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'Shining up classic dishes
The ocean is a long way from Rick Miller's kitchen. The kitchen is a long way from where his journey began.
"Back then I wanted to be a marine biologist," the 61-year-old smiled. "And I can still give all the Latin names to the fish."
SEE ALSO: Mélange of the Mountains returns to Haywood County
Head chef at the Moonshine Grill, within the Smoky Falls Lodge in Maggie Valley, Miller has spent a lifetime working in kitchens, managing and owning restaurants, and, quite simply, creating meals that fill the belly and warm the soul.
"We try to keep one foot in the mainstream, but we put little twists on everything we do," he said. "I just want people to enjoy our product, have a great experience, and have a reason to come back."
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Miller opened Moonshine Grill in April 2011 with lodge owner Eric Freyeisen. The establishment specializes in hearty dishes cooked in a 72-inch wood-fire grill, fueled by hickory wood. Entrees range from hand-cut steaks (sliced on the premise), pasta and pork chops to elaborate appetizers and sweet-tooth desserts. Most of the plates feature a key ingredient: moonshine.
"When we started this, we wanted to tie into the history and popularity of moonshine in this area," Miller said. "Popcorn Sutton is a big name here, and I remember seeing people walk around with their 'headache pills,' which was the berries they'd eat from the moonshine jar."
Heading South
Growing up in Yorktown Heights in Upstate New York, Miller was surrounded by a family that grew their own vegetables and caught their own fish. There were a lot of cooks in the kitchen, with Miller enjoying the fruits of their culinary labors.
Eventually, Miller decided to enroll at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, where he'd major in marine biology. That's when he realized he couldn't cook as well as he was used to eating back home.
"My relatives could all cook, and there was a shock of going to college and eating cafeteria food," Miller said.
Soon, a friend offered him a gig as a dishwasher at a local restaurant. The friend also began slowly teaching Miller the art of cooking while on the job.
"I needed money, and I was starving to death down there," Miller chuckled. "Working in that kitchen was an opportunity to feed myself — that's where it all started."
Upon graduation, with his marine biology degree in hand, Miller was making great pay in the culinary industry. So, he decided to give it a couple more years in the kitchen. Those years passed, and he gave it a few more, which in turn became his lifelong pursuit.
"I was going to work at the restaurant a little while longer and pay off my student bills, then go into my field," he said. "But, I was making twice the amount in the kitchen as I was being offered in [marine biology]. Where I was was really growing at that time, and I ended up opening seven restaurants all over."
Now, years later, Miller still wakes up every day and loves his job. The hours and pace are fast, something that appealed to him as a young adult. These days though, he enjoys being able to be a big fish running a smaller restaurant.
"When I was younger, it was about the thrill of filling volumes, where you'd be cooking for 700 people at night and 1,100 during the day — it was an adrenaline rush," he said. "But, I've been fortunate to work myself into smaller and smaller places where I can solely concentrate on the food."
Maggie Meets Mélange
With the annual Mélange of the Mountains culinary celebration overtaking Haywood County next week, from April 10 to 13, Miller looks forward to throwing his hat in the ring. He hopes to put the Moonshine Grill on the map and in the bellies of local residents and visitors alike.
"We really enjoy what we do. We wish the word got out there a little bit more. It's been a constant battle — people just don't realize what we're doing here," he said. "The hardest thing for us is drawing people in from Waynesville, and that's a problem Maggie Valley is facing, too. We're looking at Mélange as a way to get our name out there, let people taste our moonshine pasta, pork loin cheese spread and frozen key lime mousse."
Miller noted some long-term goals at the restaurant. Possibilities include a brewpub, moonshine micro-distillery and maybe the option to franchise the business into something that the rest of Southern Appalachia can enjoy eating as much as Miller enjoys preparing it.
"Any position someone works in, whether you're a construction worker or a CEO of an electronics company, you have to have a passion for your job to start with, and if you don't, the product won't be good," the cook said. "Satisfaction for me is putting out a good product, something that people will remember and enjoy — that's what it's all about."


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Operation Catchpole is launched as American troops devastate the Japanese defenders of Eniwetok and take control of the atoll in the northwestern part of the Marshall Islands.
The U.S. Central Pacific Campaign was formulated during the August 1943 Quebec Conference. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed on, among other things, a new blueprint for fighting in the Pacific: an island-hopping strategy; the establishment of bases from which to launch B-29s for a final assault on Japan; and a new Southeast Asia command for British Adm. Louis Mountbatten.
The success of the island-hopping strategy brought Guadalcanal and New Guinea under Allied control. Though those areas were important, the Allies also still needed to capture the Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, and the Gilbert Islands, which had comprised an inner defensive perimeter for the Japanese. Each was a group of atolls, with between 20 to 50 islets, islands, and coral reefs surrounding a lagoon. The Allies planned an amphibious landing on the islands--all the more difficult because of this unusual terrain.
On February 17, a combined U.S. Marine and Army force under Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner made its move against Eniwetok. Air strikes, artillery and naval gunfire, and battleship fire 1,500 yards from the beach gave cover to the troops moving ashore and did serious damage to the Japanese defenses. Six days after the American landing, the atoll was secured. The loss for the Japanese was significant: only 64 of the 2,677 defenders who met the Marine and Army force survived the fighting. The Americans lost only 195.
The position on Eniwetok gave U.S. forces a base of operations to finally capture the entirety of the Marianas. Eniwetok was also useful to the United States after the war--in 1952 it became the testing ground for the first hydrogen bomb.
Taken from: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-troops-land-on-eniwetok-atoll [17.02.2014]

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Privacy watchdogs challenge laptop seizures at US borders
6,671 travelers searched (so far)
Privacy advocates have sued the Obama administration over its practice of seizing laptops, cell phones, and other devices at US borders and copying their contents even when the owner isn't suspected of wrongdoing.
In a complaint filed in US District Court in New York City on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers argued that digital devices contain such highly personal information that they are protected by the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. Because the data often contains unpublished pictures and information collected by journalists and scholars, the devices are also protected by First Amendment protections ensuring freedom of speech.
The complaint was filed on behalf of a variety of individuals, including Pascal Abidor, a 26-year-old doctoral student, and a dual US-French citizen. In May, he was traveling by train from Montreal to New York when officials from the US Customs and Border Protection searched his laptop. One agent demanded to know why he had downloaded pictures depicting rallies held by the militant Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
He was handcuffed and detained in a holding cell for several hours. When officials returned his laptop 11 days later, Abidor was able to determine that they had rifled through personal photos, a chat transcript he had with his girlfriend, email correspondence, and class notes.
The complaint alleges that the search – and the threat of more to follow – requires him to warn sources that the information they provide him may be acquired by customs officials. "Mr. Abidor fears that this will discourage some interviewees from being candid or from sharing information or documents with him that they otherwise would have shared," attorneys wrote.
Border agents searched digital devices of 6,671 travelers from October 2008 to June 2010, according to the ACLU. Almost 45 percent of those searched were US citizens. The ACLU has more here. ®


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Fans weren't the only ones who picked sides when Brad Pitt left Jennifer Aniston and began his new life with Angelina Jolie. According to Now! magazine, Team Aniston supporters have an ally in the actor's own mother, Jane Pitt.
"Jane's seen, first hand, how difficult Angelina is," a source revealed. "She never comes to visit the family in Missouri and is always prickly on the rare occasions they have got together. Jennifer was the total opposite — charming, friendly and the perfect daughter-in-law. She always made time to be an active part of the family, whereas Angie just turns her nose up."
In fact, the insider insists Aniston remains an active part of the family and continues to contact Jane Pitt regularly.
"(Jen and Jane) speak at least a couple of times a week and Jen never misses a birthday or special occasion," the source said.
Manson's violent fantasies about Evan Rachel Wood Tough times are to be expected after a bad breakup, but it's hard to have much sympathy for shock rocker Marilyn Manson. In a no-holds-barred interview with Spin magazine, Manson detailed how his heartbreak inspires fantasies about killing ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood.
"My lowest point was Christmas Day 2008, because I didn't speak to my family," the singer recalled. "My walls were covered in scrawlings of the lyrics and cocaine bags nailed to the wall. And I did have an experience where I was struggling to deal with being alone and being forsaken and being betrayed by putting your trust in one person, and making the mistake of that being the wrong person. And that's a mistake that everyone can relate to. I made the mistake of trying to, desperately, grasp on and save that and own it. And every time I called her that day — I called 158 times — I took a razor blade and I cut myself on my face or on my hands."
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While he admitted that behavior seems "really stupid" in retrospect, Manson maintained that there was a grim method to his madness.
"I wanted to show (Evan) the pain she put me through," Manson said. "It was like, 'I want you to physically see what you've done.' It sounds made up but it's completely true and I don't give a sh-- if people believe it or not. I've got the scars to prove it. I didn't want people to ask me every time I did an interview, 'Oh, is this record about your relationship with your ex-girlfriend?' But that damage is part of it, and the song 'I Want to Kill You Like They Do in The Movies' is about my fantasies. I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.'"
Johnny Depp's big tip
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Actor Johnny Depp took a break from promoting his upcoming bad guy flick, "Public Enemies," to keep his good guy image going strong. According to one lucky waiter, the star recently finished off a late-night meal at Chicago's Gibsons Bar and Steakhouse by dishing up a $4,000 tip.
"Depp is the finest of all the stars I have ever waited on," server Mohammed A. Sekhani told the Chicago Sun-Times. "And he is a true icon, and his ability to respect others is phenomenal… Depp is one cool and generous dude."
Dish on the fly Despite her success in the "Harry Potter" film franchise, Emma Watson isn't sure that she'll return to big screen once she puts Hermione Granger behind her. "Until something comes along that I feel as strongly about as I did Hermione — like, I felt that it was life or death — I don't want to act again," the 19-year-old told Teen Vogue. Watson's busy schedule, which includes promoting the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" while filming the next two installments, helped her reach that decision. "I don't think I've ever been this tired in my life. I literally wear my pyjama bottoms to set." … In "My Sister's Keeper," Cameron Diaz played mom to 13-year-old co-star Abigail Breslin, but off-screen Diaz took on the role of bad influence. "I did teach Abby how to say the F-word," the actress admitted in a quote posted to Hollyscoop. "I taught her how to drop the F-bomb in every way possible. I said, 'You're a child in an adult's world. I can't be a child for you.' When she didn't swear, I said, 'You're starting to offend me, Abby. If you don't start swearing every three words then I will fine you.'" … Fans hoping for a dip in the fountain of youth that keeps Michelle Pfeiffer looking fresh-faced at 51 might be disappointed to learn her mundane secrets for holding back the years. "Ultimately it's 'you are what you eat' and you have to exercise," Pfeiffer shared in an interview with Moviefone. "It's really simple stuff, and it's stuff that people don't really want to know about… It's not about the newest, latest diet, the newest fad. It's not about some cream you put on your face. It's really about what you eat."
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PRESS RELEASE: Jr. Preds to play in World Championship of Peewee Hockey
- Updated: November 15, 2012
This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will provide the Jr. Predators players with an unparalleled cultural, educational and athletic experience. Moreover, the Jr. Preds U12 Elite team participation illustrates the growth and development of hockey in Nashville and the Southeast region.
In an effort to offset the significant financial obligation associated with the tournament, the Nashville Jr. Predators U12 Elite team has created the Peace, Love and Hockey fundraising promotion. The Predators are encouraging middle Tennesseans to assist in the team's quest to become the World Champions of Peewee Hockey.
Peace, Love and Hockey will feature the Grammy Award winning Keb' Mo, the Alternators, Rebecca Lynn Howard and others. The benefit concert will be held at the unique Two Hippies in the Gulch. Former NHLer and Preds Radio analyst Stu Grimson will host the event; Nashville Predators Head Coach Barry Trotz and other Preds hockey operations staff are scheduled to attend. Please see the flyer posted below for more details.
The Quebec tournament is considered the world's premier youth hockey event. The competition includes 120 U12 Peewee hockey teams from around the globe, including teams from Germany, Finland and Russia as well as multiple entries from the United States and Canada. Thousands of NHL players, such as Wayne Gretzky, Patrick Roy and Preds alum J-P Dumont, have competed in this prestigous tournament.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say threatens public health and the environment.
Participants in the "Global Frackdown" campaign posted photos on social media websites showing mostly small groups.
But organizer Mark Schlosberg said Saturday afternoon he thought the protests were going well and he pointed to photos showing larger demonstrations in South Africa and France as well as higher turnouts in cities in California, Colorado and New York.
"I think it's really the communities all over the world coming together to say, 'We want to protect our water, we want to protect our air, and we want to safeguard our climate future by getting off dirty fossil fuels and saying no to fracking. We need to invest in a renewable energy future,'" said Schlosberg, who is national organizing director for Food & Water Watch, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that developed the GlobalFrackdown website and campaign.
The immense volumes of natural gas found by fracturing underground shale rock around the country has spurred a boom in natural gas production that has been credited with creating jobs and lowering prices for industry and consumers.
But scientists disagree on the risks of hydraulic fracking, a process that injects large volumes of water, sand and chemicals underground to break rock apart and free the gas. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and many state regulators say fracking can be done safely, and the American Lung Association says it can help reduce air pollution.
Opponents say the process can pollute water and sicken residents.
At a park in Pittsburgh, protesters signed a petition calling for a moratorium on shale gas drilling. In Buffalo, N.Y., demonstrators called upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to ban hydraulic fracturing.
Jennifer Krill, executive director of Earthworks, said about 50 San Francisco demonstrators marched along the waterfront to the Golden Gate bridge, carrying signs and banners. She posted a picture of a 30-foot-long white banner stretched out on the grass that listed chemicals used in fracking.
"I thought it was a very eye-catching way to display one of the key problems with fracking, which is that the public does not know — unless the company chooses to disclose it — what chemicals are involved in hydraulic fracturing," she said.
Kathy Hanratty of Frack-Free Geauga said about 30 to 40 people turned out at a demonstration in the northeast Ohio county, which she said was not bad considering "it's a small county and a rainy morning."
"It is an affected area," Hanratty said. "We just had the seismic test trucks go past my house on Monday."
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Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2024.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Who is Your MRUA?
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (where's my Mission Impossible music...drat, lost it), is:
1) Who is your MRUA - your Most Recent Unknown Ancestor? This is the person with the lowest number in your Pedigree Chart or Ahnentafel List that you have not identified a last name for, or a first name if you know a surname but not a first name.
2) Have you looked at your research files for this unknown person recently? Why don't you scan it again just to see if there's something you have missed?
3) What online or offline resources might you search that might help identify your MRUA?
4) Tell us about him or her, and your answers to 2) and 3) above, in a blog post, in a comment to this post, or a comment on Facebook or some other social networking site.
Here's mine:
Number 26 on my Ahnentafel List is Devier James Lamphear Smith. I don't know who his parents are - they are Numbers 52 and 53 on my Ahnentafel List. Here are the vital records, and a synopsis of what I know about Devier's parentage:
Devier James Lamphere alias Smith was born 07 May 1839 in Henderson, Jefferson County, NY, and died 01 May 1894 in McCook, Red Willow County, NE. He married Abigail A. Vaux 04 April 1861 in Rolling Prairie, Dodge County, WI, daughter of Samuel Vaux and Mary Underhill. She was born 28 October 1844 in Aurora, Erie County, NY, and died 11 September 1931 in San Diego, San Diego County, CA.
Based on the available personal, public and government records, this person was born with the name Devier James Lamphere, probably in Jefferson County, New York. His birth parents have not been identified to date. He was adopted by Ranslow and Mary (Bell) Smith before 1843, when the Smith family moved from Jefferson County, New York to Dodge County, Wisconsin.
My hypotheses are that (1) Devier's father had the surname Lamphere (and variants) or (2) that his mother, with the surname Lamphere, had him out of wedlock and gave him up for adoption.
I have written extensively about my search for the birth parents, ostensibly named Lamphere/Lamphear/Lamphier/Lamfear or Lanphere/Lanphear/Lanphier/Lanfear or any other reasonable spelling of the surname, in Jefferson County, New York in the 1840 time frame. One of my posts, which links to others, is Finding Lamphears in Jefferson County, NY - Post 3.
In my search, I have exhausted the court records in Jefferson County NY that are available on FHL Microfilm, the history books, the online databases, the land record indexes, etc. I've also exhausted the Dodge County, Wisconsin records available on FHL Microfilm and online databases. That leaves unfilmed, unindexed, non-digitized records that might be found in historical societies, genealogical societies, local libraries, and state archives, and private collections.
I've sort of let this problem lapse in recent months since I'm stymied for what to do next. I think that my next step is to search for a marriage record and for newspaper articles in Dodge County, Wisconsin that might name Devier's birth parents, especially around the time that he married in 1861 and when he legally changed his name on 21 March 1866. A lady in Dodge County has offered to do these searches for a fee and I haven't written the check yet. I need to! Hope springs eternal!
If anyone has other research ideas, I would love to hear them!
13 comments:
- Randy said...
Paternal grandfather:
Mr. Clark
might have been George
might have been born in Illinois
2 children:
Glenn b.1901 Pleasantville, Iowa
Ruth b.1905 Denver, Colorado - Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:40:00 PM PST
- Carol said...
Great challenge! I gotta go hit Ancestry after dinner! LOL
http://www.reflectionsfromthefence.com/2009/11/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-who-is.html - Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 3:13:00 PM PST
- Darlene said...
I have nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger award. I see you have had it already. But I don't see in the rules you can't get it again.
- Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 4:20:00 PM PST
- Travis LeMaster said...
Still searching for my 2great-grandfather: http://tjlgenes.blogspot.com/2009/11/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-who-is.html
- Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 5:01:00 PM PST
- owlhart said...
The parents of Harry Henry Nelson. (#'s 24 & 25)
Harry's 1909 prison record documents from Kansas State Penitentiary state that he was born Jun 6, 1873 in New Jersey. He says that he ran away from home when he was about 12 years old. Gives his parents' names as Harry Henry Nelson & Kate Nelson. One document says Harry's father was born in England, mother born in Ireland; another document has the birth places reversed.
All Harry or Henry Nelsons found in 1880 census can be accounted for in other families, but are not my ancestors.
I put this one on a shelf months ago, maybe it's time to revisit.
Randy, thanks for the prod.
Keith Hart - Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 5:43:00 PM PST
- Abba-Dad said...
I don't have to go to far to find my MRUAs:
http://dream-of-genea.blogspot.com/2009/11/sngf-who-is-your-mrua.html - Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 7:10:00 PM PST
- Chris Staats said...
Great question, Randy. I had no idea who it was going to be until I ran the report. Thanks for your response as well. Great - all I need is to get side-tracked from my current project! Oh well - as my wife says, "They've been dead for 150 years. There's no rush - they'll still be there when you get around to them."
http://www.staatsofohio.com/?p=315 - Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 7:33:00 PM PST
- grace said...
This is what I know of my brick wall. - Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 8:14:00 PM PST
- Jane said...
My MRUA is number 60 - my 3rd great-grandfather.http://nederlandsevoorouders.blogspot.com/2009/11/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-mrua.html
- Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 8:53:00 PM PST
- Mel said...
My most recent unknown and biggest pain in the genealogy butt is Harry Kenneth Jackson. http://www.researchjournal.yourislandroutes.com/2009/11/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-most-recent-unknown-ancestor/
- Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 10:41:00 PM PST
- Mavis said...
Paternal grandfather's father: No name. Maybe I should start calling him great-granddad sperm donor. He's No. 8 on Ahnentafel List.
My post about him can be found at Conversations with My Ancestors. - Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:22:00 AM PST
- Kathleen Baxter said...
I have a first and a last name for Sarah King, my gg grandmother, but she was born in either New York or Vermont roughly around 1818 (different censuses for her and her children go either way) and married my gg grandfather Robert E. Hastings, an immigrant from County Monaghan, Ireland, probably around 1835, most likely in NY. Her death certificate says her parents were James and Susan. Well good luck with that one.
She and her husband lived in Canandaigua, Ontario, NY, moved to Verona, Dane, Wisconsin in 1855 and she died in Olmsted County, MN in 1876. I know where her children are buried, or most of them, but she is not in the town cemetery. She has driven me mad since day one. - Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 11:06:00 AM PST
- jttjnr said...
My MRUA is #4 on my ahnentafel ...
http://filioagnostic.blogspot.com/2009/11/sngf-most-recent-unknown-ancestor_21.html - Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 12:07:00 PM PST


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Venice Carnival 2001
Venice is a cosmpolitan city that still preserves in its culture the signs of its merchants' legendary voyages towards East. The city integrates, even in its language, important communities such as the Greek, Jewish and Armenian ones.
Venice is an international city which charmed ambassadors, princes and emperors with lavish parties in their honor and to this day celebrates its own Carnival. As source of inspiration and destination for artists and intellectuals from all over the world, Venice is international heritage and the best place to talk about travels and travellers.
The 2001 Carnival of Venice continues its thematic itinerary, which started last year with the fantastic "invisible cities" of the most famous traveller of all: Marco Polo.
The 2001 Carnival of Venice — with a program rich of parties and performances — will celebrate the ideas, the dreams and the vivid atmospheres of travel, thanks to the magic, timeless quality of this city and its costumes.
Travel as a source of knowledge, inspiration, adventure and entertainment, as an occasion to consider — in this age of voyeuristic tourism — the richness and fascination of being real cosmopolitan travellers.
Once again Venice is a City at the epicentre of its Carnival; it's projected on an imaginary magic mirror which reflects the images of its story-tellers.
Every year a great contemporary artist dedicates his work, expressly made for this occasion, to the Carnival of Venice. Marco Lodola is the artist who created the official image of the 2001 Carnival. Lodola founded, in the early '80s, the New Futurism movement, whose critic and theorist was Renato Barilli.
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OWEN MkI/43 9mm submachine gun
OWEN MkI/43 9mm submachine gun in camouflage paint, Manufactured by Lysaght Newcastle Works, New South Wales, Australia. Caliber: 9x19mm Luger/Para Weight: 4.22 kg unloaded Length: 813 mm Barrel length: 247 mm Rate of fire: 700 rounds per minute Magazine capacity: 32 rounds Effective range: 100-200 meters http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/omc.htm Evelyn Owen, an Australian, developed his first automatic weapon, chambered for .22LR cartridge, by 1939, and offered it to Australian army. This weapon was a strange-looking revolver-type contraption with fixed "cylinder" instead of magazine, and thumb-operated trigger. However, by 1940 Owen produced its next design, in somewhat more potent (but still relatively mild) .32ACP / 7.65x17 Browning cartridge. This was more "usual" weapon, with traditional trigger, dual pistol grips and detachable box magazine, inserted under the receiver and inclined rearward and to the left. By 1941, Owen produced several more prototypes, chambered in .45ACP, 9mm Luger and even .38 Special revolver cartridges; this work was done at Lysaghts Newcastle Works in New South Wales, Australia. 9mm prototype, made by Lysaghts, was tested against Thompson and Sten submachine guns, and found superior to both. Adopted in 1942, this gun was manufactured until 1945 in three basic versions, Mark 1-42, Mark 1-43 (or Mark 1 Wood butt), and Mark 2. About 45 000 Owen SMGs were made by Lysaghts, and these remained in service with Australian forces until 1960s, through World War 2, Korean and Vietnam wars. In general, these weapons were well liked by soldiers due to their robustness, reliability and simplicity. The only downside of Owen SMG was its somewhat heavy weight. Owen submachine guns are blowback operated, top-fed weapons that fired from open bolt. Receiver is of tubular shape, with the bolt body separated from the cocking handle by the small bulkhead inside. This precluded the dirt to enter the receiver area through the cocking handle slot, but also required the barrel to be made removable, as the bolt and return spring were pulled forward out of receiver. Barrel was held in place by simple latch, located at the front of the receiver, ahead of the magazine housing. Muzzle was equipped with recoil compensator. Pistol grips were made from wood, detachable buttstock was made of steel wire on Mk.1-42 Owens and from wood on later models. Due to the top mounted magazine, fixed sights were offset to the left.
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Flowers, Plants And Floral Patterns (PDF)
This is the third of sixteen adult coloring books by Wendy Zurbowich and contains 50 flowers, plants and floral patterns to color.
- 50 outlines to color
- 57 pages
- Black and White Interior
- Large Format (8.5″ x 11″)
- Downloadable PDF
- Also available as a Print Book
Each book in the Coloring Books for Grownups series contains 50 outline drawings ready for coloring, and is designed for older children and adults of all ages who are looking to escape the stresses of modern living and simply relax.
This, the third book in the series covers flowers, plants and floral patterns and, whether you enjoy spring blooms or perennial flowers, this book will allow you to create your own pictures of beautiful flowers.
Coloring for grown-ups is very popular today and there are many explanations for this interest. Some of the reasons for its popularity include…
Coloring Reduces Stress And Anxiety
Psychiatrists have long recognized the fact that coloring relaxes the fear center of the brain and allows your mind to rest. Indeed, Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, is known to have given his patients mandalas to color over 100 years ago. In the hectic world we inhabit today the stress reducing properties of coloring are more valuable than ever.
Coloring Trains Your Brain To Focus
Remaining within the lines as you color a simple black and white line drawing requires focus and, while you concentrate on this stress-free and relaxing activity, you can forget about your worries. Coloring is a mental exercise which lets you set aside everything else for the time you spend coloring, and this is important in our demanding world.
Coloring Helps To Develop Motor Skills And Vision
Coloring forces the two sides of the brain to interact and involves the use of logic (necessary for coloring forms) and creativity (as we mix and match colors). This, in turn, brings the areas of the brain responsible for vision and fine motor skills into play, and helps to keep these active and develop them further. It is this aspect of coloring which is being seen more and more as particularly valuable for older individuals, as many believe that it can delay, or even prevent, the onset of dementia.
Coloring Provides The Opportunity To Be Social
Although you might feel that coloring ought to be a solo activity, its increasing popularity is quickly turning it into a social one. Families, friends, work colleagues and others are now getting together to eat, drink and enjoy the opportunity to socialize, through their common interest in coloring books. Undoubtedly, this is a great excuse for a party, as coloring needs only a minimum of concentration and can be done easily in a group.
Coloring Allows You To Be Yourself
When it comes to coloring there are no rules and your coloring book is your coloring book. If you mistakenly make the cat's back leg green because you thought that it was part of the grass, who is going to care? Should you feel like making the sky pink, what does it matter? You can be as creative as you wish because this is your project, and yours alone. When it comes to picking colors remember that the British-based, but American-born, artist James Whistler once said, "Mauve is just pink trying to be purple."
You may already be a follower of adult coloring, in which case you will already appreciate its value. Alternatively, this may be a new project for you and one that you are contemplating for any one of a number of different reasons. If this is a new project for you then I urge you to give it a try. There is a reason why so many people are fired up about the world of adult coloring, so jump on board and begin enjoying the benefits for yourself today.


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Texas State Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr has
filed legislation to abolish the death penalty in Texas. This is the
first time a state senator has ever filed legislation to abolish the
death penalty in Texas. It happened because organizations in Texas held
the Statewide Texas Lobby Day to Abolish the Death Penalty on March 3
and death row survivors Ron Keine and Sabrina Butler from Witness to Innocence and Scott Cobb of Texas Moratorium Network met with Senator Lucio's general counsel and requested that the Senator file abolition legislation.
Here is a report from the Austin American-Statesman on our successful lobby day, which was widely covered in the media, including the Dallas Morning News, potentially reaching hundreds of thousands of people in Texas with our message.
summer, Senator Lucio attended the Democrats Against the Death Penalty
caucus at the Texas Democratic Party state convention. The caucus has
been held every year since 2004 when it was started by Scott Cobb. The
caucus has proven to be an effective method for persuading Texas
Democrats to make abolishing the death penalty a higher priority among
both elected officials and ordinary people in the Texas Democratic
the coming weeks, we will be working with Senator Lucio's staff as well
as staff of the House sponsor of the abolition bill, to prepare for
committee hearings on the abolition bills. When a hearing is held in the
Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, it will be the first time ever
for a hearing on abolishing the death penalty in Texas. It will be up to
the chair of the committee to decide if a hearing is scheduled.
Here are links to the two pieces of legislation filed by Senator Lucio. One is a regular bill (SB 1661) and the other is a proposed constitutional amendment (SJR 54).
Thank you to all the groups and people from across Texas who participated in the lobby day, including Texas Moratorium Network, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Students Against the Death Penalty, and Witness to Innocence.


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While loyal subjects in Britain celebrated a royal pregnancy, across the North Sea, in Norway, a very different kind of crown princess was being celebrated for her own brush with uterine politics. Princess Mette-Marit's trip to India, posing as a nanny to care for the newborn surrogate twins of a gay courtier and his husband, has landed her in a very Norwegian royal row involving birth, morality, exploitation and what it means to be a parent.
When it became clear on Oct. 23 that a delayed visa would prevent the prospective parents from making it to New Delhi in time for the birth, the princess jetted off to care for the infants while the married pair dealt with the red tape. Posing as a nanny to oblivious clinical staff, Mette-Marit was spotted by a Norwegian journalist who only broke the story once the children were safely back in Europe.
(MORE: Kate Middleton Is Pregnant, According to the Palace)
But the warm-hearted tale of a princess posing as a commoner to ensure the health and safety of two helpless infants is complicated, or perhaps enhanced, by the problematic legality of surrogacy in her home country. Surrogacy, including an arrangement in which a woman is paid to carry someone else's child to birth, is outlawed in Norway. Outsourcing the pregnancy is legally murky.
The future Queen's use of diplomatic access to fast-track herself into India in order to care for the children is being hailed by the political classes in Norway as heroic. Bent Hoie, health spokesman for the opposition Conservative Party and a staunch opponent of surrogacy, spoke warmly of her journey. "She did what all of us want our best friends to do in that situation. She was the only one who could help her friends. They were desperate. The children were born in a faraway country with nobody to take care of them. She was the only one who could have done it. The children have to come first."
But the princess, a former single mother and waitress who married Prince Haakon in 2001 and whose self-proclaimed "rebellious past" would make the British Windsors reach for their abdication procedures, has nevertheless brought the surrogacy debate into sharp focus and may help to legitimize a practice frowned upon in Norwegian law.
In this famously liberal country where same-sex marriages have been legal for three years, objections to surrogacy still run deep. Hoie, himself one half of a same-sex marriage, says the practice exploits women in poorer countries, confuses children's parentage and pours health resources into treating people who aren't sick. "Not having children is not being sick," he says. "Having children is not a human right."
(MORE: India's Rent-a-Womb Industry Faces New Restrictions)
Oyvind Habrekke, leader of the Christian Democrats, goes further, likening overseas surrogacy to human trafficking. "They are not the same thing. But they are connected. And we have to take into account the parallels.
"I respect the crown princess's choice in this specific situation. But at the same time, the whole situation is a very good illustration of the problems with the surrogacy industry. There are thousands of surrogate children born in India every year. This is one story where there was a problem with getting a visa. There are so many other stories where the children are just used in a game here. The whole situation tells us that this is a cynical industry that works for its own profit and an industry where the children are left behind."
Habrekke is no political outlier. The ban on surrogacy in Norway has cross-party political support. But the law preventing Norwegians from seeking surrogate children overseas is more complicated. It is a by-product of 2002 legislation intended to regulate clinical professionals in the field of biotechnology and has never been enforced. "It was never meant for individuals," says Hoie, whose party was in power when the legislation was introduced.
Now with her Indian intervention, the crown princess has stumbled into a debate that has been bubbling away since last May when Oystein Maeland, a gay, married activist for the ruling Labor party, was appointed as police chief despite having a second California-born surrogate baby on the way. Avoiding overseas surrogacy will remain the official advice in Norway, come what may. But a consultation paper proposing the decriminalization of individuals under the Biotechnology Act was tabled only last month. Under the new proposals, Maeland, the now former police chief, would escape any possibility of punishment.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has already absented himself from the debate because of his close friendship with Maeland. In a palace statement, Princess Mette-Marit has wisely sought to do the same. "There are times in life when one finds oneself in a complex situation where there are few or no good solutions. In such cases one must make difficult decisions, even though there may be repercussions. I found this to be precisely such a situation," she said. "There is an important ongoing social debate on surrogacy. My trip was not intended to be a contribution to this debate. For me, this was a situation in which I was in a position to help to care for two newborn babies who were alone in the world."


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(only read this if you are willing to get a laugh! It's only for fun and games!)
Upon registering for Silver Bella last year, I was very uneasy when I read that one of the most important pre-requisites of the classes was the legal use of glitter. I thought to myself, I don't use this stuff but how bad could this be, right? Well, let me tell you...it was bad! (but in a good way)
My name is Jodie LeJeune and I have a phobia of glitter.
I was officially diagnosed with this glitter affliction in November when I was surrounded by many of my co-artists who were abusing glitter and using it freely in their everyday art. Their hands, face, clothes, hair and their artwork was totally engulfed with this fine, sometimes colorful, shiny, gritty substance. I tried to contain my anxiety while politely passing it to the next person but just the fear of me being near the glitter was uncontrollable. I couldn't even stand to touch it! My co-artists did not understand me as they thought this was normal to use glitter. Like smoking in the 70's...it was the "cool" thing to do. However, I did not agree.
During those (long) 3 days of Silver Bella, class after class passed and my anxiety about glitter grew deeper and deeper. Only a few of my Silver Bella confidants totally understood my affliction and therefore accepted me the way I was. I was very different from the rest and I stood out like a sore thumb. My artwork was not shiny and colorful, however it did boast much vintage lace, velvet, buttons and shades of brown and cream. My Silver Bella buddies Pam, Sandy and Sandi totally accepted me for who I was and I began to feel much more comfortable, although I still could not understand the powerful effect that glitter had on all of these Bellas. Was I the only one who was "different"?
Maybe it was the abundance of color. Maybe it was the easy access and pretty packaging. Or come to find out, it was even offered in real glass imported from another country... German glass glitter. The addiction was compared to crack/cocaine and somehow, I just wasn't buying it. That is, until I tried it.
I'm still talking about the glitter here people!!!! ;)
Are you laughing yet? This is supposed to be humorous!
I confess. I tried it. I purchased lots of it, thinking it would help me get over my phobia, but to no avail. Come to find out, the use of glitter has also validated my diagnosis of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) in many ways. You know, the neat and clean, sticky aspect thing? Also the perfect outline ordeal...you know what I'm talking about right?
So there you have it. After reading the comments on my last post, I laughed when everyone felt sorry for me. They actually thought I was allergic to glitter!!!
(Pam...you are so funny! You surely know how to get a rumor started girl! ;)
I'm not allergic to glitter at all.
However, Glitter is on the bottom of my list of mediums to use in my artwork.
Chances are, if you see excessive amounts of glitter in my artwork, it's a fake and not a "JL original" tee hee!
This was such a fun post for me. I've always wanted to express how I feel about glitter...am I the only one who dislikes it???
Thanks Pam for helping me get it out of my system! ;)
The weekend is almost here, lighten up!!!! Go glitter something!


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Real Property Records & Official Public Records
Since the beginning of county government, the county clerk's office has had the important responsibility of keeping the property records of its citizens. The number and types of property records has expanded over the years to cover more than 34 different types of documents: deeds, deeds of trust, warranty deeds, oil / gas leases, bills of sale, deed restrictions, homestead designation, power of attorney, releases, and many more.
To date there are over 4 million images of documents requiring approximately 4 terabytes of computer database. In 2016, the clerk's office recorded over 29,000 documents.
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In Taylor County the first "real property" records were recorded in the County Clerk's office in the 1870s. There are also many volumes containing historically interesting information such as livestock brands, Commissioners' Court records, Bonds for business', Assumed Name Certificates, Plats of towns and neighborhoods, Contracts, Official Oaths, Physician Certificates, military discharges (DD-214's) and others.
Since the 1980s county clerks have combined many of the records with the real property records to create what is now called, the Official Public Record of Taylor County. Types of documents added are abstracts of judgments, assumed name certificates, state and federal tax liens, plats, occupational bonds, mechanics liens, livestock brands, state water permits, and the list goes on.
Within a year of taking office, retired County Clerk Larry G. Bevill began an ambitious program to digitize and index all records in the Official Public Records. To date all records in the office have been digitized creating both a permanent back up of all the important records in the office and making those records available on public search terminals in the office. Once the records were digitized, indexing began. As of 2017, all property records from 1972 to the current date have been indexed. All other records in the Official Public Record have been indexed back to the inception of the County in 1878! On a daily basis Clerk's staff is indexing property records recorded prior to 1972 as time permits.
All the projects begun in 2005 when Larry G. Bevill took office have been funded from recording fees and not property taxes.
In 2007 the OPR division of the Taylor County Clerk's office went "paperless". Documents received during the day are indexed and digitally imaged into the computer database. Once the image and index data are proofed and double checked, the original is mailed back to the appropriate recipient. There are three redundant backs to ensure the safety, security and long term viability of your records.
The Taylor County Clerk's office also started accepting records for recording into the OPR by electronic recording in 2007. Customers utilize 3rd party software such as ERX, Simplifile and others to submit documents for recording. Commonly called e-recording, (no paper is handled by Deputy Clerks) the process is all "inside" computer systems. Today between 35-50% of all property records recorded in the Taylor County Clerk's office are e-recorded.
With just a few exceptions, all of the Official Public Records in the County Clerk's office are available for public searching. Indexes in the Clerk's office, both on paper and digital, help you to find the information for which you are searching.
You can use one of the two on-line search sites to access information which has been indexed into software systems. At either site you can print documents for $1.00 per page.
https://taylorcountytx-web.tylerhost.net/web/ called Super Search, is the best site if you are researching documents that have been indexed. This is our newest on-line database to which we will be adding more documents daily. In addition to real property records, there are Bills of Sale, Contracts, Livestock Brands, Federal and State Tax Liens dating back to the beginning of Taylor County in 1878! The site has tools to help you quickly narrow your search results using filtering options for a quicker and better experience.
- Due to constraints in electrical supply and the importance of keeping dedicated electrical outlets, no one may hook-up any equipment into the electrical supply in the clerk's office.
- Due to trademark and other legal rights to any hardware system and/or proprietary software, no citizen, agent, company, or other individual or business may connect any electronic device into the computer systems, either owned or leased in the clerk's office.
- Due to the close quarters or crowding in this office, there is no room for additional equipment. No individual may install or use private equipment such as a copier, scanner, microfilm equipment, etc.
- There are eight public search stations for the official public records and two public search stations for court records. At any time these are all being utilized, the person who has been at the stations the longest must allow a new person to use the computer. If there are more than eight or two and those using the computers will not yield them to another, then the rule of 15 minutes per computer per person at any one time will be enforced.
- To be eligible to be recorded a document must have the following attributes:
- Must be a document that is statutorily authorized to be recorded.
- The document must be the original or a certified copy.
- There must be a title at the top.
- If it's a deed, the grantee's address must be listed.
- If it's a deed of trust, the trustee or beneficiary's address must be listed.
- All other documents must have a return address listed on the bottom or back.
- The signatures must be original.
- Your name must be printed or typed underneath your signature.
- There must be a completed original notary acknowledgment with seal. Seal and notarial commission must not have expired date and must be legible.
- The property must be located in Taylor County and include the complete legal description indicating the property is in Taylor County, Texas.
- A margin of at least an inch is required on top, bottom, left and right on each page of a document.
A document conveying an interest in real property to or from an individual must include a confidentiality notice. The notice must appear at the top of the first page in 12-point boldfaced type or uppercase letters, and read substantially as follows:
Notice of Confidentiality Rights - if you are a natural person, you may remove or strike any or all of the following information from this instrument before it is filed for record in the public records. This information includes your social security number or your driver's license number.
Taylor County Clerk's office accepts electronic recording of real property records from those who are authorized by local government code 195.003. Xerox Government Records, Simplifile, and Corporate Service Company (CSC) are the vendors that have been authorized for use. You may contact them and sign up for e-recording at the Erxchange website. There are many advantages to this type of transaction. Security is enhanced in that no original can be "lost in the mail" by a 3rd party such as the United States Postal Service. Turnaround time from the moment a customer begins the e-recording process until the return of the processed document is usually less than one business day.
The filing fee is $25 for the first page and $4 for each additional page. It is a crime to intentionally or knowingly file a fraudulent court record or a fraudulent document with the clerk.
For a full list of the recording fees for all types of documents commonly filed into the Official Public Records select this link: Filing Fees Sheet


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2012 Values Voters Summit
The Values Voter Summit is an annual political conference for American social conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States. Values Voter Summit is hosted by the Family Research Council with numerous conservative organizations sponsoring or otherwise participating in the conference. In the most recent summit, 38 organizations participated and 2,000 people were in attendance.[1] The summit is usually held in September or October of each year. Their website self-description: Since 1983, Family Research Council (FRC) has advanced faith, family and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview. FRC is the leading voice for the family in our nation's halls of power. FRC is a non-profit organization whose vision is a culture in which human life is valued, families flourish and religious liberty thrives.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. --This offseason, Peyton Manning has donated plenty of his time.
He has spoken at events ranging from the annual Boy Scouts of America sports breakfast to the John Lynch Foundation's Salute the Stars awards luncheon and the University of Virginia's commencement ceremony. He has even thrown passes to elementary school students on surprise visits.
On Wednesday, his PeyBack Foundation donated $1 million.
The funds will be distributed to 153 youth-based organizations in Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana and Tennessee -- the four states Manning has called home.
"The mission and work of the PeyBack Foundation is something we are very passionate about and to be able to continue our growth through increased giving is very rewarding," Manning said in a statement. "This year, we are fortunate to be able to provide our largest donation total of $1 million to youth based community organizations."
Manning is the president of the foundation, which he established in 1999 to promote the future success of disadvantaged youth by assisting programs that provide leadership growth and opportunities for children at risk.
Every year, the public, non-profit corporation distributes funds to agencies and organizations actively advancing the welfare of disadvantaged children. Those organizations complete grant applications to be considered, and they are carefully considered based on each individual agency's unique merits, goals and mission. This year the foundation received 604 applications.
The $1 million allocated to this year's recipients will be divided by state -- $630,000 goes to 81 charities in Colorado, $175,000 to 32 organizations in Tennessee, $120,000 to 23 organizations in Louisiana and $75,000 to Indiana organizations.
Four of the Colorado organizations -- A Precious Child, GreenLeaf, Environmental Learning For Kids and The Colorado "I Have A Dream" Foundation -- benefitting from the foundation's donations will be at Dove Valley for a check presentation after Wednesday's practice.
"With this donation, now collectively throughout the years, we have awarded over $5.6 million in grants to 995 youth organizations in Colorado, Tennessee, Louisiana and Indiana," Manning said.


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Workaholics, which just finished it's second season on Comedy Central, is a quirky comedy about three recent college grads named Blake, Adam, and Anders who live together and work together (literally in the same cubicle) at a ho-hum telemarketing firm.
And it is super funny.
Like really really really funny.
There is Wizard Rap.
Basically, I love it a lot.
By combining the quirkiness of The Office and the outrageousness of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Workaholics manages to be both audacious and sweet. These guys may scam their way out of the office drug test or lead a strike when they aren't allowed to take a day off for Half-Christmas, but they really do care about each other and their coworkers (Their goofy friendship with their nerdy coworker, Jillian, is so adorable).
However, what I find most notable about Workaholics is the show's constant references to Rugrats, Home Alone, and Darkwing Duck. Yes, we Generation Y-ers have finally come of age and have made it not only into the workforce, but also into the writers' chairs of cable television. Yippy Skippy! (The show has yet to make a Muppet Babies reference, but I'm sure it is coming..) I highly recommend checking out Workaholics to those fans of South Park, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Nickelodeon's All That (the original era).


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Perpendicular Universe
The perpendicular universe was discovered by a cyclops from notrightville. Everybody knows about the parallel universes, but scientists do believe that parallel universes are just an exception over the infinity of existing universes.
Other kind of universes include, but are limited to, the below:
- almost parallel universes,
- not so parallel universes,
- rather unparallel universes,
- really non-parallel universes,
- universes that are not parallel at all,
- ass-backwards universes
- bat-shit crazy universes
- buck-wild universes
- The Marvel Universe
- and the worst of all, perpendicular universes, which are what we're trying to discuss here.
Perpendicular universes are, by definition, universes that are perpendicular. Your own universe may be the best example of a perpendicular universe, since it is not, by definition, a parallel universe. However, many scientists argue that perpendicular universes are defined by a strict set of rules, that our own universe doesn't quite follow. Moreover, our own universe may not be a line, but more of a sphere of a very large size, or maybe a torus or a doughnut-shaped entity. What does "perpendicular" mean for those anyway? It would obviously mean something that's at a 90 degree angle, wasn't that obvious? However, it must also be remembered that one should beware of the Man Bear Pig, it is half-man, half-bear, and half-pig. They are native to perpendicular universes. If you run into one call MOSA (Ministry Of Spastic Animals) immediately.
Building Your Own[edit]
Believe it or not, all you need are the following:
- a cup of Excelcior
- 2 jigawatts of your favorite hurtfull phrase
- a copy of "To Kill A Mockingbird, The Director's Cut!"
- an emo haircut
- the internet, volume 3
- Mario
- another Mario
- a puppet that resembles Drew Carey
- a pie chart
- a good attitude
- a rare pokemon card
- a transformer
- a headshot
- an alcoholic punjabi named ankur
- a reason to write put a recipe this long
- 3 tonnes of immitation nuggets
- the google
- a teaspoon of Bert Wentworth R.
- one cup of your favorite God
- a pamphlet entitled "So, you knocked up the Universe?"
- One half eaten horse testicle
- and finally, .0003 g of LSD
and just like that youve got you own perpandicular universe (this universe does not contain the letter "sigma", sorry){anyone who isn't an adult and knows what sigma is, i salute you}.
Theories about it[edit]
Perpendicular universes share the common property to be perpendicular to our universe, as well as to any parallel universe that our universe may have. The schema on the right shows two random universes, one being perpendicular to the other, and conversely. Einstein's Law of Redundancy shows us that an infinite number of perpendicular universes are perpendicular to an infinite number of parallel universes, in any order. Moreover, the same law of Redundancy tells us that there are an infinite number of parallel perpendicular universes, each one being parallel to all the others!
This leads us to the early conclusion that all the universes are perpendicular to one another in some way, including ours, which calls for a revised, more precise, more factual definition. After all, not all universes are perpendicular universes. Else I wouldn't be here writing about them.
Perpendicular universes are universes where things happen in a perpendicular way. For example, gravitation. We all know that in our universe the planets gravitate horizontally. However, in another, perpendicular universe, gravity might happen vertically. This has some importance in planetary astronautics, like stressed by the drawings below:
This also has a number of consequences over the people living in perpendicular universes.
- They can live only on the top side of a given planet, else they might fall. If the planet is revolving around itself, they have to move fast enough to keep always on the top.
- People crawl instead of walking.
- Only very drunk people are actually able to stand and walk, due to the disorientating effects of alcohol.
- Tables and chairs are usually installed on the walls of the houses, and the doors are more wide than tall.
- Space travel is much easier going down than going up.
- Rain does not fall from the skies to the ground, but orbitates around the planet until it hits something (or someone). Drunk people know how to use this to their advantage.
- Spitting contests have been forbidden in all the worlds where creatures possess buccal orifices and saliva.
- Elected representatives are not left-wingers or right-wingers, but top-wingers or bottom-wingers. Sadly enough, they're not smarter than the ones in ordinary universes.
As no perpendicular universe has actually been observed yet, all the above has the status of hypothesis. It is believed that a specific particle, the Perpendicularon, is the missing link between our universe and the perpendicular universes. A very big particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Huge Collider), is now being built to detect that particle. It will be almost like an ordinary particle accelerator, apart for the slight difference described on the schema on the right.
Other debates[edit]
The existence of perpendicular universes hasn't even been proved yet that scientists already discuss on the possible existence of yet other kind of universes, among which:
- Universes inclined at 45° (those are believed to share properties both from parallel and perpendicular universes, thus making them hybrid. And cool.)
- Wobbling universes, that are moving all the time, and where only drunk people walk in straight lines.
- Universes that are macaroni or even Spaghetti-shaped.
- The Parallelogram Universe - just like our Universe, except they haven't done away with Telegrams.
- Universes where things ain't not what they used to be.
- Universe where, due to the topography of space-time, sentences SUDDENLY FOR NO REASON END IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!1
- ...


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A tipster has sent in some info on the rumored Nikon D800 that he purports originates with a "very reliable source." According to the tipster, Nikon will not be revising the D700 for a "S" model, as was the case with the D300 and D3.
Instead, Nikon will release a completely new model to replace the D700 – the D800.
Rumored Nikon D800 features from the tipster include the following:
1) Video mode 1080p video recording (full HD)
2) High resolution 24.5 MP.
3) High frame rate: 7 fps without battery grip (similar to D300s)
4) 51-area Nikon Multi-CAM 3500FX (same technology as D3X)
He also tells me that the D800 will launch before Christmas.
I can't confirm the veracity of this info or the reliability of the tipster yet. I am reaching out to him for further details in hopes to substantiate these rumors. Keep in mind that these D700x/D800 rumors have been rattling around for over a year now.
Stay tuned for updates on the D800 or whatever else Nikon decides to throw at us.


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Published on Skin.
Variola is another word for smallpox
Published on Skin.
Whereas chickenpox is considered to be a benign disease, in medical terms smallpox is considered to be deadly. According to medical records, it has been declared extinct since the end of the 1970s. The tension in the conscience that is associated to variola is the same as that found in chickenpox, only ten times greater. In this case, we are dealing with a child who had huge communication problems with his parents.
See Chickenpox.


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Story highlights
Pakistan has had three military coups
Next, a caretaker government will oversee elections
The milestone has come with a price
Musharraf has said he will return this month
At the stroke of midnight Sunday, Pakistan made history.
It marked the first time a democratically-elected government served a full five-year term in the country's 65-year history.
In its short existence, Pakistan has experienced three military coups, been ruled by generals for half its life, and it remains mired in near-constant political turmoil.
"Despite all the odds, completion of the term is an extraordinary and historic achievement," Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said in an address to the nation Saturday night.
Ashraf said his country has a long history of confrontation between democratic and nondemocratic forces, but that democracy has now notched a victory.
In the next few days, a caretaker government will be put in place to oversee the country through its next elections scheduled for May.
Success at a price
While the five-year term completion is a milestone well worth nothing, it has come with a price.
The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party rode to power on the back of a populace disillusioned with then-President Pervez Musharraf's policies that led to shortage of essential food items, power cuts and a skyrocketing inflation.
Pakistanis also disapproved of the way Musharraf carried out his end of the "war on terror" – and used it as a crutch to explain away many of his unpopular moves.
And the nation was collectively mourning the death of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated just months before the
last elections in February 2008.
Very few held out hope the PPP would resolve the many problems that plagued Pakistan.
And throughout its five-year term, it seemed it couldn't.
Minister after minister were tainted with accusations of corruption.
The power outages and food shortages that Pakistanis complained about remain.
Terror attacks in city centers continued with depressing regularity.
Violence directed at the Shiite minority reached new heights.
And Pakistanis called the government stooges of the United States, while Washington grumbled that Pakistan was not doing enough to confront militants.
Through it all, the shaky coalition the PPP cobbled together seemed on the verge of collapse every few months as partners threatened to walk away at the slightest disagreement.
"We could not provide rivers of milk and honey but tried our best to alleviate the country's problems," Ashraf said in his Saturday speech.
Staying the course
But credit goes to two factors that helped the government stay the course:
The military was content to sit on the sidelines through the topsy-turvy turns – even when it seemed that the widening rift with the government would force it to intervene as it has in the past.
And President Asif Ali Zardari – Bhutto's widower – proved surprisingly agile at survival.
Three years ago, he handed over much of his power to the prime minister – and in the process, robbed his critics of the accusation that he was amassing power like his predecessor.
He also transferred some power from the central government to the provincial level.
Musharraf's return
Against this backdrop comes news that Musharraf plans to return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates, and lead his party in upcoming elections.
Musharraf plans to fly on a commercial airline into Karachi on March 24, then attend a rally with 50,000 people, including more than 200 Pakistani expatriates from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, he said in a statement.
Five years is often enough time for a populace to forgive and forget.
It remains to be seen whether Pakistan, now soured by PPP's reign, welcomes him back with open arms.
CNN's Nasir Habib reported from Islamabad; Saeed Ahmed wrote from Atlanta.
CNN's Saima Mohsin also contributed.


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My journal page is starting out with a page in my small journal where I cleaned off my brushes and used up leftover paint. The colors are – of course – some of my favorite colors. (I was planning on doing something different today and use blues and greens but when I saw this started page, off we go.) As you can see this was a clean off page, where I cleaned the paint off of my blending sponges. This gives such a cool background and you don't waste any of that precious paint.
Here is part of my journaling on the page. It is a very loose script.