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A New York City memorabilia shop famous for its original pin up photos is selling its entire inventory for auction.
Movie Star News had been selling copies of posters and pin-up photos by mail since 1939. But owner Ira Kramer says the Internet has made his job obsolete.
"We would do the research, it was physically going through everything, climbing ladders and finding them," Kramer said. "Now, you know, you type search engine get me this…what do you need me for?"
The shop in Lower Manhattan had amassed almost 3 million film stills, movie posters and original pin-up photos. Irving Klaw, Kramer's uncle and former owner of Movie Star News, was best known for his pin-up photos of Bettie Page in bondage and lingerie.
Premier Collections President Stuart Scheinman thinks Klaw's pin-up photography of Bettie Page and her props and clothing will be among the best-sellers when auctions start.
"When Irving discovered her he made her famous," he said. "He truly made her the Queen of pin ups."
Scheinman's company bought the Movie Star News collection for an undisclosed amount, about 7 figures, and will auction it off starting next year. Scheinman said he thinks the Movie Star News collection is one of the most comprehensive compilations of Hollywood memorabilia.
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To borrow the words of David Bowie, don't you wonder sometimes about sound and vision? Well, Nina Raine's Tribes will have you wondering about them a lot.
Raine's exceptional play, getting its Canadian premiere from Theatrefront at the Berkeley Street Theatre, pits the hearing world against the deaf one as it questions how we communicate. Is sign language better at expressing emotions than spoken words – or inadequate when it comes to conveying nuance? Do we use speech to build barriers rather than to connect? Is an existence without music a poorer one?
The play is also, as its title suggests, about groups and exclusivism. At its centre is Billy (Stephen Drabicki), the youngest and only deaf child in his family. And a noisier, wordier tribe you couldn't imagine: Father Christopher (Joseph Ziegler) is a vociferous and pedantic critic; mother Beth (Nancy Palk) is a novelist; older brother Daniel (Dylan Trowbridge) is writing a thesis about language; sister Ruth (Patricia Fagan) is an aspiring opera singer. When they get together over dinner, Billy is all but forgotten amid the hubbub.
In a loving but misguided (and selfish) decision, Billy's family has chosen not to learn sign language so that he won't feel disadvantaged. But, of course, he is. Despite having developed awesome lip-reading skills and receiving a sonic assist from hearing aids, he's forever out of step. In a clan of slashing verbal duellists, he's been handed a rubber sword.
Then empowerment comes in the form of Sylvia (Holly Lewis), a young woman with deaf parents who is also losing her hearing. She introduces a smitten Billy to her tribe – the deaf community – and teaches him to sign. She also finds a lucrative way for him to use his lip-reading prowess, rousing the jealousy of the unemployed and underachieving Daniel and Ruth, who have both moved back home.
British playwright Raine, the grand-niece of Doctor Zhivago author Boris Pasternak, is admirably tough-minded in her treatment of both tribes. The supercilious attitude of Ziegler's Christopher, the defender of words, turns out to have its counterpart in the deaf community. And Billy's conversion to that tribe is not without its cult-ish aspects. It is only toward the end that Raine betrays some of her great-uncle's sentimentality, tugging too hard at our heartstrings in the final scene.
But for the most part this is a witty, gutsy and involving drama, which has already picked up its share of accolades in Britain – where it premiered in 2010 at London's Royal Court Theatre – and off-Broadway. Theatrefront's production, part of the Canadian Stage season, is ably directed by Daryl Cloran and powered by some terrific acting.
Drabicki, a hard-of-hearing actor, is highly effective as Billy, whose growing confidence is at first heartening and then later, alarming, as he begins to display some hitherto hidden traits of arrogance and dishonesty. Lewis's mousy Sylvia, meanwhile, poignantly articulates the anguish of gradual and irretrievable hearing loss.
Moonlighting Soulpepper stalwarts Ziegler and Palk bring their own married-couple chemistry to Christopher and Ruth. But a scruffy, bespectacled Ziegler has the best lines and the most fun as the razor-tongued paterfamilias who makes a virtue of political incorrectness. His addiction to outrageous metaphors leads to a hilarious moment when Billy has to "sign" for Sylvia one of his father's quips about fornicating with a cement mixer.
Trowbridge and Fagan, however, are less successful as Billy's siblings. A fragile-looking Trowbridge is suitably pathetic as the mentally and emotionally unstable Daniel, but he can't keep us from sensing that the character is too contrived. And while Fagan is acceptable as Ruth, her British accent keeps slipping off to reveal the Canadian one underneath.
That flaw is especially noticeable in a play that is continually drawing our attention to sounds. Cloran's staging opens with the thunderous cacophony of an orchestra tuning up, and throughout we hear snatches of Mozart, Debussy, Queen – all reminders of the auditory pleasures Billy has never known and Sylvia is going to lose. (The sound design is by the estimable Richard Feren.) At the same time, there's a strong visual component, with Lorenzo Savoini projecting surtitles on the blue walls of his dining-room set to interpret Lewis and Drabicki's fluid sign language.
This is one show that leaves you with your eyes and ears wide open, having acquired a fresh appreciation of both senses.
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This is a very rare Slingerland Drum Catalog from 1932 spiral bound with 97 pages plus an additional 18 page section with guitars, mandolins, ukes, tenors and more. This may be missing the back cover or more, since it is spiral bound pages could have easily come out, a few small pieces missing from the last couple of pages and the first few pages are wrapped over the binding a little. Early Radio Kings and some nice color lithos. Some writing.


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St. Helens jumps out to 14-0 lead, but it doesn't last too long
The St. Helens Lions wanted to make something happen Friday night, and for a while at least they did just that.
St. Helens would take a 14-0 lead over top-ranked, defending state 5A champion Sherwood and stayed in front for quite awhile. The euphoria wouldn't continue and in the end the Lions ended up on the wrong side of a 61-21 score.
'We got off to a good start,' St. Helens coach John England said. 'We jumped on them early. We had an onsides kick with a nice bounce and Michael Kirby jumped on it. We were living on the edge.'
On their second play from scrimmage, the Lions broke loose back Dumitri Malnasi for 48-yards and the score. Eldon Ralls' kick would make it 7-0.
St. Helens didn't expect Sherwood to stumble for long, but when Tyler Stewart sacked their quarterback on the Bowmen's first play hope sprang eternal.
The Bowmen came back to drive down the field, but then fumbled at the St. Helens five, Jerek Pense scooped it up and went 95 yards to the Sherwood four. From there, St. Helens quarterback Dallas Thompson found Stewart for the score. Ralls kicked and it was 14-0.
Sherwood would come back to score in the first quarter and twice in the second for a 20-14 halftime lead.
'It took awhile, but they scored with less than a minute to go in the first quarter. We were still ahead and playing on fire. They had some good running backs, but we were hanging with them. It wasn't perfect, but the kids were doing what we wanted them to,' England added. 'It was pretty exciting up through halftime, even in the second quarter when they caught up.'
The tide turned in the third quarter. The Lions made some mistakes, gave up a safety, and four touchdowns.
'They were playing defense pretty tough (against us),' the coach said, 'but we did throw the ball pretty well for (nearly) 140 yards. We couldn't get our running game established.'
He noted, 'Kirby had a nice recovery and Pense a nice return. Dallas Thompson had a really good game under fire the whole night. Dumitri had a nice run, and Jesse Wright had four catches and a nice touchdown catch. Tyler Stewart did a good job on defense.'
Thompson hit 11 of 24 passes for 136 yards and one interception. Malnasi led the Lions with 13 carries for 68 yards. Defensively, Kirby led the Lions with six tackles and six assists. Stewart had four tackles and six assists.
The Lions travel to Milwaukie this Friday. The Mustangs are 1-3 on the season. They beat Cleveland in their opener 6-0; lost to Wilsonville, 51-6; lost to Liberty, 40-14; and lost to Silverton last Friday, 47-6.
'We should be able to handle Milwaukie,' England said. 'They only won that first week to a week PIL team. They've got some good athletes. We've got to get to them early and keep the pressure from the start. If we let them hang around and play with us it could make for a long night. We need to come together and execute for the full 48 minutes.'
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St. Helens 14 0 0 7-21
SH-Dumitri Malnasi 48 yard run (Eldon Ralls kick)
SH-Tyler Stewart 5 yard pass from Dallas Thompson (Ralls kick)
Sh-Paul Dodson 53 yard pass from Dusty Crabtree (Nate Montgomery kick)
Sh-Dodson 45 yard run (Montgomery kick)
Sh-A.J. Spencer 15 yard run (kick failed)
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Sh-Dodson 20 yard run (Montgomery kick)
Sh-Anthony Sherwood 5 yard run (PAT failed)
Sh-Caleb Galindo 1 yard run (PAT failed)
SH-Jesse Wright 49 yard pass from Thompson (Ralls kick)
Sh-Keegan Lawrence 27 yard run (Taylor Bonaitz kick)
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Opponent: Milwaukie Mustangs
Record: 1-3
Last Opponent: lost to Silverton, 47-6.
Ranking: 28th
Offense: Pro-I, shotgun spread
Defense: 3-4
Notable: Defensive strength is interior line
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New T-350 rebuild makes grinding/scraping noise
Recently rebuilt by a local shop with a transtec rebuild kit, transgo shift kit, borg warner clutches and band, and a new converter (low stall/gas mileage tow converter). I flushed the cooler, and drove myself crazy making sure my converter was seated properly to the pump shaft.
Also, an NP205 was swapped in from the original 203 (went smoothly there).
Only happens when in gear and under load. If the t-case is in neutral, there is no noise, even when in foward or reverse gears. In Park or Neutral on the transmission (while in 2wd or 4wd) there is no noise. As soon as I put it under load (t-case engaged in any configuration, transmission in any gear) I get the noise. It sounds scarily like a bad converter install to me, BUT I know that not to be the case.
I quadruple checked on install, (double clunk to seat it, good spacing to the flexplate, freespinning TC both ways after bell was bolted up) and then pulled the flexplate bolts and shimmed it between plate and converter with 1/8" washers thinking maybe it was pulling on the flexplate too hard and causing runout. No luck. Converter still spun great with little to no effort when I took the bolts out to do this.
Feels a little soft for a shift kit and fresh rebuild also. Drove it about 2 1/2 miles trying to figure if it was just me or not, and decided to park it and not drive it anymore until I figure something out.
Any suggestions?
Been a long time, wheres the Doc at? :pimp:
Maybe its scraping on the inspection cover?
Here's a link to a thread about him.
the problem is the shift fork/s in the transfer case. they get worn and when they do, range engagement will lock but, the fork still moves from the wear and will make the noise as your describing.
i know it seems like a lot of work, ut id suggest that you put the 203 back inand see if the noise is still there.
I pulled the inspection cover off Poncho, still there
Thank you for the info and link Jon, so sad... When I first came on here I read so many Docvette posts and learned so many little things daily from him. Long live the Doc :pimp:
tnsmith - DAMN YOU. That makes so much sense... I just don't want to hear it, lol. Any way you can think of to check it somehow without pulling it? If not, guess I'll be rebuilding my newly acquired 205 soon. That 203 has a weird shifter box mounted on top that gave me so much trouble whenever it got mud in it... No thank you.
And lastly, would that damage my transmission to drive it? Since it is the t-case not allowing total engagement rather than low pressure in the trans, think I'm ok? I don't plan on driving it much until it's fixed, but I DO need to keep moving it around, I usually take it to the store for milk and such here and there (strict city officials, whenever I park it a couple weeks they try to tow me :pain: )
if your wonderingif the trans has proper pressure, hook up a 0-300 psi gauge to the main line port on the trans (driver side by the linkage) and see what the actual pressure is on the trans. the t-case will have nothing to do with a low pressure problem if it has low pressure.
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Sportscaster Al Michaels Charged with DUI
NBC's "Sunday Night Football" sportscaster Al Michaels was arrested and charged with misdemeanor DUI on Friday night in Santa Monica, reports CNN.
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Donnangelo is featured artist at U of O
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Clarksville, Ark. --- Janet E. Donnangelo of Russellville will be showing her original ceramic forms as the featured artist for November in the Stephens Gallery on the University of the Ozarks campus.
Renowned for her talents in the field of wheel-thrown pottery, Donnangelo is a graduate of Georgia Southern University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in art education. A resident of Russellville since 1980, she and her husband Ralph own Main Street Gallery.
Donnangelo's style has evolved from "simply functional" to artistically inspired forms. Her flowing root designs on various pottery sculptures have become her signature application, and tend to draw the viewer into a connection with the Earth. Her work has been exhibited in North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona, Florida and a variety of galleries and museums throughout Arkansas.
Donnangelo's exhibit will be on display from Nov. 3 to Dec. 10. There will be a "Reception to Meet the Artist" at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, in the Stephens Gallery, located in the Walton Fine Arts Center on campus. The public is invited to attend the reception. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday.


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Ali A. Valenzuela writes and teaches about American electoral politics, with a focus on Latino public opinion, immigrant socialization, voter turnout in American elections, religion and politics, and the politics of race and ethnicity in the U.S.
His current research combines the use of nationally representative surveys with Census and electoral data to investigate contextual and political sources of Latino group identities. This work is complemented by qualitative field research investigating state and local representatives' strategies of group mobilization and experimental research that test the consequences of identity-based political appeals on Latino voter turnout and support for public policies such as immigration reform. A third area of his research asks how regular churchgoing and characteristics of the church environment together influence Latino policy attitudes, interest in politics, and group attachments such as ethnic and party affiliation in the U.S. His research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research and Presidential Studies Quarterly.
In Fall 2012, Professor Valenzuela is teaching two seminar courses. One, open to undergraduate sophomores, juniors and seniors, is on Latino Politics in the U.S. and is cross-listed with Latino Studies and Latin American Studies and qualifies as an elective for American Studies (POL 423 / LAO 423 / LAS 423). The second, Identity Politics (POL 547), is intended primarily for Ph.D. students and the focus is on major racial, ethnic and religious groups in the U.S. context with some attention devoted to works from comparative politics on identity formation and change in developing country contexts.


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"We just didn't play good defense tonight," IU coach Tracy Smith said. "We didn't deserve to win this game tonight and Louisville did. We made mistakes tonight we just don't normally make. Baseball is a game of controlled emotion and we didn't have that tonight."
The Cardinals took advantage of the Hoosiers mistakes to advance in the winner's bracket to face No. 2 seed Middle Tennessee Saturday night at 7 pm. The Hoosiers will play No. 3 seed Vanderbilt Saturday afternoon in an elimination game.
"Indiana has to be one of the best four seeds in the country. I'm really pleased to get the victory tonight," Dan McDonnell said. "We play at a high level a very intense level and we work at that during the year. We try to play tournament baseball for 55 games."
Louisville's starting pitcher Justin Marks gave up two runs in the second inning but steadied himself after the shaky start. Marks pitched seven strong innings, giving up just four hits while striking out eight batters.
"I thought Justin showed a lot of heart tonight," said McDonnell. "I don't know if he has been as courageous as he was tonight."
Indiana jumped on top 2-0 in the top half of the second inning but Louisville quickly answered in the bottom of the second with three runs to take a 3-2 lead.
Louisville added two runs in the fifth to increase their lead to 5-2 and tacked on some insurance in the eighth with three more runs.
DH Phil Wunderlich drove in two runs in the eighth, while LF Josh Richmond, 2B Adam Duvall and CF Drew Haynes each had one RBI.
Gavin Logsdon and Gabriel Shaw closed out the Hoosiers. Logsdon pitched the eighth inning, giving up one hit and striking out a batter. Shaw ended the game in ninth, striking out two batters to send the Cards into the second round.
"It's big to get that first tournament win and that's the best feeling you can have in this regional type atmosphere," said Justin Marks. "Last year we were young and inexperienced. Tonight on our home field it is really nice to come out and play well and get our first regional win in front of our fans."
Attendance for the game -- 4,605, breaking Louisville's 2007 Super Regional game against Oklahoma State that advanced the Cardinals to Omaha for their first College World Series.
Middle Tennessee defeats Vanderbilt
No. 2 Middle Tennessee beat No. 3 Vanderbilt 5-4 in the first round game Friday afternoon. The Blue Raiders, who won their first-ever NCAA Tournament game against an SEC opponent (1-7), jumped out to a 4-0 lead with a big first inning and held on by getting out of a bases loaded jam in the ninth.
The win moves Middle Tennessee into the Louisville Regional winner's bracket. The Blue Raiders will play No. 1 Louisville Saturday at 7 pm at Jim Patterson Stadium.


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Hello – I'm Ren, thank you for visiting my blog!
I started writing my food blog (originally called Fabulicious Food!) in November 2010, in the depths of winter in an attempt to brighten things up a bit and to share my love of food with others. Since then, I've completed a Diploma in Journalism with Distinction and and Food Styling Course at Leiths School of Food and Wine.
I now write here as well as for other foodie publications, such as JamieOliver.Com, the Good Food Channel, Great British Chefs and Love Food.com.
I've always been slightly obsessed with food, having grown up in a Polish foodie household. Looking back, as a family we always seemed to be celebrating something – my mother being a fantastic homecook and host.
Food has always been important to me, whether eating out, throwing parties or when travelling – always looking for the best places to eat rather than visit!
Before having children, I worked as a lawyer, but these days you are more likely to find me in the kitchen than in the courtroom! As a stay-at-home mum to three young children (7, 5 and 7 months) I now spend most of my time cooking, cleaning and ferrying them around, though I like to sneak a bit of blogging and writing in, too.
When cooking, I like using fresh, seasonal ingredients. I also enjoy baking and am very often influenced by the hearty, Eastern European food of my childhood. We enjoy pottering around farm shops and visiting the farmer's markets and we are lucky enough to live in a thriving market town with plenty of local producers nearby.
I have also always very much enjoyed taking food classes and courses and so blogging about my adventures also seemed like a natural way to share my stories.
Starting my blog has, above all else, prompted me to use my brain, write more, venture out of my comfort zone and begin to obsessively take photos of food.
Cooking, for me, is never a chore. It's all about experimenting with new flavours or techniques and finding things that work and can easily be fitted in to a busy day.
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Nicki Minaj Continues Verbal Warfare With Lil' Kim in Snippet From 'Tragedy'
Will this feud ever end? Nicki Minaj is firing back at Lil' Kim once again with her new diss track, 'Tragedy.' Minaj released a snippet of the track, and the single cover shows the rapper getting bloody revenge against Lil' Kim, who notoriously "decapitated" the Harajuku Barbie on the cover of her 'Black Friday' mixtape.
'Tragedy' was produced by Hit-boy and rumors have been circulating that the track will appear on Weezy's upcoming album, 'Tha Carter IV,' dropping May 16. In the snippet, which features speaker-busting bass and pounding drums, Minaj spits lines that prove she can bring the heat:
"'Pink Friday,' Eminem, '8 Mile' / It must hurt to sell your album off PayPal / Especially when you in the game, 15, 20 / You was hot when Shaq teamed up with Penny / Man, you was magic / I mean, look at you now ho / You just tragic / You a tragedy, you a parody / Last name Ann, first name Raggedy."
Ouch! We wonder what Kim has cookin' up for the next round in this catty rap battle.
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May 18th, 2011
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16 Day Adelaide to Darwin and Return on The Ghan
Featuring The Legendary Ghan
N.B. The itinerary is reversible depending on availability of THE GHAN
Days One and Two
We depart Adelaide Sunday afternoon on the Ghan, and arrive in Darwin Tuesday evening. The Ghan makes brief stops in Alice Springs and Katherine.
We stay in Darwin overnight.
Day Three
After breakfast we take a look around Darwin before heading to Kakadu National Park. On the way we join the Adelaide River Queen for a jumping crocodile cruise. We then take the Arnhem Highway to Ubirr, passing some enormous termite mounds along the way. At Ubirr we look at aboriginal paintings and enjoy the sweeping views of the surrounding Kakadu wetlands.
Bowali Visitor Centre is our next stop before heading to Nourlangie Rock art sites. A 1.5 kilometre walk takes you past an ancient aboriginal shelter and several art sites. Cooinda Lodge and Yellow Waters are our last stop for the day. Yellow Waters is a pristine environment that supports a truly wonderful variety of wildlife, including crocodiles.
We stay at Cooinda Lodge overnight.
Day Four
After breakfast we take the Kakadu Highway back to Stuart Highway (named after explorer John McDouall Stuart, and also known as Explorer's Way) on our way to Katherine. Along the way you have the option to enjoy a refreshing swim at Edith Falls. We then visit Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) and the hot springs on the banks of the Katherine River. The shady, spring-fed thermal creek is an ideal swimming area.
On arrival in Katherine we visit the Nitmiluk Visitor Centre, which is a great opportunity to experience aboriginal culture and discover more about Katherine's unique environment. You then have the choice of either a 2 hour relaxing cruise or a canoeing adventure in Katherine Gorge.
We spend the night in Nitmiluk.
Day Five
On this day we travel to Tennant Creek via the Stuart Highway. On the way, we visit the historic town of Mataranka (Land of the Never Never). The town is in the heart of Never Never country, so called as it is said that those who live in the area can never never leave. We visit Mataranka thermal pool, which is a constant 34 degrees Celcius, and flows from Rainbow Springs at an amazing 30.5 million litres per day! We then take the Stuart Highway to Daly Waters for lunch.
We stay in Tennant Creek overnight.
Day Six
We arrive in Alice Springs late in the afternoon.
Day Seven
We spend the morning exploring Alice Springs before heading to Kings Canyon, via the Western MacDonnell Ranges, and arriving late afternoon.
We stay in Kings Creek Station overnight.
Day Eight
After breakfast we head to Kings Canyon. A breath-taking walk around the rim of the canyon allows you to gaze down in awe at the sandstone chasm, which plunges 270 metres to the canyon floor. Otherwise, you can venture down into the chasm and discover luxuriant cycads around the permanent waterhole in the exotic Garden of Eden.
You can also discover traditional and contemporary Aboriginal Culture on a journey through an area of sacred caves and paintings, with Lilla Aboriginal Tours. Learn about traditional medicine and bush tucker and try your hand at spear, and boomerang throwing.
We stay at Kings Creek Station overnight.
Days Nine and Ten
We spend the next 2 days in Uluru and Kata Tjuta National Park. This means that there is plenty of time to appreciate the Aboriginal culture and environment on a 2-hour tour with an Aboriginal guide. We can also take a walk around the base of Uluru (aka. Ayers Rock).
A number of optional tours are available from Yalara, including:
- Harley Davidson Tour of Uluru,
- Camel rides to Uluru,
- Helicopter flights over the Rock and Olgas,
- And many more!
N.B. These optional tours are at your own expense.
Day Eleven
We head to Coober Pedy, which is in the heart of South Australia's vast outback, and is an opal wonderland. The town takes its name from the Aboriginal word Kupa (meaning "uninitiated man" or "white man") and Piti ("hole"). We also visit the Breakaway's Reserve and Moon Plain.
We spend the night in an underground motel.
Day Twelve
After breakfast we spend some time visiting mines and interpretive centres, which offer great insight into the town and its mining operations. If you would like to purchase some opal, there are over 30 opal shops to choose from!
After lunch we head to William Creek via the Oodnadatta Track. William Creek is the world's most isolated pub, where you can indulge in a well-deserved Australian beer. William Creek's claim to fame is that it is the smallest town in Australia, and it is located on the worlds largest cattle station, Anna Creek Station (32,500 square kilometres). You can then enjoy a walk along the old Ghan Railway line to the bridge at Breakfast Time Creek.
We stay at William Creek Hotel overnight.
Day Thirteen
Today's destination is Marree, accessed via the Oodnadatta Track. Maree is a land of contrasts. There are red gibber plains stretching to the horizon, mound springs that create bush oases and wetlands (we visit Bubbler Springs and Blanche Cup Springs), red gum-lined creeks, and vast areas of grey salt-bush spiky Spinifex. At Coward Springs you will have the opportunity for a relaxing soak in a hot pool. Remnants of the old Ghan Railway are abundant along the Oodnadatta Track.
We stay in Marree overnight.
Day Fourteen (optional)
Today we visit Iga Warta, where we spend some time learning about the Adnymathanha culture and environment, and listening to stories and music of the Adnymathanha people. Our first stop is the ghost town of Farina, which was set up in 1882 as a farming centre and railhead for wool and cattle.
From Farina we head to Lyndhurst, where we visit the spectacular red and brown ochre cliffs. From the ochre cliffs we head to Iga Warta to participate in a bush tucker walk and/or Aboriginal art walk (at your own expense).
On this evening, after dinner, we sit around a campfire sampling traditional damper with quandong jam.
We stay in Iga Warta overnight (in a bungalow or camping).
Day Fifteen
After breakfast we head to Wilpena Pound Resort via Blinman, where we can see remnants of the original township built in 1859. We also visit the Blinman Hotel (built in 1865, and still trading) for a well deserved, ice-cold Aussie beer. At Wilpena we have a peaceful bush walk to Wangarra Lookouts and the Hill Homestead. After our walk, if time permits, we visit Sacred Canyon and Arkaroo Rock, which are major Aboriginal art sites.
We stay at Wilpena Pound Resort overnight.
Day Sixteen
We depart Wilpena Pound Resort at 9:00 am for Adelaide, and travel via the geological trail through the Bunyeroo Gorge and Brachina Gorge (which traces the geological history of the area for hundreds of million years). After Hawker, we visit Kanyaka ruins and Death Rock.
We then pass through Port Pirie, Port Germein and Port Augusta (the crossroads of Australia). At Port Augusta we explore the Flinders Ranges and Outback in Wadlata Outback Centre's Tunnel of Time. We discover it's origins, the Aboriginal Dreaming, European settlement, and much more. After lunch we head towards Adelaide, arriving at your accommodation at approximately 6:00 pm.
IF TRAVELLING ALONE PLEASE CONTACT PAUL ON 0414 807 891 TO CHECK AVAILIBILITYOperates: On demand, approximately 7:00 am day one to 6:00 pm day four.
Three nights twin share accommodation and camping,
- Travel in Red Service comfort on The Ghan,
All breakfasts,
All dinners,
Some lunches,
- Morning and afternoon teas,
Pick up / drop off at your accommodation by arrangement.
All other meals, unless specified in itinerary,
Mobile phone calls, souvenirs, optional tours and personal items,
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* It is suggested that appropriate sickness, accident & personal liability insurance be taken out. *
TOUR CONDITIONS: "JUST CRUISIN" reserve the right to alter or modify itinerary if prevailing weather, road conditions or adverse conditions require such change. Tour costs do not include additional accommodation, meals and incidental expenses incurred from flooding, natural delays, unavailable connections or other unforseen circumstances. It is suggested travel insurance is purchased to cover additional accommodation, meals and incidental expenses resulting from flooding, natural delays unavailable connections or other unforeseen expenses prior to departure. Due to the nature and remoteness of outback travel it is suggested anyone with health problems should seek advice from their doctor if necessary.
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On July 1, 2010, Governor Quinn announced changes to the State of Illinois FY11 Budget, which included reductions of $1.4 billion. The proposed Higher Education budget of $2.1 billion reflects a decrease of approximately $100 million from the FY10 funding level. This funding decrease includes a reduction of $86 million to Illinois public universities, which will effectively take FY11 state appropriation levels down to the FY06 funding level. This represents a decrease for SIUE of $4.2 million for a total, when added to the previous reduction of $1.25 million in support for the School of Pharmacy, of approximately $5.4 million. It should be noted that budget scenarios developed by the University Planning and Budget Council (UPBC) during the Spring 2010 semester included planning which considers this reduced funding level so, as a result, no changes will be necessary to our current budget plan.
Additionally, the SIU system has received $14.2 million in state appropriation payments in the last two weeks, bringing the total June 2010 state payments up to $24.2 million. As a result, the SIU system is projected to have sufficient funds to make payroll through September. Therefore, the decision has been made to reconsider use of the borrowing plan until the first week of September, the date by which any plans to borrow need to be finalized. If the state payments continue in a more consistent pattern during the summer and fall, then it may not be necessary to borrow but, if there is a slowdown in the rate of payments received, then we will proceed with the borrowing plan. The decision will be based on the rate and amount of reimbursements over the next several months. Please bear in mind that the decision to borrow funds will be a system-wide decision.
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The military rabbinate launched a competition this week to determine which Israeli Navy vessel will win the title of the most kosher ship on the seas.
The IDF rabbinate introduced the competition as a way to give the soldiers, who are required to maintain Jewish dietary laws for themselves — as opposed to having rabbinate personnel do it for them — when at sea, incentive to keep kosher.
The number of kosher violations will be counted up, and the ship with the fewest infractions will win the prize, an outing including of a tour of a heritage site, a talk with a rabbi, a concert and a barbecue.
The rabbinate has apparently been at wits' ends about how to ensure that the kitchens on the ships are really kept kosher, which is a requirement of all military facilities, and apparently decided that a friendly competition was the right way to raise awareness of the kosher laws.
Ynet News quoted a military source as saying: "Kashrut problems are very common… making religious soldiers serving on board the ships uncomfortable, since they are forced to make do with dry goods that don't need to be cooked until the ship docks again and the galley can be made kosher. It damages the cohesiveness of the unit."


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Portions courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications and Dartmouth Varsity Athletics Communications
WORCESTER, Mass. -- The Ivy League men's heavyweight and lightweight titles will be on the line once again on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., Sunday, May 13 at the 67th Eastern Association of Rowing College (EARC) Sprints.
Top-seeded Harvard is poised to maintain possession of the Marc Bergschneider Ivy League Heavyweight Trophy for a third-consecutive season. The Crimson owns the top-seeded varsity eight (7-0), second varsity eight (6-0) and freshman eight (7-0) and third varsity eight (5-0) in the East. The third varsity eight (5-1) and second freshman eight (3-1) are seeded second. The fourth varsity is 1-0 in fourth-varsity competition.
The Harvard heavies have defeated its last 20 and 35 of its last 36 dual opponents, with the lone loss coming in 2010 at Brown. The second-seeded Bears come in with wins in its last two Cup races and with its sights on becoming Ivy champions once again after their two-year reign in 2008 and 2009.
In the lightweight competition, Harvard comes in with an unblemished record and No. 1 national ranking for the third-straight season with aims on keeping the Michael W. Christian Ivy League Lightweight Trophy in Cambridge for a second-consecutive season.
Dartmouth, which finished second to Harvard last year, is in prime position to make some noise at Sprints and grab its first Ivy title since 1984. The Big Green lights had a solid Cup season, bringing home three of the four Cups in the regular season. Dartmouth's first varsity eight enters the Sprints with a 4-1 record with its lone loss coming to top-ranked Harvard back on April 14.
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First off, be nice to the codex its about the only place I can find real unbiased reviews anymore…Hey I like this site too though.
Second, Sawyer has always been a skinny dude
Third, I am a little worried about this game, still think it will be good but a few tidbits worry me like how they don't seem to want to make a fantasy game even though that's what is is. Also real time combat….but again still hope it will be good.
New Vegas was very good much better than Fallout 3 so I think Sawyer is very capable of making a heck of a game.
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1) Glock
2) Heckler and Koch
3) Sig Sauer (even tho I don't own one)
Ok everyone has their favorite go to company for guns im just curious to see what you like... please just pick your top 3 favorites thanks guys, oh and if you choose other, please comment and let us know what they are.
1) Glock
2) Heckler and Koch
3) Sig Sauer (even tho I don't own one)
please vote on the poll, and good choices those are all nice guns
well i just threw out some major companys that i could think of on the fly, my bad
For me:
For Hand guns:
Ruger first,
SIG second and
Kel-Tec third.
Now I can state three more rifle/shotgun makers I could list too.
good choices mine personally from experience is
#1 Ruger for quality at the price
2 Colt cuz they are sweet!!!
3 Taurus as i have a millenium pro PT145 as my primary concealled carry weapon
Dude you missed mine
CZ......wonerful weapons
EAA Tangfolio....I shoot them great
Sig........I likey my Sigs
For Handguns:
1. Springfield
2. Sig
3. Glock
Cz should definitely be on the list.
HK too.
That's why there's an "other" option sorry I didn't feel like listing every pistol ever made
Why can't I vote "Colt" three times?


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Beautiful Creatures meets The Body Finder in Compulsion, the first novel in a spellbinding new trilogy.
Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse.Read more
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I have a copy of Compulsion by Martina Boone to giveaway. Here's a description:
Beautiful Creatures meets The Body Finder in Compulsion, the first novel in a spellbinding new trilogy.
Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse.Read more
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Good morning, Chrys! Describe yourself in five words or less.
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[Chrys Fey] 30 Seconds is a romantic-suspense novella about a woman who finds herself in the middle of a war between a police force and the Mob.Read more
I have a spotlight for Diana Quincy's Spy Fall, which looks like a fun read. The heroine jumps out of airplanes. She's got to be nuts!
When a fiery French parachutist lands on a drunken Lord Cosmo Dunsmore, he surmises she's an angel sent from above. But is she a spy after something far more sinister than his debauched soul?
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[Maya Banks] Keep Me Safe is a LONG awaited story for me. I've wanted to write this story and book 3 for SO long. I've had those two stories in my head for YEARS. But a concise peek (and I'm not very concise!) is that Ramie has psychic abilities, unique abilities, that enable her to track kidnapping victims by touching an object belonging to the victim. She makes a connection to them, but the downside is that she experiences every thing the victim does once she makes that connection. Everything. So it's rather horrifying. She's an empath who is only able to feel or detect the evil in people. Never the good. So her "gift" is more of a curse since she's never able to feel the GOOD.Read more
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Foreign Exchange is the story of a teenage girl—Jamie—who sneaks away from her class trip in Europe to rescue her best friend.
Here are the five things Jamie would not leave home without:Read more
Title: Night Sky
Authors: Suzanne and Melanie Brockmann
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Genre: Young Adult (Paranormal)
Sixteen-year-old Skylar Reid is thrown into a strange world when she discovers that she has unique telekinetic and telepathic powers. After Sasha, the child she babysits, is kidnapped and believed to be murdered, Sky and her best friend Calvin are approached by Dana, a mysterious girl who has super-abilities similar to Sky's. With the help of Dana and her sidekick Milo, the four teens embark on a quest to discover who killed Sasha, and to bring the killers to justice.Read more
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A rebel on the run…Read more
I haven't shared a trailer in a while, and since I'm looking forward to Night Sky, I decided to pass this one along. What do you think? Are you going to add Night Sky to you TBR stack?
Night Sky
By Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann
Sourcebooks Fire ? October 7, 2014
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Because of the organized crime slant, I fully intended to write this piece in the parlance of 1920s newsies. I even re-watched The Hudsucker Proxy to get a better feel for the lexicon. Well, about a half an hour in I realized how incredibly difficult that would be, and how woefully underqualified I was for such an endeavor. I did manage to get some nice old school gangster images though, so enjoy those. Feel free to read the rest of this with the rapid-fire, syncopated internal voice of a Prohibition Era newsie if you like.
By now we all know the the basics. NBA referee Tim Donaghy has been officially charged with using his whistle to 'fix' professional basketball games after wiretaps used to monitor the Gambino mobster case revealed his name. The investigation has been spearheaded by none other than the FBI and involves tens of thousands of dollars riding on multiple games Donaghy worked, both in the regular season and the postseason. Though the NBA has not made any specific comments on the case yet, as of now there is no reason to believe that the actual outcome of games were altered. In all likelihood the point totals of teams and statistics of specific players were manipulated in the interest of organized crime (As an obsessive fantasy basketball player, that hits pretty close to home).
No other officials have been implicated yet, but (pure) speculation about the potential breadth of the case is starting to swirl. While corruption and point-shaving scandals have been uncovered or at least suggested in the NFL, MLB, NCAA and 1978 FIFA World Cup, this is the first time something like this has been uncovered in the NBA. No matter the outcome, it is a major black eye for the league, the worst since the cocaine issues of the late 70s and early 80s.
Tim Donaghy is not a household name among NBA refs but he did get significant attention after the The Malice at the Palace when the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons altercation spilled over into the crowd. At the time criticism was leveled at the officiating crew for allowing the melee to escalate to such a level, criticism which has been renewed and intensified in the last 48 hours ("The feeling among many referees was that Garretson and Donaghy, the two senior referees, could have been much more assertive in calming things down before the incident hit its flash point when a fan threw a cup of ice at Artest as he lay prone on the scorer's table").
Donaghy is also notable for handing out the most technical fouls among all referees last season. That's relevant because perhaps the most specific revelation comes from The New York Daily News which has reported he was on the crew for a Knicks/Heat game that awarded the Knicks 39 free throws and only 8 for Miami, whistled technicals on Miami coach Pat Riley and assistant coach Ron Rothstein and called the Heat for three defensive 3-second violations (resulting in two technicals). The Daily News also mentions, citing an anonymous source, that the NBA may have actually had a PI following Donaghy for over a year- and yet continued to give him high-profile games.
The most significant game thought to be affected so far is Game 3 of the Spurs/Suns series during the 2007 playoffs, a game that was already very controversial and heavily scrutinized. ESPN's Bill Simmons wrote this afternoon, "Before the Donaghy scandal broke, if you told me there was a compromised official working a 2007 playoff game and made me guess the game, I would have selected Game 3 of the Spurs-Suns series. There were some jaw-dropping calls throughout, specifically, the aforementioned Ginobili call and Bowen hacking Nash on a no-call drive that ABC replayed from its basket camera (leading to a technical from D'Antoni). Both times, Mike Breen felt obligated to break the unwritten code that play-by-play announcers — don't challenge calls and openly questioned what had happened. The whole game was strange. Something seemed off about it." This game occurred in the series which was most notable for the contentious suspensions of Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw after they left the bench to aid an injured Steve Nash. Suns fans can't be happy right now.
"I'm telling you — it would have to be the total, not the winners or losers. You can't dictate a side, especially in the NBA. He couldn't take that chance. If someone gets injured or doesn't show up or is having a terrible night or whatever, you can't do it. But manipulating the total you can control from the very tip. If you need an over, a referee can dictate a high- or low-scoring game just by how he's calling it. It's going to come out [ . . . ]
Listen, this is just the first guy to get caught. I think, without question, there are more officials out there who have shaved points. I guarantee you there are. This is just the first guy to get caught."
–Brandon Lang
In an interesting twist, perhaps the oft maligned Rasheed Wallace actually proved prescient in this whole affair. The subject of Donaghy's wrath more than once over the years, did the reactionary star smell a rat? According to ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan, "Donaghy also was involved in another controversy a few years back when he engaged in a shouting match with Rasheed Wallace on the loading dock of The Rose Garden in Portland, an incident that led to a seven-game suspension for Wallace, who was then with the Portland Trail Blazers. Donaghy and the two other referees who had worked that game passed by Wallace as they walked to their cars, and Wallace was said to have threatened Donaghy, who had assessed him a technical foul earlier that night during a Grizzlies-Blazers game." Knowing the temperament of Wallace it was pretty easy to assume his outburst was just 'Sheed being 'Sheed. Perhaps recent events shed new light on that incident. Think about this: if a ref did intend to make unfounded foul calls, to take a player out of a game, to shave points off of a team's or player's total, who would be the easiest target? And who wouldn't be afraid to make a scene about it?
I noticed something else interesting this afternoon. At the end of his blog post, Chris Sheridan casually lobs a hand grenade at several NBA officials saying, "Donaghy, a baby-faced 40, is one of four NBA referees to have graduated from Cardinal O'Hara high school in Philadelphia. The others are Joey Crawford, Mike Callahan and Ed Malloy." Is it just me, or is this meant to implicate the other officials mentioned by tacitly suggesting that Donaghy's ties with organized crime can be traced to his early days in Philadelphia, a city known for its influential crime families.
I find the inclusion of Joey Crawford especially interesting. One of ETB's least-favorite officials, he's also one of the most controversial refs in the NBA today. Crawford is known for making bizarre calls, interjecting his personality into the game and flexing his whistle in unusual ways- all of which often leads to direct and significant impact on games he works. After being suspended for the remainder of the season after the Tim Duncan fiasco, is more disciplinary action waiting in the wings for Joey?
On a personal level, very little will change for me as an NBA fan. Bill Simmons said it well, "If you're a diehard NBA fan, you're horrified but strangely hopeful, because we needed a tipping point to change a stagnant league that was headed in the wrong direction … and maybe this was it." I love the NBA, but I must admit that I find the reffing consistently poor. To be fair, I think it's far and away the most difficult sport to call. In a structured game like football or baseball there is a finite number of decisions that officials have to make. In a game like basketball that is completely fluid and dynamic, there is a near-infinite volume of potential calls and non-calls made each game. Still, nobody who watches the sport consistently can deny the frequent phantom calls, the inconsistency, that star treatment exists and that there is a consistent 'home court advantage' due to more than just home cookin'. Those flaws are always amplified in and magnified by the playoffs (particularly star treatment and home-court advantage), driving away a significant base of casual fans. I consider myself one of the diehard fans; if this scandal leads to more rigorous evaluation of and accountability for referee performance, improved training for officials and more effective preventative measures for malfeasance I will consider it a good thing. After the airplane ticket debacle and this, perhaps it would be a good idea to pay these guys a little more too.
When it gets down to it though, what serious NBA fan doesn't know about the deficiencies of the officiating system? We've all noticed them, and we've all chosen to accept them as a beauty mark on our sport. For me the officiating is always going to be a 500 lbs. gorilla in the corner, but the spectacle and purity of the game transcends. If you love basketball, you've gotten over it and engage in your fandom accepting it. That isn't to gloss over or condone conscious attacks on the integrity of the competition. Any intentional effort to undermine that integrity must be met with the swiftest of action and the harshest of punishment. We should also never accept an officiating product from the NBA that is less than their means allow them to provide. We should demand skilled, trained, capable and unbiased referees in every game. But as far as just plain bad calls go: they will always be a part of NBA Basketball. If we can't deal with that fact, we deny ourselves the enjoyment of America's greatest sport.
I'm going to watch just as many games. I'm going to root just as hard. I'm going to be just as tough on the refs, and I'm probably going to enjoy it all just the same. It's going to be a little more work, as a fan, to keep track of specific ref's tendencies. I'm going to have to expand my knowledge of poor officials beyond Bennett Salvatore, Joey Crawford, Dick Bavetta, Violet Palmer and Ed Rush. You know what the worst thing is going to be though? Watching a game with a buddy who's team is losing. Any game . . . for the next decade.
UPDATE ON JOEY CRAWFORD: According to The Denver Post, "Referee Joey Crawford, suspended in April, is scheduled to meet with Stern on Friday in New York, according to an NBA source. It will be the first meeting between Stern and Crawford since the suspension, which came after the referee ejected San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan for laughing while the player was on the bench and asked the forward if he wanted to fight." Interesting. Very interesting.
And there's this delicious little nugget from ESPN.com today: " . . . Donaghy also is said to have exchanged blows with fellow Philadelphia native Joey Crawford at a refs' meeting years ago." I wonder what that could have been about . . .
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Published 2012, Loren DeShon, 376 pages
Silas Jacobson is 17 years old and works the family farm with his father, brother and sister. The Jacobson family has suffered tragedies: a young sister who died in an accident and the death of Silas's mother.
Silas's father is mired in grief for the loss of his wife. Both his sons work hard on the farm to clear land for crops, while his daughter takes over all the household chores.
Silas's father is not the only one suffering. Silas is carrying a burden of grief and guilt. He desperately wants to leave the farm and make a new life for himself. He tells himself he'll just help clear this one last field and then he's on his way.
Silas confronts his father about his morose attitude and lack of involvement with his surviving children since his wife's death. His father takes those words to heart and invites his sons duck hunting. It's been so long since they all did something together both boys are eager. An accident during their foray leaves their father dead and Silas burdened even further with guilt.
After his father's funeral, Silas sets out for the Mississippi River and a steamboat taking him anywhere – just away from the farm and horrific memories. He hops aboard the sidewheeler James Munroe headed for St. Louis.
Silas's youth is evident throughout Redemption on the River. It doesn't take long before he's involved in fisticuffs and hooks up with friendly, but less then savory, characters on the boat. He barely arrives in St. Louis when he racks up an enormous debt and makes a mortal enemy.
Silas is one green young man with a lot of life lessons ahead of him. A typical teenager of any era, decisions are made according to which hormone is raging at that precise moment. Unless Silas grows up and develops common sense, he's on the path to losing more than he can ever hope to regain.
There is powerful incentive for Silas to awaken and assume accountability for his actions, but will he? Furthermore, can he come to terms with his past and find peace? Will the struggles for personal growth and realization that there's more to the world than just Silas Jacobson cost him dearly? All good questions posed in Redemption on the River.
Crooks, double-dealing dealers, thugs, slaves, prostitutes, the Underground Railroad, heroes and heroines all populate the pages of this fast paced historical fiction novel.
I thoroughly enjoyed Redemption on the River. Silas, with all his teenage flaws, is great entertainment. What truly delighted me was Loren DeShon's wit. Historical fiction is usually dramatic fare. Redemption on the River is historical fiction with rollicking humor. An unusual combination I'd like to read more.
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The 200-mile trip from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe can be a frustrating slog in the wintertime traffic on Interstate 80. Speeds in the fast lane swing from 90 to 30 for no discernible reason. Slow, fast, faster, slow. Hit rush hour in Sacramento—or Donner Pass on a snowy day—and you'll see the speedometer's needle tapping the 10 mph mark like a woodpecker on a tasty log.
Stick-shift drivers collapse with dead legs on the side of the road; even the P-R-N-D crowd can be seen massaging their sore knees at roadside burger joints and woodsy rest stops.
Not me. I'm playing the license plate game and humming through playlists with a few friends, happy and comfortable in a borrowed Mercedes-Benz S550, a luxury sedan that's currently justifying the pants off its $100,000 window sticker. We're bopping through the same unpredictable range of velocities as everyone else, but I haven't touched a pedal in hours.
The Benz is doing most of the driving, keeping us a comfortable distance from the cars ahead with its next-gen cruise-control system. The core of the setup is a pair of radar emitters—a narrow-banded one that pings vehicles up ahead and a wide-angle unit that watches the rest of the traffic and keeps a sharp eye out for jackasses weaving into our lane. All that locational info is fed to the car's vehicle control unit, a computer that smoothly modulates the brakes and throttle to keep us moving with traffic. The driver specifies a maximum speed, and the car does its best to hit that number—without hitting anything else.
The first time you let the car do its thing is a magically scary experience: You see the cars ahead closing at a rate that activates the "I'm going too fast" reflex; your foot hovers over the brake pedal as your frontal cortex strenuously attempts to override your survival instinct. Cognitively, you know that this system has been meticulously tested by obsessive German engineers who would never let an unsafe car cross the threshold of their shiny factory.
And then, just as you're contemplating the various safety regulations the car must have complied with on its way to the dealership, you feel yourself slowing—gently, autonomously, in perfect control. The cold cannonball in your gut turns back into warm muscle, and you chuckle softly to yourself for being so silly as to doubt such a well-engineered system. Getting used to these autonomous systems takes time. It turns out that we have to adapt to the machines more than they have to adapt to us.
Cruise control is just the most obvious sign of a particular kind of AI that has been accelerating for decades. Think about it: Antilock brakes know when to back off the pedal. Airbags know that you just smacked into something. Stability control knows that you just overcooked your Volvo into that hairpin and need a little help to stay out of the ditch. Your nav system knows where you are, your wipers know it's raining, that annoying seat-belt chime knows you're flouting the law. In short, modern cars are loaded with sensors and computing power. The 2011 Chevy Volt, for example, runs on some 10 million lines of code—more than Lockheed Martin's new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The marquee innovation that made intelligent cruise control possible is the drive-by-wire throttle: the introduction of motor skills to the automotive body. The throttle is a flap that lets air and fuel enter the engine. In the conventional setup, it's linked to the gas pedal by a thin metal cable threaded through a grooved wheel. But many newer cars have done away with the cable. Instead, there is a sensor on the gas pedal and a small electric motor on the throttle. Step on the accelerator and an electrical impulse travels to the computer, telling it how far the pedal is depressed; the computer then tells that little electric motor how wide to open the flap. Electronics and software are mediating the whole process. Voilà You're driving by wire.
Of course, by-wire technology isn't just for throttles. The same exquisitely sensitive actuation systems are finding their way into brakes and steering as well. And where there are electronically controlled systems, there are sensors and software and processors that can command them. In other words, by-wire technology is paving the way to truly smart cars.
But drive-by-wire technology has applications beyond the carpool lane that conjure scenes from a sci-fi future: self-driving vehicles that promise the end of traffic jams and a serious reduction in battlefield casualties.
Drive-by-wire didn't start in the automotive industry. It's a descendant of an aerospace technology called, yes, fly-by-wire. The first aircraft to fly with it—a Canadian fighter jet called the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow—took off in 1958. Most of the pilot's controls, from the elevators to the rudders, were triggered electronically.
The advantages—instantaneous response and lighter weight—were compelling: Within a few decades, many commercial airliners were using fly-by-wire technology. It made every aircraft from the Concorde to the Boeing 777 possible and was integral to improving autopilot systems—including those that can land a plane. It's nice to have Captain Sullenberger on board, but he's only needed on special occasions.
The by-wire throttle first made its way into cars in 1988, in the BMW 750iL, and it now makes radar-assisted cruise control possible in any number of Fords, Lincolns, Volvos, Jaguars, and Mercedes. Some hybrids rely on it to switch nimbly between gas and electric power.
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In 2004, Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, challenged the big brains of the world to come up with a car that could navigate a complicated desert course with no human input. Employing technologies closely related to our smart cruise control—electronic eyes, computer brains, and drive-by-wire legs—15 teams vied for the million-dollar prize. None finished. But that didn't stop Darpa from throwing down the gauntlet again. It hosted another challenge the following year, and five of the 23 teams finished. Moore's law hits the road.
Some 130 miles and nearly seven hours after the second Grand Challenge began, the first car across the finish line was a self-driving Volkswagen Touareg named Stanley—one of the smartest cars ever built. Sebastian Thrun headed up the Stanford team that trained Stanley for its victory and ran head-on into the primary obstacle facing any self-driving car. "You literally can't even count the number of different situations a driver encounters," Thrun says.
That's why his team didn't try to code a solution for every situation. They taught Stanley how to drive the old-fashioned way: "We took the car out on the road and logged every time it made a mistake." Stanley's sensors captured every second of its practice runs. Back at the lab, Thrun's team used this data to replay failures and challenges over and over again in the car's software mind as the it simulated different solutions to each puzzle. Every time it failed or succeeded, it learned why.
Thrun has since taken a post at Google, where he and a team of engineers are testing a small fleet of autonomous Toyota Priuses—spawn of Stanley—on the streets and highways of the densely populated San Francisco Bay Area. (Someone sits behind the wheel of the Google cars, ready to take control if necessary.) Of course, you can't just go out and purchase a robo-vehicle today. Hell, you're probably still apprehensive about radar-assisted cruise control.
It turns out that the federal agency charged with ensuring auto safety—the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration—shares that fear. NHTSA isn't going to green-light self-driving cars without a lot more trials and oversight. "It's not at the point of being sufficiently reliable for the consumer market," says NHTSA spokesperson Eric Bolton.
Still, the autonomous systems migrating into vehicles are impressively robust and reliable—they make far fewer errors than humans. Plus, there's no convincing evidence that people will let down their guard when a robot is doing the driving, a phenomenon known as risk compensation. "Do they engage in risky behaviors—texting, applying makeup, shaving?" asks Jim Sayer, who investigates real-world driver behavior at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. "We never see that."
The real problem arises when millions of humans are confronted with autonomous systems—and some of them freak out. That seems to be what happened recently with some Toyota cars: In a number of well-publicized cases, drivers thought the electronic throttle was improperly accelerating. It turns out that most of the incidents were caused by an all-too-mechanical flaw in the floormat or gas pedal design—or by driver error.
Avoiding those errors is a tricky dance that takes time to learn. Consider the new self-parking technology, brought to the US market by Lexus and since adopted by other carmakers. On a busy city street, I pull a Lincoln MKT (borrowed, again) alongside an empty space and hit a button labeled auto |p|. A two-line LCD on the instrument cluster explains what to do: "Select reverse and take your hands off the wheel." I follow its commands, and that cannonball forms in my stomach again as the car takes control, whipping the wheel around and backing into the space faster than I would ever attempt. I tell myself to relax, to let go, that this SUV has more sensors than a satellite—a beeping proximity sensor in the back, a rear-facing camera, radar sensors that inform its own magic cruise control. And just as I surrender myself to the future, the Lincoln slams into the car behind me.
A rep from Lincoln later tells me that you're supposed to work the brake as the car steers itself. And yeah, that two-line display never suggested I take my foot off the pedal; I guess I just assumed that "auto park" meant, you know, auto park. This machine-man language barrier is something we're really going to have to work on.
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See Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, iv, p. 202 for his article. He was married twice more, 2 Mary ANDERSON & 3 Rachel, dau Colin ADAMS, min. Anstruther Easter - with further issue.
The article in Fasti for his father vol V, p. 304 states mother of his kids to be Lucrece CAIRNCROSS [It has a comment – 'he is said to have m Eliza dau Jno SINCLAIR, dean of St. Andrews']. You quote the DNB article which also has Lucrece. One of his daughters was Lucrece.
Do you have some overwhelming evidence to counteract both of these publications?
If not then why have you got his mother as Elizabeth SINCLAIR??
And somehow an additional given name appears to have been invented for him. He only appears in things I've seen as plain old Alexander, yet we have Andrew Alexander. This creativity baffles me; obviously I'm greatly disadvantaged by not going to a Montessori or some such.
A revision. IGI gives wedding of Rachel, dau Colin ADAMS to Alexr PITCAIRN as 1659.
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ADAMS, RACHEL: relict of Mr Alexander Pitcairn, sometime Rector of Univ of St Andrews, with children: Joseph, Rachael, Jean & Anna; Discharge to Alexander Nairne of St Ford; 18 Dec 1697 [CC20/11/6]