in their nostrils. "
Best comment I've read in months. LOL.
It's a great time to be poor and not have any investments to weep over! I just get to complain about inflation, but us pofolks already know how to get along when the dollar tightens.I just feel sorry for my pofolk counterparts in rural areas. They're totally screwed!
When I was young, I hired an old-timer accountant. The best advice he ever gave me ...
"Bulls make a little money, Bears make a little money ... Pigs get slaughtered. Don't be a pig. Take your 15% and get out."
Words to live by ...


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False Outer Point Road Race: 6:30 p.m. at False Outer Point. Helmets required. Race is 20 miles; begins and ends at False Outer Point. Info: John Wray, 789-1759.
Sunday, June 4
Alaska State NRA Sporting Rifle Championship Match: Sign-up at 8 a.m. at the Hank Harmon Rifle Range. Shoot begins at 9. Info: 789-1717.
Historic Treadwell Ditch Run: Race starts 1:30 p.m. at Sandy Beach. Course runs through the Treadwell Trail up to 5th Street in Douglas. Finishes at the Blueberry Hill Water Tower. Risk-filled race. Cost: $5. Info: Paul Pusich, 780-6987.
Saturday & Sunday, June 10-11
Juneau Aurora Knights Synchronized Swim Team ``Rainbows on the Water'' performance: At the Augustus Brown Pool. Saturday at 7 p.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets $5 for adults, $3 for children. Available at Hearthside Books or from swimmers. Info: Julia, 780-6248 or 465-8749.
Tornado Wrestling Club Garage Sale/Bazaar: Saturday, June 10, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 8345 Old Dairy Road. Rental space available for $10. Fund-raiser for club; donations of items for sale accepted. Info: Bob Mahon, 789-3477, or Joan Harvey, 789-5401.
Soccer Camp Registration: Echo Ranch Bible Camp is accepting registrations for their summer soccer camps. Camps run June 5-9 for ages 8-10, and June 12-16 for ages 11-13. Cost: $179 and includes soccer ball, shirt and five days/nights at ERBC. Forms available at Northern Echoes or online at www.echoranch.org. Info: 789-3777.
Men's and Women's Competitive Soccer: Team registration for men's and women's soccer will be held at the downtown public library on June 19 from 5-6:30 p.m. Season begins July 6. Info: Capital City Soccer League, 364-2503.
Women's Classic Soccer: Registration for women's classic soccer is ongoing. Forms may be completed at the Zach Gordon Youth Center, or the downtown public library on June 19 from 5-6:30 p.m. Season begins July 9. Info: Capital City Soccer League, 364-2503.
Juneau Youth Football League seeking volunteers: The JYFL is seeking volunteer coaches and assistant coaches. Training and support provided. Info: 463-1562.
Doyle Baseball School coming to Juneau: Doyle Baseball School coming June 5-9 to Miller Fields. Forms available at both Miller Field and Melvin Park snack bars. Info: Chip Mixson, 789-9806.
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Will Olympics Performance Quiet Montreal Canadiens Goalie Carey Price's Critics?March 8, 2014
While his current stint on injured reserve isn't exactly disproving the theory, Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price is nonetheless poised to put the myth of a post-Olympics hangover to bed. Even so, it's not how he plays in the immediate aftermath of his gold-medal victory once he's healthy that should matter most to his critics.
The narrative that an Olympics appearance leads to a sluggish final quarter to the NHL season is a popular one. It gives owners an additional argument against sending their players overseas and players an excuse should they falter upon their return. However, at least among goalies, there's little evidence to support the theory.
For example, in 1997-98, Buffalo Sabre Dominik Hasek went 33-23-13 with a 2.09 goals-against average and .932 save percentage overall en route to capturing the Vezina Trophy. After his gold-medal win in Nagano, the Czech actually boosted his chances with an incredible .948 save percentage and 13-6-3 record the last leg of the season.
Similarly, Canada's Martin Brodeur went 14-5 with a .911 save percentage upon returning from Salt Lake City in 2002. Overall, he had a 38-26-9 record that season, with a slightly lower .906 save percentage.
Granted, more recent history tells a different story. Sweden's Henrik Lundqvist, fresh off his gold-medal victory in Turin, went just 5-5-3 the rest of the way with a relatively pedestrian .907 save percentage, compared to the .922 with which he finished the 2005-06 season.
Most recently, in 2010, Roberto Luongo's play went into a veritable tailspin after the Vancouver Games—and he didn't even have to get on a plane to get home. He ended up letting in 50 goals in his last 16 games for a .893 save percentage. Needless to say, his play prior to being named to Team Canada that season had been just a tad better.
While there's always a chance Price will perpetuate the myth in question, most signs point to him having an overall strong season.
He has, after all, been the main difference-maker for the Habs so far this season, and if the above examples of goaltenders are any indication, there's little reason that's going to change. I mean, it's not like he's Lundqvist or Luongo. Truth be told, in terms of overall talent, he's somewhere in between.
Currently, he is in the top 10 in wins (26), top five in shutouts (four), sixth in save percentage (.925) and seventh in goals-against average (2.33) among goalies who have played 40 or more games. However, as his critics were all to quick to point out in the lead-up to the Olympics, it's his play in clutch situations—not in the regular season—that has always been under the gun.
He has just one playoff series victory to his name, and that came in his rookie season when he and the Habs had a 3-1 series lead against the Boston Bruins, only to let them back in the series and force a seventh game. From that moment on until his most recent postseason, when he allowed 13 goals in four games against the Ottawa Senators, Price has developed a reputation as a choker.
Now, admittedly, all that was before Price won his Olympic gold medal in Russia, getting named the tournament's best goaltender in the process. However, it was also after he won gold at the World Junior Hockey Championships in 2007 in Sweden, then taking home both the tournament's best goaltender and most valuable player honors.
There's one of two conclusions to be drawn as a result:
- All the criticism Price has had to endure since beginning his NHL career is unjustified.
- To have the same success with the Canadiens as he's had internationally, the Habs are going to have to move overseas, which really wouldn't work on so many different levels. The London Canadiens, anyone?
Price has indeed proved to be a world-class goalie—that's kind of the definition of a goalie selected for international tournaments. He's also proved to be clutch, so to a certain degree, yes, the critics are wrong. However, all he's truly accomplished is wins with all-star teams in front of him. Needless to say, that's not the Habs.
No one's necessarily even asking him to win a Stanley Cup. That's not what silences critics (just ask Pittsburgh Penguin Marc-Andre Fleury). He just needs to get the monkey off his back, win at least one more series and then build off that next season…and then the season after that.
Really, some of the world's best goalies have yet to win a championship. That's a group that includes Lundqvist, arguably the best right now. Lundqvist, a goalie who has never won it all, getting mad props for his level of play (and Fleury constantly getting slammed) points to one overriding truth: To prove he is one of the best, all Price needs to do is be consistent. That means being great year to year instead of following the pattern of posting one excellent season and then two mediocre ones.
Right now, just like back in 2010-11 when he went 38-28-6 with a .923 save percentage, Price is undeniably at the top of his game. However, two seasons ago, he played just OK behind a last-place team, earning a 26-28-11 record in the process. Last season, he posted the lowest save percentage of his career, .905. His play followed a similar pattern after a successful rookie season, with 2008-09 and 2009-10 largely being write-offs.
Now, no matter what, even if Price is able to play consistently from here on out and get the majority of hockey fans on his side, there's always going to be a select few contrarians trying to play devil's advocate. That's unavoidable.
No one's ever going to silence everybody. The best you can do is put yourself in a position to make your detractors sound foolish. No, he won't shut them up, but he can shut them out of his head just like he shut out both the United States and Sweden in Sochi. The only thing that's changed between last spring's debacle and now is the entire world knows he's capable of it. That's half the battle right there.


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The tour visits the spectacular Dales, taking in Swaledale and Wensleydale. Even though 8 million people visit this National Park every year, it is a peaceful and tranquil area, with beautiful scenery.
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Explore the best of the Yorkshire Dales. We drive to the quaint village of Sedbergh and head up to see the famous Settle to Carlisle Railway and the spectacular viaduct.
We venture down into Wensleydale and Hardraw before descending into Swaledale through the valley to the small market town of Reeth for lunch.
Our next stop is Bolton Castle in which Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned before our journey up the valley to the spectacular Aysgarth Waterfalls, which is famous for scene from Robin Hood Prince of thieves.
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Finally! My entry for the Darwin contest is done. Get ready for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
About this creation
Sit back and relax. So I'll tell you the truth about Phipson's glasses.
With his relations with Disney and Tinseltown he gotten hand on the glasses James Bond used for Goldeneye. With 'em 007 could watch right trough peoples cloths. Yay for Phippy!
So, basically, this is what we see:
And this is what The Phip sees:
Of course, this tends to distract his attention from the bigger picture. For instance; we see Chris here on an average day, taking his meat out.
Chris: "Wow! Ahsoka! I knew you were alien, but never would have guessed you had three..."
Little did Phippy know, in the galaxy far, far away they're all veggies! So he got what he deserved. The last thing he saw were Ahsoka's three ***ies and two nude clones! What a way to go!
Chris is also well known for his driving style, wich is: too fast. Here we have him on one of his races.
WOW! Mickey?! Is that you??
*sound of fatal crash...
Of course, anybody who knows Chrispy knows he was once a famous ice-skater for the Disney on ice show. Here we have the blue genie on his practice.
WOW! Peg?! Is that you??
But, his glasses aren't always the blame for him getting in fatal trouble. This, for instance, is what happens if he doesn't get to fix his waterproblem at his place. He's gonna end up killed by the rest of humanity for that!
"Don't blame global warming, blame Phipson!"
And to save the best for last: here's the evidence for what's REALLY wrong with his eyes.
After parking the Phipmobile gently by the sidewalk, he decides to have a drink at his favourite place.
The Red Dwarf Club. Adults only.
WOW! Miley Cyrus?! Is that you??
Our hero enters...
By an incredible coinsedence he meets Kelso in the dark room.
Chris:" Hey, is that your invisible hand in my pants, or are you just happy to see me?"
Kelso:"Run for your life, Shanno! Before he asks us to hold his Rusty Ferret!"
Thanks for looking and feel free to leave a comment.
And yeah Mark, I know...I'm dead...
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October 12, 2011
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Master Shifu Leo J
June 9, 2010
How da heck did I miss this?!?! BUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Peg... BUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Metal Matt
June 4, 2010
LMAO! This is disturbingly hilarious! I about died laughing at the whole Club part!
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Juan C.
December 2, 2009
Funniest MOC ever!
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Mister Bones
December 2, 2009
This is simply hilarious! I was laughing out loud through the whole thing! Thanks for cheering up my boring afternoon! Mickey and Peg....HAHAHAHAHAHA
I made it
Giovanni Seynhaeve
May 4, 2009
Quoting Mark Kelso
Holy *&@! Giovanni, that was insanely funny! Doing in Phipson multiple times, and each one a gem. Ending things on the last one without a demise, weakens the whole package (yeah, Phipson I said �package��big whoop�wanna fight about it?) a bit, but those absurd puns more than make up for it! (If you only knew the inside scoop on the whole �Rusty Ferret thing�). Anyway, this one was definitely on my list for possible winners...it didn�t make our final cut, but hilarious all the same!
oh well, at least I died laughing in Jones' "Scene"...
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Mark Kelso
May 4, 2009
Holy *&@! Giovanni, that was insanely funny! Doing in Phipson multiple times, and each one a gem. Ending things on the last one without a demise, weakens the whole package (yeah, Phipson I said �package��big whoop�wanna fight about it?) a bit, but those absurd puns more than make up for it! (If you only knew the inside scoop on the whole �Rusty Ferret thing�). Anyway, this one was definitely on my list for possible winners...it didn�t make our final cut, but hilarious all the same!
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Dennis Price
May 1, 2009
Delightfully wicked! There are too many funny things to mention, but that license plate is deceptively hilarious.
I made it
Giovanni Seynhaeve
May 1, 2009
Quoting Lee Jones
Dude. I want whatever your drinking - this is too funny. Lee.
okay! Two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, coming up!
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Lee Jones
May 1, 2009
Dude. I want whatever your drinking - this is too funny. Lee.
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Heather LEGOgirl
April 28, 2009
Laughing too hard to leave a coherant comment! You are too clever, Gio!
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Shannon Ocean
April 27, 2009
I love dark rooms...funniest thing I've seen all month!
I made it
Giovanni Seynhaeve
April 27, 2009
Thank you for your fine comments, people. I couldn't have pulled this off without the info of some insiders, so credit goes to you; Dvious, Heather and Dave...OOOOPS, was that out loud?
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Dave Sterling
April 26, 2009
Awesome. This explains so much about Phipson. Nice little series of vigs!
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Dave Shaddix
April 26, 2009
I'm going to take responsibility for the whole 'one-legged wife' thing. You see, Gio asked me if her name was really Peg, I told him that it was actually a nick name. I explained that she lost her leg in a figure skating accident, and now, because of her wooden 'peg leg', she just goes by 'Peg'. ...I'm a very bad man.
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Dennis Price
April 26, 2009
Superb work. I always enjoy a series of comic misadventures and these fit the bill. Don't know which was funnier, the Peg joke or the Invisible Hand . . .
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Garth Danielson
April 26, 2009
And I wasted my money on those X-Ray specs out of the comics when I was a kid. All I got was a headache when I tried to use them. Funny. see ya. garth
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Flux Harbrin
April 26, 2009
Probably one of the most HILLARIOUS MOC's I've seen lately!
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Dylan B
April 26, 2009
HaHaHa, Brilliant! Everything is just great, but the best part is that it's just plain HILARIOUS! -Dylan
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April 26, 2009
Haha I knew it :D
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Chris Phipson
April 26, 2009
You do know her name doesn't imply that she only has one leg right? AHAHAHA! Like Sterling said, this explains SO much! And don't worry, some of those little "in jokes" (like the name of the club) weren't lost on me. Genius sir... sheer genius! ~ Chris.
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dvious enigma
April 26, 2009
BAAAAHAHHAHAH... . nioce Peg redition there... thats great
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Watch the power lines arc in Ann Arbor during Tuesday's snowstorm
Wet tree limbs falling on live power lines during Tuesday night's snowstorm caused bright flashes of light across Washtenaw County that caught the attention of many area residents.
Stephen Johnson took the following video of a power line arcing at Page Avenue and Marlborough Drive Tuesday night on the south side of Ann Arbor.
Make sure the volume on your computer is on to hear the sound of the lines arcing.
Amy Biolchini covers Washtenaw County, health and environmental issues for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at (734) 623-2552, email@example.com or on Twitter.
Lizzy Alfs
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 : 12:04 p.m.
This is wild! I've never seen these "arcs" before. I can't believe how powerful it is.
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 : 2:50 a.m.
It's got a good beat. You could dance to it.
John Gotts
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 : 2:13 a.m.
I believe I saw that arc from I-94 around 10 or 10:15, heading east. It was bright as daylight.
Ann English
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 : 3:59 a.m.
"Bright as daylight" is right. And the sound--I couldn't believe for a while that this was actually what reporters say it was. It was too easy to think that the sound was added to the video in order to desensitize the viewer to the solemnity of what it actually was. NOT for entertainment. Not background music. But a reactive sound.
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 : 10:59 p.m.
Awesome. We could see the flashes being given off some number of blocks away as a sort of diffuse orange and bluish light show over the houses. At the same time the power on our block was pulsating on/off like once per second which I am guessing corresponds to the "pulsation" in the audio. It was very odd.
Homeland Conspiracy
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 : 10:23 p.m.
Did you here the message? it was like Morse code from God! Repent, Repent!!!!
Thu, Feb 28, 2013 : 4:02 a.m.
Which God? There's so many, none of which have any level of tangible validity over the others.... So yea. I'll probably never get a good answer for that one. Lol.
John of Saline
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 : 10:07 p.m.
Um, I wouldn't drive under that arc. What was the truck driver thinking?
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 : 9:57 p.m.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Our power started going on and off yesterday afternoon around 2:30pm. It continued into the night. Then at 5:30 am this morning it went off for good. (or bad). DTE said it would be Thursday night between 9:30 and 11:30pm at fist. Now when I look at the map, many more around the area have lost it. But now they say tonight after 11:00pm. That's good. We did buy a generator a few years ago and it has been a blessing to have it. It will be a cold dark night for some folks unfortunately. Help out your elderly neighbors if you can.
Linda Peck
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 : 9:23 p.m.
Very impressive. Especially the truck driving underneath.
Amy Biolchini
Wed, Feb 27, 2013 : 9:03 p.m.
Many thanks to the reader that submitted this video. Seeing and hearing this happen is crazy.


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Leeds United have included star youngster Sam Byram in their squad which has headed off for Slovenia today.
The players are set to be put through their paces on a 10-day camp that will include three games.
The travelling party has included right-back Byram, who is recovering from a hip injury that ruled him out of England's under-20 squad recently.
Goalkeeper Jamie Ashdown has also made the trip after being an injury doubt.
But striker El Hadji Diouf has not travelled as he is being treated for a shin infection and winger Ryan Hall is also missing as he expects to be a father this week.
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Making your luck
Funny how things work out. John Button was making his way towards the airport terminal at Nice last week when a large bird dumped on his white jacket.
"I was the only person around for what seemed like miles and suddenly - wallop! I think it must have been waiting for me. I don't know what this bird had been eating but it looked like lots of berries and things. It was a right mess. That's supposed to bring good luck, isn't it? We'll see."
Button Senior told me this in the back of a badly-sprung Montreal taxi as we wallowed and bounced our way from P E Trudeau airport to Downtown. Naturally, we discussed the previous race and how Jenson's Monaco Grand Prix had been compromised by the red flag. "Funny how these things go," said John. "I think Jense might have won that - I suppose I would say that, wouldn't I? Will he win this weekend? You just can't say at the moment. You never know what might happen, do you?"
True. But not even in a moment of massive enthusiasm fired by a glass or two of his favourite Merlot would John have predicted that his boy would make five pit stops, receive a drive-through, collide with his team-mate, run in 21st place with less than half of the Canadian Grand Prix to go - and win it on the last lap. Writing that in a film script would have you consigned to the Bahrain GP Memorial Home for the Terminally Naive.
The following day, Sebastian Vettel was playing his role as Ambassador for Infiniti by taking local journalists and broadcasters for high-speed rides in the very quick G37 Coupe. It was interesting to watch his approach. After a couple of reconnaissance laps of the 1.8-mile Icar track (on the site of the former international Mirabel airport), Vettel had established a racing line - and then seemed to ignore it for much of the time as he threw the car sideways, creating tyre smoke and spectacle for the cameras, and silly grins for his passengers.
An interview session produced the inevitable question about whether or not Vettel thought he was on course to retain the championship; a reasonable conclusion if you take the raw statistic of five wins in the previous six races. Vettel explained that F1 is not like that.
"Yes," he agreed, "I've won five races but it's been very competitive; not as easy as maybe it looks. It only takes the smallest thing to happen and you've lost a position; maybe the race. You do your best, try to do everything right - but anything can happen. I mean, it's incredibly close at the moment."
Prescient words. But, even allowing for such reasonable circumspection, it's a fair bet that Vettel would never have predicted events four days later on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The weekend had started off in a familiar manner when Vettel hit the wall on Friday morning, badly damaged the Red Bull and then carried on in the afternoon as if nothing had happened. Just like Turkey.
It also seemed just like Istanbul Park when Vettel led every lap. Except the last one. Even Seb, for all his composure, must have been quietly impressed by Jenson's sang froid in the face of such massive setbacks in the previous laps. Button was fortunate to get away without serious damage following the collision with his team-mate - which, from where I was sitting, seemed to be more the fault of Hamilton than Button as Lewis drove into a gap that was always going to diminish as Jenson took the racing line.
That race in Montreal summed up Button's demeanour these days. He's relaxed and happy; very content with life and comfortable within McLaren-Mercedes. He's won the championship. If he wins another; fine. If not; his sunny world will keep turning on its axis. Luck? Yes, he had his share on Sunday just as the cards did not fall his way in Monaco.
Vettel was telling journalists at the Infiniti driving day that he may not be deeply superstitious but he does have his little rituals, such as always climbing into his race car from the left-hand side. In the light of what happened to John Button, don't be surprised if you see Vettel seeking out seagulls and deliberately walking under them in Valencia next week. Preferably wearing an immaculate white jacket.
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Neighbors worry teen's shooting death may be start of violence
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A 17-year-old boy is dead after an early morning shooting. Now police and residents in a Wilmington neighborhood are trying to piece together exactly what went wrong.
One neighbor said he and his wife had both just fallen asleep, but they were quickly woken up by what sounded like a scene from the wild west.
After retiring from his job in with the Department of Corrections Hampton Colclough, 63, moved to what he calls a quiet neighborhood at the corner of 6th and Kidder streets in Wilmington. But his perception of the neighborhood changed around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
"It sounded like cowboys out here. It was just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. That was it," Colclough said.
After hearing about 10 shots ring out around his house, Colclough looked out the front door and saw the body of Jeffrey Henry, 17, face down in his front yard between his trash cans.
"I was kind of shocked," Colclough said. "To have that right there by my door, right there a body laying there like that, I mean, I was shocked. When someone's life is snuffed out at an early age, it's just a shame, but this is the kind of world we live in right now."
Using Dogs and the SABLE helicopters, police found a second man with a gunshot in his leg hiding in a nearby backyard.
Though investigators say there is not yet a connection between the two victims, Colclough says he fears this is not the end of the violence. Other neighbors, who asked not to go on camera for fear of retaliation, shared his thoughts.
"He was a member of the Bloods," Colclough said. "Now there's either Bloods or Crips, and there's not Crips here. It's all Bloods. You can expect repercussions as a result."
Investigators have not yet said who the the second shooting victim is, but officers did question him at the hospital.
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Sorry for the alarmist headline, but guess what? The pill can stop you working out if you really fancy someone, according to results of a study by the University of Catania.
Scent is linked to desire and the university's research found after three months of being on the pill, women who were part of their test group had no increased sense of smell at their most fertile (read: most sexy) time of month.
And that's not all.
Another study by the University of Mexico revealed its tests found when women were on the pill and at their most fertile they saw no difference between men who had symmetrical features (these are associated with beauty) and those who had asymmetrical features.
Women who weren't on the pill preferred the men with symmetrical features.
As if all this wasn't enough evidence, Jill Blakeway - author of Sex Again: Recharging You Libido told Refinery 29 this could result in you getting with someone who's 100% not right for you.
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Hi. We just purchased our daughter a 2001 vw golf ( as is) and there was a slight musty smell when bought it, we thought maybe the sunroof was left open in the rain and after having it's interior professionally cleaned the smell would go away it hasnt. It is getting horrible now and we happened to notice that there is no water leakage under the car when the a/c is running, which it seems there should be since thats what every other car I've ever seen does. Could something be clogged up in a/c unit causing the terrible smell. PLEASE HELP.
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Common Questions and Answers about Stomach virus and passing out
About 6 hours ago, it started to feel like I still have to go but sometimes very little or nothing is coming
has become very uncomfortable
also not allowing me to sleep. It feels like constipation because I keep running to the bathroom thinking I have to go and nothing is coming out. I also was able to eat more solid food today and wondering if this might have had some effect on me.
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Everytime I get nauseated I will start tingling
know im going to pass
. I know whats going on but I cant move. I have done this for years. I can't stand to get the stomach virus because I do this. If I take any medicines that will make me sick at my stomach, it will do this. What can I do or take that I can knock this before I pass out?
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I did receive treatment for the possible bacterial infections STD given z pack, doxy, ofoflax, uribel
something for trich. My neuro said it's probably a unknown
. I have been on a few rounds of antivirals for herpes just to see if there is a reaction, the antivirals seem to help the symptoms but herpes test was neg. I am thinking this maybe undetected herpes infection accompany with a fungal overgrowth due to excess antibiotics.
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He may have a
that seems to be going round, once he stops vomiting make sure hes getting water to keep him hydrated, the gas may be the preliminary to having diarreha, limit his food, it should take its course but if he seems worse or has a high fever take him to the Doctor to get checked out.
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Parasites/tapeworm ruled out (normal ultrasound and no signs of seizures), bacteria infection ruled
(antibiotics finished course),
(only breads seem to trigger pain). Physical injuries ruled out by exams from 3 different ER doctors. Need suggestions on other possible diseases/causes for severe pain reaction to breads/pasta with no prior history?
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I've been having those symptoms,
my doctor has told me it was an ulcer.It can cause your
to burn.Does your
burn after you eat?Or is the burning relieved by eating?Do you feel nauseated at times?You should go to the doctor(preferably a gastroenterologist)and have them check you out.
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After reading the posts on this site I tend to feel a little more at ease. Then I go
read some other web sites
begin freaking
all over again. I will be seeing my reg family doctor this afternoon, not sure if I want to brg up the exposure risk to him, I am in a fairly small town. As far as testing, can you buy a test that gives you immediate results at a local pharmacy? Can a local facility, hospital, clinic etc give you a test with same day results?
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I want to help them both but it's obvious that extreme precautions can't even keep you from getting this
. My mom is borderline OCD
was lysal'ing EVERYTHING
passing out hand sanitizer like tic tacs. YET, she woke this morning with it. A chiropractor told me that you can't catch catch the same virus twice...I find that hard to believe and just wanted to get a few more opinions on the matter before I risk catching it again. Can it be airborne?
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he contained the
, wouldn't he keep giving it to me over
over. I have my yearly PAP since I had the HPV all normal. Every 3 before that. Last year my PAP was normal, would it take a year to grow too? I get my results the 30th or after the new year.
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I got the similiar stuff I have been suffering for almost a year with bloating, weakness, like something did something to my chest and intestins it always in pain and I feel like I am surviving every night, practicaly passing out from pain on my bed, school ***** and I barely have energy to work.
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Hi, I'm sorry to hear about your husband. I'm feeling better today, thank god! I hope you find out whatever if making him feel like that. I think my bowel troubles and flu like symtoms were just that, flu or stomach virus. My "episode" symptoms and things have been going on over a period of a year maybe. It was thought it was acid reflaux at first then when Prolosec wasn't helping and it kept coming on, I got tested for the ulcer and gallbladder.
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I have had the same problem for about a month now, when I was younger (about ten or eleven) I had the 'eggy burps' usually after I had been particularly sick with one of the strains of flu (particularly stomach flu) just recently it got worse, it was non-stop hell for a day and a half, and now that I have just recently started eating properly again, I've noticed that there is always one connection to this problem (for me anyway, it could be different for everyone) if I eat any type of cheese, I
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Two weeks ago when I had my first doctor visit, I went because I had felt nauseous for 2 weeks. That turned
to be a
, one of my co-workers had it before me. I told the doctor I had been feeling shooting pains in my hip areas but they weren't constant - I felt those pains last night for less than a minute. He didn't really explain those or say what they were caused by. I had a pap smear that day but haven't heard anything about it since then.
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Sonogram negative
one back X-ray negative. I don't know what to do. Could it be a
that causes the burning, feels like he has to pee all the time ? Should I push for a ct scan of stomach ? Please steer me in right direction. Thank you!
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All related.
is just about 100% normal
happened literally OVERNIGHT. Only a
would act that way after hurting me for 8 weeks. I am sitting here drinking coffee and wondering if the stress of working so hard and an emotional upset, even though I am not outwardly upset, brought this virus out in me. Yesterday a friend brought some food to the door. I could feel myself getting better as we spoke. I ask you again, miracle from God, or spontaneous withdrawal of the HSV virus?
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For the past few months, if I go
first thing in the morning with an empty
run 5.5 miles up
down a fairly steep slope, then swim for half an hour, my stomach will churn for hours afterward. If I drink a quart of water beforehand and 20 ounces of water toward the end of the run, I am usually OK. What bothers me is that I have been doing my exercise routine for more than 5 years without this ever happening before.
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I think everything is over
I clean up. I walk
of the toilet
in about 2 minutes time the
the fainting sensation comes back (I've fainted only once to date from this and was out for about 15-20 minutes). 6. When I get back to the toilet I have a really violent Diarrhoea episode in pure liquid state.
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after the trip to the doctor I was put back on the same perscriptioin for CLONAZAEPAM everything was fine for about a month after then I was hit with the out of body feeling that most people get with panic attacks and can't get rid of it it feels like im in some one else body its driveing me nuts when ever I try to focus my eyes on something they bugg
it goes blurry also had a catscan since all this
nothing came up turns
most of the breathing issue is I may be alergic to GRAV
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I found
when my frined was diagnosed, I realized I was high risk. I REQUESTED that my doc test me
it came back positive. They do NOT test for hep C as a matter of course, but they should. Learn as much as you can and when you see a specialist, have questions prepared. Meanwhile, try not to panic - if you feel fine I do not think your liver is failing.
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Hi May_be, I went 8 weeks without my period
urine kept coming
the day before missing my second period, I started spotting and later on that day, it started flowing like a river. So, just give it a bit more time and if it still doesn't start that second month, go get tested again. Sometimes your body tend to skip a month, for different reasons. I just knew I was pregnant, but it crept up on me soon as I was getting ready to miss the second month.
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First it is entirely possible to get afib via gas bloat
digestive tract disorders. If your
digestive tract is as described then you must have inflamation. All this inflamation and bloat and gas will push up on your diaphram and surrounding areas and cause great discomfort and pain but also can press upon nerves.
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First it is entirely possible to get afib via gas bloat
digestive tract disorders. If your
digestive tract is as described then you must have inflamation. All this inflamation and bloat and gas will push up on your diaphram and surrounding areas and cause great discomfort and pain but also can press upon nerves.
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) -soar muscles/muscle pain -intolerance to heat -upset
-cold hands
feet -difficulty sleeping
concentrating -dry mouth -irregular period -losing alot more hair than usual -dizziness/lightheadedness -pain in my shoulders, back, sides, and neck and NOW i'm starting to get flu/fever like symptoms that are: -swollen throat glands (feels as if something is swollen in my throat!
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I'm slightly better today, at least I'm walking around a little without having visions of myself
lieing here till someone finds me. lol (Hubby's
of town till Sat pm) Sometimes I can be such a drama queen. But, what can I say....you get all out of breath walking one flight of stairs, I'll lay around wanting a drink of water for 10 minutes till I finally make myself reach over and get it. That is pathetic. But it sounds like the same stuff everyone else is dealing with.
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NAUSEA may be from what is happening in your
from irregular eating,
maybe from DEHYDRATION (?!!). Suggestion: 1. BREATH TEST to confirm/exclude H.pylori infection of stomach. If confirmed, 7 days (I think) of ANTIBIOTIC treatment follows (it is often successfull). 2. GASTROSCOPY will be needed to check for changes in your stomach and lower esophagus. 3. I think you should start with these upper GI investigations, and only then, if needed, go with colonoscopy.
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I found
that I have Migraine
Vertigo. I rarely have headaches, mainly dizziness
foggy feeling. I ended up going to a doctor that my ENT sent me to. It was a clinic for hearing & balance. They did an "audio VNG". It is about a 2 hour long series of tests that can narrow down the reasons for the dizziness. It will check for inner ear problems, etc. The tests are pretty intense and make you dizzy on purpose while they put goggles on your eyes that have cameras inside.
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No, I haven't really checked anything -- haven't been sure if I should see a doctor about this yet or if there are viral infections that follow a course like this and I should just wait it out a few more days. Isn't h pylori mostly a stomach thing?
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I want to help them both but it's obvious that extreme precautions can't even keep you from getting this
. My mom is borderline OCD
was lysal'ing EVERYTHING
passing out hand sanitizer like tic tacs. YET, she woke this morning with it. A chiropractor told me that you can't catch catch the same virus twice...I find that hard to believe and just wanted to get a few more opinions on the matter before I risk catching it again. Can it be airborne?
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First can herpes cause nausea with
back cramps? I know my anxiety is high! Secondly how does the burning
tingling work? I've had vaginal pain throughout my entire vagina for months now, when it first started it hurt inside and out, sometimes it's a burn, sore feeling. It has felt as if icy hot was on it, And more recently it hasn't been all day and had been more of an ache sometimes a burn. My leg and arm muscles (both left and right) have been tired and very sore.
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While trying to view the SQL Error logs in SQL Server Management Studio or using xp_readerrorlogs it internally executes sp_enumerrorlogs.
And sp_enumerrorlogs – tries to execute the below command:
- The command was providing the cluster name(CLUS180633) instead of the SQL virtual server name (SQL).
- Further examination of the registry revealed the following:
-This was pointing the windows cluster name instead of the SQL Virtual server name
- SQL Server is using the above registry key and it was not able to locate [CLUS180633 \MSSQLServer].
- As opposed to [SQL\MSSQLServer] to access the error logs and enumerate them – so it was failing.
- Changing the registry key to reflect the correct server name directly – will not work as the Cluster over writes it every time, based on the way the cluster resources are configured.
- Always the SQL server resources should be dependent on the disk. Here Disk itself was depend on cluster network name.
- So, if there are any unnecessary dependencies created - eliminate them.
- Internally, the Network Name resource returns the name of the virtual server. If there are any disks resources which are depended on cluster network name then it returns the name of the windows cluster (Windows Cluster resources and SQL server resources were in same group in this case).
- We set the dependency in the following way:
Network Name -> IP
SQL Server -> Network Name, Disks
SQL Agent -> SQL Server
Full Text -> Disks
- Doing this will automatically update the above registry key with proper values and you will be able to access the SQL Error log with sp_enumerrorlog
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Whether a Lawrence homeless shelter can move from downtown to an industrial park near the Douglas County Jail soon should become a lot clearer.
Attorneys for the Lawrence Community Shelter and trustees of the business park completed arguments Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
"I know everyone is in a hurry for an opinion on this one," said Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny. "I'll send out one as fast as I can."
If the shelter loses the case, it likely would derail plans for the shelter to move from its location at 10th and Kentucky streets. It also could create questions about the shelter's future in downtown. The shelter's special use permit that allows it to operate downtown is set to expire this spring. When city commissioners last renewed the permit — over the objection of neighbors — they did so with the expectation that the shelter would be well on its way to a new location when the permit came back up for renewal.
Attorneys for the shelter argued vigorously on Thursday that the homeless shelter has the right to relocate to the industrial park. Trustees for the business park contend long-standing covenants prohibit a homeless shelter from locating in the park, but shelter attorney Jerry Wells argued no such language is included in the covenants.
"What they want you to do is infer or imply a restriction, and that can't be done," Wells said.
But Todd Thompson, an attorney for the trustees, said the covenants are clear that the park is for industrial, governmental and business uses. He said the shelter doesn't fall into any of those categories.
"The law does not require the absurd listing of every use you want to prohibit," Thompson said. "One cannot intellectually, honestly read these covenants and conclude that they allow people to live in the park."
City commissioners have approved a special use permit for the shelter to locate at 3701 Franklin Park Circle. But commissioners said at the time of the approval that they weren't making any judgment about whether the covenants allowed a shelter use at the site.
Attorneys for the trustee group — which is led by Lawrence businessman Steve Glass — argued the shelter project is far from a done deal regardless. Attorneys asked the court to rule that the shelter doesn't have proper standing to have filed the lawsuit — the shelter is the plaintiff in the suit — because it does not have a completed bank loan and thus has no certainty that it could purchase the building even if it wins the lawsuit.
Loring Henderson, director of the shelter, confirmed that his group doesn't have a finalized bank loan, but he said discussions with a bank have gone well and he doesn't expect that to be an issue.
The shelter has agreed to pay about $2 million for the building. Shelter leaders have raised about $1.6 million in funds, but anticipate that a "bridge loan" will be needed to close the transaction and to give the shelter more time to raise the needed funds through donations.
"The bank has always said 'when, not if,' when they have talked to us," said Doug Brown, a commercial real estate agent who also is part of the shelter's leadership team.
Pokorny did not give a specific timeline for her decision, but attorneys said it could be in a matter of days.
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Playstation 4/Twitch Tv Getting Out of Control
I was a little disturbed when I seen this last night. mainly because I have children. This is not what Sony nor Twitch Tv had in mind when they crested this intergration. Apparently this paticular account does this all the time. They stated another show will be this evening. Playstation is not the place for this kind of activities. I believe there are too many children on here and parents might not be aware what their kids might be watching. Now I like the application. But feel these individuals should be instantly banned. On behalf of the children.


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ONLY ON 3 UPDATE: CB Police think they have photos of assault suspects
CAROLINA BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Carolina Beach Police believe they now have photos of two suspects accused of beating up a Raleigh man outside of a McDonald's earlier this month.
Detectives say after talking to the victim, they were able to better pinpoint where the assault happened.
If you have any information on who the two men are, please call the Carolina Beach Police Department at (910) 458-2540.
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Coding Club Level 2 Python: Next Steps Have you ever wondered how computers can make so much happen? How do they perform calculations, show movies and run amazing games? Learn the basics of coding quickly with a unique new series that will guide young programmers to create their own versions of familiar games and apps and challenge them to adapt and experiment with programs.
Take your Python coding to the next level! This edition of Python Next Steps continues on from Python Basics where readers were introduced to the world of coding and to Python 3. It is aimed at students who have some basic programming experience and are ready to move onto slightly more challenging material.
You will learn how to program and customise a simple calculator, and most importantly, learn essential new programming ideas that will make you a much more accomplished coder.
Designed and written for children with an appealing design and fun approach and simple explanation throughout. Written by a teacher and has an educational focus with objectives, summaries and challenges as well as hints and tips to engage the students. Gives children the chance to experiment and create their own versions of familiar games. Short and manageable with short chapters. Can be used with windows, macs or linux based systems. Can be used in a classroom where there is no expert teacher or at home with a parent. Recommended by Cambridge International Examinations for use with the IGCSE Computer Science syllabus. Compatible with the Raspberry Pi computer. This edition contains the full text of the original printed book, in addition to installation videos, glossaries and extra hints and tips.