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The Kia Amanti is a four-door sedan that was introduced in 2004. The Amanti was more than a drip than a splash in the market place. It lasted for five years and was discontinued in 2009.
The Kia Amanti production run did not last due to its unfortunate market placement. Set up against the Buick LaCrosse, Toyota Avalon, and the numerous other four-door sedans on the market, the Kia Amanti was doomed to fail.
The reason for the failure was due mainly to the terrible design, mediocre engine performance, and Kia's lack of reputation regarding luxury vehicles. Two generations were introduced, and the second generation did improve on the initial model. However, nothing was done to bring it up to the standards of other models on the market. It would have been best to check out the competition.
An Infinity package was available with an improved 240-watt Infinity Audio System, installed passenger memory settings, and a CD changer. Anti-lock brakes were standard, as well as active headrests, tire pressure monitor, and front, side, and curtain airbags. Handling on the vehicle was good enough that the Kia Amanti actually brought something to the table against their competition, especially given the Kia's price. The heaviness of the vehicle put a strain on the weak structure of the vehicle, creating terrible handling and bumpy suspension. The engine could only get 13/23 mpg city/highway.
The original Kia Amanti included a 3.5-liter V-6 engine that produced 195 horsepower. Unfortunately, the vehicle was very heavy, causing the engine to struggle a bit. The V-6 was upgraded to 200 horsepower in the following year.
The 2004 Kia Amanti came with side and curtain airbags and had optional stability and traction control, which is recommended on these vehicles.
The 2005 Kia Amanti added optional heated seats as part of a Leather package. A tire pressure monitor was also optional on the Convenience package and an analog clock was introduced to the control panel.
The 2006 model added heated seats as standard, as well as a sunroof, and an auto-dimming rearview mirror. Anti-lock brakes were standard, as well as electronic brake force distribution, and Brake Assist. Active front headrests also prevented the chance of whiplash. Out of the first generation, the 2006 model is the best.
The second and last generation of the Kia Amanti was introduced in 2007.
The new Kia Amanti was a major improvement over the previous generation. The biggest difference is the impressive V-6 engine. This 3.8-liter monster produces a respectable 264 horsepower, finally putting it into the same class as its competitors. The lighter curb weight of the vehicle also improves acceleration and the driving experience in general. Handling and suspension are improved on this generation as well.
The 2007 was only available in one trim level. There was a lot of standard equipment including 16-inch alloy wheels, dual-zone climate control, a stereo with cassette and CD player, and powerful speakers. The driver's seat is powered and has eight-way adjustments. The passenger's seat also had four-way power adjustments. Wood grain trim lined the interior. An auto-dimming rearview mirror, steering wheel-mounted audio controls, and other options make this Amanti fully loaded, especially for a vehicle under the $30,000 range at the time of its release.
The 2008 Kia Amanti essentially stayed the same since the redesign in 2007 was so extensive.
The 2009 Kia Amanti was unchanged, but this was to the vehicle's detriment. Major improvements in the competition made the suspension of the Kia Amanti feel a bit too soft. The strange body design wasn't particularly appealing any longer, and the lack of navigation control seemed ubiquitous in other four-door sedans.
The Kia Amanti was still a bit of a dark horse in the four-door sedan market. The spacious interior was very pleasant for drivers and passengers alike. The spacious trunk with 15.5-cubic feet allows the storage of longer items in the car.
Unfortunately, so many design features fault what would otherwise be a decent vehicle. The center console is a little bit out of place and badly designed. The color of the control buttons matches the surrounding plastic, making it hard to find the button a quick glance. The suspension and handling makes the car hard to control and hard to park. If you are on a budget and need to buy a four-door sedan, the Amanti may be an adequate choice, but definitely check out the competition.
2009 Kia Amanti
Midsize, Sedan
Launched in 2003, the 2009 Kia Amanti is a luxury full-size sedan produced by the Korean car manufacturer.
2008 Kia Amanti
The Kia Amanti is an upscale family sedan that comes with a plentiful assortment of standard and optional features.
2007 Kia Amanti
Recently, Kia has turned the company around, offering automobiles with strong value due to their reliability, performance, and a better build quality.
2006 Kia Amanti
The 2006 Kia Amanti classifies as a premium four-door sedan manufactured by Kia Motors.
2005 Kia Amanti
The 2005 Kia Amanti classifies as a full-size executive sedan manufactured and sold by Kia Motors.
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Many computer users are fed up with consistent attacks of adware which is basically software that is not meant to harm your system but to display unwanted advertisements on your computers screen. These adware often come through other software that is available for free. For instance, if you download new wallpapers or new themes on your computer or any games etc, you run the risk of downloading adware also. Usually, adware is not harmful and don't cause any serious problems but it can be highly irritating. It can also slow down your system and will hamper your productivity. Therefore, it is absolutely essential to get rid of adware.
Instead of focusing on removing adware, you should focus on prevention of adware on your system. Don't download any software that has not been published by any reputed manufacturer. You need to be cautious while downloading icons, emoticons and futile software etc. There is plenty of software that can help you in removing adware. Such software first scan your system for all the adware and then clean out all the adware from your computer. But you should buy anti-adware software only from a recognized and certified manufacturer.
Many a times, adware come through junk mails or spam. You should not open and click all the spam because that will automatically install adware on your system. You should delete all the temporary files, cookies and folders from your system on a regular interval. Always update your anti-adware software for better results.
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You've said your Great Aunt Lillian taught you how to be a lady. How so?
Just about etiquette, how to carry yourself. She imparted a lot of wisdom to me. She was a seamstress who worked for Filene's for 30 or 40 years. I still have her sewing machine. She bought me my first suit. I was in 9th or 10th grade. I think she was looking ahead to college, interviews, that sort of thing.
You're petite — 5 foot 2. How does that affect your style?
I've learned to embrace it. It gives me a lot of flexibility — with shoes, especially. I like simple, clean lines and adding a little flair with eye makeup and lip gloss and accessories. On stage, I don't want to wear anything constricting. I like to keep it simple and memorable and fierce.
Your hair is gorgeous. Have you always worn it natural?
I cut all my hair off in 2007, and from then on I never put any chemicals in it. I always look back to powerful women, iconic women — [funk singer] Betty Davis, Pam Grier, Angela Davis, and of course my mother. She was like, "I wore my hair like that when you were born!" -- Hayley KaufmanInterview has been condensed and edited. E-mail comments to email@example.com.


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Members of the Discovery Center of Ridgefield have found plenty of activities to entertain themselves during this seemingly endless winter -- including a snowshoe excursion through the snowy hills of the Ridgefield Golf Club.
"Anyone can do it," Discovery Center volunteer Allison Archambault said. "If you can walk, you can showshoe."
Snowshoeing is believed to have originated in central Asia about 5,000 years ago. The shoes have evolved and improved over time. Today's versions are usually made of lightweight metal and plastic as opposed to the traditional wooden and netted versions.
The Discovery Center's weekly hiking group turns to snowshoeing when weather permits. It is a unique experience that can be exhausting and challenging. A word of advice for beginners -- don't try to walk backwards in snowshoes.
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Until the late 1900s, when women were involved in the military it was mainly as nurses. War has given nursing its principal public face other than the Christian religious vocation. Nurses insisted that the demands of war service required national standards and a national register, and war service assisted in achieving this goal.
Religious orders such as Catholic nuns had previously been used as nurses, but after Florence Nightingale's work in the Crimean War they began to be replaced by civilian nurses. However, the idea that nurses had to maintain high standards of moral behaviour continued. Nurses did not engage with the men on a personal level, dressed demurely and behaved in a manner that required respect. In both the First and Second World Wars men were stretcher-bearers and orderlies, but the propaganda of nursing was female, an idealised picture of motherhood. Uniforms were important, as sober dressing was associated with good moral character. It was not until the Korean War that nurses wore combat fatigues.
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Niecy Nash Ties The Knot — Congratulations!
The 'Dancing With The Stars' beauty has her 'dream' ceremony!
Niecy Nash has wed her longtime boyfriend Jay Tucker!
The 40-year-old television personality walked down the aisle on May 28 at the Church Estate Vineyards in Malibu, CA, Life & Style reports.
Jay, 44, is an electrical engineer. The pair was engaged in September after dating for a year. It's Niecy's second marriage, and she was joined by 200 family members and friends — such as bridesmaid Sherri Shepherd — as she read her vows.
"This was one of the best days of my life!" Niecy says. "It was a dream come true to be surrounded by family and friends as I married the most wonderful man. I celebrated so hard, I'm sure the angels in heaven were telling me to be quiet!"
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Deutsche Bank is lowering its forecast for gold this year, placing it among the most bearish analysts for gold this year, forecasting that the metal will average $1,141, down 14.7% from a previous forecast and down from 2013's $1,413 average. The analysts also cut forecasts for silver and oil.
The Deutsche Bank forecast cut is the latest in a series of analyst downgrades for the troubled precious metal, which saw a 12-year bull run come to a spectacular end by falling almost 30% in 2013.
It was a touch more bearish than an attention-grabbing call last week from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and a big contrast to HSBC\'s call of $1,292.
The Deutsche analysts blame tapering of the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program and a stronger U.S. dollar, among other things, for their outlook on the precious metal.
They said they expect the gold prices to decline by 8% to 10% over the course of 2014.
On Tuesday, February gold traded at $1,244.70 an ounce, down $6.40, or 0.5%, on the Comex division of Nymex.
Deutsche Bank reduced its silver forecast to a 2014 average of $19-an-ounce, down 19% from a previous forecast and down from the $24 average seen in 2013.
The same analysts also cut their call on oil, highlighting concerns over growing U.S. shale production for crude.
They forecast 2014 prices for West Texas Intermediate crude at $88.75 a barrel and Brent crude at $97.50 a barrel. That would mark a $10-a-barrel decline in both benchmark crudes from 2013 prices, they said.
On Tuesday afternoon, the February contract for WTI crude traded at $92.67 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up 87 cents, or 1%, while February Brent on ICE Futures fell 41 cents, or 0.4%, to $106.34.
"A third year of rampant U.S. oil supply growth propelled by tight/shale oil development, combined with the potential for the normalization of Iranian oil exports, is increasingly painting a picture of an oversupplied global oil balance, which poses meaningful downward pressure on oil prices," Deutsche Bank analysts said in a note.
The Deutsche Bank analysts also maintained their 2014 natural-gas price average forecast at $4.25 per million British thermal units "as a reflection of the excess volume withdrawn from storage during November, December and early January," they said.
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Valentine's Wine + Dine — Valentine's Day Buffalo-Area Restaurant Specials
Whether you're a date night delayer or would just prefer a simple night out, plenty of Buffalo's local restaurants have Valentine's Day values for the big night. And with our area never being short on great places to eat, it's impossible to go wrong with this one!
Check out our list and don't forget to make your reservations! Bon appétit!
31 Club
Address: 31 North Johnson Park, Buffalo
Phone: 716-332-3131
Specials: A Valentine's Day Five Course menu, including an amuse-bouche, appetizer, salad, entrée and dessert for a cost of $55 – 70 (before tax and gratuity).
Butterwood Sweet & Savory
Address: 391 Washington Street, Suite 700, Buffalo
Phone: 716-652-0131
Specials: The Valentine's Day Weekend Dinner for Two (125 plus tax and gratuity per couple) features the Soup Du Jour, an Intermezzo of champagne strawberries and sorbet, a choice of an entrée and a chocolate truffle heart dessert. Additional appetizer and entrée specials will also occur throughout the weekend.
Fortuna's Restaurant
Address: 827 19th Street, Niagara Falls
Phone: 716-282-2252
Specials: Four-course dinner specials with an appetizer, soup or salad, entrée and dessert ranging from $29 – 46 per person.
Oliver's Restaurant (with Kleinhans Music Hall)
Address: 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo
Phone: 716-885-0331, ext. 424
Specials: A dinner and dance at Kleinhans Music Hall. Dinner will be catered by Oliver's Restaurant and features salad, carving stations, desserts and a complimentary glass of champagne. Cash bar begins at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and dancing until 11. Proceeds benefit Kleinhans, entertainment provided by the Jim Tudini Big Band featuring Bobby Militello.
Ristorante Lombardo
Address: 1198 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo
Phone: 716-873-4291
Specials: A Valentine's Day menu including appetizers and first and second courses, including a Prime Porterhouse Florentino Dinner for Two.
Salvatore's Italian Gardens
Address: 6461 Transit Road, Depew
Phone: 1-877-456-4097
Specials: Every entrée includes an appetizer, a soup or salad and a dessert in this four-course Valentine's Day special. Choose from appetizers such as escargot and shrimp cocktail, entrées like surf and turf and seafood ravioli and desserts such as chocolate-covered strawberries and Snickers-flavored martinis.
Wine on Third
Address: 501 Third Street, Niagara Falls
Phone: 716-285-9463
Specials: The Valentine's Day package for two includes one appetizer, one choice of entrée per person, one dessert and a bottle of Pinot Grigio or Montepuliciano for $100.
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In this past month I have had many opportunities to enjoy the two little ones, James and Eve, who joined our family two years ago.
I have seen the two mothers go through amazing processes of learning to cope with the complexities of their lives, while mothering their babies. I have seen two fathers adapt and learn how to love in a new way, and to become daddies.
I have reflected on the enormous investment of time, energy, money, and other entities that probably can't be described in a few words - investment by the child's parents, wider family, and community. Investment in a precious resource, a human life, and in the hope for a new generation.
Today I am posting a poem written my our beautiful daughter in law, Anna, celebrating Eve's second birthday. Anna has given me permission to share this tender love-poem with my readers. (Thankyou, Annie)
A Poem for Eve Dulcie - our La Dolce Vita (life is sweet), on your 2nd birthday.....
I love your sense of humour-
Feeding breakfast to your toes
Declaring that it is "pickle day"
Or that you've lost your nose
I love your creativity, on paper (or on walls!)
The way you tell me stories
Or play dress-ups with scarves and shawls
You are my little encourager
Telling me that I'm good
At vacuuming or singing
Or playing Robin Hood
I love your little bird song
I could listen to your voice all day,
Singing songs in the bath
Or while you laugh and play
Your heart is so precious
Saying more than a love letter
You make me want to do my best
And as a mum, be better
The type of love you give is rare
So accepting and forgiving
An Evie filled life is one,
That is all the more worth living
I'm still learning to be your mum
I've made plenty of mistakes
But I'm head over heels for you kid
With every step we take
My curly headed rascal
My beautiful green eyed girl
Mummy's little hero, Daddy's little pearl
I love the way you love me
Always wanting to hold my hand
At breakfast or watching TV
Or playing in the sand
Your infectious belly chuckle
Your heart-warming grin
Your dainty royal wave
Your porridge covered chin
When I wake at morning
And when I sleep at night
I thank God for giving me you –
My Eve, my hearts delight."


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Im starting a new Mechanical Bull Hire Business and require a fresh and innovative logo to establish a strong branding.
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Im after a fresh and innovative new logo design for a Mechanical Bull Business. The Business name is "Bucking Brahman"
Slogon: Sydney's Mechanical Bull.
I have just purchase the website address of http://www.mechanicalbullhire.com.au so would be good to have this website address somewhere in the logo if possible.
There should be a strong emphasis on the Brahman Bull. The logo should be as unique as possible, as it will be printed on all sorts of promotional products.
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Derek2 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 41 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
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Crowd Funnel is an internet marketing company based on reaching peak performance and efficiency for acquiring leads, improving product sales, and brand awareness through it's industry leading optimization technology and experienced marketing teams.
As a quickly growing company, we are also looking for talented designers to create ads (static and flash) and landing pages. If you're interested in additional consistent freelance with very high payouts and monthly bonuses (for winning ads) please email me.
The site will be used to entice businesses looking for marketing partners, campaign advisors, and talented new employees.
I will gladly comment and rate all submission to guide further posts.
The site must include a clear menu with the same categories that are already on http://www.crowdfunnel.com (home, tech, partners, ect.) In addition to the current menu items, one called "Crowd Sourcing" must be added.
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I write all these columns under an influence.
Sometimes the influence is musical. Columns written while I'm listening to Tom Waits sound different from columns written under the sway of Jimmy Buffet.
Sometimes the influence is cinematic. I'll have just seen some classic 1940s musical on TCM and a languid pianist suspiciously resembling Oscar Levant sneaks into my next column. Last month, I watched Sweeney Todd and was afraid go near my computer for days for fear of what I'd write.
Sometimes the influence is literary, and that's the most dangerous. For a writer, being influenced by another writer is all about skirting the shoals of envy, plagiarism, and the horror of producing yet another Hemingway parody.
But this month, I happened to be reading 1930s stories by Ring Lardner alternating with news stories about the Dow in free-fall, and the influences became a confluence. So here is my rip-off, er, homage to Ring Lardner.
Thrs. Oct. 9
I am 16 of age and a caddy at Almaden Country Club but only temporary as I expect soon to land a good job in IT.
But first will put down how I come to be writeing this diary, we have a member name Mr Swain who writes articles in the technology magazines and I hope he is a better writer then he plays golf but any ways I cadded for him last week and we got to discussing this in that and I inquired how much did he charge for writeing one of his columns.
Well you could of knock me over with a feather its more than I make on a whole day cadding which is real work and harder that some of these golfers think. So I figured I would write a diary of my experiences and sell it to a magazine wile I wait to break into IT.
Fri. Oct. 10
I and Joe Hobie was cadding for Mr J and Mr S the other day and they was discussing the fanancial crisis which they indicated was going pretty rough on them.
The dow is cratering Mr J says, and HP is cutting three thousand jobs in England and Dell is off and Mr S said PC sales was off everwhere because hardware was always where the belts got titened first.
I took that to mean they was both in the hardware biz but I was shone to be wrong when they took off on software.
SAP and Oracle are down Mr S says, and Mr J ups him by saying software sails are tanking across a board.
Mr J was my meat and Joe had Mr S and Mr S was ahead when Mr J had took six shots to get into the rough on the fifth hole and looked like he might match that getting out. But when he finally finished the hole he asks me, did I have a 5 or a 4 on that, Bob? I of coarse said a 4 but it didn't set right as I dont generaly like shaving more than a point or two a hole as it makes me look like a crook and dumb to.
I said to Joe maybe Mr J was off his game because of his fanancial worries but Joe said he cadded for him before and he was just as lousy when the dow wasnt cratering.
Sat. Oct. 11
I cadded for one of the big swells from Sandhill Road which I cant reveal his name as that is the code of the caddies but he has a steak in a lot of the big Silicon V cos. He was playing against a banker who was drinking from a flask the hole time and they was talking about IC firms mostly.
My customer said AMD was smart to get out of chip production and the banker said everybody should get out wile the getting was good.
Thats not what I meant the swell says and he talks some pretty sharp stuff about IC gloom and foundry doom. The banker just gets glassy-eyed and says gloom, doom, boom, the last which he says while putting his finger against his tempel and the swell took his flask away from him then.
Sun. Oct. 12
Some of the ladys which we caddy for is really into high tech and the dow and such. This one was saing to her frend we will soon all be selling our fillings on ebay out of hobo camps by the river but who would buy I wandered.
Her frend said they should get on rails as a hetch against bad times and I thought she meant going hobo also but it turned out she ment the development framework.
Cadding is hard work like I said but they is times when the customers is talking stuff like that you can sometimes slip away and I stepped behind a tree and took out my iPhone and called my broker to see how bad things was. Relax he tells me as I am heavily invested in recession-proof tech service not to mention technology tax credits was extended so I guess I'm OK there.
Which is good as this writeing dont seem like any respectable way for a man to make a liveing.
Michael Swaine


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BAKERSFIELD Ca. (Reuters) - Tara, a California cat that became a YouTube sensation after being videotaped interrupting a dog's attack on a small boy, "tossed out" a ceremonial pitch at the start of a minor league baseball game on Tuesday.
Roger Triantafilo uploaded video footage last week of a dog dragging his 4-year-old son, Jeremy, from his bicycle when the hero feline, Tara, ran to the rescue, broadsiding the dog and chasing it away.
The video has since amassed more than 21 million views on YouTube.
Jeremy, who suffered a bite to his leg as he was dragged off his bicycle by the dog before Tara lunged to his rescue, actually threw the first pitch of the game before handing the ball to his cat.
As the crowd at the Sam Lynn Ballpark cheered, parents Roger and Erica Triantafilo supported the cat's attempt to throw the ball to home plate by using her paw while staff from the Bakersfield Blaze baseball team used fishing wire to give the baseball the appearance of flying through the air.
The ball dropped straight to the ground, but the spectacle nonetheless drew a large crowd of "hero cat" fans to the stadium. Team staff said attendance for the Bakersfield team's game with the Lancaster Jethawks was nearly triple that of a usual Tuesday night game.
"I was blown away. That cat is a hero," said Tab Rowles, who attended with his daughter, Tatum. "I almost thought that there was some mechanical cat," Rowles added.
"Being the mother, every time I watch (the video) it stops my heart for a moment," Erica Triantafilo said. "Things could have been much worse without (Tara). We are just so thankful."
Reporting by Jennifer Chaussee, John Russell and Kevork Djansezian Editing by Chris Michaud


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NEW YORK -- The Gotham Awards handed their best feature award to a surprise contender Monday: the Coen brothers' folk-music tale "Inside Llewyn Davis."
"Fruitvale Station," the movie about an unarmed young man who was fatally shot at an Oakland train station in 2009, was also a big winner at the annual New York independent-film confab, with the film's Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan winning breakthrough director and breakthrough actor, respectively.
Matthew McConaughey won the ceremony's first-ever best actor prize for his role as unlikely AIDS crusader Ron Woodroof in "The Dallas Buyers Club."
Brie Larson took best actress honors for her role as a troubled foster-care worker in the indie breakout "Short Term 12." The actress acknowledged an awards speech was a rarity for her and said she would take full advantage with a comprehensive list of thank-yous (which she proceeded to do).
Audience Award honors went to "Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings," Tadashi Nakamura's music-themed documentary, while the best doc prize was taken by Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing," about an elderly band of former death squad leaders in Indonesia.
Though the Gothams, a counterpoint of sorts to Los Angeles' Independent Spirit Awards, aren't considered a major precursor of Oscar attention, wins here can help put a film on the awards map, particularly for longer shots such as "Llewyn Davis." The film's star, Oscar Isaac, accepted the prize on behalf of the Coens.
Also at the ceremony, Forest Whitaker was given a lifetime achievement award for his work as an actor; he received a standing ovation for the honor. In introducing him, his director in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" saluted Whitaker as "one of the rare African Americans who continues to get work when a lot of us can't get work."
And in the most touching moment of the night, James Gandolfini was given a posthumous lifetime achievement award. In presenting the award to Gandolfini's family, frequent "Sopranos" collaborator Steve Buscemi, who directed and starred in episodes of the HBO series, said, "To be accepted by Jimmy as a director was the best feeling in the world."
He added, "I can't imagine any actor out there who could make us care about someone who inflicted so much pain on everyone around him."
The Gotham Awards are sponsored by the Independent Filmmaker Project.


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FERPA For Faculty And Staff
What Is FERPA?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) sets forth requirements regarding the privacy of student records. FERPA governs 1) release of these records (known as educational records) maintained by an educational institution and 2) access to these records.
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As an employee of Millersville University, you may be authorized to have access to student records. The confidentiality, use and release of student records are governed by FERPA. Your utilization of this information also depends on the nature of the duties and responsibilities associated with your position.
Your job places you in a position of trust, and in this respect you play an integral part in ensuring that student information is handled properly. Students have a right to expect that their academic records are being treated with the same care and respect that we would expect for our own records.
In general, all student information must be treated as confidential. Even public or "directory" information is subject to restriction on an individual basis. Unless your job involves release of information and you have been trained in that function, any requests for disclosure of information, especially outside the University, should be referred to the Registrar's Office. Release of information contained on a student's transcript without the written consent of the person identified on the document is in violation of FERPA.
As a faculty or staff member, you may encounter people who are not authorized to receive student data, but who apply a great deal of pressure on you to release such information, or to discuss a student's confidential records. Parents, relatives, spouses and ex-spouses, employers or potential employers, attorneys and other representatives of law firms, and representatives of a variety of other types of organizations (e.g., collection agencies) are not entitled to confidential student data. The only information we may provide them is directory information (defined below). If you receive a phone call or a visit from someone like this, you should direct the call or person to the Registrar's Office.
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How to Use the Images
Photo 1: A Confederate cannon
inside the siege works. The muzzle was
broken off by Union artillery fire.
Photos 1-3 were made immediately after the Confederate surrender, and photos 4 and 5 were made during the siege.
The Civil War was the first major event in American history to be extensively recorded by photographers. The technology of the day allowed them to produce numerous copies of photographs; soldiers could then buy prints and send them to their loved ones. While newspapers then did not have the technology to publish photos, they often featured artists' drawings made from photographs. Together photos and sketches gave civilians at home an opportunity to see firsthand the destruction and devastation that war caused. This greatly affected public opinion on the war and the way it was being fought.
Questions for Photos 1-5
1. What methods did the Confederates use to defend their position?
2. What methods did the Union use to protect themselves and to make the Confederates submit?
3. Which reading does Photo 4 recall? Why?
4. Which photograph best helps you understand the atmosphere of a siege? Why?
* The photos on the screen have a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, & Photo 5, but be aware that each file will take as much as 60 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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Big U.S. Banks Detail Living Wills, and More
What's News: The major Wall Street banks say they won't need bailouts in the event of another financial crisis. Government shutdown extends into third day. President Obama addresses economic impact of shutdown. Facebook is building a 394-Unit housing community for employees. Joanne Po reports.
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Black plays.
Published in the December 16, 2014 edition of the American Go E-Journal.
Michael Redmond 9P shares with the E-Journal some of his own tsumego compositions. For these more challenging problems, dan players can test their reading speed and accuracy, while kyu players can play through the solutions to learn ideas and techniques. The solution will appear a week after the problem publication.


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How to Use
the Readings
Inquiry Question
Reading 3: We Shall Overcome
The following text is taken from President Lyndon Baines Johnson's nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965:
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress:
I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy.
I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and of all colors, from every section of this country, to join me in that cause.
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.
There, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a man of God, was killed.
There is no cause for pride in what has happened in Selma. There is no cause for self-satisfaction in the long denial of equal rights of millions of Americans. But there is cause for hope and for faith in our democracy in what is happening here tonight.
For the cries of pain and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great Government—the Government of the greatest Nation on earth.
Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.
In our time we have come to live with the moments of great crisis. Our lives have been marked with debate about great issues; issues of war and peace, issues of prosperity and depression. But rarely in any time does an issue lay bare the secret heart of America itself. Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values, and the purposes, and the meaning of our beloved Nation.
The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation.
For with a country as with a person, "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans—not as Democrats or Republicans—we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.
This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal"—"government by consent of the governed"—"give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives.
Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.
To apply any other test—to deny a man his hopes because of his color or race, his religion or the place of his birth—is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom.
Our fathers believed that if this noble view of the rights of man was to flourish, it must be rooted in democracy. The most basic right of all was the right to choose your own leaders. The history of this country, in large measure, is the history of the expansion of that right to all of our people. Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can and should be no argument. Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.
The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color. We have all sworn an oath before God to support and to defend that Constitution. We must now act in obedience to that oath.
Wednesday, I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers to the right to vote.
I will welcome the suggestions from all of the Members of Congress—I have no doubt that I will get some—on ways and means to strengthen this law and to make it effective. But experience has plainly shown that this is the only path to carry out the command of the Constitution.
There is no constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain.
There is no moral issue. It iswrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country.
There is no issue of States' rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
I have not the slightest doubt what will be your answer.
But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and State of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life.
Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.
And we shall overcome.
Questions for Reading 31. How does the date of this speech relate to the events covered in Reading 2? What event seems to have been the occasion for the speech?
2. Johnson compares Selma to three other events in American history. What are they? Why do you think he chose the ones he did? Do you think all four events are equally important? Why or why not?


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Music and Dance Collections:
Harper C. Maybee Music and Dance Library was established in 1948 and named for the first head of the music program at Western. It was located in Maybee Music Hall from 1951 until Dalton Center opened in 1982. At that time the library incorporated dance.
The library contains a wide variety of materials to support study and research. For music, the collections emphasize the art (or "classical") traditions of Western Europe and the United States, American jazz and music theatre, and musics of non-European origin, primarily of Africa and Asia. Native American, folk, rock, and other popular genres are also represented. For dance, coverage is primarily of ballet, modern, and jazz.
The collections include the following materials at these classifications and locations:
- Books on music: ML (history and literature) and MT (theory, analysis, education) (Location: General Stacks)
- Books on dance: GV (Location: General Stacks)
- Music scores: M; Editions for research and performance, including vocal and choral music, instrumental solos and chamber ensembles, and large instrumental works (Location: Scores)
- Textbooks: LT; K-8 series in music education; teacher and student editions and supporting materials (Location: Textbooks)
- Periodicals: Alphabetical by title. Bound volumes in Periodicals stacks; recent issues in Current Periodicals (Location: Periodicals)
- Newsletters/Newspapers: Recent issues in Current Periodicals; back issues in Periodicals stacks, after Z (uncataloged)
- Reference: General and specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, bibliographies, discographies, and more (Location: Reference)
- Audio Recordings: CDs, LP records, cassettes (Request at circulation desk by call number)
- Video Recordings: Videocassettes and DVDs (Request at circulation desk by call number)
- Electronic resources: Periodical indexes, reference and research tools, streaming audio and video.
Contact information
- Phone: (269) 387-5237 | Fax: (269) 387-0605
- Location: Dalton Center, Third Floor, Room 3006
- GPS coordinates: Latitude 42.280704, Longitude -85.616213
- WMU mail stop: 5434
- Directory: Maybee Music and Dance Library Faculty and Staff


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145g light brown sugar
1 tablespoon golden syrup
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
260g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
150g sultanas
60g icing sugar – sifted (NB. I never sift anything but you must here, otherwise your topping will look lumpy and gross)
10g caster sugar
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Information For Authors
- Manuscript Submission Guidelines
- Author Benefits Program
- Self-Archiving Policy
- NIH/HHMI Wellcome Trust Policies
- Open Access Policy
Childhood Obesity delivers action-oriented content addressing prevention and management strategies during the formative years of childhood and adolescence. Original manuscripts submitted to Childhood Obesity must not contain material that has been reported elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract published for a scientific meeting) or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All manuscripts must be submitted online using the following URL: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/childhoodobesity
Please read all the instructions to authors before submitting your manuscript.
Prepare manuscripts double-spaced. Original articles should be limited to approximately 3,000 words. Leave ample margins on both sides, top and bottom. The title page should include the authors' names, academic degrees, complete affiliations and address(es), email address, and the funding source (if appropriate). A corresponding author should be identified. Include an abstract of no more than 250 words. Abstracts of original articles should be structured and contain four paragraphs labeled as: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. While Review articles require an abstract, it does not need to be structured.
Manuscript keywords (search terms): On the title page of the manuscript, include a minimum of three (3), maximum of six (6), search terms that will aid in the discoverability of the article in indexing services and search engines. These terms may or may not be different from the terms you selected for the peer review process and areas of expertise. You will be asked to retype these search terms in the submission form when uploading your manuscript. These keywords will be included in the published article. If the search terms entered do not match the manuscript, the manuscript will serve as the default.
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To facilitate the peer review process, select 4-6 keywords from the drop-down list of pre-selected terms when submitting your manuscript. These keywords will assist in the selection of skilled reviewers in the field for the purposes of peer review.
Prepare each table with a title in a separate Word document. Use Arabic numerals to number tables. Each table must stand alone, i.e., contain all necessary information within the table or in table footnotes, and the table itself must be understood independently of the text. Information that appears in the text should not be repeated in the table, and tables should not contain data that can be given in the text in one or two sentences.
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Calling all Tudor day date experts here!
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Judge declares mistrial in Walker case
Update: After two full days of deliberations, jurors in the Calvin Walker case could not reach a verdict and were hung on all 37 counts.
Previous reporting:
It's been just over six-hours since the jury received the federal case against Calvin Gary Walker, alleging that he defrauded and stole millions of dollars from the Beaumont Independent School District through a scheme of using cut-and-paste documents to inflate contract invoices, and now they are telling the judge they are deadlocked.
Throughout the morning the jury could be heard arguing loudly amongst themselves as reporters and others sat outside the Judge Ron Clark's courtroom. The arguing became so loud at one point that federal marshals moved observers around the corner from where they had been seated. At one point, one of the men on the 10-woman, two-man jury knocked on the door and asked if they needed to send out a note to take a break. The other jurors could be heard shouting even before the door opened.
Just before 3 p.m. on the first full-day of deliberations, the jury foreman sent a note from the jury room on the second floor of the Jack Brooks Federal Courthouse stating, "We are deadlocked on the verdict. We have gone over everything. No one has changed their minds. How do we proceed?"
After gathering attorneys for both sides, the judge called jury back into the courtroom and explained to them the seriousness of the 37-count indictment Walker is facing and the importance of the jury's responsibility in trying to reach a verdict. He then read them the Allen Charge, which is used in federal court to send jurors back into deliberations. It was first used in 1986 as a means to allow jurors to strongly encourage other jurors to reach a verdict.
One example of the Allen Charge states, "I'm going to ask that you continue your deliberations in an effort to reach agreement upon a verdict and dispose of this case; and I have a few additional comments I would like for you to consider as you do so. This is an important case. The trial has been expensive in time, effort, money and emotional strain to both the defense and the prosecution. If you should fail to agree upon a verdict, the case will be left open and may have to be tried again. Obviously, another trial would only serve to increase the cost to both sides, and there is no reason to believe that the case can be tried again by either side any better or more exhaustively than it has been tried before you. Any future jury must be selected in the same manner and from the same source as you were chosen, and there is no reason to believe that the case could ever be submitted to twelve men and women more conscientious, more impartial, or more competent to decide it, or that more or clearer evidence could be produced.
"If a substantial majority of your number are in favor of a conviction, those of you who disagree should reconsider whether your doubt is a reasonable one since it appears to make no effective impression upon the minds of the others. On the other hand, if a majority or even a lesser number of you are in favor of an acquittal, the rest of you should ask yourselves again, and most thoughtfully, whether you should accept the weight and sufficiency of evidence which fails to convince your fellow jurors beyond a reasonable doubt. Remember at all times that no juror is expected to give up an honest belief he or she may have as to the weight or effect of the evidence; but, after full deliberation and consideration of the evidence in the case, it is your duty to agree upon a verdict if you can do so. You must also remember that if the evidence in the case fails to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt the Defendant should have your unanimous verdict of Not Guilty. You may be as leisurely in your deliberations as the occasion may require and should take all the time which you may feel is necessary. I will ask now that you retire once again and continue your deliberations with these additional comments in mind to be applied, of course, in conjunction with all of the other instructions I have previously given to you."
The jurors then left the courtroom and went back to deliberating the case. Attorneys in the case have been instructed not to comment to the media during the trial.
EDITORS'S NOTE: The Examiner will continue to monitor the going's on in the Walker trial and post updates as they become available.


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Monday, February 04, 2008
Disaster Weekend
Big-waste-of-time-pointless knitting.
Awhile back I had run out of yarn for my Spiral Scarf. I was using two strands of Sirdar Denim Tweed DK held together for it. When I finally got back to my LYS for more, there was NONE. And it was a cheap enough yarn that I wasn't about to go hunting for it online somewhere.
Across the store I spied the exact same brand of yarn, in the exact same colour --but in a sport weight. I paused to wonder aloud: "can I make this work?" "maybe one-stranded instead with bigger needles?" Due to the nature of the design I thought I could be forgiven the subtlties of an altogether different dye lot, and would it really matter if the heaxgons were slightly different sizes?
Should I check my gauge? Nah, I'm going for it.
Colour-wise it seemed promising at first:
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I was patting myself on the back for being such a genius.
And then:
WTF? You know, it's kind of one of those patterns that you don't really know how it'll look until the whole hex is done. Clearly a subltle change in size with ever shrinking hexagons was not to be. It's like the two bigger ones are just now wearing a jaunty little hat off to the side.
Bah. I tossed it aside in anguish and in favour of some more gratifying "instant knitting":
Yes, what is up with all the raspberry I'm doing lately?
pattern: Mercy beret by Kim Hargreaves (from Rowan Ribbon Twist)
yarn: Twinkle soft Chunky in Raspberry (1 skein)
needles: US #17
Cute huh?
There comes a time in every knitters life when their confidence level starts to go up. You become cocky and think to yourself "Gauge is for suckers, all chunky yarns are the same, right?--I don't need to check no stinking gauge".
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Apparently Twinkle yarn is like the hugest of the huge. I even struggled to be able to only use one skein of the stuff...omitting rows just to make it work. But what I really should have done was check my freakin' gauge, used smaller needles and saved myself the anguish. Want some more perspective shots? This hat was essentially the size of sofa cushion.
Thick and cushy!
For a fleeting second there I thought I *might* be able to make it work, but I'm sorry, there's just no way.
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The weekend was also kind of a disaster for this reason as well,
Though kind of a beautiful disaster. I don't even want to tell you what I spent, but I guess that's what happens when you avoid a certain store for months on end in an effort to be frugal and de-stash. When you finally get back there for a ten dollar item (which they didn't even have...) you just go mental making up for all that lost time!
I seriously splurged on 9 balls of Rowan Cocoon (and believe me in Canada that's a major splurge...) and the accompanying Rowan #42 so that I can make Iceland.
Which marks the first time that I'm doing a full-fledged garment not on the cheap, not to mention in the same yarn and colour prescribed.
Phewph! Did I actually say I wasn't going to cast on anything new? More on that to come...
And finally--thanks for my two awards, miss Muffy and miss Whistlepea, I am honoured!
Allow me to return the favour to these fine folks:
Whistlepea knits
Skrilla Knits
Knit lit
Lolly Knitting Around
Crimson Purl
Craft Pirate
Knitting is kneat-o
My aim is true
I could go on and on...my bloglines these days is pretty jam-packed (which is probably why I'm doing more reading than actual updating of late...)
8 comments:
- Macoco said...
aww thank you so much! That picture of you with the sign cracked me up. Anytime I get too cocky the swatch gods slap me down a few as well. :(
It was a pleasure to nominate you! I'm guessing a trip to Orleans was made. That place is dangerous.
- Lolly said...
Thanks so much, girl! you are too sweet :)
Love your photos! that Cocoon looks gorgeous!
- Julia said...
Gauge has kicked my arse enough times that I don't tempt fate anymore!
And that Rowan sweater? Ahhh! I was JUST drooling over that the other day! Hive-mind. HIVE-MIND!!!
- Reckless Glue said...
Amy--I literally had not been out to Orleans in at least 8 months...AND that woman is such a saleswoman, I am a total sucker---the cocoon wasn't even in the store yet but she brought it out to show it to me from the back and I was like "must.have..." (in zombie-robot voice)she's always like "lookit this, and het I just got these in" and she's totally into it.
Man she must see me coming a mile away. Yarn Forward had also totally rennovated and they have a ton of Cascade now too. It would probably be less painful for me if I actually went to these places more regularly.
She's always pointing stuff out to me too. Sigh. I always go in with the purest of intentions.
I usually avoid YF but I'll have to check it out. Especially since it's so close.
- The Happy College Knitter said...
Loving the hat (still!) it just makes me smile seeing it in such a happy pink!
- Virtuous said...
Yeah just now really catching up on my reads....or should I say "trying" ;op
ROTFL!! @ there comes a time in a knitters cocky life! @ Check Gauge Pic LUV I!! HAHA!
Ooh that Iceland is going be awesome! And yeah what is up with your Raspberry streak?
THANK U for my award! You always make my day too!! :o)


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Apple has released iOS 6.1 beta 5 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. This comes just a day before beta 4 was set to expire, and represents one of the longest gaps between beta releases in iOS' history. Furthermore, beta 5 still hasn't shown up over-the-air (OTA), so rather than the faster, more convenient delta-update-in-place, if you want beta 5 now, now, now, you'll have to download it from developer.apple.com and do a complete update via iTunes or Xcode.
As always, this beta is intended for registered developers so they can try out new application program interfaces (API) and make sure their apps are compatible before iOS 6.1 goes into general availability (GA), presumably sometime in the next couple of months.
(If anyone gets the OTA, let us know. It's spoiled us and made us lazy!)
Update: There's still no OTA, and this build has characteristics common to a gold master (GM) seed, including no expiration date. So whether this was a GM that Apple show stoppered for some reason and had to release simply to avoid the previous beta from expiring, or its something more, we'll have to wait and see.
Either way, if you want it, you'll have to get it via iTunes or Xcode.
Source: developer.apple.com


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OECD Experts Meetings on Trade in Services
The OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate has launched a project that aims at quantifying barriers to trade in services by developing services trade restrictiveness indices (STRI). These meetings provide a forum for services experts to share knowledge and ideas on key reform issues, including driving forces, main impediments, and impacts on trade and other measures of economic performance.
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:40 pm
Post subject: Threat to Gorge gear consignment business
Message relayed from Windance:
Hood River Ordinance #1892, if approved, will likely stop 2nd Wind Sports, Windance Sailboards, and Barts Better Boards/Bargains from continuing to be able to sell used sporting equipment (Big Winds, Dougs Sport and any other shops that sell any quantity of 2nd hand gear would also be effected). The ordinance does not prevent the continued reselling of used sports equipment, but due to the dramatically increased security, paperwork and time delay requirements that businesses would be required to abide by, as enforced by the Hood River City Police, some of these businesses couldnt continue to operate in the used/consignment business.
The city of Hood River has chosen a very inconvienient time to have a meeting about this issue: sandwiched between Christmas, and the New Year (Tuesday, December 27th, at 7:00PM).
In the twenty+ years that Windance has been selling/consigning windsurfing equipment, we have had virtually no problem with selling hot gear. First of all:
1.We have great customers (thanks goes to you).
2.When people consign gear, they have to write down easily trackable information.
3.We dont buy gear outright.
Periodically we get an obvious (to us) non-windsurfer who is trying to unload some board that they found somewhere. We usually notify the police. As we dont buy gear outright, they never consign the equipment.
Windance would stop doing consignment if we had to submit to the citys regulations and fees. This would have the effect of more individuals selling gear from their cars.
If you would like to see the proposed ordinance, I have it posted on our website at
Letters regarding ordinance #1892 can be emailed to:
Jean Hadley, Hood River city recorder
Please keep in mind that the city police seem to be spearheading this, and not the city council. The councilors may or may not be for the ordinance. Ann Frodel, a city councilor, was the one who originally alerted Windance and Second Wind to this issue. Thanks Ann!
End of message. Heres my letter to Jean Hadley: Can any of you:
1. Add to it?
2. Shoot it down?
3. Make your own comments, pro or con, to Jean before Dec 27?
Jean ...
This consignment gear ordnance sounds at first blush like a good thing.
HOWEVER ... I suspect this well-intentioned ordnance will do more harm than
good in many ways. It will increase consignment shop and police
administrative burdens, shut down some shops, stifle the used gear markets
which enable SO many sportsmen to remain active in these expensive sports,
eliminate an important stolen gear trap, HELP the dispersal and sale of
stolen gear, and further impair Gorge windsurfing tourism.
1. Hood River is known throughout at least North America as the best place
to buy new and used windsurfing gear. I have personally recommended to many
windsurfers on six continents that if they are in or are coming to the U.S.
anyway, a trip to Hood River can easily pay for itself just due its the huge
selection of modern used gear. This ordnance will shut down that market.,
impacting sellers, buyers, and tourism.
2. The windsurfing community is sufficiently tightly knit that stolen gear
is very quickly known across the nation. I have lists of descriptions,
serial numbers, and original owners of windsurfing gear stolen or lost from
Novia Scotia to San Diego, compliments of Internet forums such as
rec.windsurfing. The word gets out within hours; a thief would have a hard
time sneaking his loot past a consignment shops personnel and customers,
and the well-known consignment shops would be the first places a theft
victim would phone, e-mail, or visit to look for his gear. I suspect that
path is pretty resistant to thieves.
3. Ive lived in and around Hood River and the Gorge for 6-12 months each
year since 1985. I worked in the windsurfing industry there for a few years,
and have hung out at Gorge launch sites from Clatskenie to Roosevelt
windsurfing or waiting for wind for 15-20,000 thousand hours (I retired in
1988 at 45 to windsurf full time). It has probably happened, but I have yet
to hear of any stolen gear successfully passing through a Gorge consignment
4. When the consignment shops are forced by 1892s compliance burden to drop
their consignment service -- or in the case of 2nd Wind to shut down
altogether -- that drives both legitimate and stolen used gear underground
and disperses it across the continent. This HELPS thieves hide and fence
their gear, leaves most used-gear sellers no convenient way to reach a large
market, deprives thousands of buyers of the planets best year-round source
of used gear (which saves them 30-70%), and eliminates one of our best
stolen-gear traps.
A windsurfing magazine related this story a few years ago. A windsurfers
van was cleaned out by thieves. He alerted a local consignment shop, who
called him within days to say, Someone just called and offered us a pile
of gear at a price too good to be true. Theyll be here after work today.
The victim showed up, waited for the suspicious seller, and quietly
identified his gear when it arrived. The shop had the police there before
the thief had even gotten all the gear unloaded.
But then what the heck do I know? Im just an obsessed windsurfer who spends
a thousand hours a year talking with other obsessed windsurfers, has sold
$20,000 in used windsurfing gear from his well-known van, and personally
confronted suspected thieves in the act at a strangers car on a Hood River
street late one night. As a retired military officer I take theft seriously,
but I consider this ordnance a lose/lose/lose solution.
Isnt there a less cumbersome way to watch consignment gear flow without
suffocating it?
Mike \m/
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Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:46 pm
Post subject: RE: Threat to Gorge gear consignment business
I have purchased lots of gear from Windance without problems so I sent Jean a note telling her so.
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