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I didn't know it even ran on today's computers, let alone still used. What is so attractive about HyperCard that prevents people from using things like PowerPoint, or Director, or web-based solutions, or any other number of things?
Director is incredibly powerful and versatile, but it is not simple. indeed, there have been many tools built into its interface in an attempt to make it immediately useable. however, there still exist countless anomolies in the interface logic, in Lingo (Director's scripting language), and in general workflow that cripple Director significantly.
i am a Director developer, but more importantly, i teach an intro level Director class at the Art Institute of California. trying to communicate to undergrad art students what Director is and how it is used has shed much light on these problems for me.
from what i understand (in terms of capabilities), Hypercard falls somewhere inbetween Director and powerpoint. i've heard accounts from other Director developers praising how intuitive they found Hypercard to be. i suspect that its gentle learning curve would make it an attractive alternative to someone unskilled in the field of multimedia.
but i wonder how many folks who don't possess multimedia development skills would be required to develop something more complex than a powerpoint presentation.
for those of us who develop complex multimedia apps, rapid dev software (prototype, etc.), and games, there is no viable option to Director. the steep learning curve is just a fact of life.
i used toolbook for a while myself.
it was fairly intuitive, but not overly so.
and it was not anywhere near as powerful as Director. like i said, for multimedia developers, there is no other viable alternative to Director. and even though i am a hardcore Director fan, that sucks. we need another alternative. but seeing macromedia's current business/financial disaster, i imagine not too many other companies are interested in getting into the market.
other products have been introduced, but i haven't seen one get past vaporware. the most interesting one was called something like revolution or some shit. there are some quicktime based alternatives for which one could make a convincing argument. but quicktime? fuck off... it's got great features but its just not stable.
if anyone reads this and knows of another product, PLEASE let me know about it. email@example.com. thanks
Well, not to tread on anybody's Macromedia advocacy, but if I'm not mistaken, Director wasn't even a gleam in the milkman's eye on Intel platforms at the time I was using Toolbook to develop applications. The Toolbook runtime was bundled with Windows 3.0 in 1990. There wasn't even a Director implementation for Windows until 1994, although there was a player for Director movies (which had to be built on a Mac) before then.
Originally Director and Toolbook were targeted at rather different application domains. When VB blew Toolbook out of the ad-hoc applications language box on Windows, "multimedia" was one niche Toolbook fled to. So was "courseware".
But this just shows you how tenuous life as a "business partner" to MSFT can be. Even if you're Asymmetrix (which was founded on the proceeds of a MSFT stock sale by Paul Allen, as I recall)
... is a way of creating hypertext docs with embedded logic. Like a scripted web site, only less accessible.
Well, it could be used like that, for sure. Every great programming idea out there seems to have at least one controlling metaphor that is so striking that you have to pay attention to it. Now, most people *think* the controlling metaphor of Hypercard is simply "life is a stack of cards!", but that is actually more of an implementational detail. In one of the Wired articles referred to in this thread, Bill Atkinson mentions explicitly what I always thought was true and obvious in retrospect: Hypercard "stacks" could have been spread over the network, and something eerily like the World Wide Web could have come on the scene at least 5 years earlier.
Now what I think was the most important advance made by Hypercard was the idea that "Everything is an object or a message, and the way to handle messages in a GUI is via delegation, and you really don't need inheritance at all." Seriously, I think it is still hard to see how forward thinking Hypercard really was in this respect, until you browse some W3C documentation struggling to define how to handle user events in and around the DOM. In Hypercard, any object could handle any appropriate message itself and/or pass it up the chain to it's "enclosing" object, or pass it to any object of its choosing. (You couldn't always choose the first target of an event like "mouseup", but you could always delegate to the right object in the long run, which is key.) When given this much power, you could do almost any fool thing and that's what people actually did. So I remember when I first implemented EMACS-style editing commands for the message box in Hypercard (including a rudimentary kill-ring!); nobody had ever dreamed of doing anything so nutso, but there it was! I also remember starting on a chess tutor-like interface that would allow a novice to see all of the possible next moves for a piece; that never went anywhere under my power, but the proof of concept did impress a few people who had no idea you could do anything like this with software that came for free with your Mac.
On the other hand, I can't write a complete love letter to Hypercard in this post since the memory of the thing immediately brings to mind the most hideous misfeatures of Hyper*Talk*, the language. Like the no real variables part, or the fact that you could not escape to a less verbose syntax, or the fact that since it lacked explicit "anchors" like HTML that some kinds of links were truly painful to construct... But HyperCard was there, and it was great, and now it's gone. And the real shame is that nobody in the Apple chain of command really knows why it was great: it was an astonishingly powerful programming environment that made some people absurdly happy and led to at least as many Apple hardware purchases in the late 80s as anything else. (Once somebody had a stack that did X, you were better off buying more Macs than trying to re-do X some other way...) That is just my opinion, of course, but any geek who delights in the fact that Mac OS X is basically just BSD under the Aqua seas might understand the glee of users who suddenly found out that they could do powerful object-oriented programming with a piece of "address book" software added to the system almost as an afterthought.
I thought it was cookies and ass... or maybe that was the daily show.
Actually, wherefore is a more specific word than our modern "why". My source for this is the book "Brush up your Shakespeare". Why can be used in two situations: to ask "For what purpose" or to "From what cause". The term "Wherefore" only means the former.
I'm not sure about the entymology, but I belive it comes from Where = "At what location/time" and Fore = "In the future". So it would literally be asking for what time in the future was it necessary to name him Romeo. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
'Wherefore' means 'why'. "Why art thou, Hypercard?"
I suggested the title of this article, and know full well what "wherefore" means. (I have a dusty old English degree.) Furthermore, I think that paraphrasing Juliet is entirely appropriate. I suspect that the relationship between Mac OS X and HyperCard is doomed, as was Romeo and Juliet's love.
Perhaps the worst grammatical mistake in slashdot history.
That's perhaps the most misdirected outrage in slashdot history!
"Wherefore art thou Romeo?" is not really asking why he exists but rather "Why are you Romeo?". The problem with their relationship was that the love of her life belonged to the family of her father's enemy. Specifically, that he was Romeo.
So that I'm not totally off topic, I will suggest that a more appropriate title for this article might have been "Whither Hypercard?"
Too much of the rest of the computer revolution has not followed that promise.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2 [mit.edu]
I'm glad that someone is paying attention.
Saint Fnordius . . . pray for us.
All of the advantages of good 'ol hypercard, and a universal model for I/O.
the bastards will manage to screw this idea to hell, using XML and XSLT and all the latest word-salad acronyms that serve to distance ordinary people from approching these technologies.
Seems to me that both Macromedia Director [macromedia.com] and Revolution [runrev.com] are offspring of the original Hypercard.
As a matter of fact, I believe that Revolution can import Hyper/Super stacks with pretty decent accuracy -- plus dig the development and deployment platforms: [snip]
[/snip]Revolution supports these platforms for both development and deployment:
* Mac OS 7.1 and later
* Mac OS X
* Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000
* Unix flavors including:
* Linux (x86 and PPC)
* Digital UNIX
* SCO Open DeskTop/UnixWare
* Solaris (x86 and SPARC)
* SunOS
Compare that to the Win32/MacOS Classic support in Director. Yeah, yeah... there was an OS/2 runtime environment for Director 4. But it never worked as well as running Dir 4 executables in Win compatibility mode.
Having used Director as my primary development platform during my "budding" years as a programmer, I'd be willing to bet that most people have absolutely no idea how powerful it is. I never came across a project that required more than it could deliver -- with the exception of the odd Xtra/Xobject.
In recent years, Director has started getting WAAAY too bloated, and the performance is down to a crawl -- on the Mac platform at least. Does anyone really use the 3D extensions that 8.5 provided?
I'm not even going to talk about how slow MM has been to carbonize Director, either.
Nope. Not gonna talk about that.
I've played with Revolution a bit recently -- specifically because it doesn't require the purchase of the authoring environment for multiple platforms if you wish to deliver on multiple platforms. I've been pretty impressed by it, and the company.
There's something to be said for supporting small Scottish companies with a sense of humour.
I have to say -- if I'm writing data-parsing utilities for my own/internal use -- I can get the job done in a fraction of the time (minutes vs. hours/days) using one of these tools vs perl/php or full-blown C projects.
This class of tools (and now Flash with Actionscript, and RealBasic I'd assume) is responsible for being the "training wheels" for oodles of budding programmers and shareware authors -- and the community support for this type of tool is awesome. Comparable with the PHP community.
Definitely worth a look if you're wanting to learn the basics of programming without having to deal with OS-level display toolboxes and the like.
Actually, Director predates HyperCard by some time - it was introduced at roughly the same time as the original color Mac (the Mac II), in early 1987. It was descended from MacroMind Videoworks, which may well have been the very first real multimedia application anywhere.Seems to me that both Macromedia Director [macromedia.com] and Revolution [runrev.com] are offspring of the original Hypercard.
He called them Hypercards.
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Snyder's of Hanover adds product lines
Snyder's of Hanover launched two new product lines this month aimed at providing more healthy snacks for consumers.
This week, the company announced two new, gluten-free pretzel varieties. Snyder's cited an annual study by NPD Group showing that nearly one-third of Americans are looking to reduce their current gluten intake.
The new pretzels are available in honey mustard and onion or hot buffalo wing flavors. The new flavors are in addition to Snyder's gluten-free pretzel sticks and mini pretzels.
"Consumers seeking gluten-free snacks do not want to give up flavor," said Bob Gould, marketing manager for Snyder's of Hanover. "By offering our two most popular pretzel flavors in a gluten-free variety, we're able to provide expanded options for shoppers looking to remove the gluten in their daily diets."
The new pretzel line is certified by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization and are dairy-free, casein-free and egg-free.
Last week, Snyder's announced its new Korn Krunchers line, available in barbecue, nacho grande and hot chili lime. The corn snacks are baked instead of fried, which the company said reduced fat by 30 percent.
Snyder's of Hanover is a subsidiary of Snyder's-Lance Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, N.C.

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The two Democratic hopefuls in the 14th Congressional District primary include a first-timer and a repeat contender.
Small businessman John J. Hosta of Spring Grove, 54, is new to the race. Dennis Anderson, 63, of Gurnee returns to vie for the seat for the second straight time. He once again would face incumbent Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield, who defeated him for re-election in 2012.
Anderson, who is retired from his role providing administrative support for cancer researchers, lists economic recovery and job creation as his main priority for the district. He said groups from the private and public sectors could come together to form business incubator partnerships. In addition, he would work to strengthen the district's transportation infrastructure.
The economy and transportation are key issues for Hosta, but his main goal is protecting U.S. industries. He said some of the recent layoffs in business are a direct result of 20 years of poor foreign trade policies.
Financial incentives could play a role in bringing more manufacturing jobs to the U.S. and filling up vacant buildings in the area, Hosta said.
"This is how you get the economy going again," Hosta said. "I would fight tooth and nail to get Whirlpool here [to the district]."
Hosta said that he likes Anderson, but he thinks that he is more business-minded and aggressive than his opponent. Hosta started his custom bedding business in 1987 for interior designers, and saw firsthand the effects of a struggling economy.
Hosta said he plans to spend a few hundred dollars, at most, during his primary campaign. He said that without special-interest support, he is not beholden to anyone. Anderson also touted a Washington outsider stance, adding that he's not a career politician.
Anderson said he is the better choice in the March 18 primary because he considers himself a pragmatist open to dialogue. He said he has a broader concern and understanding than Hosta of the issues facing 14th district residents.
"We have too many people in Congress driving by ideology," Anderson said. "I'm willing to talk with anyone about any issue."
The 14th District covers seven counties, including Kane, DuPage, DeKalb, Will, McHenry, Lake and Kendall.


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2003-04 Women's Basketball
Three Beavers named All-HCAC
Beavers place three to All-HCAC honorable mention team
By Ben Risinger, SID
March 8, 2004
Senior Lindsay Bacon (Troy/Troy), sophomore Karin Schaller (Jenera/Arlington) and freshman Tanya Rickenberg (Defiance/Paulding) have been selected honorable mention by the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference for their contributions in the 2003-04 season. Rickenberg was also selected for the all-freshman team.
Bacon finished her tenure at Bluffton College with 291 points for the season (536 total points for career). She averaged 11.6 points per game which placed her at 13th in the conference. For the season Bacon shot fifty 3-pointers which led the Beavers and put her at second in the conference.
Schaller posted an incredible season inside in her second year on the team, despite not playing in the last five games of the year due to injury. She shattered Bluffton and HCAC records in blocks (115 for year) during the season. Schaller now owns the single game and season block records for Bluffton as well as the season block record for the HCAC. She ended the season second in Division III in blocks per game, averaging 5.5 per game. For the year she averaged 9.7 points per game which placed her at 19th in the league. Schaller also pulled down 9.9 rebounds per game which was third in the league and finished 12th in field goal percentage at .426 percent.
Rickenberg led the Beavers in scoring for the season, averaging 15.0 points per game (391 total). Her 391 total points were the most by any freshman in the history of Bluffton College women's basketball. She finished fifth in the HCAC in scoring and tenth in rebounding (5.5 rebounds per game). Rickenberg led the team in assists (104), total field goals (118) and a season record 144 free throws made.
Bluffton College finished the 2003-04 season with a 2-24, 1-13 HCAC record. The Beavers lost to Defiance 99-47 in the first round of the conference tournament to finish the season.


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Tracy Smith: People make the day enjoyable
Each year, five women are chosen by the Punxsutawney Career Women's Club for Career Women's Week, which this year runs through Nov. 13. The criteria used for choosing these women are based not only on their professional efforts, but also on the contributions they have made to community and family.
The club was founded in 1930, originally known as Punxsutawney Business & Professional Women's Club. Sept. 8, 1998, the club name was changed and incorporated as a non-profit organization under the name of Punxsutawney Career Women's Club, with objectives to promote growth and respect of women in the workplace; improve self-esteem in all careers; educate women; and support community projects.
By Tom Chapin
Of The Spirit
PUNXSUTAWNEY — After graduating from Purchase Line High School, Tracy Smith faced a reality that many high school graduates face: She just didn't know what she wanted to do right away.
She worked as a cashier at BiLo, because, she said, "I didn't want to put money into college unless I knew for sure what career path I would pursue."
Her view of the future became a little clearer having worked in accounting for four years at Wal-Mart in DuBois, where she learned to couple her interest in math with the business world.
"I liked math; I was good at math, but I liked the business end," Smith said. "I took business-related courses, and I liked that. But I knew I wanted to do something dealing with people. I like interacting with people. It makes your day more enjoyable."
Smith paused her working career so that she and her husband, Bryan, could have a family: Daughter Morgan, now 14 and a freshman at PAHS, was born first, followed by their son, Garrett, now 10, who attends PAMS.
After her children reached ages eight and four, Smith tested the employment waters again, accepting a telemarketing position selling subscriptions at The Spirit, which allowed her to work a few hours a day during hours she picked, so she could care for her family.
"It was an easy way to get back into the workforce," she said. "I was interested in returning to work, but without taking away too much time from my family."
A year after calling customers for newspaper subscriptions, Smith was so successful that when a full-time post on the newspaper's advertising team opened up, she was approached for the job.
"I was surprised; I never thought of myself as a salesperson," she said. "I said, 'I'll think about it; I have to talk to my husband.' And he said, 'It's perfect. You get to meet people, and you get to talk to people.'"
Upon selling advertising full-time, Smith said she picked up on cues and styles from fellow ad reps and then applied her own methods.
"You have to let people know you're a person," she said. "You've got to get to know your customers. I want them to know that I know them and I care about them.
"Each customer is so different; they have different outlooks on business," Smith said. "You have to be aware. The customer looks to you for advice, and they trust you to serve as an expert as how to best serve their advertising needs. I give them advice as I would want if it were my own business. The advice I offer reflects on me directly. I take this responsibility seriously."
Six years later, Smith has earned two Super-Achiever Awards from The Spirit's parent company, Horizon Publications, for outstanding sales marketing, and, among other members of the advertising team, has become one of the faces of the newspaper for special projects, promotions and events.
"Since I cover the Punxsutawney area, I feel I am the face of the paper that most people see and talk to daily," she said.
Outside work, Smith helps with the Punxsutawney Fire Department — her husband of 16 years is the chief of the Elk Run Volunteer Fire Company — preparing food for special events and volunteering for the annual Pizza & Prevention effort with Fox's Pizza Den.
"It's hard to have a husband in the chief's position, not just because of being called out for fires, but he still constantly has things he has to do — maintenance on the trucks, maintenance on the building, filling out paperwork," she said. "It's a lot of work, and nobody realizes how much they do, and it takes a lot of time away from our family."
Smith added, "I'm proud of him for doing that, but here we are sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner, and the fire whistle blows, and then it's, 'See ya!' Even though it is an inconvenience, I admire him for his dedication."
She is also a volunteer cheerleading coach at PAHS, a program in which her daughter has been active for three years.
"The cheerleading girls kind of give you a different perspective on things," Smith said. "It's fun. It keeps me young at heart."
Her son is active in Boy Scouting and Little League, and the Smiths also attend the Chestnut Grove Independent Church in Bell Township and enjoy camping.
In her own spare time, Smith enjoys photography, having started with just snapping pics of family, and now delving into weddings, senior pictures and engagements.
"A very close member of the family passed away, and his wife gave me his camera because I had commented on it so much, and that's what kind of got me going."
Smith said she tests new filters and equipment by taking pictures of her children, and son Garrett knows now that, "Give me one good shot, and you're done."
"I'm proud of what I do," she said about her career. "I think at the end of the day, I feel like I've accomplished something. I think when I am in the paper and the public, and people approach my family, it makes me feel good to do something that I hope makes them proud of me."


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Police Embrace Jiu-Jitsu to Counter Emerging Threats
By Esmeralda Coronado Valles
For Reporting Texas
Central Texas police officers and their employers are adapting self-defense training to a world where the popularity of extreme fighting has changed the way civilians and police interact.
Indeed, both the Austin Police Department and UT System Police Department have changed their self-defense curriculum to include Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a result of police officers' being required to deal with more and more individuals in the community with martial arts backgrounds.
According to APD records, 1,992 police officers were assaulted in the line of duty in 2012, 473 more reports than in 2010. Ninety-eight percent of those assaults were committed by unarmed individuals who used only their personal weapons – fists and feet – to assault the officers.
"This evolution of self-defense tactics at [the Austin Police Department] has come out of the necessity to fight a resistant suspect and the popularity of UFC," the televised Ultimate Fighting Championship, said Enrique Colorado, senior police officer and self-defense trainer at APD.
Glen Koen, police academy commander for The University of Texas System, seconds Colorado. "The popularity of Brazilian jiu-jitsu has done a lot to reshape the mentality of law enforcement," Koen said.
Nonetheless, dissatisfaction with the defense and control tactics taught at police departments and academies has lead to police officers' augmenting their training with private martial arts lessons. Although police departments encourage outside training, there is concern martial arts training could open them to liability claims.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a self-defense system that focuses on ground fighting and grappling. It's derived from classical Japanese jujitsu, but where Japanese jujitsu focuses on disarming opponents, Brazilian jiu-jitsu emphasizes submission techniques.
Austin police introduced a ground-fighting class called GAGE, ground avoidance ground engagement, in 2010 as an elective-level course for sworn police officers to continue their training, according to Sgt. Duane Peed. Peed, who works in APD's learned skills department, said the class is offered every couple of months when there is availability and enough training officers to help. The class is not mandatory, and Peed said they see "fairly decent involvement."
Colorado said Austin police have "always" learned Brazilian jiu-jitsu-type techniques but that the training has built gradually over time. The curriculum, he said, "is a constant evolution… Our program now looks different than last year. In law enforcement, it's important to stay up to speed and constantly be evolving."
APD is "always looking to improve its system," he said.
Police training programs face some common constraints. Koen said police departments lack training budgets or staff sufficient to ensure police officers receive the training they need in defensive tactics.
"Training at police departments may not be enough to make officers highly effective at particular defensive tactics," Koen said. "To be very skilled, the key is repetition. It takes three to five thousand repetitions at technique."
APD senior police officer Issa Kafena started training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu seven years ago to get in shape and to accommodate the police lifestyle but has continued taking jiu-jitsu to improve his performance.
"There is only a certain amount of time they [police departments and academies] can devote to self-defense tactics," he said. "They show you, 'Here's how to kick,' but you're just shown it. For me, that was never enough. If I don't practice, I'm not going to get good at it."
In November 2012, Kafena received his brown belt.
Jiu-jitsu has allowed him to recognize his limits both physically and mentally and to control his body, Kafena said.
"You'll learn how to figure out what your threshold is and get around it, not necessarily how to break through it," he said. "Jiu-jitsu helps you think when you are exhausted and… approach a dangerous situation with candor."
According to Koen, the UT System police curriculum has 33 training topics. Defensive tactics is only one of them. Officers take refresher training every two years, but Koen said that's not enough. He strongly encourages martial arts training because it allows officers to get regular training on defensive tactics.
Kafena, who trains three to four times a week depending on his work schedule, said jiu-jitsu has changed the way he views his job.
"A big part of the [jiu-jitsu] training is learning to swallow ego, recognize as a novice, even if you are a big, muscled guy, you'll get beaten up by a person half your size," he said. "Jiu-jitsu is made for the little guy. You become humbled very quickly."
Although both the UT System and APD encourage outside marital arts training, officers are cautioned about using self-defense moves not included in departmental policy, which might lead to trouble.
APD never explicitly said no to jiu-jitsu, Kafena said, but if an officer uses a jiu-jitsu technique "and you break someone's hand, there is more scrutiny on the disciplinary side because it's a matter of city liability."
Colorado confirmed that police officers who study martial arts need to make sure their techniques fit within departmental policy.
"If he can justify what he did, he is good," Colorado said. "If he violates policy, he is on his own."
For example, in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, combatants may choke opponents to submission. In law enforcement, an officer could use such a move only if threatened by "deadly force," meaning the officer's life is at risk. If a suspect pulls a knife or chokes the officer, the police officer is allowed to use any means necessary to defend himself.
Robert J. Kaminski, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina, said it is useful for police officers to train in jiu-jitsu, but only if they are committed and are pursuing a belt. According to Kaminski, there's a greater risk for an officer to hurt an assailant when subduing him if the officer applies tactics incorrectly because of insufficient practice.
"A little knowledge is dangerous," Kaminski said.
Research has shown that people who study martial arts for a long time and are really dedicated end up with a different perspective on use of force and violence, he said. This emotional control is a product of getting "slapped around," Kaminski said; if you don't feel threatened, the less likely you are to use force.
In the last five years, Kafena has had only a few use-of-force incidents. Through jiu-jitsu, he's learned to defuse situations verbally and use force as "a last resort."
"I've learned that I don't want to fight. I've been able to talk my way out of confrontations because I don't care to fight," Kafena said."I know what my reactions are going to be, my capabilities, so if a situation goes bad, I know I can handle myself."
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In the Permian High School class Bible History and Literature, public school students are taught that the Bible's miracle stories – in this specific case, Moses crossing the Red Sea – have been proven through archaeology. This course is among a host of examples of academically problematic lessons taught to secondary students in 57 public school districts and three charter school districts in Texas.
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Perinchief Chapels
SSGT Zoltan Dobovich, an Allentown native, was one of eight men who were killed while on board a B-17G Flying Fortress back on Nov. 1, 1946.
It's a journey over six decades in the making. But 66 years after his death, a World War II army staff sergeant is finally returning home.
SSGT Zoltan Dobovich, an Allentown native, was one of eight men who were killed while on board a B-17G Flying Fortress back on November 1, 1946. The heavy bomber aircraft was flying from Naples, Italy to Bovingdon, England when it crashed into the French Alps. He was 21-years-old.
After the fatal accident, several attempts were made to locate the men. While some initial remains were recovered in 1947, none of the soldiers were individually identified. The recovered remains were buried in a single grave at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Between 1972 and 1975 as well as 1979, more remains were recovered at the crash site, primarily by Italian military authorities, but were still unidentified.
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Finally, in 1983, Italian military personnel recovered more remains from the site and were able to identify Dobovich through DNA testing.
Dobovich's remains will be flown in, with an honor escort, from an Air Force base in Hawaii to Philadelphia International Airport on Christmas Eve, according to the Burlington County Times. The remains will then be taken to Perinchief Chapels, on 838 High Street in Mount Holly, NJ. A funeral service for Dobovich will be held Thursday, at 11 a.m., at Perinchief Chapels. Interment and military honors will then take place at the Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in North Hanover Township, NJ.
Dobovich is survived by a niece and two nephews. The Burlington County Times reports Dobovich was a radio operator who enlisted in the Army two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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because you know we will end up talking about him anyways
.264/.338/.347 line in high A.Scouting Report: Speedy infielder plays 2B, SS, 3B, and all three OF positions. Top notch glove with excellent range. At the plate, Negron gets on base at an okay clip, but the hits just aren't there enough. He has a good eye at the plate but still hacks on pitches out of the zone on occasion. Exceptionally fast down the line to first, and quick on the basepaths. Negron would be a prototypical leadoff hitter if he could make more contact.
Nothing spectacular even though the scouting report leads me to think there is still a lot of potential not completely tapped yet.
Lets start the discussion.


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John Piper on the Gospel and Sanctification (Part 2)
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|2013-09-09, 09:39
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Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 31
Episode 10 was wonderful. It felt like an episode from the first season. It had what has been missing from this season: focus on the side characters. More aggressive has pretty much been all about Potte. I loved it but I would liked the other girls to get more screentime, so I'm delighted Kanae finally got her very own episode.
I could easily relate to Kanae. I had a very hard time finding my own path when I was her age as well. In the end, she still hasn't found what she wants to do but she realized nothing will happen if she doesn't move forward. So she will!
We're probably going to see Kanae's graduation in the final episode. I am so not ready ;_;
|2013-09-10, 12:17
|Link #202
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 30
Don't worry Kanny, I have a theory as to how things might play out so that Kanae doesn't leave Potte and friends.
Spoiler for Kanae's Final Gambit:
You heard it here first, Kanon. You heard it here first.
I wish the false information I posted on the first page about this series being two cours had turned out to be true, I love Tamayura too much to see it go. ;_;
|2013-09-10, 16:49
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He Without a Title
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The land of tempura
Damn, these graduation themed episodes always hit me hard. I'm not sure if it's just me but the act of leaving high school was such a major point in my life that talking about it always leaves me quite nostalgic. I'm not sure I'm ready to see Kanae graduate so soon. It's been so few episodes since she's been introduced, it feels way too soon.
Also: is it me or is the art quality slipping quite a bit?
|2013-09-10, 17:21
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Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 31
|2013-09-11, 17:46
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Join Date: Sep 2006
I think the Pentax Q which Kanae uses is probably the smallest interchangeable-lens camera since the old Pentax Auto 110 from the seventies. If i had the spare cash I would be rather tempted by one.
I can really empathise with Kanae in this episode. She's found all these great new friends, but soon she'll graduate and (she thinks) leave them all behind. I can see how that would make her said, but I think she'll find she keeps her friends even after leaving school.
Also, I did like the bit where we see Fuu reloading her camera, rewinding the old film and putting in a new one. The little details are wonderful if you've ever owned a camera in the Rollei 35 family, as I strongly suspect someone in the production team (Maybe even Junichi Sato himself?) does.
(sadly my Rollei B35 jammed, and I need to get it fixed)
|2013-09-15, 13:02
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: 3 times the passion of the usual flamenco
This episode.... this episode was enough to make a grown man cry.
But not this man! Get back in there tear! Get back... get back....
That moment at the end with Kanae with Kaze Iro No Film as BGM...
|2013-09-15, 13:33
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Anywhere & Everywhere
Truly the feel-good show of the season for me. Episode 11 was touching. Wonderful seasons close and the hopes of new wonderful seasons opening is what keeps us going in this thing called life. And a great circle of friends. Bravo Tamayura ~More Aggressive.
|2013-09-15, 15:33
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He Without a Title
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The land of tempura
Actually that wasn't as sentimental as I was expecting. The dwindling budget didn't help I'm sure but the entire setting was overall a lot more cheerful for the first half than I was expecting. But that's actually a good thing. Tamayura isn't a show to make me feel down, it's the feel good show that I cling to each week to forget about all the bad things that happen in everyday life and at that it's been extremely effective this season.
But I will admit. I was almost following the girls in crying during Kanae's small speech during the night there. Not the most effective speech I've seen but it still pulls all the right strings for someone who's grown so found of the characters like I did. Good job Satou-sensei (and rest of team).
|2013-09-15, 16:30
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Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 31
Kanae is such a miracle of the universe. Her speech to Potte was so touching. And the part where she broke down crying... Don't go!
Only one episode left. Which show is going to fill the gap Tamayura will leave in my heart?
|2013-09-15, 17:31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 30
|2013-09-18, 11:21
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Nooooooooo! it's the final ep.
Spoiler for Final ep.:
Tamayura ~More Aggressive~ is the great sequel for Tamayura series. I hope to see another season of Tamayura, if there is the content to do.
Finally, I will give all of you the free .gif of Kanae from the final ep.
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|2013-09-19, 08:19
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Spineless Main Character
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Anywhere & Everywhere
Truly a beautiful send off. There is a bitter sweet element in life going forward but with good memories, making the best of the time we do have and maintaining truly loving friendships, we get back on our feet in no time should life's blues come calling. Tamayura ~More Aggressive~ is about putting oneself out there, taking risks and through being more aggressive growing through experience. Life turns out so much better when we do our best. Potte's life was infinitely better and she grew so much as a person.
Heartwarming. Shows like this will never grow old to me.
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11 April 2006
State visit
Like good coming-to-see-the-expat visitors, they've arrived laden with the maximum luggage allowance, most of which contains goodies for us. When people start asking about what we want three months before they arrive, the list piles up until the bags are full, apparently. It's like Christmas and my birthday all in one every time someone comes, and I've only seen the contents of one bag, which is full of wine and designer shoes from my sister-in-law.
They're staying downtown, and have already had their first experience of how things are different here, when they tried to find a café for breakfast at 8am. They were kindly sent to 10-11 by the woman who was getting ready to open in a few hours. It's strange to have family here like this once again, feeling out the way the relationship is different now that we live so far away from each other, instead of a car ride away and mostly experiencing the same weather patterns. There's so much to share, so much to see, and so much to talk about.
Ship sighting: I feel for anyone out on the sea this morning, since the waves were still quite high on the way to the airport. Still, the schedule shows a good mix of ships today, including a sizeable tanker, Themestern. Here's a picture of the Themestern stern.
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Hello Mademoiselle E
Just a brief note...
there are a few cafés that open at or before 8 a.m. in the morning just a bit further up from 1011 in Austurstræti, i.e. Laugavegur/Bankastræti, e.g. Kaffitár, Bankastræti 8, Te & Kaffi, Laugavegur 24, and the Sandholt bakery at Laugavegur 36. A nice brew in all places.
Kapitan M
- 12 April, 2006
- tsduff said...
I'll have to take note of those cafes...
- 13 April, 2006
- tsduff said...
I love that mossy lava drive to the airport - I was so fascinated by it when I first laid eyes on Iceland. I hope my receptors never lose that sense of awe at the constant beauty of the land.
We had trouble finding a good cup of coffee early in the morning, and wound up at a gas station right there near the harbor. I purchased (for breakfast mind you) the best "pizza" thing I've ever eaten! It was fabulous.
- 13 April, 2006
- Pvass said...
Halló halló.
Well, me I'm not in Iceland, but it's where I wish I were.
Maybe one day I'll call you and ask you how you did. Was it hard? I'm starting to save up and I'll be gone in a year.
Blessuð og gangi þér vel eftir götum reykjavíkur.
- 13 April, 2006
Oh, oh, I think I'm turning into a blog reader junky. Now that you and JB are occupied I'm confused and sad, that I can't get my Icelandic blog fix :( every day!
I can't post on JB's anymore, but maybe you can pass on my little blog addiction. I miss my little read every day.
This is meant as a compliment, as I don't even read the moggi anymore, just your blogs :D
Love em!!!
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ST. CHARLES – Dawn Zappitelli tore away from her job as president of Heartland Counseling Center in Elburn and headed for Pottawatomie Golf Course on Tuesday morning.
Business developers, substitute teachers, homemakers and other contemporaries joined her for the Pottawatomie Ladies League as they do each week. Not everyone realized the St. Charles Women's Tournament title also was on the line, making for another leisurely nine holes.
"Golf is good therapy," Zappitelli said, "even for therapists."
Retiree Barb Christian emerged as the fitting winner, shooting a 48 and defeating Donna Lengle by scorecard playoff. Christian carded a 7 on the ninth hole to Lengle's 8, but it was apparent scorekeeping was perfunctory.
Cheers of "Nice one!" and "There ya go!" provided the soundtrack for an event that could use the enthusiasm.
On the heels of several lean years – including a six-golfer turnout in 2011 – Pottawatomie pro Ron Skubisz and assistant Bill Ogiego folded the women's tournament into the league schedule for the second successive summer.
"We've done whatever we can to accommodate, to keep the tournament going and accommodate as many women as we can," Ogiego said. "So we just moved it to Tuesday and just said, 'Hey, ladies, guess what: You're in the tournament.'
"'Really?' "
Skubisz's 23-year-old daughter, Katie, and former tourney champ Barb Lyon, 82, were the lone outside entrants. The part-time Pottawatomie employees shared a cart as the final group on the course.
They fit right in.
"I love playing with Barb," Katie Skubisz said. "I mean, we're just out here to have fun, just because we love the game. Taking it lightly, just carefree."
Skubisz, a family and consumer sciences major entering her senior year at Eastern Illinois, still lent some suspense as rain moved in on the final holes around noon. Her 49 was one stroke off the leaders, the same score as Roberta Wright.
Wright, whose child-rearing days are in the rearview, has enjoyed more time to golf and play tennis with her son and daughter, now in their mid-20s.
She hones her skills in both sports while spending winters with her husband in Bluffton, S.C.
"It's a great golf community, tennis community, so we get to do both of my favorite things," Wright said. "So we've been very fortunate that way."
The 63-year-old Christian, a second-year league member, relied on "many, many years" of golfing experience – including 18 at Pottawatomie – en route to a personal-best round at St. Charles' public riverside course.
She recorded pars on the par-3 fourth hole and par-4 fifth hole and stayed out of trouble apart from No. 3, which requires players to shoot over the Fox River to reach the green.
"All my shots were good and I had a lot of one-putts, so that helped me," Christian said. "The water hole wasn't very well, but this was my best score."
In its heyday, the women's tournament adopted a multi-weekend format of qualifying and match play similar to the city's men's tournament.
League members, who compete in their own tournament near the end of the session each August, haven't minded the recent change.
"It's an easy league. People just come, they golf, we have a little luncheon [Aug. 13], and that's the end," longtime treasurer Lynne Allicino said. "It's a nice, easygoing league."


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Great Host, Better Music, Better Presenters, Hall of Fame, & Teabagging made for a great 2011 VGA's
I turned it off after The Last of Us trailer.
Sounds like I didn't miss much.
30mintutes of content with 2 hours worth of ads! Mygod... How do you Americans put up with all these advertisements :o And I thought it was bad over here in the UK...They didn't even give out the awards properly... Instead they chopped up melons and ate cakes... (also they nominated Dead Island for an award and didn't even invite them to the show!! (shows how fixed the awards really are and how did MW3 get best shooter :o... SO many great new fps's out this year that where amazing!)
Reveals where decent though last Of Us looked amazing so did Diablo 3 and I'm intrigued by EPICS new game. (hoping it's an good RTS!!)
Augmented Reality was decent too.
Tea bagging was OTT lol but apart from that it was good/ok. The reveals and trailers are what made me tune in, more so than the awards themselves.
Also I didn't like how you couldnt stream it if you're outside america but i found one anyway.


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I thought I'd start a thread for fans of hot rugby players. Guys may I present:
Danny Care
I thought I'd start a thread for fans of hot rugby players. Guys may I present:
Danny Care
Great start. He's hot!
i like rugby too now!
Rugby, my favorite sport to watch and play. Let me introduce you to some rugby players:
Ben Cohen - Sale and England
Jonny Wilkinson - England
Chris Paterson - Edinburgh and Scotland
Here are a few - and they are each homo friendly!
David Williams
Ben Cohen
Nick Youngquest
Brian O'Driscoll - Ireland
Sean Lamont - Scotland
Rory Lamont (Seans Brother) - Scotland
I love the wedgies they give each other and I also love it when they go to tackle thier opponent and pull their shorts and underwear practically off!!!!
Wow, Sean Lamont has some amazing pictures out - just use the Google images feature to see them. They are kind of slutty - in a good way!
His brother Rory Lamont is great - here's an alt picture from the one Scotsman876 posted.
I don't know how to do the full sized/inserted into the document thing? Can someone point me in the right direction to find out how?
Seam Lamont
MORE Sean Lamont
I'm now a Rugby fan
A few more of my favorite players....
Rory (again)
Roddy Grant - Scotland and Edinburgh
Mike Phillips - Ospreys and Wales
Don't forget the greatest rugby player on the planet.
New Zealand All Blacks 1st Five (fly half) - Daniel Carter.
Yes, how could I have forgotton all about the lovely Dan.
Not your typical rugby build - more muscle - but likely to be in the New Zealand centres for the World Cup later in the year. Sonny Bill Williams.
[QUOTE=justaguy;7051126]Not your typical rugby build - more muscle - but likely to be in the New Zealand centres for the World Cup later in the year. Sonny Bill Williams.
justaguy, you just beat me to it, I was going to post some pics of him...
Scotsman876 - I will happily join you and the minority that think Rory is hot.(I don't think it's a minority - just look at that physique)
Could you post more pics of Roddy Grant?
(thanks Scotsman!)
Here you go Threecrows.
Some of these are from Google and the thumbnails are from my laptop.
Some more Dan Carter!
Awesome thread.
I wish more athletes would pose in their underwear.
scots and irish have my vote and not only cuz of my backround
I love Ronan O'Gara of Ireland but don't know how to post pics... also Sean Sexton of Ireland is a honey... Brian O'Driscoll has lost weight of late and looks much more handsome as a result
This is an awesome thread! More hot Irishmen/Scottishmen please!
Guys get the box of tissues ready - Robert Kearney
Robert Kearney
It's official. Rugby has the hottest all-round guys of ANY sport. Even counting American football.
I LOVE THE INTERNET... MORE Robert Kearney
Or Irish rugby player, Donncha (pronounced DUN-IH-CAH) O'Callaghan...
He tried to play rugby in just briefs when his shorts were ripped off a few years ago... massive package as far as I can see...
I thought I'd add one more favourite of ours down here in NZ. Richard Kahui:
And a little more intimate:
Hopefully the links work :S
Two words: Nick Youngquest.
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
The more I see and hear about Rugby players, the more i'm starting to fucking love these guys. These guys are hyper-masculine, have perfect bodies and play a brutal contact sport with no helmets or protection whatsoever. . .yet they're so incredibly open-minded, accepting and affectionate with one another. One of them even fucking came out as gay and his teammates treat him exactly the same as they did before. Ho lee shit.
Then there's that infamous episode of Generation Xcess about the Sancbach Rugby players who get shitfaced drunk, strip naked, start making out and giving each other handjobs in the middle of the bar. It's one of the hottest things i've ever seen.
I'll be in my bunk!
Rugby guys tend to be real guys.... Ronan O Gara of Ireland is swoooooooooooooooon
LOVE this thread...thank you!
And yet another reason to love rugby and especially Ben Cohen!!!
"Ben Cohen quits rugby to fight homophobia..."
"...But our rights as Americans do not depend on the approval of others. Our rights depend on us being Americans." -John Lewis
Glad people are liking the thread and have got a few more fans on aboard...
Christophe Dominici
Thom Evans (Scottish player)
Where do I go 2c these nude rugby matches???
I think this is Shane Williams.
English bad boy Danny Cipriani, currently playing for the Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby. It looks as though butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
If I was'nt a rugby fan before, I am now!!!!
That's for damn sure!


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UPDATE: KSHSAA Passes Russell, Victoria Baseball Coop
- Published on Monday, 19 November 2012 13:47
It is now official. Russell and Victoria High Schools will coop in baseball for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
The Kansas State High School Activities Association passed the agreement on Monday.
The coop is for two years, but either school can opt out after one year.
The idea of a cooperative agreement came up after Russell school officials feared there would not be enough boys to field a baseball team in the spring.
Before approving the coop, Victoria school board members asked parents to raise around $3,000 to pay for the busing of players to and from Russell each day for practices and games. After about two months, enough money was raised.
The cooperative agreement is for baseball only. The team name will remain the Russell Broncos and the team will likely compete in Class 4A.
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DeKALB – Small, black-robed figures entered the DeKalb Public Library on Tuesday afternoon through a "brick wall" sponge-painted on a glass door.
The door represented Platform 9¾, which, as any fan of the Harry Potter series of books and movies knows, is the way to find the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The library held a Harry Potter Party, partially funded with a grant from Scholastic, in honor of the 15th anniversary of the series's first book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Library staff – many also in costume – directed herds of children between the activities, which included a horcrux hunt, a craft table where they could make a Deathly Hallows charm or a golden snitch, and a House Cup Trivia Tournament.
"I planned the Star Wars party last April, and I love Harry Potter more than Star Wars, so this was even more fun," said Darcy Tatlock, the library's 'tween coordinator, who planned many of the activities. "I'm getting to share my love of Harry Potter with everyone else who loves Harry Potter."
Tatlock was excited about Northern Illinois University's presence at the party as well, she said. Some members of the university's quidditch team – a sport played on broomsticks in the Potter fantasy world – were scheduled to do a meet and greet, and NIU's STEM Outreach did a chemistry workshop, aka potions class.
By the library fireplace, a crocheted version of Hogwarts' sorting hat sorted children into the school's four houses based on their answers to a series of multiple-choice questions.
Daniel Martin, 7, said it was easy to figure out which answers would get him sorted into his favorite house, Gryffindor.
Daniel's sister, Susana, 9, and her friend McKenna Nonnenmann, 9, snacked with Daniel at the Gryffindor table.
"I'm glad I got in Gryffindor and not something stinky like Slytherin," Susana said. "I just wish I knew how to play chess so I could play wizard's chess."
Susana has read all seven of the Harry Potter books and seen the first four movies, she said, calling the series one of her favorites. Her mother, Jeanette Martin, said she first read "Sorcerer's Stone" when she was pregnant with Susana, and likes the range of people the series appeals to.
"Younger kids still love it, and now you have people who have grown up with it," she said. "It's really cool, actually."Harry Potter Party


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BrentBarrett wrote:SCORPIUS wrote:that chair thing, it looks quite scary, but what the hell is it?!
My guess? It's a variation on a displacement engine/neural interface device that lets John use Moya as a displacement engine when creating wormholes. I think (pure speculation) that use of this device is harmful to him and that's what he and Aeryn are discussing when she says, "You do what you HAVE to do." And I also think this may be what he uses to destroy that dreadnought in the picture above.
I agree. It MUST be a displacement engine to convert Moya into a wormhole-starter. And I believe it's harmful for John, however, here's an added twist, he uses it, gets injured, Aeryn becomes emotional, but then Einstein comes to the rescue. He (Einstein) either retains or removes the wormhole tech from Crichton (as gratitude for not letting it fall to any alien beings), and at the same time, saving his life. Now that's the other angle.


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The Finding Aid of the K. Garrison Clarke collection of photographs of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico 0322
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs of Southern California 1948-1975
KGC-015, 3 more lightning time exposures; negatives part of complete set 1948
KGC-016, 3 more lightning time exposures; negatives part of complete set 1948
KGC-017, 3 more lightning time exposures; negatives part of complete set 1948
KGC-039, Homeowners displaying a begonia plant. The person in the center was the editor of the gardening section and the person who wrote the article. 1950
KGC-090, Unknown beauty contestant, headshots (Thousand Oaks, California). 1961
KGC-091, Multiple unknown beauty contestants, headshots (Thousand Oaks,California). 1961
KGC-092, Unknown beauty contestant, publicity pose. 1961
KGC-127, Red Cross nurse with baby taken at the Children's Hospital, downtown Hollywood (Sunset and Western) undated
Jungleland USA 1961
KGC-057, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 discussing upcoming Baby Zoo building plans with a parrot 1961
KGC-058, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 feeding chickens, goats, pigs, assorted fowl in earlier Baby Zoo (Looking north from Jungleland property). 1961
KGC-059, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 riding Sonia the elephant 1961
KGC-060, Francine Herrick riding Sonia the elephant. Francine was a Miss Conejo Valley contestant, later winner and later Miss California. She was also the Clarke's babysitter. 1961
KGC-061, Giraffe eating from hand of Francine Herrick 1961
KGC-062, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 feeding a giraffe; Francine Herrick observing 1961
KGC-063, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 feeding a baby elephant (8-10 mos old); gallery of goats. 1961
KGC-064, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 with baby elephant 1961
KGC-064, Elephant laying drainage pipe; chimpanzee with survey gear; quick second shot 1961
KGC-065, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 interviewing a burro about construction project 1961
KGC-066, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 feeding baby camel 1961
KGC-067, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 interviewing a llama, goat, and tortoise about construction project. 1961
KGC-068, Miss Conejo Valley 1961 interviewing a lion about construction project 1961
KGC-069, Architect and chimp going over blueprints 1961
KGC-070, Large and small chimpanzees surveying land, with trainer. 1961
KGC-071, Large and small chimpanzees with survey stakes 1961
KGC-072, Sonia the elephant, gazing down at camera. 1961
KGC-073, Chimpanzee driving a jeep 1961
KGC-074, Chimpanzee driving a trencher; another driving a backhoe 1961
KGC-075, Elephants learning how to push large drainage pipe; trainer half visible; spectators 1961
KGC-076, Two elephants pushing a large drainage pipe; trainer, spectators. 1961
KGC-077, Chimpanzee on John Deere, elephant pushing large drainage pipe. 1961
KGC-078, Bear cub and two chimpanzees with Baby Zoo wheelbarrow 1961
KGC-079, Bear cub pushing Baby Zoo wheelbarrow 1961
KGC-080, Elephant dragging two drainage pipes, trainer helping. 1961
KGC-081, Elephant laying drainage pipe; chimpanzee with survey gear 1961
KGC-083, Two chimpanzees laying brick 1961
KGC-084, Two chimpanzees taking a break 1961
KGC-085, Baby elephant (abt. 4 mos old) from Jungleland in Thousand Oaks Post Office to mail birthday card to first baby elephant born in Portland Zoo. 1961
KGC-086, Baby elephant on stool putting birthday card in mailbox. Best of two similar shots. 1961
KGC-087, Baby elephant on stool putting birthday card in mailbox. 1961
KGC-088, Stuffed lion "photo op" attraction, little boy. 1961
KGC-089, Stuffed lion "photo op" attraction, two little girls. 1961
KGC-108, Expedition to Channel Islands. View of the Anacapa Arch 1965
KGC-109, Expedition to Channel Islands. Island scenery 1965
KGC-110, Expedition to Channel Islands. Woman 4th from left, in hat, is photographer's mother Christy Crane; boy standing in cut-offs is one of the Connollys; little girls are Stacy and Sasha Scardino; woman seated in background is photographer's wife, Jeanie Colter Clarke. Others are unknown. 1965
KGC-111, Expedition to Channel Islands, collage for cover of magazine. 1965
KGC-106, Expedition to Channel Islands. Channel Islands Harbor, before buildup. 1965
KGC-107, Expedition to Channel Islands. Dock area for the Island Packer. The people on the dock are Dr. Anthony Scardino and family 1965
KGC-112, Baja Malibu project. Typical bungalow. 1965
KGC-113, Baja Malibu project. Typical bungalow, front window angle. 1965
KGC-114, Baja Malibu project. Typical bungalow, side and yard. 1965
KGC-115, Baja Malibu project. Typical bungalow as seen from street. 1965
KGC-116, Baja Malibu. Typical bungalow, kitchen. 1965
KGC-117, Baja Malibu; dining room signage. 1965
KGC-118, Baja Malibu; community swimming pool. 1965
KGC-119, Baja Malibu; overlook and staircase to beach. 1965
KGC-120, Baja Malibu; cabana on way to beach. 1965
KGC-121, Baja Malibu; unknown structure, staircase to roof. 1965
KGC-122, Baja Malibu; unknown structure. 1965


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Tarpons' top singles players advance to district finals
PUNTA GORDA —Charlotte High School's Alex Guzman and Rachel Taggart will both compete in No. 1 singles finals at the District 3A-11 tournament today at the Tarpons' courts.
Taggart remained unbeaten in district competition this season by defeating Port Charlotte's Katie Rioux 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 in the girls semifinals Tuesday.