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GoodFellas (1990)
Warner Bros.' GoodFellas (1990) is director Martin Scorsese's stylistic masterpiece - a follow-up film to his own Mean Streets (1973), released in the year of Francis Ford Coppola's third installment of his gangster epic - The Godfather, Part III (1990). It is a nitty-gritty, unflinching treatment of a true mobster story about three violent "wiseguys" [Mafia slang for 'gangsters'], enhanced by the Italian-American director's own experience of his upbringing in Little Italy. It again reteams Scorsese with his favorite actor, Robert De Niro, who had appeared in Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), and The King of Comedy (1983).
The film's factual, semi-documentary account was adapted from both Nicholas Pileggi's and Martin Scorsese's screenplay - based upon Pileggi's 1985 non-fictional book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family. Film posters were subtitled: "Three Decades of Life in the Mafia." The real-life story concerned a low-level, marginalized gangster (or 'foot-soldier') of mixed ethnic roots (half-Irish, half-Sicilian) - Henry Hill, who ultimately broke the gangster's code of 'never ratting on your friends', and turned informant for the FBI and entered the Federal Witness Protection Program to save his life by disappearing from view.
The fast-moving, energizing, episodic story, with plentiful profanity (the F-word is repeatedly spoken by Joe Pesci's character), forceful editorial cuts and visuals, shifting points of view, and characters speaking directly to the camera, is told with voice-over narrative commentary by Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). It includes about thirty years in his life, from his teen years as a Brooklyn Irish neighborhood kid to maturity as an adult gangster, covering the years from the 1950s to the drug-saturated 1970s when married to wife Karen (Lorraine Bracco). The additional voice-over of his wife's point-of-view provides even further insight into the all-encompassing culture and lure of life within the 'family.' Freeze frames sprinkled through the film accentuate the indelible, impressionable moments in Henry's experiences.
The film is backed by a pop/rock oldies soundtrack spanning four decades, beginning with crooner Tony Bennett's "Rags to Riches," proceeding through rock 'n' roll, jukebox music and top 40 tunes, and ending in degeneration with punk rocker Sid Vicious' version of Frank Sinatra's "My Way." The score adds another layer of meaning, mood and information to the fact-based tale.
The violent, carefully-built film was given six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci), Best Supporting Actress (Lorraine Bracco), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker) - and only Pesci won the Oscar. [Pesci's specialty was playing gangster-related roles, as in Death Collector (1976) (aka Family Enforcer), A Bronx Tale (1993), and in Scorsese's Casino (1995).]The Story
The major film credits zoom from the right of the screen, like speeding cars (heard on the soundtrack), and freeze for a moment. The film, "based on a true story," begins with a pivotal night-time scene that introduces the film's three major characters. It is a major turning point for each of them. [The scene is repeated within its proper context later in the film].
Three organized crime mobsters are in a white-top car cruising down a freeway. An inter-title notes the location and time: New York, 1970:
- Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) - the driver
- Jimmy Conway (Robert DeNiro) - in the passenger's seat
- Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) - in the back seat
A thumping sound forces them to pull over into a grassy area and investigate - they open the trunk. Inside is a bloodied mob member [identified later as Billy Batts (Frank Vincent)] wrapped in white tablecloths. Tommy can't believe the man is still alive and stabs him multiple times in the chest with an enormous butcher knife. Conway puts four bullets into the already-limp body. Henry witnesses the enormity of the violence and then slams the trunk shut.
A simple zoom shot and then a freeze-frame holds on Henry's face, as the main title credits play (with a blood-red title for the film). His autobiographical, defiant narration (in voice-over) confirms his choice of a lucrative, criminal lifestyle (that brings him from 'rags to riches'):
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.
["Rags to Riches," performed by Tony Bennett.]
East New York, Brooklyn, 1955
The young Henry Hill (Christopher Serrone), a teenager in an impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood in the mid-1950s, is attracted to and impressed by the flashy, expensive clothes and cars of hoods who would congregate at the Pitkin Ave. Cab. Company across the street from his family's tenement apartment. The scenes of Henry's teenage years begin with a side closeup of Henry's star-struck, reflective eye as he intensely watches his idols - the 'gangsters' who use the taxi stand as their front. Fascinated, he longs to "be a part of them" and the glamour:
Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an after-school job, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies. They weren't like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double-parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever gave them a ticket. In the summer when they played cards all night, nobody ever called the cops.
"The boss over everybody in the neighborhood" is the local Mafia boss overlord Paul Cicero (Paul Sorvino) - "Paulie might have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody."
Henry's family of seven living in a "tiny house" is composed of his wheel-chair bound brother Michael (Kevin Corrigan), his Irish construction worker father (Beau Starr), his Sicilian mother (Elaine Kagan), two sisters, and another brother. The Ciceros came from the same part of Sicily as his mother. ["Can't We Be Sweethearts", performed by the Cleftones.] Rather than attending school, Henry is adopted by Paulie, and becomes a "full-time" errand boy/apprentice for the cabstand workers, e.g., parking Cadillacs of wiseguys, running numbers - these appealing activities make him feel important:
I was the luckiest kid in the world. I could go anywhere. I could do anything. I knew everybody and everybody knew me...I was part of something. And I belonged. I was treated like a grown-up. Every day, I was learning to score. A dollar here. A dollar there. I was living a fantasy.
When confronted with his school truancy record by his harsh, miserably unhappy, "pissed off" father, Henry is beaten with a belt - the image freeze-frames, leaving its impression on Henry's consciousness and a bruise on his face. Outside the post-office, the young boy identifies the mailman who delivered the school letter, and the startled postal delivery man is threatened: "From now on, any letter from that school to that kid's house comes directly here. You understand?" The image again freeze-frames as the postman's head is shoved into the hot oven of the neighborhood La Bella Vista pizzeria. "How could I go back to school after that and pledge allegiance to the flag and sit through good government bulls--t?" ["Hearts of Stone," performed by Otis Williams and the Charms.]
["Sincerely," performed by the Moonglows.] During a backyard, outdoor barbecue, the mobsters cook up sausages and peppers on a grill. A bulldog sits as a supplicant at the noble, syndicate boss Paulie's feet - as do all the other low-level guys who are under his control, because he confidently heads the mob group that "offer(s) protection for people who can't go to the cops":
Hundreds of guys depended on Paulie and he got a piece of everything they made. And it was tribute, just like in the old country, except they were doing it here in America. And all they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. And that's what it's all about. That's what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can't go to the cops. That's it. That's all it is. They're like the police department for wiseguys.
Henry is commissioned to break the windows of cabs in a rival cab company and set them on fire. Under the tutleage of Paulie and his stoolies, Henry's self-esteem is boosted as he is emancipated from all connections to his family and becomes subverted to the criminal lifestyle of good times. He boasts of his new-found respect: "People looked at me differently and they knew I was with somebody...At thirteen, I was making more money than most of the grown-ups in the neighborhood. I mean, I had more money than I could spend. I had it all." The camera again freeze-frames as an explosion rips through the gasoline tanks of the cars behind him - he appears engulfed in hellish flames. When he appears at home one day at the door, dressed as a hood with a beige, double-breasted suit, silk shirt and tie, and black lizard shoes, his mother is aghast: "My God! You look like a gangster."
["Firenze Sogna," performed by Giuseppe di Stefano.] Henry grabs pizzeria aprons and wraps the gunshot, bleeding hand of a man who staggers into the pizzeria - it was the first time he had ever seen anyone shot. Paulie didn't want anybody dying in the building, but Henry felt like helping the man. His mentor comments: "I gotta toughen this kid up."
["Speedo," performed by The Cadillacs.] In the cabstand one night, after the camera pans across a cold-cut sandwich table, Henry delivers food and drinks to the wiseguys who are playing card games. He basks in the illusory power and influence of the gangsters he associates with: "It was a glorious time...It was when I met the world. It was when I first met Jimmy Conway." Henry is awe-struck and jubilant as the legendary, "twenty-eight or twenty-nine" year old Conway "worked the room" by shoving hundreds into the pockets of the doorman, dealers, and the bartender. A $20 dollar bill is slipped into Henry's pocket as he meets mob boss Paulie's notorious, "feared," but charismatically-magnetic hitman Jimmy Conway [the frame freezes on Jimmy's face]:
What Jimmy really loved to do, what he really loved to do was steal. I mean he actually enjoyed it. Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies.
Jimmy's real love is theft - during a hijacking/robbery of the driver of a trailer truck in a deserted area near the airport at night, he intimidates the man after looking at his driver's license: "You might know who we are, but we know who you are, you understand?" Jimmy was one of the city's biggest hijackers of "booze, cigarettes, razor blades, shrimp and lobsters...And almost all of them were gimmies. I mean they just gave it up, no problem. They called him Jimmy the Gent." The scams are successful because "drivers...used to tip him off about the really good loads, and, of course, everybody got a piece."
Henry is introduced to Jimmy's apprentice youngster - full Sicilian Tommy DeVito (Joseph D'Onofrio) who is about his own age. Tommy calls him: "Hendry." While selling untaxed cigarette cartons out of the back of a car trunk, Henry is "pinched" by two city detectives and brought to trial. ["Parlami d'Amore Mariu," performed by Giuseppe di Stefano.] When led out of the courtroom, Jimmy's hand is wrapped around his young protege's shoulder and Henry is rewarded with a "graduation present" - a $100 dollar bill tucked into his shirt pocket. He is respected for maintaining the mob's strict ethical code of silence ("the two greatest things in life"):
Everybody gets pinched. But you did it right. You told 'em nothing and they got nothing...I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learned the two greatest things in life...Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
[The film's entire plot is foreshadowed here - Henry, an outsider, will probably never be able to fully live up to the mobster's code of silence.] Outside the courtroom door, Paulie and the cab crew proudly greet him with open arms as he is initiated into the ranks of the goodfellas: "You broke your cherry." Again, the frame freezes on the wild congratulatory scene - this experience is another major imprint of mob life and its ethos upon Henry's adolescent mind.
["Stardust," performed by Billy Ward and His Dominoes.] At this point, the plotline moves ahead about eight years to 1963 - Henry is twenty-one and has become completely incorporated and seduced into the irresistible life of the mob, although he is still an outsider. He and Tommy, now young adults, are leaning against a car outside the Airline Diner next to Idlewild Airport, robbing freight being moved in and out of the airport. With family connections who work in the industry, they are tipped off about the best jobs:
By the time I grew up, there was thirty billion a year in cargo moving through Idlewild Airport and believe me, we tried to steal every bit of it...It was an even bigger money-maker than numbers and Jimmy was in charge of it all. Whenever we needed money, we'd rob the airport. And to us, it was better than Citibank.
["This World We Live In" ("Il Cielo in una Stanza"), performed by Mina.] In a nightclub scene, the mobsters hang out at Sonny Bunz' (Tony Darrow) Bamboo Lounge, a nightclub where bookmakers, hoods, and other partners in crime congregate. Each of them greets - often in Sicilian - the camera as it tracks fluidly and gracefully through the restaurant and leads the audience on a tour:
- Anthony Stabile (Frank Adonis)
- Frankie Carbone (Frank Sivero)
- Mo Black's brother Fat Andy (Louis Eppolito)
- Frankie the Wop (Tony Lip)
- Freddy No Nose (Mikey Black)
- Pete the Killer (Peter Cicale)
- Nicky Eyes (John Manca)
- Mikey Franzese (Joseph Bono)
- Jimmy Two Times (Anthony Powers)
The glamorous, macho life of socializing with other indulgent, high-status 'family' members and 'wiseguys' who lived on the cutting edge and splurged is intoxicating. Now glamorously dressed and fit, Henry is quickly swept away by the celebrity of it all:
For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked s--tty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day and worried about their bills were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.
In the bar area, Jimmy and Henry orchestrate a heist of freight ("a half a mil comin' in, all cash") arriving over the weekend at the airport. They meet with Frenchy (Mike Starr), an Air France cargo worker, and plan a "big score" of "bags of money" coming in "from tourists and American servicemen who change their money over into French money and send it back here."
Meanwhile, the charismatic Tommy exhibits the first traces of his quick-trigger, psychotic, pathological temper as he entertains other mobsters with hilarious tales of violence laced with four letter words. Henry chuckles at his jokester pal: "You're a pisser. You're really funny. You're really funny." The comedic scene (improvised by the actors) immediately turns sour and the tension mounts as a seemingly-aggravated Tommy persists in asking - in a cold-blooded, fearsome, and ambiguous tone:
What do you mean, I'm funny?...You mean the way I talk? What?...Funny how? I mean, what's funny about it?...I'm funny how, I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to f--kin' amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?...No, no, I don't know. You said. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the f--k am I funny? What the f--k is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what's funny...
Finally, the situation is eased when Henry uses humor to defuse his potentially-dangerous friend, but Tommy identifies his friend's mortal weakness: "I wonder about you sometimes, Hendry. You may fold under questioning." Then when he is embarrassed by cafe owner Sonny for owing "seven f--king Gs," Tommy breaks a glass bottle on Sonny's forehead.
In the next scene, a scared Sonny - with a bandage on his forehead from the injury, complains to Paulie about how Tommy's behavior (he's compared to "an arch criminal") is dangerous, disruptive and volatile to the self-regulating criminal world, but Paulie responds helplessly (foreshadowing an execution scene later in the film):
You think you're the only one? I talk to them a million times. They don't listen...What could I do? If there was something I could do, don't you think I would do it?...Tommy's a bad kid. He's a bad seed. What am I supposed to do, shoot him?
Although unaware of how to run a restaurant, Paulie promises to offer protection by becoming a partner. Sonny is now committed and beholden to Paulie:
["Playboy," performed by the Marvelettes.] Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with a bill, he can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's got to come up with Paulie's money every week. No matter what. Business bad? F--k you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F--k you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning, huh? F--k you, pay me. Also, Paulie could do anything. Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.
Henry and Tommy make incendiary preparations to burn down the restaurant by stuffing flammable wads of paper into ceiling fixtures - a Bamboo Lounge matchbook flares into flames and is used to light the rest of the interior of the restaurant. They non-chalantly wait in a car on the curbside as the restaurant slowly smolders behind them while discussing Tommy's heated sexual frustrations. He asks Henry for a favor to help him get a date with Diane (Katherine Wallach), a "Jew broad" from the Five Towns who is "prejudiced against Italians" and won't go out with him alone. ["It's Not for Me to Say," performed by Johnny Mathis.] Reluctantly, Henry submits to a double date with Diane's girlfriend, Karen (Lorraine Bracco) at the Villa Capri restaurant - he watches impatiently as Tommy stalls over dinner. Making their first acquaintance together, Karen narrates, in voice-over, her impressions of her rude, insensitive date:
I couldn't stand him. I thought he was really obnoxious. He kept fidgeting around. Before it was even time to go home he was pushing me into the car and then pulling me out. It was ridiculous. But Diane and Tommy made us promise to meet them again on Friday night. We agreed. Of course when Friday night came around, Henry stood me up. We were a trio instead of a double date that night.
["I Will Follow Him" ("Chariot"), performed by Betty Curtis.] Finding him at the cabstand with a bunch of hoods on the sidewalk, Karen charges forcefully at him and accuses him of lying: "You've got some nerve standing me up. Nobody does that to me. Who the hell do you think you are, Frankie Vallie or some kind of big shot?" But her proud, feisty display of her displeasure intrigues him:
I remember, she screaming on the street and I mean loud, but she looked good. She had these great eyes. Just like Liz Taylor's. At least that's what I thought.


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Data storage enters the 'fifth dimension'
May 20, 2009 8 comments 2009-05-20T18:00:11+0100
The first DVD–sized discs with storage capacities well over one terabyte could be available in as little as five years, according to researchers in Australia who have invented a new storage technique. The concept, which the researchers have already demonstrated on test media, uses layers of gold nanorods to achieve 'five–dimensional recording'.
Optical discs, such as CDs and DVDs, store data as a spiral track of microscopic pits etched onto their surface. To read the data, light from a laser diode is reflected from the surface and the reflected light drops in intensity every time the beam hits a pit.
With just one layer of pits the storage is two dimensional, and with multiple layers — a method employed in the highest capacity DVDs, providing capacities up to about 17 Gb (17 x 109 bytes) — the storage is three–dimensional.
More dimensions needed
To reach higher capacities, particularly above 1 Tb (1012 bytes) per disc, scientists believe they will need to be able to record in even more 'dimensions'. In recent years there has been success in adding one extra dimension in the form of sensitivity to either the polarization or colour of the laser light, a technique called multiplexing.
Now, however, James Chon and colleagues from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne have combined both types of multiplexing for five–dimensional recording.
"Previously there has never been an effort to record in all five dimensions," Chon told physicsworld.com. "This is due to a lack of material that can respond in all five-dimensional recording conditions — colour, polarization and spatial."
Nanorods to the rescue
For its recording media the Swinburne group use gold nanorods, which respond to different colours and polarizations depending on their apparent size and orientation. When a collection of these nanorods are irradiated with laser light, only those that are aligned to the light's polarization and have an absorption cross-section matching the light's wavelength will absorb it, melt and change in shape. Because there are nanorods left unaffected after one recording, more recording cycles can still take place.
To read the data a laser again illuminates the nanoparticles, which begin to resonate with quasi-particles known as plasmons. The plasmon resonance is very sensitive to the incident light's polarization and colour, and requires a laser that is only a hundredth as powerful, so no more melting takes place.
Compatible with existing technology
In tests using media with three layers of gold nanorods, Chon and colleagues achieved a data storage density of 1.1 Tbit per cubic centimetre, which would equate to 1.6 Tb for a DVD–sized disc. The researchers think that by using thinner spacers between layers the capacity could be increased to 7.2 Tb. Moreover, they say that recording speeds could be as fast as 1 Gbit/s, and the discs would be compatible with existing technology.
Chon says the group is collaborating with the electronics manufacturer Samsung to commercialize the concept, and hopes to see the first devices on sale in five years. "We have only conducted proof-of-principle experiments," he adds. "It is our future work for this technology to be transferred to industry, where many challenges will have to be overcome."
The work was reported in Nature.
About the author
Jon Cartwright is a freelance journalist based in Bristol, UK

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Friday, December 14, 2012
One University
Sending a digital Christmas card is also a reminder of the many new opportunities being created by technology. When I graduated from college there was no such thing as emailing Christmas cards. In fact, I'm sure I would not have recognized the word "emailing" and certainly not as a verb.
In the same way, most of us would not have understood a decade ago that LETU would enroll more than 1,000 students in online degree programs. Our reputation for online programs has grown to the extent that organizations such as SuperScholar.org named us among their "Top 25 Best Online" universities and TheBestColleges.org ranked us #1 in their rankings of the "Top Online Christian Colleges." We've been successful. We believe we can be even more successful in recruitment, retention and learning outcomes.
Dr. Coyle is leading a comprehensive effort to prepare our online and other non-traditional programs for the future. We can't anticipate all the changes ahead in technology, but we do understand that operating as "One University" is essential for our future. In his Nov. 8, 2012 email to campus, he said online delivery combined with high quality faculty engagement can be central to accomplishing our mission. He wants to eliminate our thinking about "GAPS students" and "traditional students" and instead just focus on "LeTourneau students" who are given options to complete their degree programs on ground, online or in some combination of both. I wholeheartedly agree!
Several organizational changes are in motion now to put this into practice. My thanks to all of you who are busy crafting our two programs into one.
As you have creative ideas on how we can make LeTourneau University the best One University, please share them with us by email to email@example.com.
Technology will change the "classroom" and the way we teach, but our mission remains the same: we are called to claim the workplace for Jesus Christ and we do that one student at a time with an education that transforms each into a competent professional with Christ-like character, one who sees their work as a holy calling with eternal impact.
Friday, December 7, 2012
One Word
If you were to describe the mission of LETU in one word, what would be that word?
The Salvation Army is a ministry I respect very much. We think of them at Christmas time as we see their red kettle bell ringers everywhere (trivia alert: in high school I volunteered as a bell ringer). Beyond Christmas, the Salvation Army quietly serves the neediest among us -- caring both for material needs and eternal destinies. Nearly 30 million in 5,000 communities are served by The Salvation Army annually.
Once when asked to describe the mission of the Salvation Army, founder William Booth walked to the podium, spoke one word, and sat back down. That one word was "others." This focus on "others" motivates Salvation Army staff and focuses their operational decisions. There is no confusion within the organization as to the reason for their existence: an extraordinary commitment to serve others.
Here at LETU, we are moving to combine our traditional and GAPS marketing efforts into one unified communication strategy to advance the LETU "brand." The public relations firm of Lovell-Fairchild have been listening to many of you as they help us to better define the core elements of the LETU brand. Nancy Lovell and Julie Fairchild challenged me Wednesday morning with the above question: "What one word would you use to label the mission of LETU?"
I'm not sure I answered the question well: it is difficult to reduce this institution and our reason for existence to one word. I'd like to know your thoughts. How would you answer that question?
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Thanks to a constant light rain, runners were drenched and covered in mud at the finish line of Saturday's cross country West Regional championships at Jackson Park.
Thanks to a constant light rain, runners were drenched and covered in mud at the finish line of Saturday's cross country West Regional championships at Jackson Park.
Most of the competitors looked miserable, ready to leave town, but not North Henderson sophomore Catie Byrd.
"This is just the way I like it," she said, smiling, after winning the 2-A individual girls title with her best Jackson Park time (19:54).
Her personal best of 19:27 came earlier in the season at the Wendy's Invitational in Charlotte.
On Saturday, she took the lead early midway through the soccer fields and led the pack over the stream. She built a substantial lead and never looked back the rest of the way.
"I really wanted to redeem myself after the conference meet last week," Byrd, who was runner-up at last week's Appalachian Athletic Conference race at Fletcher Park, said. "With the rain, it was perfect weather conditions for me. I've ran this course so many times, I felt pretty comfortable out there today."
Her next closest competitor was Madison's Aleshia Reece with a time of 20:47.
Earlier in the day, Hendersonville's girls, led by a runner-up finish from Kristen Stout, took home the 1-A team regional title by edging out Robbinsville by just two points (33-35).
"On paper, Robbinsville was supposed to win today, and we had to battle for it. Our No. 4 runner, Anna Frosberg, is out with pneumonia," HHS girls coach Jessica Houston said. "But our No. 5 runner, Ana Unda really stepped up today, and that's what helped us get the title. She finished 12th."
Stout (20:44) finished 33 seconds back of Robbinsville's Tracey Trammell.
Other top-five Lady Bearcat finishers were Elizabeth Lackey in fifth with a time of 21:53.40 and Alyssa Chet in seventh with a time of 22:03.13.
The day began with the 1-A boys race in which Hendersonville's Thomas O'Connell finished third with a time of 17:43, 35 seconds back of race winner Tyler Breedlove of Hayesville. That race was followed by the 2-A boys, where Polk County's John Spencer Wolfe ended up second with a time of 17:25.
The top four teams and the top five individuals not on those teams qualified for the state championships, which will be held Nov. 7 at Tanglewood Park in Winston-Salem.
The Brevard boys, led by an eighth-place showing from Alex Goden, qualified for state in the 2-A race by finishing fourth. Owen won the 2-A boys team title. The North Lincoln girls won the 2-A girls title with 59 points.
The 3-A races concluded the wet day, and those were dominated by Asheville's boys and North Buncombe's girls. Isaac Presson won the individual boys title with a time of 16:38 and led the Cougars to the team title with a score of 40.
The Lady Blackhawks took the team title with 31 points with five in the top 10, led by Justine Socks, who won the race with a time of 20:36. Kiersten Ellsworth led West Henderson to a third-place finish as she ended up fifth with a time of 21:01.


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To get to the heart of Australia's success in women's cricket this summer, you have to go back to the schoolyard in 2000.
It was then that a young fifth-grader, Erin Osborne, joined a couple of fourth-graders, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy, to form the nucleus of an under-12 rep team. Twelve years later, the trio will walk on to the pitch - providing they all make the final XI - in Ahmedabad tomorrow in Australian colours. The match is the first of three one-dayers and five Twenty20s on their tour of India.
''It was a very talented age group,'' Osborne says of the class of 2000. ''It's been a long friendship and that is what cricket has brought us. We were lucky to be picked up at a very early age and carried right the way through to the Australian team.''
It wasn't quite a magic carpet ride though for Osborne, whose batting and medium-pace bowling caught the eye at under-age level. She had to become an off-spinner to make her mark at NSW. ''I ended up taking on off-spin bowling when I was about 17.''
With the help of her NSW and Australian teammate Lisa Sthalekar, Osborne has learnt the patience required to make the change to spin bowling. ''When Erin first started she would get hit for a six and she would look at me like she was going to cry,'' Sthalekar says. ''I said, 'Mate you're a spinner. Get used to it.'''
Osborne admits it hurt. ''Bowling medium pace I never got hit for six. So I have had to change my thinking a little bit.'' Osborne, 22, is being groomed to succeed Sthalekar, 32, as an off-spinning all-rounder for NSW and Australia. But Sthalekar is far from done - she topped the bowling and was second on the batting stats for T20s this summer. Despite T20 becoming the dominant form of women's cricket, both Australians would prefer to see more Tests.
''I think there is room for all three games,'' Osborne says. ''I think it is really disappointing at the moment that we don't play a lot of Test matches but unfortunately England are the only ones who do, out of all the other countries.''
Sthalekar says women should use T20, which is more often televised and more heavily attended, to their advantage. ''I hope that T20 cricket educates everyone about women's cricket but also gets sponsors on board so we can afford to play more one-day cricket and Test cricket.''
Both have toured India before and are wary of the world's No.4 team on their home grounds. India have brought back Anjum Chopra after a two-year absence. The 34-year-old batter, whose career stretches back to 1995, will captain the home side. She told the Indian Express recently her love of cricket drew her back to the game. ''I have a dream to emulate what Indian men did last year … win the World Cup at home,'' she said. ''We want to do the same, and that process has started."
Not if Sthalekar has anything to say about it. Despite being better financed, the Indians remain off the Australians' pace. ''They've got some big names that have done well for so long that haven't adjusted as well to T20 or the way the 50-over format has changed,'' Sthalekar says. ''When I first came in, 180 was good enough to win you a game of [50-over] cricket. Now 250, 260 isn't good enough. So the game has dramatically changed, and as players we have had to keep adapting..''
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If I've missed something, it's probably because I'm here on my phone instead of a computer.
Tangle...00 into door panel, center post..hot lead into the seats...starting fire
For example, straight from the Hornady website, consider:
"Hornady TAP® Reduced Recoil™ (blue hull) is a lower-velocity load designed primarily for pump action shotguns. It comes loaded in a blue hull with a load delivering a velocity of 1,100 fps out of a 30" test barrel."
30" test barrel. That really inflates the numbers as compared to firing it from a real-world 18" SD shotgun. That 30" is 67% longer than an 18" SD barrel most would shoot it from. IF the .380 were shot from a 5" test barrel, but from a handgun with a 3" barrel that too is a 67% difference.
I didn't say a shotgun was equivalent to several .380s, I said seven .380s had the same energy of 9 00 low recoil pellets.
So the math isn't moot. What's in question is the length of barrel used to obtain the shotgun data. You claim it is real-world, but 18", 21", 24", etc. are all real-world. Which one was it? Hornady uses a 30" barrel; how could other manufacturers use anything less? It would make their loads look weak in comparison.
For those of you that think it isn't important to consider the ballistics of individual 00 pellets, because there are always more than one, I have this to say:
First, ALL the pellets behave the same as one as far as penetration goes. The problem is each pellet is a low mass, relatively slow moving, low energy bullet. I know, you still think that doesn't matter, but it is critical to understanding what you can expect from buckshot. Here's a real-world incident. I found this on another board that has some pretty serious members:
Granted, that's pushing the range for 00 buckshot, but why is it? LE 132 00 patterns very tightly and a number of the pellets actually hit the threat. So, it wasn't because of spread or pattern. And it's not because there weren't enough pellets hitting the threat - it's because the pellets that did hit, wouldn't penetrate the threat's leather jacket! And here we are, right back to my point - when pellets act alone, they aren't very impressive.Quote:
I'm not sure that the reduced recoil Flite Control buck loads have the retained energy at 40+ yards to do more than just poke nicely grouped holes in target cardboard. About a month ago, a local police agency here got into a gunfight with a murder suspect. Two of the officers involved had 870 shotguns loaded with issued Federal LE-132 9-pellet low-recoil 00-buck. A third officer had a 20-inch barreled AR-15 loaded with some kind of 55-grain ammo. The fight occured at about 35 to 40 yards distance.
The armed murder suspect was shot into submission in just seconds. At the ER, the bad guy had a shattered hand, and one of his femur bones was so completely pulverized that the doctors reportedly amputated his leg. As you would expect, that was a result of .223 rifle impacts.
However, when the paramedics peeled the suspect's cheap leather coat off of him, numerous 00-buck pellets fell out of the leather material onto the floor of the ambulance. Let that sink in a couple seconds. The low-recoil buckshot had failed to fully penetrate the suspect's outer garment, a leather coat, and the pellets were embedded and stuck in the material...
So with all that muzzle energy why won't the pellets penetrate? Because once the pellets spread, again, they become individual pellets against wind resistance. This is yet another reason to understand why the ballistics of one pellet apply to all pellets. Low mass, spherical projectiles, are pretty quickly slowed by wind resistance. 'Slowed' means rapid energy loss. How many think a .380 would not penetrate a leather jacket at 40 yards?
Also, before I leave this, let's compare the effectiveness of the .223 to the 00 buck at the same distance. This is quite interesting, because the weight of the .223, 55 gns, is almost identical to a 00 pellet, 54 gns. Yet the small caliber .223 devastated the threat. Why? Because, although it was acting alone, all the muzzle energy was applied to a single round, not divided up over 8 or 9 rounds. Also, the .223 is aerodynamic and is not effected nearly as much by wind resistance as a sphere.
So now we can see more clearly than ever why it is important, if not critical, to understand the ballistics of 00 loads at the pellet level.
FWIW, barrel length versus energy is not linear. I'll try to illustrate for people who didn't know that: Imagine a barrel that has infinite length. If energy comes at a 1:1 relationship to barrel length, somewhere along the way, the bullet would surpass the speed of light (and then we would tear a hole in the space-time continuum :rofl:). After a certain length, barrels are essentially the same length, as far as energy is concerned. If you trace back to a 0 inch barrel, you'll see that the difference between a 5 inch barrel and a 2 or 3 inch barrel is far greater than you seem to have accounted for.
You might want to consider this -this was an actual test performed with real guns with real ammo.
The rounds they refer to are the Buffalo Bore +P 90 and 95 gn bullets. They were fired from a 2" real gun.Quote:
With the real world guns, we'd just shoot the three rounds of a given brand of ammunition, swipe the barrel with a Bore Snake, then move on to the next brand. We actually did all the tests on the real world guns first, since we didn't have all the ammunition we wanted, and figured that this data would be more important than the drop off in performance between 18-inch and 17-inch barrel lengths (for example). Altogether we tested about 1,000 rounds of ammo over the course of three days
The data doesn't lie. We were seeing 90 and 95 grain bullets moving at 900+ feet per second(fps) out of even the shortest barrels, beating everything else by at least 100 fps.
I think our results will surprise a lot of people who were skeptical about the effectiveness of this caliber in these very small guns, as they surprised me.
Just so you won't again accuse me of making up outrageous numbers, here's where the data comes from:
Hornadyle.com - 12 GA TAP® Reduced Recoil™
and "Ballistics By the Inch",
BBTI - Ballistics by the Inch :: .380 Auto Results (2010)
Let's compare a much more docile .380 load, more of a standard load fired from a 2" barrel. We'll compare it to the Hornady TAP low recoil. I use Hornady because we know the barrel length they fire it from is 18.5". So we're taking a real world shotgun barrel and comparing it to the shortest real-world barrel in a real world gun firing a .380.
The representative .380 is the 90 gn Speer Gold Dot FMJ with a muzzle velocity of 852 fps from a real gun with a real barrel only 2" long.
Hornady lists the ballistics as 991 fps, 8 pellet 00. That yields an energy of 118 ft-lbs per pellet.
Now the .380. The .380 has an energy of 145 ft-lbs - that's a huge difference. Well the Hornady is a pretty light low recoil so let's use a more powerful low recoil load - the Remington LE 132 00.
The LE 132 00 manufacture lists this round as 9 pellet 00 at 1145 fps, and we don't know if that comes from an 18.5" barrel or not. The energy per pellet is 157 ft lbs which is only 8% more than the .380. IF those ballistics are from an 18" barrel. If it's not then the energy will go down.
BTW, Hornady lists the velocity from a 30" barrel at 1100 fps and out of an 18.5" barrel at 991, so length does make a difference in a shotgun. In fact the energy of a 00 pellet at 1100 fps is 145 ft-lbs (same as a .380 fired from a 2" barrel). The energy of a pellet at 991 fps out of the 18.5" barrel is 118 ft-lbs. Going from an 18.5" barrel to a 30" barrel increases the pellet energy by 23%.
And from the 30" barrel at 1100 fps it still only has the same energy as a .380 fired from a 2" barrel.
But again, when the 00 and .380 have exactly the same energy, the 90 gn .380 at 852 fps vs a 00 at 1100 fps, the .380 still has 25% more momentum than a 00.
The point of the thread is not to prove that every .380 load has more energy than every low recoil 00, but to establish the shocking truth about the energy in 00 low recoil pellets. The energy in each pellet of some 00 low recoil is in fact less than some .380s. At best, a 00 low recoil pellet energy is about 8% more than a .380 fired from a 2" barrel and still would not have as much momentum as the .380. However as you can see from the chart, there are some .380s even more powerful than the one I used. I just used this one because it didn't seem all that special.
FWIW, here's Corbon's .380 spec's - Notice the barrel length and this stuff beats full power 00, i.e. 00 traveling at 1325 fps (energy per pellet, 210 ft-lbs):
Caliber: 380 Auto
Bullet Wt.: 90gr CORBON Self-Defense JHP
Velocity: 1050fps
Energy: 220ftlbs
test Barrel Length: 2.5 Inches
And here's a real-world test with that Federal I referred to earlier:
Diamondback DB380 380 ACP with 2.8" barrel
Actual measured velocity: 890 fps
Expansion: .515"
Penetration: 11.25" - - (that's through two layers of denim and SIM-test material)
Calculated energy: 158 ft-lbs (at 890 fps)
That's more than the Federal LE 132 00 load produces per pellet- 157 ft lbs. And we don't even know what barrel they attained that with.
I calculated the energy of this .380 round based on the chrono'd velocity from a 2.8" real gun to be


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By Chris Duca
From: Havertown, PA
Feb 26, 2007
|Whether you are a new or old school leader, a couple of large Cams (#3, #3.5) are a good idea at the off-hands bulge near the top.
By john strand
From: southern colo
Jul 12, 2008
|Other than Lichen Delight, by FAR the best crack climb on the Barber wall.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Jul 13, 2008
|I dont know about "by FAR" but its a contender for sure... Chicken Delight is my fave in this section (again, other than Lichen Delight)... any other votes?
By CTYankee
May 5, 2009
|This will test your jamming technique. Tape up if jamming is not your specialty. The rock is very rough. You can easily spot those who have done battle with nutcracker by looking at their hands.
By Mike Thompson
From: Manchester NH
May 5, 2009
|wicked wanna get on this route! next time im up there deffinately going down! .... at least attempting at going down :)
By john strand
From: southern colo
Sep 30, 2009
|Chicken Suscks ! Almost as poor as Double V or Layton's
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Sep 30, 2009
|haha... wow... seriously?
By Chalu Kim
Jul 31, 2011
|My partner and I agree this is the best route ever. #4 was useful.
By hasan Adil
From: portland,me
Aug 27, 2011
|Up to the bulge, it feels more face climbing with a finger lock thrown in here and there. There are plenty of the feet with an occasional need to cam your foot. Chicken Delight feels more like a pure crack climbing experience.
By Peter Lewis
From: Bridgton, Maine
May 22, 2012
|In Jerry Handren's new guidebook for the North Conway area (SO MUCH NEW STUFF--available as of late May 2012) he gave Nutcracker the grade of .10a. Been waiting for that for 30 years. Thanks, Jerry! Now, if he'd only stuck .9 on Pine Tree Eliminate...
By Peter Beal
From: Boulder Colorado
May 22, 2012
|Peter, great comment. 5.9 for Pine Tree will never happen :)
By Matt Desenberg
From: North Berwick, ME
Nov 22, 2012
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
|Such a good route!
By Peter Lewis
From: Bridgton, Maine
Apr 28, 2014
|Hahaha, Peter. Then how about 8+ for Pine Tree (wink, wink).
By stephen arsenault
Jun 7, 2015
I think both Double V, and Chicken Delight are harder the Nutcracker. My fat fingers have difficulty getting into thin cracks.
Nutcracker is my favorite route on that end of the cliff.
By Jon Po
From: Mahwah, NJ
Jul 9, 2015
rating: 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b
|This thing would be a MOTHER of an onsight for a 9+/10- leader! Doubles from .4 to 2 will be nice. Leave the 4 on the ground but save a 2 for up high! Awesome climb!


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Look agencies are always the worlds biggest hypocrites. It's true. But, you have to applaud, laugh, and shake your head when you see Crispin Porter + Bogusky bemoaning the flack they're receiving for crowd sourcing a logo design for their client Brammo Motorcycles. Alex Bogusky, creative god to some and immature frat boy leader to others, got a nice little feel good pat on the back from Edward Boches. Why do I say "feel good pat on the back?" Well, Alex's tweet earlier today certainly conveys that he believes Edward (who sides with CP+B) was spot on. For what it's worth, I think it was a dumb gimmicky idea.
On with the show…so why do I think Crispin and Alex are hypocrites? Well, CP+B has had a loooooooong standing policy/philosophy that negated ever doing spec-work. As indicated by Ad Week in the 2008 Agency Report Card article, Nike was the only time they reneged on this philosophy.
This proved to be an overconfident move when the MDC shop cut 7% of staff, about 60 people, in early '09. Agency backtracked on its no-spec pitch policy as relationship with Nike quickly soured over creative differences, learning that sometimes the process provides valuable foresight into the future success of the client/agency pairing.
Make no mistake, crowd sourcing a logo design where the winner get $1,000 is spec-creative. The $1,000 prize doesn't even come close to compensating for the time and effort that will go into a logo design. Look, you can't have an agency principle that says no spec creative, but then advise your clients to exactly the opposite. Where's the integrity? If you waffle on something as simple as whether you're for or against spec-work, what else will you waffle on? Oh, the hypocrisy.


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I tried a Yogi Dong Quai tea - Dong Quai is an herb that is supposed to be helpful for painful periods. It gave my uterus a mild burning sensation and also tasted terrible (like really strong black licorice and celery). I tried adding parsley to my diet too and it did the same thing. Maybe that's a sign that it's helping but I didn't like it. You have to be careful of natural stuff just like you would other medicines. Some herbs can have interactions with prescription drugs (I take an anti-depressant) which I never expected.
I drink raspberry leaf tea almost daily because my parents own a raspberry bush and the leaves are free plus there's a lot more info out there on this. I suppose it doesn't matter now since I'm on the pill already and that is taking care of the period pain so far. But I'm looking at other things I can do long-term (I definitely plan to take bc at least another month). I've heard about the progesterone creams but since I don't have a known hormone imbalance or irregular cycles, I hesitate to do something like that. I'll bring it up to my doctor though (I see him next month). Thanks for the suggestions!


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Just to prove how safe confidential info might be....
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Thanks Mel.
There was a similar story in the Spectator this week, which also meant to blog. It concerned a police officer who was making a very tidy living out of selling ID data on to interested parties (including quite a lot of journalists!). He would usually double his money in most instances, buying info that he couldn't already lay his hands on immediately, and selling it on.
Impossible to think that children will be safe under such circumstances. Abusive partners would pitch up all over the place.
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In my heavily biased opinion (screen name) the vz58 is more accurate ( run of mill gun to run of the mill gun) smoother, lighter, faster to swing on and aquire target , has a bho, and is 11 better. (58-47=11)
I thought this was pretty interesting. It's a photo comparision of the VZ-58 and AK-47. I never saw a VZ-58 before, just figured that they were more alike than they are. The only part that will exchange between the two is the ammo!
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In my heavily biased opinion (screen name) the vz58 is more accurate ( run of mill gun to run of the mill gun) smoother, lighter, faster to swing on and aquire target , has a bho, and is 11 better. (58-47=11)
Remember the old saying,,,,"night &day" that's it in a nut shell. IMHO the VZ has a the AK platform beat by a country mile on almost every point. Hands down a far superior gun in every respect.
Not mentioned in the above posts,,,in "as issued" dress, there more accurate, less moving parts, smother triggers ( even though they have a slightly longer reset),overall much stronger , actually has a safety you can manipulate when it's shouldered without shifting hold to do it and way more ergonomic overall to use,and lastly there is no possible way to jam that gun,, the complete top is open when it ejects with nowhere for a squib round to get caught up in.
I've said all this in threads many,, many times before. I own 2 and there going be with me till Hell freezes over, I'll never let either one go. For you that have never handled one or never seen one in person to fondle,, you'd be amazed at the differences just by handling one,,,shooting it,,,even better. No target gun,, but consistent 1 1/2 groups ,,no problem.
For anyone that has never handled one,,, make a concerted effort to do so, I think you'll have a new favorite firearm in that class of weapons. There SWEAT!!!! Honest!!
OH YA,, there made by CZ too,,,,has anyone here ever had any CZ mfg. gun they don't love??? Not Me !!! If so it must be a wore out, beat piece. I can't think a single soul I know that doesn't love there CZ's,,,not one,,,,ever !!!!
Bet ya can't tell how I feel about the VZ58!!
Thanks for the link! I thnk the AK is more reliable though because of its turning bolt design.
How so?
The lock up on the VZ's is very similar to many other European fire arms designs which is tried and true sense the late 1800's early 1900's and is very simple and very strong and only 1 part to wear out. Hell the first VZ I had I literally put tens of thousands of rounds through it till there was absolutely no rifling left at all and I never had a single failure of any kind, ever and at the end it never got cleaned either. It was so bad you could almost detect a egg shape at the end of the barrel it was so shot out. Never missed a beat.
The only thing about them that throws some people is,, the relatively long trigger reset.
You seem pretty experienced with them,, VZ58,,, do you know if that can be shortened up some??? The only thing I've done to both mine is polish the trigger some. There pretty tough to bump fire ,,I'll tell ya that, at least harder than my Egyptian AK with the G2 trigger group in it.
Not that I really do it all that much,,,but it sure is fun sometimes!!!! HE! HE! HE! WELL HELL,, ya got to cut loose sometimes,,, right?
I like the VZ-58 a lot.. I've built 4 of them, sold one to a buddy because he needed one.. and he absolutely loves it.. he says it is dead nuts accurate.. but he HAS broken a few parts on it as he shoots it a lot.... he managed to break the bolt locking piece and a trigger unit.. the bolt lock was cheap and easy to replace.. the trigger was fixed by welding it up.. the US triggers and sears are not very good in my opinion.. that being said, I think the AK has a better fire control system.. in general as Mr. M.K copied it from Mr JM browning.. along with the AK safety lever form a model 8 I believe from Mr Browning also... I think the AK's rotating bolt is also a better design as well.. being that it has two massive lugs and is much stronger, broken bolts in AK's are very rare.. The AK magazine is also better in my opinion ..being made of steel ,not aluminum.. but I think the barrels on the VZ-58 is better...than most AK barrels.. more accurate.. from what I've seen.. I like the striker fired system of the VZ-58 because it hammers the primers which is a good thing..I don't like the VZ-58's folding stock or the smallish pistol grip... but all that can be fixed.. both are great guns.. I say get them both.. B2B
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54-47 indeed!
I've also heard from others that the VZ factory barrels are more accurate than AK barrels. Perhaps due to 15" vs. 16"? Not a lot of info about "sweet spot" lengths on 7.62 barrels. Lots more of .223 barrel tweaking and 18" is starting to look like a good all-around barrel for that caliber. Perhaps the Czechs got it right with 15"...
Honestly don't think reliability is a concern here. The falling block design is similar in concept to a FAL bolt. I want to say it was used in Mauser pistols was it not? Too early...
The only thing I could say AGAINST a VZ is the fact that given the right conditions you can have a failure to reset the striker during rapid fire conditions. I read about it on the CanadianGunNutz forum once and did see where that has been reported on a few rare occasions. Never experienced it myself however so I must not be doing it right
Another nice thing is that there are several sources for aftermarket parts to enhance it. I personally find the stock comfortable and the lock mechanism very useful. So even if the factory stuff doesn't work there are plenty of 2nd- and 3rd- party components that - if pics on the web are to be believed - in use in some fashion in real service units.
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1biggun, I tried one of the aftermarket triggers (different than the one installed at rebuild) also and had issue's with it too. I shot several class 3 ones and there's no issue with the stock parts doing that. I'm thinking the after market ones are just to soft. The folders defiantly need some tinkering to get them comfy like I did on mine that I put up some pic's of of awhile ago.
Many of the European guns use the falling block design,your right hcpookie, Mauser 's also, way back to the early Broom handles from the 1800's, p-38/P-1's, Fal's and a bunch of others I can't remember right off. That's the long reset I was speaking about,,,that really really could use some reworking, that's the only flaw I've found with the VZ platform,,but those are the aftermarket triggers and sears in the semi's,, I've never run into that issue with my buds class 3 one with all the original parts, much shorter reset on those.
I love both mine, one a tricked out folder and one as issued, in the semi version that is, sorta as issued,,, we'll just say, in fixed stock configuration. Sense it's not a class 3, not that I wouldn't like one of those too,,,,,but,,,to many $$$$$$ involved with those!!!!
Turning bolt designs (two large lugs not the multi-lug like the AR) have seen extensive use in combat as in M1, M14 and AK and all have proven very reliable in adverse conditions from deserts to the arctic. Also, I have fired various tiltng bolt, locking flap and roller designs and they were not as reliable. Everyone to their own poison.
The rotating bolt is definitely a stronger set up.
Each one defiantly have there strong and weak points but I can pretty well bet we can all agree there
BOTH DAMN GOOD GUNS!! And I'm sure we'll see both basic designs around for many more years to come.
I ,,,STILL,,,, like VZ's better,,,


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I I can apply a coat to 100 deep langs in about 5 mins or so.
Take two saw horses and lay a 2X6 or a landscape timber across them and thread the boxes through the timbers and just roll em over as you get each side done.
And second, does wood stain really hold up as well as paint in the weather? If so, staining is a heckuva lot faster than paint.
I have used my son with a sprayer,pretty easy!!
Quote from: buzzbee on July 27, 2010, 10:58:58 PMI have used my son with a sprayer,pretty easy!!Hey Buzz... your son looks really talented with that sprayer... send him over to my house! Stack 'em up and spray 'em... ...DOUGKD4MOJ
i stack 8 high and use a paint roller. ...schawee
I stack my boxes and do not paint the edges that meet the next box. These e dges are covered by another box most of the time.
Or for wooden hives I have had good luck spraying with motor oilhttp://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,22093.msg169528.html#msg169528
Used motor oil works well and is about as cheap as your gonna get.Richard Taylor used creosote. I don't think you can buy it anymore though.
motor oil is not harm full to bees ? dave
I have my many kids take a brush and paint them.....while I am sitting inside, drinking coffee, and going through my bee catalogues. It is tough, but worth the effort....lol.


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Eating meat makes you party to a kill. Shrink-wrap and fancy presentation may distance your awareness from this truth, but changes nothing. Almost any food involves the death of something...but...animals have feelings. They actively and passionately don't want to die.
That's why if you want to eat meat, you should participate in the hunting or slaughter of an animal, so you know what you are eating. Hunting makes my head spin hard. There are a lot of angles, and I'm forever changing my mind.
When I'm hunting, I'm actively and passionately feeling the whole universe through every pore. Putting weight on each foot ounce by ounce...slowly contorting into strange positions. In Cherokee, the word for "tracking" also means "awareness."
Grappling through a multi-dimensional world of cause and effect. Many things can affect success. The dimension of death yawns around me like the ocean.
Hiking, by comparison, seems trivial. Bouncing down the trail, making chit-chat, on the surface more than in depth, covering ground quickly. The trail blurs by.
Don't get me wrong—you don't need to carry a gun in order to move with awareness through the biosphere. But unless you have strong mystical or meditational (or self-medicational) tendencies, it doesn't seem happen. And you still don't get the possibility of bringing home meat.
Half an hour before sunrise, light was leaking into the sky over the east-side plains. The doe took up most of my scope. She raised her head and looked towards me, ears raised in my general direction, a shadow among shadows. She had a glow, as if every cell in her body was on fire. She plunged her head into the grass, her head swinging back and forth, her teeth chewing, shewpshewpshewp. She was alive and vital and loving every mouthful of frozen grass. When she dropped her head, her white tail would flag straight up. When she swung her head around, her white tail would wag. Then she would raise her head towards me, chewing loud with her mouth open—caricature of the happy deer. Lack of fear gave her power. Gave me doe fever. I was shaking like a deer in headlights.
Trapped in my role as a hunter, the goal was now in sight, and I was supposed to shoot this innocent flame of exuberance. I pulled the trigger to get it over with. There was a loud bang. She was gone. No. It was not possible to miss her. No trail of blood. Yes, she was gone. I searched for hours, wondering bleakly if she was dead or wounded somewhere, or peacefully sleeping, or still eating grass, shewpshewpshewp. Our fates were now entangled.
In 1922, the physicist Erwin Schrodinger used a story about a cat in a box to illustrate a paradox inherent in the emerging science of quantum mechanics. A cat is placed in a box with a vial of poison. There is an apparatus set up so that there is a 50 percent chance that the vial breaks and the cat dies.
Quantum mechanics describes a universe of parallel universes held together by perception. To those who exist outside of the box, the cat is neither alive nor dead until the box is opened. The cat exists in a superposition of states, either/or and neither/nor, a blur between life and death. Same as the doe I fired at—until I find her.
In each blur between birth and death, all possibilities exist until you perceive otherwise. And the primal activities that consume us have a way of blurring together in strange ways. Consider the parallels between hunting for meat and the mating dance: aka 'scoping' for babes—the other white meat. An ocean of gray area. These days, either sex can scope for either sex, and you don't need to buy tags.
However, while stalking is one of the highest arts of hunting, applying those same basic principles in the otherwise noble pursuit of love is a serious no-no, resulting in major style-point deductions, as well as legal issues. In both hunting and scoping, there are restrictions against robbing the cradle.
Doe fever. Buck fever. The biggest twist in hunting for babes is that if you play by the rules, the prey has more power than the predator. Ask any two-year-old about the power of "no." I've been frozen in more than my share of doe-eyed high-beams. The heart races, the brain seizes. So many ways to say the wrong thing. Just like our universe hasn't found a way to divest its appetite for death, so too has it not found a way to digest heartbreak. Not even with the potent digestive enzymes of Chef Boy Ari.
Perhaps the next phase of human evolution is to break out of old patterns that no longer serve us. After all, 'the love dance' is more of a cooperative effort than a predator-prey relationship—hence the illegality of stalking. Can we look at other forms of food-procurement that way as well—as cooperative rather than
predatory? I'm not exactly sure of what I'm suggesting. All I know is that all possibilities exist until perceived otherwise.
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The Community Habilitation program provides purposeful goal oriented activities for adults with mild to moderate intellectual or physical disabilities. This program focuses on community integration, but also incorporates facility activities to increase Activities of Daily Living (ADL) skills.
Community Habilitation is designed to assist clients reach their highest level of independence regarding personal, social, and daily living skills and to promote community inclusion. This program incorporates individual services and small groups of 3-4 clients. Services are based on an individualized plan of care.
The Community Habilitation program operates Monday through Friday from 8a.m. to 4p.m at Kids Place.
This service is also available as part of day programming options offered at New Hope Services Center in Jeffersonville , IN. Individualized outings can also be arranged on evening and weekend hours based on client need. Most clients participate in this program on a part time basis.
What trainings do Community Habilitation staff receive?
All staff receive extensive training on Protecting an Individuals Rights, Outcomes and Objectives, Providing a Healthy and Safe Environment to Individuals, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), First Aid, Emergency Drills and Preparation, Safe Crisis Management (SCM), Individual Specific Training, and Transportation Safety.
What is the cost of services?
Services are generally paid for by a Medicaid Waiver or a Community Support Budget. Both of these are administered by the Bureau of Developmental Disabilities. Services are also available to families wanting to pay privately for services.
What activities do clients do during the day while in Community Habilitation?
Activities occur in both group settings and one on one with staff. Activities are based on client goals, and therefore are unique to the individual. Activities can include shopping, art projects, gardening, educational skills, games, visiting museums, parks, fairs, stranger danger, or other activities designed to increase independence and have a meaningful day.
Is transportation provided?
Transportation can be provided as part of a community integration activity.
Do I have to attend full time to participate in this program?
No. You are welcome to participate either full or part time.


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Beautiful Natures Paradise and perfect for a Green home. Use your own builder and design to build a Future Home on a Flat 2 Acre Parcel in Avon Grove School District! Septic Permits on order from Penn Township. 2 ACRE Lot Fully Matured with Stream. Convenient to Delaware, Maryland and all PA Destinations. Developing area around this lot. Bring Offers, Feel free to walk the property but we are in no way responsible for any accidents.
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