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PALMYRA TWP. (Wayne) - It's not just an old ditch. It's far, far more, and though its appearance these days ranges from obliterated (much of it) to easily visible (a few places), there's a group of historians from Carbondale to the Hudson River who are determined to see it appreciated by the modern era.
The story of the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Canal involves 70 years of operation starting in 1828; its legacy far exceeds that. Called the first million dollar private enterprise in the United States, the 108 mile canal and its 16 mile gravity railroad moved anthracite coal to market in the most efficient way in its time, only gradually eclipsed by the developing era of steam railroads.
The D&H raised towns including Carbondale, Waymart, Honesdale, Hawley, Lackawaxen in PA; Barryville, Port Jervis, Cuddebackville, Wurtsboro, Summitville, Ellenville, High Falls, NY, and others, as it stretched to the Hudson, near Kingston, NY. The canal helped lead to the enormous growth of New York City; besides coal, quarried bluestone for urban walkways and monumental buildings came by D&H canal boats. It brought the first use of a commercial stream locomotive to this continent. Its images of horse-drawn boats and locks remain symbols for the entire corridor, of a vibrant industrial history, enterprise and determination that echo to this day.
••• Societies working together
To expand ts appreciation and preservation, historical societies along the route banded together several years ago to form the D&H Transportation Heritage Council. Meeting quarterly at varying host sites, for the first time they convened at the D&H Canal Park at Lock 31, Wayne County's sole project to restore, protect and interpret the canal in its domain.
Wayne County Historical Society opened the park officially in August of 2013 with a festival.
Sally Talaga, retired Wayne County Historical Society Director and active volunteer, gave a tour of the grounds and explained their vision.
The second annual Canal Festival is set for Saturday, August 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. About 20 years in the planning, the park grounds are open daily for walks (there is a full mile of restored canal towpath), and the circa 1820 building exterior is largely complete. Pending funds, the interior is to be restored as a living history museum. More plans are foreseen on the grounds, including a canal boat replica to double as a pavillion, and also a barn.
The Society is presently looking post-1850 D&H canal boat plans on which to base the pavilion. An application has been made to the PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. If the grant is awarded, the Society expects to start building the pavillion in the summer of 2015.
The Council assembled inside to talk business.
D&H Canal Park at Lock 31 is only one of several museums or heritage parks along the way of the gravity railroad and canal dedicated to telling the D&H story. The combined efforts of the Council aim to better market the corridor as a whole, making it a desirable destination for heritahe-minded visitors as well as residents. Together, they hope to better be able to expand efforts at preserving sections of the canal and towpath or gravity rail bed, as well as display its artifacts and enlighten a new generation to what came before them.
The Council is planning its third version of a combined brochure, which should be available in August. Also in August, they expect to launch a Facebook page. They are already online with a website.
Video documentaries are being planned, with different sections done one at a time. The plan is to post these on YouTube. There was considerable discussion of finding a videographer, at the right price. The Council may decide to do its own filming but will need an editor.
Cliff Robinson Jr., D&H Canal & Gravity Railroad Conservancy, is president of the Council. Members present gave updates on their individual museums or canal park projects.
••• Along the D&H:
Here is a list of D&H Transportation Heritage Council member (or affiliate member) organizations along or near the route of the D&H, and where you can find information on their museum or canal park:
• Carbondale Historical Society, Carbondale, PA. 570-282-0385. www.carbondalehistorical.org
• Waymart Area Historical Society, Waymart, PA. 570-488-6750.
• Wayne County Historical Society, 810 Main St., Honesdale, PA. 570-253-3240. www.waynehistorypa.org
• National Park Service Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreaional River (including the Roebling Bridge/former D&H aqueduct at Lackawaxen, a toll house D&H museum on the NY side and a section of towpath to walk). 570-685-4871, www.nps.gov/upde/d&hcanal.htm
• Town of Deerpark Schoolhouse Museum, Huguenot, NY 845-856-2702, 1863schoolhouse.org
• Minisink Valley Area Museum, Port Jervis, NY. 845-856-2375, www.minsink.org
• Neversink Valley Area Museum, Cuddebackville, NY. 845-754-8870, www.neversinkmuseum.org
• D&H Canal Linear Park, adjacent to Route 209 between Wurtsboro and Phillipsport, NY. Sullivan County Park & Recreation Commission. 845-794-3000 x3072, co.sullivan.ny.us
• D&H Canal & Gravity Railroad Conservancy, Hugeunot, NY firstname.lastname@example.com www.dandhconservancy.org
• D&H Canal Historical Society & Museum, High Falls, NY 845-687-9311; www.canalmuseum.org. A new exhibit, "Plight of the Common Worker (on the D&H)," opened in July.
Also contact:
• D&H Transportation Heritage Council, www.dhthc.org
In addition, Ellenville Public Library & Museum is located at 40 Center St., Ellenville, NY, on the D&H Canal route. 845-647-5530 eplm.sharepoint.com
Heritage Council meets at Lock 31 Canal Park
PALMYRA TWP. (Wayne) - It's not just an old ditch. It's far, far more, and though its appearance these days ranges from obliterated (much of it) to easily visible (a few places), there's a group of historians from Carbondale to the Hudson River who are determined to see it appreciated by the modern era.


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When I was a kid, I had problems with asthma. I knew what it was like to struggle for breath all the time. I always had an inhaler around.
Then the Lord blessed me with greater health. The asthma problems became much better. I still needed to be careful, but I could do more than ever before. I was so grateful for that gift of physical health. After about five years, I started really getting into sports. At that point some of the asthma came back to where I still need to have an inhaler on hand. But I've learned that I can still do many things, including sports. I actually play on my high school basketball team. I'm so grateful to be able to stay this active.
One of the ways I try to show my gratitude for physical health is by helping others. Last summer I had an opportunity to volunteer at a basketball camp for younger kids. We helped fourth and fifth graders one week, then sixth and seventh graders the next week. I got to know the participants really well. There were 25 attendees and 5 counselors. We worked on things like basic basketball skills, sportsmanship, and the importance of playing as a team. The participants had a fun time learning, and I definitely had a great time teaching them.
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Planet of the Apes on the History Channel?
I thought perhaps I had accidentally turned it to the SciFi Channel. I double checked the channel. It was indeed the History Channel. Further, that big H was on the bottom right of the screen.
Wow, I started to think! This is a part of human history I have completely missed! Is this a dramatization of a newly declassified NASA report that the History Channel is revealing? I was getting excited.
After about ten minutes of this, my wife Kate came into the room and asks, "Oh, you are watching the Planet of the Apes movie." I was stunned. The History Channel had mislead me and put a fictional movie on the air?
Now, I am used to the History Channel having programming on Bigfoot, UFOs, Nazis and the occult, and the wonders of New Zealand bridges. However, there is always the pretense of history going on. But an old science fiction movie?
When I was a teenager two decades ago, MTV (Music Television Network) used to actually play music videos. Now you will be hard pressed to find any music on the channel. Is the History Channel about to abandon history? I shudder at the thought.
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- Jennie W said...
That is twisted! I just went to see if the History Channel could justify it...and looked at yesterday's programming. They showed some show about King Kong before it (could there really have been a giant ape type thing) and then a show about scientists search for the ape to man link after it....seemed they were on an evolution kick. Definitely makes you wonder. I tend not to watch the Hitler channel (as I call it because that seems all they show!) because it seems to only hit the popular topics. I will admit there are from time to time some good programming, but you have to watch really hard! I'm worried that next we are going to get reality TV, history channel style. I mean look at Digging for the Truth (a show I must admit I actually do like - he at least covers a vareity of topics - I really liked the one on Otzi) and you'll see it heading that way.
- doughnuts said...
Perhaps it was an exercise in allohistory, a "what if", alternate scenario to say...a different outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Just kidding. Just a thought.
- doughnuts said...
Sounds like History Channel could be trying to make monkeys out of us all :)
- Grant Jones said...
Yeah, but I really enjoyed the showed that followed on human evolution from "Lucy" to us. It included interesting vignettes on the early scientists searching the world for the "missing link."
- beancounter69 said...
I actually stayed up late to watch the Planet of the Apes. Call me weird or a sci-fi geek or both. I did notice that immediately following this program was another program on evolution, which I did not watch as it was two in the morning by this time. I believe they were trying to get people interested the evolution concept with a classic (in my opinion anyway) movie. I will not get into my thoughts on evolution at this time, but will say I think it was a nice lead in. At the very least, the History Channel was probably able to bring in some new viewers they might not otherwise have by airing this program. This allowed them to possibly capture some of these new viewer's interest through their advertisements of some of their upcoming shows such as one on how King Tut might have died. Having said all that, I do hope that the History Channel is not getting away from its "history".
- Phidippides said...
I caught POTA as well on the History Channel - one of the greatest movies of all time, IMO. One could justify it being on the channel based on it being such a classic movie and part of pop culture. One could also justify it because its social commentary captures part of the zeitgeist of the late '60s/early '70s....nuclear Armageddon loomed, the nature of man and animal was being continually studied, and space flight and technology brought it all together. Great, great movie.


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The Tennessee Conference historical library and archives (currently officially the archival depository) has been blessed with a change in staff that will greatly increase access to our collections. Von Unruh, past archivist and present Conference Historian, has been appointed to the position of Historian and Archivist. The position is part time as Von will also be serving as a local church pastor. The position is currently being referred to by a combined title, Tennessee Conference Historian and Archivist, although the role of conference archivist is actually a separate position appointed by the Commission on Archives and History while Rev. Unruh's position of historian and archivist came as a conference appointment.
The Historical Library and Archives will begin a new schedule, being opened most weekdays in the mornings through very early afternoon. The exact hours will soon be posted. (Please note: we are still short staffed and Rev. Unruh has many pastoral duties, so it is always a good idea to call first to be sure the depository is open before coming down to do research.) As always, the archives may be opened by appointment on a staff availability basis should a researcher be unable to make the usual times. Staff restrictions also make only limited research requests to be answered from a distance.
Von brings with him an intimate knowledge of the library and archives, as well as an extensive knowledge of Methodist (in general) and Tennessee Methodist History. He is a trained historian and researcher in addition to being an elder of the church. His appointment bodes well for an increased energy in the Conference's "ministry of memory."
Jim Havron will remain as an archivist, although he will now be under the direction of the historian and archivist. We will also still have the services of various volunteers and our administrative assistant, Jackie McFarland.


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Doctors override most e-Rx safety alerts
E-prescribing systems' clinical decision support is "grossly inadequate," says a new study. But there are ways to stop low-severity alerts.
The latest example is a study of the electronic prescribing records of nearly 2,900 community physicians and other prescribers in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Nearly 230,000 times these doctors were warned about potential drug interactions, and 90% of the time they decided to proceed as if the alert had never appeared.
"The systems and the computers that are supposed to make [physicians'] lives better are actually torturing them," said Saul N. Weingart, MD, PhD, co-author of the study, which was published in the Feb. 9 Archives of Internal Medicine.
The results, Dr. Weingart said, do not show that physicians are recklessly ignoring warnings. Rather, too many of the electronic alerts are irrelevant to the clinical circumstances doctors face and the patients they treat.
"Given the high override rate of all alerts, it appears that the utility of electronic medication alerts in outpatient practice is grossly inadequate," the study said.
Yeah, no kidding. We use the Picis system in our ER. Overall, I love it, and it immediately improved my person productivity, and makes managing our ER easier and more precise. EMRs I can take or leave, but an EDIS is essential, in my opinion. Patient tracking, resource utilization, physician order entry -- it's all great. But the med interactions are just useless.
We convinced the vendor to turn off all interaction warnings except for "Allergies" and "Severe Interactions." And yet, more than 90% of the interactions flagged -- closer to 99% in my experience -- are worthless and I click right through them. On a recent shift, I made note of a few of the interactions that the system flagged:
Argh. This was just a small sample, the few that I bothered to write down. Some of them are legimate, but still irrelevant. A patient reports taking naproxen, and I want to give him a dose of ibuprofen in the ER. Double-prescribing NSAIDS could cause an GI bleed, but a single dose is hardly a "severe" interaction. Ditto with percoset and dilaudud. Yeah, in theory it could cause additive respiratory depression. So I get where some of these come from. But the others are just dumb, and the fact that these are selected "severe" interactions just boggles my mind.
I lobbied the vendor to entirely shut off the interactions function, but they refused, citing liability.
So we click through, and hopefully the few real interactions won't get ignored because of the extremely signal to noise ratio. I tried to argue with the Picis reps that there was actually a higher risk of a med error due to their poorly designed database, but that got no traction.


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The USDA is accepting applications for federal Rural Energy for America (REAP) funds to help gasoline retailers install blender pumps. This is designed to give consumers choice in the ethanol blends they use.
This is the second year that blender pumps have been authorized as part of the REAP program. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last year that USDA had plans to install 10,000 blender pumps over the next five years.
That announcement and this year's opening of the application process is welcome news to the Blend Your Own (BYO) Ethanol campaign, a joint educational effort by the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). The campaign will again offer free grant writing services to those interested in applying.
"This program provided funding for more than 250 blender pumps last year," said RFA Director of Market Development Robert White. "Through the BYO Ethanol Campaign, we have the ability to assist retailers in applying for these funds and help USDA and the Obama Administration achieve the renewable fuel goals they have put forward. With E15 fuel registration due any day, these blender pumps will help spread this new blend across the country."
"In just five years, growing ethanol use has helped us reduce our reliance on foreign oil by more than 10 percent -- to a point where imports are less than half of total demand. We can continue that move toward greater energy independence by getting more ethanol in front of more consumers," said ACE Senior Vice President Ron Lamberty.
USDA's program offers funding for grants, and loan guarantees, but certain restrictions will apply on the size of the local communities and the businesses applying for the funds. Applications are due on March 30, 2012.
For more information on the REAP Program, free grant writing services or blender pumps, visit www.BYOEthanol.com.


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Does your pooch have an Easter bonnet or gift basket? Whether or not you celebrate Easter or Passover or whatever holiday or not, you can still have some fun with an Easter Egg dog hunt on Sunday, March 31… can be for treats, bones, toys, whatever gets your dog in the mood for fun…dogs love finding treats in the grass so why not give them some special time and treats to hunt for. Cici loves to sniff the grass at the park near our house every day and she comes up with all kinds of awful surprises. This could be a fun way to channel your dog's inner sleuth in a positive way.
An Easter outfit with bonnet is optional, but here's how to make a costume if you must
Your back yard or closest dog park or even a room in your home can suffice to be the place where your doggie will sniff out his prizes… If you want to take photos of the event, you probably should take them before the treasure hunt unless you want some photos of your dog with their goodies and their costume off.
Suggested prizes:
an Easter bunny stuffed animal
a hardboiled egg or two
small bits of cheese cut up into squares
a bone (deer antler perhaps)
a few cookies (homemade or others)
chicken or turkey jerky or bits of hot dogs
some kibble thrown around in the grass
If your dog is a seder dog who celebrates Passover, the treats can be appropriate to that holiday. For instance, bits of gefilte fish, tuna, and/or salmon.
Popular Easter treats like jelly beans, marshmallow chicks and chocolate eggs can upset your dog's tummy and make them sick. DO NOT give any dogs chocolate treats since chocolate is toxic for dogs.
If your dog is a piglet like Cici, do not toss out too many treats for your pooch to consume or they will eat all of it and then still want to eat their meals. These treats can replace one meal that you normally feed them.
On a larger scale, this can make a great charity fundraiser for your local pit bull rescue or shelter and an adoption event, to boot. For a community dog hunt, use plastic eggs and put the treats inside the eggs for the dogs to find. Have someone dress up as the Easter Bunny so pet guardians can take photos with the bunny and their pooches. Be creative. Offer fun dog activities such as agility, a parade, some donor booths filled with goodies and food for humans and pooches. Sponsors from the local community who donate will get Free publicity and a tax write off.
Please let us know about your event at home or in the community and send us photos of your dogs in bunny ears/outfits.
Below is one event taking place in the Sacramento area soon…
here is an event taking place in New Jersey
gotta love Polka Dot doggie biscuits…Life with Dogs, Two Little Cavaliers and Confessions of the Plume… grab the blog hop link


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Light green and long-leafed Napa cabbage is the most common type of cabbage used in Asian cooking, particularly in Korean kimchi, a dish made by fermenting the cruciferous veggie. But Napa cabbage can be difficult to find in your typical U.S. supermarket, especially during cold weather months. Green or "western" cabbage, on the other hand, is more widely available and is in season during the fall and winter. Although not native to Asia, this cabbage variety, defined by its spherical shape, smooth leaves, and darkish green color, is used as an ingredient in many Asian-inspired appetizers. Reap the health benefits of this vitamin C-rich, low-calorie, and inexpensive leafy green vegetable by trying it in one of the four simple cabbage recipes below.
Did You Know? Fun Food Facts About Cabbage
Cabbage Recipes to Try
Cabbage Kimchi While traditional Korean kimchi calls for Napa cabbage, this recipe is made from the type of cabbage more commonly found in U.S. grocery stores.
Thai Coleslaw This sweet and tangy blend of Thai flavors takes just 5 minutes to make and is the perfect side for any season.
Steamed Cabbage Wraps Use this cabbage and sauce as a wrap for barbequed pork, beef or other meat, or eat them alone with a side of rice.
Spicy Asian Orange Ginger Shrimp Tacos A twist on traditional fish tacos, these appetizers are served in crunchy wonton wrappers, stuffed with shrimp, sugar snap peas, water chestnuts, mandarin oranges, and shredded cabbage, and topped with a bit of heat.
Related: All cabbage recipes on Asian Supper!
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Today's Special: Mediterranean Tuna Melt
Today's Special: Mediterranean Tuna Melt
Tuna melts are one of my all time favorite comfort foods. It's like a grilled cheese, there is something about melted cheese and warmed bread that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Tuna melts are a great go to meal when you have no time and no fresh food in the fridge. I always have canned tuna, bread, and cheese in my kitchen. Tonight's recipe is a jazzed up version with a Mediterranean twist: garbanzos, capers, and green olives. I've made this open faced sandwich many times and it's absolutely delicious. To make it for dinner,
Mediterranean Tuna Melt
From Martha Stewart
2 cans (6 ounces each) chunk light tuna packed in water, drained
1 can (15 1/2 ounces) garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
1/4 cup minced red onion
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup chopped green olives
2 tablespoons capers, rinsed
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Salt and pepper
1 loaf (8 ounces) Italian bread, split lengthwise
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
- Heat broiler.
- In a bowl, combine first eight ingredients (through mustard); season with salt and pepper.
- Lay bread, cut side up, on a broiler-proof baking sheet; top with tuna mixture.
- Sprinkle with Parmesan. Broil until golden, 2 to 4 minutes.
- Cut into pieces; serve.
Serves 4.
Per serving: 414 calories; 10.8 grams fat; 31.1 grams protein; 46.1 grams carbohydrates; 4.6 grams fiber


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Aria Company
Join Date: Nov 2003
Wow, it's only been two years... Even though I was only around for a year and a half, it feels like this site was always here. Well what is there to say but happy birthday animesuki. If it wasn't for this site, I might actually have had a life. Then again probably not.
Hopefully this site will be around to kill my free time for years to come.
|2004-12-26, 14:05
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Lord Chairman God King
:Looks at GHDPro's joined date:
It looks like you were planning this for over a whole year before it went up, correct? I found the history quite intriging that your search for Star Trek Enterprise was responsible (accidentally) for the whole site, the forum, and the bit torrents of anime. However, it still bothers me that you were looking for Star Trek Enterprise. Not exactally the most conforting twist....
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|2004-12-26, 14:35
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: I LOVE NEW YORK cough* my ass cough*
Age: 32
Happy birthday Animesuki. I am proud to say that I think I am one of the first people that used this site and perhaps one of the oldest (not age wise) animesuki user.
I hope this site is kept up even if bittorrent goes down (another program perhaps?) and as always, thank you GHDPro for this service.
|2004-12-26, 16:56
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Somewhere
Age: 38
Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas!
Thank you everyone (GHDPro, NoWaSannin, NightWish, JustAnotherFan, etc)!
You guys are awesome and great and I wish you guys the best of luck and the greatest happiness in the new year! Keep up the good work. =D
|2004-12-26, 19:10
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: planet earth
Happy Birthday!
THANKYOU for having such a GREAT site. I just joined forums this month, but i've been using this site for the last 6 months [where has the time gone???].
This is BAR NONE the greatest anime info site on the net. I really appreciate how you link into anime databases (animeNfo, animeDB, etc.) and list the groups subbing and -- last but not least -- where the torrent files are.
This is an awesome ONE STOP SHOP!!! [smile] -- And probably the reason why MFI sent you [G-man] a letter.
Hopefully you an navigate the next to years as well as the last 2.
Happy Birthday and Happy Holidays - Animesuki STAFF
|2004-12-26, 19:53
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Ero~Kairin! ^-^ Yeay!
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: ~ Montreal
Age: 38
They might try to take us down, our love for anime will prevail. Always.
Hail! to GHDpro, don't let us down!
|2004-12-26, 19:54
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Uber Coffee for da win!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Middle of insanity
I love this forum to no end and I want to see it go on forever. I mean, seriously, where else can you see Xris's "ban of death" and Dranz's "thread lock no jutsu"!! (*ducks and hides from "bad joke" mod's wrath*) hehe.
But seriously, even if the mods are a bit rough, their dilligence has made this one of the best forums to be on because its well ordered and within the limits of legality so as to keep things fun, honest, and interesting.
|2004-12-26, 20:10
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Haruka fan
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Wade Park
Age: 37
Congrats on 2 years!! I'm kinda "late" getting here, but finally having a computer at home with internet, and being able to see all the latest anime is truly a luxury.
Happy to be here! Thank you for all the wonderful experiences i've had with all the anime i've seen because of the site!
|2004-12-26, 20:11
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i am the mist
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Japan
Congratulations on your 2nd year anniversary, and more years to come!
I was here since over 1 1/2 years, but I just got broadband only a few months ago. Even so, I visit AnimeSuki so that I would have info on the latest fansubs... and yea this forum is one of the best!
|2004-12-26, 21:03
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Happy birthday Animesuki.
I have to say this site single handedly destroyed my need for irc and DC.
which is a good thing
Oh and heres a little blast from the past the animesuki site from Jan 2 years ago, sure has come a long way
|2004-12-26, 23:58
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now with 20% more ego!
Congratulations, thank you and a happy birthday.
Congratulations to the mods for managing to keep the site up for so long and Asuki becoming what it is today.
And a heartfelt thank you, for introducing a new medium of fun (Which bascially ruined my social life and made me an anti-social and crazed, young, hermit who's become drawn to the boards like Semeagol to the ring), and to the community, what better people to be influenced by?
|2004-12-27, 03:23
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Happy Bday Animesuki!!!!!!!!!
Wana thank the staff for an awsome job always and also, you guys were the ones who got me into anime in the first place I owe everything to Animesuki!
*breaks out da beers and hands em to all*
With many more to come... CHEERS!!!!!
|2004-12-27, 04:44
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Mr. Prince
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Age: 35
I could just imagine NoSanninWa coming by and closing this thread with a reply like "Since its no longer Animesuki's B-day this thread no longer serves a purpose. Thread closed"
So while I still can Happy B-day Animesuki! (even if it is a day late)
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cyberscribe1 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
This website is for a family owned home healthcare center.
Touching Lives Everyday Home Care, Inc.
Touching Lives Everyday Home Care, Inc. They desire a website with a "home like" personal feel but at the same time a "professional" medical touch. They provide a wide variety of medical services, including hospice care. They really care about their clients and want their website to convey that attitude.
- Item 1...They want to use the logo and color in the file found at http://220.127.116.11/~tlehomec/design/
- They desire a "home like" personal feel but with a "professional" medical touch
- Final file should be delivered in layered.png or .psd format
- They haven't supplied photos to us yet, so any photos used in your design will be placeholders. -- we will insert their photos later (or hire you to do it).
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Egyptian pharaohs brought many captives from Canaan into Egypt, to be employed in state and temple servitude, some passing into private hands as slaves; Canaanite merchants also visited Egypt...
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Controlz.05 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 157 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
Koko Brothers Entertainment
We are a Disc Jockey company that has been in business for over 20 years and would like a fresh image that reflects our brand. We are a two brother team that helps our clients find creative solutions to all of life's celebrations employing music, sound, lighting and video. We provide entertainment for all types of events but the majority of our business is weddings. We are about to undergo a website redesign and the Logo is our first step in the process. You can visit our existing site to learn more about us at http://www.kokobros.com
The new logo must be Fun, Elegant, Classic, Creative. It is important that the logo is appealing to our target client, engaged women 22-40 years old who are web savvy professionals.
We are looking for an APPEALING COLOR scheme to our target audience. A clean, professional look. We don't prefer typical DJ icons but would welcome them if used creatively. If you visit our website you do not have to use the existing colors as part of your design since the site is about to be built around your new logo design.
"Koko Brothers Entertainment" must be in logo.
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Jay Greene, one of the most successful and popular players in UMBC basketball history, returned to his alma mater as an assistant men's basketball coach in the fall of 2011 and will start his fourth season on the sidelines in 2013-14.
Greene was inducted into the UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame in the winter of 2014.
The Whitehall, Pa. native has played the most basketball games, 122, and most minutes, 4,192, in Retriever basketball history from 2005-09. The two-time team captain dished out 683 assists, the most in school history, the third-most ever in America East Conference history and the third-most of any NCAA Division I player in the state of Maryland.
He scored 1,186 career points and was the Reggie Lewis Most Outstanding Player in the 2008 America East Tournament, leading the Retrievers to their first NCAA bid. In his junior season, Greene was the lone player in the nation to be ranked in the top five in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio (2nd, 3.47) and assists per game (4th, 7.2 per game).
Greene, who was named UMBC's Outstanding Senior Athlete for 2008-09, earned three league citations in four seasons of competition. He was an All-Rookie team member in 2005-06, earned First-Team All-Conference honors in 2007-08 and second team honors in his senior campaign.
Greene earned his bachelor's degree from UMBC in sociology in the spring of 2009. He spent the 2010-11 season at director of basketball operations at Rider University.


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The Tissint meteorite, a 58 gram sample of which is shown here, landed
near Tata, Morocco in July of last year and was confirmed as martian in
January. A new study shows that it and several other martian meteorites
contain organic carbon of non- biological origin.
Photo credit: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
Curiosity, NASA's latest Mars rover, will begin its search for chemical evidence of past life on the red planet in early August. But according to a new paper in Science, the surface of Mars contains organic carbon generated by non-biological sources, which could make that search even harder.
Very rarely, material ejected from the surface of Mars by cosmic impacts can make its way to Earth in the form of meteorites. Only about 60 martian meteorites are known, eleven of which were part of the study conducted by an international team of experts, including Chris Herd of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. Inside the martian minerals, the team found particles of carbon. "What's interesting about this stuff is that it's not just graphite, it's organic macromolecular carbon," says Herd. Organic carbon is present in the dust from which the solar system formed, as evidenced by primitive meteorites which can contain anything from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to amino acids. Similar material would have been incorporated into Mars as it formed, stored in its interior, and could later have reached the surface by means of lava flows.
To test this theory, lead author Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution of Washington used confocal Raman spectroscopy, which allows for accurate determination of both the form and location of the carbon within a given meteorite's crystal structure. In every case, the organic carbon particles were found in inclusions within igneous minerals. "The only way it could get there is if it was present in the original magma," says Herd. "If it had been formed by some kind of biological process, you'd expect to find it associated with rust or material that formed through alteration by water, not with the igneous minerals." Although the finding doesn't completely rule out the possibility that Mars once harboured life, it serves as a reminder of just how hard Curiosity will have to work to prove otherwise.
From: Earth Chemistry http://www.accn.ca/index.php?ci_id=3478&la_id=1


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A leather bomber jacket worn by President John F. Kennedy fetched well more than 10 times the asking price at auction, an indication of the fascination the nation still has for the president who ushered in the upbeat era of Camelot after the political doldrums of the 1950s.
The jacket, complete with a patch of the presidential seal, was worn by the president and others on Air Force One. It flew out the door Sunday at a price of $570,000 plus the buyer's premium, officials at John McInnis Auctioneers told reporters.
On Monday, the nation celebrated the three-day weekend associated with George Washington's birthday — also known in some circles as Presidents Day to honor all of the nation's chief executives.
John F. Kennedy, shot to death at 46 years of age in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, is usually considered the highest-ranking modern president, according to the Gallup poll. Fully 85% gave JFK positive marks in 2010, though he had a far smaller approval rating while in office.


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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Life of a Genealogist
2 comments:
- Daniel said...
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- June 18, 2008 at 6:55 AM
- Phil said...
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Community Missions of Niagara Frontier and the YWCA of Niagara are joining forces to host an upcoming art auction on Friday, June 7, at the Sheraton at the Falls in Niagara Falls. The event will raise money and awareness for the marginalized populations both agencies serve in Niagara County.
The event will begin at 6 p.m. with a preview of the artwork, hors d'oeuvres, a chocolate fountain, a cash bar, a basket auction, a 50/50 raffle, a live auction, door prizes, and a wine tasting from Long Cliff Winery.
Following the preview hour, Marlin Fine Auctions will auction off more than 100 pieces of art in all media and price ranges. Artists represented in previous years included Chagall, Dali, Picasso, Rockwell, Tarkay and Warhol.
Proceeds from the event will benefit both agencies and their many programs.
Donations and sponsorship opportunities are currently available (and greatly appreciated). Any contribution made will be recognized through social media promotion from both organizations, in the event program, and can be considered tax deductible. For more information on how to purchase tickets or become a supporter of this event, contact Andrea Gray at 716-285-3403, ext. 2225, or [email protected]. Also, stay connected via Facebook and Twitter for event updates and news.
Since its founding in 1925, Community Missions has provided a unique blend of referral, crisis, community support, and residential services for youth and adults. In 2012, the missions' crisis services programs served more than 70,000 meals, provided crisis housing to more than 600 individuals, and provided more than 900 nights of care to neglected or abused children and homeless adults.
The YWCA of Niagara provides support services to women and their families through programs including alternatives to domestic violence, DV counseling, education and prevention, and rape crisis services. In 2012, these programs helped 1,500 women and their families.


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Anders Eastgrove necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 244 diseños de 64 diseñadores freelance.
Sverok.se is going to change to Wordpress and needs a new design! We only want the design and will convert it into a theme ourselves.
We want a start page and a "content" page with roughly the same design. Read the Brief for details! :)
About Sverok
Sverok is an non profit organization for games and gamers of various kinds. Role-playing, board games, figure games, live action role playing, card games, computer games, airsoft and paintball are the main activities. The Association has over 1 700 clubs with about 75 000 members in total.
What We Want
Sveroks website is old and needs renewing. We're changing the system to Wordpress and want a new design that appeals to our members and is "web-trendy".
We want the design to reflect the feeling of being a large organization without sacrificing style and ease of navigation.
Our Vague Ideas
Fixed width, top menu, header/info blurb (probably over 200 px high, like in the Metrobusiness example below), 3 column layout on the startpage.
Take a look at the existing page at sverok.se for an idea of the amount of information we need to present and what we don't want any more ;)
About Colors
We're leaving it kinda open, but we have a graphical profile whereyellow (#FFD42F) and blue (#005695) are official colors. So one or theother or both could possibly be a part of the design and maybe othercolors shouldn't clash with them. Feel free to play around with itthough.
Here are some examples and what we like about them:
http://www.joomla.org/ - Overall nice. We like the header thingy, but the page feels maybe a little to "templatey" and not so personal.
http://www.socialdemokraterna.se/ - A little stiff but we like the menu with search integrated. We also like the columns.
http://www.tre.se/ - The animated header/info blurb.
http://www.metrobusiness.se/ - Nice general design elements. We like the top part and animated blurb.
http://www.revolutiontwo.com/demo/office.html - We like the top part and the scrollable header.
http://www.lilly.com/ - Overall design and the columns.
We need to have our logo on the page. Logo picture in eps and the OpenType font for the "Sverok" text part of the logo can be found here:
We'll give feedback roughly once a day. Please, feel free to let us know if you need more info!
Follow our vague ideas and be inspired by our examples but don't be afraid of being creative if you get a smashing idea you think we'll enjoy! :)
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Troy Story
Thanks to his devastating speed, punishing tackles, and Fabio-sized hair, Pittsburgh's Troy Polamalu has become the NFL's most eccentric superstar. David Kamp discovers the soulful Super Bowl champ hiding beneath that glorious mane
There are outward signs of normalcy. During the victory parade through downtown Pittsburgh, two days after his team won Super Bowl XL in February, Troy Polamalu shimmied and shook like every other Steeler on the slow-rolling flatbed, his fluffy mane bobbing up and down in the wind, his thick torso swallowed up by an oversize gray "Super Bowl Champions" hoodie.
Polamalu is a fan favorite in Pittsburgh, right up there with Ben Roethlisberger and Hines Ward and the recently retired Jerome Bettis. His "43" jersey is a common fashion statement in western Pennsylvania, his mass of hair a beloved trademark; in a tavern round those parts, I saw a wall-mounted moose head adorned with a curly wig and a Steelers cap with "43" Magic Marker—ed onto it. (Pola-moose-u?) While the champion Chicago Bears of '85 had their "Super Bowl Shuffle," the de facto anthem of the 2005 Steelers was "Puhlahmahlu," a novelty hit created by a local band, Mr. Devious, after its members heard a Fox Sports commentator bungle Polamalu's Samoan surname. In homage to "Mah Na Mah Na," the old Sesame Street ditty in which a beatnik Muppet grunts the title phrase and is scolded by two lady Muppets who sing "Doo doo-doo doo-doo," the "Puhlahmahlu" video features a mangy puppet who repeats the Fox guy's mispronunciation—"Puh-lah-m'lu"—and is corrected by two pink cows who chide, "It's Pah-lah-mah-lu."
But it only takes a little digging to find out how not normal Troy Polamalu is. The first indication is the striking, ultrafrenetic way he plays—fast, blurry, on the cusp of recklessness, "like a controlled tornado, all that hair whirling," in the words of Chris Hope, who was the Steelers' starting free safety until he signed with the Tennessee Titans this spring. Polamalu is the team's strong safety, but at five feet ten, he's not a big guy, as strong safeties are supposed to be, and he doesn't really play the position as it's defined—or, for that matter, any position as it's defined. He's created his own position, menace-at-large, sometimes patrolling the intermediate range of the field like a linebacker, sometimes covering speedy receivers like a cornerback, sometimes rushing the quarterback like a defensive end, sometimes seemingly doing all these things on the same play. Last fall he dropped the Houston Texans' David Carr for three sacks, tying the record for sacks in a single game by a safety. "I mean, every time I looked up, it seemed like number 43 was in my face," the shell-shocked Carr said afterward. There hasn't been a defensive player this much fun to watch in the NFL since the New York Giants had Lawrence Taylor.
What truly marks Polamalu as a man apart, though, is his godliness. I don't use the word lightly. I refer not to his goodness or his decency or the regularity with which he attends church. (In fact, he doesn't even belong to a church.) Prior to meeting him, I had heard ad nauseam that Polamalu is a devout Christian who is as much of a gentleman off the field as he is a ferocious competitor on it, but so what? We've all met that guy before: Steve Largent, Reggie White, Roger Staubach. Dude with the hair, I was to learn, is something altogether different: a mystic, a man more fourth century than twenty-first, living in constant dialogue with the Deity. The first communication I had from Polamalu, after weeks' worth of fruitless attempts to reach him during the off-season, was a cryptic e-mail in which he apologized for being unreachable and explained, "I have been in seclusion these last few weeks from even my own family, soul-searching." He signed off with the Christian fish symbol.
The NFL is by and large a faith-based institution, abounding with Bible-study groups and postgame prayer circles. But even in this context, Polamalu stands out. The day he was drafted by the Steelers, in April 2003, Mike Wilkening, the reporter assigned to do wrap-up interviews with the new draftees for Pro Football Weekly, wrote that the young safety out of the University of Southern California was "the only player I've ever interviewed who finished by saying 'God bless you.' " Three years later, Bill Cowher, the Steelers' coach, who has seen every specimen of football player imaginable in his fourteen seasons with the team, remains respectfully bemused by his pious strong safety. A tough taskmaster, renowned for having the angriest jawline and tensest neck tendons on the NFL sidelines, Cowher nevertheless cops to indulging Polamalu when he's deeply submerged in prayer during games and practices. "You've gotta pick and choose when you talk to Troy," Cowher says. "After a play, he goes through his routine. You go up to him, and if he's got his head down, you have to wait and catch eye contact with him. That's the first step—you have to get his eyes before you get his ears. It's a little bit of a process."
I am invited to the home Polamalu shares with his wife, Theodora. I am even invited to stay over and hold my own temporary share in their home, because, my host explains, "We have blessings, and these blessings, we don't believe, are really ours." The Polamalus live in an anonymous, brand-new housing development in the suburbs north of Pittsburgh. By pro-athlete standards, it's a modest spread, conspicuous in its inconspicuousness: no consumer electronics, no phallic sports cars in the driveway (just a blah Toyota SUV), no home studio, no trophies, helmets, or paraphernalia displayed in homage to the glory of the resident jock. The only distinctive flourishes I notice are the crosses in each room.
At home in repose, Polamalu wears his hair tied back, which brings out his seldom-seen facial features: a broad island-man's brow; a wide-bridged nose; huge, solicitous eyes that perfectly complement his sweet, kidlike speaking voice. In a loose-fitting waffle-pattern tee that obscures his scary muscles, he couldn't be more gracious and accommodating.
But glib and conventionally mediagenic he is not. He has no interest in dissecting the "Puhlahmahlu" song, a phenomenon he tolerated more than enjoyed, and manages only a weak, polite smile when he's asked if anyone has ever mistaken him for Kirk Hammett, the guitarist in Metallica. (No one has.) What was he doing in that state of seclusion he alluded to in his e-mail? At this, he brightens. He was reading ancient philosophy and Scripture. "I'm only 25 years old, and I've experienced as much as a 25-year-old can," he says, "but it's only what I've experienced. When I read this knowledge that's been passed down from the philosophers, I'm not as young as my years."
Believe me, Polamalu has his Scripture down. When Theodora puts out a platter of steak sandwiches with heavy cheese sauce, I express surprise to Troy that an athlete of his intensity doesn't subscribe to a strict dietary regimen of whey shakes and nutritional supplements. "I did that for a while, but I stopped," he says. "As it says in Matthew, what comes out of your mouth is more important than what goes into it." When I ask Polamalu if he, like many a Samoan and pro athlete before him, has gotten any tattoos, he responds, "I was just reading something about that in Leviticus 19. It basically says don't do it, don't mark your body. I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian."
Often enough, a straight question elicits a straight answer. But at times, our conversation seems to bend into surreality, taking place on two different planes: mine literalist and empirical; his elliptical and mysterious. "I can tell you honestly, and this is from man to man," he says at one point, "that I have seen, physically seen, demons."
Well, this isn't like the kind of stuff you get from Tom Brady.
"What do you mean?" I say.
"Like in the movies," Polamalu says. "Like, I could be sitting here and actually see, like, a demon walking across."
"Is it some kind of horrific creature?"
"No, it's just... " He pauses to consider his answer. "It's not like a monster," he continues. "There's an emptiness. It's a complete emptiness, where nothing is right. It's an experience that... it's really empty, is all I can say. Not empty like 'I broke up with my girlfriend' or even 'My wife died.' I can't explain it. Just like you can't really explain God's divine law, it's hard to explain this evil."
"Okay, but the reporter in me wants to understand," I tell him. "Physically, you're seeing something? Is it a literal sensory experience—an actual vision?"
"Once, that has happened to me, yes—once," Polamalu says. "But feeling evil around me has happened to me several times. I realize I'm taking a leap of faith in describing this to you."
I try to take the leap with him. "What is a demon, Troy?" I ask.
"A demon is anything that is doing the Devil's work," he says. "And that could be the Devil in me or the Devil in you."
"So it's not a literal monster, then?" Somehow I'm disappointed that Polamalu's demons seem to be morphing from horned, tusked bogeymen into allegories.
"Like I've said, I've seen that once," he says. "A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you."
We back-and-forth like this for a while, with him expounding on God's role in his life and me trying to draw out connect-the-dots explanations of what, exactly, he's talking about—when what he's talking about is fundamentally unexplainable.
"I don't know," he says, "it's just hard for me to say these things without sounding really crazy. Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric."
I tell Polamalu that I want to hear him out, but that he should be prepared for the reality that his words will paint him in some readers' eyes as, yes, crazy, a nut, a Jesus freak. "I understand that," he says. "But probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am."
He was born Troy Aumua in 1981, the youngest child in a family that was falling apart just as he came into the world. His father left shortly after his birth, and Troy spent the first nine years of his life as a self-described "city rat" in Santa Ana, California, the seat of Orange County.
The O.C., along with neighboring Los Angeles County, is home to a large Polynesian-expat community. Its biggest heroes are football stars; many Samoans, whether immigrants straight from the islands or second-generation local products, have thrived in the major college programs nearby. The first big wave of Samoan gridiron standouts, in the late '70s, featured Mosi Tatupu, a running back for USC, and Manu Tuiasosopo and Terry Tautolo, a defensive end and a linebacker, respectively, for UCLA. All three men went on to play in the NFL, and two of them, Tatupu and Tuiasosopo, have sons currently in the league.
Troy, too, had football in his blood—his much-older brother, Kaio Aumua, played at the University of Texas at El Paso; an older cousin, Nicky Sualua, briefly caught on with the Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals; and an uncle, Kennedy Pola, started at fullback for USC in the early '80s. None of these connections, however, translated into anything resembling a life of privilege. The Aumuas—Troy, Kaio, their mother, and their three sisters—lived on welfare, and Kaio ran with a bad crowd. It was the dark flip side of the football-prodigy Samoan stereotype: the baggy-shorted SoCal thug life as captured in the songs of the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., the Samoan gangsta-rap collective from L.A. "My sisters had babies in high school, my brother was in and out of jail," Polamalu says. "I still have this picture in my head where, as a kid, I'm just wondering what's going on. I'm in first grade. My brother's in the backseat of a police car, waving for me to open the door. What am I supposed to do?"
The summer before fourth grade, Troy's mother, Suila, sent him to Oregon for a visit with her brother, Salu Polamalu, and his wife, Shelley. It was a beyond-rural setting, in a tiny, remote inland town called Tenmile, eighty miles south of Eugene. The Polamalus were by no means well-off—Salu worked for the department of transportation, and he, Shelley, and their three teenage sons made their home in a double-wide. But "it was just perfect and beautiful," Troy says. "I saw cows in the pasture, horses, the sun. And man, it must've just rained, 'cause everything was green."
Troy was old enough at this point to know what kind of life awaited him in Santa Ana. Already, he'd fallen into some bad habits back home: stealing his lunch from the grocery store every day, breaking into buildings—the half-pint version of his older sibling's exploits. He pleaded with his mother not to make him go back to California. He wanted to be a Polamalu, not an Aumua.
Suila relented, "but I wouldn't say she was thrilled," Troy says. "There's a lot more to that story that I'd rather not explain. I'll say it like this: Things can't be too right in a home if your youngest son is living in Oregon, your three daughters are gangbanging, and your oldest son is in and out of jail."
Salu Polamalu, the eldest of ten siblings, adhered to the strictures of Fa'a Samoa, the Samoan way, the old tribal code of respect for family, church, and community. He was a disciplinarian, "from the old school," he says, "carrying through the way my father raised the ten of us in my family in American Samoa." To the wild-child Troy, this was less a burden than a relief. "Taking our last name was Troy's idea, his decision," says Salu. "It was much easier to be a full part of our family than to be 'the Polamalus plus an Aumua.'" Salu discovered his nephew to be heartbreakingly unfamiliar with the ways and rules of organized sports ("He'd only ever seen them on TV"), but as soon as Troy caught on, he excelled. At Douglas High School in Winston, Oregon, he lettered not only in football (as a two-way player, starting at running back on offense and safety on defense) but also in baseball and basketball.
There was never any explicit religious epiphany but it was no coincidence that Troy's spiritual awakening coincided with his athletic one. He started to question why, after an early childhood of struggle, his life was falling into place, and these questions turned into prayers. "It got to a point in high school where I was almost constantly in prayer. Praying through the whole football game, praying through the meetings, praying as I'm driving—this constant conversation with God," he says. "Football was not, and is not, a sport to me. It's a spiritual battle. So it wasn't like after a play I would go 'God! Why did I miss that tackle?' It was more like 'Okay, God, you've blessed me, and this is play, but I want to thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to play this beautiful sport.' "
When he was in sixth grade, Polamalu committed his final crime: He stole a Bible from a gift shop, to give himself a scriptural underpinning to his newfound faith. (Polamalu thinks God meant for him to do the deed, arguing, "After the intent, the action doesn't matter: 'If I give you a gift, I give it out of love.'") The way things subsequently snowballed, the hand of God seemed undeniable. His Uncle Kennedy (who uses a shortened version of the family name, Pola), the former USC fullback, persuaded the then coach at his alma mater, Paul Hackett, to look at film of his small-school nephew. Hackett agreed in 1999 to take on the kid: Troy, a Trojan! Hackett's successor, Pete Carroll, turned the struggling USC football program around just in time for Polamalu's junior and senior years. The team's tight end, Alex Holmes, happened to have a pretty, slender, pre-law kid sister named Theodora who precisely resembled, physically and personally, the dream woman that Troy had prayed God would one day deliver to him. Given that Theodora is Greek on her mother's side and black, white, and Cherokee on her father's side—a heritage that gave her a lovely face that's pale in color but African in its contours, with a spray of freckles across her nose—this was a pretty tall order for God to fill.
"I was around when they met, I was around when Troy asked Alex's permission to ask out Theodora, and I saw them fall in love very quickly, at a very young age," says Carson Palmer, the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, who lived with Polamalu and five other teammates in an off-campus house on Adams Boulevard and Hoover Street. (It was a quiet house; Palmer wasn't nearly as glam as the QB who would immediately follow him as the starter at USC, the modelizing Matt Leinart. "A lot of DVDs watched, a lot of dominoes played," says Palmer. "Besides, the house was in South Central, so no one wanted to visit us.")
In 2003, the Steelers traded up eleven spots to take Polamalu with the sixteenth pick in the draft. The move was widely criticized in the press, which felt that the team had overspent; Polamalu had had a concussion and a hamstring injury his senior year, and he was a safety, not one of the so-called skill positions. But since then, the only other '03 first-rounder who has consistently performed at Polamalu's level is the very first player taken, Palmer. The following year, the Steelers landed their franchise quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, and they were off to the races. Roethlisberger won his first thirteen starts, and Polamalu, after a middling rookie year, found his pro game. On October 3, 2004, Polamalu iced Roethlisberger's second-ever victory by snagging his second-ever interception—off of Palmer. Juking and jittering during the snap count like he was going to blitz, Polamalu instead hung back, picked off the pass, broke several tackles, ran twenty-six yards, and scored a touchdown just before the two-minute warning.
"He actually ran me over in the end zone and hurt my shoulder," Palmer says. "He's the most respectful, humble, kindhearted guy I've ever met, but afterwards, I was like 'Did you have to run me over?' "
Last season was even better. Cowher and his defensive coordinator, Dick LeBeau, effectively turned Polamalu loose, letting him deploy on nearly every play the head games and hyperkineticism he displayed on the Palmer play. The Indianapolis Colts' Peyton Manning, who has long bedeviled defenses with his pre-snap histrionics, mixing fake audibles with real ones, rearranging his receivers, and flapping his wings like an aroused whooping crane, finally met his match. Polamalu patented some moves of his own, like zooming up to the line as if to blitz, turning his back as if he's heading back into coverage, and then, as the snap is called, whirring around 180 degrees like one of Gladys Knight's Pips and blitzing after all. In a barn burner of a playoff game, the Steelers interrupted Manning's seemingly inevitable march to the championship, defeating the Colts even after referee Pete Morelli overruled a Polamalu interception in the fourth quarter. (Polamalu cleanly caught the ball, rolled on the ground, fumbled, and recovered his own fumble, but Morelli ruled that Polamalu never had possession of the ball in the first place. The league later said that Morelli made the wrong call.) Three weeks later, the Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
"With my life, there's no way that I could deny divine intervention," Polamalu says. "Coming where I've come from, the way that I've ended up at certain places where everything went just perfectly for me, whether it's here in Pittsburgh, with a perfect defensive scheme, or the way it was at USC, when Pete Carroll came in and kind of just gave me the whole defense and allowed me to become a first-round draft pick. It's just beautiful the way that it all worked out. And very humbling as well, because I see so many other, better, greater athletes than me on other teams that, if they traveled this road that I traveled, I believe they could be more successful."
I see his point, but what about all those guys on historically losing teams like the Arizona Cardinals and the pre—Carson Palmer Cincinnati Bengals, the hardworking players for whom it didn't all work out? Is God not on their side? "Well, I can only just see it from my eyes, because this is what I've experienced," Polamalu says. "Maybe they have a different mission. I'm sure they have a different mission."
And what meaning might there be, I ask, to the June motorcycle accident that sent Ben Roethlisberger to the hospital with multiple head injuries, temporarily terrifying the entire city of Pittsburgh? Sensibly, he demurs from answering this one. "I don't think it's up to me to understand what happened; it's up to Ben," he says. "I prayed for him. What I've found is, after some of the worst things that have happened to me, I've come out on top."
Beatific as he is, Polamalu is not an angel on the field. He has incurred his share of personal fouls. In the early going of the Steelers' first-round playoff game against the Bengals in January, he got into a scuffle with Cincinnati's center, Rich Braham, and drew a fifteen-yard penalty for tossing a football into Braham's face mask. "I just lost myself, on a very important drive, which I'm extremely ashamed of," he says.
Still, Polamalu resists the facile, sportswriter notion that he has a "split personality" schizo-toggling between kindly man of God and crazed Samoan warrior. This is, in fact, the only thing I see him get ercised about. "I play football the way it's meant to be played, with a passion, and that's how I live my life!" he says, a rare measure of exasperation in his voice. "If you say otherwise, you're not being authentic—either you're not yourself on the football field or you're not yourself at home."
Unlike the wayward Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams, who seems to regard football as a chore that happens to underwrite his spirit-quest pilgrimages to Asia (and who is playing with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League while he serves out his second NFL drug suspension), Polamalu adores the game and regards it as fully woven into the fabric of his being. "There's no separation," he says. "It's all life. I don't understand how businessmen can say, 'It's just business, don't take it personally.' This is life, and everything in life needs to be taken personally."
Polamalu corrects me when I bring up the subject of working out in the off-season. He doesn't work out, he says, he trains or, better still, immerses himself in what he calls "spirit training." Spirit training, he explains, is a regimen he's devised that "transcends what's physical. 'Cause when you look at 'working out,' it's all horizontal. You know, you do a couple sets, a couple reps. But intensity is what transcends vertically, divine-wise."
When spirit training, Polamalu works at a certain ercise—running on a treadmill, say, or doing push-ups—until he feels like he's going to retch and/or pass out, until his body tells him to stop. And then he keeps on going. "When you're really intense in your training," he says, "you transcend your body. If you go till your mind says you can't go anymore, but you keep going, where you start making crazy sounds, where you really lose yourself, where you have to pull all the love and hate out of yourself—that's spirit training."
Unfortunately for Polamalu, there are more earthbound aspects of NFL life to be dealt with. He recently filmed a Nike ad under duress, "because my agent told me it was part of the shoe contract I signed." With his recognizability, popularity, and decoratedness (he's been to the last two Pro Bowls), Polamalu could command a fortune in ads and appearance fees, but he's turned off by the "nonauthentic prestige" of celebrity, the fact that he'd be getting paid simply because he is a football player.
And he has not acclimated to the fact of life that the NFL, at some level, is a business. He was devastated that the Steelers decided not to make a serious effort to re-sign Chris Hope, his fellow safety and best friend on the team. "I'm very hurt by it," he says. "You spend so much time forming a relationship with somebody, and it's crazy how they can just be gone the next day. It's like losing a family member to death. Because you'll never, ever have the relationship that you had."
Hope, now with Tennessee, is a year older than Polamalu and is regarded in the league as a happy-go-lucky, outgoing character. But he admits that Polamalu, with his empathy and generosity, got to him. "He's a special guy—his intellect, his wisdom," Hope says. "At the beginning of each game, we'd come out of the tunnel, hug each other, and say, 'One of many more.' It's sad, man. The safety I'm playing next to now, Lamont Thompson, has a lot of hair on his head, and in the blink of an eye, I'll think 'Troy!,' and then I come to my senses. It was something we never thought would happen, us being apart. It's like gettin' old: You never think you will, and then it happens."
Hope is gone, but hope is not lost—Polamalu intends to finish his career in Pittsburgh. It's a matter of principle: This organization accepted him as family, and he has a duty to it. He claims to have no idea where the rumors came from, rampant in the blogosphere, that he is planning to bolt to a West Coast team in two years, after his contract is up, because he and Theodora, who is from La Jolla, pine for their native California.
The Polamalus do, however, have a California endgame: They intend to purchase land in Sonoma County with an eye toward starting up a winery and self-sustaining farm. Troy was a teetotaler until the more worldly Theodora turned him on to what she calls "the beauty of the grape," and he now studies wine books the way he studies Scripture. He insists that I take from his home a parting gift of a 1999 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23 Cabernet Sauvignon. "That's Stag's Leap Wine Cellars," he tells me. "Distinct from Stags' Leap Winery."
I thank him for the wine and the experience of pleasure it will soon offer and tell him it's been quite an experience experiencing him; it won't be easy explaining Troy Polamalu in an article. "That's the problem: People try to define everything," he says. "They try to define my character. They try to define your articles. They try to define God, rather than—"
"Let it be a mystery?" I ask.
"Not a mystery," he says, "but more of an... abyss. A beauty that just continues to come, over and over."


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Free agent outfielder Roger Bernadina has signed with the Phillies, Senior Vice President & General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. announced today.
Bernadina, 29, batted .178 with two home runs and six RBI in 85 games with the Washington Nationals this year. He made 14 starts in left field, 12 in right field and three in center field. Last season, Bernadina, a left-handed hitter, batted .291 with a .372 on-base percentage in 129 games for Washington.
A native of Curacao, Bernadina was originally signed by the Montreal Expos in November of 2001 as an amateur free agent. In 468 career games, he has hit .243 with 25 home runs, 107 RBI and 56 stolen bases and made 113 starts in center field, 88 in left field and 78 in right field. At Citizens Bank Park, he is a career .309 hitter in 22 games.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – On his unveiling as a member of the New York Mets, outfielder Curtis Granderson said all the right things, including: "A lot of people I've met in New York have always said true New Yorkers are Mets fans.''
Now, how can you not like that enthusiasm?
Both GM Sandy Alderson and Jeff Wilpon praised Granderson's professionalism and clubhouse presence, and said it was a major consideration in bringing him to the Mets.
Granderson is expected to ease the burden for David Wright, both as a run producer and in the clubhouse.
"He brings, No. 1, professionalism,'' Alderson said. "He brings a personality. He brings credibility. He brings talent … all things that are important.''
Granderson said the Yankees were upfront with him in their rebuilding plans, and while he talked to other teams – including Boston after Jacoby Ellsbury left – the Mets were by far the most aggressive in recruiting him.
"A lot of homework went into it,'' Granderson said. "[The Mets] were the best fit possible.''
Even without Matt Harvey available this season, the Mets sold Granderson on better days – years – in the future. With the Yankees, Granderson knew they would be competitive. The Mets had to convince him.
"They have a plan that's getting in place,'' Granderson said. "It's going to take 25 guys. They have an opportunity to go out there and do some things.''
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Whether the ethanol mandates are reduced or increased, the price of corn will rise only marginally, the economists note.
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Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 08:11
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Clonezilla doing backups?
Have many of you used it successfully?
I know I have downloaded it and then some how
failed to get to use it. I guess the learning curve
too steep? Or one need a CD/DVD drive and it
work less good from a USB?
I got reminded of it reading on DW comments.
98 • RE: #89 #71 Live CD being a different, and often inferior experience (by Ron on 2012-01-11 21:09:11 GMT from United States)
"I would never consider installing it on my main computer as I am not sure that my knowledge level would allow me to correct the potential"
You would do well to learn the 'Clonezilla' software program. It's available on a CD. It takes a little time to learn, and it must be used properly, but it is a life saver after a super crash or drive failure (it can and does happen alas).
Work Clonezilla through a test system to make sure you have it right and that you do not run into some surprises if and when its really needed. Then, you can clone your entire system/drive and play all you want and still come back exactly as you left things.
I guess it is his warning that one really have to know what
one are doing to get it to work reliably and I usually do screw up anything I touch.
So I would need to test on another computer and I am lazy
Ooops I now know why I did not keep the downloaded iso?
It is way over my ability to use.
Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive.
Does there exist some other such programs or whatever
that do the same thing?
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Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 17:56
Post subject: Clonzilla Backups
Subject description: Using Clonzilla
I have used Clonzilla many times and I cannot say how many times it has saved me from complete disaster. It can back up partitions or entire disk drives by making an image file of what you choose to back up. When you restore the lost or corrupted partition or disk it over writes the data with the saved image file.
I use Ubuntu 10.4LTS on my desktop and I make a back up monthly of my hard disk. When I have gotten into trouble I have been able to restore my system back to the time I saved an image and thus saved a massive headache.
I use Puppy on an old IBM Thinkpad A21. With Puppy, I typically back up my save file on a monthly basis and this does the same thing. I see no need to use Clonzilla for Puppy.
The program is easy to use if you follow the screen prompts carefully. I have found that the default selections work fine, and as I gained experience I was able to determine what the other selections would do sometimes by trial and error.
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Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 17:58
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aen, so probably a good application then for backing up a full install of Puppy.
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Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 18:13
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Smokey01, I am not an expert but there seem to be no reason why it would not work that I can see. If you have Puppy installed in a separate partition you would simply back up that partition and restore it when needed.
If Puppy occupies your entire hard disk it should do the same thing it does with my Ubuntu installation. The only area I am leery of in this case would be how it restores an MBR or Grub because when I watch what it does at the end of a restore or save, it is seems to be using the existing files.
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Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 18:33
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I have done one heroic rescue to the one young ladys broken hdd and windows vista installation.
Clonezilla was the only partition cloner which managed to clone the acer laptop hdd hidden partition where the vista factory default installation folder is. That partition was intact, hdd was really broken otherwise. The lady also had about 6000 downloaded songs and about 130 trojans on her hdd. I installed new hdd restored the vista installation partition (acer pqservice partition) and then i booted it and vista installation started.
Then I teached the young lady how not download music files and how to check that they are clean. I made her really happy and her parents also.
Clonezilla is the winner.
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Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 21:43
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pemasu is the Winner too.
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Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 05:41
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First aen, Smokey, pemasu thanks for the kind feedback!
pemasu that was a good thing to read.
That many Trojans? I've downloaded from Youtube
only hope them have no Trojans at all.
You should have told her to change the password to her Bank and other such important that they can abuse
Guys so Clonezilla is really good then.
So suppose I have an USB HDD and then tell CZ to do the
backup to that one from the internal HDD on my Netbook.
Can then CloneZilla be booted from that USB? or
does one need it to be on another USB due to some
internal coding it has to be different patitions or something?
One way to install it would be to dd from the iso to the usb flash? I did that with Pussy Linux and it worked well.
So why would that not work with CZ?
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Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 11:48
Post subject: Clonzilla doing backups
nooby - I am not sure I completely understand your question but here goes anyway.
I use Clonzilla only as a live CD that I burned after downloading the .iso file. It s not permanently installed on any hard disk or USB drive, and I believe it was intended to work this way so that it can shut down the HD it needs to back up.
When I back up my desktop HD, I boot with the CZ in my CD drive and follow the prompts. After some preliminary settings, it asks you to choose where you want to save the new backup image and I choose a 16 gig USB drive. It takes about 30 minutes for it to copy approx. 10 gigs (my System) off of my 320gig HD and write the backup image.
When I restore the system, I again boot from the live CZ disk, and go through the prompts to restore the HD. It takes approx. 6-7 minutes for CZ to restore the HD and I am back in business. I like to fool around on my system, and occasionally mess it up, but CZ has worked flawlessly for me in restoring my system since i started using it in early 2009. It gives you plenty of warning about what it is about to do, like completely over write your hard drive with the new image and I find the prompts easy to follow.
Hope this helps you.
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Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 13:18
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Yes thanks. I will read on their site if it works as good
using only USB and not CD because the Netbook have
no such optical reader/writer.
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Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 17:09
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pemasu wrote:
Clonezilla is the winner.
Agreed. Another satisfied Clonezilla user here.
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Posted: Sun 15 Jan 2012, 04:22
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James did you also use a CD or DVD?
do you know if it works from a Flash drive USB?
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Posted: Sun 15 Jan 2012, 04:50
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nooby wrote:
James did you also use a CD or DVD?
do you know if it works from a Flash drive USB?
I just run Clonezilla from a live cd. As far as I know it does work running from a usb flash drive.
Clonezilla live allows you to use CD/DVD or USB flash drive to boot and run clonezilla
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Posted: Sun 15 Jan 2012, 13:56
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Ah yes right in front of my eyes
so typical me to miss that.
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Posted: Sun 15 Jan 2012, 19:06
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I boot clonezilla from cd. I have had good results cloning one partitaion to another of the same size, and cloning one hdd to another also of the same size, including all partitions on the source drive. I haven't tried saving to an image, or different size partitiions and drives. It seems to work very well and is fairly straight forward.
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Just finished using Clonezilla to clone my a 250 Gb sata drive(2 partitions) onto a new 1 Tb drive.About 20 minutes.Then unhooked the old source drive and using the new larger drive.Actually was much faster than I was expecting.
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At DFA's recent Young Cooperator Conference in Salt Lake City, 150 humanitarian kits were assembled. The kits, which include personal care products, will be donated to the Utah Food Bank to help those in need throughout the state.
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DFA's Northeast Area made a donation to Heifer International, an organization dedicated to working with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. They also participated in the Syracuse, N.Y.-based Christmas Bureau collection by donating food, toys and clothing. Employees at DFA's Mechanicsburg, Pa., plant donated toys, personal items and money for a Holiday Gift Tree, sponsored by New Hope Ministries, to help local families in need.
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At the Knoxville, Tenn., DFA office, employees raised more than $6,700 to share among 10 non-profit organizations that benefit area community members in need of assistance.
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In a combined effort among DFA's Springfield, Mo., plant, Innovation Center, Quality Assurance and Compliance, Tampa Street offices and Community Financial Credit Union employees, fundraising events are hosted year-round to benefit two area elementary schools. Students at a Springfield-area school were given socks and backpacks with gloves, hats and ear warmers. In addition, students enjoyed a party with a visit from Santa, as well as games, toys, coloring books and more. Employees also donated supplies for students to make holiday ornaments to a school in Springfield.
Southwest Area
In Grapevine, Texas, staff held a collection drive for toys to donate to the local Toys for Tots program. The Area's Clovis, N.M., office held a Christmas party and brought donations for a local food bank in lieu of gifts. The office also donated funds to the local U.S. Air Force base. Employees at the Cooperative's Schulenburg, Texas, plant participated in the Deputy Santa collection, a toy drive sponsored by the Fayette County Sheriff's Department that provides toys to area children in need.
Western Area
DFA's Hughson, Calif., plant employees held a food drive for the Hughson Community Service Center. Two barrels of non-perishable food items were collected.
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Mars 01
Goals: Like its predecessor, Mars 1 was a stripped down spacecraft intended more as an engineering test than a scientific mission. The spacecraft was equipped with a camera to snap photos during a Mars flyby and a magnetometer to study interplanetary space.
Accomplishments: Mars 1 was the first spacecraft launched by any nation to fly past Mars. Unfortunately, a malfunction in the spacecraft's attitude control system made maneuvering the spacecraft impossible and controllers eventually lost contact with the spacecraft. The inert spacecraft flew past Mars a few months later at a distance of 197,000 km (122,400 miles). Before contact was lost, scientists collected useful data on cosmic rays, magnetic field, micrometeoroid impacts and ionized gases.