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Memorial Park Cemetery
The Memorial Park Cemetery is situated on 50 pristine hectares in the heart of Prince George. Current interment options include traditional burials for both full casket and cremated remains, We operate our mausoleum where the options of crypt for casket interment or a niche for cremains are available. Future burial options will include outdoor columbaria, ossuary and scattering gardens, a cremated remains only section, as well as an environmentally conscious green burial section. The City of Prince George operates the Memorial Park Cemetery located at 3300 Memorial Park Lane east of Highway 16 at Ferry Ave.
The cemetery gates are open seven days a week.
Contact Us:
Memorial Park Cemetery Telephone:250-561-7500
Straight answers to real questions about cemeteries and burial related to the end of life. No family should have to face the loss of a loved one uninformed and unprepared. Questions are grouped into Cemetery, Burial, Mausoleum, Prearrangements, and Perpetual Care Funds, categories for easy reference. By clicking on the question you will be taken directly to the answer.
Memorial Park Mausoleum
Memorial Park Mausoleum
The Memorial Park Mausoleum provides the opportunity of new indoor cemetery options. Mausoleums are for the living, the survivors of the deceased, who want and need a place to meditate in a serene environment to remember a life once lived. Our facility provides a warm, peaceful and reflective space.The mausoleum is that it is sheltered from the elements and is open to crypt and niche owners 365 days a year. The mausoleum is open to the public Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm. For information on our mausoleum services contact our cemetery staff at 250-561-7500
Pre-planning is the act of making your cemetery arrangements in advance.It means you are planning today for an inevitable event. These plans may be as simple or as elaborate as you choose. The reasons you choose to pre-plan are varied. Most people consider the following thoughts:
In British Columbia, cemeteries are regulated by the
Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act, and The
and Consumer Protection Act. Locally we operate under the The City of Prince George Cemetery
Bylaw No.8046, 2008.
Memorial Park Cemetery understands and respects the need for all families to show respect and love for those interred in our cemetery through the placement of floral offerings at the grave site. Our bylaw permits and our staff encourage the placement of floral offerings including cut flowers (either silk or fresh). Non compliant item include potted plants, glass, statuary, and candles. For futher information and guidance, please refer to the aformentioned bylaw or contact our staff.
Gardening Angels Sharing Garden
Plot information, cemetery fees or bylaw regulations are available from Cemetery Administration and Operations during the hours of 8:00 am to 12pm and 1:00pm to 4:00pm Monday to Friday (except statutory holidays) at 250-561-7500. Would you like to search our records for information? You can use our
plot search feature to obtain information by date or by name.
Marker Options:
Upright Markers
Flat Markers Cremation Plot
Layout 2006 to present
Cremation Plot Layout (plot purchased prior to July 1, 2006)
Wave of Light
October 15 2014, Memorial Park Cemetery marked our first annual Wave of Light event to commemorate World Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. This event is held worldwide to remember a lost infant either in pregnancy or after, by simultaneously lighting a candle at 7pm. Our inauguaral event was attended by family members and a short nondemoninational service was held. The candles were lit and placed around the flower bed in the Childrens' Garden
Childrens' Garden in the Fall
Veterans' Memorial
The Veteran's Memorial was a joint project led by the Ladies Auxilliary to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 43. The monument is made with local stone mined from the McGregor mountains.The City of Prince George provided the location (in the centre of our veteran's sections), and will maintain the site. The Gardening Angels assisted the Ladies Auxilliary with fundraising, and Jay Lazzarin provided the Landscape design. Black Mountain Stone supplied the stone and the engraving was completed by E&K Stoneware.
Community Flag Placements
The veterans interred in our cemetery are honoured by the placement of Canadian Flags on their graves. RCMP members, Rocky Mtn Rangeres, Scouts, Cubs and families came out to place over 1500 flags.
Memorial Trees
Memorial Park Cemetery provides the opportunity for family members to memorialize their loved ones by sponsoring a tree. The tree and location is chosen by the family and City staff. A memorial plaque is installed on the tree to indicate its dedication.
Lion Dancers at Chinese Memorial Dedication
Chinese Memorial information
Royal Canadian Legion Branch #43 email:
Assmans Dignity Memorial email:
Grace Memorial Funeral Chapel email:
First Memorial Lakewood Funeral Home email:
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Historical Information
Update your Family History for Geneological Purposes
Memorial Park Cemetery would like to maintain accurate historical records by continually updating our database. We have very limited historical information on persons interred prior to 2006. Historically before 2006, personal information was retained by individual funeral homes. We have implemented a new database, and record and retain information for historical purposes only. Reasons for accessing the information would include genealogy and hereditary disease research by family members. This information will not be available on the internet, but can be obtained by written request to the cemetery administration.
To update a deceased family member, please use the
Historical Data Request Form.
Dick Corless Funeral Home Archival Files
Richard (Dick) Corless came to Prince George in 1913 from England, where upon he became an undertaker and a car dealer. He was operating his funeral home business, located at the corner of Quebec and Fourth Avenue in Prince George. All of the funerals that he performed were recorded in a ledger, including deaths of the influenza pandemic in 1918. Mr Corless transferred his business to Assman's Funeral home in 1931, and his ledger remained with a family member who donated it to the B.C Archives. The Prince George Genealogical Society became aware of its existence, and a member viewed it in the BC Archives in Victoria. Because of its fragile condition it was not suitable for photo copying. The BC Archives considered that it might be eligible for micro filming, they did not have funding for this work. They were not prepared to consider transferring it to Prince George at that time.
In 2007 the UNBC obtained their Class A Certification as an Archive, so the Prince George Genealogical Society supported them in an application for the ledger's transfer to Prince George. BC Archives, realizing the importance of the ledger to the history of Prince George, agreed to its transfer. UNBC Archives were able to digitally photograph all of the pages, and these images were lent to the Prince George Genealogical Society for transcription. This work was carried out by Society members in a six week period in the summer of 2008.
These records include information about each funeral, including the date and place of death and burial, as well as the cause of death, birthday and/or age, of the person and the nationality of foreign born persons. For the earlier events the burial location details supplements that included in the cemetery records.
The City of Prince George is grateful to the Prince George Genealogical Society for their efforts in enabling the residents of our city such valuable historic information.
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Headed out this morn despite the -20 temps, working drills right now as there will certainly be no swim by LOL. This is our second attempt at the latter blind drill and im a damn happy guy. Today we spaced the bumpers out more than previous and also stretched the last bumper out a bit more. He is RUNNING now and straight. What a difference now that we are out of the pressure of yard work.
Next we went on to the WW, this is also our second day with 8 bumpers. Snow is pretty deep some bumpers were falling through and hidden. Im heeling him to the left and "here" to the right. The nick/yelp was for him mouthing a bumper a bit longer than i like and ignoring 2 "HERE" command.
I know, I know put the Brit away, well its minus 20 and i aint coming back out LOL, I think he handles distraction very well for 8mths.
Anyone introduce patter blinds in the snow or should i wait a month or so? If so ideas on how?

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Review: Kim Zetter - Countdown to Zero DayMon 24 November 2014 by Wesley
(I picked this book up on release day to have something to read for the rest of the week while traveling for work, and was very happy with it. The following is my review, which I'm also posting to Amazon.)
Countdown to Zero Day hits a very nice balance for both technical and non-technical audiences. It's smart: explains a concept or term once very well, then moves on to build upon it to help the reader understand the complex subject matter. A reader without any background in the topic will find a fascinating and accessible story of some of the most interesting malicious software to date, and the people who reverse engineered it. A reader with some background in the field will find one of the most complete and coherent chronicles of Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame available. Experienced readers will be happy that it doesn't go too light on interesting technical detail. I'd say it also serves well as a introduction to the issues surrounding ICS/SCADA security in general.
A good measure of how much I enjoyed a non-fiction book on my Kindle is to examine how many "highlights" I made to remind myself to explore something further. Zetter's Countdown to Zero Day breaks all personal records in this regard, with dozens of snippets of technical information and references I am looking forward to following up on. Zetter has done a lot of the hard work for me: documenting the years of research that went into this book with frequent and useful footnotes.
I'm going to start including this on the recommended reading list for my reverse engineering course, as I think it'll inspire and catch the interests of those who are just starting out in the field. I'm looking forward to my students' take on it.
Vegas For People Who Break Things
Black Hat USA and DEF CON are coming up next week and I am excited, and so should you, if your thing is breaking things. I'm looking forward to presenting, seeing some good technical talks, and meeting with folk I only get to see once a year. I always ...read more
An Incident in Georgia Weidman's Training (or, Don't Mess With My Students)
Today I received an email from a student who had taken my security and reverse engineering classes that had attended Circle City Con in Indianapolis this past weekend, along with another former student. He had a good time, but mentioned an incident that occurred that he'd rather discuss over ...read more
Speaking at DEF CON 22
Chinese Military Hacker Indictment
Very quickly, and without much comment yet, as I haven't dug into it much myself, here is the PDF for the indictment of the five Chinese military hackers that the Department of Justice announced today:
If you like following stories like this, I highly recoommend ...read more


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HUGH and his mamma returned next day; the red and brown leaves were whirling and dancing about, and the tree‐arms were creaking and grinding. Standing listlessly by my boudoir window, about four o'clock, I see the family coach and the bays coming with slow majesty though the park.
Hugh in his brown great‐coat driving; our parent uprighhter than one of her own knitting needles, and her femme de chambre inside; the valet and the footman in the dickey. Here they all are! welcome, welcome home! I had spent the last night, lying all along upon the earth, as David did when he was interceding for the life of his little son. I was interceding for the sparing of no life; I was but page: 223 interceding for the taking away of my own. The rough west wind kept dashing the ivy sprays against the window pane, and I lay with my face buried in the deep piled carpet, while my darling went away from me through the night; went away forlornly, in his soaked pilot coat, with his dripping golden hair, and his true desolate heart.
As for Dolly, I had made up my mind about her. She had sown, and she was about to reap; she had laboured, and she was about to enter upon the reward of her labours.
"No! that she shall not! so help me God!" I cry out in my rage and pain, and the dying fire gives one sleepy flicker of surprise at my vehemence. I would go to Hugh, and would tell him all. I had been dishonest to him all along; I would be honest now; I had been sailing under false colours; now I would run up my own black pirate flag. I would go to him, and tell him all my little bitter story; I would hide no detail; gloss over none of my own vast page: 224 wickedness. I would tell him how I had thrown myself into that other man's arms, and begged him with tears and prayers earnester than ever mother sent up in behalf of her dying child, to take me away with him, to make me utterly vile and enormously happy. And I would also tell him—for to this, that other anecdote would be but the necessary preface, of my sister's ingenious and newly discovered accomplishment of imitating her neighbour's handwriting; an accomplishment which would have twisted her graceful neck a hundred years ago.
Hugh would turn me out of doors of course. I was fully prepared for that; I should not think it the least severe of him. I could see the old woman sweeping away her stiff lavender satin from contact with me, and looking at me with her stern Puritan eyes, as the Pharisees long ago, under the blue Palestine sky, looked at the woman, to whom our dear Lord Christ said, "Neither do I condemn thee!" I should be turned out of doors, and should have to go about begging my page: 225 my bread, in greenish rags and a whine.
There was almost a relief in the idea; it would be a fit expiation for my crime. Moreover, what hardships, what ignominy, what painfullest, lingeringest death, would not I have embraced laughing, to have baulked Dolly of the pay for which she had so diligently served her master, the Devil. Cowardly, chicken‐hearted woman as I was—and there were few more so between the three seas,—terrifiedly as I had always shrunk from physical pain; in that first frenzy of agonized hate, I would have hung all day beneath an Eastern sky, nailed hand and foot to a cross, while soul and body parted slowly—slowly—in unimagined anguish, would have been sawn asunder, stoned, burnt, readily, yea, most joyfully, if thereby I could have purchased for myself the power to be fitly revenged on her who had turned the jocund garden of my young life into a desolate wilderness.
"I will tell him to‐day—to‐morrow." page: 226 I say to myself, as I stand drumming with my fingers on the sill, and watching my own fine carriage, the carriage for which I have paid the longest price ever carriage fetched, sweeping dignifiedly up to my own Hall door. Hugh helps his mother out dutifully—"my boy" is a good son—and then I hear him coming running upstairs three steps at a time.
"Well, old girl, how are you? Why did not you come down to meet us? I was looking out for you at the Hall door."
"I—I—don't know, I'm sure," I say, feeling horribly guilty, "I never thought of it."
"Very glad to get home again," says Hugh, pulling off his dogskin gloves, and precipitating himself into a minute cane arm‐chair; for, if you remark, men always select the smallest chair they can find to deposit their persons upon. "I wish my neighbours all the good in the world, but I don't seem to care how little I see of them now‐a‐days."
"Don't you?" with a feeble smile.
"Next time anyone invites me to his page: 227 house, I think I shall say 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come,' eh, Nell" (I have turned a wife out of doors, and therefore I cannot come, will be a more valid excuse, I think bitterly). "I say, Nell, what do you say to running downstairs, and saying something civil to the old lady; I suppose it would be a proper attention, wouldn't it? and old people are such sticklers for their dignity."
"Oh, yes—oh, to be sure—I was forgetting!" I cry, and I turn to go and greet my "mother," while Hugh follows me.
We find the old dowager sitting in the library; she has not yet laid aside her toga, and is reading her letters.
"I hope you have had a pleasant visit," I say, rather timidly.
"Yes, certainly, if you wish." (By next week, I shall have assumed the greenish rags and the whine.)
I did not tell Hugh on that day, nor on the day after, nor on the day after that. Do not we all know, how without having faltered in our resolution to do a disagreeable thing, we keep putting it off, from one day to another. And meanwhile, the said excellent Hugh pursued the even page: 229 tenor of his way, doing his duty to God and to man, according to his own ideas of what those duties were. Went to church and read "Bell's Life" on Sundays; hunted, and drained, and liquid‐manured, and steam‐ploughed on week days.
As for the little tiffs in his seraglio—for little tiffs there were even in those early days, little tiffs there must always be, when an old woman and a young one hold divided sway—as long as they were not obtruded on his notice, he treated them with the sublime indifference with which Zeus, the cloud compeller, resting on the topmost peak of Olympus, or going to have a snug dinner with the Ethiopians, might have treated a squabble between those two arrant shrews, cow‐eyed Here, and gray‐eyed Athene.
If my eyes were red, why it was the east wind, or a touch of influenza. If I did not talk, why he concluded philosophically that I had nothing to say, or at least nothing to say on the subject that he was wont to delight in. For be it known that Sir page: 230 Hugh was in the habit of keeping a hobby horse, saddled and bridled in his mind's stable; and on this docile animal he frequently cantered up and down, and took healthful exercise. As often as not, this hobby horse was some pet grievance, which went to sleep and underwent decent burial, as long as the hunting and training and liquid manuring were in full force, but was resurrectionized whenever they were found insufficient to employ all the powers of his intellect.
At present the grievance was a projected railway, that was to intersect a part of his property. It was to run only for about a mile and a half through one or two outlying farms, and it was of no earthly disadvantage to him or his, and he knew it; and yet to hear him talk, you would have imagined that it involved the ruin of the whole Lancastria Gens.
"It is too bad!" he is saying now, in a quasi‐injured voice, as he sits cracking walnuts at his comfortable dinner table; "one cannot call a foot of one's property one's own now‐a‐days; one can never be page: 231 safe from having one's land cut up by these rascally projectors, for their beastly lines that nobody wants."
"Disgraceful!" echoes the acquiescent Dowager, who like lovely Thais, sits beside him, with her head unlike lovely Thais, I imagine, crowned with one of those weird erections of black velvet and steel that old women delight in. "I suppose it is all these dreadful Radicals; I'm sure I don't know what the country is coming to; I suppose they will bring their horrid railways through one's drawing‐room next."
"It's such a confounded swindle!" pursues Hugh, applying the nutcrackers viciously to a walnut as if it had been a director's head; "the merest bubble! only people are such fools; they will be taken in, try as one may to open their eyes; and if they do get it—and they won't get it so easy as they think, I can tell them—it will never pay them sixpence in the pound."
"Won't it, dear?" say I, starting into sudden interest, for I imagined that my page: 232 husband addressed his last remark more particularly to me; but I am mistaken, it is only that having finished his walnuts, his eyes are gazing straight before him, and consequently, unavoidably take me in in their range of vision.
"Don't you remember, mother," he goes on, after a few minutes devoted to sipping claret, bringing his eyes to bear on his mamma, and thereby putting his wife off guard; "don't you remember, they were talking about this line once before, five years or so ago. There was some sense in it then, because the Tadcaster and Milton branch was not open then; but when that was opened it did away with all need for this—for that—I mean, don't you see?"
He ends, for he perceives that the relative pronouns are getting too many for him.
"These horrid companies get everything their own way now‐a‐days! I declare it is quite shocking! it seems to me that no one can do anything for themselves in these days, but must have a company to page: 233 help them. We shall be having praying companies, and going to bed companies soon."
Our prophetic parent ceases and adjusts her diadem, the point of which is veering gently round towards her left ear.
"Lord — made such a capital speech in the House yesterday, upon these infernal railways; shows 'em up so completely, brings 'em down to chapter and verse, don't you know. I don't care what any one says," pursues Sir Hugh, looking round on his harem with a determined air, "but I stick to it, that he is the best speaker they've got now; out and out, out and out, I say."
"Ah!" says the senior occupant of the seraglio, deferentially, "won't you read it to us, dear Hugh? at least any part of it that you think we could understand; we should like it so much, should not we, Nelly?"
I again start and blush; I always am starting and blushing of late, and say very nervously, "Oh, yes, to be sure dear—so much—oh do!"page: 234
So we migrate to the drawing‐room, and Ariel, alias Tomkins, having fetched to‐day's "Times," dear Hugh begins to read through two and a half columns of statements and statistics, and representations, all gilded by the lambent glow of Lord —'s wit. Meanwhile "mamma" having assisted her spectacles to mount her long nose, draws her parish bag towards her, and begins to clothe the naked "hear, hear's" and "cheers," and asks the reader is he sure he is not tired, begs him not to make himself hoarse, and offers to get black currant lozenges for him.
I work too, and do my best to keep my attention somewhere within a mile of those big sheets; to laugh and express surprise and horror at the right places; not to laugh where I ought to express horror, not to express horror where I ought to laugh; and by dint of care and always taking my cue from the dowager, I succeed admirably. I could not sleep that night for the wind; it kept roaring so, and groaning in the great Scotch fir close to my bed‐room windows. It shook the page: 235 window frames, and came banging with impotent fury against the stout stone walls.
That was a blowy time; many and many a coast was strewn with wrecks and stranded vessels.
"What an awful night!" my mother‐in‐law had said, as we came up the deep carpeted stairs to bed, "how thankful we ought to be, my dear, that we have no one dear to us at sea."
(Oh yes, so thankful, of course.) What did it matter to us that the "Euryalus" sailed from Cork for India four days ago, with the —th Dragoons on board. God help that poor ship to‐night, labouring through a wintry sea, with the great greenish‐gray waves, with their angry white crests towering high above her mast‐heads! God help the one passenger that for me that ship contains! The man in the drenched pilot coat, with the set white face, that day and night I see so plain, that I shall see when the damps and dews of death are coming dankly down upon my own.page: 236
The wind lulls every now and then for a minute or two, to gather fresh strength for the onset; then comes tearing, howling, shrieking like a hundred lost spirits over the wintry wolds. Oh God! he'll be drowned! he'll be drowned! perhaps he is drowned already! perhaps the crabs and scrawls, and noisome, shapeless sea beasts are already gnawing at the heart what beat with such passionate agony against mine a week ago.
Towards morning the hurricane moderates, and I fall asleep heavily, and dream confusedly of churchyards, and of my father as alive again, while yet I know somehow all the while that he is dead—of tombs and drowned men. I sleep on late, and my eyelids are purple, and my eyes look as if they had been put in with a dirty finger, when I go down late—a great crime at Wentworth—to breakfast.
"I hope you have not waited; I'm so sorry!" I say apologetically, as I make my tardy entrance.
"I think, my dear, that it would be as well if you could try and be down for page: 237 family prayers," says Lady Lancaster, stiffly; "it is a bad example for the servants when the mistress is absent, and it is no great hardship to be dressed by nine o'clock; at least it used not to be considered so in my young days."
"Come, come, mother, we must not be too hard upon her," says Hugh, taking my hand fondly, "she is not so tough as we old stagers are; and the wind kept her awake, poor little woman! she is half asleep still, isn't she?"
To prevent any wrangling over my unprayerful spirit, I betake myself to my letters, which are lying in a little heap beside my plate. My correspondence is not of much interest generally. The first that I take up has a very broad black edge, ostentatiously broad, like the Pharisees' phylacteries. I look at the hand‐writing, frown, tear it open, and read. It does not take long reading.
"My dear Nelly,—As you and dear Hugh, to whom I can never be sufficiently grateful, have been so kind as page: 238 to offer me a home, I write to ask if you will allow me to take shelter there, early next week. I trust that my coming will be no annoyance to dear Lady Lancaster, but indeed I shall try hard to be in nobody's way.
"Your affectionate sister,
The evil day has come then; the match must be put to the train of gunpowder, which is to blow the reputation of the Lestranges, and the domestic peace and honour of the Lancasters into the air. Shortly after breakfast I go and knock, with trembling knuckles, at the door of Hugh's snuggery, where he and his bailiff hold their Witenagemotes, and transact the affairs of the Wentworth nation.
"May I come in, Hugh?"
"Come in! of course you may!"
I enter.
"What do you mean by knocking, Nell? have you forgotten that uncommon cold day, not so long ago, when I endowed you with all my worldly goods? I did not page: 239 make any exception in favour of this sanctum, did I?"
"I wanted to speak to you," I say, coming over to the table, with my eyes glued to the carpet.
"All right! fire away! only come a bit closer to the fire, and don't stand there looking like a little undertaker's assistant."
"I have heard from Dolly!"
"Oh! we shall have to have your tongue slit like a magpie's, Nell, to make you talk a bit faster; she's coming, I suppose."
"She wants to come next week."
"Poor Dolly! I'm sure I shall be very glad to see her; and I suppose you have come to talk about what rooms she is to have, and that sort of thing; but you had better settle all that with the old lady; she'll be fit to be tied, if she is not taken into council."
I make a great plunge; it is like taking a header into a cold tub on a frosty morning.
"Hugh!" (twisting a rosary of jet beads that I have about my neck, round my page: 240 fingers.) "Would you mind my telling her not to come?"
Hugh opens his brown eyes very wide, wider than ever Providence intended those windows to his worthy soul to be thrown open.
"Tell her not to come! after having offered her a home, to slink out of it; leave her, poor girl, without a roof to shelter her pretty head in! why, Nell, you must be joking!"
"Joking!" I cry, passionately; "if you knew all, you would not think it a joking matter. I cannot breathe in the same house with her!"
Hugh comes over, and pulls me down on the sofa beside him. "You must have a slate off this morning, Nell! wind blew it off last night! Ha! Ha! cannot breathe in the same house with your only sister! such a big house too; you must require a deal of fresh air! you have been squabbling by post, I suppose!"
"It's no case of squabbling!" I say, very earnestly, while I feel my white cheeks getting crimson; "oh, Hugh, I page: 241 have something to tell you—something I must tell you—oh, I wish it was not so hard!"
"If it is anything about Dolly; anything she has done wrong, or any scrape she has got into, I don't seem to care about hearing about it!" says Hugh. "I daresay she'd sooner I didn't, you know, and there is no use crying over spilt milk."
"It's about myself, too!" I say, in great agitation.
Hugh puts his kind arm round me, and looks with incredulous amused eyes at my half averted face. "Some dreadful crime you have been committing, eh? not said 'Amen' loud enough in church, or pitched into Bentham, for giving your back hair a tug?"
His utter unsuspiciousness stabs me.
"Oh, don't, don't laugh!" I cry, piteously; "you wouldn't if you knew."
There is nothing on earth that Hugh hates so much as a scene, and he fears that one is imminent. "I've got something to tell you too," he says, cheerily, rising and walking towards his escritoire; page: 242 "and as mine seems to be the pleasantest piece of news, I'll have it out first; yours will keep, I'm sure!"
I remain sitting on the sofa where he left me, twisting my hands about, and wishing, oh how heartily! that this confession, of the gravity of which my husband is so utterly unsuspecting, were well over, and I turned out of doors once for all. Presently he comes back with a small red leather case in his hand, and sits down again beside me.
"Do you remember, Nell," he says, composing his jolly face to a decent gravity, befitting, as he thinks the subject; "do you remember telling me once that you had nothing but a photograph of—of—your poor father?"
"Yes," I say, wincing; "don't talk about him!" (nobody ever mentions his name to me now, I cannot bear it.)
"I won't, I won't!" says Hugh apologetically; "not more than I can help at least, but I have had this done for you, and I want you to take one look at it, if you don't mind."page: 243
He unfastens the case, takes out a large gold locket, with the monogram A.L. in diamonds upon it, and after fumbling a little about the spring, opens it with his big, kind, clumsy fingers.
I look half reluctant, and in an instant the tears come rushing to my eves. I see again the kind blue eyes; the humorous tender smile that the coffin lid hid away from me six dreary weeks ago; it is my old man come to life again, only that hat the artist has painted out half the weary care lines; my old man, as he was before his troubles, came upon him; as he will be—oh, no! he will look yet nobler and beautifuller, and peacefuller then—when he comes to meet me at the golden gates.
I throw my arms round Hugh's neck; it is the first time that I ever kissed him voluntarily in my life. Poor Hugh! my emotion is hardly of the pleasurable kind that he had hoped and intended. He looks uneasily concerned, and I see his mouth forming itself into his favourite whistling shape.page: 244
"I did not mean to upset you like this, Nell!" he says, by‐and‐by.
"Oh, you are so good to me!" I cry, incoherently; "and I'm not at all good to you! Oh, I do so wish that I liked you better! I do so wish that I had always liked you!"
Hugh pats my hair very fondly.
"My dear old woman!" he says, "let bygones be bygones! don't let, us rake up any old grievances; it don't make much odds if you hated me like poison once, so as you don't hate me now!"
We sit silent for a few minutes. Hugh whistles 'Polly Perkins' very softly to himself, while doubt and vacillation enter my mind.
My husband's words keep ringing in my ears. "Let bygones be bygones!" Is he right? Would not it be better to "let the dead past bury its dead?" Have I not done him enough injury already, coming to him so meanly, taking all his love and his kind words and caresses, and giving him nothing in return but sour looks and peevish tears, and dimmed page: 245 beauty; without lacerating that honest heart unnecessarily, by telling him that his wife is unfaithful to him; if not in deed, at least in heart and thought.
The temptation is gone, never to return; why not let that secret remain between God and my own heart? But if I abandon my confession, I must also abandon my revenge; the one involves the other.
"I often think," says Hugh, with more gravity than is his wont, "that one great cause of there being so much unhappiness in married life is people's expecting too much of one another, I don't want us to split on that rock, Nell. I should like you to look a bit happier certainly by‐and‐by; and to seem a bit gladder to see me, when I come to speak to you, if you can; but if not, why we must rub on as we are, and I'm very thankful to Providence for having given you to me at all!"
"Providence made you but a shabby present!" I say, with contrition.
"Not much to brag of, I daresay;" page: 246 says Hugh playfully, pulling my ear, "but you see I am easily pleased. Well, I must be going out; I cannot stop molly‐coddling away half a morning at a foolish little woman's apron strings; and I say, Nell, you go and talk to the old lady about Dolly, and drop the poor girl a line to tell her we shall be very glad to see her any day she likes to come; and don't let me hear any more nonsense about envy, hatred and malice and all uncharitableness!"
"But I do hate her! I have every reason to hate her! Hugh! Hugh!" I call after him eagerly, but he has beaten a hasty retreat, to avoid further discussion of the subject.


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Alternate name: Plume Goldenrod
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description Native herbaceous perennial.
Habit: Solitary or few stemmed, unbranched.
Height: 1-4 ft (30-120 cm).
Leaf: alternate; long, thin, pointed; may be slighly serrated; to 8 in (20 cm) long by 1.5 in (3.75 cm) wide; decreasing rapidly in size upward.
Flower: tiny yellow flowers, to 1/4 in (6 mm) across; in a loose terminal plume, arching up and out, to 4 in (10 cm) long.
Flower June - October.
Flower June - August.
Habitat Open sandy sites, disturbed areas, roadsides, fields and meadows, wood borders; to 3300 ft (1000 m) or more; also cultivated as an ornamental.
Range Eastern North America, from Quebec south to Florida, west to Manitoba, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Not reported in Iowa.
Discussion This well-named plant is the earliest of the goldenrods to bloom. It attracts butterflies.
Comments The earliest goldenrod to bloom.
Exposure Preference Sun to partial sun.
Native Distribution New Brunswick to Manitoba, s. to Virginia & n. Arkansas; also in mts. to South Carolina & Tennessee.
Site Preference Fields; wood borders.
Soil Preference Dry, sandy soils.
Wildlife Value Attracts butterflies.


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For fellow CW member "blunderbuss2" a man for whom, vases just will not cut the mustard!
This is my live and in regular use; 1944 Lee Enfield No.4 T. Sniper Rifle. Made at Long Branch (Canadian Arms Plant) and shipped to England for the war effort. Even though it arrived very late in the theatre of war it had 6 confirmed "kills"....deer for the pot of the sniper's platoon....food was very scarce in Germany at the end of the war even for the liberators.
I obtained it from an antique gun dealer who had been a Royal Marine during WW2. It is fitted with a No.32 Mk2 telescopic sight and is the usual .303 Br. calibre. I reload my own ammunition.
The second photo is with the scope demounted (two quick thumb screws!). Bare Iron Sights!
The third photo is a bit of pertinent "gallows" humour and general instructions posted up at one of our ranges"
The black & white picture is a stock photo of a Lee Enfield No.4 T. in wartime sniper service. (note the screwed on cheek-piece on the butt)


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Warning: Highly Addictive Game Too Cute to Stop!
Remember that over the top fat suit Gwyneth Paltrow wore in Shallow Hal? The excess of rubberized adipose made her appear onscreen as a mountain of a woman who, if she fell, looked like she could bounce high as a Superball. The thing about the suit was that, sure, it was gross, but it was also kind of adorable (there was heart and soul in them thar hills). The fat suit reminded me of these in-game globules that look like they're wearing a fat suit after they gorge themselves.
Called LOCOROCO, the globule-filled game is a much-touted, highly anticipated offering. More often than not, a game doesn't live up to the hype that precedes its release. Look at The Matrix (a real money pit) or even last year's disappointing Madden 06. That's not the case with a small game called LocoRoco for Sony's PSP. The hype began with drooling bloggers almost a year ago. Phrases like "sleeper hit" were bandied about constantly. Early game art looked a little like the Nintendo DS' Mario games in their simplicity. LocoRoco" graphics were intentionally childish, reminding me of one of the greatest games ever for the old PlayStation, the rhythm-based Parappa The Rapper with its first grader-like cutout 2D figures.
So what is LocoRoco? First off, it's a simple cartoon-like game. You press the right and left buttons at the top of your PSP to play the game. With the occasional pressing of the 'O' button, that's all you need to play LocoRoco. Believe me, kids won't be able to get enough of it. Adults won't be able to put it down, either.
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PSP
I know that's a grand statement, especially since I usually don't rave about games, even the ones I really like. But the allure for LocoRoco is manifold. LocoRoco are cute, bulbous, smiley creatures that sing ultra-catchy pop songs. They shake when they move like the element mercury. They're so adorable, you want to hug themeven if you're not predisposed to such emotion. They're also so cute you don't want to see them die, which is why you keep playing: to get them safely to the end of each level without perishing.
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None of this would be worth a plug nickel if the game play weren't so intensely compelling and challenging. Immediately in the first level, you're placed into a strange world full of twists and turns, mountains and hills and moons and suns. You've got to move your LocoRoco up and down these crazy paths. This becomes increasingly difficult because the LocoRoco needs to feed and gets fatter and fatter. To try to get your portly creature up a big hill, you'll find yourself turning and twisting the PSP as if it had a gyroscope inside. But it has no such machine. You just have to be supremely accurate with your pressing of the buttons.
Hills aren't the only danger in LocoRoco. If he runs into prickly plants or evil inkblot spiders called mojas, he'll come apart like Humpty Dumpty into many tiny LocoRoco. That's when you press the 'O' button, to put Humpty Dumpty, er, LocoRoco back together again. You quest is to find all the LocoRoco in each level, which isn't easy because they're hidden in caves, grottoes or even underneath the ground.
There's also a beauty to the simple graphics. Often, you'll be shot like a rocket through nooks and crevasses and up high into starry space. You'll feed as you go on flowers and such. But you'll also get fatter and fatter. Yet that's the goal. This is an Adkins Diet Free Zone. So pig out.
Simple and challenging really is the grail in most video games. It's rare that the two come together, so uncommon it's like a sighting of the mola mola, a huge, strange ocean sun fish in the Atlantic's coastal waters. Such a sighting is a feast for the eyes and a big deal for marine biologists. The release of LocoRoco is also a big deal. It's not only a new debut for Sony (which is often too dependent on its franchises). "It's one of the best games of the year."
One of the things I hate about my occasional treks to midtown are these cult-like smikers who accost me and ask, "Do you like comedy?" in an effort to corral me into some sleaz-o club with $15 drinks. My friend suggested that I reply, "What's it to you?" and walk the hell away. Which I will.
Having said that, I have to ask, Do you like casual games? If you do, you're not alone. So do some of the world's biggest companies. For them, there's gold in them thar hills. The people who make money prognosticating such things believe the casual niche will become $1 billion a year business by the time 2008 rolls around, according to Jupiter Research. Right now, the people who make and promote these games are pulling in $350 million a year.
With such success come the dreaded marketing types, and with them come, gulp, ads. Sure, this column is about a couple of casual games that I've found on Web, one good, one bad. It's also about the way ads are presented to gamers. Sometimes, it's downright obnoxious.
First, take a look at Pogo, the casual game site created by the world's largest video game maker, Electronic Arts. Here, you can play games for free. But you'll also have to pay for them: with your time because there's no way to opt out of looking at ads. One of the great free games on Pogo is The Sims Pinball, based on the best selling simulation franchise created by gamemaking genius Will Wright. Just as with any real life pinball game, you get three balls on a table that pops up after you register on the site (Don't worry, they don't ask too much info of you to become a member.)
If you know The Sims, you know the game's often about getting experience for your character. In THE SIMS PINBALL, you have the choice of a few career paths, everything from doctor to slacker. Each character has six experience levels, and its doggone hard to complete your experience with three ballseven with the exciting additions of multiball mode and an extra ball or two.
But here's the rub. This game is sponsored by Sharpie, the logo of which covers the middle of the playfield. If you rack up a certain amount of points, you're entered into a Sharpie contest. Thing is, it's natural for a human to want to score better and bettereven if you don't want a Sharpie t-shirt in the stupid contest. So you want to play again and again. That's where Electronic Arts gets you. Every three or four games, your game stops, and you have to watch a popup ad. Which stays up for 30 seconds. It's kind of like watching a TV commercial, except these ads don't have video. I take this time to check my email.
My guess is when you go to Pogo, you'll find a game you like a lot. And because you like the free game, you won't be bothered by the ads which appear in the game.
On the down side, take the case of Riddler, one of the original casual games sites. These pioneers have been around since 1996. With over a decade to get their act together, you'd think the site would be full of innovation, from games to presentation. If you thought that, however, you'd be dead wrong.
I went to Riddler to play a game called MARIO HALLOWEEN. I'm a big fan of Nintendo's Mario, and of Halloween, which I consider to be the year's most enjoyable holiday. So wanting to play was natural. I just had to do it. And yet, Riddler befuddled me before I got to play. In the process of registration, they tried to get me to fill out a lengthy survey. I even filled out a page of the survey before I realized it was an ad that had nothing to do with Riddler. Instead, it was from some sponsor. In fact, it looked like Riddler wouldn't let me play a game unless I answered these lengthy and personal questions.
Thankfully, when I opted out of the survey, I found I could go back, log in and play the game. Already, my trust in Riddler had been dashed. They were trying to make a buck and they were doing it in an underhanded way. To top it off, the game wasn't worth the bother. Mario Halloween was an overly simplified, side scrolling affair. It had scary background music, but Mario moved like he was in molasses, way too slow. The goal was to collect coins, but it the whole thing was presented badly. I didn't want to continue, especially since there were no ghosts or humorously creepy things in the level that I played.
The salient thing about casual games and ads is this: because these online sites are still in their infancy, they probably will listen to you. If you don't like the ads, gripe in an email. If you feel they're being unscrupulous, as I did with the shady Riddler survey, shoot them a note. They probably won't lose the ads. But they may get up off their rear ends to make them just a little more palatable. They definitely don't want to lose one thing: you.
Madden 07
Publisher: EA
Devloper: EA
Marv Levy, the most thoughtful coach the NFL has even seen, said something stirring in his autobiography, Where Else Would You Rather Be? The erudite coach wrote, that on game day, "a wave of ethereal serenity will wash over you, orat the other end of the spectrumyou will become the victim of a despair so gripping that you can feel it physically."
This year, Madden 07 lets you feel what Marv Levy felt. That's because the developers paid attention to the details that make football seem authentic. Its high definition visuals are full of cut scenes that make you feel part of a hyper-real football experience. The in-game scenes look like something out of Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, except they're better.
That's right. Some of Madden is better than a highly stylized Hollywood sports film. You see the gritting of teeth as the line strains just before the ball is hiked. You see what goes on in the huddle. One camera angle even looks up at the huddling players from the ground, making them look like mythical gods planning a Grecian war.
On the Xbox 360 version, the audio makes you feel as close to being in the huddle and on the line as you're ever going to getunless you're drafted by the NFL. The chatter, the crowd's excitement, the trash talking of the opposition: I've just never heard in-game audio that is this thoughtfully executed. And there are audio options, too. Don't like Madden's folksy charm? Use EA's excitable radio announcer. Don't like him? Try just the stadium announcer and the crowd with the players talking.
In fact, Madden is all about options. This year, you can control your lead blocker individually at the line. In fact, you can pretty much control any player you like. You can even see the game from their point of view.
What about Madden, the man? Madden himself makes more sense this year. When he helps you choose some play you've never encountered even if you played college ball, he'll explain why it will work for you. For instance, defensive plays with the word "Spy" in them lets your players keep an eye on a quarterback who has running abilities. No matter what your level of football knowledge you have as a fan, Madden will give you more.
Want to take a break from the game? There's a virtual Hall of Fame here. Not only do you get biographies of greats like YA Tittle. Many of these player sections have short movies rife with their finest plays. Again, you'll play and have fun. But you'll learn something, too, something you can talk about with your friends.
Yet Madden 07 is not without its glitches, especially when it comes to issues of what game makers call artificial intelligence. For instance, when I was on third down, had inches to go for a first down, and was 21 points ahead of the New York Giants, Madden suggested that I throw the ball. Now, Madden in real life is a fairly conservative guy. He'd surely suggest a running play in such a situation. Plus, your EA radio announcer makes mistakes, saying things like you had an interception in the last series of downs when you didn't. These things are not game breakers. In fact, they don't stop a great game from being great. But the mistakes are indeed disappointing, especially when you're paying $60 for the Xbox 360 version.
Additionally, the game isn't completely updated as far as players and coaches go. The injured Curtis Martin is still playing for the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills have the wrong quarterback. So do the Jets. You can change the players easily with a few presses of your controller buttons. But you wish you didn't have to, and that this function of player updates was available with a click of the button online.
If you want to take Madden 07 with you, try the PSP version, which is also compatible with your PlayStation 2. Even the Nintendo DS version makes better use of the touch screen than it did last year. Even if you hate Madden, EA may have a football game for you. This summer's release of NFL HEAD COACH makes you the leader of the team. It's not just about playing; it's about simulating everything that happens around a team. Plus, you can even communicate to your players on the field via a headset.
If you haven't bought Madden in a few years, this is the time to get it, especially the Xbox 360 version. Despite the apparent flaws, it makes you feel the tension, the passion, and the camaraderie that go into the best games of football. In other words, with "Madden 07," each game of the season has the palpable excitement of a playoff game. Even Marv would love it.
Dead Rising
Publisher: Capcom
Devloper: Capcom
In Max Brooks's The Zombie Survival Guide, the author asks, "What will you doend your existence in passive acceptance, or stand up and shout, 'I will not be their victim! I will survive!'" You'll need that kind of tough-minded, Gloria Gaynor-endurance philosophy to deal with Dead Rising for the Xbox 360.
As you look at the box, even before you play this mother of all zombie games, you can almost imagine the excitement at the pitch meeting. 'Hey, guys. What if we made zombies meets Grand Theft Auto? Not only that, what if we put hundreds of zombies on the screen at once?'
Capcom, the makers of the still amazing, zombie-ridden Resident Evil, didn't settle for mere a hack and slash killing game for "Dead Rising" for the Xbox 360. They were thinking big, really big. There's a wide-ranging story in which Frank West, a freelance photographer, gets a tip about zombie in a small town mall. The wise-cracking Frank, who's shot some war pictures in his time, is a big character and fairly ego-ridden (certainly unlike the proud, but psychologically-changed war photographers I've met).
Frank has his hired a copter pilot to drop him on the rooftop of the Willamette Parkview Mall in a nowhere town of 53,000 people. Outside, slow moving zombies by the thousands want to get in. Why are they lured to the mall? You don't know. Why are there zombies in this particular small town? You don't know that, either. Inside, those trapped in the mall are freaking out. There's a mystery to solve and you have three days in which to do it (there's a timer in the game that keeps ticking down to add tension).
You won't kill any zombie in the first twenty minutes. During that time, however, the drama builds as you make your way from the roof into the mall itself. When Frank does encounter the humans within, you'll see amazing detail in their facial reactions as they speak. The game play graphics themselves are less thrilling, but pretty intense nonetheless.
In order to unravel the mystery, you must complete various missions which come at you fast and furious by cell phone. As you run through the outdoors, trying to keep zombies away with a sickle or devour them with a lawn mower to try in a quest to save one guy, your phone rings with more missions. It's a little distracting, but it gets your adrenaline going nonetheless.
This is an action game, not a horror-based game. Even though there's blood and guts when a zombie dies, there's no real fear here. What you feel is a race against time and a need to solve the mystery to make a big name for yourself in the dog-eat-dog world of photojournalism. As you snap photos along the way and get points for doing so, you'll search the inner workings of the mall. But the mall itself is a strange place for a zombie game. I understand the need to disrupt a placid suburban lifestyle with the undead and I understand the need to have a huge place in which to set the game. This one has five bookstores and over 20 clothing stores. It's a lot to explore. But the mall is a little bland to me, as all malls are.
One problem encountered within the first hour dealt with saving the game. If you haven't saved at various save points in the game, and you get bitten by a pack of zombies, you'll die. And your progress within the game will die with it. That means you'll have to start all over again. Capcom should have added an automatic saving feature to Dead Rising. Having the gamer save along the way temporarily impedes the flow of high adventure that the game is so full of.
In Dead Rising, you have a ton of weapons from which to choose, and even a bowling ball will knock down zombies like they were ten pins. When you eat food to increase your health, each food item helps you differently. Potato chips are a quick fix. OJ's better. When you do encounter a massively powerful enemy, killing him or her will reveal an often-fascinating story. There are about 80 characters in the story with whom to interact, about as many as you'll find in a good mystery novel like Devil In A Blue Dress.
I'm still trying to deal with the massive, open-ended, go-anywhere essence of "Dead Rising." In scope, it's like one of author Neal Stephenson's books in his Baroque Cycle. It can take a while to get used to the nature of, well, everything. But once you get the gist of Dead Rising, you'll be well rewarded with rich gameplay and, sometimes, a first-rate story, too.
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WATERLOO Procter & Gamble Inc. has donated $250,000 to Wilfrid Laurier Universitys School of Business & Economics to integrate business theory and practice with global sustainability issues of human development and well-being.
The gift will fund Lauriers Centre for Business & Sustainability, which combines important topics of global sustainability such as energy practice, water provision, food supply, and population growth with management education and practice. In recognition of its gift, Laurier has named the centre the Procter & Gamble Centre for Business & Sustainability. Procter & Gamble has generously donated nearly $750,000 to Laurier.
With this investment from Procter & Gamble, Laurier will ensure that business pedagogy reflects global sustainability practices, said Micheál J. Kelly, dean of Lauriers School of Business & Economics. I am pleased to see Laurier leading the way in ensuring that Canadas future business leaders play key roles in applying models of sustainability in business practice.
The funding will support the centres research, teaching, curriculum development and engagement with students, civil society and businesses, as well as student groups, speakers and conferences. More than 15,000 students have learned about the importance of business sustainability since the centres inception in 2006 under the leadership of Barry Colbert, associate professor of policy and strategic management.
P&G is thrilled to be supporting Lauriers Centre for Business & Sustainability. I believe that all have a responsibility to conduct business in a way that preserves the planet and improves our communities, said Thom Lachman, president of Procter & Gamble Inc.
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The starter solenoid can get worn internally after a while. This can be remedied by taking the solenoid apart and swapping the terminal lugs. More on renewing the solenoid can be seen here.
A remote solenoid may help. Info on that and where the following was taken is here:
|That is what you must do if you want a new starter...all others are rebuilt to death.
|I just bought a starter for a pro stock engine
The reason it is difficult to find a Pontiac GM high torque starter today is because they all have worn out armatures and have been rebuilt to death. You can only resurface the commutator on a armature a few times, then the armature must be replaced with a new one. New starter armatures have been discontinued from GM since the mid-1970s. That is why new aftermarket starters have become available from Chinese manufacturers. My 455 engines were 1963 421 blocks which used a bell housing mounted starter and all of those were high torque starters. The low torque starters were first introduced with the Pontiac 350 and 326 V8 engines but starting in 1973 through 1979, all Pontiac V8 engines received a high torque starter. You had to be careful when you purchased a 1964-1973 Pontiac starter because you may get a low torque starter. The 1964-1979 Pontiac high torque is about 2" longer.
My 455 CI (1963 421 blocks) Pontiac engines used a bell housing mounted starter and they were discontinued from the local parts stores in the mid-1980s. I had to locate a new armature from NOS parts vendors and rebuild my 1963 starter. All the the parts needed to rebuild a GM starter are still available from aftermarket suppliers except for the 1955-1963 starter drives. I managed to obtain several starter drives, commonly called a "bendix", and three NOS Delco-Remy armatures for 1962-1964 Pontiac engines. I also used AC Delco starter solenoids with the brown cap. Those HD solenoids were first introduced in 1970 for the 455 Pontiac engines.
As I wrote before, my starting problems with Pontiac 455 engines, 12:1 compression ratio, 9.8:1 dynamic compression ratio and 220 PSI cranking cylinder pressure was caused by modern batteries that are designed for engines with less than 9:1 compression ratio and less than 350 CI displacement.
I use a starter on my 1991 4.3L V6 Chevy engine with 10.13:1 compression ratio (8.4:1 dynamic compression ratio) that is designed for a 7.4L V8 Chevrolet truck.
Get a gear mini starter or GM high tq starter both are easy to find and work. The gear starters are best they just work every time. The GM starters go bad if they turn slow. The more it does it the faster they wear out.
My poncho would not start with stock gm starter when hot. Not sure how mouse fink got his to work with 12:1 but I never had any luck with the stock starters on larger high compression engines. Maybe mouse will help us both out on that one. Once i get the timing where the engine makes power with a big pontiac they always start slow.
Timing / Starter?? issues
What do you have your initiaal timing set at? If your timing at idle is above 12* back off 2* at a time to see if starting improves.
Any engine with 10:1 compression ratio should start if it has a GOOD battery and starter. That means any engine with less than 10.3:1 static compression ratio or 8.5:1 dynamic compression ratio.
I have never had a problem starting my 455 Pontiac engines with Interstate 1100 CCA batteries and both had 12:1 compression ratio using 100% VP 108 octane C-12 racing fuel. One of the 455 engines had a NAPA fresh rebuilt starter and I rebuilt the other starter myself using a NOS GM heavy duty armature. You may need a fresh starter and a fresh battery with new cables. If the engine initial advance is 12 or more degrees BTDC and sound like it is trying to start an ignited mixture, back the initial timing advance down to about 8 to 10 degrees BTDC. The engine will run hotter and will not have as much power at 8 to 10 degrees BTDC , but your engine will start and you can use 93 octane pump gas.
You need a fresh rebuilt starter with new cables. When the armature (windings) in a starter gets hot, the resistance increases and it takes more battery power to turn it. . If the starter commutator (where the brushes wear) is worn out, the temperature and resistance of the starter armature becomes critical.
What is the displacement and compression ratio of the engine? Many modern batteries are not powerful enough to start our old high compression, large displacement engines of the 1960s, especially if they have a radical, long duration camshaft with a lot of initial timing advance. . In the mid-1990s, I had difficulty finding a battery that would start my 455 Pontiac engine with 12:1 static compression ratio. I tried those New Castle repro AC Delco DC12 tar-top batteries. After the second AC Delco DC12 battery failed, New Castle Battery Co. told me their repro AC Delco DC12 tar--top battery would not start a 455 Pontiac engine but two or three times on a hot day. EPA compliant batteries have antimony plates and do not use lead plates anymore. I installed an Interstate 1100 CCA battery that fit the battery tray, and did not have any further problems.
I always keep a Deltran 800ma water proof battery charger (or equal) on my battery 24/7. especially if i was not going to drive the street machine for a few days. You should especially use one of those if it is a modern car with all the sensors, alarms, clocks, relays, computers, amps, bells and whistles that can have up to a 50 ma constant parasitic discharge when the engine is not running. . Your battery will last twice as long.
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Timing / Starter?? issues
Ok i'm having problems with my car starting. It fires right up when its cold but when its hot it cranks over real slow like the battery is dead & ill have to wait a few mins to start it back up. (WHAT COULD IT BE)
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If you care about Rhode Island's struggling cities, this is — to put it mildly — a rather important moment.
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras has declared a "category five" fiscal storm and is moving to shutter schools. Pawtucket recently won special permission from the General Assembly to borrow millions to cover the bills. And Cranston is dealing with a staggering pension problem.
But it's nothing a little tomato sauce and mozzarella can't remedy. At least, that's the hope.
On Wednesday, May 11, from 3 to 5 pm, the Taveras administration will host a "Stronger Providence" lobbying day at the State House, complete with pizza from Caserta, beer from Trinity Brewhouse, and a smattering of Asian and Latino fare.
The idea is to showcase Providence as the economic and cultural hub of the state and to suggest, rather bluntly, that state lawmakers play a role in bringing the capital city to health.
Other municipalities, sans the pepperoni, are speaking with similar urgency — on their own, through organizations like the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns, or both.
The hope is that the headline-grabbing fiscal meltdowns in cities here and across the nation will end a rather brutal run at the State House.
"One could only describe the last three legislative sessions as abysmal because of the mass losses in state aid for cities and towns," says Daniel Beardsley, Jr., executive director of the League of Cities and Towns.
Indeed, Beardsley puts the state cuts in municipal aid at some $300 million over the last three years. And that's not his only beef.
While the state has moved to reform its own troubled pension system — requiring workers to stay on the job longer, reforming disability pension rules, and the like — it has declined requests to impose similar restrictions on municipal employees.
Discouraging, no doubt. But the Rhode Island's mayors and city councils aren't giving up.
Beardsley says the league is pushing, this session, for four major items: municipal pension reform, a measure that would make it easier for cities to join together and regionalize services, the power to trim retiree health care benefits, and the development of a multi-city trust to cover the huge, unfunded cost of those benefits.
There is plenty of reason to be skeptical about the chances for passage this year. Many of these measures are sure to face opposition from organized labor. And all represent the sort of big, complicated change that the state's part-time legislature likes to sit on for several years.
Moreover, the General Assembly's limited bandwidth is sure to be plenty taxed by the looming budget fight and the wrenching debate over same-sex marriage and civil unions.
Cities and towns will also be forced to play some defense this session. Public employee unions, emboldened by victories in the last election, are pushing hard on two categories of bills.
One would expand the use of binding arbitration in labor disputes; binding arbitration, city officials maintain, usually favors labor. The second would keep labor contracts in force — or "evergreen" — if they expire without a new deal in place. "Evergreen" contracts, city officials say, would give unions little incentive to accept concessions at the bargaining table.
It will, in short, be a steep climb. But city officials hope a dynamic troika of newish mayors — Taveras in Providence, Allan Fung in Cranston, and Don Grebien in Pawtucket — can join with Warwick's politically savvy Scott Avedesian to improve the clout of Rhode Island's urban centers in the long run.
A few anchovies might help.
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Winning a competition with this design for a poster was Pierre Bonnard's first success as an artist — it is an advertisement for the champagne made by E. Debray near Reims. Bonnard made the lithograph in 1889 — the resulting posters were pasted up around Paris towards the end of March 1891. There is a painting in the exhibition that shows long hoardings lining the Paris streets, covered with posters — Palisade Covered with Posters, and the Old Windmills of Montmartre in the Snow 1900.
Bonnard's poster received critical acclaim and led to his work appearing in the art and literary journal La Revue blanche — his cover for La Revue blanche of 1894 is included in the exhibition. France-Champagne also inspired Henri Toulouse-Lautrec to begin to design posters of his own.
In the composition almost everything is curved, especially the woman and the undulating line of Bonnard's hand-drawn lettering of the name, France-Champagne. The woman's right arm, shoulders, hands and fan frame the focal point, the frothing glass of champagne. A delicate, continuous, scalloped line defines the bubbles, echoing on a smaller scale the line around the woman's hair and dress. Her tilted head suggests a festive, relaxed and uninhibited mood. Leaning forward, she appears to be almost toppling out of the poster!
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Corporations are already funding elections, see how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton et al, became multimillionaires, where do you think that money came from....? Foreign and domestic lobbyist, they have been paying to play for the longest time and they set the agenda along with other special interest groups.
Please someone in the Trump take Pam Bondi we need a new attorney general
4/30/2012 Monday. Message sent 4:45 pm save message from 850-414-8390 52 second Hi, this is the Florida attorney general office, I am returning a call you left us a message on on corruption wondered whether we have given up on public corruption. I am going by our office; we have no jurisdiction over public corruption. If you are referring to about the 19th statewide grand jury public corruption let me tell you that was a special circumstance involving statewide prosecutor as a Council to the statewide prosecutor grand jury but that term has finished it actually finished in 2011. So by law we no longer we have no longer any jurisdiction over corruption if you need our assistance please contact our office at 866-966-7226. Thank you and have a wonderful day. End of message sun-sentinel.com/2013-09-11/news/fl-dkcol-oped0911-20130911_1_enterprise-florida-public-corruption-dan-krassner Dan Krassner: Florida must rid itself of corruption reputation September 11, 2013|By Dan Krassner, By Dan Krassner The Sunshine State needs to take the problem of public corruption more seriously, with three of our mayors arrested in one month and Florida leading the nation in federal public corruption convictions between 2000 and 2010. Even the New York Times is calling Florida a "hothouse for corruption." A reputation for corruption hurts all Floridians and undermines the state's ability to attract jobs, talent and capital. Florida could repair its image and be on track for a better future if our policymakers set a goal of making our state and local governments the most open, ethical, responsive and accountable in America. Here are several solutions for Florida to achieve that goal: Finish the job of meaningful ethics reform. The state legislature passed two ethics reform laws earlier this year, but there is more work to be done to increase government transparency and accountability. Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford prioritized passage of several of the anti-corruption recommendations outlined in the nineteenth statewide grand jury report, but lawmakers still need to pass the rest. That means giving the Florida Commission on Ethics the authority to initiate investigations, tougher penalties for ethics violations, strengthening the independence of inspector generals, protecting whistle-blowers and a stronger ethics code.
Rep. Richard Corcoran★★★★☆ This leaves out the obvious'that corporations would then (probably) fund elections. However; If he does succeed in (most of) his agenda he deserves the high marks. I wish him good luck, Read below ttp://miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article35867703.html
"saying he is trying to battle back perceptions of corruption and influence-peddling." I would not call these perceptions.??? I would call them observations. This all sounds great but probably just double speech from another greedy corporate puppet. All smoke no fire. Has anyone looked to see how much dark money went into his campaign?
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What a load of crap.-Paul
What a load of crap.-Paul
there's no good reason to fatten up a retriever.
"we" meaning you and I and most US citizens. However our government knows exactly why they did it.In consideration of this situation in Egypt, we may yet regret having given the Morsi govt all those armaments.
Either these Harvard and Yale graduates are the stupidest creatures on earth or they have a reason or objective for selling us down the river.
Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Psalms 12: 8
The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exulted
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Actually, it's a shame what happened in Egypt. Egypt has always been a bit more secular than some other countries. Perhaps that was why it could produce a leader like Sadat. With millions of demonstrators bringing Cairo to a standstill, it seems that Egyptians are committed to rejecting a leader who tries to make them into a theocracy, which they contend was contrary to his pre-election promises.
And the US finds itself between a rock and a hard spot. US supported Morsi (also according to his pre-election promises, it would appear), and called for Mubarak to step down. Now if they ask Morsi to step down (just one year later), it's an admission of being duped. Below the surface, it also shows a lack of commitment to those they called "allies", which would lead to even more distrust of US constancy to its "friends". That would be noticed not just in the ME, but around the world. OTOH, the dissatisfaction of the ordinary citizens being demonstrated now seems even stronger than that expressed against Mubarak.
One has to have a certain respect, even if grudgingly, for the Egpytian military. They exercised a lot of restraint during the previous transition, and seem to be doing so again. They have the weaponry to crush whichever side they opposed, but they have shown more respect for their fellow citizens than their politicians' have. In fact, they had power leading up to elections, and they stood back to let elections take place.
The Muslim Brotherhood may have bitten off more than they could chew in Egypt.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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Editorial from Fox online:I would agree that this is the best he can do ... remain neutral. Let's hope he doesn't waffle on that.So far, the Obama administration seems to be playing its limited cards well. President Obama has said that Egyptians, not Americans, must choose Egypt's government, suggesting that America remains neutral in this monumental power struggle. But, tipping his hand in favor of the protesters, Obama also said that democracy means more than winning elections.
Indeed, democracy demands a civil society—equality, fairness, tolerance, respect for human and minority rights, and individual freedom. That's just what Egyptians are demanding, and what the Muslim Brotherhood has denied them during its hapless rule.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/...#ixzz2Y0M2AUrs
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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Just read that Egypt's military is in control now. Not sure is Morsi has been put under house arrest or what is going on there. Anyone else hear anything ?
"To become competent in governing others, we must first learn to govern ourselves"
Waite Phillips
If anyone believes this overthrow was done by just the Egyptian people, please research the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran in the 1950's. I do not believe we are being neutral in this event.
Obama's statement did warn the military about a military coup that could result in cutting off US aid. Seems like the military put together a plan to try and preserve order and also civilian govt that would move it toward new elections. Seems that the military put together a representative group to lay out the game plan. If Morsi had not been concerned with protecting his own status, he could have done something very similar.
It would also appear that since Morsi was not willing to do that, the situation could have devolved into a lot of bloodshed, if the military had not moved as they did. I'm not one to favor martial law, but it seems the military kept cooler heads than the civilians in this case. Time will tell.
Perhaps the Egyptians will get another chance to make a wiser electoral choice. Those millions who camped out in cities throughout the country are certainly less naive about campaign promises on the second go-round.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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As I watch the celebration taking place in Cairo's Tahrir Square my thoughts turn less to ME/Egyptian politics and purely to the logistics of this situation.
Who is going to clean up? The military? The participants? The Government? (Oh wait, there is no government.) The citizens of Cairo?
Does there sit on the sidelines some entrepreneur? Some clever Coptic or Jew, who says tonight, "Ahmed, roll out the trucks with the porta-potties, the trucks with the bottled water, the shish-ka-bob trucks, And stage the clean-up trucks for the conclusion."
"We'll bill someone... ???? right?"
Yasgur Farm regards, JD
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Seeds & Sorbet Potting Party
On Saturday, I hosted a little party at our place to take advantage of the gorgeous Spring Weather. I had thought about planning a little party about a month ago and was trying to think of the perfect theme to capture the upbeat nature of Spring when I came across the Ruche Spring Lookbook. I was so inspired by all the lovely Spring images, and as soon as I saw this image, I knew that I wanted to throw a party that involved potting our own plants.
Once I had the potted plant idea, the rest came from that. Since it was going to involve soil and dirt, of course I had to have it outside, and what better way to cool off outside than to eat lots of lovely sorbet? Hence the "Seeds & Sorbet" theme.
It was a lot of fun spending quality time with some girlfriends, sharing in desserts and getting our hands dirty. I made four different sorbets, along with two savory snacks to balance out the sweetness of the sorbets.
Each girl got to choose a packet of flower seeds, herb seeds, pots, and mini garden tools, and then from there we set about potting our plants.
It was such a lovely afternoon, and as usual with all my little parties, Brian was sooooo helpful with all the setup and packing away. He's such a sweet and supportive husband!
How was your weekend?
51 comments:
- Regina said...
All around very cute! I sometimes wish I lived in Houston so I could sometimes get invited to your gatherings. Then I remember the humidity and I'm more grateful I don't live there. ;) haha. But it's a lovely idea and you made everything look so beautiful!
- April 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Gloria said...
curse my black thumb! those seed packets are so charming!
- April 25, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- Amanda said...
Please tell me I can be invited to the next one...if only I lived closer! I love the idea of planting my own herb garden once spring gets closer (it snowed last week) and would have a blast planting with my girlfriends!!
Those seed packets are so darling! I would save the packet and then frame them :)
- April 25, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- amy b.s. said...
this is such a cute idea! if spring ever gets here I may have to steal it! it's just too perfect!
- April 25, 2011 at 12:21 PM
- Merylu said...
This is a great idea! And how wonderful party! I love each detail :)))
- April 25, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- Mekkan said...
Now I'm happy to read about this party more in detail here. Thank you for sharing this. It's great to know you've picked up my favorite pictures.:D
- April 25, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- jessicajane said...
LOVE the designs for the invites and seed packets, looks like such a lovely party.
- April 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- penny and jazz said...
What a great idea. I would love to visit such a good organized and with that much lovely detail prepared party.
- April 25, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Nicole Egerer said...
Very cute party idea! For your grown up girlfriends and even for a fun kid party. Love the pictures and inspiration!
I had an amazing Easter weekend and on top of that, Seattle had their first real spring day so it made it that much better with the sun shining!
Kind Regards,
- April 25, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Sey said...
as always you came up with a nice theme for bonding time with your friends. They're lucky to be invited in one simple but gorgeous setting.
- April 25, 2011 at 1:32 PM
- Christina- floresdelsol said...
such a great party idea!! i love it. Im sure it was a blast.
- April 25, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
"Seeds and Sorbet" is a darling theme. Love your creativity. It always breeds creativity in me.
How lovely to spend a day outside with your friends.
- April 25, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- Sam {fitnessfoodandfaith.blogspot.com} said...
such a cute idea!! i love the invitations and menu. great pictures, as always!
- April 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM
- Dancing Branflake said...
How lovely! These photos are so incredible. You sure know how to create a memorable event.
- April 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM
- Kelly J. R. said...
I did all of my seed starting by myself with a bowl of chocolate - I like your idea WAY better. LOL.
- April 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM
- caroline @ patagonia gifts said...
omg amazing idea, darling! love your photos. xo
- April 25, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Hindsight Bride said...
I love how you curated the pictures, so cute, and of course, great ideas!
- April 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- Brandi {not your average ordinary} said...
Your party looks like so much fun! I love that there were sorbets involved too. That makes it feel even more like summer in my book. Beautifully done!
- April 25, 2011 at 5:41 PM
- Lily from Birch + Bird said...
What a perfect Spring party idea! You're so lucky to live in a climate that works to be outside this time of year...ours is pretty wet right now on the West Coast! So charming and I might have to borrow this party plan for one of my daughters' birthdays next year :)
- April 25, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- the southern hostess said...
You amaze me! What a beautiful party. Those sorbets look delicious!
- April 25, 2011 at 6:01 PM
- Shea said...
What a fun, beautiful idea! I love parties that involve creating things with friends!
- April 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM
- Looking Glass said...
How wonderful your little potting party looks! So pretty :-)
~ Clare x
- April 25, 2011 at 9:44 PM
- Tender Branson said...
I always shied away from eating sorbet while working with seeds. Scared that I might accidentally mix the two.
- April 25, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Dash said...
Lovely party!:) Nothing like sitting out, enjoying the weather in the garden with delicious sorbets!
And your little seed packets are precious!
- April 25, 2011 at 11:11 PM
- Colores said...
This is superb!!!! I will file this post as I would like to host a party like that soon!! amazing!!!
- April 26, 2011 at 4:08 AM
- Antje said...
Dear Dionne,
wonderful! All of it - the idea itself, the set up and the seed packages you made. And after all - these amazing and beautiful pictures you took from the whole event.
It seems almost funny to read that you were inspired from other peoples pictures, ;-)
Best, Antje
- April 26, 2011 at 4:59 AM
- Sandy a la Mode said...
wow~! what a super fabulous party!! love this idea!
- April 26, 2011 at 9:04 AM
- jenna ♥ a little blue said...
what a great idea!! i love it :) the photos are pretty amazing too :)
- April 26, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- Eleanor Rae said...
This looks like so much fun! What a lovely idea this is for a spring/summer garden party. I love the seed packets you made too, so pretty! xxx
- April 26, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Sarah said...
I love this! What a great idea! I really like your blog and I can't wait to read more. On a side note I just found this image on pinterest that totally makes me think of this garden party...
- Sarah
- April 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Kristin said...
an AMAZING idea! it all looks so lovely! You should sell little "sets" in your etsy shop... a little terra cotta pot, a few seed packs (which are so lovely, by the way). I'm sure people would snatch them up. I sure would!
- April 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Sarah said...
Oh my gosh I like what you did better! Those turned out so great! Thanks for sharing the pics =)
- Sarah
- April 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Sienna said...
what a great idea! i lvoe sorbet, and that's perfect for spring!
- April 26, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- denise* paper angels said...
this is the prettiest party! looks so homegrown and cheerful, i love it. awesome photographs too! xx
- April 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM
- Vanessa said...
Oh, this is killing me! I so wish I had a garden... Or even just a balcony...
- April 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- Jessica Di Giacomo said...
wowwwwwwwwwww what a great idea!!!love this weekend and the objecys that you choose .. love the "runner" and the flowers!!!
Love, love, love all!!!
- April 26, 2011 at 3:03 PM
- Barbara said...
Oh Dionne, that is such adorable (and delicious) idea! I'm going to steal it. (I know you won't mind! :) ) I wish I lived near you!
- April 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM
- Jess said...
What a neat idea! I can't believe you designed those seed packets! You should totally have a gardening business!
- April 26, 2011 at 6:18 PM
- Kelly said...
Such a sweet idea - and delicious! Wonderful inspiring post :)
- April 26, 2011 at 9:40 PM
- Carissa said...
such a lovely party! and I love your invitations and menu and seed packets! the theme is just all around adorable. and really, who could say no to a party that has sorbet? :)
- April 26, 2011 at 11:26 PM
- orchid said...
How sweet and talented you are and marvelous!!!
I wish I were inspirational person like you♡♡♡
I am stopping by your post frequently and always admire you.
Hugs from Japan!!!
- April 27, 2011 at 3:05 AM
- cailen ascher said...
what a cute theme for a party! we're having my friend's wedding shower next month and some of these ideas are just perfect!!
- April 27, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Sarah said...
Oh how fantastic, what a great idea! The seed packets and invitations you made are absolutely lovely. I'm also super jealous of your nice weather, it's still in the 40s in the midwest!
- April 27, 2011 at 11:54 PM
- Victoria Bennett Beyer said...
This is so very lovely! I just adore the invitations and menu that you came up with. I can't wait until it is warm enough here to do some more living outdoors.
- April 28, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- Rhônya Holman said...
This is such a great idea! Also your blog is beautiful, inspiring, and full of creative contents! Keep up the great work, and positives vibes.
By the way thank you for stopping by ... appreciate it your visit to my site...
Sunshine & smiles to you always! =(^.^)=
- April 29, 2011 at 6:05 PM
- Alexandra Joy said...
Creative and thoughtful! I love this idea and it's inspired me to get planning some summer parties. Thanks for sharing.
- April 29, 2011 at 10:32 PM
- Dawanna Young said...
What a lovely day!
- May 1, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- Labour of Love said...
what a charming + sweet soiree! perfect to welcome spring + celebrate Easter...absolutely the sweetest! xoxo
- May 2, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- theeclecticlife said...
Dear Dionne,
Your parties are the best! I absolutely LOVE the invitations you designed and the beautiful table arrangements. Your husband is seriously awesome for helping out so much. I know you do a blogger get together in LA, but do you also have one for Houston or Dallas by chance? I'm in Dallas, but I'd be more than willing to drive!
- May 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Nuha said...
oh my goodness, you are incredible! I wish I had enough graphic design talent to create my own seed packets/ cards! I am swooning over the embroidery too!
- May 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM
- Daisy said...
Very cute! You're so creative :)
- May 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM