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He'll never be a Heisman Trophy finalist, but that doesn't matter one bit to Northwestern's Brandon Williams.
Rather, the longtime Wildcats holder has his eye on an even more coveted award, one so prestigious that it exists only in his imagination. For now.
"I don't even need to win the thing," he said. "I just want to be on a watch list."
Williams announced his "candidacy" for the Holder of the Year, an award that doesn't exist, via the Ryan Field scoreboard during the season opener.
Of course, Williams and his teammates are focused on winning the Big Ten. The Wildcats kick off their conference schedule with a prime-time matchup against Ohio State on Saturday.
The Holder of the Year idea was born when Williams was joking around with the team's media relations representatives about ways he could get his name in the headlines.
"One day I asked them, 'What do you think about a Holder of the Year award?' There's no such thing, there's no award for that, there's awards for everything else," Williams said, laughing. "They're like, 'C'mon, you've gotta be kidding me.' And I was like, 'Hey, it could happen.' "
Daydreaming aside, the redshirt senior, who is also the Wildcats' punter, actually has the numbers to back it up were such an award given out.
This year, under Williams' hold, kicker Jeff Budzien is 6-of-8 on field goals and 21-for-21 on extra points. In three years together, the pair has converted all their extra-point attempts. Williams also has gone 38 consecutive field goal attempts without a botched hold.
"If you watch what goes wrong [on a missed kick], it's [usually] either blocked or an errant snap or hold, so to have 122 straight as well as 38 field goals consecutively without an error is pretty impressive and a credit to [Williams and long snapper Pat Hickey]," Budzien said. "The extra-point process, a lot of people will talk about me regarding that, but that's completely not my doing. That's all consistency with them."
It's success derived from a fear of being unable to get on the field. Williams, who was a kicker in high school in Nappanee, Ind., took up holding his freshman year at Northwestern because he simply wanted to play.
"My redshirt freshman year, I was like, 'Huh, I don't know if I'm gonna punt next year so I'm gonna try and get on the field,' " he said. " 'Maybe I can hold.' It actually turned out to be a lot of fun."
It may sound simple, but Williams' ability to catch a football and put it down just so is the stuff of legend among his teammates. Hickey said Williams has gotten so good at holding that he could do it one-handed.
"We've talked about it," Williams said.
"If we're up big on some team late in the game," Hickey interjected.
"But we would never do it," Williams added. "I would never try that."
Part of that is out of fear of their coach, Pat Fitzgerald.
"If it went well, he'd still probably yell at us," Williams said.
"Do you think he'd notice?" Hickey wondered aloud. "We'd have to do it when we're on the south end zone so he couldn't see the front."
"Then it'd probably be all right," he said. "When he watched the film, he'd probably ask about it; he wouldn't be very happy."
While there are other, more well-known holders out there, including Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, Hickey and Budzien say Williams deserves the Holder of the Year award because of his ability to make their jobs easier.
"Brandon's done a great job and made me look good a couple of times, saving my butt," Hickey said. "Finesse at the holder position, all the consistency that he's had."
"Brandon is pretty athletic," Budzien added. "He can make something happen if it's bad. And he created [the award], so I don't think someone else deserves to get it if Brandon created it and is worthy of it."
Williams himself stated his case based on the fact that he is purely a holder.
"Obviously here, we don't run that many fakes," he said. "I like to think it's not a reflection on me, but possibly it is. I'm definitely not A.J. McCarron or a wide receiver."
But even if the powers that be decide to offer a Holder of the Year honor and deem Williams unworthy, he has one request for the awards committee that, again, doesn't exist.
"Honestly, the Holder of the Year award, I would be totally fine if I didn't win it, I just want to present it," he said.
Matt Lindner is a RedEye special contributor. @mattlindner
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The nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have announced the results of their 18th auction of carbon dioxide (CO2) allowances.
At the auction, held Dec. 5, 19.774 million CO2 allowances were sold, generating $38.1 million for reinvestment by the RGGI states in a variety of consumer benefit initiatives, including investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, direct bill assistance, greenhouse-gas abatement and climate-change adaptation.
Bids for the CO2 allowances ranged from $1.93 to $5.14 per allowance, with a clearing price of $1.93. Allowances sold represent 53% of the 37,563,083 allowances offered for sale by the nine states.
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CaptainMorgan necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 268 diseños de 73 diseñadores freelance.
The aim with ReviewGiant.com is to provide a trusted authority review site that offers social researchers and buyers an all in one site with product comparisons, industry expert reviews and ratings - as well as customer reviews and ratings from verified online buyers.
The website will function similar to http://www.Amazon.com, http://www.Top10Reviews.com and http://www.ConsumerSearch.com but instead of targeting physical products it will focus on A-list digital information and software products - it may move onto targeting physical products in the later future.
Anyone and everyone interested in researching and comparing product reviews with consumer feedback before making a purchasing decision on a product. The target age group will mainly be between 25-45 years of age, male and female.
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Thanks and look forward to seeing your logo.
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I seem to be getting low gravities for my all grain beers. I only got a 1.071 with the following recipe for belgian triple:
12lbs belgian pils, 2 lbs crystal 20, 1/2lb flaked barley mashed for 75min 158-152F
Mash water 1.3 quarts per lb (4.7 gal)
Sparged with 6.3 gal of 167F water
Added 2lbs muntons wheat extract, 1lb of table sugar (good thing or it wouldnt be triple OG range).
Near the end of my sparge it seemed like I had pretty pure water coming out of the mash tun. It seems like Im sparging with too much water, but if I use any less I wont make boil volume (6.5 gal).


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The relevant antitrust market for salmonHaldrup, Niels; Møllgaard, Peter; Kastberg Nielsen, Claus (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Delineation of the relevant market forms a pivotal part of most antitrust cases. The standard approach is sequential. First the product market is delineated, then the geographical market is defined. Demand and supply substitution in both the product dimension and the geographical dimension will normally be stronger than substitution in either dimension. By ignoring this one might decide first to define products narrowly and then to define the geographical extent narrowly ignoring the possibility of a diagonal substitution. These reflections are important in the empirical delineation of product and geographical markets. Using a unique data set for prices of Norwegian and Scottish salmon, we propose a methodology for simultaneous market delineation and we demonstrate that compared to a sequential approach conclusions will be reversed. JEL: C3, K21, L41, Q22 Keywords: Relevant market, econometric delineation, salmon. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7633
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Agencies presently have the capability of deleting current year prompt payment invoices that are generated as a result of data entry errors. Effective immediately, agencies may now delete prior year invoices. Agencies are required to retain documentation for such deletions.
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The supporting documentation should be submitted to the Bureau of Accounting, Room 414, Fletcher Building, 101 East Gaines Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0350. We encourage the use of inter-agency mail or our fax number, 410-9993, Suncom 210-9993, as a cost saving measure.
The telephone numbers for the Vendor Ombudsmen Program are (850)410-9724 and 1-800-848-3792, and should be listed on all contracts and purchase orders. When preparing new contracts and purchase orders, we recommend that each agency state that the vendor will be paid interest in accordance with 215.422, F.S., rather than quoting a particular interest rate. This prevents the contract from becoming obsolete if the interest rate changes.
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Here's a picture of the whole snack table! In addition to all the goodies I made (see below), there were also "Candy Cane Joe-Joes" (candy-cane trader joes oreos - vegan!!), potato chips, pumpkin seeds & dried edamame, and spice drops.
Close up of the "Decorate-Your-Own-Gingerbread-Man" station, complete with four colors of frosting, silver balls, red hots, and red-white-green sprinkles.
I made the amazing white bean pesto from Susan over at fat free vegan. She put it on pasta, but I like it as a dip or a spread on little bread slices. SO good, so easy. Make it soon.
I also made some very good hazelnut hummus from an old issue of Sunset magazine. I've had this recipe in my "recipe file" for a long time, and I'm glad I finally made it. Deelicious!!!
Here are the stuffed mushrooms from VwaV. As I have stated in the past, I am not a mushroom fan, but musty is - and he convinced me to make these for the party. Then, when I told him I was only making 30, he went out and got me 30 more mushrooms this morning! Good thing he did, too - because there's not one left. They disappeared fast! I liked the filling, so maybe I'll use it sometime to stuff a bell pepper or something else besides a mushroom. :)


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Scott3 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 225 diseños de 63 diseñadores freelance.
CHT Solutions (Custom Home Theater Solutions)
We're an online store based in Australia selling home theater cables and accessories. We care about our customers and provide great customer support and fast efficent service.
We currently sell most of our products throughout Australia but we are in the process of expanding to be a global brand. Our plan once the new corporate website has been designed it to sell worldwide.
Our target audience ranges from tech minded customers to mums and dads who are after cables for there new flat screen tv.
We also want to target installers, contractors and big business.
Well we are about to expand our brand and take it global. We will also be completely redesiging our website from the ground up.
Our Aims of the new logo:
* To present a corporate image.
* Be memorable
* Logo should be forward thinking
The new design does not have to be locked into the current colour scheme. So you are free to use existing colours or try something different.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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Hundreds of Businesses Ask for Immigration Reform, Food Wasted
- More than 630 business organizations have urged Congress to move forward with immigration reform this year.
The multi-industry coalition sent a letter to House Republican leadership saying they are united in the belief that modernizing the immigration system will be better for the economy and country. Done properly, the coalition says reform will deter illegal immigration, protect and complement the U.S. workforce, better respond to changing economic and demographic needs and generate greater productivity and economic activity.
The coalition says failure to act is not an option.
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service released a report Monday showing the U.S. wasted about 31-percent, or 133-billion pounds, of food in 2010 worth $161.1-billion.
Out of 430-billion pounds of available food in 2010, the study shows 43-billion pounds at the retail level were lost and 90-billion pounds were lost at the consumer level. The average amount of food loss per American was 429-pounds.
Food loss is becoming an increasingly important topic domestically and internationally.


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There are no details on pricing or availability, but as expected, Nintendo has revealed a version of its Circle Pad Pro accessory for the 3DS XL. The add-on further embiggens the already hefty handheld console with an additional analog control stick—a feature that many had hoped would have been included in the re-designed version of the 3DS, but wasn't.
And while Nintendo hasn't said much besides "it's coming," there's no reason to think the House of Mario won't be pushing to have it available in time for oversized stockings come Christmas morning. [Nintendo Japan via Joystiq]


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Happy holidays and seasons greetings!
Let PASSMN put a little SQL and PowerShell in your stocking this week. On Tuesday, Minnesota's new PowerShell user group and PASSMN will be having a combined meeting.
The topic will, of course, cover both PowerShell and SQL Server. The details are all below:
December Meeting Details
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- December 14, 2010, 5:00 PM CST
- 8300 Norman Center Drive, 9th Floor, Bloomington, MN 55437 (map)
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Horizon Ag/Pioneer Seed outgrows old building
MERNA - - A new office building with a focus on Ag, located on state Highway 2 between Broken Bow and Merna, is now open and operational. A vision of Joe and Deb Grantzinger, the building itself features an entrance area complete with reception and ag displays, four large offices, a large conference room, a break room, handicap bathroom facilities and a 60 x 150-foot warehouse.The warehouse is where Joe stores the corn and soybeans and where the soybeans are treated. More soybeans are being planted today and that was one of the factors considered when Joe built the building. Deb, Joe's wife, did the majority of the design work for the office areas. Grantzinger said, quite frankly, his business, Pioneer Seeds, outgrew their Quonset. They needed the space. They had the opportunity to purchase the land from the Co-op, so they did. Joe said he also thought it would be nice to have someone else share the space … and in turn, increase the traffic into the building. He describes the partnership with Horizon Ag as a win-win. "I knew they were looking for a place to locate, so I gave them a call," said Joe of his call to Horizon Ag in Gothenburg. "We talked for about 45 minutes about what they were looking for. We didn't even need to sign any paperwork until the very end." Joe started selling Pioneer seeds in a partnership with his father. That was 38 years ago. His father started selling seed corn in the 1940s. Back then seed was sold in 65 pound bags which had to be handled by hand. "We used to get the high school kids to help us unload," he said. Now the seed is sold by the box, each box holding 50 bags with the soybeans weighing around 2,500 pounds. Joe said he services a territory of around 20 square miles. The biggest change is that everything moves so much faster today brought on by the size of equipment used on the farm and the volume of seed bought and sold. Some of the seed he sells goes out by the truckload. "The yield along with the price have increased," he added. The average seed variety lasts three to four years before it is replaced. Over the last 50-60 years, the bushel yields have increased around three bushels per year, mainly because the farmers are able to plant the crops thicker. Drought hybrids are now being introduced that will be able to be grown with less water. His busiest season kicks in after harvest is over and lasts through the end of May. They do have an early order program. Each year he has fall meetings to supply the harvest data; the yield results, he said, are what drives the bus. The warehouse in the new building has provided an easy place to get in and out of. He also believes the new location will be easier for his customers. "Our customers are our most important segment of the business," he noted. Chip Bullock, Horizon Ag Regional manager, said location and the convenience for the customer is also key for the companies he represents. Horizon Ag sold parts out of RedLine Equipment for years, said Bullock. February 1 they moved into the new building. Through Horizon Ag, he also represents Valley Irrigation equipment and Sioux Grain Bins. "Anything that has to do with irrigation and grain handling equipment," he noted. Bullock's background includes Farmland Feed Mill in Gothenburg where he served as a supervisor, and as a representative for competitive irrigation equipment brands. He's been Horizon Ag's regional manager since November 2010. Horizon Ag offers sales of equipment, and full service repair and parts. Horizon Ag is open Monday – Friday from 8-5 and also on Saturdays this time of year. This is their busiest time of year with service calls. In winter they are busiest with sales. "Late fall the company offers its best incentives to buy, with a National sales campaign launched right after the first of the year to introduce new technology. One of the technologies, Chip explained, was variable rate irrigation. This is the ability to map the soil types in the field, enter that data into the control panel and have the data dictate the irrigation needed. The technology can be placed on new or used units as an upgrade. "I feel this is huge up here because of the variable soil types, even in the same field," he said. It is GPS controlled, which means the farmer can control the unit from his/her home computer. "You can even control it from a Smart Phone," he added. Horizon Ag has three full time employees. "Through the Gothenburg office, we have access to the equipment to complete any kind of service work, to take care of whatever you need," added Chip. The building, Joe said, took around one year to build from inception to finish. GC Contracting out of Arcadia was the general contractor.


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We're now done to the final innings, the final pitches of a disappointing season, yet one that ends with some glimmer of hope.
Jerry Manuel spoke of regrets this morning in his final pre-game press conference. He's been around, he hears the whispers that have become shouts. There will be changes, and therein lies the hope. Maybe the changes will be for the better.
Manuel's regrets are forcing Jose Reyes in the third slot and rushing players, notably Reyes and Carlos Beltran from injury. I am sure there are other thoughts that will creep into his consciousness in the black of the night this winter.
It's always that way in every baseball season for every team but one. This year the Mets haven't been the one as they haven't been since 1986. There was trepidation for the Mets coming out of spring training, concerns, worries and holes, but during the season there was a turnaround and a flash of hope.
But, the worries and holes resurfaced, along with injuries and poor play and the season faded and then spun out of control and the dreams died.
The Mets will stay home this fall, watching and wondering what might have been. There also will be a time this winter when the thoughts turn to David Wright staring down that pitcher yesterday and saying "enough is enough," with the high-and-tight fastballs. There will also be thoughts of Mike Pelfrey taking a step forward, of Angel Pagan, or Josh Thole, or RA Dickey and of Ike Davis.
There were things down the stretch that said the situation is not hopeless, that there is reason for hope and perhaps soon a season won't end in regret.
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Private Instructors Giving WA Driver's Exams
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Under a new state law, private instructors are now giving driving exams in Washington.
Some instructors told the Yakima Herald-Republic they've been busy.
John Larson of the A-1 Driving School says he gives more than 80 driving tests a week.
John Tull of FACT Driver's Education says the schools break even for the time they spend on tests, and depend on instruction to earn a profit.
Instructors must have 100 hours of training and be certified. Schools are required to submit maps of their driving course and include certain elements such as intersections and traffic signs. Tests include all the elements required by the state, including parallel parking.
Drivers also have to pass written tests and go to a state Department of Licensing office to pick up their license.


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APUS Launcher, Flying Like iOS on Android Devices.
APUS launcher, named after the extremely fast Swift bird (Apus), is a ultra fast launcher for Android devices. It said to bring the smoothness of iOS to Android devices. I of course have not felt the need for a third party launcher and I have kept ahead of the curve as I always court latest Android hardware and my applications are limited.
But the launcher seem to help Android phones that are below stellar hardware. APUS says it's launcher is able to save as much as 80% of a device's memory over the stock launcher(s). The Apus launcher takes up less than 2MB of memory. This is good news for users with lower-end phones, which seem to lag no matter how much improvements are made to Android.. The launcher has a 'boost' button that cleans up the memory usage by apps.
Originated in Beijing, China, out of a company lead by Tao Li, who was formerly a VP with Chinese internet security/browser giant Qihoo 360,plans to narrows the gap between Apple iOS' appeal and the Androids. Android L, Lollipop signals the that pretty soon it will eliminate the need for third party apps like OPUS, on the performance side. But people always like to test out new wall papers.
Opus is commanding a 30 million users/download according to the company and it was only launched in July this year. OPUS facebook page shows 670K likes. OPUS has garnered the top position on many Google Play markets.
You can find it in Google Play Store.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - portfolio filling Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "portfolio filling" General ConfusionmemberMember #Joined: 13 Apr 2000Posts: 365Location: NJ Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 11:54 am Happy New Year everybody! My New Years resolution is to get off my @#$, and get a job doing something more interesting than I currently am. So I have begun to really lock myself down and do some finalized complete work (no more fun practice pics) I kind of like the way this one tunred out so far, it was done for the big Mech thread in the finished gallery. And after looking at it, I decided to take it further to go for a realistic final piece. Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated. thanks ------------------ State of Confusion Back to top KrazymemberMember #Joined: 09 Dec 2000Posts: 238Location: MI, US Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 2:57 pm green glow around the green lights like you pic cant wait to see finalized on man wish i could draw mechs been teying and trying but i cant get it right arg.. Back to top FlinthawkmemberMember #Joined: 14 Oct 2000Posts: 415Location: Los Angeles Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 3:46 pm Very cool, GC, very cool. I like the atmosphere you've given this piece, that foggy, jungle like feeling. The only crit I have for this piece is the mech design itself. I can't quite make out how it's not falling face forward into the muck. Maybe the feet extend farther behind those bushes in the foreground or maybe my monitor is too dark. Maybe if the legs angled forward just a little more it would look a little more balanced. Otherwise, nice piece, I like the way the jungle was handled and it definitely has a marshy feel to the ground. Hope to see some more portfolio quality stuff from you soon. -Flinthawk Back to top BugscratchmemberMember #Joined: 23 Sep 2000Posts: 313Location: Germany Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 12:40 am This looks good, love setting & composition. One thing though, some of the stuff looks transparent when it shouldn't. Examples: Man in background, mech face (?). Maybe you could work on that a little. -bugscratch Back to top General ConfusionmemberMember #Joined: 13 Apr 2000Posts: 365Location: NJ Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 6:15 am thnx guys appreciate the comments I will repost the update to this thread, along with any other stuff I get going so if you're interested check back. ------------------ State of Confusion Back to top FrostmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 2662Location: Montréal, Canada Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 6:51 am It looks great - my jaw nearly dropped when I first saw it in the mech thread. What you might want to do is reduce by a large margin the headlight cone, as the sunlight is the overpowering light here, and there is no way a head light would the fog/smog more than the sun. The back of the truck seems to pure black - pushing the general black to a somthing a small bit lighter in a greenigh hue to reflect the vegetation might work. It took me a little time to see the guy standing in the water... there are brushstrokes making it blend with the vegetation behind him, as though his layer was 70% opacity or such. Spooge mentioned that surfaces which are most parralel to our field of vision are more reflective, so the top of the mech could be slightly more reflective under the open sky area in the background. I'd maybe tune down the green lights in the back a bit. Sorry -- I guess I do tend to comment more on pics I like, and I love this one. Great work... you're making me very jealous. Back to top General ConfusionmemberMember #Joined: 13 Apr 2000Posts: 365Location: NJ Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 7:28 am Frost I appreciate the comments. I did this very quick just to get in on the fun of the mech thread, so I didn't concern myself with being anal about it's creation. Maybe that's why I like it alot, cause it has the freedom that I think lacks in my pics. I copied yours, as well as the others comments into a simple text file, so I can have them as reminders of the suggestions when I finish this one up. And on a further note, I think you have an excellent way of achieving materials and textures, and I really admire your work. I saw your mech post with the dramatic lighting from below, very nice!!!! If I had more time, I would love to give a some better commentary, however, an overall opinion of mine, towards your work is definitely a positive one. thnx ------------------ State of Confusion Back to top ShadowmanmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 2000Posts: 282Location: Glen Ridge N.J. USA Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2001 11:49 am Looks cool General reminds me of those early Star Wars conceptual illustrations. I noticed you said it was a quicky but I see a lot of detail do you have some special technique for doing this? Back to top -- Transcendent --memberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 251Location: Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 6:08 am Nice work ! The atomosphere is wondeful - I would suggest cleanig up the highlights on that soilder, as it stands, he looks "embossed" ... Back to top poxenmemberMember #Joined: 23 Apr 2000Posts: 356Location: Stenungsund, Sweden Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2001 6:41 am nice capten! must se more off your pics, love em... do you paint in photohop or in painter? keep it upp! ------------------ -Poxen email@example.com [This message has been edited by poxen (edited January 14, 2001).] Back to top General ConfusionmemberMember #Joined: 13 Apr 2000Posts: 365Location: NJ Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 6:50 am Thnx guys for the comments shadowman - I just pretty much had no real intentions to it. Mainly used the lasso tool and curves function to get alot of things happening that I normally wouldn't think of doing in a rendering sense, sort of let the "happy accidents" take place and form the pic, what you see here is about 2 to 3 hours work. Transcendant - I';ll kee3p the soldier in mind, I wanted him to fade into the atmosphere, I guess I faded him too much Poxen - so you demoted me to a captain , is that cause you don't like what I did? (just kidding) I used both, but this pic was done in Pshop, and typically I use Pshop exclusively. later ------------------ State of Confusion Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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We are looking to extend our market reach by creating a user offering that appeals to a different audience, users that don't want free sweets obviously want free gadgets :) That's the idea anyway.
We have a logo prepared which you can see here: http://www.pomapri.com/
The site should be a very attractive stunning website with pictures of gadgets up for grabs, such as things from http://www.firebox.com and also game consoles like xbox 360's.
It also needs to show the functionality of a website site like http://www.freesweetsite.com.au (ie. categories etc... that adverts appear in).
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MACON, Ga. (March 2, 2012) – Well, the ETSU men's basketball team just could not let the Belmont Bruins leave without one more matchup with conference title implications.
The only two teams to have won the Atlantic Sun Conference men's basketball championship since 2006 will meet once again, as the Buccaneers and Bruins face off Friday evening at 6 p.m. in the semifinals of the 2012 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Conference Championship.
Belmont, which has won this tournament in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011, will be leaving the A-Sun for the Ohio Valley Conference at the end of this season. Meanwhile, the Bucs, who won the league title in 2009 and 2010, don't want the championship going home with a team that's packing their bags and planning a move.
For more on Friday's game, visit click on the game notebook link to the right or read the game notes located below. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the A-Sun championship, visit ETSUBucs.com or AtlanticSun.org for complete coverage.
We are "ETSU"
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
The Bucs in the A-Sun Tournament
Entering just their seventh Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, the Buccaneers are 11-4 all-time and have won eight of their last nine games in tournament play ..Recently, ETSU enjoyed a perfect 3-0 run through the tournament back in 2010 ... The Bucs' previous trips included a loss in the first round of the event in 2006, advancing to the finals in 2007, falling in the semifinals in 2008, and winning the tournament in both 2009 and 2010 ... In 2011, the Bucs lost to UNF in the semifinals. ... In conference tournaments all-time (including the Southern and Ohio Valley), the Bucs are 41-22, having gone 8-3 in league championship final games.
Bucs hoping to add one more NCAA trip
Having already made nine trips to the NCAA Tournament in its history, the ETSU men's basketball team would like to add another conference tournament trophy to the case in the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center ... The Bucs' current stretch of success under head coach Murry Bartow is arguably the second best run in ETSU hoops history ... The most memorable stretch was from 1989 to 1992, when the Bucs made four straight trips to the NCAAS, were ranked in the Top 10 nationally (1991), and defeated Arizona in the NCAA first round in 1992 ... The Bucs only other trip prior to that run came in 1968 ... While head coach Ed DeChellis took the Bucs to the tournament in 2003, Bartow has taken the Bucs to the tournament three times (2004, 2009 and 2010), while also leading ETSU to the 2007 NIT and the 2011 CIT.
Last time out at the A-Sun Tournament
MACON, Ga. (March 1, 2012) – Senior Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) scored a game-high 22 points and broke the ETSU all-time record for blocked shots on a critical play with 57 seconds left, lifting the ETSU men's basketball team to a 68-66 win over North Florida during first round play at the General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Conference Championships Thursday afternoon inside Mercer's University Center. ... Brown was joined in double figures by junior guard Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) with 13 points, while seniors Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) and Tommy Hubbard (Boston) pitched in 13 and 11, respectively. The Buccaneers (17-13 overall) shot 51 percent from the floor for the game, on their way to setting up a semifinal matchup with league rival Belmont Friday evening at 6 p.m. ... hat game will air on regional cable courtesy of CSS, and will also be available at ASun.TV. ... In a game that ETSU led most of the way, the Bucs still never led by more than seven points. It led to some nerve-racking final moments. ... After tying the record of 182 career blocks held by former ETSU standout Zakee Wadood (Lonoke, Ark.) by stuffing a shot earlier in the game, Brown denied a 3-point attempt by UNF sharp-shooter Parker Smith in the final minute and the Bucs leading 66-64. On that play, Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.) later stole the ball and scored a lay-up to make it 68-64. ... From there, UNF later made it 68-66 and after a missed free throw by Dubose, the Ospreys had one final opportunity to tie or win the game. Instead, ETSU's defense swarmed over UNF and held for the final 22 seconds. The only opportunity UNF managed was a long, desperation shot by Smith as time expired. ... The Bucs now turn their attention to Belmont, who they have not met in league tournament play since defeating the Bruins in the semifinals of the 2009 A-Sun Tournament. Since that game, Belmont is a perfect 4-0 against the Bucs.
The series versus Belmont
The Bucs have lost four straight regular season games to the Bruins, but ETSU's last win over Belmont came in the 2009 A-Sun semifinals as the Bucs were headed to the tournament title ... The Bucs and Bruins have met 22 times in their histories, with the Bucs trailing the series, 8-14 ... The Bucs were a perfect 5-0 against Belmont prior to 2005, when ETSU joined the Atlantic Sun Conference ... Since that time, ETSU is 3-14 against Belmont ... Three of those games have gone to overtime, with ETSU going 1-2 in those contests, ... The last meeting between the two was a 80-58 Belmont win back on Feb. 18, 2012 in Nashville.
Last time out against Belmont
NASHVILLE (Feb. 18, 2012) – Consistently victimizing ETSU's zone defense and connecting on 11 3-pointers on the night, the Belmont Bruins handed the Buccaneers an 80-58 defeat in Atlantic Sun Conference men's basketball action Saturday evening at the Curb Event Center. ... It marked ETSU's sixth loss in its last nine A-Sun games, and dropped the Bucs to 13-13 overall, 7-8 in conference action. Meanwhile, Belmont improved to 21-7 overall, 13-2 in A-Sun play, and now owns sole possession of first place in the league standings. ... Losing for the sixth time in the last seven trips to the Curb, the Buccaneers suffered an offensive drought midway through the first half and looked on as the Bruins put together a decisive 22-6 run that helped result in a 16-point halftime lead. ... For the first 10 minutes, ETSU held its own with the first-place Bruins and the Buccaneers found themselves tied at 15-15. However, at that point Belmont manufactured its run powered by five 3-pointers – including three from senior guard Drew Hanlen – and ultimately led 37-21 at the break. ... Belmont shot 50 percent from the field in the first half and hit on 46.7 percent of its 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes. Meanwhile, ETSU was 0-of-5 from beyond the arc and shot just 32.3 percent from the field. ... The story did not get better after the break, as Belmont built a lead of as many as 26 points at 51-25 and cruised to the victory. It was the first 20-plus point loss for the Bucs since a 71-50 defeat to Ole Miss back on Dec. 18, 2010. ... For ETSU, junior guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) scored a team-high 13 points, while senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) netted 12. The Bucs shot just 37 percent from the floor and 20 percent from beyond the arc.
Block party for Brown
With two blocks in Thursday's win over North Florida, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new school record for career blocks, surpassing the 182 blocks recorded by former star Zakee Wadood (Lonoke, Ark.) from 2000-04 ... Brown started his attack of the record books last year, setting a school record for blocks in a single season, swatting away a total of 71 shots in 2010-11... In addition to those marks, Brown's six-block performance against Belmont last year also matched the program's single-game record ... At the time, Brown joined six other ETSU players who have had six-block games, including former standouts Brad Nuckles, Eryk Thomas, Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood, Greg Dennis and Greg Hamlin.
Hubbard returns to double-double play at A-Sun
Already with 18 double-doubles in his career, senior guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) added another to his list in the quarterfinals against North Florida ... Hubbard posted 11 points and 10 rebounds, but also had a career high six steals in the game ... His play has been a key to ETSU's success for the last four seasons, and Thursday night that was the case again.
Sollazzo named to 2011-12 All A-Sun First Team
MACON, Ga. (Feb. 27, 2012) – Following a regular season that saw him lead the ETSU men's basketball team in scoring and assists, while also eclipsing 1,000 points for his career, senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa, Fla.) was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Conference First Team, the league office announced Monday ... Picked in voting by the league's coaches, Sollazzo scored in double figures 22 times and eclipsed 20 points on five different occasions. He finished the season averaging 15.5 points, 4.4 assists and 5.6 rebounds a game. While he led the team in scoring and assists, he ranked third in rebounding and third in steals (1.7 spg). ... He flirted with a triple-double in multiple games this season, including an impressive individual 19-point, seven-assist, seven-rebound effort against Tennessee back on Dec. 23, as well as another 19-point, eight-assist, and eight-rebound outing against Florida Gulf Coast in the Bucs' last regular season game on Feb. 25. ... He finished the year ranked in the A-Sun Top 5 for points (3rd), assists (3rd), steals (4th) and minutes played (4th).
Brown, Sollazzo reach 1,000 points; Hubbard comes up short
As they began their seniors seasons, ETSU's trio of Isiah Brown, Adam Sollazzo and Tommy Hubbard were all eying the 1,000 point mark for their careers ... While Brown and Sollazzo have both reached that mark, Hubbard remains the only senior short of that mark ... He currently stands at 862 points for his career.
Bucs 2nd nationally in steals, Cooley ranked 11th on list
Key to the Bucs' wins this year has been the ability to swipe the ball from opponents ... Through games of Feb. 26, ETSU ranks No. 2 in the country in steals per game, averaging 10.4 steals a contest ... Meanwhile, junior Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) has been on a torrid pace this season and is a big reason for the Bucs' success in the steals category, averaging a conference best 2.5 steals per game ... He currently ranks 11th nationally in steals. ... The Bucs have four players ranked in the Top 10 among A-Sun players in steals: Cooley (1st, 2.5), Tommy Hubbard (2nd, 2.1), Adam Sollazzo (4th, 1.7), and Isiah Brown (8th, 1.5).
Rembert breaks out
Freshman guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa), who was recruited for his ability to score the basketball, came off the bench to provide valuable minutes in the Bucs' win over Kennesaw State (2/4) ... Going a perfect 4-for-4 from the field and 3-for-3 from 3-point range, Rembert netted 11 points for ETSU during a critical stretch midway through the game ... Afterwards, head coach Murry Bartow commented how Rembert was probably the player of the game.
Brown sets new career mark
With his 27-point effort in the win over North Florida, senior forward Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) set a new career high for single-game scoring ... Brown, who was honored prior to the UNF game for recently eclipsing 1,000 points for his career, put on an offensive show against the Ospreys ... For the 6-foot-8 senior, it was his best game since a 25-point effort against Kentucky in the 2010-11 opener.
Walton provides valuable minutes off the bench
Having waited patiently for an opportunity to contribute, freshman forward John Walton (Memphis) made the most of his opportunity in the Bucs' win over Lipscomb (2/20) ... With senior guard Tommy Hubbard (Boston) out with an injury early in the game, Walton came on and set new career marks for minutes played (21), rebounds (3), blocks (3) and steals (4) ... He also pitched in a pair of free throws ... For the 6-foot-8 forward, it was a chance to show what he can bring to the Bucs' lineup.
Poderis reaches career mark for rebounds -- twice
In recent weeks, junior forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) has become a truly valuable part of the Buccaneers attack ... In the win over Mercer, Poderis picked up a career high 10 rebounds, and that effort came two days after he matched his career high for points with 14 against USC Upstate ... He rewrote the record books for his rebounding with a new personal best of 11 boards against Stetson (2/23) ... In the win over Kennesaw State, he posted another nine-rebound effort ... For the year, Poderis is averaging 4.1 points and 4.6 rebounds in 20.3 minutes a game.
Getting to the free throw line a key for the Bucs
In recent years, the Bucs have focused on playing stingy defense, but also driving to the basket on offense and trying to get "tough" points thanks to fouls ... One way for the ETSU coaching staff to determine how successful the Bucs have been is charting free throw attempts and makes ... Well if this statistic is a true indicator, then the Bucs did just as the coaches would like ... Last season, ETSU set a school record for free throw attempts, putting up a total of 856 free tosses ... The Bucs also made their share of those attempts, ranking second on the all-time list with 580 makes ... The 2010-11 edition of the Bucs came up just nine makes short of the all-time record, held by the 1991-92 Bucs at 589. ... This season, after starting out the year shooting poorly from the foul line, the Bucs are have improved those numbers and are now shooting 64 percent for the year as a team.
Bucs add to postseason resume
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... It was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.
ETSU picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball – marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 – the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors … The Buccaneers -- who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT and one CIT berth, 14 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85 -- ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.


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Gil C. Quiniones, New York Power Authority president and CEO, offered this comment on NYPA's participation in the "Grid Ex II" power grid drill:
"The New York Power Authority is participating on Wednesday and Thursday (Nov. 13-14) in a major power system drill that will test emergency response plans of electric utilities, governments and law enforcement authorities across North America to simulated attacks on the electric power grid.
"The integral nature of the power grid to virtually all facets of modern life makes its security against physical and cyber-attacks of vital importance. This week's two-day 'Grid Ex II' exercise, organized by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, will provide valuable experiences for responding to potential assaults on the power-grid and safeguarding the system.
"As the owner and operator of more than 1,400-circuit miles of transmission lines - one-third of the high-voltage transmission in New York state - the Power Authority recognizes the necessity of ensuring the resiliency of the power grid and emergency readiness. To that end, key NYPA personnel in engineering, operations, security, information technology, emergency management and other functional areas will participate in the exercise, operating from their usual work locations.
"It is important to emphasize that there will be no disruption in electrical service from the simulated events."


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Tricked Out on Route 66 by Umberto Tosi
There was a war on – World War II. Hadn't you heard?People weren't supposed to be driving all over the place. That's when my father drove my mother and I from Boston to Los Angeles in 1943. Because, he said, he had to... because, really, California was there.
I was only six, in short pants. At least we drove across the country in style – in an streamlined beauty, a brand new, black "1942" Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty sedan -- not much different than the those you see in Godfather I, disposable only to gangsters who leave it with the gun and take the canoli. Not so my father. He was Italian, a piece of work that man, but no gangster.
They were bums, not heros like in the movies even then, not Bogey, or Cagney, or Edward G. I liked those gangsters. Who didn't? And crime didn't pay on the silver screen in the dark where my mother went -- taking me along - to get away from life's harsh confusions.
But my father never went to movies. Pure baloney, that's all, he said, not worth a kid's 15-cent ticket. He knew some real gangsters, to be avoided, or handled with extreme caution. And for them, crime did pay.
Right then, on the road, we road high in luxury, floating, it seemed, in one of Detroit's last passengers build near the end of 1941 before Pearl Harbor when the auto companies converted wholly to military manufacturing for the war's duration.
The Cadillac stepped us up in class, just the ticket right then for my struggling, least-favored-of-four-siblings, 25-year-old father. Driving it seemed to change my father, making him bolder, and -- my mother complained -- more "domineering." He was drive the Cadillac towards opportunity, I figure now, while she rode next to him away from it. Off to California she went, abandoning a budding career as a much-acclaimed, young opera soprano who had just performed to rave reviews in a lead role at Massachusetts' renowned Berkshire Festival.
But don't worry, my father and her family told her, the move would be but a temporary sacrifice, to stand by her man, until the war ended, and business back East picked up. Hell, it was almost patriotic. But it was also permanent, it turned out, as did their divorce that followed a few years later, scandalizing both their families back in Boston.
There were no opera companies in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s, or even 60s. But she did put together a an singing Gershwin, Kern and Cole Porter ballads at a popular Sunset Boulevard night club called The Florentine Gardens where I got to drink "Buck Rogers" with a red cherry back stage while she sang, the band played and the customers drank, smoked and danced the nights away. Before long, she was also dubbing for the movies (with no screen credits). Just another Hollywood story.
The Cadillac wasn't my father's. It belonged to a mysterious guy named Gigo whom I saw only once briefly before we left. (I didn't know his last name.)
Gigo had the "ins" out there in California to whatever canners and other suppliers had left -- after shipping to the armed forces -- of peeled tomatoes, tomato paste and puree, olives, olive oil, cheeses, basil and other Mediterranean foods.
This would prove a godsend for my grandfather and my father's older brother, because the family firm in Boston could no longer import these items from Europe due to the war. Without supplies their small import-export company was about to go out of business.
My father, lean, with a thick crop of wavy black hair making him look even taller than his 6-feet 3-inches, didn't smile for snapshots or much of anything else. But he did laugh, in short booming bursts, with mock amazement at "the never-ending-crap" emanating from radios, movie screens, newspapers - especially financial sections -- stock market listings.
("It's all rigged, son, worse than Reno, run by wise guys gambling with everyone else's money pulling the big con. They produce nothing and take all if you let them. Just remember that." Looking back on the past few years, it's hard to disagree.)
My father talked success even if he wasn't yet. Business, he said, was a game of wits, of personal force, charisma and sharp trading like you held the high cards even when you didn't. And he clung, white-knuckled to every nickel he made too.
He wasn't yet successful at it, but he would be, something of a minor tycoon for a while during the still-wild days of the 1940s commodities trading out West, a East coast tough-guy, hard-edged, but with a disdain for crooks and gangsters, and eve other businessmen. For a man like that, with 4-F status to keep him out of the war - a result of scarred lungs due to pneumonia and the Spanish flu as a child, plenty of gold remained in California -- money to be made.
As a boy in the 1920s he had wanted to become a doctor and all his life kept up with medical and scientific news. But then the Great Depression hit and there was no money for med school, barely enough for two years of business college and lucky at that.
Driving cross-country 3,000 miles beat selling novelties, Italian canned tomatoes, cheeses and olive oil to mom-and-pop stores up and down New England, freezing in winter, perspiring profusely in summer all for six dollars a week, sometimes being paid in 5-gallon tins of a Vermont maple syrup - a story he told over and over every time the kid in the back seat asked for a new toy -- and probably just to remind himself, really, never to go back home. I would miss those pancakes with the maple syrup after we got to California and the best mom could find at the time was Karo.
My father, though, I noticed, sat tall and look like he belonged behind the bone wheel of that Fleetwood, seeming at ease and as close to outright happy as I'd ever seen him -- in his white shirt and tie, dark slacks, sun glasses, a set semi-scowl that threw people masked a the joker that he could be -- that off the scent and kept potential adversaries (that included everyone) from spotting him as a Trickster, wily as the Road Runner later to appear against this Southwestern backdrop.
Gigo – the kind of suave Italian guy people used to call a "mustache Pete" – had come from Los Angeles to Boston on the train to cement the partnership. While there, he bought this fine, Cadillac Fleetwood. Such late model cars were very scarce, being the last of the domestic cars Detroit built in late 1941 and early '42 before converting their production lines completely over to building tanks and other war vehicles as the USA went into full combat footing after Pearl Harbor.
Gigo left his rare-found Caddy to my father to drive back across the country back to his home in Los Angeles. He needed to get back to the West Coast to close a deal quickly and booked a transcontinental flight, also difficult for a civilian at the time. Plus passenger flights not only were scarce but cost a small fortune then, plus too 12 hours coast-to-coast not counting several stops along the way.
Nevertheless, it none of this seemed to matter to Gigo who wore a diamond pinkie ring and flashed a greenbacks around freely, something duly noted by my cash hungry father coming out of the Great Depression. Pop said gold could still be found out west in the Golden State.
It would be a 10-day trip for us in the Cadillac, virtually all of it on two-lane roads, many in poor condition due to heavy truck traffic during war mobilization. My father had saved up OPA rationing coupons and bought a few more on the black market, enough to get us there, I heard him tell Gigo.
They spread maps out on the kitchen table of my grandmother's big brick house in Boston, as if planing an invasion. I climbed up on a chair, fascinated, to peer over them. The roads would be best from Boston to New York to Chicago, starting along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. From the Windy City westward we took Route 66, the nearly 2,500 miles all the way to Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean, and stayed in bungalow motel courts each night along the way as well.
Despite hard times and the war, my father commented that a lot of people were on that road then, workers, he said headed for the airplane plants in California (where my father got a job as a welder at Lockheed in Burbank building P-38s. We also saw military convoys looking all secret and ominious -- just the big trucks, no waving GIs like in newsreels.
Then there were the farm trucks, tractors and combines behind which we would languish, my father waiting for the chance to jump out into the opposing lane, kick in the passing gear and hope to beat out whoever was coming from the opposite direction while my mother yells, "are you crazy?"
From the back seat I stared at billboards having taught myself how to read them all. (Billboards were allowed aplenty along roads then.) Best, though, were the signs advertising a never ending series of odd roadside attractions just before and after every one horse, speed-trap town: rattlesnake shows, genuine Indian blankets, carnivals, side shows, hand-carved totems, leather goods, fortunes told... all embedded -- like pieces of gravel caught in tire tracks -- within the grandeur of the vast Southwester desert, canyons, impossible bluffs and gigantic skies with huge rows of flashing thunderheads threatening to march on us at any moment.
All the way, my parents bickered about everything -- where and when to stop and for how long. My father favored the fewest possible detours.
And, having no idea this trip would be so long or where we were going, I remember asking over and over: "When are we going to get there?" And with good reason: I was car sick most of the ways from soft, floating, luxury ride of the heavy Cadillac sedan.
I still can't sit in the back seat of a car without becoming nauseated. There was no Dramamine that I know of then. The only effective remedy was for me to keep the back window rolled down and hang my head out of the speeding car like a Labrador retriever, mouth open, breathing in the all the headwind I could get.
That set up a constant struggle between my parents and myself whenever the ambient temperature dropped and they wanted that back window closed. "No, no," I'd yowl, terrified. "I'll be sick." After I threw up a few times on Gigo's plush, red leather back seats and lush carpeting, they relented and let me have my way. My mother would just put on her fur coat – muskrat, not mink. Father could not afford mink.
I had thought of this in terms of what I knew up until then, like a drive out to the next town, perhaps to see one of my mother's aunts and for my father to stop at a few grocery stores to leave off samples and make a sale or two of cheeses and olive oil for my grandfather's family firm in Boston.
But this trip seemed to stretch out endlessly. Worse yet, my stomach roiled at the constant bickering and frequent yelling matches between my parents, my father usually prevailing by dint of his loud, deep voice and hot, explosive temper, that also erupted frequently at other drivers on the road even for what would seem the slightest lapse of driving etiquette.
Years later as an adult, I liked to joke to people who inquired about traces of my Boston accent, that "my parents abducted me to California when I was a kid." In retrospect, that's how it felt. The farther they got from their temporizing families, friends and community, the more argumentative, fearful and uncivil they seemed to become.
For years after that, I had recurring nightmares of being trapped on a runaway train, bus or airplane hijacked by a crazy person, careening through dangerous territory always on the verge of crashing. I didn't understand the why of these nightmares, having forgotten the moments of holy terror my tiny self experienced sitting in the red leather back seat of that Cadillac with my wild-eyed father at the wheel.
But terror alternated with giddy enthusiasm for new sights, feelings of great adventure laughs and lots of the kind of food kids love along the way from diners and hot dog stands.
And there was the sheer thrill of the open road and how this great, purring machine rolled at high speed – the wind on my face when my parents let me roll down a back window and stick my head out like a panting dog to stave off car sickness.
My father loved "open up and floor" the Caddy whenever the highway allowed. The Caddy's new engine was by now well broken in –to see what it could do, He let it fly out on a flat, straight stretch of two-lane road in the middle of New Mexico. I leaned forward, resting my elbows on the back of the front seat between my parents so I could see the dashboard and the highway ahead.
I laughed excitedly as the needle on the speedometer swung all the way around past 100 and bounded crazily against 110, the last number on the speedometer. My mother didn't look at the speedometer, but told my father sharply to slow down. I jumped up and down in the back seat -- no seat belts to restrain me in those days -- and squealed, "Faster, faster, faster… wow, pop! Faster"
Before long we heard a siren behind us, and saw red lights flashing and looked back to see a highway patrol motorcycle cop gaining on us. My father slowed instantly and started pulling off to one size. Before we rolled to a stop he told me sharply: "Lie down back there on the seat and pull that blanked over you and don't move until I say so. You got that?"
I obeyed. I was way more afraid of my father than any cop, or anyone else, for that matter. I heard my mother grumbling as my father brought the Caddy to a stop on the shoulder of the road. He rolled down his window and the patrolman appeared.
"Sir!," said the burly copy after looking at my father's license. "Do you know why I'm stopping you?" The patrolman had deep voice and spoke very deliberately, seeming to savor his every utterance and with a slight Southwestern drawl. "You realize how fast you were going? I clocked you at 90." (So much for that lying speedometer. I was disappointed. I thought we'd topped 100.
"I'm sorry, officer," I heard my father tell him. "This a terrible emergency. My boy in the back seat there is very sick. We're rushing him to a hospital."
I cocked one eye open and could see the tall, wiry cop bending down to get a look at me through the back seat window.
. "Oooooh," I groaned, loudly enough for the cop to hear me, and held my stomach. It didn't take much acting skill because I was barely recuperated from a near-fatal burst appendix that had hospitalized me for two harrowing weeks in Boston.
"Please, officer," my father implored. "I've got to get going to that hospital!"
"Yes, sir," said the patrolman with a mock salute to the brim of his gray Stetson. "I'll get you there, right up the road. Just follow me." With that the cop strode back, mounted his motorcycle, pulled in front of the Cadillac, turned on his red light and siren, and raced forward with us speeding behind him.
"Renzo!" My mother exclaimed. "Now we're in trouble! Why did you tell him that story! What are we going to do?"
I jumped up I the back seat and started crying loudly. "I don't want to go to the hospital!"
"Quiet! He shouted and swung an arm around at me. "Get down. Stay down!"
My mother turned to console me. "Don't worry. It's just a game. You don't really have to go into the hospital."
"Quiet!" said my father to her now, and then back at me, "Stay down! Pull that blanket back up over you!"
"But I'll be car sick. I'll throw up."
"Quiet! No you won't."
I clutched my stomach and wailed: "I don't want to go to the hospital. They're going to cut me open!" I wailed.
Finally, we came into the outskirts of a small city, still racing behind our police escort with its siren blasting, red light flashing, and right through several red lights. At last, there was the hospital.
After a couple of wild swings, my father succeeded in landing an backhander swatting me back down on the seat as he turned the car into the emergency driveway of the hospital right behind the patrolman's motorcycle. He pulled to a stop in front of the emergency entrance right behind the state cop.
I raised my head slightly, opening one eye. The patrolman stood up astride his bike, looking at my father, and he waved a hand at the hospital door, his siren now off. My father, stalling for time smiled, nodded his head in exaggerated fashion, mouthing a "thank-you" while he waved back at the officer.
After a tense moment, the patrolman nodded back an okay. Then he sat back down on his motorcycle, revved and pulled away. My father got out of the car, feigning to take me inside the hospital. "No," I started to scream again. From a distance, I could see the cop glance back wave at us once more just as he pulled from the semi-circular hospital drive back onto the highway.
My father waved back lamely with one hand above the roof of the car, while with the other he clenched by belt in two large finger from behind preventing my escape as I tried to dash from the back door of the car. My father waited like that for a few moments, then pulled me back into the car and got back behind the wheel of the Cadillac.
After a few more minutes to be sure the patrolman would not return, my father slipped the Cadillac into gear and pulled out himself down the highway westward, in the opposite direction than taken by the motorcycle cop.
I was so relieved that I wouldn't have to go to the hospital and be cut open I forgot to be car sick for several hours until we stopped for dinner and to find another bungalow cabin motel for the night in the next town.
It was enough for one day. A few days more and we made L.A. and stayed on Route 66 right through out to Santa Monica, our destination, where I would get my first look at the Pacific Ocean, of all I knew was that it was big, but looked the same as the Atlantic.
Today you'd call the whole car swap deal a "win-win" at least from my father's point of view. Gigo got his Cadillac. My father bought a car he could afford -- his first in California, where old cars lasted longer because of the mild weather – a 1930 Model A Ford sedan that had a horn that actually.
Gigo, although trim and only in his mid-40s, died in a Fresno motel of a heart attack less than a year later. I heard my father tell my mother "he died in the saddle," and I wondered how it was that he was riding a horse in a motel. There was no going back.
Not only my parents, but my life took a very different course from where he would have headed growing up on Boston, like my cousins, soon to be born as baby boomers just after the end of the war – a stable, traditonal, suburban growing up each in one house, one neighborhood, the same parents, no divorces, no step parents – and a narrower range of experiences, and encounters.
Boston and Los Angeles seem much closer now than they were then, when only film stars, industry barons, political leaders and the military flew and the rest crossed the country like we did, or three days and nights by train. But I knew nothing of this yet. This was a story, then repeated thousands of times in that wartime decade, though perhaps without a police-escorted detour.
It was the closest my father ever got to being a doctor. He died at 82 sometime in 1997, in his home, a lovely one on a hill overlooking San Francisco bay. I didn't find out until five years later. We'd long since been estranged.


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What I'd found so far:
- 1911 census: Mark's maternal grandfather, John William Ashton, and maternal great grandfather, Thomas William Ashton;
- 1891 census: Mark's maternal grandfather, John William Ashton, and maternal great grandfather, Thomas William Ashton; and
- 1881 census: Mark's maternal great grandfather, Thomas William Ashton; no father listed for him - his mother, Jane, is a widow(at 55 years old).
The 1871 census brought a whole slew of people into the frame, after the small family of four I discovered in 1811.
At first wasn't sure this was my family, despite the fact that the name (Thomas Ashton), birth county (Northumberland) and mother's name (Jane), as well as his birth year (1861) all tallied. Part of the reason for this uncertainty is that the birthplace is listed as Benton. However a search on the web revealed a GenUKI article on Long Benton parish which "comprises the townships of Killingworth, Long Benton, Walker and Weetslade" and is bounded "on the south by the Tyne, and on the east by the parishes of Tynemouth and Wallsend." (This information is from a publication from 1855, which explains why I have been searching Google Maps and Google Earth, to no avail, for Benton, Northumberland. As Mark pointed out: Benton is probably long gone, amalgamated with a host of other small hamlets into something new.) This makes sense in terms of Thomas Ashton's birthplace being listed as Benton, Northumberland in the 1871 census and Walker, Northumberland in each census thereafter; it also fits with his mother, Jane, having been born in Wallsend, Northumberland, which is in (I suspect) the same sort of area area (another family member, listed below, was born in South Shields, which is about five kilometres away from Wallsend, and another born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, also about five kilometres away albeit in the opposite direction). So I was now fairly certain the birthplace data was a match for my guy too.
I was also thrown by the discrepancy in Jane Ashton's ages between the 1881 census, when she is widowed (55), and the 1871 census, when she is living with her husband and many children (47); I put this down to Jane wishing to appear youthful and younger, and being a bit flexible with how she reported her age.
I did find Thomas' father: John Ashton, 44, born in Wales, and listed as being a 'Millfurnaceman' (although this is difficult to decipher). Therefore further research is needed to find out how he died, since I now I know that he died sometime between 1871 and 1881.
The rest of the family is a bit of a tangle:
- daughter Martha (b Byker Hill, Northumberland) 13,
- son Thomas (b Benton, Northumberland) 10,
- son Robert Gibbons (b So Shields, Durham) 10,
- daughter Margaret (b Benton, Northumberland) 7,
- daughter Elizabeth Dadds (b Wallsend, Northumberland) 18,
- grandson John Dadds (b Benton, Northumberland) 2,
- grandson Robert Dadds (b Newcastle Upon Tyne) 4 months.
Robert Gibbons is listed here as being the son of John Ashton, but in the 1881 census he is listed as being the grandson of Jane Ashton (John's widow). His brother John Gibbons, who is 12 at the time of the 1881 census, is not listed here at all. What is the true relationship of Robert Gibbons to John Ashton? Where is John Gibbons at the time of the 1871 census?
There are two much younger children, listed as being John's grandchildren, named John (2) and Robert (4mo) Dadds, children of his daughter Elizabeth Dadds. Where is their father, Elizabeth's husband?


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DAVIDSON, N.C. (Mar. 17, 2005) - The East Tennessee State men's tennis team handed Davidson it's first SoCon loss of the season on Thursday afternoon. With their seventh straight match victory, the Bucs are 9-3 overall and remain perfect in the SoCon 3-0, while Davidson drops to 7-6, 2-1.
For the sixth straight match, ETSU started the mach by winning the doubles point. Oscar Posada (Valencia, Venezuela) and Fernando Fiuri (Villa Maria, Argentina) paired at No. 1 to defeat Donald Miles and Russ Burns, 8-3. At No. 2 ETSU's Felix Insaurralde (Asunci�n, Paraguay) and Lisandro Picardo (Mar del Plata, Argentina) beat Daniel Bermeo and John Bolton 8-5, while at No. 3 Mois�s Serrano (Bucaramanga, Colombia) and Sebastian Serrano (Bucaramanga, Colombia) outlasted Joe Cheaney and Simihaian 9-8 (5).
In singles, the Bucs won their five points in straight sets. Insaurralde posted his eighth consecutive win at No. 3 with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Bolton. Freshman Daniel Escobedo (Woodland Hills, Calif.) picked up his first win as a Buc at No. 6 in a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Jay Chitty. Davidson's lone point of the day came at No. 5 with a three-set victory over freshman Picardo.
"We're playing solid at singles and playing better at doubles, but still have a lot of work to do to get to where we need to be," said Head Coach Yaser Zaatini.
Southern Conference action continues for the Bucs next Wednesday, March 23 when they host Furman at 2:30 p.m.
1. Posada/Fiuri (ETSU) d. Miles/Burns (DAV) 8-3
2. Insaurralde/Picardo (ETSU) d, Bermeo/Bolton (DAV) 8-5
3. M. Serrano/S.Serrano (ETSU) d. Joe Cheaney/Simihaian (DAV) 9-8 (5)
1. Oscar Posada (ETSU) d. Donald Miles (DAV) 6-4, 6-3
2. Fernando Fiuri (ETSU) d. Flaviu Simihaian (DAV) 7-6 (4), 6-3
3. Felix Insaurralde (ETSU) d. John Bolton (DAV) 6-1, 6-1
4. Mois�s Serrano (ETSU) d. Daniel Bermeo (DAV) 7-5, 6-2
5. Russ Burns (DAV) d. Lisandro Picardo (ETSU) 4-6, 7-6 (3), 10-5
6. Daniel Escobedo (ETSU) d. Jay Chitty (DAV) 6-3, 6-3