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Five Novels, by Daniel Pinkwater
Let's say you're in high school. Worse yet, let's say you're in junior high school. The other kids mostly ignore you, and occasionally pick on you. The teachers are about the same. The schoolwork is tedious, and Gym is a nightmare. There seems to have been some sort of terrible mixup; you're the only human in a school full of Martians, or perhaps the other way around.
But you have a secret--a message in a bottle, a communique from your fellow aliens outside your prison. There's hope--there are others; weirdos like you. You've discovered the novels of Daniel Pinkwater.
Who?Pinkwater's a prolific writer and occasional illustrator, and has cranked out dozens of children's books, a couple dozen Young Adult novels, numerous books-on-tape, a couple essay collections, a dog-training guide, an adult novel, and at least one comic strip collection in the last 30 years. 5 Novels is a collection of his work from the early '80s. How they were picked I have no idea. The works in question are: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars; Slaves of Spiegel; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death; The Last Guru; and Young Adult Novel. There's not much to say about the collection itself: it's a decently bound trade paperback. The foreword by Jules Feiffer is charming, but not particularly insightful, and not quite two pages long. The variation in fonts among the books suggests that very little alteration was done from the original printings before sending the collection to press.
The books are aimed at teenagers, but that's certainly not their only audience. I read Young Adult Novel to a group of 20 30-ish Boston geeks earlier this month, and they loved it and clamored for more. If the portrait at the beginning of this piece is familiar from any point in your life, I think you'll get something out of Pinkwater now.
ThemesThe most evident thing about Pinkwater's writing is the goofy sense of humor, as one can guess from a glance at the titles. Much of his humor derives from a childlike delight in inherently absurd objects, such as avocados. Bizzarre place names or background characters, like the town of Hogboro or the McTavish's Pickleburgers fast food chain often will reoccur from book to book. The Hoboken Chicken Emergencyclopedia is an attempt by a fan to to catalogue these references, along with everything else mentioned in Pinkwater's book.
Another source of humor is absurd justapositions of the fantastic and mundane, such as the marauding space pirates who invariably wear plaid sportscoats and white plastic shoes. A third vein is the puncturing of authority.
Adults in Pinkwater's world are--at best--pretentious buffoons. In Alan Mendelsohn, for example, first the occult bookseller Samuel Klugarsh, then the Venusian motorcyclist Clarence Yojimbo, and then the astral traveller Lance Hergeschleimer are first admired by the story's heroes, but soon prove less clever, honest, and resourceful than themselves. Teachers are overbearing petty tyrants, bored clock-punchers, or raving lunatics. Parents pursue their own petty obsessions in blithe ignorance of their children's lives. They appear in these books as inert and mostly useless creatures, like enormous ambulatory vegetables endowed with the authority to set bedtimes, but lacking the wit to effectively enforce them.
The ideal Pinkwater novel would go like this: short, fat kid of above-average but not exceptional intelligence is lonely, picked-on, and bored at high school. He makes friends with a somewhat more flamboyant and self-confident peer, and together they have adventures that discover a more strange, beautiful and exciting world than had previously been revealed to them. This is a composite picture, and most of his books don't have all those exact elements, but these are recurring themes.
Girls are generally conspicuously absent from this picture, with Rat, the James Dean-obsessed punk rocker of the Snarkout books (who our heroes find immensely intimidating) a notable exception. The important relationships are male friendships.
Dangers in Pinkwater's world come from the familiar, not the strange. Characters may be beaten-up or humiliated by their classmates, but the threats of the outside world are always mild by comparison. The master criminal in The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death immerses his enemies in vats of warm egg fu yung or forces them to watch old German comedy reels. The interdimensional tyrants Mannie, Moe, and Jack in Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars administer kicks in the tush to those who oppose them. The teenage protaganists prowl the streets of the city's seedier districts late at night sometimes with a little nervousness, but never any real sense of danger.
Virtually all Pinkwater characters have their distinctive obsessions, which they carry to the point of mania: collecting comic books, building model ships, making home movies, macrobiotic cooking, fleegix appreciation (fleegix is kinda like hot chocolate, and immensely popular on the planet of Waka-Waka), or snarking out (sneaking out to attend the midnight double bill at the Snark theater).
Place is very important to Pinkwater, and his Chicago upbringing suffuses the way he writes about it. Just as his characters are in conflict with the blowdried, athletic and suntanned culture around them, so they seek out landscapes that offer escape from the strip mall and housing development architecture that reflects that culture. They find them in the older, grittier city of brick buildings and narrow, twisting streets that lies beneath and surrounded by the shinier metropolis that sprung up around it. In Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, the narrator, Leonard Neeble, describes a return to his old neighborhood in Hogboro after having moved out to the suburb of West Kangaroo Park.
We stopped and looked in the window of the fish store. All the fish were lying dead on the crushed ice, except some crabs who were feebly waving their claws around. It smelled good. It was a good fish store. Everything was fresh. There was seaweed packed between some of the fish. People in West Kangaroo Park must think that fish came out of the sea frozen and packed in little square boxes.
The stories can be read as fables about the liberating power of fantasy. The characters excape from a world of deadening tedium and threat into one of excitement where they are included and admired, which eventually allows them to cope better with the mundane world
I wouldn't go too far with that, though. Pinkwater shows a laudable aversion for anything smacking of preachiness or "relevance." Here's the raciest passage from the book: "Rat was pretty outspoken. She had a lot of things to say about James Dean and the things she would have been willing to do with him and with no one else, if only he had not died. Winston and I got the impression that Rat knew a lot more about sex than we did, so we kept off the subject in order not to appear ignorant."
The Books
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars
An excellent introduction to Pinkwater's work. Leonard Neeble's parents move from their city apartment to a ranch house in the suburbs, and Neeble finds himself at Bat Masterson Jurnior High School, where "'all you have to do is not look like everybody else, and you're instant garbage.'" He falls in with Alan Mendelsohn, an abrasive and geeky boy from the Bronx, with the odd habit of telling random people that he's actually a Martian. After a visit to an occult bookstore, they learn the secrets of mind control, but after a day of giving teachers uncontrollable cigarette joneses and making classmates trip over their own feet, they soon get bored and move on to interdimensional travel. The inhabitants of the first other dimension they visit turn out to be superstitious and cowardly, and Leonard and Alan able to rescue them from the dominion of the dread bandits Manny, Moe, and Jack (why this isn't trademark infringement, I have no idea).
Slaves of Spiegel
A short epistolary novel, featuring the dread Speigellian space pirates of Fat Men from Space, who roam the galaxy in search of junkfood. This book depends entirely on humor, with no memorable characters or emotional weight, and seems aimed at rather younger readers than the other four. Not actually painful to read, but not recommended.
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
Walter Gant and Winston Bongo spend their nights sneaking out of their houses to go to the Snark theater double-bill, in an attempt to escape the crushing tedium of Genghis Kahn High School, keeping scrupulous tally of successful Snarkouts, both joint and solo. One night they meet Bentley Saunders Harrison Matthews ("You can call me Rat."), a student at nearby George Armstrong Custer High School who has also independently invented the sport, and are drawn into the mystery of her kidnapped uncle, the mad scientist Flipping Hades Terwilliger, who appears to have been kidnapped by the archcriminal Wallace Nussbaum. Sherlock Holmes fans will enjoy the large number of Holmes references. Funny and evocative.
The Last Guru
Another fairly weak one. Harold Platz, a 13-year-old boy, becomes, through a series of improbable stock market investments, one of the richest people in the world, and is discovered to be the reincarnated founder ot the Silly Hat Sect, which appears to be loosely based on Tibetan Buddhism. The primary purpose of the book seems to make fun of the American New Age movement, which was still a fish in a barrel last time I checked.
Young Adult Novel
The Wild Dada Ducks--Charlie the Cat, Captain Colossal, Igor, the Indiana Zephyr, and the Honorable Venustiano Carranza (President of Mexico)--are a group of students who attempt to resurrect the Dada art movement at Himmler High school. Young Adult Novel has a very different feel to it than Pinkwater's other High School novels. There are no elements of fantasy or science fiction--the story takes place entirely on or near the Himmler campus. Rather than trying to escape the High School experience, the Wild Dada Ducks attempt to transform it through will and creativity. Their success in doing so is...limited, but the endeavor is one of the funniest damn things I've ever read.
Final Notes
Avocado of Death has a sequel: The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror, which is very good. Pinkwater denies rumors of a third volume, I Snarked with a Zombie.
Young Adult Novel had a sequel called Dead End Dada. The two were also published together, along with an excerpt from the proposed third volume, The Dada Boys in Collich, under the title Young Adults. Both books are extremely out of print. Any leads on obtaining them would be vastly appreciated.
Pinkwater has a semi-official web site, and is a remarkably prompt correspondent.
As a small child, I was often read The Blue Moose by my parents. Many years later, I realized that it was also by Pinkwater. I recommend it highly. Also recommended is Lizard Music.
Study Questions:
- Is Osgood Sigerson actually Walter Galt's father?
- Would it be appropriate to call Pinkwater's books "subversive?" Why or why not?
- Discuss the role of food in Pinkwater's books. Special emphasis may be payed to the roles of raisin toast and kosher salami. In what light is vegetarianism presented?
- Discuss the role of Judaism in Pinkwater's books.
- Authenticity is often a concern of Pinkwater's characters, as in the fish store scene quoted above. What constitutes authenticity for them?
- Compare and contrast Pinkwater's approach to humor with that of Woody Allen, Douglas Adams, and Stanislaw Lem.


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Hello Dolls,
So I'm a bit behind on posting compare to my instagram posts. So I'm currently playing catch up.
Now on to the main feature of this post and that would have to obviously be the outfit. Faux leather skirt is from HotMiamiStyles.com, I paired with this lovely delicate top from Jaideclothing.com. Its a mixture of femininity and sexiness. Let me just add that it's a little hard to walk in this skirt. There is definitely not much wiggle room.
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It's my pleasure to share the news that I am the Food Bloggers of Canada featured blogger this week. I've been an FBC member since the early days of the organization, so it's good to see their activities expanding and I'm honored to be in their spotlight.
FBC has been kind enough to run a giveaway with my book as the prize, but the main perk from this accolade is that they have posted a profile of me on their website. The blog post focuses on a questionnaire I filled out for them last month. There are some good questions on there that made me think and had me digging through the Food With Legs archives for inspiration.
I thought I would come up with a few extra questions and pose them to myself here as a sort of director's cut, bonus content. (more…)


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Community of Rose, Nebraska
Here's a short video about the church I attended during most of my growing-up years. I went to Sunday School and Vacation Bible School in the basement, played on the swings in the church yard, and took piano lessons in the parsonage. I know the people who talk about the church in the video. They are the parents of my childhood church friends.
It's so good to see that the Rose community is working together to preserve the little church!
I know that I have a few photos of the Rose Church that I took while visiting up there in 2002, but apparently I've never scanned them. The photo below shows the Rose Cemetery, right across the road from the church. Like the church, it has served the people of Rose for many years, and it continues to play an important role in the community.


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Copernicus was a Pole
I have to admit my answer would have been Italy. My only doubt was perhaps that the answer was Germany instead. Wrong! Wikipedia notes, "Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473, in a house on St. Anne's Street (now Copernicus Street) in the city of Toruń (Thorn). Toruń was situated on the Vistula River in the Royal Prussia region of the Kingdom of Poland."
So, how many 5th graders know this? This is a good trivia but not something that most 5th Grade students (outside of Poland!) would know. Hey, I have four college degrees (three graduate) and history is one of my passions. I was still way off. I think the producers of this show cherry pick questions that maybe some 5th Graders are exposed to but would still be tough for just about anyone.
Or maybe I should have flunked out in the 5th Grade...
4 comments:
- Rebecca said...
Not many people know this. I didn't know that Copernicus was Polish until I actually visited Poland.
Thanks for pointing out that little known fact!
- smellincoffee said...
I would have guessed Germany, as well.I supposed it depends on how Prussian "Royal Prussia" was.
- Kyleen said...
Being of Polish heritage I attended a Polish Roman Catholic elementary school. I learned early on that he was Polish. But I can see where people might think that he was Italian or German.
- M-Dawg said...
The only reason why I know he's Polish is that I teach about Copernicus in my Scientific Revolution unit in World History. I have an informational worksheet that I have my students read and answer questions about Coperincus.
So, my 9th graders know he's a Polish too. :-)


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Busy day in the cheese caves today. This is one of many displays that we started to build. Take five wheels of Parmesan Reggiano, each weighing in at about 80 pounds and close to a $1200 price tag each, add lot's of cutting and wrapping, and I am a tired girl. Tomorrow there will be chunks of wrapped cheese cascading down this display and it goes on sale at your local Harris Teeter for $9.99/lb. Now that's a deal. Time to stock up.
And look how pretty this wheel of Gruyere is. It begged me to take its picture. So I did.


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Debate over Apple\'s future stock moves continued apace Tuesday with Nomura analysts slashing their price target while Gabelli & Co. called the stock \"an attractive investment opportunity.\"
Nomura analysts cut their estimates for iPhone sales and slashed their price target on Apple shares to $530 Tuesday from $660.
Analysts Stuart Jeffrey and Woo Jin Ho at Nomura said the move was made \"to reflect weaker-than-expected sales of the iPhone 5 as indicated by our checks.\"
Nomura cut its iPhone unit sales estimates by 2 million to 48 million for the December quarter, by 4 million to 39 million for the March quarter and by 9 million to 157 million for the full year. Nomura raised its unit forecasts for iPad sales by 1.8 million to 21 million for first fiscal quarter, by 2.4 million to 20.6 million for the second quarter and by 9.7 million to 89.6 million for the full year.
The analysts wrote that they continue to believe that iPhone margins are \"unsustainably high and will fall. While the timing and extent of any decline is still uncertain, we retain our conviction that margins will fall.\"
They added that \"our analysis suggests that realistic downside risk is potentially down to around $400, with possible upside to about $660. \"
Apple faces a growing problem in Asia, according to the analysts:
\"We believe that Apple has to launch a pre-paid iPhone in order to retain relevance in emerging markets. Android is becoming so dominant in Asia that it is attracting the majority of application development. If Apple does not compete, then it will be trying to sell the iPhone at a premium price despite having an inferior hardware specification (e.g., screen size) and inferior application ecosystem.\"
Analyst Shaw Wu at Sterne Agee isn\'t buying the concerns over handset displays, writing in a note: \"there is great confusion with press reports of order cuts and weak demand. From our understanding, the reason is two-fold: (1) much improved yields meaning lower component builds and (2) supplier shifts. \"
Wu maintains an $840 price target on Apple.
And at Gabelli & Co., research analyst Hendi Susanto wrote: \"We continue to see an attractive investment opportunity in Apple and recommend purchase. AAPL shares are trading at 5.5x and 11.4x our FY 2013 EBITDA and EPS estimates of $65 billion and $48.00, respectively.\"
Apple is slated to report its fiscal first-quarter results on Jan. 23.
— Tom Bemis
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Genetics is the study of heredity, the process in which a parent passes certain
Likelihood of getting certain diseases
Mental abilities
Natural talents
An abnormal trait (anomaly) passed down through families (inherited) may:
- Have no effect on your health or well being — for example, it may just involve a white patch of hair or an extended earlobe
- Be of minor consequence — for example,
color blindness
- Have a dramatic effect on your quality or length of life
For most genetic disorders, genetic counseling is advised. Many people may also want to seek prenatal diagnosis.
The terms anomaly, abnormality, disorder, defect, disease, and syndrome are not used consistently, and do not have precise definitions.
Alternative Names
Homozygous; Inheritance; Heterozygous; Inheritance patterns; Heredity and disease; Heritable; Genetic markers
Human beings have cells with 46
Genes are sections of DNA. The location of the gene is called the locus. Most genes carry information that is necessary to make a protein.
The pairs of autosomal chromosomes (one from the mother and one from the father) carry basically the same information. That is, each has the same genes. However, there may be slight variations of these genes. These slight differences occur in less than 1% of the DNA sequence and produce variants of a particular gene called alleles.
If a gene is abnormal, it may lead to an abnormal protein or an abnormal amount of a normal protein. Since the autosomal chromosomes are paired, there are two copies of each gene, one from each parent. If one of these genes is defective, the other may make enough protein so that no disease is seen. This is called a recessive disease, and the gene is said to be inherited in a recessive pattern.
However, if only one abnormal gene is needed to produce a disease, it's called a dominant hereditary disorder. In the case of a dominant disorder, if one abnormal gene is inherited from mom or dad, the child will likely show the disease.
A person with one abnormal gene is termed heterozygous for that gene. If a child receives an abnormal recessive disease gene from both parents, the child will show the disease and will be homozygous for that gene.
If two parents each have one copy of a recessive disease gene, then each child has a 25% (1 in 4) chance of showing the disease. If one parent has two copies of the disease gene and the other has one copy, then each child has a 50% (1 in 2) chance of being homozygous.
Almost all diseases have a genetic component. However, the importance of that component varies. Disorders in which genes play an important role (genetic diseases) can be classified as:
Single-gene defects
Chromosomal disorders
A single gene disorder (also called Mendelian disorder) is caused by a defect in one particular gene. Single gene defects are rare. But since there are about 18,000 known single gene disorders, their combined impact is significant.
Single-gene disorders are characterized by how they are passed down in families. There are six basic patterns of single gene inheritance:
Autosomal dominant Autosomal recessive X-linked dominant X-linked recessive
- Y-linked inheritance
- Maternal (mitochondrial) inheritance
The observed effect of a gene (the appearance of a disorder) is called the phenotype.
People with one copy of a recessive disease gene are called carriers. Carriers usually don't show the disease. However, the gene can often be found by sensitive laboratory tests.
In autosomal dominant inheritance, the abnormality or abnormalities usually appear in every generation. Each affected child of an affected parent has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease.
In autosomal recessive inheritance, the parents of an affected individual may not show the disease. On average, the chance of an affected child's brothers or sisters having the disease are 1 in 4. Males and females are equally likely to be affected. For a child to have symptoms of an autosomal recessive disorder, the child must receive the defective gene from both parents.
Because most recessive disorders are rare, a child is at increased risk of a recessive disease if the parents are related. Related individuals are more likely to have inherited the same rare gene from a common ancestor.
In X-linked recessive inheritance, the incidence of the disease is much higher in males than females. Since the abnormal gene is carried on the X chromosome, males do not transmit it to their sons. However, they do transmit it to their daughters.
The presence of one normal X chromosome masks the effects of the X chromosome with the abnormal gene. So, almost all of the daughters of an affected man appear normal, but they are all carriers of the abnormal gene. The sons of these daughters then have a 50% chance of receiving the defective gene.
In X-linked dominant inheritance, the presence of the defective gene appears in females even if there is also a normal X chromosome present. Since males pass the Y chromosome to their sons, affected males will not have affected sons. All of their daughters will be affected, however. Sons or daughters of affected females will have a 50% chance of getting the disease.
Autosomal recessive:
ADA deficiency (sometimes called the "boy in a bubble" disease)
Alpha-1-antitrypsin (
AAT) deficiency Cystic fibrosis(CF)
- Phenylketonuria (
PKU) Sickle cell anemia
X-linked recessive:
- Duchenne
muscular dystrophy Hemophilia A
Autosomal dominant:
Familial hypercholesterolemia Huntington's disease
X-linked dominant:
Only a few, rare, disorders are X-linked dominant. One of these is hypophosphatemic
In chromosomal disorders, the d
efect is due to an excess or lack of the genes contained in a whole chromosome or chromosome segment.
Chromosomal disorders include:
Down syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome
Turner syndrome
Many of the most common diseases involve interactions of several genes and the environment (for example, illnesses in the mother and medications). These include:
Coronary heart disease
Mitochondria are small organisms found in most of the body's cells. They are responsible for energy production inside cells. Mitochondria contain their own private DNA.
In recent years, more than 60 hereditary disorders have been shown to result from changes (mutations) in mitochondrial DNA. Because mitochondria come only from the female egg, most mitochondria-related disorders are passed down only from the mother.
Mitochondrial disorders can appear at any age. They have a wide variety of symptoms and signs. These disorders may cause:
Developmental delay
Gastrointestinal problems
Hearing loss
Heart rhythm problems
Metabolic disturbances
Short stature


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The Keitenshin Kai was founded in 2008. A new association backed up by over 25 years of aikido teaching and practice and an enthusiastic and dedicated group of instructors and students. The Principal Coaches of the Keitenshin Kai are Jonathan Davies and Sarah Williams. Both 5th Dan Aikido, Shoden Ki and British Aikido Board Senior Coaches and Coach Tutors. As students of Wasyl Kolesnikov Sensei they set up their first club at Manchester University in 1988, followed by a second club in Manchester city centre in 1998. They opened their own dedicated aikido dojo in 1999 in an old silk hat factory in Manchester. In 2013 the Keitenshin Kai joined Aikido Yuishinkai, following the teaching of Maruyama Sensei, a direct student of O Sensei. After recently moving from the city to the Welsh Borders the classes have now moved from the city centre dojo to Manchester University.
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We are a small, friendly association dedicated to the safe and enjoyable practice of aikido in a nuturing and challenging environment.
We are a member of Aikido Yuishinkai, following the teaching of Maruyama Sensei, a direct long term student of O Sensei, the founder of aikido.
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By Terry Frieden / CNN
A Chicago man received 35 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the deadly 2008 siege in Mumbai, India, that killed more than 160 people, including six Americans.
Federal prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber to sentence David Headley, 52, to 30-35 years behind bars rather than a full life sentence because he had been fully cooperative and provided useful intelligence after his arrest.
A Justice Department official who attended the hearing in Chicago said Headley had written a letter to the judge, but declined to speak in court.
Headley, who was born in Pakistan and changed his name from Daood Gilani, had lived much of his life in Chicago. But he attended terrorist training camps in Pakistan, authorities said.
He admitted scouting attack locations in Mumbai for the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, which carried out the attack on the Taj Mahal Hotel and other targets over three days in November 2008.
Prosecutors said Headley also worked for members of al-Qaeda.
Headley reached a plea agreement in 2010.


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JVM Languages
Associated article: Incrementally Updating Software
Tags: JVM Languages
Published source code accompanying the article by John Keogh in which he presents a tool for providing downloadable updates for selected portions of an application is critical to the development process. Also see UPDATE.ZIP.
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Shark-Free Marinas has been very active lately - they have just launched a new website and have come out with two PSAs featuring Guy Harvey, Slash, and Elizabeth Berkley among others.
We have long been supporters of this fantastic initiative and it is great to see the campaign grow. Check out our first post back in October of 2008.
Please please visit Shark-Free Marinas - spread the word - and get your local marina to become SHARK FREE!
To all those involve in this project (especially those back in 2008) - congratulations and thank you for sticking with this and keep on kicking ass.


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- • It all began in the beverage industry. A7D Creative Group has become the go-to group for Marketing Managers, Restaurant Owners & Sales Representatives within the Bar, Restaurant and Beverage Industry.


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Shrouded in the darkness of an Iraqi interrogation room, Sgt. Charles Mink couldn't see much of anything besides the al-Qaida insurgent staring at him.
On appearance alone, the rebel seemed harmless. He was elderly, cordial and clothed in a blanket as he cupped his tea and puffed on a cigarette. But the man, Wahhab, was withholding details about a terrorist attack. So the U.S. Army called Mink, an interrogator, to extract it.
What transpired became one of the most memorable of the 1,200 interrogations he conducted in Iraq from 2007 to 2008. Today, as he reflects on the 10th anniversary of the war that began March 19, 2003, he said the invasion will be remembered as one of the blackest demerits in U.S. war history.
Back in the interrogation room, Mink, or "Huey Lewis" as terrorists knew him, cajoled clues from Wahhab, opting for "friendly persuasion" instead of harsher tactics that he said yielded a greater risk of losing the suspect's cooperation.
Wahhab capitulated after 10 days; al-Qaida was building a tunnel from a bakery to the Mosul Civic Center. Insurgents planned to fill the passageway with explosives and raze the community center during a ceremony. U.S. soldiers stormed the bakery and prevented the attack by arresting the suspected terrorists.
"I'm trying to convince him that it's not a big deal to blow up the Mosul Civic Center so he calms down and cooperates," Mink said. "We tell him he's a great man for talking to us, even though I know that I'm dealing with a horrible person. It's all a façade, and you have to be a good actor."
Mink was part of a surge of young people who enlisted in the military after the September 11 attacks, according to a Pentagon survey. Mink's impetus for enlisting was fomented by what he described as "Bush administration rhetoric" linking Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with al-Qaida.
Then 23, Mink had just graduated from the University of Arizona when he chose to spend 20 months learning Arabic and interrogation techniques. In the Fort Huachuca interrogation school in Arizona, he prepared to deal with some of the most vicious men on the planet. In an unexpected twist of fate, and irony, he fell in love with another interrogator there.
"My first impression was that he was tall and goofy," Carissa Pastuch, also a former Army sergeant, said of Mink. "But he was really nice and really smart. So I thought he was a guy I could have a good friendship with."
Both served at the same base in Balad, Iraq. Pastuch didn't have much trouble interrogating men, which surprises people, she said, because she was operating in a region where women rarely held positions of authority. From dressing modestly as a courtesy to Iraqi customs to speaking respectfully to her suspects, she treated them fairly and they responded well, she said.
Some of Mink's detainees boasted about the carnage they'd caused, but most were docile. He interrogated three people every day during his 12-hour shifts. If necessary, he could cross-examine someone for 20 hours straight.
He also worked in Baghdad. Between 60 to 70 percent of the people he interrogated turned out to be "people of interest," meaning they had information about al-Qaida that the Army deemed valuable.
But within the soundproof walls of the interrogation room, he began struggling to accept the reasons he was given for going to war.
"When I talked to the Iraqis I detained, I realized they had no ideological loyalty to [Osama] bin Laden, they just wanted us out of their country. That was not what I expected. " Mink said. "I was young and believed the rhetoric from the administration. … It's hard to admit that."
Conservative estimates pin the number of Iraqi civilian causalities at 100,000. As the United States and its allies warred with their enemies, millions of innocent people got caught in the middle. One of them was Ezadeen Naji, a teenager living in Baghdad when the invasion began.
He's now 24 and a college student in Arizona, but he can vividly recount the tumultuous path that brought him to the U.S.
Fear consumed Naji at the outset of the war, keeping him penned up at home. After a few days, he stopped worrying so much because he knew anxieties wouldn't shield him from walking into somebody's cross-hairs.
Within a week, he and his friends were playing soccer in the streets as rockets cruised overhead and buildings collapsed around them. On days when the violence was particularly bad, he spent hours at his mosque, reading the Quran and praying for the cataclysm enveloping him to come to a halt.
"Some good things came out of the war. But overall … it was destruction. That's what I think of the anniversary," he said. "Destruction."
At night, Naji could lie on a rooftop and see "all the stars in the sky" because the city's lights and power stations weren't functional for months, he said. Water was scarce, so his family had to dig their own wells.
Several of his relatives were killed, sectarian crime increased dramatically, heaps of garbage cluttered the streets and the nation's overall condition deteriorated beyond anything he endured under Hussein, he said.
Naji and his family left Iraq in 2006. They spent two years in Syria before arriving in Tucson, Ariz., in 2008 as refugees.
He's studying electrical engineering at Pima Community College and plans to transfer to the University of Arizona next fall.
"When I came here, I knew it wasn't the American people who wanted to hurt us. The people were very nice and welcoming," he said. "The war was started by politicians."
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is a senior member of the Armed Services Committee who strongly supported the invasion. He acknowledged in an interview this month that the war has had some very negative outcomes, but he said it is too early to call U.S. participation a failure.
Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., both said they stood by their decision to oppose the war in 2003.
"I'm sure glad I didn't vote for it," Sanders said earlier this month.
The quality of life for Iraqis improved in many avenues, particularly through the removal of Hussein and the installation of a fledgling democracy, Mink said. The invasion also opened up trading opportunities for the U.S. with oil-rich Iraq. But, he said, the deaths of so many civilians weighs too heavily on the scale of positive and negative outcomes, rendering the war a disaster.
"Ten years ago today, people lost trust in their politicians," Mink said, citing a faulty pretext of Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction and being linked to al-Qaida that was used to justify the war. "It was such a folly of waging war to instill democracy, and it will be much harder for an administration to repeat the same routine in the future."
On the American side, nearly 5,000 troops died, and thousands more were wounded.
"I think if you could ask them from the grave, they would tell you they died for their buddies," Mink said, before taking a long pause. "That may be the best comfort their families can take."
Mink and Pastuch had left Iraq by the time President Barack Obama's administration declared the war over in 2011. They got married and are continuing their studies at the University of Arizona. Mink helps lead Project GO, a university program that teaches ROTC students Arabic and Middle Eastern culture to prepare them for deployment. He plans to become an interrogation instructor working with U.S. allies in the Middle East after he graduates. Pastuch wants to become a librarian specializing in Middle Eastern collections.
They are moving on, but never completely past their memories.
"The casualties in Iraq and the over 4,000 troops who lost their lives deserve for us to understand what happened," Pastuch said. "We need to remember the anniversary of this war because it had a huge imprint on the history of our country."
Mink wants to return to Iraq as a tourist with a deep respect for the country's history and culture. Not only is he unfazed about the prospect of running into someone he interrogated, but he said it would also be a positive experience. At a time when the military's reputation was stained by its abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison, he said he always made a point of treating the people he interrogated with respect and that he hopes they remember their encounter with Mink as a "friendly experience in an otherwise unpleasant place."
He views the Iraq War as a book with many pages. The ink still hasn't dried on Mink's chapter, and he's not sure it ever will.
"There's this intense desire to follow up, 'Did we get that guy?' You leave and you're so into the network because you lived it. And it's never complete," he said. "You just want to know what happened to those loose ends that you left behind."
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Getting Educated
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Congrats on the Postgrad Dip from Strathclyde, Kirsty, and a great summary of courses available!ReplyDelete
An excellent wrap-up of educational opportunities and the various podcasts are excellent and do make the housework go faster!ReplyDelete
I'd also like to acknowledge all the learning opportunities provided by the family history magazines who do excellent articles spotlighting document analysis, county research and other items of interest. And of course blogs which all contribute to the reader's knowledge.
A fabulous summary of the educational options available to both existing and aspiring genealogists, Kirsty.ReplyDelete
It seems that in genealogy, the learning never stops, there just so much out there and always a new twist or turn to be discovered.
That's some, post, Kirsty! Very, er, educational. Have mentioned it on my blog (www.bi-gen.blogspot.com).ReplyDelete
Thanks, Kirsty, for this valuable summary. As a great believer in lifelong learning I coined the term CGD (Continuing Genealogical Development) for myself.ReplyDelete
I keep a Learning Log of the activities in which I participate on my blog http://geniaus.blogspot.com/p/lifelong-learning.html
I also believe in the value of Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)for genealogy - described more eloquently here than I can describe them: http://edtechvision.org/?p=790
I'm very new to this, so I don't have any resources to add, but want to say thank you in particular to the podcast references. I will listen to them and can't wait to start learning!ReplyDelete
So much to learn - so little time! Kirsty I've posted a link to this on my UKancestors Facebook page, and other people are "liking" and sharing. Very useful post - there's no excuse for anyone not to learn how to carry out research properly, whatever their budget!ReplyDelete
Congrats on the diploma! It's quite overwhelming how many opportunities there are for genealogical education right now - your synopsis is much appreciated.ReplyDelete
I'm currently doing the IHGS course, and found your comments on the Strathclyde certificate course very interesting. I think the 20+ hours per week requirement would have been my undoing! My only worry with the self-paced IHGS course - will I ever finish??


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A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
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Small app development studio in the bay area. Primarily focused on quality and not quantity - few apps with high sales.
This app is for people who need a quick and efficient way to track gifts for upcoming Birthdays, Anniversaries, and other general events.
The age of customers is likely to be primarily 30+
App price is likely to be $3+.
Please see the attachments for example screenshots.
The icon must be provided in both 57x57 and 512x512 versions. These can be optimized for each resolution, but should be essentially identical.
We prefer clean, simple icons. Tweetie is an excellent example.
The icon should ideally reflect both the GIFT and LIST aspects of the app.
Icon should ideally contain no words.
The icon should ideally be designed pre-glossed. This is where the corner beveling and any shine/gloss are incorporated into the icon and not added by the iPhone.
Icon should have a non-black, non-transparent background and a clearly defined border.
Finally - please don't just stick some stockphoto gift box on an abstract background. We could do that ourselves :)
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Definition of DYS464X
DYS464X is a special method of testing the DYS464 STR alleles. R1b males have a G/C SNP in some of their DYS464 flanking regions very close to the reverse primer of the DYS464 locus. The DYS464X test uses altered primer sequences that end with their last base exactly at the SNP. One primer ends with a "G", while the other primer ends with a "C". These primers allow us to test the different SNP variants and their corresponding DYS464 STR alleles separately.
If the primer ending with G yields a peak, the allele is classed as a G-type.
If the primer ending with C yields a peak, the allele is classed as a C-type.
DYS464-forwardFAM-ttacgagctttgggctatg (exactly from the Redd paper)
DYS464-backward-G-Type JOE-cctgggtaacagagagactctttcag (ending with G)
DYS464-backward-C-Type TMR-cctgggtaacagagagactctttcac (ending with C)
PCR parameters: 30 x (90°, 65°, 70°) and 60° end-elongation 1/2 h
Peaks with a green fluorescence (JOE) are called G type.
Peaks with a yellow fluorescence (TMR) are called C type.
There are some sample electropherograms in my library:
If you want to see a sequence alignment of the DYS464 DNA sequences and the primers you can download a BioEdit file from my alignment library:
[DYS464 Sequence Alignment]
The BioEdit alignment editor for Windows software can be downloaded from here:
What is the use of the DYS464X test?
Most R1b males that we have tested show 3 C-types and 1 G-type.
All other haplogroups (including R1a) show 4 G-types.
1.)The DYS464X method can verify, if a person is really R1b
2.)In many cases we can determine, if a single large peak really represents two different alleles
3.)Some DYS464 patterns look similar when the conventional test is used, but really consist of completely different alleles. For example:
14c-15c-17c-17g is completely different from 14c-15g-17c-17c,
but this wouldn't be seen with the conventional typing method.
4.)DYS464X is a method that helps us observe recombinational loss of heterozygosity (recLOH)
Some DYS464 examples from an arbitary surname project:
(conventional results)
surname A, 1: 15-15-16-17
surname A, 2: 15-15-16-17
surname A, 3: 15-15-16-17
surname B, 1: 15-15-16-18
surname C, 1: 15-15-15-17
If all the 5 persons are R1b then they can be typed with an extended DYS464 test.
We might get the following results:
surname A, 1: 15c-15c-16g-17c
surname A, 2: 15c-15c-16g-17c
surname A, 3: 15c-15c-16c-17g
surname B, 1: 15c-15c-16g-18c
surname C, 1: 15c-15c-15g-17c
From that result we could say:
- A1 and A2 match completely
- A3 has at least a genetic distance of 2 from (A1 & A2)
- B1 has a genetic distance of 1 from (A1 & A2)
- C1 has a genetic distance of 1 from (A1 & A2)
I hope this is not too technical! Feel free to ask questions.
Thomas Krahn


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FEATURES: Simply replace the existing front top strut mounts (no modifications). Reinforcing the strut towers and with the unique K-MAC patented design providing the biggest (and quickest) adjustment range of both Camber and Caster. Street/Race settings can be recorded and changed in 30 seconds – just the time taken to loosen the 3 top mount nuts. Another K-MAC Patented design feature allows this fast adjustment to be made accurately under load. Also when adjustable "coil overs" fitted the K-MAC design provides minimum stack height for maximum vehicle lowering and shock travel/absorption.
ON TRACK DAYS: Ability to hit those corner apexes every time by being able to dial in extra negative Camber to reduce understeer/increase traction and allowing to go deeper into the corners with again increased traction and also braking response. In the pursuit of lowering lap times and "Front row of the grid" on race days!
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Mayor Chris Beutler today announced that the City and its partners will delay the public vote on the proposed arena project in the West Haymarket area. The Mayor said the sports marketing company ISG (International Stadia Group) remains strongly interested in the project, and the firm could provide as much as half of the project's total cost. But ISG's development plans in the U.S. have been slowed by the national economy.
"Without resolution of the ISG issue, we will not be able to provide Lincoln voters with the most complete picture of what will appear on the ballot," Beutler said. "We have made tremendous progress in building this proposal and finding the answers to the tough questions. We do not want to jeopardize the faith of Lincoln residents by putting forward a package that doesn't adequately answer the question of arena financing. A delay allows us to better answer this question and gives the public more time for greater input and discussion."
Mayor Beutler said the economy's impact on Lincoln workers and the City budget are other factors in the delay. "It is difficult to focus on providing a solid future for the next generation when you are anxious and confused about the present," he said. "We can expect a difficult City government budget next year as we struggle with slowing revenues. Many will be concerned about spending new money even as we struggle to maintain funding for important City services."
Beutler said public discussions as well as work on the financing and site plans will continue. "Delay does not mean abandonment," he said. "As Mayor of this community, it is my responsibility to prepare us for the future. Lincoln is in jeopardy of losing our high school sports championships, which generate millions of dollars of economic impact. Events continue to pass by Lincoln due to the inadequacy of Pershing."
The Mayor said the additional jobs created by the arena's construction and operation also are important to Lincoln's working families. He cited the example of the State Capitol, a project Nebraskans continued even during the Great Depression.
"They continued to build it despite the difficult economic times because of the jobs the Capitol's construction could create," he said. "But I think they understood an even deeper truth: great societies don't put off the future, they embrace it. The arena must happen, even if it means some sacrifice. Delaying the public vote will allow us to present an even stronger vision of the West Haymarket Arena to the community and is the right course. It will be worth the wait."
Statement from Jeff Woodbury, Principal, Woodbury Corporation:
"As a developer working in many different communities across the country, we are often confronted with deadlines that are extended for practical concerns. Undue pressures generally increase costs. Although changing deadlines are not politically popular, it is important that a project move forward in a prudent manner. We continue to be excited about this project, and a change in the deadlines in this case will ultimately make this a better project. We have spent a significant amount of resources toward making this project a reality and will continue to spend the necessary resources toward making it a reality."
Statement from Steve Moore, President of North and South America for ISG - International Stadia Group:
"We at ISG believe that the Haymarket Arena project has significant long term benefit to this community and to the University. While we are disappointed that the current financial market conditions have constrained our ability to move forward at present, we remain confident that the unique content (basketball, volleyball and concerts) and corresponding appeal to students, alumni, local fans and corporations will enable us, working together with the City of Lincoln and the University, to finance the project once stability returns to the financial markets."


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A California doctor was arrested Tuesday on a warrant accusing him of possessing about 1,000 images of child pornography on a computer he used at work.
Dr. Pete Thomas, of Coastline Podiatry in Santa Ana, Orange County, turned himself in to a judge when an arrest warrant was issued for him, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
The judge sent Thomas to police, where he surrendered himself and was booked on one count of felony possession of child pornography, Bertagna said. He was out on $50,000 bail Tuesday night.
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Thomas, 58, of Long Beach, came under suspicion when a computer technician spotted the questionable material on his computer while installing new printing software on the office's system, Bertagna said.
Some images allegedly depict children from 7 years old to their early teens engaging in sex acts with other minors or adults, Bertagna said.
Police don't believe Thomas had any contact with the children in the photos.
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Correction: The image below was changed on Feb. 27 at 9 am. The original photo showed Drew Moor in the alternate kit with yellow socks. The alternate kit will feature all blue, including socks, as Pablo Mastroeni is shown.
At a party held at Lodo's Bar & Grill on Tuesday evening, the Colorado Rapids presented fans with the first-look at the team's complete new kits. The primary jersey features the names of full season ticket holder accounts imprinted within the fabric, while the alternate uniforms pay tribute to the Colorado state flag. (MORE DETAILS)
Midfielder Hendry Thomas, left, and captain Pablo Mastroeni, right, in the full primary and alternate uniforms, respectively. Both #RapidsJerseys are available for sale at Altitude Authentics online and team stores. Photo by Garrett Ellwood / Colorado Rapids.


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The Dan Beard Council has a long history of providing life-changing programs to the young men of the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area. There have been a lot changes since the founding of the Scouting movement way back in 1910, but the character values of the Scout Oath and Law remain the same. One-hundred plus years later, the Scouting movement is the largest organized movement in the world and the largest youth organization in the United States.
The Dan Beard Council's story is one of mergers and changes, progress and growth, and outstanding individuals that gave of themselves for the cause of instilling good values in youth. We invite you to learn more about the development of the Scouting movement in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area - a history that begins even before the Boy Scouts of America itself was founded.
Daniel Carter Beard was born in 1850 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In his youth, his family moved to 322 E. 3rd Street in Covington, Kentucky where Beard loved exploring the banks of the nearby Ohio River and the Big Bone Lick Creek region south of Covington. It was during these explorations, that Beard developed his great love for nature and outdoors living. In 1882, Beard wrote The American Boy's Handy Book, a book which gives instructions and advice on animals, outdoors, knots, tents, fishing and more.
In 1905, Beard founded the "Sons of Daniel Boone," an outdoor education and exploration program for young men. Boys were organized into "forts," uniforms were based on the outfits of frontiersmen and in place of ranks or advancement, boys earned notches and top notches for achievements in a variety of interest areas. In 1910, Beard merged his organization (then known as the "Boy Pioneers of America") into the fledgling Boy Scouts of America and became one of the first National Commissioners, serving Scouting for 30 years. The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge spanning the Ohio River and connecting I-471 in northern Kentucky to I-71 in Ohio was named in his honor and dedicated in 1981.
The Dan Beard Council as we know it today is actually a merger of four original Councils that underwent many changes in their time.
Since the final merger of the Mound Builder's Area Council in 1985, the Dan Beard Council's territory has remained the same until this day. The territory at present includes Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, and Pendleton counties in Kentucky; and Brown, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren counties in Ohio.
In 2009, the council moved it's headquarters from 2331 Victory Parkway in East Walnut Hills to the new Scout Achievement Center in Evendale, Ohio, ushering in a new century of Scouting for the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area. Serving over 30,000 families led by over 6,000 volunteers, the Dan Beard council has certainly grown from the early days of the Scouting movement and become a tradition of fun, achievement, and character development for families to enjoy for many years to come.


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Derek Jarman Rides the Rain Taxi
The latest print issue of Rain Taxi includes an essay I wrote, "Derek Jarman and The Memory Palace Of Life", about Derek Jarman's books, particularly the ones re-released by the University of Minnesota Press. I incorporated a few sentences from the piece in my video essay on Jarman and Caravaggio a few months back, but to read the whole thing you'll need to pick up a copy of Rain Taxi. Here, to tempt you (or dissuade you), are the first two paragraphs:
Derek Jarman died in 1994, leaving behind him one of the most important bodies of work of any artist or filmmaker of his generation, an oeuvre that challenged orthodoxies of sexuality, politics, and aesthetics. Though best remembered for such films as Jubilee, Caravaggio, The Last of England, Edward II, and Blue, Jarman was also a prolific writer, particularly as a diarist, and The University of Minnesota Press has now brought all of these books back into print in uniform paperback editions. Additionally, they have reprinted Tony Peake's 1999 biography of Jarman.
Though very much an artist of his time, Jarman's work has sustained its power and relevance long beyond its creator's death. Having found meaning and pleasure within the bohemian, anti-establishment world of the late-'60s British avant-garde art scene, Jarman never hesitated in presenting an identity for himself that was defiantly queer. At first, this was not a political identity. In his 1992 memoir/journal/manifesto At Your Own Risk, Jarman wrote that "I danced the sixties away but I didn't see that as hedonism; it was a REVOLUTIONARY GESTURE — you should have seen the way the other students reacted to two men kissing in public. I believed we could bring change with individual actions, it wasn't linked to any conventional political blueprint. One person in one room quite cut off could change the world." During the early 1970s, Jarman attended many of the meetings of the Gay Liberation Front, but though he enjoyed the more pranksterish elements of their activism, Peake quotes him as saying he "disliked these well-meaning rather lonely people laying down the law … there was an element of joylessness about it." His early films were proudly queer (a label he came to prefer to "gay"), but their queerness was in service to their countercultural core. Jubilee (1978), his second feature-length film, was an anarchic vision of an apocalyptic England (or an apocalyptic vision of an anarchic England) full of punk rockers. With the arrival of AIDS and Thatcherism in the 1980s, though, Jarman would become radicalized, his bohemian individualism and sense of humor evolving into furious, confrontational queer communalism.


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Waste heat in industrial processes comes in many different forms, where BPHE's efficiently can extract energy from streams such as compressed air, water, thermal oil and steam and convert a decent share to useful electricity within an ORC system.
ORC is named for its use of an organic molecular fluid instead of the traditional water/steam. Its liquid-vapor phase change, i.e. its boiling point, occurs at a lower temperature than when water turns into steam, which allows the Rankine cycle to provide heat recovery from lower temperature sources. Different organic fluids are used to optimize the operation to different heat sources such as biomass boilers, industrial waste heat, geothermal heat and concentrated solar power.
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Anyone have a similar decoding reference for Firestone?
What was the FIRST date for required DOT tire marking (when all manufacturers were required to mark per the DOT's mandate)?? Wasn't that sometime in the '60's?? Before that DOT required time, the only 'dated' marking on the tires would have been by manufacturer and all of them would be different....?
Quote from: ZLP955 on May 28, 2014, 11:26:46 AMAnyone have a similar decoding reference for Firestone?My brother works for Firestone corp and he hasn't been able to get an answer on the 60's era tire codes


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Strands of Thought, discussing love and loss and using that in writing. Kai and I both belong to Central Oregon Writers Guild and she's been gracious enough to help me out with keeping up with their blogging responsibilities.
Now, onto outlining...
Before I can begin writing a story, I have to know how I plan to end it. Even though, I pants it through most of the first draft, I must understand what I'm writing toward before I start. That little bit of focus is a must.
Most of my outlining, organizing comes after the first draft and before I start the second, more polished draft. [The version that goes to crit partners].
I've found writing brief bios for all my characters really useful. I sketch out a brief back story of their life before the novel opens and figure out what their goal is in the story. The back story may never make it into the finished project, but it helps me enrich the characters and the world. Sometimes it turns into another book (Backworlds).
I keep a journal for each project containing the character bios and world building. I've also created chapter sheets on which I write down the purpose of the chapter, the goal/focus, the scene, the characters in it, how the scene shapes the characters/plot, which plots/subplots the scene impacts and the setting. For some reason all of my organizing and plotting is done pen to paper. Writing is done on keyboard.
As I work on draft two, many post-its get stuck on my monitor. Ie, "mention Meelo's gun shot more often." And as feedback comes in from my lovely and brilliant crit partners, the plot remains in flux. And I find I only outline in detail to a point. The rest is committed to memory and I'll write minimum blurbs for the ending chapters, so I don't lose track of the plan.
Third draft, I pluck the post-its off my monitor and read them, jotting down which chapters the notes apply to. As I go through chapter by chapter, I'll implement my crit partners' suggestions. If it requires extensive rewriting, I will make a new outline, a condensed version though.
With the next project, I'm going to try more pre-planning of the characters and their goals and motives. I just can't do much more with plot than understand the big points I want to hit and where I want to end up. My brain just can't come up with great plot twists unless I'm writing. The brilliant flashes of inspiration only happen when in the act of creating.
Just how much do you outline? When? And what do you outline? How much detail do you include?


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BALTIMORE - A federal judge has granted summary judgment against Baltimore County in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. In so doing, the judge found that Baltimore County's pension plan, known as the Employee Retirement System (ERS), violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) because the plan is inherently discriminatory. U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg also denied Baltimore County's motion for summary judgment.
The EEOC initially filed suit against Baltimore County in September 2007, charging that Baltimore County discriminated against Wayne A. Lee, Richard J. Bosse, Sr., and a class of similarly situated employees at least 40 years of age by requiring them to pay higher pension contributions than those paid by younger employees (Case No. BEL-07-2500, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division). The EEOC also named various county labor organizations as defendants who must negotiate with Baltimore County to effectuate the changes sought in its lawsuit. In January 2009, the Court awarded summary judgment in favor of Baltimore County.
After the EEOC appealed, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the entry of summary judgment and remanded the case to the District Court to decide whether Baltimore County's pension plan is supported by permissible financial considerations (EEOC v. Baltimore County, 385 F. App'x 322, 325 [4th Cir. 2010]). The District Court rejected Baltimore County's argument that the Supreme Court's decision in Kentucky Retirement v. EEOC, 554 U.S. 135 (2008) excused the pension practice. Noting that Baltimore County "was given an opportunity to conduct full discovery, including a comprehensive 30(b)(6) deposition of Buck Consultants, the actuarial firm that has been responsible for ERS since its creation," the District Court found that Baltimore County had failed to bring forward non-age related financial considerations that justify the disparity in contribution rates between older and younger workers. The next phase of the litigation will determine damages.
"It is pretty rare that any plaintiff can win any claim against a pension plan," said EEOC General Counsel David Lopez. "While some may have thought the Kentucky Retirement decision spelled the death knell for this case and others like it, our perseverance paid off in limiting the impact of that decision. The EEOC is prepared to vigorously litigate these cases, where necessary, to ensure compliance with the law."
EEOC Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence said, "The county made older employees pay more than younger employees for the same retirement benefits, without any financial justification. Older employees felt the impact of this discrimination in every paycheck. Because more money is taken out of older employees' paychecks to fund their retirement benefits, they receive less pay than younger employees doing the same job. With the court's decision, we are putting an end to this unlawful practice."
This resolution is the latest in a series of systemic suits the EEOC has brought against public employers alleging age discrimination in the provision of retirement benefits. In several related cases against Minnesota state agencies, the federal agency challenged early retirement incentive plans that denied health benefits for those employees who chose not to retire earlier than age 55. The Eighth Circuit agreed that the plan violated the ADEA. In a case against an Arizona school district, the EEOC challenged a retirement plan that granted more compensation for unused leave to younger employees than to older employees. These cases settled.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The EEOC's Philadelphia District oversees Maryland as well as Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and parts of New Jersey and Ohio. Further information about the Commission is available at its website, www.eeoc.gov .


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If you were frustrated by this morning's all-dude birth control hearing on Capitol Hill, you weren't the only one. In fact, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has some choice words for her male colleagues' lack of deference to science, medicine, or biology.
Shortly after her fellow Democrats Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia, and Mike Quigley of Illinois walked out of the hearing in protest, Pelosi told reporters that she agreed that the proceedings were indeed utterly absurd. She said,
I think it's really curiouser and curiouser that as we get further into this debate, the Republican leadership of this Congress thinks it's appropriate to have a hearing on the subject of women's health and can purposely exclude women from the panel. What else do you need to know about the subject? If you need to know more, tune in, I may, I may at some point be moved to explain biology to my colleagues.
Say what you will about the California Democrat, Nancy Pelosi is not to be trifled with. As a science teacher, I bet her tests would be absurd.


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Wǒmen (我们): Contemporary Chinese Art showcases work by a selection of contemporary Chinese women artists who engage with issues of identity formation in a globalized society marked by rapid urbanization and the incursion of digital technologies in China. Two prints by Chinese-born American Hung Liu from the Kemper Art Museum's permanent collection will anchor the exhibition, which is curated by the inaugural recipients of the Arthur Greenberg Curatorial Fellowship.
The Greenberg Fellowship is a competitive program that offers upper-level art history majors the opportunity to curate an exhibition in the Museum's Teaching Gallery. The student curators are Samantha Allen, Elizabeth Korb, and Danielle Wu. Faculty advisors are Kristina Kleutghen, assistant professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology, and Meredith Malone, associate curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Located in the Teaching Gallery, the exhibition will remain on view from January 25, 2013 to May 26, 2013.
Exhibition support
Support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Arthur Greenberg Exhibition Program Fund; the College of Arts & Sciences; the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts; and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Exhibition brochure
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Media links
- Exhibition preview by Sue Wang of CAFA Art Info blog (Beijing) (February 1, 2013)
- Video of student curators discussing the exhibition (April 22, 2013)
Image credits
Chen Man, Golden Fish Goblin, 2004. Transparency on Plexiglas light box, 33 7/8 x 34 13/16". Courtesy of Zadok Gallery, Miami. © Chen Man.
Yin Xiuzhen, Portable City–Hangzhou, 2011. Suitcase, clothes, magnifying glass, map, sound element, 11 x 59 13/16 x 34 5/8". Courtesy of Pace Beijing. © Yin Xiuzhen.
Chen Ke, With You, I'll Never Feel Lonely–Clock One, 2008. C-print, 11 13/16 x 11 13/16". Courtesy of Star Gallery, Beijing.
Cui Xiuwen, Angel No. 11, 2006. C-print, 47 x 39 3/8". Courtesy of Eli Klein Fine Art, New York. © Cui Xiuwen.
Hung Liu, Bonsai, 1992. Photolithograph from two plates on Rives BFK paper, 22 1/2 x 30". Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. Gift of Island Press (formerly the Washington University School of Art Collaborative Print Workshop), 1993.
Hung Liu, Trademark, 1992. Photolithograph with collage on Rives BFK paper, 22 1/2 x 33". Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. Gift of Island Press (formerly the Washington University School of Art Collaborative Print Workshop), 1993.


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Padding that automakers added to the upper interiors of vehicles beginning in the late 1990s cuts life-threatening head injuries by 24 percent, a recent government analysis shows.
The study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) looks at the effectiveness of energy-absorbing materials used without head-protecting side airbags to meet a NHTSA occupant protection standard upgraded in 1995. The more stringent standard was phased in from 1998 to 2002.
Since then, other factors, including a new side-impact pole test required by the agency, have made head-protecting side airbags practically universal in new models, so the role of interior padding is less prominent. However, it is still important for protecting people whose heads collide with vehicle parts that aren't covered by airbags and for minimizing injuries in less severe crashes that don't trigger airbags.
The energy-absorbing materials manufacturers use to meet the standard include composite plastic foam, egg-crate-like ribs, and crushable tubes. These materials are used around a vehicle's pillars and in the ceiling, plus any other part that a person's head might hit. The agency estimates the cost of the improvements adds about $26 to the lifetime cost of purchasing and operating a vehicle.
For the study, NHTSA researchers looked at severe head injuries in general and specifically head injuries that contributed to fatalities. They then compared these with a control group of injuries not involving occupants' heads and head injuries not involving upper interior components. Only vehicles without head-protecting side airbags were included in the analysis.
They concluded that complying with the standard without adding head-protecting side airbags reduces life-threatening head injuries from hitting upper interior components by 24 percent and cuts fatalities by 4 percent. That would translate into more than 1,300 lives saved per year if all vehicles on the road met the standard.
The updated regulation replaced a rule that dated back to 1968. NHTSA proposed adding force-distributing materials to door pillars, roof interiors, and windshield headers in 1970 but ended the effort 9 years later without issuing new requirements. The agency made the change in 1995 following research NHTSA initiated during the mid-1980s (see "Head impact protection standard for 1999 models," Dec. 2, 1995).
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The Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club will meet Thursday at the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club on Lady's Island, off Meridian Road. The social begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by the meeting at 7 p.m.
Come participate in a presentation by avid lifelong angler and marine biologist Phil Maier. A 20-year veteran of the Department of Natural Resources, Maier directs DNR outreach and education programs along our coast, including the ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve and Coastal Carolina Discovery program.
You do not need a reservation and guests are always welcome. For more information, contact Frank Gibson at 522-2122.
RBC Heritage seeking volunteers
The RBC Heritage will hold recruiting meetings for volunteers 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 13 at the Palmetto Electric Cooperative building at 1 Cooperative Way in Hardeeville.
All Beaufort County residents interesting in volunteering at the PGA Tour event April 14-20 at the Harbour Town Golf Links are invited to attend.
A separate meeting for Sun City residents will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at Pinckney Hall's Colleton River Room.
Volunteers will be able to register at all three meetings. The following committees are seeking new volunteers: Marshals, player transportation, Shotlink laser, walking scorers and courtesy shuttle.
For more information, go to rbcheritage.com or call Bonnie Hunt at 671-2448.
Sea Pines announces dredging project
The Sea Pines Resort, home of the PGA Tour's RBC Heritage, announced last week the dredging of its Harbour Town Yacht Basin is scheduled to begin Friday.
With the project expected to be completed in approximately 30 days, the entrance channel and entire basin will be dredged to an approximate depth of 8 1/2 feet at mean low tide. Extensive improvements are being made to the harbour, including electrical upgrades and dock replacement in selected areas, and bulkhead repairs.
Orion Marine Group from Tampa, Fla. will handle the dredging. Myrick Marine of Savannahwill perform the dock and bulkhead work.
This improvement joins numerous projects underway at the resort including, the new Sea Pines Beach Club scheduled to open next summer and new clubhouse and golf learning center for Heron Point and the Ocean Course slated for completion in early 2014.
Bobcat tennis camps set for December, January
Bluffton High School will host holiday tennis day camps Dec. 26-27 and Jan. 2-3.
Players ages 5-17 will participate in drills and match play from 9-10:45 a.m. Racquets will be provided.
High school players will compete in match play from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The camp will be led by Bluffton High coach Bob Brown and Beaufort High coach David Riedmayer. For more information, call 290-2833 or go to blufftontennis.org.
USCB to host softball camps
Youth and high school softball players looking for refresher before the spring season can get top-level instruction from the University of South Carolina Beaufort coaching staff and players and play where the Sand Sharks play this November.
The first camp is set for 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 16 and is open to players ages 13-18. The morning session will focus on fundamentals, while the afternoon session will be in showcase format. Cost is $100.
The second camp is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 17 and is for players ages 8-12. This camp is designed to teach players the fundamentals of the game, including defensive skills, base running, proper throwing mechanics and hitting. Cost is $80.
For more information on both camps or to register, go to uscbathletics.com/softballcamp or email coach Laura Heberling at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Clubs offer free rounds for Military Veterans Golf Week
Four local golf clubs are teaming up for their seventh annual Military Veterans Golf Week, scheduled for Nov. 11-15.
Hampton Hall, Dolphin Head, Callawassie Island and Belfair Plantation are inviting active duty and retired military personnel, as well as disabled veterans, to play complimentary rounds of golf.
More than 200 participants from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Parris Island, Fort Stewart and other local communities took part in last year's event.
To book a tee time, call Hampton Hall at 815-8720 Callawassie Island at 987-2161, Belfair at 757-0715 or Dolphin Head at 681-5550, Ext. 227.
Space is limited, with 300 rounds available. Military or veterans service identification is required and a $25 cart fee applies.


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The election of California's Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and third in line for the presidency and Nevada's Harry Reid as Senate majority leader may have captured the headlines.
But the biggest development for farmers and ranchers from the Nov. 7 election may have been the defeat of House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo at the hands of environmental groups.
Pombo, a rancher from Tracy, Calif., wrote the Endangered Species Reform Act, a bill that would have changed many of the 30-year-old ESA's rules for the better, according to Pombo, and led to the loss of endangered species protection, according to detractors.
Pombo pushed the bill through the House late in 2005, but the Senate has not taken up the legislation.
ESA reform was one of several issues that had drawn the wrath of the environmental groups. Pombo's support of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the development of oil shale and more oil exploration in coastal waters were others.
But Endangered Species Act reform could have had the biggest impact on farmers. Now that appears to have little chance of happening as Democrats take control of the House and Senate.
Pombo's bill promised incentives to encourage landowners to be more proactive in endangered species conservation rather than viewing them as a threat to their survival. But environmental groups said lack of funding for those incentives would have stopped Endangered Species Act enforcement.
Defenders of Wildlife, the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club pumped $1.3 million into the campaign of Democrat Jerry McNerney, who lost to Pombo in 2004. This time McNerney, a wind energy consultant with a doctorate in math, won with 53 percent.
"We did this to send a signal," said Mark Longabaugh, political director for Defenders of Wildlife. "The environment matters and the environmental movement can marshal resources and defeat its enemies. It says you should think twice before you try to drill the Arctic, drill off the coast or give away land to the mining industry."
For Pombo, the issue was personal. He once told a group of Arizona farmers that he ran for Congress because a fellow rancher in California committed suicide after his operation was targeted in an endangered species lawsuit.
With Pombo out, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., is in line to chair the House Resources Committee. Rahall's votes have won a 92 percent approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters.
The leadership change in the House Agriculture Committee could be less jarring. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., the ranking Democrat, has introduced legislation to extend the current farm bill for one to two years and has fought for disaster assistance legislation.
On the Senate side, Tom Harkin's tenure as Agriculture Committee chairman could prove to be interesting. The Iowa native has been a strong supporter of the current farm bill but will probably make full funding for the Conservation Security Program, which he authored, a major priority.


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Sunburn can begin after just 15 to 20 minutes of being in the sun. However, you might not notice signs of sunburn (like redness and skin discomfort) for a few hours.
Sunburn may not seem like a big deal, but repeated burns can lead to skin cancer.
Possible signs of mild sunburn are:
Possible signs of a more serious sunburn are:
If a child has sunburn:
To help prevent sunburn:
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