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Pastor Ronald Rice is pacing and sweating, roaring and crying as he warns his west Salt Lake City Pentecostal congregation about what he calls the "dangers of drifting."
"It doesn't take long to get off course," Rice bellows in his broad Southern accent, and a few call out from their blue padded chairs, "Amen."
"Watch for the warning signs," he yells.
More amens and a few claps.
Beware of loss of focus, loss of priorities, loss of passion for God and his Word, loss of discipline and Rice is building a verbal crescendo "loss of commitment."
Come to church, he hollers, "it's a boost for your faith."
Finally, he says ominously, there is loss of emotion.
Now the 100-strong, multiethnic congregation is on its feet, clapping and calling out "Hallelujah."
"I'm seeing some things in some of you that give me worry," says the pastor, originally from Kentucky. "I'm the watchman on the wall."
Rice wipes sweat from his face and tears from his eyes, and then challenges his band of believers to "wake up in time" or else "shipwreck is your destiny."
One by one they come forward to the two-step platform with the large wooden cross leaning on its side against the wall. The pastor screams into his microphone, "Whatever it takes, make a course correction NOW!"
A worshipper stands on the blue carpet, his hands outstretched to heaven. Others fall to their knees, repeating, "Thank you, Lord."
Soon, the oblong sanctuary just off Redwood Road and North Temple is awash in muted sound or, rather, dozens of sounds. The murmur in the room is not a melody, but it has tones. It is not a chorus because each person emits his or her own syllables. It is not a known vocabulary, but, as they say, "the language of angels." It is uncreated and involuntary, they believe, just the Holy Spirit taking over their bodies, minds and mouths. A trancelike ecstasy.
This is "speaking in tongues," which they believe has taken place since the beginning of Christianity and is a hallmark of Pentecostalism.
On Sunday, millions of Christians worldwide will commemorate Pentecost, a holiday that is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter. But not all of them will be "overcome with the Holy Spirit" in the same way.
A mighty wind • According to the Book of Acts in the New Testament, first-century apostles and believers were gathered in a Jerusalem home for the Jewish Pentecost, an agricultural festival 50 days after Passover.
Suddenly, there came a sound from heaven "like a rushing mighty wind,'' the scripture says, followed by "tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them."
Then, the Bible continues, the apostles were "filled with the Holy Ghost." They began to preach the Christian gospel in languages other than their own, and listeners could hear the message in words they could understand.
It was such an unexpected moment that some thought the apostles were drunk.
Peter assured the crowd that they were not it was, after all, only 9 in the morning and instead declared that this was a promised miracle. In response, the book records, some 3,000 people were baptized that day.
To the Rev. Steve Klemz, Pentecost is not mainly about speaking in tongues but rather about receiving "power from on high to live together in forgiveness and to catch God's vision for the world."
In his Sunday sermon, Klemz, of east Salt Lake City's Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, will urge his congregation to become "a more welcoming culture, especially for LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] members" and for immigrants.
It is a reminder that God's love transcends political, cultural and linguistic bounds, he says, and that the Holy Spirit helps us "see each other as God sees us."
Utah's Episcopal bishop, Scott Hayashi, echoes that sentiment.
"The Pentecost story is about speaking in a foreign language, not a spontaneous utterance of a stream of syllables that bear no relationship to a recognizable language," Hayashi writes in an email. "And the languages spoken about in the book of Acts, Chapter 2, all proclaimed 'the mighty works of God.' "
What is important to remember, he says, "is that God speaks to all people in all nations, in all languages. God does not differentiate between peoples. And neither should we."
As for that feeling of being so overwhelmed by the Spirit that you seem inebriated? Pentecostals are the ones more likely to embrace and celebrate it.
A new kind of language • In 1906, an African-American preacher named William J. Seymour triggered a revival in an empty Los Angeles warehouse, which included thousands of worshippers healing, singing, shouting and speaking in tongues.
Though denounced as "satanic" by some Christians, the Azusa Street revival has largely been viewed as the birth of Pentecostalism, which now covers the globe and includes churches such as the Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ and the Brazil-based Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.
"At least a quarter of the world's 2 billion Christians are thought to be members of these lively, highly personal faiths, which emphasize such spiritually renewing 'gifts of the Holy Spirit' as speaking in tongues, divine healing and prophesying," the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reported in 2006. "Even more than other Christians, Pentecostals and other renewalists believe that God, acting through the Holy Spirit, continues to play a direct, active role in everyday life."
They all share a belief in being "baptized by the Spirit," including the experience of "glossolalia," speaking in tongues.
The experience produces "a kind of euphoric feeling but also a sense of calm and peace," says Rachel Esqueda, a member of Rice's congregation. "It refreshes you enough to keep you going day by day."
The Holy Spirit uses speaking in tongues together with the sermon to provide discernment, says Esqueda, a computer contractor for the U.S. Defense Department. "It is a quickening inside of me that helps me make decisions."
It doesn't matter that the syllables are unintelligible to other people, the pastor explains. God understands.
If the tongue is the most "unruly member of the body," Rice says, "submitting it to God, surrendering one's entire self, body and soul, is a miraculous manifestation. It is a personal, intimate, private experience."
And it binds his Pentecostals of Salt Lake who hail from Burundi, Sudan, Liberia, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Germany, Greece, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Spain and the United States to one another much as it did for the early Christian church.
Jesus still "heals, delivers and fills with his Spirit," Rice says on the church's website. "From financial miracles to physical healings, it is God's will to heal and bless the entirety of a person's life."
The church can deliver anyone from the "bondage" of "pornography, homosexuality and infidelity." When the Spirit is flowing, he says, the healings are present.
And the people respond, "Hallelujah."
The Day of Pentecost
"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
"And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."
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yay for old school vampires!
At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.
Nice graphics.
Also: nightmare season!
This has the look of an old timey movie poster, which is perfect 'cause I'm thinking of the silent German film version of Nosferatu from 1922. This captures that feeling quite well. Now that's old school vampire for ya.
Here's my take on the shirt.
I really enjoyed this one. Not much to explain other than it's a neat vampire shirt but it's still cool.
Now THAT'S a Halloween shirt!
I would totally buy this shirt if I did not already have a bazillion t-shirts. This design is fabulous.
at first i thought it was a cornucopia... nope.
ViperEagle wrote:At first look I thought it was a pregnant dinosaur.
Me too- what I first saw was a friendly looking brontosaurus with a quill and inkwell poking out of its back. It took a while to find the vampire.
Argh! Now I can't unsee!
I can't unsee the brontosaurus giving the middle finger.
tedwow wrote:I would totally buy this shirt if I did not already have a bazillion t-shirts. This design is fabulous.
My girlfriend got a Bazillion this summer and I love it !
Great shirt today !
Sigh, darn you, shirt woot! I have a rule, a rule that keeps me from buying five hundred shirts: "if it has foxes or vampires, it's an automatic buy"...."and sometimes cats"...."and teacher references...or books...books are great, too"
How did he get so tall?
Glad it starts up at the neck otherwise it'd look like your stomach.
'First Sucker' is especially appropriate in this case!
thinkspring wrote:'First Sucker' is especially appropriate in this case!
Meaning ?
So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right?
jmbunkin wrote:Meaning ?
Seriously? That is a vampire, correct?
This is what a vampire should look like. The overbearing terror, the slight bit of camp, it's fantastic.
I could have said "fangtastic", but I DIDN'T.
Which means it is now TWO KINDS of awesome.
Don't wear this shirt: to the premiere of Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2.
Seriously, just don't do it.
aeneasvt wrote:So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right
Dude. *Dude*. This is obviously a homage to the first vampire in the movies, Count Orlok in Murnau's "Nosferatu", and his iconic shadow-profile.
...I bought one. I hope it arrives before Halloween ¬_¬
haha I love the pun =)
I thought the same - looked like either a dinosaur or a koi.
Classic vampire + Despicable Me = NosferaGru
Yay! The Halloween shirts are back!
w4ffles wrote:I can't unsee the brontosaurus giving the middle finger.
...you beat me to it!
Quite the brilliant idea and execution. Love it!
Red sky at night, vampire's delight.
orangepaisley1 wrote:at first i thought it was a cornucopia... nope.
I see you have estimated a bazillion to be somewhere between 3 and 9.
thinkspring wrote:Seriously? That is a vampire, correct?
OK,OK it went right over my head and yes I feel like a fool!I may have to stay off woot for a few weeks until Wooters forget my folly.
And I thought it was a giant goldfish.
This may be the perfect shirt -- it's good for Halloween, Thanksgiving, fish fans, dinosaur fans, pregnant finger-flipping dinosaur fans...what else do we see?
I admit, I too didn't see the image at first glance, but when I did I was impressed. Nicely done classic vampire action.
aeneasvt wrote:So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right?
I personally don't think this shirt rips off HP in any way, shape, or form. But if it did, you could look at it in better lighting and have it be a bit of a tribute to HP then since HP is amazing. You know, instead of jumping to conclusions and assuming it's a rip-off instead of something nice. lol
"It was already dark when the townspeople gathered at the town hall to discuss the vampire. He'd been wreaking havoc on their small community for quite some time, and it was only getting worse. In just the past month alone, he'd bitten nearly 18 people and tried to bite upwards of 60 more. He had to be stopped, but how? That's what the mayor wanted to talk about."
Love the shirt but I really thought the townspeople were going to call in the Dog Whisperer given the write-up's emphasis on how many people "the Vampyr" had bitten. Vampyr- stupid name for a dog anyway.
'So when it says "The Vampyr," what it really means is "The thematic ripoff of the Harry Potter 7 cover," right?'
Lots of different covers for that book. Can't be the one with the creepy hand reaching out of a cape cause creepy hands coming out of over-sized capes have been around for a very, very long time and certainly predate HP. I would say it is more a homage to the classic 1922 movie Nosferatu with its iconic image of the shadow with those creepy hands going up the staircase. There are probably earlier examples too. So it is both HP book designer and this T-shirt designer that borrow from Nosferatu. Be inspired by the best is what I always suggest.
But great design for Halloween. Love how the hands don't jump right out at you immediately. At first glance I thought the fingers were one of the bats but then a second later my eye recognized the vampyre. Dracula does not own Halloween. There is always room for the German classics too!
Meh, this shirt just sucks the life out of me.
I want to get one just to frame it. True art. Too good for a T-Shirt.
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Researchers Say UN Climate Goals Impossible
International negotiators at a recent UN climate conference held in Bangkok repeated the demand that global warming this century be limited to no more than 2˚C. But while those attending the UN boondoggle stuck to the climate alarmist party line, results from a newly published Canadian government climate study concluded that "it is unlikely that warming can be limited to the 2˚C target." The modeling based paper found that reaching the stated IPCC goal would require that greenhouse emissions "ramp down to zero immediately," which means shutting down the global economy and banning the automobile. Moreover, starting in 2050 scientists would need to actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, requiring a rush to implement controversial and possibly dangerous geoengineering programs. Why does the global warming lobby continue demanding the impossible? Perhaps it is because global warming isn't about climate change at all.
As reported by Eli Kintisch in "U.N. Goal of Limiting Global Warming Is Nearly Impossible, Researchers Say," the study by scientists with Environment Canada, a government agency, fed their model various scenarios of future greenhouse gas concentrations out to the year 2100. This new model represents the latest set of scientific guesswork about how Earth's climate system works. As the Science article explains:
Previous modeling efforts have already highlighted the difficulty of reaching the 2˚C goal. But the new study is unique in several ways. Most important, it relies on the first published results from the latest generation of so-called Earth System climate models, complex programs that run on supercomputers and seek to simulate the planet's oceans, land, ice, and atmosphere. The model in this study, Canadian Earth System Model 2, also incorporates updated data on volcanic eruptions, and it simulates in a more sophisticated way the biosphere's ability to take in or emit carbon.
In the simulation scenario with the most carbon emissions, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rapidly climbed to 920 ppm, and average land surface temperature rose by 4.9˚C above 2005 levels. Even in a scenario in which emissions cuts caused CO2 levels to peak at 450 ppm in 2050—not significantly higher than today's 390 ppm—temperatures rose by 2.3˚C by the end of the century. Bottom line, even shutting down global industry won't prevent temperatures rising above the 2˚C IPCC goal.
Results from the Canadian earth system model (CanESM2)
As can be seen from the graphs above, all the simulated scenarios cause marked rises in temperature and precipitation. The future scenarios are based on new sets of speculative concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols called representative concentration pathways (RCPs). One of the scenarios even calls for the use of unproven and highly questionable geoengineering carbon sequestering technology. According to V. K. Arora et al., the authors of the Canadian study, their new computer plaything indicates an inescapably warmer and wetter future.
The response of the second-generation Canadian earth system model (CanESM2) to historical (1850–2005) and future (2006–2100) natural and anthropogenic forcing is assessed using the newly-developed representative concentration pathways (RCPs) of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and aerosols. Allowable emissions required to achieve the future atmospheric CO2 concentration pathways, are reported for the RCP 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios. For the historical 1850–2005 period, cumulative land plus ocean carbon uptake and, consequently, cumulative diagnosed emissions compare well with observation-based estimates. The simulated historical carbon uptake is somewhat weaker for the ocean and stronger for the land relative to their observation-based estimates. The simulated historical warming of 0.9°C compares well with the observation-based estimate of 0.76 ± 0.19°C. The RCP 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios respectively yield warmings of 1.4, 2.3, and 4.9°C and cumulative diagnosed fossil fuel emissions of 182, 643 and 1617 Pg C over the 2006–2100 period. The simulated warming of 2.3°C over the 1850–2100 period in the RCP 2.6 scenario, with the lowest concentration of GHGs, is slightly larger than the 2°C warming target set to avoid dangerous climate change by the 2009 UN Copenhagen Accord. The results of this study suggest that limiting warming to roughly 2°C by the end of this century is unlikely since it requires an immediate ramp down of emissions followed by ongoing carbon sequestration in the second half of this century.
Setting aside the questionable accuracy of yet another CO2 driven computer climate model, the more interesting thing here is that climate change alarmists seem to have resigned themselves to the catastrophic future envisioned in their own fevered dreams. In essence, they are like petulant children telling the rest of us "you don't believe us but you'll be sorry when the climate goes to hell!" Never mind that recent studies find that a warmer climate could be better for humanity as a whole.
Indeed, the people of the world have listened to the IPCC and their ilk, and have come to the conclusion that the predictions of environmental Armageddon are overblown and unsubstantiated. Many people have decided that it's best to do nothing about global warming. Around the world, politicians are finding it harder and harder to waste money on programs seen as largely discredited by the public. The US Congress—not noted for taking courageous stands on anything recently—dropped language banning contributions to the IPCC from its last budget resolution. However, ScienceInsider is reporting that Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) is planning on reintroducing a bill barring the government from supporting any meetings aimed at negotiating a global treaty on climate change.
Tornado damage near Birmingham, Alabama, not caused by global warming.
The recent outbreak of tornadoes across the American South was also attributed to global warming, even though NOAA officials said that there is no link between speculative global phenomenon and local sever weather like tornadoes. "There really is no scientific consensus or connection," said Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, "Jumping from a large-scale event like global warming to relatively small-scale events like tornadoes is a huge leap across a variety of scales." In fact, there has been a decline in severe tornadoes over the last half century. The facts didn't prevent an airhead spokeswoman for the Nature Conservancy from publicly linking the tornadoes to global warming.
At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century global warming true believers find themselves in retreat on all fronts. Rising oil prices have people everywhere demanding real solutions to the world's energy problems—not unworkable green, feel-good schemes. As governments around the world tighten their budgetary belts, international parasites who have lived off squandered UN billions in the past are finding funding much more difficult to come by. Still, those personally invested in climate change continue to demand global sacrifice in an attempt to achieve the impossible.
Warm-mongering climate researchers and the yammering bureaucrats of the United Nations continue to issue fatuous statements. These are eagerly spread by the mindless news media, which is always on the lookout for the next big disaster. Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General and global uber-idiot, recently predicted that more Japanese style nuclear disasters would happen because of global warming.
Ban proposed a strategy for improving nuclear energy security worldwide, including strengthening the International Atomic Energy Agency. Unsurprisingly, though established independently of the UN, the IAEA reports to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council. The Canadian report makes it clear: the warmists know we can't stop climate change, no matter how hard humanity tries. But that doesn't really matter, because the global warming scare is not about climate—it is about a grab for power and social engineering on a grand scale.
Tragically, catastrophic natural events have recently claimed thousands of lives and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Sensible people recognize that life is not hazard free and no government program will make it so. Is it any wonder that the public is turning its collective back on those hawking disaster as cover for hidden social agendas? Besides, in the face of real natural disasters, the invented future calamities of the warmists pale to insignificance.
Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.
Direct Removal of Carbon Dioxide from Air Likely Not Viable
Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are unlikely to offer an economically feasible way to slow human-driven climate change for several decades, according to a new report. The American Physical Society has released a new assessment -- Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals -- to better inform the scientific community on the technical aspects of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
this little tidbit at the end is a real eye opener..
The physical scale of the air contactor in any DAC system is a formidable challenge. A contactor through which air flows at two meters per second and that removes half of the CO2 from the contacted air will capture about 20 tons of CO2 per year for each square meter of frontal area. A 1,000-megawatt coal power plant emits about 6 million metric tons of CO2 per year, and to remove CO2 from the atmosphere as fast as this coal plant emits CO2, such a system would have a total length of about 30 kilometers if it were based on structures 10-meters high. Large quantities of construction materials and chemicals would be required.
30 km long? hey.. how about we replace the coal plant with a much more viable nuclear plant and call it a day?
UN Scam
The proposed "cap-&-trade" bill contained provisions allowing the President of the US to "intact laws or regulations necessary" to curtail CO2 if the temperature increased by the UN mandated 2 degrees or if the mandated CO2 level was exceeded. Both of which were shown to be exceeded even with significant negative trends in CO2 release. Thus a scam to make us live like hermits in caves, or pay atrocious taxes and processes on energy sources. What were they going to do with the money?
My way.. or no way
while there are a few groups who are truly interested in making things better for all, a lot of the environmental groups have the mindset of my way or no way, which is something that will never work, for anyone.
all of our environmental issues are man made, so therefore man must be included in the equation of fixing things, else it is unworkable. but that simple logic seems to escape a great many.
Climate Change wasn't the pollution issue, no, it was a CO2 death threat to billions of children, a mistake and a criminal exaggeration as history is already calling it. And now, after 25 years of needless panic, we see former climate change believers urging law makers to have the leading scientists and leading news editors subjected to criminal charges for a false war against a false enemy.
Explain how countless thousands of consensus scientists somehow out numbered climate change protestors? Explain how we are supposed to believe the saintly scientists and flippantly condemn our children to a CO2 death when it was the scientists themselves who made radical environmentalism necessary in the first place when they supposedly polluted the planet with their cancer causing chemicals and pesticides.
Explain why we should trust the saintly scientists when they also produced cruise missiles, land mine technology, nuclear weapons, germ warfare, cluster bombs, strip mining technology, Y2K, Y2Kyoto, deep sea drilling technology and now climate control?
Still supporting the climate change mistake at this stage of the game is not only environmentally irresponsible, it verges on psychotic.
And the new denier is anyone who still thinks the voting majority of now "former" climate change believers, will now suddenly reverse course, trust the scientists and politicians and media and now vote YES to personal lifestyle sacrifice and taxing the air to make the weather colder.


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In my vehicle I would like to remove the battery tray to inspect underneath. But I think the bolts holding it down are actually studs attached to the metal plate underneath. These are so corroded they will probably break by removing.
Does anyone know if the metal plate supporting the box can be replaced? It looks like there may be something underneath the plate that is supported by it. I have the manual transmission, which is directly below the battery and support.
The dealer (non-ford) that sold me the vehicle wouldn't remove this to inspect underneath, and Ford Customer service told me there is no technical support that can tell me anything about it, I have to go to the dealer and pay an $80 fee for them to even talk to me.
|When that started to happen I replaced the battery. Texas heat got to it and I knew it was only a matter of time before it started eating things.
what I'm seeing is pure lack of under hood maintenance from the pictures I'm seeing. Keeping the engine compartment at least half way clean prevents alot of problems.
Dirt attracts moisture which in turn will give voltage a path to flow. This includes across the top of the battery from terminal to terminal or terminal to hold down, or any path it can establish for that matter. the corrosion your seeing is actually created by small amounts of sulfuric acid (yes, they give off vapor occasionally. when this mixes with moisture it becomes acid again) from the battery mixing with the moisture in the dirt and being attracted to a voltage source.
the powder you are seeing is actually dried acid and is in itself caustic. don't brush it off and blow it away, you're just leaving it to create corrosion elsewhere later, or find it's way back to where it started.
either mix up some baking soda and water or grab a can of coke, either will neutralize sulphuric acid. gently pour on and you'll see it foam (I pour it over the entire battery and terminals and also the top of the tranny). let it do its thing for a bit, apply liberally once again and give a little time, when foaming quits rinse with fresh water and brush, or disassemble then reapply once more, then rinse and clean.
Keep your battery and surrounding area clean if you want it to keep you happy. as some have found, repairing battery cables isn;t cheap. but 20 minutes every 6 months or so can save a boatload of time and money. :)
|It hasn't happened to me yet,and I live in a state where you have to watch out for salt corrosion.
|I just purchased a used 2011 Focus. There was a small amount of corrosion on the hold down. I thought this might not be unusual but upon removing and cleaning, noticed corrosion down in the battery tray and on the support plate and even underneath that, I fear on top of the transmission. There were pools of acid in the depressions where the tray bolts are. I cleaned the tray up however the bolts are so corroded I think they will break if I try to remove them. Going back to the dealer. Has anyone else had this experience?
I painted the bare metal hold down with some high temp black paint i had laying around. I took it off, cleaned off the corrosion and then painted it with a couple coats. Let it dry and then reinstalled it. I bet some of the liquid plasti-dip would work well for this hook too, just dip it and let it dry.
Mine was corroding right at the hook where it was anchored to the plastic (right above where the FSWerks sticker is on my CAI on this picture.)
I'm not sure why it was corroding there as it actually isnt touch the battery, so not sure if it was just the metal the hold down was made out of? I hit up the nut that screws the hook/hold down too but the paint wore off as soon as i reattached it
I havent noticed it corroding again yet, i painted it this past spring.
I know you said it's on the tie down and not the terminals but I'd give it a this a shot to see if it goes away. Here's how I cleaned mine up and the products I used I got at autozone (not pictured I used bulb grease on terminals before attaching everything).
It's normal for a lead/acid battery to 'leak' around the terminals. This is one large advantage of dry or gel batteries, no corrosion/leakage.
The other thing is if the cable ends are not lead there will be "galvanic corrosion" taking place, on top of the leaking battery acid. I'm not sure what type of metal Ford used for the cable ends.
But you're best bet is to remove the cables, clean them with a wire brush, baking soda and warm water. Then use wheel bearing grease or dielectric grease to coat the terminals and cable ends. This seals out air and prevents corrosion.
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2010 Ford Focus SE sedan, 4 cylinder. Seeing white corrosion around battery "hold down" but none on either terminal. Could battery be bad or beginning to fail?
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Imagine a class of 28 students ages 19-47, who hail from 16 countries, speak six different languages and practice three different religions. Now imagine designing a leadership strategy to meet the needs of all class members.Said diversity exists in Dr. Michele Simms' Business Communication class, and the students were challenged to elect one team of students to lead the class for a day.
The Cameron School of Business educates students of diverse backgrounds, teaching professional skills necessary for a changing global economy. This class exercise puts into practice the University's mission to educate leaders of faith and character to think critically, communicate effectively, lead ethically and succeed professionally.
Business Communication (MGMT 3320) is an experienced-based class that focuses on working in teams, leadership and diversity.This lesson in leadership was based on an article, "Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?,"published in the Harvard Business Review September 2000. Simms continues to use this exercise every semester.
"The title alone of this article is riveting;it creates healthy competition between teams and challenges students to think about what it means to be a leader," Simms said. "Students grow as a result of this exercise, which is often a turning point in the class."
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"My group and I learned that the best ideas are those derived from a multiplicity of persons, each unique from the other.The best leaders are those whose thought processes and methods of thinking are not restrictive, but open and whose background is diverse and reflective-or at least understanding- of others.
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After helping the Canisius College hockey team secure a weekend sweep at Holy Cross, junior netminder Keegan Asmundson collected Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Week honors, announced by the league on Tuesday.
Asmundson recorded 31 saves against the Crusaders in a 3-0 win on Saturday. The shutout was the first in his collegiate career and he also helped Canisius to its first sweep against Holy Cross since the 1999-00 campaign.
The Inver Grove Heights, Minn. native, who also earned Goaltender of the Week honors after a 4-1 win against No. 17 Denver in October, has appeared in seven games this season with a 2.37 goals against average and .936 save percentage. He currently ranks seventh nationally in save percentage in addition to 30th in goals against average.
In 13 career appearances, Asmundson owns a 2.08 goals against average and .941 save percentage.
Asmundson and the Griffs return to action this weekend with a home series against Sacred Heart. The schools are set to open the two-game set at the Buffalo State Sports Arena on Saturday at 3:05 p.m.


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Wednesday 21st May 2014
- Thursday 22nd May 2014
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£25.00 - £42.50
James Carter is back in town. One of the most admired saxophonists of his generation and a powerful force in today's jazz scene, James Carter's playing is firmly rooted in 20th-century Afro-American culture.
The sweep of his imagination and the power of his technique embraces the whole saxophone tradition in jazz which he has extended into the 21st century through his resolutely contemporary outlook, prompting Hi-Fi UK magazine to dub him a "Modern sax God.".
DJANGO UNCHAINED"Carter's delivery has the energy to burst the seams of any setting. This performance similarly featured breathtaking cadenzas, unaccompanied torrents of notes and high-pitched squeaks that re-solved peacefully to consonance. the strongest impression was of a tight-knit working band extending the reach and range of a classic formula. As a unit they retain the shuffles, bounce and romance that lie at the heart of organ combo jazz, but add an academician's grasp of history and a knowing contemporary resonance."
- Mike Hobart FINANCIAL TIMES
"Tribute albums and tribute bands are often content with summoning up old ghosts. Saxophonist, James Carter, took a more rewarding approach on his excellent CD, CHASIN' THE GYPSY and he continues that approach with his Organ Trio's Tribute performances to the music of Django Reinhardt by offering up fresh takes on the music of the French Gypsy guitarist. He does so by substituting his own instrument in the lead role. Carter, whether he's playing tenor or soprano sax, shows off a sweet, sinuous tone; when he reinterprets Reinhardt's classic Nuages with a bass sax, the muscular sound is distancing at first, but then it wraps itself around the listener like an anaconda. These performances, like the CD do more than invoke Reinhardt's spirit; they have a life of their own."
From James: "I personally feel that the music of Django can still speak volumes, even 60 years after his passing! It's true that in recent times (in part because of the commemoration of his centennial in 2010) that his music has been played by vast amounts of Hot Club-esque ensembles but with the cohesive power of the James Carter Organ Trio, Django comes to the 'Hood in a very soulful, funky way' that lifts the material from its traditional all-string rhythm guitar la pompe and allows the listener to hear Reinhardt from another angle with a new appreciation of what he brought to the jazz world on the other side of the Atlantic..."
Since 2001, I've had the privilege of sharing the stage with numerous luminaries of the Gypsy Jazz genre such as: Stochelo Rosenberg & his trio, Bireli Lagrene, Boulou & Elios Ferre(sons of Django's guitar accompanist Matelo Ferre), Dorado, Samson & Tchavolo Schmitt and Django's grandson David Reinhardt to name a few, so I know the tradition to say most certainly that the Organ Trio provides a 'hood pass' for Django but you can still hear and feel the tradition!"
Some selections of the repertoire : Impromptu / Fleche d'Or / Troublant Bolero / Babik (Bi-Bop) / Nuages / Diminushing / Mabel / La Derniere Bergere
James Carter – bio
An artist long intrigued by contrasts and hybrids, Carter resists comfortable categorization. Born (1969) and raised in Detroit, Carter grew up surrounded by music, soaking up everything from funk and fusion to rock, soul, and various strains of acoustic jazz. It was the late trumpeter Lester Bowie who first brought Carter to New York, inviting him to perform with his New York Organ Combo. The Bowie connection led to Carter's debut recording, 1993's JC on the Set, a quartet tour de force that announced the arrival of a superlative new talent equally expressive on alto, tenor, and baritone sax (though he's added several other horns over the years, most importantly soprano sax).
Carter always finds a way into what ever musical situation he finds himself in. "You have to be totally comfortable wherever," Carter says. "I think there's tremendous beauty in cross-pollinations of music and influences." In 2000, he released two albums simultaneously that seemed to proclaim everything fair game: Chasin' the Gypsy, a voluptuous, lyrical session partly inspired by the timeless collaboration between Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, and the groove-laden Layin' in the Cut, which combines harmolodic freedom with a deep reservoir of funk.
He's reinvented the organ combo (with 2005's Out of Nowhere and again in 2009 with John Medeski on Heaven and Earth), explored the music of alt-rock band Pavement (on 2005's Gold Sounds), and paid loving tribute to Billie Holiday (on 2003's Gardenias for Lady Day). Taken in context, Carter's creative rendezvous with Sierra makes perfect sense.
Support: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars
+ support tonight: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars with Special Guest vocalists Emma Smith (Mon) and Natalie Williams (Tues)
Monday's band line up: Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Ed Richardson (drums).
Tuesday's band line up: is Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Chris Higginbottom
The Ronnie Scott's All Stars are comprised of some of the greatest talents on the U.K scene, including some of our most regular performers James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Pedro Segundo (drums)
James Pearson:-
Musical Director at Ronnie Scott's and the owner of a ferocious piano technique coupled with a sense of musicality rarely heard, James Pearson is one of the most exciting musicians to have emerged from the U.K in the last 25 years. After working with him, the late jazz legend Sir John Dankworth declared: "James Pearson is an exceptionally gifted artist. His masterful playing makes him head and shoulders above the rest of his contemporaries. He shows signs of true greatness".
Sam Burgess:-
Double Bass Despite only being in his early 30's, already Sam is a stalwart of the UK jazz scene. As well as appearing on numerous film soundtracks such as 'Bridget Jones's Diary' and 'Hannibal'. Sam's thumping, pounding, relentlessly driving bass lines have been heard accompanying the likes of Bob James, Billy Kilson, Gary Novak, Joe Lock, Dave Kekowski, Guy Barker, Dave O'Higgins, Pete King, Gareth Williams, Claire Martin, Jim Mullen, Alan Barnes, Tim Whitehead, John Horler, Gwyneth Herbert, John Dankworth, The BBC Big Band and Robbie Williams.
Pedro Segundo:-
At 22 years old Pedro Segundo, Portuguese drummer joins the James Pearson Trio at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
Born and raised in Lisbon, picked up the drums seriously at the age of eight starting studying classical percussion a year later. In June 2011 he graduates from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in Timpani and Classical Percussion. His musical ability combines a blend of styles creating a unique sound on the drum set. He has played regularly with Dennis Rollins, Femi Temowo, Mário Franco, Cleveland Watkiss and many other artists touring in festivals all around the globe.
Other regular performers include:
Dave Ohm (drums), Natalie Williams (vocals), Alex Garnett (sax), Nigel Price (guitar), Steve Rushton (drums), Polly Gibbons (vocals), Alistair White (trombone), Gary Baldwin (hammond), Al Cherry (guitar), Matt Home (drums), Alan Barnes (sax), Ralph Salmins (drums), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Mark Smith (bass), James Nisbet (guitar), Pete Long (sax), Gerard Presencer (Trumpet), Dave O'Higgins (sax), Alec Dankworth (bass), Steve Fishwick (trumpet) and others...
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Over the winter my wife and I decided that we would like to go back to the Caribbean this summer. We felt like we were getting quite overdue since we haven't been on vacation in 3 years. When I mentioned the idea of chartering a sailboat, I got a rather tepid response but I didn't let the idea die since it has been one of my dream vacations for many years. My wife's first question was along the lines of "are you serious, do you realize how long it's been since you went sailing?" Good point, it had been more than 10 years since I went out and even longer than that since I have been on a bigger boat. I assured her that it was like riding a bike, it would all come right back to me and after all, I did have a USCG Master's license (back in the day). After several other questions such as "what about pirates" (I assured her that it was very unlikely that we would run into Mr. Depp), she seemed to start warming to the idea. Next hurdle was to find some willing co-conspirators. I initially approached two other couples, and they both jumped at the idea so the real planning was begun. The first question for me was would the charter companies be willing to let me charter without a captain. A quick phone call and online Sailing Resume let me know that there would be no problems on that front. Next up was picking a date. Since two of the couples have school age children, it was going to be either Spring break or end of School for us. The June time frame seemed to offer better sailing conditions, cheaper rates and more flexibility, so that aspect was settled. Somewhere along this time, one of the couples let me know that they were no longer interested, so I focused my research on a 4 person charter. After reading every article, blog, and trip review that I could find, I decided that we needed to go with a Moorings 35 or the Sunsail 36i out of St Martin. These boats seemed big enough to be comfortable and I liked St Martin because of the opportunity to visit a variety of very different islands. After talking to reps from both companies, it seemed like a real tossup, I really like the rep from Sunsail, she was very helpful and knowledgeable, but the Moorings had offered to basically match prices and the boats are virtually identical. The only other factor was that Sunsail could offer a 39 footer that had 2 heads for only $300 more for the week. The women jumped all over that idea, so the decision was made for me! and the boat and airline tickets were booked.
We flew USAir direct from Charlotte which worked perfect for us since we had to drop the kids off in the Charlotte area anyway and the other couple (henceforth know as Allen and Steph) flew out of our hometown of Fayetteville and met us in Charlotte. Our flights were uneventful, all the baggage made it and George was waiting to take us over to Oyster Pond. I have to make a special mention for George, he was the most helpful, friendly and informative driver that I have encountered in all of my travels. He let us know that our boat was ready and waiting and when I asked about a provisioning trip, he offered to wait while we checked in and unloaded before taking us shopping. I have to say that shopping in a French grocery store for the first time was something of an adventure, but in the end we ended up getting what we were after (minus peanut butter for my wife). Before our next trip, I'm going to try to learn a little French vocabulary so that I can read the labels! Then it was back to the boat to unload and get everything stowed away. While the rest of the crew handled that duty, I went through my precharter boat checklist (thanks Bill Hartman on TTOL) and found the boat to be in excellent condition. With everything stored away, we wandered down the dock towards the Dinghy Dock Bar for the first of our ritual "Sundowners". We got so relaxed that we decided that the burgers and fish sandwiches would make an ideal dinner and then we all retired early to get a good nights rest.
Monday morning as we were finishing up our coffee and breakfast, Alcid, the Sunsail rep, made an appearance to schedule our boat and chart briefings. He was more than happy to go ahead with the boat checkout since I had already gone through the list and filled out the paperwork and he quickly remedied the one minor problem that I had found (broken spray nozzle on shower). We then went up to the facility to go through our chart briefing which was handled quickly but still provided all the info we needed, Alcid is a great resource for knowledge of the area! After grabbing some snorkel gear and topping off the water tanks (they were full already), Alcid took the boat out of the dock area for us, helped with raising the main and then hopped in a chase boat to guide us out of the harbor. Upon reaching the entrance buoy, we waved goodbye, turned toward the North and had a beautiful beam reach up the east coast of St Martin in about 14 knots of wind. First destination was Road Bay, Anguilla. We arrived at about 5 in the afternoon after a wonderful, easy day of sailing and dropped anchor amidst 15-20 other boats. Shortly after we got settled, the Anguillan Racing Yachts came into harbor in very high spirits. They are definitely a unique design and seem to perform very well! After they passed through, we enjoyed our next "Sundowner" drinks along with one of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever witnessed. We all took a quick shower on the transom with the newly replaced shower head, consulted the Doyle Cruising Guide and decided that dinner would be at the Barrel Stay. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting the bartender who had been a crew member on the winning racing yacht that afternoon along with the owners Jill and Graham. My pan-seared wahoo was absolutely out of this world, and Graham was more than happy to explain to me in great detail how it had been prepared! This was definitely the best meal that I had for the week! After a short search for wifi service (unsuccessful) we decided to call it a night and headed back out to the boat. Every Monday should be so tough!
Tuesday morning we all enjoyed a lazy relaxed breakfast, island time is definitely taking hold of the whole crew! Eventually, we lifted anchor and headed out to Prickly Pear Cay on a nice beam reach under full sail. When we pulled into the mooring area we found newly refurbished mooring buoys and only two other boats. This was Allen's first experience with picking up a mooring, he had a little trouble understanding how I wanted the bridle rigged but with a little help and a second approach to the ball we were soon secured. A short dinghy ride around the corner showed a couple of day trip catamarans anchored with a fair number of people on the beach. We all explored the east end of the island away from the rest of the folks then the girls decided to take advantage of the great beach for a little sunbathing while Allen and I explored the rest of the island. It was a great day followed up by a pleasant upwind sail back to Road Bay. We had planned on overnighting in Crocus Bay, but we heard that the race crowd was headed that way and we preferred a quieter evening for ourselves. Once we were securely anchored it was time once again for showers and Sundowners and another unbelievable sunset. We opted to go to Roy's Beach Bar for dinner and I discovered his truly world class hotsauce! I liberally doused my plate of ribs and the first taste was a wonderfully fruity mango sensation which was soon followed by the kick in the pants, eye-watering heat of habaneros! Don't get me wrong, I love hot sauces and this was right up my alley. Roy's also had a good wifi connection and bag ice available. After dinner, we headed back out to the boat where it took several nightcaps to reduce the fire to a level that would allow a good nights sleep.
Wednesday morning saw an early start to the day for longest passage of the week. We wanted to head around the east side of Anguilla, passing through the Scrub Island pass on our way to Orient Bay in St Martin. The voyage along the north coast of Anguilla started as a close reach in about 15 knots of southeast breeze. As we continued up the coast the wind picked up to around 18 knots close hauled and we put the first reef in the main. Scrub Island pass was dead into the wind so we furled the jib and motored through. Once we were through the pass the wind had picked up to over 20 knots and we put the second reef in the main. From there it was a spirited close reach toward Tintamarre Island. Just as we had passed the island we spotted our first bad weather of the week, a nasty thunderstorm barreling down on us and coming quickly. The previous days lesson at rigging a bridle and picking up a mooring were put to good use as we ducked into the mooring field at Tintamarre to sit out what turned out to be three quick storms. After the storms we motored across to Orient Bay in very calm seas and dropped the anchor in behind Green Cay. Due to the lateness of our arrival and the earlier storms the beach was deserted, but we took the dinghy in to walk the beach and ended up in the Bikini Beach Bar were we renewed our acquaintance with Corine (aka Bubbles) and were able to get a good internet connection to check in again with the real world.
We were enjoying the atmosphere so much that we stayed on for dinner (Mahi sandwiches all around) and a nightcap. I got up at about 3am for my nightly anchor check and discovered that we had dragged pretty bad in the previous couple of hours. We seemed to be holding well but I wasn't comfortable with our new position so I rousted the crew and reset the anchor closer up to Green Cay. We put out plenty of scope and had no more problem.
Thursday morning brought a big decision, SSE to St. Barts or head around the N side of St. Martin. When we poked the bow out of Orient Bay we found a stiff 18 knots out of the SE meaning St. Barts would be a very long day of upwind work. After the long sail the previous day, we opted to head for Friar's Bay on the N coast of St. Martin and a relaxed day on the beach. With the nice breeze the trip only took about 2 hours and we truly enjoyed working on our tans and doing a little snorkeling. This was Allen's first time snorkeling and he loved it. Lot's of fish to see in and around the rocks and coral. I'm sure that we will be doing a lot more of it on future trips. We also managed to score a very large bag of ice from the beach bar, hitting them up at closing time seemed to be the key! Having that problem taken care of for the night we motored next door to Grand Case for dinner and our night anchorage. Grand Case is a very nice anchorage, good wind to keep things cool, bottom that holds well, and a nice dinghy dock that is centrally located. After walking all the restaurants and looking at menus, we opted for Bistro Carriabes. The girls enjoyed some really nice red snapper and I had a mediocre tuna steak. A great chocolate torte and cup of coffee soothed my disappointment with the meal. After enjoying our coffees and after dinner drinks we again called it a night.
Friday morning was once again a relaxed start and a short sail down to Marigot for lunch on shore and a little shopping. The anchorage was fairly crowded but we managed to find a nice spot close in to the shore. Once ashore we wandered around the downtown area, dang it was HOT!!!!, and picked a nice sidewalk cafe for lunch,which consisted of an outstanding club sandwich for the guys and salads for the girls. From there we headed over to the mall to enjoy the air conditioning and a little light shopping for gifts. We arrived back on the boat at about 4pm and quickly decided that we had no desire to spend the night in a hot crowded anchorage. Up came the anchor and after an hour and a half of motor sailing we dropped the hook down in Anse Marcel along with a couple of other cruisers. Dinner was a very lite affair on the boat using what food we had on board. I learned a lesson this night about using (or not using in our case) a stern anchor. The wind was shifting back and forth through 30-40 degrees and we were getting a little swell coming into the bay which either hit us on the bow (not so bad) or the stern quarter (ugh) depending on which way the boat had swung. Next time I'll not hesitate to put out a stern anchor to hold the bow into the swell. The hills around bay really sheltered us fro most of the wind and it was very warm down below. I spent the first half of the night sleeping in the cockpit until a rain shower chased us down below. Not the most restful night of the week, none-the-less we were up and out fairly early for a much anticipated day on the beach at Orient Beach.
Orient Bay was just a short sail around the corner and by 11am we were securely anchored tight up to Green Cay once again. With a beach bag and a soft cooler of water bottles we took the dinghy into the beach and found chairs to rent. Great relaxing day and nobody got burned! The wind today was about 18 out of the East and Orient was fairly bumpy and lumpy. The dinghy ride out to the boat was fairly wet but we arrived in good shape and enjoyed our final round of Sundowners as we cleaned up and dressed for dinner. I told the crew that I was confident that we would have a fairly dry ride back to the beach but the ride back out to the boat after dinner was sure to be wet! Little did I know the adventure that was coming. The ride in was successful and we enjoyed a great dinner at La Piment. The service and the food ranked right up with the Barrel Stay in Anguilla as the best of the week. Afterwards we stopped by Bikini Beach for a nightcap and final email check. Upon heading back to the beach to retrieve the dinghy we found that we hadn't pulled it up quite far enough and we had boat full of water and sand, OOPS. A quick bail job and we're good to go again, but darn it's rough now. Ashley appears to be covered from head to toe in sand, what the heck happened? No time to worry, get the girls loaded just as an unusually big wave comes in and Ashley ends up head first in the bottom of the dinghy. After making sure she is okay, we head out for the boat with just about every wave soaking us. We arrived at the boat, wet but fine and everyone is anxious to get out of their soaked clothes. We mix another round of drinks, but not before I knock a glass over and cut my heal on a broken piece. Fortunately it wasn't too bad and we all kick back for another nightcap, no one wants to our last night to end! Eventually we did head off to bed with no further adventures. Sunday morning brought a short trip down to Oyster Pond and the Sunsail base. We had no problems navigating the channel and tied up at the fuel dock, I was surprised how little fuel we had burned, only 40 some liters. The check-in with Alcid was quick and easy and we confirmed that George was on hand to get us back to the Airport.
A couple of observations. First, I hated to miss St. Barts, but the north coast of St. Martin is way underrated, we loved that part of the trip. Second, get more ice everyday, whether you think you need it or not! The electric refrigeration unit seems to be designed to run continuously but without a generator it draws too much power to run on batteries for long. I really prefer the engine driven compressor that we used to have on the family boat. It would freeze everything solid if you ran it too long. Third, I really wish the anchor rode had been marked. Next trip I'll do it myself if it isn't. I also didn't like the Raymarine GPS unit that was on the boat, the programming was more difficult and not as user friendly as my handheld Garmin. I used the onboard unit a moving chart and used the handheld for all my course routing and navigation. If I hadn't had the Garmin I'm sure that I would have figured out the Raymarine unit, but it was very nice to have a unit that I was comfortable with. Thanks to all the research and suggestions that I found beforehand, we did a really good job with our packing and provisioning. Next time I'll try to be more careful to get a solid night of sleep in the middle of the trip, either in a marina or on a good mooring ball. I don't sleep very solidly at anchor and always get up a couple of times to check on things, especially in new areas and on a strange boat. Unfortunately, none of the places we overnighted had moorings so we were on the anchor every night and I ended up being a very tired (but happy) camper! All in all, this was a trip that I have wanted to do for a very long time and it ended up exceeding all of my expectations! A great deal of the credit goes to the compatibility of our crew and I can not emphasize that enough. We all started the trip as good friends and ended it as even better, special friends. Needless to say, we have already started planning next years trip!
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Like the topic says, I can pretty much find any problem with most marqs, and do most timing and trigger work on cockers.
Got a question and don't want to send it to me? I can probably guide you through it. If I have fixed a marker for you before, go ahead and post up quality or workmanship. Recieved a marker off another forum that isn't working and want me to give it a once over and or repair it for you? Let me know.
If I can not solve the problem, I will notify you and I will pay for return shipping, as well as return any form of payment that was involved.
I do not do milling on cockers, all I am going to be doing is fixing problems you may have.
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Apologises to MadAboutGenealogy readers for my not posting last week I was putting the last touches to my presentations for the Unlock the Past cruise plus I had a host of non-genealogy events and there just wasn't enough hours in the day to do everything that needed to be done!!
Anyway I'm back
Ancestry.co.uk have added a new feature to their site, it could be viewed as a crafty way to add content at no cost to them, but let's be charitable and say that they are simply alerting us all to what else is on the internet which might of help to family historians.
I am talking about the Web Search feature, basically it is a search engine link which searches non Ancestry databases and if a match comes up it connects through to the external website which holds the information.
The first offering is the "Recommendation for Military Honours & Awards 1935-1990" which is held by The National Archives.
I entered the name Pottinger to see how the system worked. It came up with 2 entries and I chose the one for Frederick Pottinger and clicked on the View Record button. The usual Ancestry page came up with the following information …
|Frederick Pottinger
|Publication Date
|27 July 1944
|Service Number
|Regiment or Unit
|1 Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment
|Theatre of Combat
|Military Medal
|Date of Action or Award
A link to the National Archives website is at the end of the details. Clicking on this brings up a warning that you are leaving Ancestry for an external site, getting rid of this pop-up takes you to the TNA site.
The National Archives site gives you the same info that Ancestry has, but with the opportunity to purchase a copy of recommendation document in this case 2 pages. A fee of £3.36 if charged for this, but the document can be downloaded immediately the payment has gone through.
All in all quite a handy feature as it will alert researchers to other documents that might be of help in tracing your ancestors. It will be interesting what other archives are added in the future.


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Popular Entrepreneur and TV Show Host Warren Brown to Give Keynote Address at Annual Entrepreneurial Business Plan Competition April 24
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Warren Brown, author of From the Courtroom to the Kitchen, will give the keynote address at the Annual Entrepreneurial Business Plan Competition at Cheyney University on April 24
Cheyney University's fourth annual Entrepreneurial Business Plan Awards event is planned for 5 pm on Wednesday, April 24. Author of the book "From the Courtroom to the Kitchen" and host of the TV show "Sugar Rush," Warren Brown will give the keynote address at 6 PM in Marian Anderson Music Center (change of location).
Mr. Brown will share his story of leaving a career as a litigator for the federal government to start his bakery, CakeLove, in 2002. Since then, he has been recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit by a number of local and national media outlets including The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show.
Warren Brown is the founder and owner of CakeLove and Love Café. His organization includes seven retail storefronts in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He has been recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit in local and national media including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and national advertisement campaigns for American Express and Dell computers. He is the author of two cookbooks, "Cake Love - How To Bake Cakes From Scratch" and "United Cakes of America Celebrating Recipes From Every State," published in May 2010.
Mr. Brown is a member of the board of Kid Power-DC, a local non-profit organization that conducts after school arts programs for DC youth. He also contributes his free time and energy to charitable causes by speaking to young students and rising entrepreneurs about business development and finding one's passion. Warren Brown graduated from Brown University with a BA in History and from George Washington University with a Juris Doctor and a Master's degree in Public Health. He resides in Washington, DC with his wife and daughter.
The event is open to the public and free of charge. For more information, contact ELC Project Development Coordinator Reginald Whiteside at email@example.com or 610 399-2683.


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To answer my own question.... I did some Googling and the only references were not good ones - they get mentioned in crime reports in situations where you would find a Jennings or Hi-Point. The only comments I saw directed to the quality of the gun are extremely dismissive. One report said that you had to replace the wood grip panels every 200 rounds, because a mechanism inside the grip would wear against the wood. Egad.
Nice to note that they are apparently American-made. In California. Where they are not legal. Geeze. What a mess.
After reading up on this pygmy-nightmare, I feel like I need to wash my eyeballs.


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It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that the Lakeland Fire Department says goodbye to Fire Marshall (Ret) Larry Riles. Fire Marshal (Ret) Riles passed away unexpectedly on January 4, 2014. He served with the department for over 24 years. His career with LFD started as a Firefighter and within two years he became a Fire Inspector where he would later move through the ranks to eventually become the Fire Marshall.
He was admired by many for his personable leadership style and the genuine connections he was known for making not only with fellow members of the department but also with the community he served.
The Lakeland Fire Department extends its deepest sympathies to the entire Riles family and thanks Larry posthumously for his many years of service to the department and to the people of Lakeland.
Services for Fire Marshall (Ret) Larry Riles will be:
Coney Funeral Home
1404 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave.
Lakeland, FL 33805
January 10, 2014 (Friday)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Memorial Service
Victory Church Chapel
1401 Griffin Rd
Lakeland, FL 33810
January 11, 2014 (Saturday)
11:00 am
Serenity Gardens
3350 Mall Hill Dr.
(Across from Victory Church)
More information about Larry's impact on the LFD and his community is available here.
Obituary information available here.
Condolences can be left here.


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The producers of Ekocrete call it, "the most environmentally sensitive concrete product on the market." Jim Glessner and Richard McCabe met when their companies were working together to improve concrete with nanofiber technology. Their shared interest in the environment led them to create Ekocrete.
Glessner, owner of GST International, of Reno, Nev., has worked with concrete and sealers his whole life. His father founded Glaze 'N Seal in 1962, in Irvine, Calif. "We have always been ahead of the EPA to make our products as eco-friendly as possible," he says.
McCabe is the technical director and formulator of Ekocrete. He became interested in green concrete while working for a chemical company, developing nanofibers to reduce concrete cracking. When he began researching green concrete he was surprised to learn, "there was nothing out there."
Ekocrete uses 90% recycled materials, including recycled concrete and byproducts, such as flyash and silica fume. "This makes the concrete much stronger and much longer-lived," says McCabe. "It's not going to break down in five years. We estimate a 100-year lifespan."
The basic mix is 5000 psi, but it can be adjusted from 2000 psi up to 10,000 psi. The manufacturer uses local materials to customize the mix to meet clients' requirements. Recycled carpet fiber reduces cracking, and fine particles create a dense surface that increases water impermeability and resists abrasion.
Ekocrete's strength and durability increase the "cradle to grave" lifecycle for projects in which it is used. By using recycled concrete as aggregate, it reduces landfill waste. Its post-consumer waste content also helps fight global warming by reducing additional CO2 emissions.
For customers, Ekocrete's performance is very comparable to regular concrete. The same concrete equipment and processes can be used for mixing, handling, placing, and finishing Ekocrete. It can be colored, stained, acid-etched, or stamped for a decorative finish. In addition, low-cost recycled materials make it more economical to produce than traditional concrete.
Uncharted territory
Many concrete producers make environmentally friendly mixes, and recycled materials such as flyash have been used for years. But GST claims to be the only company in the country marketing and developing truly eco-friendly concrete by eliminating all virgin aggregate, which makes up 80% of the mix design.
GST's main challenge is creating a consistent concrete mix with inconsistent materials, such as recycled concrete, or even road bed. Where pure concrete is available, the product is much stronger. Ekocrete's bagged mix uses only crushed concrete as aggregate and delivers a stronger product.
Ekocrete is being distributed as a bagged mix to retail outlets and through licensed ready mixed producers. GST is seeking producers who are interested in making an eco-friendly product without reinventing the wheel.


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The gymnasium at Park City High School was packed Friday night. That's how it always is whenever the Miners and Wasatch Wasps get together.
"Any time Wasatch plays Park City, there's going to be a lot of emotion," Park City coach Caleb Fine said. "It's a great rivalry."
Fans screamed and, at one point, even fought, causing the game to be stopped.
But when play resumed, they were treated to an incredible ending.
With time winding down and Wasatch stalling with the ball, Park City fouled. The Wasps coolly hit a free throw to go up by two points with 3.4 left on the clock.
Park City's go-to play, a long inbounds pass to a post player, had to be scrapped because the man who usually runs that play had just fouled out.
So Fine drew up something for Bosten VanDerVeur.
The sophomore got the ball at half court but was guarded closely.
Wasatch had fouls to give and tried to stop the play.
Fine tried to do the same with a timeout.
But VanDerVeur wasn't having any of it.
With a Wasp defender in his face, he stopped and launched a 30-footer.
Fittingly, a buzzer-beater.
It was the Miners' first victory over Wasatch since February 2007.
"It's not the shot you draw up to win a game," said Fine, who never had beaten Wasatch in his time as Park City's coach. "But when it goes in, it's pretty special."
VanDerVeur, who finished with 15 points, soon found himself swarmed again, this time by fans rushing onto the court.
Sharing time
In the locker room Friday night following a win over West, Woods Cross coach Kasey Walkenhurst praised his basketball team for sharing the ball well.
"We were very unselfish," the Wildcats' first-year coach said. "We were making a lot of the extra passes that we haven't made in our prior games, and it really showed."
Did it ever.
In a 99-66 victory over the Panthers, Woods Cross had six players in double-digits.
With West putting on a full-court press, the Wildcats (7-3) were able to pass over the top for easy baskets for much of the game, Walkenhurst said.
Senior guard Brady Cowley tied for a team-high with 16. Hayden Grant knocked down 11, while Skyler Farnes and Mikey Jacobsen chipped in 10 apiece.
The coach, however, said he was particularly pleased with the effort of two juniors: guard Xequille Harry, who finished with 13, and Jackson Pohlman who had 16.
"It was a great team effort," Walkenhurst said. "But they showed a lot of poise under that pressure West was putting on us, and both made some open baskets."
Perfect no more
The Davis Darts had a matchup that, on paper, should have been an easy win.
Davis was riding a 10-game winning streak entering Friday night's matchup with Viewmont, a squad with a sub-.500 record.
But that's why they play the game.
The Vikings spoiled the Darts' perfect record. The final score: 62-61.
While Park City and Wasatch found themselves locked in a battle, a few schools decided not to wait until the end to put away their games.
In girls' basketball, Viewmont handily beat Taylorsville by a final of 62-26.
The Juan Diego girls, meanwhile, put a 75-20 beating on Union.
The biggest margin of the night, right?
Not quite.
The Morgan boys' team, using a big effort from senior Jake Miles, whooped Tooele 112-68 a 64-point win for the Trojans.
Twitter: @aaronfalk


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Posted by JP Gownder on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on May 2, 2013
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins made news this week with his claim that tablets will be dead in five years. "Tablets themselves are not a good business model," he claimed in an interview.
As Techcrunch wittily responded: "BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins Says Tablets "Not A Good Business Model," Evidently Forgetting About iPad." As I recently blogged, Apple's iPad is the growth engine of its entire business so far in 2013, growing 65% year over year. Meanwhile, shipments of Android tablets have found their footing, particularly for Samsung, ASUS, and Amazon, growing in shipments so far this year.
So tablets certainly represent a thriving business model today. More importantly, the tablet will grow into a must-have computing device for much of the world by 2017.
The penetration of tablets into the consciousness of information workers, IT professionals, business people, and consumers only continues to grow. Much as with smartphones, tablets are increasingly taken for granted as a device one will have in one's life.
Take, for example, information workers: We surveyed 9,766 global information workers about their preferences for which operating system they would like to use on their (next) work tablet. We also gave them an out: "I don't plan to use a tablet for work."


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Joseph P. Kalt is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Kalt has published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy. He is the author of The Economics and Politics of Oil Price Regulation; Federal Policy in the Post-Embargo Era, Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation (with F.C. Schuller); What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development (with Steven Cornell); and The State of the Native Nations (with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development). Kalt received his BA from Stanford University and his MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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'The NHL reported this week online sales for Sabres-related products via the nhl.com store are up 900 percent from April 2005 through April 2006. A league official estimates that retail sales for Sabres' wares may be approaching the $75 million to $80 million range. Revenues generated from those sales are accrued to the league's bottom line and shared equally among the 30 franchises.'
Sales of Sabres gear spreading far and wide
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text: MTA's analysis of the governor's proposed budget and cuts On Jan. 28, Gov. Deval Patrick released his proposed budget, House 1, for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins on July 1. In order to balance the budget in the face of seriously declining revenues, he called for significant cuts in public higher education, local aid, preK-12 education and many other programs. Patrick also filed a bill entitled Municipal Relief Act II, which includes revenues for municipalities and changes the way that communities can join the Group Insurance Commission (GIC), a change that MTA does not support. In the third piece of legislation filed on Jan. 28, Patrick made a second round of cuts (known as 9C cuts) to the current FY09 budget. This was necessary in order to have a balanced budget at the end of this fiscal year. The governor estimates that the deficit for FY10 will be $3.5 billion. Rep. Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop), former chair of House Ways and Means and newly-elected Speaker of the House, says the deficit could go as high as $4 billion. The deficit reflects how much additional revenue must be raised in order to keep services at the same level as in the FY09 budget prior to the 9C cuts. Since revenue projections for FY10 are well below last year, in order to balance the budget, Patrick is proposing the following: $1.63 billion in cuts and savings (including $60 million by raising the cost of premium shares for state employees health insurance). Close to $600 million in new revenues (These are included in his budget and in the Municipal Relief Act). Roughly $590 million taken from the rainy day fund (for both FY09 and FY10). $711 million from the yet-to-be-passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the federal economic stimulus bill), to be used both for the current fiscal year and FY10. The House 1 budget totals $28.0 billion, which is almost $200 million below the FY09 budget. This is the first time since the early 1990s that a budget is below a previous year's budget. Below is a summary of the major highlights of the governor's proposed budget, the 9C cuts that take place immediately, and the proposed Municipal Partnership Act II. PreK-12 Education 9C Cuts (including both October and January rounds) Total 9C cuts of $37.4 million Chapter 70 education funds not reduced Regional school transportation cut by $2.9 million Special Education Circuit Breaker cut by $14.6 million Kindergarten expansion grants cut by $3.0 million METCO cut by $2.3 million House 1 The total Department of Elementary and Secondary Education budget is reduced from $4.565 billion to $4.493 billion ($71.6 million, or 1.6 percent). Chapter 70 -- State Aid to Local School DistrictsChapter 70 is funded at the same amount as in FY09, $3.948 billion, and each district is provided with its FY09 level of aid. With respect to required contributions from local revenues, the fourth year of a five-year phase-in of changes to the Chapter 70 formula is implemented with some modification. Required spending levels for almost one-half of the state's operating districts are below these districts' foundation budgets. The state may rely on funding from the federal economic stimulus bill currently being debated to close spending gaps. PreK-12 Education Grant Programs The governor proposes to combine a number of education program line items into larger "consolidated" line items. Since, as a general rule, these line items do not include earmarks allocating funds to particular programmatic areas, it is difficult to determine cuts to specific programs. Nonetheless, at this point, it appears that the following cuts (among others) have been made from the original (pre-9C cut) FY09 budget: Special Education Circuit Breaker -- reduces funding from $230.0 million to $215.9 million ($14.1 million). Regional District Transportation -- reduces funding from $61.3 million to $53.3 million ($8.0 million). Full Day Kindergarten -- reduces funding from $33.8 million to $28.8 million ($5.0 million). Expanded Learning Time -- reduces funding for this pilot program very slightly from $17.5 million to $17.4 million (less than $100,000). MCAS Remediation -- reduces funding from $13.4 million to $10.1 million ($3.3 million). Targeted Intervention in Underperforming Schools -- reduces funding from $9.2 million to $7.6 million ($1.6 million). METCO -- reduces funding from $21.6 million to $18.5 million ($3.1 million). Alternative Education Grant Program -- reduces funding from $1.2 million to $1.0 million (less than $200,000). Education Reform Reserve -- the so-called "pot-hole fund" is eliminated. In FY09, this was funded at $5.5 million. Charter Schools The governor proposes increasing the cap for the 50 lowest-performing districts to 12 percent of district spending from the current 9 percent to allow for the establishment of new charter schools. At least 80 percent of the new schools' enrollment must include students who are English Language Learners, SPED, potential dropouts or low-income, "or other students . . . who should be targeted in order to eliminate the achievement gap." The schools' operators must have a proven track record of working with these categories of students. In addition, the governor proposes changing the charter school tuition formula so that all facilities and new student costs associated with charter schools are paid directly to the charter school from the state and must be shown in a separate line item in the state budget. This is a reform MTA has long lobbied for. Although the changes should help sending districts better plan for the financial impact of charter schools, they will not affect the resources available to sending districts. In addition, charter schools must, at the end of the year, identify the sources (both public and private) and probable uses of unexpended funds. Early Education and Care The governor proposes to consolidate a number of program line items and proposes reducing the total budget from $585.1 million to $556.2 million ($29.0 million). Of that reduction, funding for child care access is reduced from $213.6 million to $190.9 million ($22.7 million). Local Aid -- Lottery Aid and Additional Assistance In addition to Chapter 70 funds, cities and towns receive state funds through categories known as lottery and additional assistance, as well as through a number of smaller aid categories. In some communities, as much as 50 percent of local aid helps pay for public schools. The governor proposes combining lottery aid and additional assistance into one new local aid source called Unrestricted General Government Aid. 9C Cuts The governor cuts lottery aid and additional assistance from $1.314 billion to $1.186 billion, or $128 million – almost 10 percent of the original FY09 budget amount. House 1 Unrestricted General Government Aid is cut from $1.314 billion to $1.094 billion, or $219.5 million (almost 17 percent). The 1.094 billion FY10 level assumes that $149 million will be generated through a statewide meal and hotel tax increase that the governor proposes. If the tax increases are not enacted, aid will fall by a total of $369 million from FY09. Higher Education 9C Cuts Total 9C cuts for FY09 were $59.3 million, almost all of which were from UMass ($27.7 million), state colleges ($12.4 million) and community colleges ($13.6 million). Individual campuses were cut from 5 to 5.6 percent of their FY09 funding prior to the 9C cuts. House 1 Cuts higher education (including non-campus "central" accounts) from $1.091 billion to $922.8 million (almost $168 million, or 15.4 percent) from the original FY09 budget, of which $159 million is cut from UMass, the state colleges and community colleges. Each of these segments is cut by over 16 percent. Individual campus allocations for both state and community colleges are consolidated into single state college and community college line items, respectively. The specific allocations to each campus will therefore be determined by the respective boards. Increases the health insurance premium shares for 58,000 state employees, thereby reducing the employer's costs by $60 million and increasing the affected employees' costs by a similar amount. Those whose salary ranges from $35,000 to $50,000 would pay 20 percent of the premium while those earning $50,000 or more would pay 25 percent. The 6,000 state employees earning less than $35,000 (including those currently paying 20 percent) would pay 15 percent. Other Employee Benefits House 1 Authorizes a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for retiree pensions of 3 percent on the first $12,000 of retirement income. The Retired Municipal Teachers' (RMT) Health Insurance premium share paid by the local employer remains at 90 percent. Retired municipal teachers from 73 school districts receive health insurance through this state-run program. The 90-10 premium split is set by the GIC with all eligible teacher retirees assigned to a risk pool composed solely of retirees from the participating school districts. Municipal Partnership Act II (Key Provisions) Requires that municipalities either insure their employees through the GIC or achieve GIC-equivalent or better health insurance rates (and savings). If this standard is not met, unrestricted local aid (not Chapter 70) will be reduced by the difference between the local and GIC rates. The GIC threshold for employee approval to enter the GIC is reduced from 70 to 50 percent. All eligible retired local employees would be required to enroll in Medicare as their primary source of health insurance coverage. Authorizes municipalities to pro-rate employer contributions for part-time employee health insurance based on the number of hours per week worked by the employee when compared with a full-time employee who works at least 37.5 hours per week. Permits municipalities to amortize their FY2009 revenue deficit over a three year period but not to exceed the amount of 9C local aid reductions. Provides that local (non-teacher) retirement systems that voluntarily transfer their assets to PRIT before receiving notice from PERAC of underperformance would be exempt from the requirement that the transfer be in perpetuity. Miscellaneous Division of Labor Relations The budgets and functions of the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration (BCA), Labor Relations Commission (LRC) and Joint Labor-Management Committee (JLMC) have been consolidated under the recently established Division of Labor Relations (DLR). The proposed blended budget for DLR is $2,097,000 or $307,415 less than the combined FY09 allocations for BCA, LRC and JLMC. This represents a decrease from FY09 of 12.8 percent. New Revenues House 1 Raises $150 million by eliminating tax exemption on sales of alcohol, soda and candy. Raises $20 million on expanding 5 cent bottle deposit charge to water, etc. Raises $75 million by increasing fees residents pay to Registry of Motor Vehicles. Raises approximately $150 million by raising the statewide meals tax and hotel tax by 1 percent. Funds would go to municipalities. Municipal Partnership Act II Raises about $50 million by eliminating the property tax exemption for telephone poles and telecom switching stations Allows cities and towns, at local option, to levy an additional 1 percent excise on meals and hotel stays. These spreadsheets provide more detailed information about House 1 and the 9C cuts.