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But top bid right now for the giveaway from last night is $102.51, with most fetching somewhere in the $40 to $60 range.Damn. Do I really have to pay that much for one?
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Bobblehead Profits
Sooner than you can say "Granny," all over eBay Manny Ramirez bobbleheads are available to purchase. And they are selling for quite a premium. From the LA Times:
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As you approach the end of the Conifer Walk, you will find the large fir tree section. Fir trees are in the genus Abies, and are represented by eighteen different kinds at The Morton Arboretum. Fir species often bear attractive cones that mature in one season. These cones disintegrate once mature, releasing the wind-borne seeds. Compared to spruce trees, the needles on fir are usually, but not always, noticeably softer. Firs are the most symmetrical of conifers. Often, the age of a tree up to fifty years can be determined simply by counting the branch whorls (one whorl per year).
Some of the noteworthy specimens, visible from the walkway, are white fir (Abies concolor) with its distinctive bluish needles, noble looking silver fir (Abies alba), and formal looking balsam fir (Abies balsamea). Take note of the selections of Korean fir (Abies koreana) in the Garden Conifer section. The cones of this species are a deep purple color even when immature.
It is a great experience to stroll through the collection in winter when needle colors tend to be more vivid. Explore the diverse fir specimens present in this section, and decide which kind is your favorite.


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Groton may find funds for magnet school busing
Groton - The school board is poised to reconsider a budget cut that eliminated busing for out-of-district school students and riled some magnet school parents.
Board of Education Chairwoman Kirsten Hoyt, addressing the Town Council on Tuesday, said the decision to cut a $100,000 line item for magnet school transportation was made without the realization that the money was fully reimbursed.
"We think that we can hopefully absorb it back," Hoyt said.
Hoyt said, however, it would be up to the full board to make the decision. Prior discussion by the school board focused on the fact that the state money goes back to the town and not the school board directly.
"That does make it a wash in your eyes, but it does have to be in our budget in order for us to be able to pay for it," Hoyt said at Tuesday's meeting. "I think we look at it from two different perspectives."
Magnet school transportation was part of more than $4 million in overall cuts made to a school spending plan that is suffering from a loss in federal funding and an increase in other costs, such as the $660,000 for transportation associated with redistricting, said interim Superintendent John Ramos. The redistricting plan satisfies the state's racial balancing mandate.
Many cuts were made, Ramos said, and the board struggled with the magnet school transportation funding in part as a "philosophical issue."
"That is to say, if we're having to reduce services in the schools, how can we justify paying to send students out of the district," Ramos said.
Ramos said at the time, there was some confusion on the reimbursement rate.
The school board's decision was immediately criticized by Kate Colello and Christine Cabral, both parents of children attending the Regional Multicultural Magnet School in New London. The two made calls to the state, filed a Freedom of Information request for school budget documents and finally approached the council with news that the state did, in fact, reimburse the town.
A noncompetitive grant program from the state Department if Education provides up to $1,300 per student who attends an out-of-district school. The town received more than $150,000 last year through the program.
There are 142 students from Groton attending magnet schools this year, including the Dual Language & Arts Magnet Middle School in Waterford.
Mayor Heather Bond Somers said the council would consider earmarking the reimbursed money with some kind of reassurance from the school board that if the money were restored, it would be used for that purpose. The Town Council votes on the overall school budget but cannot dictate how that money is spent.
Hoyt said she expected the board to have taken up the issue before the council's next meeting on April 11.
Superintendent: Groton schools have reached day of financial reckoning
Three decades later, Desiree Michaud's friends and family still seek closure
Full game: Stonington 12, East Lyme 10 in ECC girls' lacrosse final


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Given that the Diablo 3 beta has been around for a while on PC, I would expect that the console version will be ported from the PC rather than the other way round.
This isn't the case. PC Insider has an article interview with the lead on the D3 project, and he discusses the belief Blizzard has about ensuring that platform games are created from the ground up. They may share textures, sounds, etc, but the games will be developed separately.
Indeed, and the PC version has no awkward menu scrolling or any other signs of console "taint". The only thing in the beta that appears remniciscent of console games is considerably lower difficulty than par. However this is likely solely due to beta tuning.
They gave the N64 An unplayable version of Starcraft .
I loved the first two Diablo games and spent endless hours playing them. However, there's a lot of questions that they never answer or keep changing their answer to. Will it be pay-to-play like their WoW model or will B.Net be free like previous games in the series? Will there be a single-player mode? Will you be able to play on private servers or will you be stuck with B.net?
If at least two of those three are not favorable then I probably won't be getting it.
It will almost certainly be free to play, but not as free to play as their previous games were. There will be no spawing copies for LAN play. I'm guessing that the money they need to maintain the servers will in large part come from the auction house and people buying new copies in the future.
Will you be able to play on private servers or will you be stuck with B.net?
The B.net aspect of your post is interesting to me. With the exception of Sony's recent acceptance of Steam on the PS3, the consoles have been loathe to support a community system other than their own. For example, the XBox 360 never gives any indication that you are playing on anything other than XBox Live (aka XBL). Although, when playing many EA games you do have to at least link an EA account to your XBL gamer tag, so there does seem to be some connection, but everything about the interaction appears
Microsoft is definitely MUCH stricter about XBox Live integration for all games/apps on the 360 than, say, Sony with the PS3. They made a "partial" exception for EA because without it they'd be missing online play for the majority of console sports games, etc. I'd imagine after looking at the insane profits WoW has been making in recent years Microsoft would be willing to work with Blizzard on some sort of B.net support as well...
The way it was done in:
PSone: Diablo, Darkstone.
PS2: Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance I and II, Champions of Norrath 1 and 2, X-Men Legends 1 and 2, Fallout BrotherHood of Steel, Hunter the Reckoning, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 Justice League Heroes.
PS2: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2, Sacred 2, Untold Legends
PSP: Untold Legends 1 and 2.
In fact, D3 looks pretty much just like a Snowblind Engine game...google footage of BGDA or Champions of Norrath and you'll see the resemblance right off. In fact PS2 ow
Blizzard is pretty PC-centric, so if anything it will be the console versions that will be shitty ports of the PC version, not the other way around.
That said, there's no reason why both versions can't be good. Torchlight was a Diablo clone made by an indie developer that was praised for the amount of work put into making the console port just as playable as the PC version. There's no reason why a big company like Blizzard couldn't do the same... other than greed and laziness, I guess.
But Torchlight was made by the people that made Diablo 1 and 2. Diablo 3 is created by a completely different team.
But Torchlight was made by the people that made Diablo 1 and 2. Diablo 3 is created by a completely different team.
I found both Torchlight and the D3 beta totally awful.
Maybe I'm just outgrowing hack-n-slash, along with every other mainstream category. God knows I hate 95% of shooters these days.
I swear to god, I hate indie game hipsters just as much as indie music hipsters and Linux prophets, but I haven't played a good AAA game since New Vegas, whereas indies are putting out dozens of kickass titles per year.
God help me I'm becoming an elitist. Get me some non-ironic domestic beer and a copy of MW3, stat!
God help me I'm becoming an elitist. Get me some non-ironic domestic beer and a copy of MW3, stat!
Nah man, you're not becoming an elitist.
Mainstream games are constantly getting dumbed down and coming bundled with garbage like DRM and stuff that we don't want. We've finally reached the point in the gaming industry where a small team can put out a really good game. We don't have to buy the big budget stuff anymore, we have options and so we go for what we see as the superior product - the one that doesn't treat us like a criminal. The one that doesn't treat us like a child that can't understand a complex
I'm on the same boat... But I think there are other factors involved beyond hipsterism and age, though... Games these days are like movies these days, you have the big AAA blockbuster titles which are massive, expensive, and epic, but ultimately safe and shallow, and then you have a thriving indie market which spawns tons of terrible crap but also manages to come up with some really good (better than the AAA titles) experiences. For some reason the indie scene has completely exploded of late, probably th
There's no reason why a big company like Blizzard couldn't do the same... other than greed and laziness, I guess.
Blizzard is owned by Activision, so greed and laziness should probably be considered the norm at this point.
Thanks Blizzard, this news saves me wasting $60 on yet another crippled game.
It also had local multiplayer. I wonder if Diablo 3's console version will have it? PC surely won't have anything of the sort.
... of "Pokemon Pandas: Farmin' the Grind".
up - jump
down - duck
left - move left
right - move right
A - shoot current object (e.g., throw a turtle at a demon)
B - strike (punch a demon, or break a brick in front of you. if hit at same time jumping, breaks a brick above you)
unlock super secret key combos for special super moves!
Awwh, cannot get your ship out.
Blizzard said Diablo 3 is PvE focused and they will not balance to PvP.
But they said a lot of things...
Because I don't like reading anything into anything...
He didn't say the "Diablo *3* console project".
This could be a case where there is Diablo 3, for the PC, Diablo: Return to Sanctuary for Xbox360, Diablo 2:Cow Wars for PS3, and Nintendogs: Duriel Edition for the 3DS, and Horadric Cube Simulator for the Wii.
Blizzard sent us [ausgamers.com] through a response to this story:
Bashiokâ(TM)s response on Twitter was intended as a confirmation that weâ(TM)re actively exploring the possibility of developing a console version of Diablo III, as weâ(TM)ve mentioned in the past. This is not a confirmation that Diablo III is coming to any console platform. Our focus right now is on finishing the PC/Mac version of Diablo III and making sure itâ(TM)s a worthwhile successor to the Diablo series.
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This is my first of likely many posts so hello to all!
First-off, I debated if I should put this in the javascript, css, or html section. I suspect the problem has more to do with css hence my posting here.
Secondly, I'm doing web development and following (or trying to follow) the mobile-first philosophy.
OK here's the issue:
I'm currently creating a site that uses a lightbox-like pop-up window (or faux-window) to display content. The problem comes with "closing" the window...
Here's the site: http://www.getdesign.ca/problem1.htm
On a desktop, everything works fine with every browser (except ie6 and 7 but that's another problem I can work out on my own). On my Android, I cannot easily close this window.
How the code works:
I'm using my own code and not a pre-made lightbox. I basically have absolute positioned divs in the center of page with css display set to "none". When you click a link, javascript switches them to "block". When you click to close the window, javascript sets it back to "none".
It should be possible to close it by clicking the "X" in the top right, the "close" link at the bottom, and by clicking anywhere outside this window. On Android, it is possible to close the window under the following circumstances:
If I don't scroll at all, and click the "X" in the top right, it sometimes works.
If I click below the "X" enough so that I'm clicking closer to "about", it works. This has something to do with the fact that I made the clickable area of the "X" much larger than the "X" itself (80x80 pixels)
If I click near the bottom "close" link like a madman, it works maybe 1 out of 50 times.
Like I said before, no problem on the desktop.
On my Android (Motorola Milestone) I have tested this on the Android 2.2 native browser, as well as Dolphin HD (same problem) and Opera Mobile (works fine, no problem).
More about the code:
If you look at the code it should be pretty self explanatory... but if you're having trouble understanding what I'm doing...
div id="contentBackground" <-- this creates a dark background
div id="about" class="contentWindow" <-- this creates a box that helps center the next divs...
div class="contentWrap" <-- heavily styles and sets the size of the faux-window
div class="closeWindow" <-- creates "X" in top right area
a class="closeText" <-- just the "close" text at the bottom
In the css these styles are grouped together starting on line 143 of the get.css file. The other styles you can probably ignore.
Any help or even moral support would be appreciated greatly .


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James Morelli never muttered an unkind word about anybody, says his daughter, Angela Prince.
Morelli did more than teach his children that if they couldn't say anything nice about a person, not to say anything at all, Prince says. He modeled that lesson for them.
For James Morelli, co-founder of Morelli Heating and Air Conditioning, old-fashioned values always were in style.
Morelli, who was born in September 1927, died April 16. In between, he spent a lot of time looking on the bright side of things. He really believed people should go through life with smiles on their faces.
Morelli felt sad at the thought that someone might not be happy, Prince says.
In his personal life, he and wife Joyce Lloyd Morelli, befriended the first black family to enroll their children in Sacred Heart Catholic School in the 1960s.
In his business life, he would pay courtesy calls to customers, just to make sure their heating and air systems were working well, Prince says. When they phoned at night, he took the calls, no matter how late.
There was a family with a newborn whose heat went out one night, Prince says. Morelli crawled under their house at midnight and repaired the system.
For him, some of the most rewarding professional experiences involved the challenges of designing heating and air-conditioning systems for historic structures not designed to have them.
Morelli Heating & Air Conditioning worked with other firms to design systems for several historic Charleston structures.
While Morelli liked figuring out how to meet the technical challenges, he had simple personal tastes.
"Fancy things did not impress him," Prince says. "One of his favorite meals was cold pork and beans. He liked fried chicken (with friends) and couldn't care less about going to a fancy restaurant.
Morelli's favorite social environments were casual ones where family and friends could joke.
Her father, a typically quiet man, did have a sense of humor, Prince says.
Morelli joined the Navy and was sent to the Pacific just before the end of World War II, but he never fought because the Japanese surrendered.
Later, he would create a special tale about his wartime experiences just for his children.
"He told us that the Japanese surrendered because they knew he was coming," Prince says laughing. "He also had this scar on his leg and told each one of us a different story about he got it."
He told one child a bayonet caused the scar, another a bullet caused it, and each of the others, something else.
Morelli was athletic as a boy and young man.
"He played all sports in high school," Prince says.
And he was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and played professional baseball for the then-Boston Braves minor league baseball franchise.
Perhaps, that was how he got the scar.
Most people who knew him as an adult never knew about his sports achievements because he was a humble person, Prince says.
He was content to be a member of the Palmetto Touchdown Club, a high school booster organization, she says. And he'll long be remembered as a fixture at the Charleston Municipal Golf Course on Maybank Highway.
Reach Wevonneda Minis at 937-5705.
Editor's note: James Morelli's wife was misidentified in earlier versions of this story. She was Joyce Lloyd Morelli. Other firms worked with Morelli Heating & Air in designing systems for some historic structures. The Post and Courier regrets the errors.


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Tadanori Yokoo
Born in 1936 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He is a graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter. He is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avantgarde theatre in Tokyo. In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelic, deepened by travels in India. His complex and multi-layered imagery is intensely autobiographical and entirely original. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition for his work and was included in the 1968 "Word & Image" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Four years later MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work organized by Mildred Constantine. In 1981 he unexpectedly "retired" from commercial work and took up painting. His career as a fine artist continues to this day with numerous exhibitions of his paintings every year, but alongside this he remains fully engaged and prolific as a graphic designer.
Job: Artist
Website: http://www.tadanoriyokoo.com/


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SEACOAST — New Hampshire's Seacoast band Gretchen and the Pickpockets has earned a spot as one of the top 100 bands in the world, rising above over 12,000 other bands, and is now representing New England, competing for a chance to perform across the globe. The Grand Prize winner will be sent on a World Tour including five countries; an album and music video through Hard Rock Records; and new music equipment and gear valued at $10,000.
The band has an alternative sound with a mix of jazz and blues thrown in. Their debut EP is a blend of all different sounds, a product of the fusing of each members' unique musical background. The group is comprised of vocalist Gretchen Klempa, winner of Rock the House Vocal Competition and Exetor idol as well as a finalist in Seacoast Idol. Her brother Michael Klempa and Garrett Goeman provide the tight rhythm section that has played together for years. Ryan O'Connell and Richie Smith bring their knowledge of various instruments as well as their dynamic guitar playing to round out the sound. Each song provides an intimate story, influenced by personal experiences.
The 96 regional winners will now compete for online fan voting to narrow the field to the top twenty-five bands. Fan voting runs from 10 a.m. EST on April 22 through May 1. (You must have a Facebook page to vote.) To vote, go to the band's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/gretchenandthepickpockets and look for the link to Hard Rock Rising Battle of the Bands, vote, and download some free music.


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Product Features:
Upright freezer
5 Adjustable shelves and 1 bottom shelf
Electric defrost
Temperature display
Digital thermometer
ABS interior
Antibacterial treated inner tank
Energy saving 60mm CFC free-polyurethane foam injected insulation
Best suited for use in low ambient temperatures - 15°C and below
Internal illumination
Adjustable feet
Static cooling
Manual defrost
Internal fan with coil evaporator
2 Year manufacturer warranty
Temp. Range: -2°C to +10°C
Capacity: 380ltr (13cuft)
Ambient Temp.: 15°C and below
Refrigerant: R134a
Wattage: 160
Supply: 13A UK plug
Electrical - Mains Powered: Yes (UK Plug Supplied)
Brand: Mondial Elite
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Height: 1872mm
Width: 620mm
Depth: 600mm
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The Utah Utes have hired Dennis Erickson to be their new co-offensive coordinator.
Erickson joins a Utah program that finished 5-7 last season and ranked 97th in passing yards per game, 91st in rushing yards per game and 73rd in points per game. He will be sharing the coordinator title with 26-year-old Brian Johnson.
"Dennis Erickson brings a wealth of knowledge and coaching experience to our program," said Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham. "He has been labeled as one of the original architects of the spread and we are looking forward to the impact he will have on our offense. Coach Erickson also has recruiting connections across the country which should benefit us on that front as well."
The 65-year-old Washington native has a 179-96-1 record over 23 seasons as a collegiate head coach and guided the Miami Hurricanes to national championships in 1989 and 1991.
Erickson's last head coaching stint was with Arizona State, where he went 31-31 from 2007-11. He also coached two other Pac-12 schools, Washington State and Oregon State, in addition to stops early in his career at Idaho and Wyoming.
Erickson also has NFL head coaching experience, compiling a 40-56 record with Seattle (1995-98) and San Francisco (2003-04).


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If you look at the end of the connector pin 1 is next to the beveled corner with pins 2 to 5 next to it and pin 6 below it. You can, of course, do the job by cutting the cable and wiring a 12V supply and a standard USB connector.
The software
Once you have solved the problem of plugging the Kinect in, your next step is to download the software. This is trivial. Go to Download the SDK and allow the installer to run, it automatically installs the correct version for your hardware. Unplug the Kinect before and during installation. If you installed an earlier beta of the SDK then uninstall it first.
Next you need a copy of Visual Studio. If you don't have a full copy of Visual Studio then simply download the Express version and install it: http://www.microsoft.com/express.
Once you have installed the SDK you can plug in your Kinect and you should see the drivers automatically install. To check that they have been installed you should be able to see four Kinect devices in the Device Manager.
There is also a Kinect audio device listed under Sound,video and game controllers:
To check that they have worked try running the "Sample Skeletal Viewer" from the Sample Browser. This shows the depth map, video and the detected skeleton of anyone in the view.
If you find it's not working you are probably too close.
There is also a complete demo of a game - The Shape Game - that involves tracking two players at the same time. The source code for both samples is included with the SDK and once you get beyond the beginnings you can use them as the basis for your own applications.
If you find that the device drivers aren't installed you need to make sure that you install the SDK and then plugged the Kinect in.
If not the simple solution is to disconnect it and then plug it back in when it should be recognized and the drivers installed.
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Plant Coming To Mercer County
MARIA STEIN — Representatives from a Wisconsin-based firm say a 25,000 square foot production facility to be built in Mercer County could play a vital role in helping to heal Grand Lake St. Marys and its watershed.
During a manure workshop in Marie Stein, officials from Ag Conversions unveiled plans to build a manure processing facility near the intersection of Ohio 119 and 127 that would take manure from local livestock farmers and convert it into organic fertilizer. Paul Chadwick, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Amiran Technologies — the parent company of Ag Conversions — said the facility became a reality in less than a year.
"We've really thought of everything — we've got a lot of really good input from some local experts here," Chadwick said. "Biosecurity is a big deal and we are taking it very, very seriously."
The campus will include a production facility, storage areas for poultry litter and manure, as well as a clarifier lagoon. There also will be a visitor/research center that will serve as an outreach center for the company.
"We're now working with a construction company and laying out the inside," Chadwick said, noting he expects to break ground in April — pending the finalization of financing. "We feel pretty good about where we are with this."
After briefly explaining the layout of the campus, Chadwick revealed the reasons for adding a research facility to the campus.
"This technology has never been showcased before — it's never been done before," Chadwick said. "We want this area, Mercer County, where we are calling the Ag Conversions Grand Lake Watershed Facility, is going to be the first in the world to have this technology. The reason for the center is we are getting incredible interest from all over the country and all over the world to see this."
Chadwick said the company will be able to take manure and through a proprietary process, turn it into a highly efficient, organic fertilizer in either dry or pellet form. The process also removes all impurities from the output, including E. coli, and would provide farmers an outlet to dispose of their manure.
"One of the things we are going to do is decriminalize manure," Chadwick said. "Right now, it's a bad word."
More than 20 years of research has gone into developing the technology. Chadwick said while the process looks simple, a lot of work has gone into making it a reality.
"We can take the manure, put it in the facility, process it and we get a beneficial reuse product output — high-efficient organic fertilizer," Chadwick said, noting the formula can be tailored to fit a variety of recipes.
"We believe that we can break the price barrier with synthetic. We believe we can produce a high-efficient, organic fertilizer at a price that's going to be very competitive with synthetic."
Chadwick also announced the creation to two ancillary companies.
AgTrans will serve as a pick-up and delivery service for liquid manure and Innovative Ag Nutrients will serve as a dry fertilizer retail business that will sell the output product.
The target is to have production up and running by summer so the product could be sold to farmers in the fall.
"We've got to get going on this pretty quickly," Chadwick said.
"If we don't, we're missing a year and we really want to get going on this. In a perfect world, we wanted to break ground in the fall."
The capacity of the plant as currently configured is 590,000 tons of dry fertilizer per year. The project will create 60 direct jobs and approximately 180 secondary jobs.
"We think it's a pretty big deal," Chadwick told The Evening Leader of the plans.
"First of all, we think it's going to be a big step in getting the manure out of the watershed and that means a decrease in phosphorus going into the lake, which we call part of the upstream solution."
The firm's long-term goal is to make the facility a showcase of Ag Conversion's technology to help distressed watersheds across the globe. Chadwick said the research facility will be a major component of that strategy.
"We plan to have chemists here who will continue to do research," Chadwick said.
"The visitor center piece of it will be multi-faceted — we're imagining it's going to be a place for schools to use for field trips. We also will see that people around the country and world will want to see this. We'll also be working closely with Wright State University and some of their initiatives for water clarity. We expect that this will be a big part of what we will do."
Mercer County Economic Development Director Jared Ebbing welcomed the news.
"For the region as a whole, it's economic development," Ebbing told The Evening Leader.
"It's an aspect that doesn't get a lot of play — the ag economy in our region is huge and anything that threatens that is a bad thing. So from this perspective, this can be a win-win. If these guys can come in and create 60 jobs, that's almost forgotten in a sense, but if they come in to help our ag industry so they don't have undue hardships, then that's a great thing."
Ebbing encouraged farmers in the region to talk with Ag Conversions regarding any possible benefits the firm can bring to their operations.
"Hopefully they can see this as a positive," Ebbing said.
"Even though you may have the land to get rid of all the manure, not all soil needs that excess nutrients. So why waste it if you can have it processed and converted into a valued-added product or commodity."
The campus is expected to bring a total investment of $10 to $11 million to the region. Ebbing said the potting soil component — which includes the processing of dredged material from Grand Lake St. Marys and converting it into potting soil — is next on the agenda.
"We wanted to focus on the manure and the watershed first because that's the most pressing issue," Ebbing said.
"We wanted to get this moving and get a relationship going ... We're working with Brian Miller at the state park to maybe set up some remote sites.
They have a lot of dredged spoil sites around the lake and maybe we can get into those and start processing that to show the state that we can in a sense clean out those dredged spoil sites, convert it into a value added potting soil and get that rolling and then start focusing on the lake itself."


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Baldur's Gate is a hugely popular RPG series for the PC. With Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, console gamers get a taste for what makes this game so much fun.
The graphics are really quite good. There are numerous pools of water for you to run around in, to watch the ripples and wakes shimmer and merge. The lighting is lovely, the detail in the buildings and towns and dungeons look great on even large TVs. The sound is good too, and sitting in your living room with friends while the stereo sound surrounds you is tons of fun.
You can play single player or two-person cooperative, which makes couch-play even more fun. With a large bowl of popcorn and your favorite drinks, you can hack and slash your way through numerous hours or a weekend of play.
Now, the down side. Again, console port. Really, you're playing Gauntlet. You run around hacking up barrels and crates in your friend's cellar. Is this exactly the nicest thing to do? You hack at rats and enemies, look for things in barrels. Yes, you get into lever-pulling and puzzles. But in the end the game is pretty linear and the monsters don't regenerate. So whatever level you're at when you get to a certain point, you can't build yourself up more strongly.
This can get to be a real pain when you hit a strong boss. You can't go buy more gear, because there's no way to make more money. You can't get stronger or more skillful, because there's nobody else to kill "behind you" and you can't go "ahead" until you kill the boss. So you're doomed to keep trying to hack at him until you get past him ... somehow.
Another big complaint I have is that the gamemakers seem obsessed with the female form. The guys in the game are all pudgy and uninteresting. But the girls! The first woman you meet, the bartender, has jiggly, wiggly breasts and she shakes them around non-stop during her long, long discussions with you. Everyone I showed the game to was mesmerized by them.
And playing the female sorceress character, I found that no matter how hard I tried, I could NOT get her clothed well. Every outfit involved a cut-off top, skimpy leather boots and not much else. Ahem, she's going into a deep, dark dungeon to face dire enemies? And she's doing this in beach-wear??
Still, the game was campy fun, and definitely draws you in. A fun weekend-play game for real RPGers, and an easy way for those new to the genre to learn what it's about and to get a taste for the fun.
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Skiers are still flocking to the slopes, especially after the latest snowfall earlier this week.
But, they aren't the only ones interested in the area snowfall.
Today was the last snow pack survey of the year and it's results could mean the difference for your summer water supply.
A late storm front brought a cold spell to the valley and more snow to the Sierra.
This is good news for the water supply, but not enough to get out of a 5-year drought.
Snow pack surveys detail the depth and density of the snow throughout the western US at the beginning of each month, starting the first of the year.
Thursday morning was the last survey and the results at the Mt. Rose ski area show the snow pack above average.
The deep snow pack this year was better than expected with the late snowfall, but it would take at least two more seasons like this to start climbing out of a drought.
We're looking at probably a little bit of average runoff and in the Truckee, and a little better on the Tahoe Basin and much better on the Carson Walker River Basin. Definitely going to get an average to well above average here, first time in probably four or five years here.>
And with more years like this, adventure seekers will share the natural resource's good fortune with a little fun of their own.
Snow Pack Good News For Water Users
Skiers are still flocking to the slopes, especially after the latest snowfall earlier this week.


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From the time-travelling Delorean to the "Love Bug" VW Beetle, cars have played many iconic movie roles. Watch as some of the greatest car icons in films come to life.
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The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle
Two old men stand by a graveside, delaying a funeral in the hope that others might turn up. The deceased, 58 year-old Eric Argyle, died with an 'I love you' left unspoken. Across town, a stressed cellist has just received 5,307 love letters meant for someone else. Together the pages within make up a memoir, but will they reach their intended recipient? That depends on Eric himself, up in limbo with a decision to make.
Simple storytelling played out under a canopy of lampshades, Dan Herd's production is all jumble sale chic and twinkling xylophones. It's the sort of whimsy that goes down well on the festival circuit, but in the cynical badlands of London, this Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe hit from young Irish company 15 Oak feels a little too sentimental. Eric's tragedy is his timidity and his regrets – so easily averted in hindsight – are a dead cert in the tear duct department.
But what elevates 'Eric Argyle' above other shows of this sweetly ramshackle ilk is writer Ross Dungan's knack for making narrative strands converge without giving the game away. It all adds up to a delicate little mediation on mortality; one that suggests life boils down to dealing with death's consequences and helping others do likewise. What you leave behind matters, but legacies can be written in hearts as well as the history books. Matt Trueman
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Nature "An Original Duckumentary" at 7 pm
Working with "Hummingbirds" producer Ann Prum, NATURE features another popular, beautiful and fascinating bird – the duck. The story follows a wood duck family and discovers how a male and female create a bond, migrate together across thousands of miles, nurture and protect a brood of chicks and come full circle as they head to their wintering grounds. But our stars are just one of some 150 species of ducks. They come in all shapes and sizes and abilities – some are dabblers popping in and out of the surface of a glass lake and others swim with powerful webbed feet underwater. They fly through the air on short, stubby wings, traveling in large, energy-efficient formations over thousands of miles. Some are noisy and gregarious, others shy and elusive.
NOVA "Ultimate Mars Challenge" at 8 pm
It could be NASA's last chance to set wheels down on Mars until the end of the decade: in August 2012, a rover named Curiosity will touch down inside Mars' Gale Crater, carrying 10 new instruments that will advance the quest for signs that Mars might have once been suitable for life. But Curiosity's mission is risky. After parachuting through the Martian atmosphere at twice the speed of sound, Curiosity will be gently lowered to the planet's surface by a "sky crane." This first-of-its-kind system has been tested on Earth, but will it work on Mars? With inside access to the massive team of scientists and engineers responsible for Curiosity's on-the-ground experiments, NOVA is there for the exhilarating moments after Curiosity's landing — and for the spectacular discoveries to come. But no rover does it alone: Curiosity will be joining a team that includes the Mars Odyssey, Express and Reconnaissance orbiters, along with the tireless Opportunity rover. As we reveal the dynamic new picture of Mars that these explorers are painting, we discover the questions raised by 40 years of roving Mars: How do we define life? How does life begin and what does it need to survive? Are we alone in the universe?
NOVA ScienceNow "What Will The Future Be Like?" at 9 pm
Mobile phones that read your mind? Video games that can cure cancer? Wearable robots that give you the strength of Ironman? David Pogue investigates which technologies are likely to transform daily life for you — and your grandkids. They're already taking shape in laboratories around the world — and gadgets that once were purely science fiction are on the verge of becoming as common as the iPhones and Androids Pogue reviews every day. What technological hurdles must engineers and computer scientists overcome before robots, mind-readers and holograms are all around us? And what will it mean to us as humans if we become even more entrenched in a 24/7 digital world?


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Robert Wiley
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Robert (Bob) Wiley is a senior vice president, chief information officer and the manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Detroit Branch and has functional responsibility for district operations. His responsibilities include information technology, law enforcement unit (LEU), building operations and administrative services. Wiley is also a member of the Bank's Management Committee.
Prior to joining the Seventh District in 2003, he was a group vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Twelfth District). During his time in the Twelfth District he had oversight responsibilities in several areas of the Bank, including check, cash, audit and human resources.
Prior to his Federal Reserve experience, Wiley was a senior officer at Wells Fargo Bank serving in various and diverse leadership roles and official positions, such as ATM operations, retail sales and back office support and administration. He also held development positions in public accounting and a bank holding company.
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- Couple Stories : Wonder Womanâs Examination
Wonder Woman's Examination
Col. Steve Trevor was in a bad humor even although he had good news for his commanding officer. He had broken up a terrorist group that threatened a major National Monument. He learned of a plot to plant explosives in George Washington?s image on Mt. Rushmore that would have turned the face of the Father of
Our Country into that of Saddam Hussein. Steve had foiled the attempt, but only with Wonder Woman?s help. And that was the source of his frustration -- Wonder Woman. Working with the sexy bitch was frustrating as hell. The way she swung her hips in those lycra tights, flaunting those 44 DD boobs gave him a perpetual hard-on. He had tried everything to get into those star-
spangled pants without success. She always brushed him off with that condescending I?m-an-Amazonian-Princess-and-I-don?t-need-
sex attitude.
Steve was pretty sure Wonder Woman was no virgin; not in a physical sense, anyway, having been raped countless times by various androids, the tentacles and tendrils of assorted trans-
genetic life forms, and by machines especially constructed to fuck the superheroine to death or orgasm her into sexual submission.
He suspected she really got off on it, too, although she always pretended to be horrified. But for all the pleasure she had taken from substitutes, Steve suspected she had never been properly done by a real live human male penis.
How Steve longed to be the first, although he actually saw little hope of achieving it. Wonder Woman was far too strong for him to force her, and she was determined not to be seduced, because giving herself willingly to a man would destroy her super powers. As a loyal American, Steve did not, of course. wish to deprive his country of the services of the strongest, fastest, and sexiest superheroine in the universe. As a man however, he had the urge to fuck her silly and to hell with the damned super powers!
So it was a scowling Col. Trevor who walked into General Stillworth?s office that morning. The General met him with a beatific smile. Steve brightened. The General must have heard about his (and Wonder Woman?s) success and wanted to congratulate him. Wrong! The General had other things on his mind that morning. ?Ah marriage!? the older man expanded.
?You really don?t know what you?re missing, Steve, my boy. You ought to find yourself a good woman and settle down! There are plenty of little NCOs around and some of them are pretty frisky young animals, if you know what I mean.? The General winked.
Where did that come from, Steve wondered. ?I?m sure you?re right sir. I guess I just haven?t had much luck with the woman I?ve got my eye on.?
?Luck has nothing do with it, son.?
?What do you mean, sir??
The General looked around conspiratorially ?Check the lock on that door, my boy, and have a seat.? Steve hurried to carry out the General?s order.
?You may know that a while back Maggie and I were having some problems.? Steve did know, and that had contributed to his puzzlement at the General?s encomium to married bliss. In fact, the last time he had run into Margaret Stillworth, she had a big dopey grin on her face. Steve assumed she had found herself a strapping staff sergeant and was getting her lights fucked out.
?Oh it was the usual thing, really. Over the years old Maggie had just gotten less enthusiastic about sex. A shame! Why you should have seen her at University of Alabama --hottest cheerleader on the squad and that was saying a lot. We won the Sugar Bowl the year I was senior quarterback, thanks to her. Every time the Notre Dame passer cocked his arm, Maggie lifted her skirt and flashed him her bare pussy. We got three interceptions that way. Trounced the Yankee bastards!? the general chuckled.
?When we were first married, all the little minx wanted to do was fuck. Damned near too much for me. But after Charles and Amanda came along Maggie started to slow down. Then last year when Amanda went into high school, Maggie decided she?d had enough of pills and jellies and she didn?t trust me with a rubber. If I wanted sex, she said, I?d have to wait until near the end of her month when she was sure to be safe.?
?No!? Steve exclaimed in mock horror, never missing an opportunity to butter up his superior. ?A man like you, only having sex a few times a month? Impossible, General!?
??Fraid so, my boy. Well, of course I couldn?t go without my nooky, so I found myself a little corporal over in Quartermasters Corps. Build like a brick shithouse. Started screwing the daylights out of her. Wasn?t a bad fuck,? the General mused. ?But she has a face that would stop a clock,? Steve was too intelligent to add aloud.
?I might have continued like that, but the bitch got airs.
Wanted me to divorce Maggie and marry her. Imagine! And when I told her she was crazy, all I wanted to do was keep fucking her, maybe give her a little bundle of joy to remember me by, she got mad and sent Maggie an anonymous letter. Well, then Maggie got mad and cut me off completely, started threatening to divorce me herself. Fortunately, that?s when the boys over in Military Intelligence came to my rescue.?
?Military intelligence?? Steve asked.
?Don?t make me repeat myself, boy. You think military intelligence is an oxymoron? If you didn?t spend all your time with that crazy woman in the funny hot pants, you might learn something from your colleagues.?
?Yes, sir,? Steve replied, trying to placate the General. ?So how did the staff of Military Intelligence help you??.
?Well, the boys had seen those stories in the Post about the raft of professional women who suddenly quit work and start making babies like there is no tomorrow. Struck them as a little funny. They looked into it and found all the women were patients of a certain Dr. Bock. The doctor has a clinic and after a husband or boyfriend sends his sweetie there, she comes back *real* nice.
We made contact with him and appealed to his patriotic instincts.
Sent him a couple of enemy agents to turn. Worked fine except he also knocked them up and ruined everything. I believe the marriages of several men working on the case improved significantly, judging by the size of their wives? tummies,? the General grinned.
?Well, when I heard about that Dr. Bock, you can bet I had Maggie hightail it over there. When she came back that evening, she hardly said anything; looked real out of it. I was worried and was ready to go beat the hell out of the bastard. I changed my mind, though, the next morning. I woke up with Maggie riding my dick and screaming out my name in the middle of one hell of an orgasm. I had to put my hand over her mouth to keep her from waking the kids. Well, when she came a few more times and I got her calmed down, she started bawling and saying that she was sorry for not fucking me more. I was a hell of a stud who deserved more sack time than she had been giving me and she understood why I had needed to take a mistress. She sobbed that she couldn?t understand how she could have been so frigid, and that if I?d stop screwing that girl, she would to make sure I got all the sex I wanted at home.?
?And damned if she hasn?t tried. I?ll tell you the woman?s got hot! She begs me to bang her a couple of times every night and it?s hard as hell to get he out of bed on weekend mornings In addition, she?s started dressing more like a woman. She started back to wearing high heels and those big loop earrings that she knows gives me a hard on. She?s been working out to loose a few pounds and looks damned fine in her new mini-skirts and a lot finer out of them. She threw away all those goddamned pantyhose and got herself some proper stockings. She?s costing me a fortune in lingerie, but its worth it!?
?Amazing,? Steve said, sincerely this time.
?Damned right! I though I had it as good as it gets until a couple of weeks ago when she topped everything. I came home one Friday to an empty house. Maggie had sent the kids to her mother?s. She met me at the door in a little I-don?t-know-what that showed off her tits and barely covered her pussy. Made me forget all about dinner. Said I could eat *her.* I had been trying for years to get that woman to open her legs to my mouth. Well we barely made it upstairs and soon I was slurping away. She started making so much noise I thought the neighbors would complain. I got her off so many times I was partly drunk on pussy juice.
Finally, she stopped me and said she wanted to ask me something.
I was a little suspicious from all this buttering up, but told her to go ahead and ask. She blew my mind. ?Honey, please. I think this is the right time. Would you make me pregnant tonight? I want to give you more babies.?
?Well, I fucked her so hard that night and all the next day and all day Sunday that I damned near broke it off in her. I think Amanda was suspicious when she got back on Sunday night and saw the big silly grin on her mother?s face. And hell if Maggie wasn?t a good counter. Last night she met me at the door with a big smile and showed me one of those home pregnancy tests with a big pink plus sign on it. The woman is out of her mind, she?s so happy. Made me fuck her doggie style last night ?to practice? for when she gets too big for me to go in the front door.?
If he had not been a member of the Joint Chiefs, the expression on General Albert Stillworth?s face would have to be called a shit-eating grin. Steve was so envious he couldn?t speak.
He wanted to kill the General. He had seen Margaret Stillworth wiggling her ass across the base the other day. What a babe she had become! The thought of this old bastard getting it on with such a sexy woman every night, much less her letting him make her pregnant again was almost too much. And he couldn?t even get to first base with ....Wait! If Dr. Bock could turn Margaret Stillworth into a fucking machine, what couldn?t he do with Wonder Woman?
Steve practically raced out of the General?s office. He spent several hours planning all the details. Then he sent for Diana Prince. Now there was a sorry excuse for a woman! Her face wasn?t bad, he had to admit, but those baggy clothes! That bun.
Those shoes! Steve realized not everyone could look like Wonder Woman, but Diana hardly looked like a woman at all! Still, she was Wonder Woman?s friend and could always get in touch with her somehow. Steve tried to smile when Diana entered.
?Thanks for coming Corporal Prince. I need to get a message to Wonder Woman.?
?I?ll try sir,? the mousy woman replied.
?There?s a new regulation that Wonder Woman must know about. From now on, all our agents, even informal ones like Wonder Woman, have to get annual physical checkups.?
?You?re saying Wonder Woman must be examined by a doctor?? Diana asked.
?Not me, Corporal, Reg. 12735, sec. 13 b)? Steve replied, trying to keep a straight face.
?I don?t think she?ll go for it, sir. It seems pretty foolish.
There is obviously nothing wrong with Wonder Woman.?
?You can say that again,? Steve almost said aloud, but, trying not to roll his eyes, he replied, ?It?s an official regulation, Corporal. If she doesn?t comply, it will be illegal for us to let her work for the government. I?m sure she doesn?t want that.?
?I guess not. But surely you can?t expect Wonder Woman to just walk into a doctor?s office and ask for an exam.?
?Good thinking, Corporal Prince! No. I know Wonder Woman has some kind of secret identity. She can use it to go in disguise. Just give her this envelope. It has the name of a doctor and a code word. She can call him, tell him the code word, and he will give her the appointment without asking who she is. We?ve arranged everything.?
Shaking her head, Diana left Steve?s office. ?Military Intelligence! What an oxymoron. Now maybe if they had women running the place ...?
Three afternoons later, Wonder Woman, in the guise of Diana Prince, was sitting in the waiting room of the Bock Gynecological Clinic. She was surprised at the paucity of good reading material there, just silly magazines about sex and babies.
She looked away in disgust. Several of the other women that were waiting seemed to feel the same way. One by one they were all called, each going in with a scowl. And one by one each emerged, utterly changed. They looked ecstatic, hardly coherent. Diana wondered if it was safe for them to drive.
At last Diana, too, was called. She was surprised by the nurse who introduced herself as Amaka and asked her to sit down.
Amaka was a tall black woman, very beautiful, and very friendly.
Soon Diana felt totally at ease. Amaka was asking her funny questions and Diana was answering them, but in a distracted way, hardly paying attention to what was going on. She didn?t understand why the pretty woman wanted to know about how often she masturbated and how. She didn?t like to admit to doing it, feeling it was a kind of weakness, not becoming an Amazonian Princess. But the nurse was so friendly, Diana felt she must tell her everything she wanted to know.
After the nurse heard that Diana usually had to get herself off three or four times a night before being able to get to sleep, she asked Diana to tell her about her masturbatory fantasies. Diana giggled. She hardly needed fantasies! Wonder Woman had enough memories of forced orgasms to last a lifetime. She shared a few of them with the nice nurse. This was turning out to be fun.
Amaka wanted to hear more about that big green plantamal.
Diana enjoyed remembering it even though the creature had nearly done her in. The plantamal had not attacked her physically, just dropped around her let her smell its flowers. Apparently the fragrance was a kind of aphrodisiac because it made her so horny!
She had just stopped fighting and let the creature hold her in its leaves because they were so soft and it had a tongue-like tendril in her mouth and another licking her ear. Something else was stroking her breasts and between her legs and just everywhere at once.
Amaka thought she would understand better if Diana showed her how the tendrils were rubbing her and making her feel so good. Diana liked that idea. Obligingly, she cupped one of her titties with her left hand and wormed the right hand under her tights. It felt just like when the plantamal slid a tentacle into her pussy and started moving it in and out, trying to make her come so it could plant its seed in her. Diana orgasmed as she told how she had been too smart for the tentacle and had squeezed it so hard with her cunt muscles when she came that it withdraw in pain.
Amaka laughed at Diana?s story and said some more things. What? Really, it was hard to pay attention to the words of a woman who had such large beautiful breasts. Or was it the locket that was between her breasts. It kept flashing in her eyes. She was getting so drowsy.
?Go right ahead, dear. Close you eyes. A good come always makes a girl very sleepy. You can have a little nap before we continue.? Amaka was standing in from of her now.
Just a little too late Wonder Woman realized what was happening to her. The woman was trying to hypnotize her. Her orgasmed mind felt foggy already. She had to fight back. ?Hey, no,? the sluggish superheroine started to protest as the mind-
deadening words droned on.
Amaka couldn?t understand why this Ms Prince was succumbing so slowly. She had never seen a woman put up such stiff, if unconscious, resistance to hypnotic induction. Even getting her to masturbate hadn?t quite done the trick. Amaka suspected Ms. Prince had received training in fighting off attempts at mind control, so she proceeded cautiously. With naive women or girls, hypnotism was like dropping a penny in a basin of water. The professional women she dealt with were tougher nuts; putting them to sleep was like soaking a piece of cardboard; Amaka had to press for a few minutes, but eventually they sank, too. Putting Ms.
Prince under, however, was like trying to submerge an inflatable toy. Amaka had to bear down firmly over a long time until the woman?s consciousness slowly seeped away. Apparently Amaka had just pressed a little too hard and tipped her subject to what was going on. Still, Ms Prince was probably too far gone to mount an effective resistance now. When a woman was in this state, Amaka knew how to take her farther.
?It?s alright, honey. Don?t fight me,? Amaka cooed and herself cupped one of Diana?s huge breasts. Even through layers of clothing it quickly firmed again. Stroking Diana?s tits, Amaka continued to whisper endearments, telling her to relax and let herself go. Diana?s ?No, No? turned to soft sighs as she became more aroused.
Diana could have fought off the soporific words. She could have fended off the delicious way the pretty woman was feeling up her titties. But she could not combat both at the same time. If she concentrated on blocking out the words, Amaka?s hands did wickedly wonderful things to her body. When she summoned the will power not to give in to those deft hands, the words insinuated themselves into her mind.
Fear only added to her excitement when she felt a small tingle start between her legs. It didn?t remain small. It grew and spread into her belly and her thighs, to her breasts and back. It felt like liquid fire as it raced out to all of her extremities and re-
converged on her brain. Diana?s breath came in gulps. She heard a wail begin before she knew it was her own. The fire was everywhere. She felt all her muscles tense; her body arched. Then it hit. Massive! Irresistible! Mind-numbing! Nothing existed outside the fiery orgasm that convulsed her. It seemed to go on and on and when it released her, she was limp. The brightness cooled to red-orange ... then to embers that barely glowed ... then blackness.
Amaka looked with satisfaction and considerable relief at the entranced woman. When her own breathing returned to normal, she lay Diana down on the low examining table and began methodically to remove her clothes. Even under the bulky sweater and thick calf-length tweed skirt, Amaka could tell Diana was a well-built woman. Why did she hide it? The blouse followed the sweater to the floor and still there was some kind of body stocking under that. Gently, Amaka began to tug it loose.
Bloody hell! Under the body stocking was an outlandish red and white lycra top covering a truly mammoth set of jugs. As Amaka pulled away more and more of the body stocking, the pattern became recognizable. Damn weird! Under her clothes, this Ms. Prince was dressed like ...
?My god! ... What if ... ?? Amaka suddenly thought. It made a kind of frightening sense -- the abnormally strong resistance to hypnosis, her wild fantasies. Amaka had to find out.
?Ms. Prince, answer me truthfully. Why do you have on the costume of Wonder Woman??
?I am Wonder Woman,? was her droned reply.
Her heart leaping to her throat, Amaka hit the intercom button. ?James. Get in here immediately. You?ve got to see this!?
?Oh, yes! ... Fuck, yes! ... Oh, my darling! ... Give it to me!
... Oh, god, ... you?re going to make me ... Ahhhh!!!? came the reply in a voice that was an octave above James?s. Amaka hated speaker phones at moments like this. Why didn?t James just stop fucking the Pickering woman for a moment and pick up the damn telephone? The question answered it self when she heard James grunting as he did just before he came.
?...uhh, uhh ...be right there ...uhh, uhh ... darling ...
By the time a slightly sheepish Dr. James Bock walked in wearing only his stethoscope, Amaka had Wonder Woman stripped down to just her costume. James froze and stared at the sight in silent awe. There could be no doubt about the identity of the woman lying there. Anybody could put on a kinky costume, but not just anybody had that body. That blue-black hair, that waspish waist flaring to those wide, man-humping hips, those magnificent mammaries, rising and falling with each peaceful breath.
?Wonder Woman!? James announced, only stating what was evident. ?Wonder Woman!? he said again more softly, still not adding anything to the information already available. ?I?m gong to fuck Wonder Woman!?
If he had not been a respected member of the medical profession, the expression on Dr. James Bock?s face would have to be called a shit-eating grin. ?I?ve always wanted to fuck Wonder Woman,? he exclaimed, adumbrating the obvious. Every man in America wanted to fuck Wonder Woman.
Amaka shook her head. Devoted as she was to this man, at times like this she recognized that James, like others of his gender, was still just an overgrown teen-age boy. ?Daring, do you think we should?? Amaka asked. ?She *is* a superheroine. Without her who knows what dangers our country would face from natural disasters, foreign invaders, demented scientists, and alien predators. Can we afford to turn her into a sex slave of this Col.
?I?m going to fuck Wonder Woman,? James said again, not having weighed Amaka?s argument carefully.
?I don?t think you should, James? Amaka said, standing her ground.
?Not fuck Wonder Woman?? James asked, finally hearing his partner. ?Like hell! Prep her!? he ordered.
A shiver ran through Amaka. She knew she would have to do as he said, even though it didn?t seem right. James could make her do anything. There was no point in making him be more forceful. Reluctantly, Amaka pulled down the star spangled tights of the unconscious Wonder Woman and began to tease her pussy with her fingers. She felt the little tingle of pleasure between her own legs that always rewarded her when she did something to please James. Slowly at first but with growing enthusiasm she began to eat the snatch of the costumed woman lying before her.
Wow! With her inhibitions suppressed, Wonder Woman?s body responded with alacrity to Amaka?s fingers, lips, and tongue.
In seconds the helpless superheroine was moaning in arousal and seconds later she was wracked in orgasm. Amaka was rewarded by a copious flow of her love juice. The taste was amazing.
Wonder Woman?s spend had the sweetness of an over-ripe melon, the saltiness of rare-cooked roast beef, the exotic freshness of wild mushrooms and mountain sage. She knew Wonder Woman was not called that because of the way she tasted, but Amaka decided she deserved the appellation for that, if nothing else!
Wonder Woman had hardly descended from the first orgasmic high when Amaka, no longer reluctantly, began to take her back up the mountain. She was disappointed when James impatiently pushed he aside. ?Good job, darling. I?ll take over from here.?
Amaka watched as James slid his prick into the warm wet cavity her hand had just vacated. Her opinion about the wisdom of this had not changed, but her opinion didn?t count. James was fucking Wonder Woman and in a few hours America?s greatest superheroine would be little more than the personal property of the man who had sent her here. There was nothing Amaka could do to prevent it.
Fucking Wonder Woman was everything James?s wildest fantasies led him to expect. Her cunt opened to his prick like butter, but held it firmly as he slid in and out. She moaned in sweet surrender and a mere tap of his fingers brought her legs to his shoulders. Thrust for thrust, her body responded to his with grace and athleticism. He knew Wonder Woman was not called that because of the way she fucked, but James decided she deserved the appellation for that, if nothing else!
James pushed Wonder Woman through four orgasms of increasing volume before he, too, lost control. As his seed shot into her, he rued not having put an impregnation clause in the contract with Col. Trevor. How could he have known this was not just a routine job of a guy who wanted his secretary for a fuck toy?
Too late now. James collapsed on the inert body of the fucked out superheroine.
Amaka gave him a few moments to recover before she spoke. ?James, darling, there is something you should know about Mrs. Pickering.?
?Mrs. Pickering?? James thought, astounded that Amaka could bring up something so monumentally irrelevant. He had just fucked *Wonder Woman!* ?Huh??
?Yes, darling. I checked her chart. This is the middle of her period. If you do a *really* good job on her today ...? she let the implication speak for itself.
James was starting to be able to think again. ?Today, huh??
The boyfriend of the voluptuous matron had not said anything one way or the other about knocking her up. He was mainly interested in taking the money of the unsatisfied wife. Mr. Pickering, who could certainly afford another kid, would be overjoyed, believing it was his, as would the woman?s younger lover. Seldom was making three people happy such a pleasant task. It was practically an obligation, James reflected applying Benthamite logic. ?But we?re not through here.? James made the pro forma protest, but he was warming to the idea of putting a baby in the soft round body of Dorothy Pickering and all those pre-natal checkup *that* would entail.
?I?ll take care of everything here, honey. All I need to do is put the machines on her. You run along.? Amaka coaxed.
?But Col. Trevor will be around to collect her about 5:00 PM.?
?Don?t worry. I?ll take care of Col. Trevor,? Amaka assured him. James?s cock was getting stiff by the time he reached the door.
An hour and a half later Amaka was sitting in front of Col.
Steve Trevor. Wonder Woman lay naked behind her still deeply unconscious. If he had not been a high ranking officer in military intelligence, the expression on Col. Steve Trevor?s his face would have to be called a shit-eating grin. Amaka regarded him sternly.
?This is a big responsibility, Col. Trevor. We did not know it was Wonder Woman you had sent us. May I have your word as an officer and a gentleman that you will treat her with respect and allow her to continue her duties to our country?
?Yeah, yeah, just let me have her,? Steve replied, not entirely convincingly.
?She is a superheroine, after all,? Amaka pointed out.
?You won?t force her to do things that are beneath her dignity will you??
?Nah? Steve replied distractedly, not taking his eyes off of Wonder Woman?s huge bare tits.
?I see,? Amaka continued. ?Well, then, I have just a few more instructions. I want you to pay careful attention. Col.
Trevor, please look directly at me as I speak. This is important. I need you to focus on what I am saying. You must do every thing I tell you ...?
?Oh, Steve! Yes! Oh, baby! Yes! Fuck me Steve, Fuck me! Don?t stop!? Wonder Woman was screaming in ecstasy as Col. Steve Trevor complied with her totally unneeded injunctions.
He had her doggie fashion, holding on to that ample, round ass as he pounded away at her pussy. Wonder Woman?s head thrashed from side to side as she called out for him not to stop. This was heaven. She couldn?t get enough of Steve?s cock. He was such a magnificent lover, so wonderful in every way. As another orgasm engulfed her she knew she was the luckiest superheroine in the world.
Steve was more than pleased with Wonder Woman, he reflected between strokes. The visit to Dr. Bock?s clinic had worked out perfectly. Wonder Woman had turned into a sex maniac who never, never turned him down. If they were alone, she would come onto him. She would fuck as long as he could hold out, any time, any place, in any position. As long as she got him in her, she was happy. She though he was a god and loved to do little things to please him. It was paradise to be with her. If he only had more staying power. But sooner or later he would loose it. Oh, no! The overpowering urge to release in her was too great. He had to ... come! Exhausted as always after these bouts, Steve fell into Wonder Woman?s arms. He let her cuddle his head to those marvelous boobs, and drifted off to sleep.
?Reveille, darling,? Diana?s cheery voice rang out, bringing Steve back to a different reality. This always happened.
Whenever and wherever he fucked Wonder Woman, he woke up in Diana?s apartment. Here, he didn?t know if he was in heaven or hell. He could not understand why, at almost the same time Wonder Woman had come back from the Bock Clinic, Diana had started to change. For the first time Steve realized Diana was a woman, too -- in fact a babe! The new clothes had a lot do with it.
Diana gave up flats for stylish four inch pumps. The cut of her skirts rose from three inches below the knee to five or six inches above. And suddenly the woman had tits. Not just tits, bazookas!
Where had they been all this time? Amazingly, and notwithstanding that he was fucking the lights out of America?s No. 1 superheroine, Steve found himself falling in love with Wonder Woman?s best friend.
Steve had always known the relationship between the two women was strange, but this was even stranger. Although Diana welcomed Steve?s growing affection, she knew about and did nothing to discourage his relationship with Wonder Woman. In fact she seemed to want him to keep at it, like going to the gym, something he should do for is health.
His time with Diana was so different from that with Wonder Woman. The nympho superheroine had only one thing on her mind. She wanted to be stripped and fucked, the harder and longer, the better. She didn?t need sweet words; she didn?t need foreplay; she needed a man, or rather a man?s prick, and bad. They hardly spoke except for Steve to order her from one position to another and for Wonder Woman to moan and plead for more and longer sex, and afterwards to ask when he would do her again.
Diana, on the other hand, was a romantic. She loved candlelight dinners at fancy restaurants, going out to dance under the stars, attending the theater, the opera. But she loved staying home, too. Diana and Steve read aloud to each other. He wrote her poems. She sent him flowers. They cooked together. They spent long happy hours just cuddling on the couch.. After the proper warm-up, Diana loved to let Steve undress her and kiss her big titties, gradually trailing his tongue down her belly and finally eating her. Steve loved to pleasure Diana?s snatch. She came hard when he did it right and he was doing it right more and more often
Strangely, Steve?s memories of their nights together were dim after this point. He certainly couldn?t ask Diana if he fucked her or not.
He guessed he did, since when he woke up in bed with her, she always told him how wonderful he had been. He was too embarrassed to tell her about his dreams of fucking Wonder Woman
If Steve had been more perceptive about women, that is, if he had not been a man, he might have realized that Wonder Woman and Diana complemented each other perfectly. One wanted a sweet, gentle lover who treated her like a lady, with affection and dignity. The other wanted a vigorous, domineering man who fucked her stupid. Steve might have put two and two together, but of course, he never did.
As Steve fell more deeply in love with Diana, she seemed to change in other ways as well. Clearly she loved him, but she also expected a lot from him. At first she just asked favors, but gradually she became more demanding in ways that Steve could never refuse. He found he was spending more and more time at her apartment, using his own bachelor pad mainly as a place to screw Wonder Woman occasionally. Gradually all his clothes, at least the ones Diana approved of, were transferred here. And since he was living with her, Diana expected Steve to do his share of the housework, more than his share, he sometimes felt.
?Up and at ?em, big boy. You have a lot to do today,?
Diana smiled down at her handsome, infatuated lover. ?The place really needs a good vacuuming, dear, especially the drapes. And remember what I told you about separating the whites and colors when you do the washing. Would you do my unmentionables by hand with the Woolite? Let?s see, I think the bathrooms could stand freshening up, too. I believe this is the week you clean the oven, no? By the way, could you be a dear and make the canapés for Monday afternoon. I?m giving a baby shower for Margaret Stillworth and I do want everything to be perfect as I?m sure you do, too.?
Steve looked up at Diana. She was asking a lot. This was his only day off. He had not been able to get in any golf for weeks.
He wanted to protest, but she was smiling down at him so sweetly, he just melted. ?Sure, honey. What are you doing today??
?Oh a million things. I?ve got a girlfriend coming over here at 10:00 to pick me up. Do try to be decent by then.?
Leaning down to give him a peck, she turned on her heel and left.
Steve shut off the vacuum when he heard the doorbell.
Opening the door he saw a tall, beautiful black woman who looked slightly familiar. She seemed to know him. ?Hi Steve. Is Diana ready??
?Almost, I guess,? Steve replied with a confused look on his face.
?That?s Amaka,? Diana sang out from the bathroom.
?Keep her company while I finish my make up.?
?How are things working out, Steve? Are you happy here?? Amaka asked.
Steve was more confused by this question from a woman he didn?t know, but he told her in some detail that yes, he was very happy. ?I knew you would be. Diana is a good woman.?
?Bye - bye, darling,? Diana said as she left. ?Oh, I almost forgot. Wonder Woman called. She said she?d like to go over to your apartment tonight for some ?good old fashioned you know what.? I told her you could go if you finished you chores. Do try.
She sounded pretty desperate,? Diana grinned.
Minutes later a still puzzled but excited Steve Trevor was back hastily vacuuming as Diana and Amaka?s heels clicked toward the elevator. They kissed briefly and hit the down button.
Diana and Amaka had a big day planned. First they went to the best lingerie boutique in town to pick out more slinky underwear for Diana. Her taste had improved, but Amaka thought she could still use some help. Next, they went to the mall and spent a delightful two hours teasing and torturing a goofy-looking shoe salesman named Bundy by trying on dozens of high heel sandals and spiky pumps, ultimately rejecting them all as insufficiently sexy.
Diana suggested the new French restaurant for watercress quiche and what turned out to be two bottles of Chardonnay. After a few glasses the women were giggling so much several of the other patrons looked askance. The friends were having so much fun, they paid no attention. When they got to Amaka?s house around 3:00 PM, both women were tipsy, but they knew just what they were about. As soon as the door closed Diana grabbed Amaka and kissed her hard. Amaka responded, pulling Diana into a tighter embrace. ?I?ve been dying to get my hands on you all day,? Diana whispered, nibbling Amaka?s ear.
?Not more than I?ve wanted you? Amaka replied, stroking Diana?s buttocks. ?I hardly know where to start.?
?How about here,? Diana replied, starting to unbutton Amaka?s blouse. Several mutual orgasms later the two friends cuddled close and fell asleep.
Amaka was awakened by a kiss from Diana. ?Oh, Love, I am so happy and I owe it all to you. You?ve given me everything I ever wanted in a man and your friendship, too?
?Is friendship all you want from me?? Amaka teased, stroking one of Diana?s large tits.
?You know what I mean,? Diana replied, too serene to be teased. ?I have Steve, adorable Steve who makes my heart ?go pitter patter ...??
?The best man you?ve ever had wrapped around your finger.? Amaka smiled.
?And Wonder Woman is getting about as much sex as any mortal man can provide,?
?And since she isn?t ?giving herself? to anyone, she keeps her super powers.? Amaka continued.
?Yes. But I?ve got a couple of ideas to improve things.?
Diana grinned
?What?? her friend replied.
?I think I know what to do about Wonder Woman?s problem with Steve?s stamina.
?I don?t know honey. James has done about all that is physically possible there.? Amaka cautioned.
?True, but why should Steve be so selfish with Wonder Woman. He has friends like that hunky Bruce Wayne or that cute reporter, Clark Kent. He could invite them over an share!?
Amaka clapped her hands in glee. ?That?s great! What?s you r second idea??
?Well, I?ve been thinking it would be fun for Steve to get us pregnant.?
?What?? Amaka asked, a look of surprise and concern crossing her face.
?Not me and you, silly. Looks like James is taking good care of you,? Diana chuckled, reaching over to pat the cute little paunch below Amaka?s waist. ?Me and Wonder Woman.?


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Get Smart's Agent 99 was a sexy sitcom star who made many the teenage boy's heart a flutter in the mid-60s. First off - a dandruff shampoo commericial starring Barbara:
Barbara loses her dress on Laugh-In.
And Barbara Feldon as the celebrity contestant on this early 70s episode of The $10,000 Pyramid.


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Adam sets a romantic scene at home. Chelsea asks if it's Sharon's birthday. Adam says it's an apology for keeping the secret. "I love you, Mrs. Newman." They sip champagne and then head upstairs and make love. Adam goes downstairs after and reads about Gloworm burning down. He leaves.
In the cottage, Sharon looks at photos of Noah and Faith and writes to them about the hole in her soul and how she's trying to get back to them. She says their dad is a good man. After balling up numerous letters, Sharon heads outside.
Ronan tells Phyllis at a restaurant that she looks gorgeous. She returns the sentiment and quips that it makes the first date less awkward when you've seen each other naked. They look at menus and he isn't pleased when she says what she wants is to put this day out of its misery. They agree the date feels weird. Phyllis says maybe they suck at normal. He suggests pizza, beer, and sex. She can't do it.
At Phyllis' door, she tells Ronan they should cut their losses and thanks him.
At Avery's place, she stops kissing Nick and says they agreed to take things slow. "What's going on?" She puts a chair between them, saying he makes her brain mushy, and asks again. He says he can't stop thinking about her and lists the things he likes about her. Avery says this is a big thing. Nick agrees, this time would be real. She decides to make soup - cooking helps her think. They discuss how she learned to cook and she teases Nick about his skills. They end up talking about their respective sisters before she feeds him soup. He leaves after eating, but returns to tell her he had an amazing time. Phyllis appears and calls Avery a liar. She starts ranting. Avery says she doesn't want him because he's Phyllis', she wants him because of who he is. Phyllis says he came back to her before, and will come back to her again.
Sharon looks in at Noah in the tackhouse. He opens the door. "Mom." She says she shouldn't be there but she missed him. He keeps asking where she's been. She tells him she's not really back yet - she's been sick and has done things she can't take back. Sharon rambles about Victor. Noah asks if she burned down his house. Sharon says it's about what she did to Newman and the stock. She tells Noah that Adam has kept her safe - she owes him her life. Nick's car pulls up outside and Sharon panics. She tells Noah she's getting professional help and doesn't want to have to leave again - Noah must not tell Nick she was there. Nick comes in and Noah asks him about Avery and his break-up with Phyllis. Noah then opens up about his girlfriend, Adrianna, who cheated on him.
Adam meets his hired man at Jimmy's and says he told him to play firebug not burn down Gloworm. The guy tells him that's funny and goes. Ronan asks Adam what he's into this time. Adam says it was a high-stakes poker game. Ronan wants in. Adam tells him he's too good and leaves.
Phyllis is on her sofa when Ronan comes to the penthouse drunk and carrying pizza and beer. He wants a do-over. Phyllis tries to beg off. He tells her she's her own worst enemy. Phyllis hollers that they just had sex and says he's also his own worst enemy with his family. Ronan protests that he's trying to open up - he wants to know her and what makes her happy. She doesn't know and mentions her divorce hearing tomorrow. He says it's always about Nick. She throws him out and calls Nick. She asks him to postpone the meeting with the divorce lawyers, but he won't.
Chelsea goes to the cottage looking for Adam and reads Sharon's discarded letters. Sharon appears and tells her she has no right - they're her personal feelings and she's lonely. Chelsea understands. They talk about Chelsea losing the baby and Sharon's kids.
Chelsea returns to the house and sees the news about Gloworm as Adam comes in. Adam assures her that Jeff and everyone is fine. Chelsea says someone made it look like it's the same person who burned down the ranch. Adam says it's probably a copycat, but it covers for Sharon.
Avery shows up at the tackhouse and tells Nick she's not afraid and it's worth the risk to her - she wants him. She kisses him and runs out.
Genoa City Spoilers for Tomorrow on The Young and the Restless:
Phyllis asks Avery to come to her divorce meeting as moral support for her.
Victor sees that Billy has a gun and asks what the hell is going on.
Victoria bangs on the cell door. "Let me out!"
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BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the United Nations refugee agency is warning that Syria could be on the "verge of the abyss" as aid workers brace for a likely increase in the nearly 2 million refugees who have already fled the country's civil war.
In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Antonio Guterres called on Syria's neighbors to keep their borders open to accommodate additional Syrians seeking to escape the war.
Gutteres' visit to Iraq highlighted how even that violence-ravaged country has emerged as a haven for Syrian refugees.
He says 44,000 refugees have flooded into Iraq's northern Kurdish region just since August 15. Aid workers have described that influx as one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad began.


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More than 840,000 Texans are Working but Have no Health Insurance
Texas Coverage Solution Could Reduce Uncompensated Care and Promote Healthier Workforce
Austin – New analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows that nearly 60 percent of uninsured, low-wage Texans are working. Despite being employed, these Texans lack health insurance coverage because their employers do not offer it as an employee benefit or it is unaffordable.
Without health insurance, these uninsured residents rely on hospital emergency departments and clinics for their health care needs –– from primary care to critical care. Texas hospitals' uncompensated care load is currently more than $5.5 billion annually. Likewise, property taxpayers and the privately insured pay higher taxes and premiums to offset uncompensated care costs.
More than one million Texans have incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid coverage but too low to qualify for subsidized private health insurance through the federally run health insurance marketplace.
"A Texas coverage solution that uses federal funds to bring hardworking Texans into the private insurance market is fiscally responsible public policy," said Ted Shaw, president/CEO of the Texas Hospital Association. "Providing access to coverage that demands personal responsibility and accountability will promote a healthier workforce and a healthier economy."
Analysis of Census data from Families USA, a nonpartisan consumer advocacy organization, finds that 58 percent of these uninsured individuals are in the workforce, while 24 percent are not because they are students, have a disability or are a caretaker of young children or a family member with a disability. The nearly 846,000 working but uninsured Texans are in industries vital to the state's robust economy. These include sales, food services, office support and construction.
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If you spend any time in NYC, LA or other large cities you notcie what James Kunstler calls "nature bandaids" click here for my post and his video But what about when you combined a bagel factory & dirt? In NYC an old bagel factory had its roof top converted from 6000 square feet of sheet metal to a viable farm!
Ben Flanner launched this project after feeling that he had his fill of working for E-Trade and when he saw how many folks around were turning to growing their own food, he jumped at the chance. He partnered with several folk from botanists, gardeners, farmers and a green roof architect firm to make his dream a reality.
The farm is already being harvested and being sold to local restaurants as the closest to source vegetables available. Ultimately he hopes to set up a stand where he can sell to people of the community to keep it all as local as possible.
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2009-10 season statistics
GP: 70. G: 15. A: 24. Plus-minus: +6. PIM: 28. PPG: 2. GWG: 3. Shots on goal: 120. Shooting percentage: 12.5 percent. Ice time: 18:10 per game. Hits: 87. Blocked shots: 43. Faceoff percentage: 50.5 (165 won, 162 lost).
OK, so I admit to a little bit of provincial bias in the case of TJ Galiardi. The kid played at Dartmouth for a year, where my stepfather went. Yes, I spent a good portion of my youth at Thompson Arena in Hanover, N.H., pounding on the glass at Dartmouth hockey games, rooting on the Big Green. I sold cokes in the stands of Memorial Field for Big Green football games. As a 7th grader, I was friends with a Dartmouth hoops player, Peter Roby, who today is the athletic director at Northeastern University. I saw a lot of Dartmouth baseball at Red Rolfe Field.
You get the picture.
But it wouldn't have mattered if Galiardi was a former Big Green player or not. He deserved an A for what I thought was a tremendous season.
I thought "Gally" was perhaps the team's winner of the Huey Lewis "Heart and Soul" award. Yes, that's a newly christened award by yours truly.
The Alberta native (who is playing for the USA at the World Championships, because of his dual citizenship) was a clutch player who did a lot of the team's dirty work. He played on the first line most of the second half, with Paul Stastny and Chris Stewart, but also was a lead penalty killer. He played hurt, played tough in the playoffs (he got under the skin of several Sharks players very effectively) and just took a giant leap forward overall in his career development this year.
He posted a solid 15 goals and 39 points in 70 games, and, yes, there is room for improvement offensively and it will now be up to Galiardi to take another step and get to the 50-point mark or so next year. He probably needs to get a little stronger in his upper body, too, to withstand the pounding that comes with being a winger (he was a center before being moved to left wing by Joe Sacco).
People forget that he's only 22 (he turned that on April 22), still just a kid. He was Calder Trophy-eligible this season, and I expect him to get some votes within the top 10 for sure, maybe a couple in the top 5.
One of Galiardi's best moments of the season was that goal within the final 10 seconds to tie a game in L.A., in the final two weeks of the year. That got the Avs a real big point that night, really helping them get into the playoffs.
He also scored a late, late goal in Florida to tie a game and get another point. To me, the biggest thing Galiardi proved this year is that he's a gamer, a guy who wants the puck in big situations, who just goes for it.
But would you expect anything less from a Dartmouth guy?
Before I go, a quick take on the current state of the Red Wings-Sharks series. To the many here who hate the Wings, it might not be much fun to read.


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Reading 2: Laws of White Pine Mining District, October 10, 1865
The following document contains the original laws governing the White Pine Mining District. They were amended in 1867.
If needed, refer to a dictionary when the terminology is difficult to understand.Tuesday, October 10th, 1865
A company of miners met on the above day for the purpose of forming a district. The meeting was called to order and Robert Morrell was nominated to act as President.
Motion made and carried that this district be known as White Pine District--bounded on the north by the Red Hills, and running from thence south to a point where the mountain runs into a foot-hill; from thence east, 12 miles from thence; from thence north, and from thence west to the place of beginning; the district being twelve miles square.
Thomas J. Murphy was nominated to act as Recorder for the district, and was duly elected Recorder of White Pine District for a term of twenty-four months from date.
On motion, the following By-Laws were presented and approved:
First--The Recorder shall go on the ground and record all claims, for which he will be allowed one dollar per name, after which no mine can be relocated, but belongs forever to the parties whose names are recorded.-[Amended]
Second--There shall be an election for a new Recorder on the 10th of October of every second year, who shall be in office as Recorder for two years, unless by death removed, or by other reasons, when a notice signed by fifty of the miners of the district can call a meeting, published by a notice posted 30 days in the district, and advertised for 30 consecutive days in the Reese River papers.-[Amended]
Third--It shall be the duty of the Recorder to keep a suitable set of books, or a book, a full and truthful record of the proceedings of all public meetings; to place on record all claims put on notice or brought to him for record, when such claims shall not interfere or affect the rights or interests of prior locators, recording the same in order of their date. It shall be the duty of the Recorder to keep his books open at all times to the inspection of the public. He shall also have the power to appoint a deputy to act in his stead. It shall be the duty of the Recorder to deliver to his successors in office all books, records, papers, etc., belonging to or pertaining to his office.
Fourth--All examinations of the records must be made in the full presence of the Recorder or his deputy.
Fifth--Notice of a claim or location of mining ground by any individual, or by a Company, on file in the Recorder's office, shall be deemed equivalent to a record of the same.
Sixth--Each claimant shall be entitled to hold by location 200 feet on any lead in the district, with all the dips, spurs, angles, offshoots, outcrops, depths, with variations, and all the mineral and other valuables therein contained. The discoverer of, or locator of a new lead being entitled to one claim extra for discovery.
Seventh--The locator of any lead, lode or ledge in the district shall be entitled to hold on each side of his lead, lode or ledge, located by him, or them, one hundred feet. But this shall not be construed to mean any distinct or parallel ledge within two hundred feet, other than the one originally located.
Eighth--All locations shall be made by a written notice posted upon the ground.
Ninth--Every claim located by individuals or company shall be recorded within 14 days after the date of location.-[Amended]
Tenth--The Recorder shall be allowed 50 cents per name for every name on an abstract of record furnished by him.
Eleventh--The Recorder or his deputy is not required to reside constantly in the district.-[Amended]
Twelfth--These laws cannot be amended, altered or repealed for two years.
Thirteenth--These laws shall take effect on and after the 10th day of October 1865.
Questions for Reading 2
1. What was the role of the Recorder for the district? Why was this role so important for the mining district?
2. Why must the Recorder keep his books open to the public for inspection? Why must the Recorder be there when an examination of the records occurred?
3. How was a claim staked?
4. Who determined the By-Laws of the district? If needed, refer to Reading 1. Do you think this was an effective process? Why or why not?
Reading 2 was excerpted from Harlan D. Unrau, Basin and Range: A History of Great Basin National Park, Nevada (U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1990).


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The Newton Noon Kiwanis will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 223 E. Forth St. N in Newton, for lunch and a program by Leanne Schwickerath titled "Exercise and Flexibility As We Age".
Anyone interested in the program or in learning more about Kiwanis is welcome to be a guest for lunch.
For more information or to make a reservation for lunch, call Lonnie Barton at (641) 792-4810. Visit www.newtonkiwanis.org to learn more about the service club.