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why does the bible have 666 under the masonic square and compass symbol????????????????
Modern Freemasonry has been around since 1717.
The first concocted untruths about the Order appeared in print at almost the same time.
The United States was consumed by anti-Masonic hysteria in the late 1820s,and Europe has made Mason-bashing a popular sport for two centuries,often tying it to anti-Semitic propaganda.
The Internet has only served to resurrect these myths,as they get dragged out and repeated all over again.
Here are some of the most common ones.
Freemasons do not ride a goat in their lodges.
It's a joke,perpetrated often by Masons themselves on nervous initiates.
Since at least the Middle Ages,the goat has been symbolic of the devil,and stories were circulated then of witches who called forth Satan,who came riding into town on a goat to take part in their blasphemous orgies.
Then,as the Freemasons gained in popularity,detractors accused them of witchcraft,which is probably where the notion of initiates riding a goat came from.
It didn't help that some early ritual books from the fraternity referred to God as "God of All Things" and abbreviated it as G.O.A.T. That was quickly changed, and God is now referred to by Masons by the acronym G.A.O.T.U., for Grand Architect of the Universe.
Old catalogs from fraternal supply companies in the late 1800s actually offered mechanical goats for use in other fraternal organizations and "fun" degrees. As the golden age of fraternalism resulted in literally hundreds of other groups popping up in competition with the Masons, some were obviously less serious than others. Such items only served to perpetuate the myth that Masons and other fraternities required a goat-ride ritual for their initiations. Freemasonry never has.
Rest assured,There is no lodge goat.
The degrees of Masonry are serious business to Freemasons, and there is
no horseplay (or goatplay)
Masons have been accused of using their own,presumably Satanic,bible in their ceremonies.
Many people have seen Masonic bibles for sale on eBay and elsewhere and clearly believe that Bibles used by Masons are somehow different.
This myth is actually a two-part one. Lodges in predominantly Christian communities commonly have the custom of presenting the new Master Mason with a commemorative heirloom Bible.
In the United States,the most common one is the 1611 translation of the King James version, published especially for Masonic lodges by Heirloom Bible Publishers of Wichita, Kansas.
It contains an area in the front for the Mason to commemorate important dates in his degree work, places for his brethren to sign the record of his degrees, and a 94-page glossary of biblical references relating to Masonic ceremonies,along with essays about Masonry and some common questions and answers.
The rest of it is the entire King James version of the Old and New Testament that is available in any bookstore.
The second part of this myth has to do with the use of the Volume of Sacred Law in a Masonic lodge.
All regular,well-governed lodges must have a book considered sacred to its members open on the lodge altar during meetings.
Depending on what part of the world the lodge is in and the beliefs of the lodge's members,this sacred book could be the Bible,the Hebrew Tanach,the Muslim Koran,the Hindu Veda,the Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta,or the Proverbs of Confucius.
It's simply referred to as the Volume of Sacred Law,as a nonsectarian term.
which actually is a fact and not a myth
Freemasonry worships the sun.Just about every symbol they have has a sun in it.
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Tom Hayes admits it is with great sadness that he has today been forced to retire from the professional game with immediate effect.
The 33-year-old Irishman has had to concede defeat in his battle to overcome a troublesome back injury and bows out having played 136 times for the Exeter Chiefs.
He will, however, be fondly remembered by the Sandy Park faithful as not only a fully-committed player, but also an inspired on-field leader who took the Devon club to new and unchartered waters.
The Limerick-born forward was not only the catalyst of Exeter's famous promotion-winning side that got into the Aviva Premiership in 2010 when they defeated rivals Bristol over two legs, but has been their trusted voice during the first three years of their existence in both the higher echelons of English and European rugby.
"It's been a great journey for me, but this is where I get off," said Hayes. "Of course it's sad to be going out like this and I'm obviously disappointed to be leaving behind the boys that I've been playing with over the last few years.
"Rugby has been my life for a long, long time now, but sometimes you have to listen to your body and what the medical people are telling you. For me, it's been a privilege and an honour to be part of what we've done here at Exeter in the last few years. To be captain for a large part of that has been a great feeling and I consider myself very lucky to have gone through what I have.
"There have been some huge achievements along the way and lots of things that so many of us can be proud of. Obviously winning promotion into the Premiership is a highlight, as was getting into the Heineken Cup for the first time. To be playing sides like Clermont, Leinster and the Scarlets last year shows just how far we've come as a club.
"At the same time, I think staying up in the Premiership that first year and how we went about our business is probably the biggest highlight for me. Going up nobody gave us much of a chance, but inwardly we backed ourselves with a group of players, many of whom had come through the Championship that previous year, and we ended up finishing eighth.
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"Certainly our fans hit the right note each week and Sandy Park, when it's full to the rafters, is a great place to play rugby. Looking back at things, I do think we've given them plenty to cheer about in recent times, so that's something I'm also proud to take away with me."
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According to Meguro Gajoen officials, the largest dolls, called Kyohobina, from a museum belonging to the Nozaki family, a long-established salt maker in Okayama, are 80 cm tall — more than three times the average height and roughly the size of a 4-year-old Japanese girl.
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Speed beef time of year!!!
A farmer that lives down the way called one of Michigan's finest DNR officer and complained about all the speed beef he saw eating his beans. Mr. DNR took a drive out and said 'Wow you got alot of Critter chewing on your beans, here let me bestow some of the coveted crop damage permits upon you".
Well now.........
My good buddy mr. Farmer walks into his shop where he finds me in my normal position by his fridge drinking one of his cold beers and said to me "Gator, your a pretty good guy, you always help me find the bottom of each box of beer I buy, you always offer your advise and opinion even when I don't ask. You even hold the light while I work on stuff. Let me pay you back for all your hard work with a coveted crop damage permit"
Here it is boys...........stare and be in aahhh.
Now the boys at remington heard of my good news and they decided to team up with NASA and create the perfect speed beef round.
Here's what they came up with............it's a special neck seeking 45-70 gov. round . It is guaranteed to stop a speed beef in it's tracks if placed in the neck region. The neck locator in the tip of this round is a hit or miss round, if it hits there is no tracking involved, one moment the speed beef is eating a mouth full of beans and the next bite she gets a bite of sweet honey clover in God's field. She doesn't know how she got there and the clover is soo good she doesn't care. If it's a miss, she says damn that was close and run into the woods. either way no tracking involved.
Without futher BS here it is............Job well done, boys.
Well after hearing what NASA and Remington had put together for a round, the guys at Ruger didn't want to be outdone so they put there heads together and came up with a special speed beef dispatching gun.
Now this here dispatching unit is so far advance they will not let me release any close up pictures just for the plain fact if the Russians get ahold of this design, why...it just might change the history of the world. So I can't get you a close pic but you can see this unit in the back ground if you look close enough.
Anyway, This here dispatching unit is based off the ruger no. 1 design and fitted with a under rate swift scope. It's simple one shot design is a perfect fit to the neck seeking round.
Now one more thing before I show the end results of this story,
You will notice in the following pics the special design of the camo clothes we"re hunting in. This patent applied for design was a brain storm of yours truly, and after many years of research I believe I have a winner.
It is call my "Don't move stupid" line of clothes. It is based off the theory that speed beef are color blind but see movement really well so if you don't move there is a good chance they won't see you.
Now the guys at mossy oak and the dury bros. have been sending spies to my shop trying to steal my designs because if my design ever gets out it will blow the doors off of what camo clothing really does, which is hiding the fact that they came up with a great way to take money out of your pocket and put it in there's.
Last edited by Gator eye; 08-03-2012 at 09:33 AM.
In my super special camo clothes I put the sneek on this doe along the edge of a bean field, got up to about 35 yards and the rest is history. One down 3 more to go.
Put this story all together and here is what you get.
Life is good
Hey boys, guess what I'm havin for dinner tonight
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Times are tough, no doubt about it. Jobs are scarce. That's why you have to scare them up. I've done that in spades--and with spades--for as long as I can remember. My first job was selling apples from our backyard tree. That worked out fine until my brother Russell and I started eating the apples--the good ones, anyway.
I piled wood around the neighborhood and tossed sticks down to basements so folks could keep their furnaces stoked. I picked brock (today known as "weeds") for our family salads, lots of berries and did plenty of chores.
Later I sold magazine subscriptions door to door. Housewives often fell for my well manicured sales pitches and gooey eye-rolling routine, but their husbands were often wary, slipping me a nickel to take my act on down the road. But when I did make a sale, I was rolling in the dough. Enough to buy my first Daisy air rifle, anyway.
When brother Albert brought home can after can of pork and beans from his CCC job, I flirted with the idea of selling any surplus--but they tasted so good that I had to keep them as samples.
Later, I delivered the News Telegram and Oregon Journal all over northeast Portland. It was a tough job, particularly on Sunday mornings when you had to get up at 4 a.m. Not having a bike, I had to carry the heavy papers on my back. But the job taught me how to be dependable and responsible, making sure all the papers got delivered and the money collected. From there I went to work in a fruit stand. The work was hard--lifting orange crates, carting boxes and whatnot--but I learned how to help and wait on people, enhancing my "people" skills.
If it could be sold, I sold it. Perfume door to door. I wasn't very good at it--maybe I needed a bath more than once a week. Flower seeds... I was a little better at that. Seeds represent hope--something that we all needed a shot of during the Great Depression. I was trying to earn money for a policeman's uniform from the Montgomery Ward catalogue.
After high school, I went to work for Meier and Frank Department store as a transfer boy, pushing a cart around the drug department, picking up bags of items people needed delivered to their homes. Women used to get mad at me when I snagged their stockings with the wooden handles of my cart. I got $60 a month for pushing that transfer cart down to the mail room. They made me mailman for the entire store, a job I held for six months. From there I ascended to the advertising department, where they tolerated me for a year.
At that time (1940), young men had the option of joining the army and carrying a wooden gun for two years or working in a defense-related industry. Boeing was hiring so I moved to Seattle. My first job there was as a mechanic, drilling holes in the airplane skin for the riveters to do their thing. I was there when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, so Boeing deferred me for two years.
I brought my bride-to-be, Lee Bower, up to Seattle, where she got a job at Best & Co. selling clothes. Nordstrom's later bought the company.
While I was working at Boeing, I took a mail-order course in advertising, and also went to night school at the University of Washington. By then I was an electrician at Boeing, for which I had to go to electrical school in Renton. Habitual readers of this column are well acquainted with my previously documented electrical escapades and the exploits of "Arky and Sparky."
As long as the war was on, Uncle Sam kept calling, so I kept on getting on the bus for the bi-annual trek to Fort Lewis. But Boeing said they needed me more, so I remained an electrician. Then wife Lee went to work at Boeing in the "Button Room," issuing badges for employees.
Needless to say, we won the war, despite my propensity as a test electrician for burning up Boeing airplanes before they ever left the factory floor.
When the war was over, I was laid off, then re-hired as a forklift driver. I managed to convince myself (and those who hired me) that it was a skill I possessed. I actually did okay--didn't break too many things or run over too many people--until a hot summer day and gooey asphalt conspired to put a fork in the road for my forklifting career. I walked away from that job with the forklift hubs deep in that warm asphalt.
My family was growing and so was the need to keep the little mouths fed. If a ditch needed digging I dug it. If a lawn needed seeding I sod it ("I came, I sod, I conquered.") If a barge needed toting I toted it.
When a local merchant needed a window dresser, I offered my services. I had never actually dressed a window, of course; but how hard could it be? You wear socks and climb around on carpets.
I once offered to frost a merchant's window with beer. Unfortunately, the result was a barley recognizable, hoppy mess.
But I was true to my company motto: "We create displays that sell!" Only my client, along with the $15 he paid me, changed my slogan to "We create displays that SMELL!"
From there I went to a shoe store in Renton, offering to do some store displays for Easter. My wife Lee went down in the woods behind our house near Sea Tac and picked a bunch of Pussy Willows. She drew up two big posters for their windows using the pussy willows for letters. We worked really hard until midnight. Needing a break we went across the street to a neighbor to share a cup of coffee. We left son Mike, who was three years old, alone in his bed. We were only 75 ft away. Big mistake... When we got back, not only was he lying naked on the couch, with a mouthful of grapes grubbed from the fridge, he had torn all the pussy willows off the display. We were too tired to be mad.
Those were difficult times then but I don't remember it being tough. We did what we had to do. We survived.
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Busy, busy here and still working away on a few special projects that will be shared here very soon. For today I am sharing with you this little guy created for Epiphany Crafts today...Fun, funky and full of color. Super easy card to create in minutes and makes use of those smaller scraps of paper. Hand cut the monster's head, teeth, horns, nose and crown. Used a round and heart punch on the eyes, freckles and crown. Finally a few larger circle dies to create the eyes. Loved using my Momenta paper for this. The colors were perfect and my boys approved with little giggles. Well, off for a day of more crafting and then cleaning up the mess I made from a weekend of creating...before my hubby comes home as promised. Have a wonderful Monday!
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Based on finishing order and two-way deal
1. TheKaas (United States) $96,352.96
2. Kid Wonder (United States) $80,000
3. Riepers (Turkey) $42,803.46
4. TenthPlanet (United States) $33,810
5. busto_soon (Netherlands) $26,507.04
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8. lilfaithisal (United States) $8,925.84
9. Rabbiej (Netherlands) $5,274.36
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1. nordlending (Norway) $100,000
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1. Annette_15 (Norway) $20,000
2. joeshambles (United Kingdom) $10,000
3. am-crm (Switzerland) $7,000
4. pudandsteff (United Kingdom) $5,000
5. to tall (United States) $3,000
6. solace8686 (United States) $2,000
7. Urdum57 (United States) $1,600
8. Dirk905 (Canada) $1,300
9. DDP67 (Canada) $1,000
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Based on finishing order and two-way deal
1. s0stndrd (Australia) $160,102.98
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For One Family, Life Gets in the Way of Paying for College
As the Schillinger family's fifth child enrolls amid hard times, a scramble for money becomes an odyssey.
Economy Changed Freshmen's Plans but Didn't Shake Their Confidence
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Colleges' Endowments Earned 12 Percent but Still Trail 2007 Value
A surging stock market helped produce healthy returns in 2010, partly reversing historic losses the year before, an annual survey has found.
End Run Around an Embargo: One Professor's Program in Cuba Since 2004
A professor at Hampshire College, who has been running an exchange program in Cuba for years, talks about what the lifting of restrictions will mean.
Middlebury College Invents a Pushy Redhead to Ease Dishware Theft
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UCLA Professor Studies a Group Stereotyped as a 'Model Minority'
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Not Just Good vs. Evil: Teaching the History of Terrorism
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This couple is THROUGH with debt! It has now been four months since they announced to their debt that they are breaking up with it!
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This month was a good month. We planned ahead for things that were going to cost us money (2 weddings, a birthday and a baby shower). We also worked on our Christmas shopping this month…started early…and paid in CASH!! It was GREAT!!
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Just like the past couple of months we have struggled with making our cash envelopes stretch until the end of the month. But, it helps us practice saying NO!!
We overspent on our gas this month by about $60. When we planned the trips to the two weddings we did not incorporate the cost of gas; one was in NC and the other in Tenn. And we had Thanksgiving in Georgia. I did not think about the extra gas we would need this month. We have to go to Florida for Christmas and we are going to budget gas money for the trip. I won't forget about the extra gas money from now on, that's for sure!!!
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But... I do see a strange issue, that I don't think is normal. When switching from a maximized app to an empty workspace, redraw of the background is particularly slow - it takes about 1 sec on Athlon 1600+. During that time the icons disappear. This might not seem slow, but it gets really annoying. The CPU spikes to 100% every time. I see the same thing when opening new folders in nautilus. I don't use nautilus for file management, but I imagine this would be really annoying for those that do. (as an aside, I am trying to test this w/ fullscreen folders, but the spatial feature that remembers where each folder was opened and how large it is doesn't seem to work currently)
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However, the most interesting portion of the handset is its secondary 1.8" display which has a resolution of 480 x 96 pixels and manages to display some useful information like notifications, time, weather, emails, text message, and stock quotes. Sure it might be seen as a novel feature, but it does present a quick way of getting access to relevant information without the need of fully powering on the handset. Moreover, it acts as a secondary function to other specific apps, like VZ Navigator, as it displays the next set of driving directions. Additionally, it'll even convert to some on-screen controls for the music player. And to conserve some precious battery, there are grip sensors placed on the sides of the handset where the ticker display is located. When you grip that particular area with your hand, it'll instantly power on the ticker display to offer you access to some pertinent information – all while keeping the main screen turned off.
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The Wright Institute collaborates with Anka Behavioral Health, Inc. (Anka) to provide services to homeless adults in three Contra Costa County locations. Anka employs more than 1,000 people and serves more than 16,000 clients annually in dozens of program sites throughout California and Delaware. Anka specializes in working with people with complex needs to treat the whole person, working to provide vulnerable populations with services tailored to assist in regaining self-sufficiency and achieving recovery and health. Through participation with the Chronic Homeless Initiative and other funding opportunities, Anka has developed a variety of programs, ranging from outreach to housing, to assist people transitioning out of homelessness. Using a "housing first" approach, consumers are able to receive housing as they begin to address the medical, mental health, and substance abuse problems that contributed to their homelessness.
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Carbodies Limited is a British company, based at Holyhead Road, Coventry. It started business as a coachbuilder, and now, as The London Taxi Company is best known for its production of London taxicabs.
- 1 History
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The business began in 1919, when Robert 'Bobby' Jones, a former general manager at coachbuilder Hollick and Pratt took over the coachbuilding operations of his then employer, timber merchants Gooderhams and set up in business in premises acquired from Thomas Pass in West Orchard, Coventry.[1]
Standardised Coachwork[edit]
Rather than make bespoke bodies to individual designs, Carbodies set out to produce coachwork to a number of standardised designs for car companies that did not have their own coachbuilding facilities. Their first major customers during the 1920s were MG and Alvis Cars. The scale of a new contract to build bodies for the MG M-Type Midget meant that they needed larger premises and in 1928, they moved to a larger site on Holyhead Road, where they remain to this day. In the 1930s, they supplied bodies for Rover, Invicta and Railton, but by far their biggest and most important customer in that decade was the Rootes Group.
During World War II the company made bodies for military vehicles. They also acquired press tools through the Lend-Lease scheme, which enabled them to make aircraft components. Carbodies also became a limited company at this time, with Bobby Jones as governing director and his son, Ernest Jones managing director.
Taxicabs, Convertibles, Daimlers and other Postwar Vehicles[edit]
After the war Carbodies negotiated with London taxi dealer Mann & Overton and Austin to make bodies for the Austin FX3 taxi as well as finishing and delivering the complete vehicles. They also developed a system for turning modern all-steel saloon cars into convertibles. This work was carried out on the early unit construction Hillman Minx, the Austin Somerset and Hereford, the Ford Mk1 Consul and Zephyr and, later the Mk2 Ford Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac.
In 1954, Bobby Jones sold Carbodies to the BSA group, who put it under the control of their prestige car company, Daimler. Although it was intended for Carbodies to become the manufacturing plant for Daimler steel bodies, this was never fulfilled. They did, however convert the Conquest saloon into a drophead, using the same methods they used on Fords and Austin and also made a drophead coupe body for the Daimler Conquest Roadster and made bodies for the Daimler Majestic and Majestic Major saloons.
Under BSA, manufacturing facilities were extended and more plant installed. In 1958, Carbodies began manufacturing the body and carrying out the assembly, finishing and delivery of the most important vehicle in their history, the Austin FX4 taxi. Carbodies also supplied prototype bodies and tooling, projects including the Jaguar E-type bonnet and panels for Triumph, Ariel and BSA motorcycles and scooters.
Further contracts undertaken during the 1960s and early 1970s were the conversion of Humber Hawk and Super Snipe, Singer Vogue and Triumph 2000 saloons into estate cars, but gradually, as contract work on private cars and commercial vehicles fell away, the FX4 taxi would become more important for the company.
Manganese Bronze Holdings Plc and London Taxis International[edit]
In 1971 Carbodies bought the FX4 chassis assembly line from British Leyland's Adderley Park, Birmingham factory and moved it to Coventry, making them complete manufacturers of the FX4, in actuality if not in name.[2] Two years later, Carbodies was bought, along with parent company BSA by Manganese Bronze Holdings.[3]
In the 1970s, Carbodies tried to make a new taxi of their own, the FX5, but it was abandoned in 1979 because the development costs were too high. 1982 saw Carbodies take responsibility for the complete manufacture of the FX4 taxicab, when British Leyland had finally lost interest in it.[4] By this time, the FX4 was the company's only product, despite attempts to introduce new lines, such as a Ford Cortina MkV convertible and the Range Rover Unitruck. A new model of taxi, the CR6, based on a Range Rover bodyshell was abandoned after almost five years of development.
In 1984, the London taxicab dealer Mann & Overton was bought by Manganese Bronze Holdings Plc. This acquisition resulted in the formation of London Taxis International, comprising LTI Carbodies, LTI Mann and Overton and London Taxi Finance.
In 1997, a new model of taxicab, the TX1 was introduced. This was updated as the TXII in 2002, and in 2007 as the present model, the TX4. This series has established LTI Vehicles as a worldwide supplier of London-type taxis.
In 1998 the name Carbodies Limited was dropped and the company was renamed LTI Limited and re-branded to The London Taxi Company in Nov 2010. In recent times The London Taxi Company set up a partnership with Chinese car maker Geely Automotive, building a factory in Shanghai to manufacture London taxis for the export market and to supply components to the home factory in Coventry. In 2010 the name Mann & Overton was dropped and the dealership now also trades as The London Taxi Company.
Carbodies' MGs[edit]
MG 18/80 Mark II Coupé
MG Magnette
'Airline' Coupé
MG Midget TA
'Airline' Coupé
Carbodies' prewar sports bodies[edit]
Carbodies' postwar drophead coupés and estate cars[edit]
Ford Zephyr convertible
Ford Consul convertible
Ford Consul MkII convertible
Ford Zephyr MkII convertible
Alvis TA 14 drophead coupé
Austin Somerset drophead coupé
Triumph 2000 Estate
Singer Vogue Estate
Humber Hawk Estate
Humber Super Snipe Estate
Carbodies' Daimlers[edit]
Daimler Conquest drophead coupé
Carbodies' taxis, hire cars and commercial vehicles[edit]
Austin FX4 1962
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carbodies Coachwork.
- Bill Munro, Carbodies: The Complete Story, Crowood, UK 1998, ISBN 978-1-86126-127-4
- London Taxi Company press releases
- ^ David Thoms, Tom Donnelly, The Motor Car Industry in Coventry since the 1890s Croom-Helm 1985 ISBN 0-7099-2456-9
- ^ BSA assemble taxis The Times, Wednesday, 12 May 1971; p. 18; Issue 58170; col F
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It was a sunny Sunday afternoon, and as part of the international days of solidarity with the South Central Farm, around 60 people paraded through downtown Santa Cruz, carrying colorful anti-development signs and banners, handing out leaflets, taping posters up everywhere, and playing improvised drums.
A majority of sidewalk onlookers were curious and willing to read the handouts, and a few joined in. The rally began at the clocktower and grew in numbers until spilling out on to Front St. at 3:00pm. Comfortably filling most of the asphalt, the assembly proceeded down Front to Laurel Street, turning to come back northward up the crowded Pacific Avenue drag and finally ending in a courtyard area across from the Post Office. Marchers congregated in the courtyard to listen to speakers, announcements, and a statement from the farmers, broadcasted from the mobile bike cart PA system.
Speakers touched on the topics of public space in Santa Cruz, the current status of the S.C. Farm, related historical struggles, local guerilla farming plans, memories of past spaces lost to developers, the Radcliff Elementary School Garden, local areas threatened by development, and an introduction to seedballs. A large quantity of the clay-based balls, made up of native wildflower seeds, were distributed among the crowd. People went their separate ways with the "seed bombs" in hand, placing them thoughtfully throughout the city as a small guerilla gardening action.
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Pelosi Talks Issues in Houston
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi(D-CA) covered several topics during a discussion Tuesday evening at RiceUniversity's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The invitation-only event began with a warm introduction by the school's namesake, former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker. "She and I are living proof that you can be at opposite ends of the political spectrum and still like each other," Baker told the audience. Baker added that he was "impressed" with Pelosi's "passion" and her "political acumen." Pelosi touted her local ties, noting that one of her daughters, son-in-law and their children live in Houston's West University area.
Pelosi spoke for more than an hour, taking questions from the moderator and audience on topics ranging from the situation in Ukraine, to Obamacare, women in politics, immigration, the cost of higher education, and the state of journalism. When asked about prospects of more bipartisanship in Congress, Pelosi cited a controversial issue. "A good hope of bipartisanship would be that we could bring up the immigration (reform) bill," she told the audience. "We have probably 100% of the Democrats, and we just need a few Republicans." On the issue of climate change, Pelosi called Houston the "energy capital of the world" and encouraged energy companies to be part of the solution. "If I were the CEO of a major oil company, I would say I'm taking charge of this (issue), because they're always going to need my oil, but how do we manage the rest of it."
Pelosi also chided Texas and other states that have rejected federal funds to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. "It's hard to understand why a state would not want to have that infusion of money for that purpose...it's free money," she said. The event was calm and cordial throughout, with no hostile words or exchanges. After one audience member said he was a Republican after asking a question, Pelosi lightened the mood. "My son-in-law is a Republican, and he's right here in the second row," she said while laughing. "And he's wearing a tie that's red with elephants on it, so what can I tell you."


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July 16, 1948: Day of the Week
July 16, 1948 was the 198th day of the year 1948 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 168 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.
A person born on this day will be 68 years old today. If that same person saved a Cent every day starting at age 7, then by now that person has accumulated $226.29 today. That is, assuming this person is still alive and kicking.
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- 1948Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
- 1948The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
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- 1948Pierre Koffmann, French chef
- 1948Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
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Mix four cups of blueberries, blackberries or raspberries-frozen is
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Baseball: The Class 5A title tilt will be played Saturday at Volcanoes Stadium
KEIZER - It just keeps getting better and better for the Sherwood baseball team.
First, Sherwood earned a spot in the Class 5A state championship game by scoring a thrilling 1-0 win over West Albany in a state semifinal contest played Tuesday at Sherwood High School.
And, when the Bowmen take the field Saturday in the title game, in the opposing dugout will be their rivals from Wilsonville.
It will be an all-Northwest Oregon Conference match-up with Sherwood taking on the Wildcats in the Class 5A state title game, set to start at 10 a.m. at Volcanoes Stadium.
'It will be amazing,' Sherwood senior shortstop Tyler Rome said. 'This is something I've dreamed about my whole life. I can't wait.'
'It's huge,' Sherwood senior Tanner Kichler said after pitching the Bowmen to the semifinal win. 'Throughout the season, we took it game-by-game. Now, we're where we wanted to be. This is definitely awesome. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight - or tomorrow night.'
It will be Sherwood's first championship game appearance since 2006, when it fell 9-2 in nine innings to Astoria in the Class 3A state title contest.
'It took me 16 years to get here the first time, and only five to get back again,' Sherwood coach Jon Strohmaier said. 'I'm thankful we're getting another shot.'
Wilsonville, the Northwest Oregon Conference champion, brings an overall record of 23-6 into Saturday's title contest.
Sherwood, which also is 23-6 on the season, is all too familiar with Wilsonville, which scored a 6-4 home win over Pendleton in Tuesday's semifinal round.
The teams met twice in league play this year. The Wildcats scored a 2-0 win over the Bowmen in a game played April 8 at Wilsonville High School. Wilsonville then posted a 5-1 victory against the Bowmen in a game played April 29 at Sherwood High School.
'I told the team, after that second game, that they didn't show up,' Strohmaier said. 'And I told them that the only chance they'd have to face them again would be in the state championship game.'
And the Bowmen are more than happy that they get another shot at the Wildcats - with the state title on the line.
'We're so excited,' Sherwood senior first baseman Jake Lawrence said. 'We wanted to get them again.'
'This is almost like a storybook,' Rome said. 'We were hoping we'd get to play them again. We're a little more focused, and we're at our prime now.'
Wilsonville senior Spencer Cumiford pitched the Wildcats to the two league wins over Sherwood.
'We hope it's him again,' Lawrence said of Saturday's title match-up. 'We want another shot at him.'
As for Sherwood, Strohmaier wasn't sure if Kichler or senior Jordan Ramp would start on the mound.
'We'll have them both ready to go,' Strohmaier said. 'And if whoever starts gets tired, we'll get the other one in there and we'll be fine.'
'We just to play the way we have been playing,' Kichler said. 'We need to put the ball in play on offense and me and Jordan need to throw strikes.'
'We need to hit the ball,' Lawrence said. 'But, for us, the main thing is pitching and playing defense.'
Lawrence, and a good number of other Bowmen - such as Ramp, senior Geoff Walck, senior Justin Davis, senior Michael Balfour, junior Taylor Bonawitz, junior Travis Dyer, junior Connor Munro and junior Nate Montgomery - were on the Bowmen football team that won a state championship this past fall.
'That experience is going to help,' Lawrence said. 'We know what to expect and what it takes.'
Meanwhile, it seems like everyone on the Bowmen side is happy that it's Wilsonville that they'll play on Saturday.
'I respect (Wilsonville coach) Matt (Kosderka). He's done a good job and he's a friend,' Strohmaier said. 'Before the playoffs, when everyone was ripping on the NWOC I told him 'hey, dude, let's both get through these playoffs and play for the championship.'
'I expect it's going to be a good game. We'll show up, they'll show up, and we'll see who wins.'


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Hello All,
I have a home that was built in 1961. It has an attached two car garage with an unfinished ceiling and attic space. The former owner had laid some old mismatched pieces of plywood over the ceiling joists for storage. I would like to finish off the ceiling with sheetrock and put down a subfloor on top of the joists for storage that would be accessed through a pull down attic ladder.
The garage is 20' wide and 26' deep on the left side of garage and 21' deep on the right as the entry way to the house is on the the back side of the right half of the garage.
The ceiling joists are 2x6's, 32" o.c. and run 21' from the front wall to the back wall on the right side and 21' from the front wall to a doubled up 2x4's extending from the back wall on the right side of garage over to the left side wall of garage. The additional area in the back left side of garage has no ceiling joists and is open up to the rafters.
The rafters are 2x6's, 16" o.c. and the ceiling joists are tied to them in the center of the garage roof line (13' from the front of garage) by 2x4's.
I have walked on these (I am 250 lbs.) and they seem pretty sturdy other than a bit of side to side wobble since there is no blocking between the joists.
I know that the joist spacing of 32" o.c. is not sufficient to properly support 5/8 rock and was planning on adding 2x6 every 16" o.c. for this.
However, with such a long span will 2x6's every 16" o.c. be strong enough to put down 1/2" or 3/4" plywood sheets for storage safely? Would not necessarily be storing anything real heavy but would need to walk around the garage attic space to access stored items.
Additionally, is the doubled up 2x4's strong enough to support the ends of the joists for the 7 foot section on the left side of garage?
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I moved into my house with a completely sheetrocked garage with some OSB put down in the garage attic to use as storage, just a access hole in the ceiling which I've since replaced with an aluminum pull-down ladder.
I've noticed that the previous owner didn't beef up the joists enough to handle the walking around, holding the drywall doesn't seem to be too difficult. They did add extra 2x4s to double the thickness of the ceiling but I don't think they sistered them correctly to the joists to stiffen the joists. So when you walk around on the OSB in the attic the ceiling flexes and the drywall seams crack. At some point if we are in this house long enough, I'll pull up the attic floor and redo it correctly.
That is exactly why I want to know ahead of time what I will need to do to make sure it is done right.
I know that I could just run furring strips and sheet rock as is and not use the attic for storage. However, there is a lot of space up there that I would like to be able to use for storage as well as adding value to the home if I should sell sometime in the future. Of course it is only going to add value to myself and any future owners of the home if it is done correctly.
Good luck with your future redo and for the time being, be very careful as it sounds like you or anything heavy stored in that attic space has the potential to come crashing down through the garage ceiling.
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You're right to be concerned about the 32" spacing. Your idea to add joists to make 16" centers is a must, and at a minimum I would add 2x4 vertical supports to the new joists just like the existing supports, and if you would feel safer, you could add a shorter 2x4 at an angle where the joists rest on the wall plate to create a custom truss effect. The more you make it act like a truss, the more weight you can store Be sure when you add your ladder steps to frame it with 2x6's between the joists for added support.:)
Thank you for your feedback.
Do you know any formulas that I could use to determine what the weight capacity for storage would be with the 2x6's running the 21' spans with 16" o.c. and the addition of the vertical supports that you propose?
DIY KEN, check out the following calculator. You may have differing requirements in your area, I usually over-build everything so there's no question.
Hi, Ken
I saw the reply from Marcus with the calculator; I will use it for the loft I'm planning to build. Remember that your span will be somewhat shortened because of your center support. I would not cut the span in half for your calculations, but your span would be close to half. (In my opinion)
Good luck with your project,
2x6s can only span barely 14 feet for a 20psf load (Light Storage) at 16"' OC.
So you need to do something to carry the load differently to get adequate support
I would add full length 2x6s at 16 OC and remove the center braces and make a type of W truss with 1x8 spruce every other joist/rafter that would give you the entire center for storage and little to non on the 1/3 remaining ends. Nail and glue the boards with a minimum of 5 8d nails. (Boards are better than 2x6s at this point for the truss material)
The common math to make the truss would be at the beginning of the W it is attached at the 1/2 point of a rafter then angle down to 1/3 of joist then back up to ridge and repeat on the opposite side to complete the W. You wouldn't have to worry too much about weight deflection being transferred to the roof.
I think you could get about 7 feet of middle storage with this method.
You also would not be adding weight to the ridge pole.
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I check my oil every morning after the cars been sitting in the level garage all night.
This is a discussion on '13 WRX needs engine replacement = I'm not happy within the Everyday Impreza Talk forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; I check my oil every morning after the cars been sitting in the level garage all night....
I check my oil every morning after the cars been sitting in the level garage all night.
I check fluids-tyre pressure generally once a week. I also get her washed once a week and mini-detailed once a month. I get oil changes every 3500-4000 miles - better more than few. And yeh, I keep oil in the boot.
Hope the OP gets everything fixed to his satisfaction-that really stinks! I'd probably make 'em give me a new car - that's just me.
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So here is where this whole thing landed. My dealer is getting me into a brand new 2013 as result of the rod bearing issue which lead to my engine failure. Needless to say I'm very pleased with this outcome and they really have gone above and beyond to ensure that I'm satisfied. There are two '13 sedans at other dealers that my dealer is currently trying to work a trade with. One is SWP and the other is same as my original one, ICM. I'll post again once all the dust has settled and I'm back on the road. I'm secretly hoping that the SWP works out...I think it looks pretty awesome.
That is awesome! Super glad everything worked out for you. Your dealer really stepped up on this one.
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Nice! SWP is pretty sweet. Good luck!
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Excellent outcome.
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Glad to hear it. Good for you for staying positive and patient through all this. It sounds like the dealer is responding as they should.
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That is quite frankly amazing. I wonder if the dealer thought of that or if it was suggested by Subaru. My guess is they'll take your car to some sort of lab for testing and reimburse the dealer or something. But it's a great outcome for you!
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My dealer confirmed today that they were able to work out a trade with another dealer for the premium SWP sedan that I wanted. They should get it this weekend and then dealer install the options that I had on my previous WRX so that I can pick it up on Tuesday. Good stuff!
It got me to wondering though...what are they going to do with my old rex? They put a new short block in it, so I guess someone can get a decent deal for a car that had only had 3K miles on it...assuming the dealer discloses what happened and reduces the price down accordingly. Really not my problem I suppose, but I'm curious. Or maybe Subaru corporate takes it and the dealer gets reimbursed?
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After the Endurancelife Coastal Trail series event on Saturday quite a few runners were exclaiming that the route was short at around 25.8 miles. What's 0.4 of a mile between friends? Well most Endurancelife marathons are between 27 and 29 miles, so to have one short was a bit of a surprise. I got home and measured the distance using some popular mapping software and it came in even shorter at 25.3. It got me into thinking about how accurate the way we measure routes actually is.
Most of us take the number on our GPS wristwatch as being 100% true, but actually this is far from correct. Rather than do a lot of legwork myself I did a quick bit of research and found this article on measuring routes on The Good Running Guide. I would strongly recommend giving it a quick read as it is written in plain English. The most interesting revelation is that they found GPS watches to give an end result that was between 4% to 8.4% out and that was with a good view of the sky. So it looks like GPS accuracy isn't quite what you might think.
In another article on the New York Times Website similar inaccuracies were found. When explaining the results of someone running along a twisty wooded trail they said the following:
The actual distance was 6.6 miles, and his actual pace was 7 minutes, 37 seconds a mile. The watch that did best said he ran 6.45 miles at a 7:47 pace. The one that did worst said he ran just 5.5 miles at a 9:08 pace.
Now, the further you run the more inaccurate the result will be. Don't give up though, you can use them with features such as the elevation correction on the premium subscription at www.trainingpeaks.com to help make them more accurate if you need to. For most of us, the fact that they are accurate to within ten feet is more than accurate enough. These little errors really do add up quite rapidly though, so don't go running to a race organiser to tell them that they measured their race wrong just because your GPS device tells you so. To be honest, even if your GPS matches those of your competitors, that still doesn't mean they are 100% accurate, after all the devices rely on the same technology and you ran through the same areas with the satellites in similar positions, so they probably recorded similar errors to yours.
An example: On a hilly and occasional wooded trail marathon you can expect your overall GPS recorded distance to be between 1.04 and 2.08 miles out if we accept that it will have an inaccuracy of between 4% and 8%. Most of the pages that I read also showed the readings to usually be short, rather than long for specific running devices, so take heart that you have probably run faster and further than your watch says.
My recommendation: Don't throw away that GPS just yet, it is still a great training tool and gives you plenty of useful information, but maybe don't rely on it quite so much during actual races other than for heart rate information. Instead turn your attention inwards and rely on your body to tell you what the correct pace is, learn to run by feel and don't worry about how many miles are left to run. By the end of the race it doesn't matter how quick you were during any particular mile, what matters is your average pace over the entire race.


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Creating technology that allows individuals to endlessly measure and analyse themselves makes perfect sense for health-fanatics, and using Nike's FuelBand or the FitBit Flex allows people to cheerfully obsess over the minutiae of their day. But what if you were tracking your stress levels instead? How would you use that information?
Aiming to provide an answer to this question is the PIP - a teardrop-shaped wireless biosensor that measures stress via 'galvanic skin response'. Resembling the clicker from a set of car keys the PIP is held between thumb and fore-finger and is currently in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign.
It works by measuring the conductivity of your skin – a physiological reaction affected by how busily your sweat glands are working, and how blood is circulating under the skin. Taken together these metrics can give a measurement of how stressed an individual is.
The makers behind the PIP have created their own in-house algorithms to measure stress levels, but the real kicked is the games that are paired with device. Connecting via Bluetooth the PIP is used as a controller for Android and iOS games – teaching individuals to control their own stress levels in order to make progress in the game.
One title named 'Relax and Race' puts players in control of a dragon, with their stress level used to determine their steed's speed. The more stressed out you are, the slower your dragon flies. Although this may sound like the feedback cycle from hell, the makers promise that the opposite is true and that controlling our stress is like any muscle – practice makes perfect.
Speaking to The Independent, Daragh McDonnell, CTO of Galvanic (the company behind the PIP) said that the games force users to develop "personal strategies to improve their performance – to figure out what works for them [so they can] apply them to real-world stress situations."
Another game – The Loom – takes the competitive element out of the equation by showing the user a landscape that blooms as they relax: "the key point is that the game environment is inherently relaxing, which helps to overcome any reservations the player may have about being assessed."
Galvanic are also keen to stress the possible medical applications of their invention, and have introduced the PIP to therapists to see how they might use the device.
After seeing the device Dr Mark Matthews, the Marie Curie Research Fellow at Cornell University said: "This type of technology has the potential to positively change how we live. [We're] aiming to get therapists to use it with their clients as ways to scaffold learning anti-anxiety (relaxation) interventions like mindfulness and breathing exercises."
"Ultimately I would like to see this as an intervention that people with bipolar disorder (and others) could use to help wind down their day and go to sleep."
The idea of endlessly measuring our bodies has also seemed like a bad idea to me – an invitation for neuroticism rather than physical and mental well-being. But if devices like the PIP pitch themselves towards the therapeutic rather than the competitive, then I could see myself relaxing at the prospect of the quantified self.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by jzchen, Nov 3, 2007.
With Irving, LeBron, and Kevin Love already there... I hope he joins them.
Can you say "Big 4"?
Fred McLeod is going to have a field day gushing over the mic with his two favorite former players coming back.
Austin Carr is gonna be confused as hell!
I think he is more of an ex-NBA player.
can't wait until Stuckey is the pancake just under the tank...
Allen Iverson, NBA icon, struggles with life after basketball tl;dr he's broke
If fine=broke.
if fine=he loses his 5 children and his wife
Maybe that's his plan to get rich again.
Maybe he should have practiced for post basketball life.
His wife loves him very much. He has seen the error of his ways. He'll move on to a coaching position and he and his wife will live happily ever after.
He's an alcoholic, he needs some help.
He has blown over $200 million. That's a lot of freakin' money. He needs some help.
His entourage is what ruined him. A bunch of leeches who are no where to be seen now
Michigan House Envy: Ex-Piston's mansion has indoor basketball court, 13,000 square feet | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
I want that house so bad.
The cleaning service alone would cost a fortune.
Nice read The curious case of Rodney Stuckey - Yahoo Sports
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Online Mormon missionaries, often discussing their faith with anonymous seekers and trolls, have five times the success of traditional LDS proselytizers.
"Whereas traditional Mormon missionaries convert, on average, six people during their 18- to 24-month service, the online apostles in Provo have averaged around 30 converts per missionary per year," Gideon Burton, a professor at LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University, told The Huffington Post. "And these people stick around. Ninety-five percent of the Internet converts "have kept active, a retention rate more than triple the norm."
Those are impressive numbers, Burton told Huffington. These online missionary statistics were "equal to the highest-baptizing missions that are out there."