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Sylvester Donegan Sr.
SHANNON – Sylvester Donegan Sr. died Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. He was born Oct. 19, 1938, in Monroe County to Hannible Donegan Sr. and Mattie Vaugh Donegan. He joined the U.S. Army in 1958 and served for eight years. He was then employed by J.P. Mills Inc. for more than 33 years. He was a member of Poplar Springs CME Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Poplar Springs CME Church. The Rev. Dr. Clementine Mays will officiate, and the Rev. Charles Shack will deliver the eulogy. Burial will be in the church cemetery. N.L. Jones Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include three children, Sylvester Donegan Jr. of Tupelo, Angles F. (Charles) Loving of Shannon and Jimmie M. Isaac Jr. of Shannon; five grandchildren, Carlos Donegan, Jason Miller, Yolanda Loving, Stacey Loving and Meshia Davis; two great-grandchildren, Octavion Miller and Ceeniya Donegan; and four sisters-in-law, Sheila Donegan of St. Louis, Mo., and Annie Mae Brooks, Rea G. Bogan and Mamie Bailey, all of Shannon.
Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Willie Sandridge Jr.
OXFORD – Willie H. Sandridge Jr., 75, formerly of Holly Springs, died Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, at Graceland Care Center in Oxford.
Services will be at noon Sunday at the Eddie L. Smith Multi-Purpose Building in Holly Springs. Burial will be in Harris Chapel CME Church Cemetery at Wyatte (Tyro). J.F. Brittenum and Son Funeral Home of Holly Springs is in charge of the arrangements.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4:30 p.m. today at the funeral home. The body will lie in repose at the Eddie L. Smith Multi-Purpose Building from 11 to 11:55 a.m. Sunday.
Tommy Pugh
BALDWYJN – Tommy Pugh, 46, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Waters Funeral Home.
Pat Leech
SMITHVILLE – Patrick Kelly "Pat" Leech, 48, died on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Born on May 18, 1964, in Amory, he was a son of Patti Burgess Leech and the late K.D. "Penny" Leech Jr. He was a graduate of Smithville High School, Class of 1981, and attended ICC. He was a rigging foreman, doing contract work across the U.S., in the Middle East, and West Africa and was a skilled metal worker. He attended Smithville United Methodist Church. He was a former Mason of Smithville Lodge 548. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoyed hunting, water sports, fishing, trapping, and hand-grappling. He also enjoyed gardening, cooking, grilling and listening to CCR.
He is survived by his daughter, Samantha Leech of Smithville; his sons, Jordan Leech of South Padre Island, Texas, and Justin Basse of Pryor, Okla.; sisters, Laura Lee Mauldin of Pensacola, Fla., and Carol Ann Stanley of Meridian; brothers, K.D. "Dal" Leech III (Vickie) of Perry, Ga., Col. J.R. "Jim" Leech (Vanessa) of Vicksburg, and Jon Leech (Crystalyn) of Smithville; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by a brother, Joe B. Leech Sr.
A celebration of life memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Smithville United Methodist Church with Bro. Sammy Washburn and Bro. Charles Coggins officiating. E.E. Pickle Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Honorary pallbearers will be David Moffett, Dave Moffett, Andy Coker, John Coker, Robert Coker and Joe Murphy.
Visitation will be from 1:30 to 2:50 p.m. Sunday at the church.
At the family's request, in lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to Smithville United Methodist Church, c/o Caroline Barnes, 60027 Gap Road, Smithville, MS 38870.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at eepicklefuneralhome.com.
Addie Adams
TUPELO – Addie Marie Adams died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at her home. She was born Oct. 26, 1926, to Jim and Addie Adams. She joined New Zion Baptist Church in Saltillo at an early age. She later joined Springhill M.B. Church in Tupelo and remained a faithful member until her health failed. She graduated from George Washington Carver High School in Tupelo. She received a bachelor's degree from Lane College in Jackson, Tenn., in 1950. She taught school in West Point, Amory, Tupelo and the Chicago Public School System until retiring in 1981. After retiring, she returned to Tupelo and worked many years as a caregiver. She enjoyed cooking and reading.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Springhill M.B. Church with the Rev. Clarence Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Springhill Cemetery. N.L. Jones Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include one sister, Eula Brame; three sisters-in-law, Lillie Faye Adams, Jewel Adams and Minnie Adams; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Mell Hayes and Canary Croft; and four brothers, Herman, Jimmie, Cornelius and Cassidy.
Ken Oaks
TUPELO – Kenneth Reed Oaks, 49, died suddenly Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at his residence. He was born Oct. 13, 1963, in Tupelo to Daniel Randolph Oaks and Doris Robbins Oaks. He graduated from Tupelo High School and he completed two years at Itawamba Community College. He was the self-employed owner and operator of Ken Oaks Furniture Upholstery Company. His hobbies included being a devoted Bill Elliott NASCAR fan, fishing and following the Mississippi State Bulldogs. A member of Lee Acres Church of Christ, he was uniquely Ken, loving life and living and moving among the people.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Tupelo Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors with Ministers Troy McNutt and Jerry Grammar officiating. Burial will follow in Tupelo Memorial Park. Visitation will be from noon to service time Sunday only at Tupelo Chapel.
Survivors include his sons, Kevin Oaks (Nikki) and Adam Oaks, all of Booneville; his daughter, Shelby Clark of Dallas, Texas; his sisters, Vicki Oaks Brett (Charlie) and Susan Oaks McNutt (Troy), all of Tupelo, and Debbie Oaks Kimbrough (Andy) of Saltillo; his granddaughter, Avery Grace Oaks; special family friend, Edna Sue White; and several nieces and nephews including special nephew, Luke.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Randy Oaks Sr. and Doris Oaks; a brother, Randy Oaks; and a special family friend, Judge Carroll White.
Pallbearers include his sons, Kevin and Adam Oaks; his nephews, Daniel Davis, Clay, Brad and Luke McNutt; Rod Weatherford, Ronnie Hester and John Robbins; his nieces, Jennifer Vandevander, Kendell Kimbrough Barbles, Lindsay Brett, Kellie Kimbrough Davis, Kayty Brett Rawson; and great-nieces and great-nephews, Will Matthews, Hillary Matkins and Ashley New.
Condolences may be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sonny Baird
MYRTLE – William Wallace "Sonny" Baird Jr., 73, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at Golden Living Center in Ripley. He was born Feb. 2, 1939, in Lafayette County to William Wallace Baird and Mary Lou Rodgers Baird. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a retired truck driver for J.B. Hunt Trucking and a member of Enterprise Church of Christ.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at United Funeral Service with Minister Jay Tidwell officiating. Burial will be in Enterprise Cemetery.
He is survived by two daughters, Bobbie and Robbie; three stepdaughters, Belinda, Gail and Debbie; one son, Richard; two sisters, Janie and Louise; and four brothers, Bobby, Jerry, Rodney and Gaylon.
His nephews will serve as pallbearers.
The family request that memorials be made to Enterprise Church of Christ Building Fund, 1005 CR 14, Myrtle, MS 38652.
Visitation will be Sunday from 1 p.m. to service time at the funeral home.
In honor of Baird's military service, United Funeral Service will fly the U.S. Marine Corps flag during his visitation and funeral service.
For online condolences and guest registry, visit www.unitedfuneralservice.com.
Gary Stone
SHANNON – Gary Lewis Stone, 52, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center after a six-month illness. He was born Sept. 24, 1960, in Tupelo to Clyde Michael Stone and Martha Jane Homan. He attended Tupelo High School and worked as a professional truck driver for Magnolia Freight until his illness. He was a member of Shannon United Methodist Church. An expert drummer and avid Mississippi State fan, he loved music, fly fishing and fishing in general. He lived life to the fullest and was a character of local legend. A perfect believer in freedom of speech, he emulated his forebears in Stone, Homan, Holland, Hester and Mills family tradition.
A celebration of life service will be at 2 p.m. today in Tupelo Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors with the Rev. Chris McAlilly and the Rev. Bobby Holland officiating. Burial will follow in the Mills/Stone family plot at Palmetto Cemetery. Visitation will be from noon to service time.
Survivors include his father, Mike Stone (Sybil) of Fulton; his mother, Martha Jane Homan of Shannon; his children, Jackson, Autumn and Madison of the home; the mother of his children, Tammy Stone of Tupelo; honorary brother, Gary Dye of Shannon; two sisters, Neisa Browning (Hal) of Nashville, Tenn., and Natalie "Nat" Stone of Shannon; two nephews, Pvt. David Browning of Watertown, N.Y., and Pvt. 1st Class, John Browning of Fairbanks, Alaska; one great-nephew, Benjamin Browning; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Farris and Mary Holland Homan, John Bunyon and Zula Mae Mills Stone, Irene Hester and Glen Bristow, and his aunt, Ann Homan Godwin.
Pallbearers will be John Ivy, Mike "Moe" York, Tracie Blackmon, Kenny Joe Homan, Joey McFarling, Jon McFarling, Bill "Cooter" Ethridge, Brandon Ethridge and Mike Simmons.
Memorials may be made to Shannon United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 1, Shannon, MS 38868.
Condolences may be emailed to email@example.com.
Wayne Robbins
RIPLEY – Leonard Wayne Robbins, 67, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. He was born Oct. 20, 1945, to Virginia Quinn Robbins and the late Dedric Robbins. He was a lifelong member of Turners Chapel Baptist Church and served as church treasurer for 39 years. He was a retired factory worker.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Turners Chapel Church with Bro. Howard Goolsby and Bro. Tim Hall officiating. Burial will be in Criswell Cemetery. Ripley Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
He is survived by his wife, Judy Ray Robbins of Ripley; one daughter, Patty Glidewell (Kevin) of Saltillo; two sons, Jeff Robbins (Selina) of Booneville and Keith Robbins (Frances) of Colorado Springs, Colo.; his mother, Virginia Robbins of Ripley; one sister, Bernice Crumpton (Leonard) of Ripley; one sister-in-law, Nell Robbins of Walnut; 11 grandchildren, Michael Chase of Chicago, Heather Chase of Portland, Ore., Morgan Glidewell and Matt Glidewell, both of Saltillo, Jeffery Robbins, Megan Robbins and Jachob Robbins, all of Ripley, Michael Robbins, Tylan Robbins, Alexis Robbins and Nevaeh Robbins, all of Booneville; and a host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father; and one brother, Wade Robbins.
Pallbearers will be Matt Glidewell, Zachary Goolsby, A. J. Hall, David Robbins, Kevin Robbins, Donald Roberson, Jeff Roberson and Manuel Mauney. Honorary pallbearers will be Jeffery Robbins, Jachob Robbins, Junior Meeks and Bud Pannell.
To view obituaries onlineand sign the guestbook, visit www.ripleyfuneralhome.com.
James Crump
MILLBROOK, Ala. – James Edward Crump, 86, passed away Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. He was born Feb. 4, 1926, in Union County. He graduated from Cedar Hill High School at Guntown in 1944 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Feb. 3, 1944, serving through the end of World War II to March 19, 1946. He served on a rescue ship along the Atlantic coast of the Southeastern United States, earning the American Theatre Medal and the Victory Medal.
On Oct. 22, 1954 he married Margaret Louise. He became a Mason in 1967, joined the Shriners in 1971, and moved his membership to the Alcazar Shrine Temple in Montgomery in 1980. He retired in 1986, but remained active in the local Shriners' fundraisers to support the work of the Shrine orthopedic and burn hospitals for children. He worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, first as a meat inspector in poultry and meat packing plants from North Carolina to Mississippi to Alabama, and later as a United States Department of Agriculture federal compliance officer.
He joined Millbrook Presbyterian Church on Dec. 31, 1972, transferring from Fairfield United Presbyterian Church in Blue Springs. He was elected and installed as an Elder of Millbrook Presbyterian Church on Feb. 11, 1973. He resigned as an Elder on March 15, 1981, due to ill health, but remained a faithful member of the church throughout his life.
One of the highlights of his later years was his trip on the second Honor Flight in 2008 for World War II veterans to the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. He had a firm faith in God's sovereign love for His people and in his salvation, a faith which carried him through his last days.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Brookside Funeral Home Chapel in Millbrook, Ala., with Dr. Steve Muzio officiating. Interment will follow in Brookside Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Margaret Louise Crump of Millbrook, Ala.; daughter, Chyrl Willis (Jerry) of Millbrook; son, Dean Crump (Barbara) of Millbrook; grandchildren, Karen Willis of Millbrook, Seth West of Langley AFB, Virginia, Krystal West of Montgomery, Ala., Skylar West of Millbrook; and sisters-in-law, Margaret Crump of Jackson, Tenn., Nellie Crump of Blue Springs,
He was preceded in death by parents Elmo E. and Nannie E. Jones Crump; six brothers, Hugh, Ray, Francis, Harry, Alvis and Charles.
Pallbearers will be Rex Snyder, Glenn Campbell, Harold McGalliard, Merrell Thompson, Rick Clark and Ray Zeigler.
The family will receive friends from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Ralph Tate
DECATUR, Ala. – Ralph Harold Tate, 69, died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was born Oct. 1, 1943, in Monroe County to Ausie Ralph Tate and Lillie Mae Easter Tate. He was a chorus teacher for Brewer High School for 26 years. He was Minister of Music for more than 40 years at numerous churches throughout Mississippi and Alabama. He graduated from Hatley High School and Itawamba Junior College. He earned a B.S. degree from Mississippi State University and a double master's degree from the University of North Alabama. He was an avid supporter of the MSU Bulldogs and the Atlanta Braves. He was a member and Minister of Music at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartselle, Ala.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartselle, Ala., with the Rev. Steve Hunt, the Rev. Ralph Henderson, the Rev. Lynn Harvel and the Rev. A. Ray Lee officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Pickle Cemetery at Greenwood Springs. Peck Funeral Home of Hartselle, Ala., is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Rheda Murff Tate of Decatur, Ala.; two sons, Tim Tate (Brooke) of Mammoth Spring, Ark., and Chris Tate (Gina) of Decatur, Ala.; one daughter, Angela Hunt (Steve) of Warrior, Ala.; one brother, Dennis Tate of Sipsy Fork; three sisters, his twin, Carol Powell (Kenny) of Amory, Shirley Bowen of Aberdeen and Joyce Berryhill of Greenwood Springs; and six grandchildren, Mackenzie, Taylor, David, Jonathan, Lillie and Anna.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Jesse Lindsey
NEW ALBANY – Jesse Morgan Lindsey, 51, died Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. He was born Oct. 21, 1961, in Olla, La., to Jimmy and Helen Moore Lindsey. He was a truck driver for J.W. Callicutt Trucking. He was a Baptist. He loved his family and friends and was known as "Little Buddy." His time as a truck driver allowed him to see God's amazing creations and he loved sharing them with others.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at United Funeral Service with the Rev. Jerry Bishop and the Rev. Larry Dunlap officiating. Burial will be in Gerizim Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Hilda Lindsey of New Albany; three daughters, Amanda Jo Baird (Randy) and Audra Morgan Ash (Jay), both of Myrtle, and Shannon Marie Harmon of New Albany; one son, Ben Mathis of New Albany; his parents, Jimmy and Helen Moore Lindsey of Myrtle; his grandmother, Mary Lucille Billings of New Albany; one sister, Mary Foley (David) of New Albany; a brother, Paul Lindsey of Burnsville; and nine grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Rickey Adair, Ronnie Watts, Johnny Thompson, Rickey Gilley, Buddy Hitt, Jay Ash, Randy Baird and David Foley. Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Callicutt and Harvey Sullivan.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family requests that memorials be made to Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo.
For online condolences and guest registry, visit www.unitedfuneralservice.com.
William Bogan Jr.
WEST POINT – William Neill Bogan Jr., 87, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Calvert Funeral Home of West Point.
Richard Houston
TUPELO – Richard Lee Houston, 64, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at his residence. He was born March 6, 1948, in Tupelo to Robert G. and Katherine Houston. He retired from Tupelo Fire Department after 20 years and then worked for S&W Welding Supply for 20 years. He was a 32nd degree Mason at Richmond Lodge and a member of Terry Guin Ole River Deer Camp. He loved hunting, fishing and being at home by the lake. He was a member of Gilmore Methodist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues with Bro. Douglas Kitchens officiating and Bro. Buddy Rushing assisting. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors will be in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Diane Houston of Tupelo; one son, Lee Houston (Sara) of Mebane, N.C.; five bonus children, Dave Eckert, Blake and Brad Pressley, Webb Lyle and Amanda Williamson (Nate); four grandchildren, Riley Houston, Mary Ashley Houston, Farrah Williamson and Alice Williamson; his mother, Kathryn Houston of Tupelo; mother-in-law and best friend, Elese Hinds of Kirkville; one bonus mother, Charlene Pierce of Tupelo; brother, Roger, of St. Petersburg, Fla.; sister, Amanda Trent (Ken) of Mooreville; sisters-in-law, Kaye Lyle, Sandy Pressley (Bob); brother-in-law, Bill Hinds; several nieces and nephews; and two very special great-nephews, Cade and Cody Long.
He was preceded in death by his father; his first wife, Darlene Houston; and two sons, Davie and Chad Houston.
Memorials may be made to Gilmore Chapel Methodist Church, Building Fund, 710 Gilmore Chapel Road, Marietta, MS 38856.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Mary Lequia
AMORY – Mary Lequia, 66, died Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Care Center of Aberdeen. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by E.E. Pickle Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Monday.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at eepicklefuneralhome.com.
Wanda Rollins
OZARK – Wanda Virginia Rollins, 79, died Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Courtyards Nursing Facility. She was born April 2, 1933, to Alma and Bennie Barnes Rollins. She was born and raised in Itawamba County. She later moved to Detroit, Mich., with her sister, Alice. She moved back to Itawamba County seven years ago. She was a member of Ozark United Methodist Church. She enjoyed crossword puzzles, flowers, watching and calling in to Unity Broadcasting, and being around family and friends.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Mantachie with Bro. Joe Coggins and Bro. Carl Dunlap officiating. Burial will be in Ozark Methodist Church Cemetery.
Survivors include one brother, Jesse Ben Rollins of Ozark community; two sisters, Nellie Rue Rollins Mullins of Nettleton and Alice Rollins of Ozark; and several nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Ellie Hue Rollins and Gene Rollins; two sisters-in-law, Mattie Rollins and Agnes Rollins; two brothers-in-law, Floyd Bailey and William " Pete" Mullins; and a special friend, Liz Tallent.
Pallbearers will be Anthony Ponds, Rodney Rollins, Ben Rollins, Randy Rollins, Ronnie Rollins and Chris Bradley.
Visitation will continue today until service time at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home in Mantachie.
Online condolences may be expressed at mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
Edward Mattox
AMORY – Edward N. Mattox, 82, died Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by E.E. Pickle Funeral Home of Amory.
Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Kathleen Ware
TISHOMINGO – Kathleen Ware, 89, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at Tishomingo Manor in Iuka.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel in Belmont. Burial will be in Palestine Cemetery at Paden.
Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Deaton Funeral Home in Belmont and until service time on Sunday.


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On October 10, 2007, Sonhoe Development Co. unveiled plans to build a 200,000-bpsd Heavy Oil Upgrader in the Teesside county borough of North East England. The announcement was significant because the project would be Europe's first substantial new refinery in more than 30 years.
The combined hydro-cracking and gasification facility would be constructed on a brownfield site. The upgrader would process acidic, sulfurous, low-API crudes (API: 10-20; TAN: 2-10%; sulfur: 0-8%) sourced from North Sea, Latin America, Mideast, and Africa and produce premium-quality ultra-low-sulfur diesel (EU IV) for the European market. Other products would include kerosene and petrochemical naphtha. The gasification complex at the facility would produce 500-plus tonnes of hydrogen per day and 240,000 therms per day of synthetic gas. The synthesis gas would enable the upgrader to generate its own power and steam via a high-efficiency combined cycle heat and power plant. The facility would be one of Europe's largest hydrogen-producing plants.
The front end engineering and design (FEED) phase for the facility is underway and should conclude in 2009, when the project is expected to win needed approval from local authorities. Construction would begin in 2009 and start-up is slated for the 2012/2013 time frame. The complex should be completed by 2014 and have a 25-30-year service life.
A local news report in January 2009 stated that the project was on track and had not been hindered by the global credit crisis, which has led developers of other projects to postpone or even cancel their plans. Due diligence was still underway and the project developers were working "flat out" to make the new upgrader a reality, according to the report.
Sonhoe expects the project to support 2,000 to 2,500 construction jobs over four years. The completed facility would require approximately 400 permanent positions, and it would lead to the creation of up to 1,500 jobs in the region.


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Everybody knows the song "If I Were a Rich Man" from the Broadway and Hollywood hit Fiddler on the Roof (1971). Indeed, it keeps playing in my head after watching Joseph Dorman's documentary about the Yiddish writer whose stories inspired it. But not many these days are familiar with Aleichem's own story, or his other work, or his impact on Jewish culture and literature in general. Born Solomon Rabinovich in a Ukrainian shtetl, Aleichem (1859-1916) was one of the first Jews from his community to assimilate, moving to Kiev to work the stock market under his birth name while writing stories in Yiddish drawn from his hometown under the name that became his persona. Good thing he kept his night job; he failed as an investor but went on to create a robust new literature that is also an artifact of a demolished world. Dorman's portrait is engrossing, but his Ken Burns style doesn't match his subject's vitality.
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Alternate name: Prairie Wattle, Fern Acacia, Whiteball Acacia
Family: Fabaceae, Pea view all from this family
Description Prairie wattle or fern acacia is a 1-4 ft., rounded sub-shrub with feathery, deciduous foliage and white, 1/2 in., globe-shaped flower heads on long, upper axillary stalks. This shrub's thornless stems are graceful and wand-like.
Habitat Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Grasslands & prairies.
Range Florida, Southeast, Texas, Plains, Southwest.
Comments The foliage of fern acacia is more impressive than its flowers. The thornless plant makes a good ground cover, colonizing by means of woody rhizomes. Form is variable. After the first hard frost, fern acacia dies to the ground.
Exposure Preference Sun to partial shade.
Flower June - September
Native Distribution Texas & Arkansas, n. to s. Kansas & s. Missouri
Site Preference Hillsides; mesas; sandy prairies & plains
Soil Preference Dry, sandy soils.
Wildlife Value Flowers attract butterflies.


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ADAMS, Susan L.; of Bradenton, Florida, formerly of Waterford; September 26, 2014; age 65. Loving wife of Bob for 47 years; devoted mother of Kristy (Kendall) Clay and Kelly (Brendan) Scanlon. Preceded in death by her son, Robert; dear grandmother of Ken, Bailey, Peyton, MacKenzie, Garrett and Paige; loving daughter of Bonnie (the late James) Chartier; sister of Tom (Linda) Berden. Memorial Mass Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church, Waterford. Friends may visit directly at the church one hour prior. Private Inurnment Andersonville Cemetery. Local arrangements entrusted to Lewis E. Wint & Son Funeral Home, Clarkston. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to The Kidney Foundation. Online guestbook www.wintfuneralhome.com Published in Daily Tribune on Oct. 11, 2014 -Read More Share Listen to Obituary Remember Share a message, photo, or video belowView all messages 3 "May you find comfort from the God of all comfort....1 Cor 1:3" "To the family, my condolences for your loss" " May you find comfort from our God who understands pain...." Add a memory or condolence to the guest book Enter your message here Add Message Please add or record a video for the family of Susan AdamsAdd a video + Please add a photo and share in the life story for Susan AdamsAdd a photo + http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailytribune/obituary.aspx?n=Susan-Adams&pid=172679102


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Hot on the heels of the Gtk+ 3.8 release comes GNOME 3.8. There are a few general UI improvements, but the highlight for many is the new Classic mode that replaces fallback. Instead of using code based on the old GNOME panel, Classic emulates the feel of GNOME 2 through Shell extensions (just like Linux Mint's Cinnamon interface). From the release notes: "Classic mode is a new feature for those people who prefer a more traditional desktop experience. Built entirely from GNOME 3 technologies, it adds a number of features such as an application menu, a places menu and a window switcher along the bottom of the screen. Each of these features can be used individually or in combination with other GNOME extensions."


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The pre-season is finally done and the final cuts have been made. Veteran center Geoff Hangartner, Reggie Corner and Shawn Nelson were among those who were given their walking papers last Saturday. As the highest paid player on the offensive line, Hangartner was the biggest surprise from the cut list. He lost his starting job to the Bills 20th overall pick in the 2009 draft, Eric Wood. The ...


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S&P Capital IQ Sees Opportunities Among Muni ETFs
It started off as a good year for exchange-traded funds linked to municipal bonds. But rising interest rates and big city budget problems scared some investors, resulting in net outflows last month totaling $516 million.
Outflows have slowed, and $12 remains billion in municipal bond ETFs. And if the muni market should return to growth, there are some ETFs worth considering, according to S&P Capital IQ.
In a not published Tuesday, analyst Todd Rosenbluth says many cities and towns run balanced budgets, and through the first half of 2013, there have been positive trends in state and local tax collections. Meanwhile, high-yield municipal bonds have a lower default rate than high-yield taxable bonds.
Some investors have chosen mutual funds to round out their portfolios. But Rosenbluth argues that the average municipal bond fund has a poor track record and high expense ratios. His ETF picks include:
- The iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond ETF (MUB) tracks the S&P National Municipal Bond Total Return Index. With more than $3 billion in assets, it's the largest municipal bond fund and incurs just a 0.25% expense ratio.
- PowerShares Insured National Municipal Bond (PZA) is for investors willing to take on additional interest-rate risk to achieve a higher yield. With $800 million in assets, it pays a 30-day SEC yield of 2.9%.


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Group One Realty was founded by owner Darryl Beasley in 1996 and quickly grew to become the #1 real estate firm in Northeast Louisiana over the past ten years. In 2002, the company believed that affiliating with a national franchise would bring the company state of the art technology, worldwide relocation business, and immediate recognition not just in Louisiana but throughout the U.S. After a six month study of all franchises in the U.S., the agents of Group One overwhelmingly selected Coldwell Banker, becoming Coldwell Banker Group One Realty. The Coldwell Banker dominance continued for the next ten years and in 2011 the company again voted to renew the franchise for an additional ten years. Coldwell Banker Group One Realty's continued growth and recognition is a result of a commitment to professionalism, integrity and fairness throughout the company. Our model is very unique. Coldwell Banker Group One Realty stands alone by offering high commissions, minimal required expenses, the top staff support anywhere, company paid trainer and mentor, and the best technology available in the market. Coldwell Banker Group One Realty is positioned to continue growing and offering its agents and the public the very best in services. We are proud to serve Monroe, West Monroe, Ruston, and fourteen other parishes! Give us a call today.
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Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Winners of the ""Hit Me with Your Best Shot" GigaPan Photo Competition are:
1st Place: Jose Maria Lopez - Sagrada Familia
2nd Place: Jason Bucheim - Aspen Highlands Maroon Bowl in 3-D Stereo with Pyramid Peak, Maroon Bells, and Hayden Peak
3rd Place: Karim Saad - Sheikh Zayed Road | Dubai HD
To view the winners' gigapan images, please visit this page: www.gigapan.com/competitions/114/gigapans
Thank you to everyone who participated. View all the submissions for "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" below!
Competition Entries:
voting ends February 01, 2013, 12:00AM
- Entry Name: Kaiserkai, Hafencity by schneehage
Kaiser, Hafencity, Hamburg
- Entry Name: Lower Lewis Falls by Michael Long
Adam Mills Elliott takes a last stroke as he descends Lower Lewis Falls on the Lewis River in Washington Shot with a 50mm lens on a 5D Mark II using a Gigapan Epic Pro at 1/500s f10 ISO 200. Stitched using Stitch.Efx 2.0. www.michaellongphoto.com
- Entry Name: Sonesta Maho Hotel Beach & Sunset Bar on the Beautiful Caribbean Island of St. Maarten. by Robert Holmes
Sonesta Maho Hotel Beach & Sunset Bar located adjacent to the Princess Julianna International Airport on the Beautiful Caribbean Island of St. Maarten. This unique island is shared by two countries, the northern part, named Saint Martin is French and the southern portion is named Sint Maarten and is Dutch. Princess J...
- Entry Name: Downtown Harstad by Trygve Selmer
A closer look downtown Harstad an early morning (around 03.00), when the Town asleep and the first sunbeams has stroke the streets and buildings. Mouseover the number beneath the snapshots. Then click the link in the description to get information/history of the zoomed view. A panorama that includes the Towns...
- Entry Name: Zicht op Dordrecht (paintely effect) by jeroen van alten
Inspirerend op het schilderij "Zicht op Dordrecht" van Albert Cuyp deze Gigapan gemaakt. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aelbert_Cuyp_001.jpg Doormiddel van HDR fotografie en computersoftware zoals Photomatix en PTGUI deze bewerking gemaakt. Foto is verkrijgbaar op Canvas via www.werkaandemuur ...
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- Entry Name: Seven Wonders by Mel Chin by Douglas Robertson
For More information and to see a video about the Seven Wonders go to citizendoug.com/?p=351 Location: Sesquicentenial Park Houston, Texas at the Wortham Center. Commisioned By the Central Houston Civic Improvement District, Inc with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. One of the towers is the location for the Butto...
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Here's my diary entry for May. Time between entries is exponentially increasing.
Oh, if you're annoyed at netscape/mozilla/whatever text input things, lynx allows you to invoke an external editor for textareas. I know it has security holes, but I know of no other text browsers with that feature (or that allow turning off table and frame rendering. sure, it's fine for some sites, but others' table-layout gets mangled beyond recognition, and it would be nice to actually be able to read the content). Maybe someday I'll take lynx, links, or w3m and add/remove stuff until I get my ideal web browser..
On the Worldforge front, the Atlas protocol library people have apparently been doing "cool" stuff, so I'm holding back on client work until that stabilizies. In the meantime, I've written a nntp news reading cgi (haven't done threads yet. not exactly sure how threaading works, actually.) and did a uml diagram which I'm sure would be a source of amusement and/or confusion to someone who actually knows about uml than what can be learned from the tooltips in dia. I've also been working on a paper about character communities and implicit knowledge sharing.. might end up using mod_virgule to test out some of my ideas.
Ok, that's all. The machine I'm typing this on is promising to reboot in 5 minutes.


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Acute Cystitis
Acute cystitis is inflammation of the bladder. It is usually caused by an infection. There are two types are of acute cystitis:
Acute cystitis is most often caused by bacteria. Bacteria enter the urethra and travel into the bladder. The urethra is a tube that allows urine to pass from the bladder to the outside. Bacteria may come from the lower intestines, the rectal area, or skin. Occasionally acute cystitic can be the result of medications or trauma.
Acute cystitis is inflammation of the bladder. It is usually caused by an infection. There are two types are of acute cystitis:
- Uncomplicated—Premenopausal, nonpregnant women, and in people with no other underlying conditions
- Complicated—Underlying conditions are present.
The Urinary Tract Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Urine will be tested for the presence of bacteria.
Acute cystitis is common in women. Children and men who develop acute cystitis may require additional examination of the bladder.
Here are some steps you can take to keep bacteria out of your urinary tract:
- Drink plenty of liquids.
- Include cranberry juice in your diet. Some studies support the use of cranberry juice to prevent urinary tract infections.
- Urinate when you have the urge. Do not resist it.
- Empty your bladder before and after sexual intercourse, .
- Wash genitals daily.
- If you're a woman, always wipe from the front to the back after having a bowel movement.
- Avoid using douches and feminine hygiene sprays.
Risk Factors
Factors that increase your risk of uncomplicated cystitis include:
- History of acute cystitis
- Sexual activity
Barrier methods of birth control—Use of diaphragm or
coated with spermicide
Factors that increase your risk of complicated cystitis include:
- Having a urinary catheter
- History of childhood urinary tract infection
- Compromised immune system
- Pregnancy
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Abnormalities of urinary system, such as
kidney stones
kidney transplant
- Enlarged prostate
- Catheter use
- Birth control devices—Use of diaphragm or with spermicide
Symptoms may include:
- Frequent and urgent need to urinate
- Passing only small amounts of urine
- Pain in your abdomen, pelvic area, or lower back
- Burning sensation during urination
- Leaking urine
- Increased need to get up at night to urinate
- Cloudy, bad-smelling urine
- Blood in your urine
- Low-grade fever
- Fatigue
Acute cystitis is treated with antibiotics. It is important to take all antibiotics as recommended. Finish all your antibiotics even if you are feeling better.
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Nestled within a cluster of oaks and maples in Shady Valley, TN, the Stoney Creek Primitive Baptist Church meeting house is one of those traditional wood-framed worship structures that ole' Baptists love so dearly—starkly simple, lap-joint sided, white, unadorned by steeples or Gothic-arched stained glass windows. Noticeably absent are any self-proclaiming billboard, marquee, or other bold advertisement of its denominational character, meeting times, and/or clerical personnel.
The association to which Stoney Creek belongs is the Regular Baptist Washington District Association, the No-Heller side of an older alliance of Baptist congregations that was established in 1811.
After 113 years of relative peace, this older Washington District family of churches fell into bitter doctrinal discord, which in 1924 split the No-Heller side from the Heller side, the latter also still extant and now proclaiming itself The Original Washington District Primitive Baptist Association.
The Heller side of this dispute was reported by Elihu J. Sutherland in his 'Regular Primitive Baptist Washington District Association: A Short History,' published in 1952 by that division of the association.
The arguments, as seen by the No-Heller side, must be pieced together from a number of hard-to-assemble sources, including annual association minutes; nevertheless, a reasonably complete view of No-Heller doctrine can be gained by reading Charles F. Nickels' "Salvation of All Mankind; and Treatise on Predestination, the Resurrection of the Dead, and a Bequest," published by its author in Nickelsville, VA, apparently in 1937.
The proper appellation for this No-Heller group is Primitive [also Primite] Baptist Universalism, PBU for short.
The central tenets of PBU theology can be compressed into the following doctrinal statements: (1) Christ's atonement was for the sins of ALL humankind, past, present, and future, thus becoming just as unavoidable as were the stains of Adam's original transgression; (2) hell does exist, but solely as a factor of the temporal world, with ALL sin being punished in this temporal world; (3) "Christ's Church" was "elected" before the beginning of time, but the members of that "Church:"—the Primitive Baptist Universalists—possess no final advantage over the non-elect, since heaven will be for ALL and will be experienced in a totally egalitarian eternity; however, (4) throughout the temporal existence the "Elect" will serve as God's witnesses and as the preservers of His earthly righteousness; (5) sin, punishment, death, and "Satan" are only present-world entities, ceasing to exist after temporal termination and the "Resurrection"; therefore, (6) there will be no hell in the afterlife.
Because Primite Baptist Universalists do believe in hell in the temporal world, they strongly reject the No-Heller label that others have given them. Nevertheless, it must be recognized immediately that all other Primitive Baptist groups simply do not accept the PBU faith as being Primitive, arguing that one essential feature of Primitive Baptist theology is some version of John Calvin's limited atonement doctrine.
In Central Appalachia, there are four small associations of Primite Baptist Universalist: the Regular Primite Baptist Washington District Association, The Three Forks of Powell's River Regular Primitive Baptist Association, and two Elkhorn Primitive Baptist Associations, this duplication in the latter being the consequence of an early 1980s split.
All told, there are only thirty-three PBU fellowships; and they are found primarily in a limited area of northeastern Tennessee, a six-county region of southwestern Virginia, the Colley (or Colly) Creed sector of Letcher County, Kentucky, and the McDowell County locale of southern West Virginia. Appalachian migrations into the Midwest have established three PBU fellowships in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania, but these are small struggling congregations that depend heavily upon support from PBU congregations in Central Appalachia.
Stoney Creek is one of three Tennessee PBU churches. Holston Primite Baptist Church, an affiliate of the Three Forks Association, lies on the west side of Cherokee Lake in Grainger County; Hope Church, a member of the previously mentioned PBU Washington District Association, can be found in Washington County, just on the west side of Interstate 181 near Gray; and Stoney Creek Church is in Carter County.
Southwestern Virginia contains the heaviest concentration of PBU churches, with one or more fellowships existing in each of the following counties: Lee, Scott, Wise, Dickenson, Russell, Buchanan, and Tazewell. West Virginia has only two counties that contain a PBU church: McDowell and Greenbrier. Then, as previously mentioned, Letcher County, Kentucky, shelters only one such fellowship.
Stoney Creek Church in Carter County, TN, is often confused with the now defunct PBU Stony Creek (without the "e") Church of Scott County, VA. Prior to 1949, this latter fellowship was affiliated with its namesake association, the Stony Creek Association, another small cluster of Primite Baptist congregations that joined the PBU movement after the 1924 split.
However, Stony Creek Association lasted only until the late 1940s before disintegrating over a dispute concerning natural-body versus spiritual-body resurrection. That shattered PBU association is now represented by only one church that lies near Bean Station in Grainger County, Tennessee.
Like Old Regular Baptist, Regular Baptist, Separate Baptist, United Baptist, and a host of even smaller Appalachian sub-denominations of this faith, Primitive Baptist Universalism is largely a Central Appalachian phenomenon, seldom found anywhere else, except as a consequence of the region's various out migrations.
The PBU movement contributes yet another colorful square in the diverse patchwork quilt that Appalachian religion has become.
Condensed & edited from "Stoney Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Carter County, Tennessee: A 'No-Heller' Meetinghouse," by Howard Dorgan, 1996
Online at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnhawkin/Stoneycr.html


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The POTUS-Place subforum has been in place for a few weeks now.
I created it, both selfishly and based upon a fairly high frequency of requests for such a location for those of you who enjoy discussing politics.
Recently, I'm getting complaints from some folks who claim to not like reading political posts, and who don't want to discuss politics. Yet, there they are, reading the POTUS Place subforum, rather than just avoiding that subforum altogether and just reading the other portions of the RTF forums. I'm a little confused on this one, as this is the whole reason that the POTUS Place subforum was created - to get the main RTF forum back to subject matter devoid of the extreme political dialogue constantly churned up by a few who dig that sort of thing. POTUS Place was put in place to take the old "if you don't like the author or the subject line, then don't click on the thread" mindset to a whole new level.
I've still had to spend more time than I'd like to over there, just to try and keep some stuff on track, and keep folks abiding to the groundrules for all RTF forums.
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63. Bogon01:56 PM GMT die 06o July, anno 2012
BriarCraft's comment got me thinking about how one would choose the greatest country in the world. As with most things described by superlative adjectives, it's a value judgement. Unless we choose and define some kind of objective measure, the ranking will be subjective.
Unless things take a turn for the worse (and in a rather obvious and nasty way), and unless it happens fairly soon (so that I am still capable of making sound decisions and taking decisive action), I plan to live out my days in the good old U. S. of A. That is a subjective decision, but it is based on the objective facts that I was born here, I'm a citizen, and I know how to live here. If I were to emigrate, I would have to learn a whole new set of expectations about politics, culture, geography, climate, ecology etc., and I might have to learn a new language. I'm getting old to tackle that much novelty at once. Fourth of July notwithstanding, my choice is driven more by habit than by patriotism.
I can remember feeling a great deal more patriotic than I do now. Some of the change is surely internal. Most of us are raised on fairy tales after all. After a while the glitter wears off, the cobwebs blow away, and we see the world more clearly. It's a byproduct of age and experience. We learn to discount the rhetoric and watch what actually happens. A great deal has happened since the 1950s. I honestly feel that we, as a nation, have lost something fundamental, a vision perhaps. I'm not sure where it went or whether we can get it back. But the United States used to be about "We, the People". Now it's about money and hype. I can't help but regard that as a grossly negative development.
One thing we Americans like to brag about is our wealth. We can attribute our good fortune to smart trading and Yankee ingenuity, but let's not forget that at our founding we had a whole new continent to exploit. The frontier is closed now, and we have only our ingenuity to rely on henceforth. Will we still compete as capably as we did when we had vast undeveloped resources? Consider, for example, the people of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. What sort of future can they build atop the mine tailings?
Here is a link to a page at Wikipedia, which displays lists of countries by GDP per capita. There are three lists from different sources. I offer this as one kind of objective measure of greatness. The United States is among the top ten countries on all three lists. On no list does it crack the top five.
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Matunuck Surf Kayak
Nick Schade
Skill Level to Build:
Intermediate/ Advanced
The Matunuck is a surf kayak designed by Nick Schade to be comparable with the best carbon-fiber surfyaks on the market.
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The mayoral race in Toronto is just barely beginning and already cycling is becoming a hot issue. With a candidate, who I do not want to name, already vowing to "rip out" existing bike lanes and halt transit expansion, the race is off to a depressing start. While many cyclists felt we wouldn't even be addressed in the campaigns, it is quite disturbing to see city infrastructure meant to support active lifestyles threatened so early.
On Monday, February 1st, TTC Chair Adam Giambrone is expected to officially announce his mayoral bid. While I can't say I know near enough about any of the more than 20 candidates, Giambrone is already an active spokesperson in support of public transit and pedestrian safety. The video below shows Adam Giambrone addressing city council concerning the highly contested (and now possibly threatened) Javis revitalization that would see the removal of one lane of motor vehicle traffic and the addition of wider sidewalks and bicycle lanes:
Photo of Bernhardt Jensen (known as the Cycling Mayor of Aarhus) via Copenhagenize


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Kevin Hawkes
Photo: © Karen Hawkes
About the Author
When I am asked how I chose to be an illustrator and then an author, I think back to my early childhood. I must have been four or five years old. My family lived in an old house in the middle of the French countryside. My parents loved books and read to us all the time. Sometimes we lit a fire in one of the old fireplaces, especially in the wintertime when it was bitter cold. My mother would read my brothers and I bedtime stories. Often these were Grimm's fairy tales. Imagine hearing Grimm's fairy tales by firelight in an old house in the middle of winter in France! I was doomed to become an illustrator and author!
I'm a very nostalgic person. Whenever I illustrate a book, there is something about it that appeals to some part of my past. I spent lots of time outdoors as a child and so nature plays a strong part in everything. I'm drawn to light, shadow, water, and trees. I have a strong sense of mystery. (I spent more time in castles than I did on the playground.)
Books have always been important to me. And libraries. Living in a military family, I moved a lot. Every two or three years we were off to a different part of the country or the world. This was exciting, but left me yearning for familiar things. Whenever we moved to a new place, my mother took us to the library. Do you know that every library in the world smells the same? When I went to the library I could find familiar books, like old friends and discover new ones. Other than my family, books became the constant familiar things I could rely upon.
Art is an escape for me. There was an art teacher who came to my second-grade class, but only once a month, or so it seemed to me! I remember one day she drew a mushroom with a man sitting under it. I was so excited to think that I had permission to draw something straight from my imagination! I loved anything three-dimensional. Clay sculpture was my favorite. I think my sense of depth and form came as a result of modeling heads out of clay.
If a story idea is like building a house, then more often than not I begin with a doorknob. I start with something small, a snippet of conversation or a random object or a particular image that persists in coming to mind and I ask myself " What sort of door would go with this knob?" When I get the answer to that question I ask, " What sort of room would go with this door?" and so on until somehow I get a house. It's a very random way of working, but I find that if I'm thinking of the right questions, then the answers show up at the oddest times.
When I was illustrating a book a few years ago about an obnoxious family of musicians who move next door, there was a baby that kept cropping up in the paintings. Some times he popped out of a tuba or danced on the tip of a Rhinoceros horn.
The art director asked me " What's with this baby?"
"He's from Maine," I replied. "He's a Toddlah. A wicked big Toddlah! " That's how The Wicked Big Toddlah began.
I think every book should have a slightly different style unique to that particular story. This allows me to experiment with different ways of drawing and storytelling. That keeps me wondering what I'll be doing next, and that's a good thing.


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Trap did an excellent job!
Dropped one, sent Trap and the flock circled.
Traps coming back across the field, and geese had wings cupped, dropping right over him carrying the goose, right into the decoy spread.
Couldn't resist, dropped 2 more, and trap didn't switch. Completed his retrieve, and sent him for a flopping one first, then the dead one.
Lets see if a video from opening day will work?
Lets try another.
The sound doesn't match the video for some reason?


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2 December 2013 to 6 December 2013
Melbourne, Australia
The International Diabetes Federation is the global voice for people with diabetes and those at risk. Twenty years after the World Diabetes Congress in Japan, the Western Pacific Region is again in the global health spotlight. Today, more than a third of all people with diabetes are found in the region, which also has the highest number of undiagnosed cases and the highest number of deaths attributable to diabetes.


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Today I released SaVi 1.4.4.
SaVi is software for simulation and visualization of satellite orbits, especially satellite constellations such as Iridium, Globalstar and O3b.
This point release builds on Tcl/Tk 8.6b1, updates script simulating O3b based on latest information, adds simulations of Japanese NeLS rosette and COMMstellation constellations, allows selection between existing J2 and classical J0 orbital models with -orbit-model flag, provides keyboard menu shortcuts (except on buggy Mac Tk), warns against deletion of help textfiles, supports building with just 'make' on x86_64 linux systems, adds notes on packaging and release processes.
All minor stuff, really. Although I'll continue to add to SaVi as and when it's needed, I can't yet see any reason for another release before 2012...


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Yesterday was a fantastic Scouting Day! First and foremost it was Monday, so we had our weekly Troop meeting. The Troop meeting started like most others but then took a turn for the better, a Scout camp running through the door about 5 minutes late. He was wearing his baseball uniform making a dash for the restroom, scout uniform in tow. His Dad was not to far behind and asked if I had a second. That usually is not a good sign, but I figured that another leadership challenge was on the horizon. He explained that they were having a hard time getting motivated to come to Scouts and that they turned the car around twice en route to the meeting. I asked what the issue was, maybe a personality conflict, a lack of desire to participate, something was troubling the Scout. No, he loves to go camping, he really likes the guys in his patrol, he likes Scouts.. just not the meetings when he has to come right after practice. Now, this kid is a good athlete, he plays baseball and basketball and is good at both.
I told him that I would have a little chat with the young man and see what I could do.
So, after the meeting the young man and I sat down and talked. I started by asking what his main concerns where regarding coming to meetings. Simply put, he is just overwhelmed.. sports, school, scouts, sometimes it is just too much he said. I assured him that he is not alone. In our Troop better than half are athletes. Football players, Wrestlers, Baseball, Basketball, and guys that run track. Not to mention the scouts that are in Band, 4H, and Robotics clubs. My point was that he is not alone, not the first one to dance this dance, and that if he really wanted to, he could do it all.. there was time enough to be an athlete and a Scout. I assured him that we meet every Monday and go camping every month and that if he missed a few meetings it was no big deal. And if he had to be late, well, we would work around that too. He told me he really loves his patrol, at that I told him that they like having him around also, and although they will never admit it or say it out loud, they miss each other when one is gone. I asked him if he wanted to be a professional Baseball player, he replied "Yeah". I asked him if he wanted to be an Eagle Scout? He answered "Oh Yeah". Then, I said, you need to participate, its that simple. I know you don't like the meetings, but consider them like baseball practice. You can't play the game without practice first. It makes the team stronger, they know each other better, and they develop skills that make them better in the game. At our meetings we do all of that while we get ready for our next camp out or event. He looked at me and said that he never thought of it that way. I told him that he had to believe in him self and that he could be a great athlete as well as work toward his Eagle. He believes.
During the Scoutmaster Minute last night I talked about working toward a goal and that believing in your ability, your skills, and your knowledge will get you far in life. I don't know why they have self doubt, but I suppose that's why they have a Scoutmaster. It's my job to help them see that they "gotta believe" in themselves. They are great young men and I want to see them become a success. So I will help them.. Like I said in the last post.. in helping them achieve success, I am successful.
Man, I love this stuff!
Yesterday I also received an invitation to the BSA National meetings in San Diego! I am really excited about this opportunity. It really was a great Scouting Day yesterday!
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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Brian Hayes
Give a digital computer a problem in arithmetic, and it will grind away methodically, tirelessly, at gigahertz speed, until ultimately it produces the wrong answer. The cause of this sorry situation is not that software is full of bugs—although that is very likely true as well—nor is it that hardware is unreliable. The problem is simply that computers are discrete and finite machines, and they cannot cope with some of the continuous and infinite aspects of mathematics. Even an innocent-looking number like 1/10 can cause no end of trouble: In most cases, the computer cannot even read it in or print it out exactly, much less perform exact calculations with it.
Errors caused by these limitations of digital machines are usually small and inconsequential, but sometimes every bit counts. On February 25, 1991, a Patriot missile battery assigned to protect a military installation at Dahrahn, Saudi Arabia, failed to intercept a Scud missile, and the malfunction was blamed on an error in computer arithmetic. The Patriot's control system kept track of time by counting tenths of a second; to convert the count into full seconds, the computer multiplied by 1/10. Mathematically, the procedure is unassailable, but computationally it was disastrous. Because the decimal fraction 1/10 has no exact finite representation in binary notation, the computer had to approximate. Apparently, the conversion constant stored in the program was the 24-bit binary fraction 0.00011001100110011001100, which is too small by a factor of about one ten-millionth. The discrepancy sounds tiny, but over four days it built up to about a third of a second. In combination with other peculiarities of the control software, the inaccuracy caused a miscalculation of almost 700 meters in the predicted position of the incoming missile. Twenty-eight soldiers died.
Of course it is not to be taken for granted that better arithmetic would have saved those 28 lives. (Many other Patriots failed for unrelated reasons; some analysts doubt whether any Scuds were stopped by Patriots.) And surely the underlying problem was not the slight drift in the clock but a design vulnerable to such minor timing glitches. Nevertheless, the error in computer multiplication is mildly disconcerting. We would like to believe that the mathematical machines that control so much of our lives could at least do elementary arithmetic correctly.
One approach to dealing with such numerical errors is a technique called interval arithmetic. It does nothing directly to improve the accuracy of calculations, but for every number it provides a certificate of accuracy—or the lack of it. The result of an ordinary (non-interval) computation is a single number, a point on the real number line, which lies at some unknown distance from the true answer. An interval computation yields a pair of numbers, an upper and a lower bound, which are guaranteed to enclose the exact answer. Maybe you still don't know the truth, but at least you know how much you don't know.
Suppose you are surveying a rectangular field. No matter how carefully you read the measuring tape, you can never be certain of the exact dimensions, but you can probably state with confidence that the correct figures lie within certain bounds. Perhaps you are sure the length is no less than 68 meters and no more than 72, while the width is between 49 and 51 meters. Then you can state with equal confidence that the area of the field lies somewhere between 3,332 square meters and 3,672 square meters. This is interval arithmetic in action: [68,72] x [49,51] = [3,332, 3,672]. (The bracketed pair [a,b] signifies the interval from a to b inclusive, with . Another useful notation is [], where the underscore indicates a lower limit and the overscore an upper limit.)
Doing basic arithmetic with intervals is not much more difficult than with ordinary ("pointlike") numbers. Indeed, a single formula extends the definition of the four standard arithmetic operations to intervals. If ° represents any of the operations +, –, x or ÷, then the corresponding interval operation is defined as:
In other words, compute the four possible combinations of the upper and lower bounds, then choose whichever of these results is the smallest as the new lower bound, and likewise take the largest as the new upper bound. Every possible combination u°v must lie within these limits.
The min-max formula is a convenient definition of interval operations, but it is not always the best implementation. For example, in the case of addition it's obvious that + will always be the smallest sum, and + the largest, so that interval addition is simply [,] + [,] = [ + , + ]. By similar reasoning, subtraction is just [,]–[,] = [ – , – ]. Multiplication is not quite as well-behaved. Although shortcuts are sometimes possible (depending on the signs of the operands), in the worst case there is no choice but to compute all four of the combinations and select the extrema.
Division is much like multiplication, but with a further annoyance—the possibility of a zero divisor. With pointlike numbers, if you try to carry out an operation such as 2 ÷ 0, the error is obvious, and the system software will prevent you from doing the impossible. An interval division such as [2,4] ÷ [–1,1] has the same problem, but in disguise. You could very well perform the necessary calculations on the end points of the intervals without raising any alarms and without noticing that the divisor interval includes the value zero. But the answer you would arrive at in this way, [–4,4], is utterly wrong. It's not just wrong in the formal sense that it might be tainted by an illegal operation. It's also wrong because the interval [–4,4] does not enclose all possible quotients, even if the zero point itself is excluded from the divisor. A reliable system for interval arithmetic needs protection against this hazard. Usually, division by an interval that includes zero is simply forbidden, although there are also other ways of coping with the problem.
Apart from the rules for manipulating intervals arithmetically, there remains the question of what an interval really is and how we ought to think about it. In the context of dealing with errors and uncertainties of computation, we may see [,] as standing for some definite but unknown value x such that x . But [, ] could also be interpreted as the set of all real numbers between and —in other words, as a closed segment of the real number line. Or the interval [,] could be taken as denoting a new kind of number, in much the same way that two real numbers x and y combine to specify the complex number x+iy (where i represents the square root of –1). This last view is the most ambitious. It suggests the goal of a computing system where intervals are just another data type, interchangeable with other kinds of numbers. Wherever a pointlike number can appear in a program, an interval can be substituted. Conversely, exact pointlike numbers can be represented by "degenerate" intervals of zero width; the number 2 could be written [2,2].
Why should we have to put up with errors and approximations in computing? Why can't the computer just give the right answer?
Sometimes it can. Calculations done entirely with integers yield exact results as long as the numbers are not too big for the space allotted. Often the allotted space is quite scanty—as little as 16 bits—but this is an artificial constraint; in principle a computer can store the exact value of any integer that will fit in its memory.
Integers have the pleasant property that they form a closed set under addition, subtraction and multiplication; in other words, when you add, subtract or multiply any two integers, you always get another integer. Absent from this list of operations is division, because the quotient of two integers is not always an integer. If we allow numbers to be divided, we must go beyond the integers to the rational numbers, such as 2/3 or 3/2. But rational values can also be represented exactly in the computer; all that's needed is to keep track of a pair of integers, which are interpreted as the numerator and the denominator. Thus the constant 1/10, which caused such havoc in the Patriot software, could have been encoded in the two binary integers 1 and 1010. A few programming languages—notably Lisp and its offspring—provide integers of unlimited size ("bignums") and exact rationals as built-in data types. Similar facilities can be added to other languages.
If we can have exact numerical computation, why would anyone choose approximate arithmetic? One reason is that there are numbers beyond the rationals: No ratio of finite integers gives the exact value of v2 or p or log2(3). Perhaps more important, exact computations tend to become hopelessly unwieldy. Consider the series 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + .... If you sum a thousand terms, the result is vanishingly close to 2, but the exact rational representation fills two thousand binary digits. Doing arithmetic with such obese numbers is slow and cumbersome. And outside the realm of pure mathematics the cost of maintaining exactness is seldom justified. Nothing in the physical world can be measured with such precision anyway.
The usual alternative to exact rational computations is floating-point arithmetic, a scheme that resembles scientific notation. A number takes the form D X ßE, where D is called the significand, E is the exponent, and ß is the base (which in modern computer systems is always 2). For example, the decimal number 6.0 can be expressed as 0.75 X 23, with significand 0.75 and exponent 3. In this case the representation is exact, in binary as well as in decimal (the binary significand is 0.11). Other numbers are not so lucky. As noted above, no finite significand corresponds exactly to the decimal fraction 1/10. Furthermore, it's obvious that some numbers must be missing from the system simply because it has only a finite capacity. In one common floating-point format, the total space available for storing the significand and the exponent is 32 bits, and so the system cannot possibly hold more than 232 distinct numbers, or about 4 billion of them. If you need a number that is not a member of this finite set, the best you can do is choose the nearest member as an approximation. The difference between the true value and the approximation is the roundoff error.
Interval arithmetic cannot eliminate roundoff error, but it can fence it in. When a result x falls between two floating-point values, those nearest representable numbers become the lower and upper bounds of the interval [, ]. But this is not the end of the story. Subsequent computations could yield a new interval for which and are themselves numbers that have no exact floating-point representation. In this situation, where even the interval has to be approximated, rounding must be done with care. To preserve the guarantee that the true value always lies within the interval, the end points of the interval must be rounded "outward": is rounded down and is rounded up.
Interval arithmetic is not a new idea. Invented and reinvented several times, it has never quite made it into the mainstream of numerical computing, and yet it has never been abandoned or forgotten either.
In 1931 Rosalind Cicely Young, a recent Cambridge Ph.D., published an "algebra of many-valued quantities" that gives rules for calculating with intervals and other sets of real numbers. Of course Young and others writing in that era did not see intervals as an aid to improving the reliability of machine computation. By 1951, however, in a textbook on linear algebra, Paul S. Dwyer of the University of Michigan was describing arithmetic with intervals (he called them "range numbers") in a way that is clearly directed to the needs of computation with digital devices.
A few years later, the essential ideas of interval arithmetic were set forth independently and almost simultaneously by three mathematicians— Mieczyslaw Warmus in Poland, Teruo Sunaga in Japan and Ramon E. Moore in the United States. Moore's version has been the most influential, in part because he emphasized solutions to problems of machine computation but also because he has continued for more than four decades to publish on interval methods and to promote their use.
Today the interval-methods community includes active research groups at a few dozen universities. A web site at the University of Texas at El Paso (www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp) provides links to these groups as well as a useful archive of historical documents. The journal Reliable Computing (formerly Interval Computations) is the main publication for the field; there are also mailing lists and annual conferences. Implementations of interval arithmetic are available both as specialized programming languages and as libraries that can be linked to a program written in a standard language. There are even interval spreadsheet programs and interval calculators.
One thing the interval community has been ardently seeking—so far without success—is support for interval algorithms in standard computer hardware. Most modern processor chips come equipped with circuitry for floating-point arithmetic, which reduces the process of manipulating significands and exponents to a single machine-language instruction. In this way floating-point calculations become part of the infrastructure, available to everyone as a common resource. Analogous built-in facilities for interval computations are technologically feasible, but manufacturers have not chosen to provide them. A 1996 article by G. William Walster of Sun Microsystems asks why. Uncertainty of demand is surely one reason; chipmakers are wary of devoting resources to facilities no one might use. But Walster cites other factors as well. Hardware support for floating-point arithmetic came only after the IEEE published a standard for the format. There have been drafts of standards for interval arithmetic (the latest written by Dmitri Chiriaev and Walster in 1998), but none of the drafts has been adopted by any standards-setting body.
Although the principles of interval computing may seem obvious or even trivial, getting the algorithms right is not easy. There are subtleties. There are gotchas. The pitfalls of division by an interval that includes zero have already been mentioned. Here are a few more trouble spots.
In doing arithmetic, we often rely on mathematical laws or truths such as x + – x=0 and (a+b)x=ax + bx. With intervals, some of these rules fail to hold. In general, an interval has no additive inverse; that is, given a nondegenerate interval [, ], there is no interval [, ] for which [, ] + [, ]=[0,0]. There is no multiplicative inverse either—no pair of nondegenerate intervals for which [, ] X[, ] = [1,1]. The reason is clear and fundamental: No valid operation can ever diminish the width of an interval, and [0,0] and [1,1] are intervals of zero width.
The distributive law also fails for intervals. In an expression such as [1,2] X ([–3,–2]+[3,4]), it makes a difference whether you do the addition first and then multiply, or do two multiplications and then add. One sequence of operations gives the result [0,4], the other [–3,6]. Strictly speaking, either of these results is correct—both of them bound any true value of the original expression—but the narrower interval is surely preferable.
Another example: squaring an interval. The obvious definition [, ]2 = [, ] x [, ] seems to work in some cases, such as [1,2]2 = [1,4]. But what about [–2,2]2=[–4,4]? Whoops! The square of a real number cannot be negative. The source of the error is treating the two appearances of [, ] in the right-hand side of the formula as if they were independent variables; in fact, whatever value x assumes in one instance, it must be the same in the other. The same phenomenon can arise in expressions such as 2x/x. Suppose x is the interval [2,4]; then naïvely following the rules of interval arithmetic yields the answer [1,4]. But of course the correct value is 2 (or [2,2]) for any nonzero value of x.
Comparisons are yet another murky area. Computer programs rely heavily on conditional expressions such as "if (x is less than y) then...." When x and y are intervals, the comparison gets tricky. Is [1,3] less than [2,4], or not? Whereas there are just three elementary comparisons for pointlike numbers , there are as many as 18 well-defined relations for intervals. It's not always obvious which one to choose, or even how to name them. (Chiriaev and Walster refer to "certainly relations" and "possibly relations.")
Finally, look at what happens if a naïve implementation of the sine function is given an interval argument. Sometimes there is no problem: sin([30°,60°]) yields the correct interval [0.5,0.866]. But sin([30°,150°]) returns [0.5,0.5], which is an error; the right answer is [0.5,1.0]. What leads us astray is the assumption that interval calculations can be based on end points alone, which is true only for monotonic functions (those that never "change direction"). For other functions it is necessary to examine the interior of an interval for minima and maxima.
In fairness, it should be noted that many cherished mathematical truths fail even in ordinary (noninterval) floating-point arithmetic. An identity such as x=vx2 is not to be trusted in floating point. And there are remedies for all the interval gotchas mentioned above—or at least strategies for coping with them. M. H. van Emden has shown that by building on the existing IEEE floating-point standard (including its facilities for representing infinity), it would be possible to create a system of interval arithmetic that would never fall into an error state, not even as a result of division by zero. (Of course the system would sometimes return results such as [–8, +8], which may be of questionable utility.)
The interval community can point to a number of success stories. In 1995 Joel Hass, Michael Hutchings and Roger Schlafly proved part of the "double-bubble conjecture" by a method that entailed extensive numerical calculations; they used interval methods to establish rigorous bounds on computational errors. The conjecture concerns soap films enclosing a pair of volumes, and states that the common configuration of two conjoined quasi-spherical bubbles has the smallest surface-to-volume ratio. Hass, Hutchings and Schlafly proved the conjecture for the case of two equal volumes, essentially by calculating the best possible ratio for all configurations. The calculations did not have to be exact, but any errors had to be smaller than the differences between the various ratios. Interval methods provided this guarantee. (The general case of the double-bubble conjecture was proved a few years later by Hutchings, Frank Morgan, Manuel Ritoré and Antonio Ros—without interval arithmetic and indeed without computers, using "only ideas, pencil, and paper.")
A quite different application of interval methods was reported in 1996 by Oliver Holzmann, Bruno Lang and Holger Schütt of the University of Wuppertal. Instead of trying to control the errors of a calculation, they were estimating the magnitude of errors in a physical experiment. The experiment was a measurement of Newton's gravitational constant G, done with two pendulums attracted to large brass weights. The interval analysis assessed various contributions to the uncertainty of the final result, and discovered a few surprises. An elaborate scheme had been devised for measuring the distance between the swinging pendulums, and as a result this source of error was quite small; but uncertainties in the height of the brass weights were found to be an important factor limiting the overall accuracy.
Would we be better off if intervals were used for all computations? Maybe, but imagine the plight of the soldier in the field: A missile is to be fired if and only if a target comes within a range of 5 kilometers, and the interval-equipped computer reports that the distance is [4,6] kilometers. This is rather like the weather forecast that promises a 50-percent chance of rain. Such statements may accurately reflect our true state of knowledge, but they're not much help when you have to decide whether to light the fuse or take the umbrella. But this is a psychological problem more than a mathematical one. Perhaps the solution is to compute with intervals, but at the end let the machine report a definite, pointlike answer, chosen at random from within the final interval.
© Brian Hayes
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Started the day hunting the same blind I hunted opening day. It is in the saddle of a ridge that runs North-South which has another ridge that runs into this one, sort of a two for one deal. Almost 50 years ago loggers chose that spot to set up their mill and all that remains is dark pulpy soil (and loads of turkey sign). Most of the surrounding timber was since cut-over less than 15 years ago and there are some trees that were left which may be 35 years old that are about the same diameter of a power pole (cedars & dogwoods). The area 150 yards beyond the old sawdust pile was selective cut last summer and that meets a 15 year old cut-over. It goes from wide open visibility to 45 foot at best in the space of one logging road.
The Turkeys don't have a problem getting around in any part of it at all. They are just at home in the wide open as the ultra-thick vegetation.
What we are finding is that the birds are still tending to use the same terrain (ridges, draws, knolls, creek bottoms, etc.) if trees are there or not. The turkeys are not tending to spend as much time in the open as they used to when that same area was wooded. Why that is, I'm not sure.
The Landowner was set up in a blind that E.P. had taken a nice Gobbler from last Saturday northwest of me. He go on the radio about 6:18 and said he had one gobbling behind him (I couldn't hear). It gobbled perhaps two dozen times (some of which I heard). We both heard another one between us that moved southwest like he knew where he wanted to go.The Landowner had two hens walk down a logging road beside his location , then a gang of 3 Jakes crossed in range ( Jakes get a free pass at our lease).
About 8:20 I heard a gobble to the southeast of my location which I cutt and yelped back to right away. The gobbler responded a few times and was getting closer. I radioed the Landowner that I was going off the radio for a time because I was working a bird (He couldn't hear). Perhaps 15 minutes later a Jake came in from the east and crossed in front of me @ 8 yards. He stopped behind some trees and I could tell he was looking for the hen. I was disappointed that it was a Jake, but the more I thought about it, the gobble I heard didn't sound like it came from a young Gobbler. About that time, the Jake started moving to my left again, looking nervous and I could hear something behind me approaching from over my right shoulder. The Jake hopped up in the air and kicked it into high gear and I could hear spitting and drumming very close behind me. My heart started pounding. Mentally, I composed myself to make sure I would be ready and would not get ahead of myself & screw this opportunity up. I could hear the Gobbler's wingtips dragging through the crunching leaves less than 20 feet behind me as his drumming sounds reverberated in my own chest. I hoped he could not hear me swallow as I tried to do so quietly. He passed all the way behind me to the west, then drifted back into the thicker young pines, and back-tracked the direction he'd come from spitting and drumming along the way. When he dropped off the ridge toward the creek bottom, he gobbled again. I answered back with a light purr and couple of clucks and scratched the leaves on the ground beside me. As quickly and loudly as the next gobble followed, I knew he was going to come have a second look. I swung slightly to the east and continued to scratch the leaves beside me. He gobbled again, even closer now. I went ahead and switched the safety off because it was fixin' to happen. I expected to see his head come up over the crest of the ridge any second.
About that time I caught movement across the sawdust pile where I can see the farthest, perhaps 50 yards to the north. I rolled my eyes to catch glimpses of a hen crossing through the trees in the saddle in the ridge. She let out a couple of yelps and I could hear him start to spit and drum again. All the calling I had done had enticed a real hen to want to hook up with this Gobbler and I'm sure he was happy to oblige. Looks like I did them both a favor. Cut N Run Dating Service... They never knew I was there either. It was pretty intense and exhilarating, but disappointing at the same time.
That was as close as I got today (you can't get much closer and not connect) . I would have at least liked to get a good look at him. I hope I get to see him next weekend...by then all the hens should be setting and I hope not to have interference. I have a new choke tube I wanted to try out on something besides paper. If it does to turkeys what it does to paper...yikes!
I saw one other hen at around 9:30 going through the saddle to the east and one other hen about 11:45 doing the same thing. With that, I called it a day.
Maybe next time. It sure was fun trying.


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