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Finding support and the unconditional love of a significant other when you are suffering from a mental illness can be difficult. My darling friend Lebogang Xolo is here today to talk about how she found love and support in her partner during her battle with PPOCD, (Postpartum OCD). Please show her some love and support y'all. When I was a teenager I stumbled upon a movie called "A Beautiful Mind." This is one movie that made a huge impact in my life, and I knew from then what true love is supposed to be like. The last scene, where Alicia Nash (Jennifer Connelly) is still standing by John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe)'s side, even in old age, through a mental illness, still leaves me in tears to this day. Nevertheless, I was young and naïve. As much as I grew up in a very stable and loving home (I was raised by my aunt and uncle) I never knew who my biological father (I now made peace with it). Subconsciously I felt rejected, abandoned; I started searching for love in all the wrong places. I said "Yes" to the first man who proposed.
To say this was an unhealthy relationship is an understatement. And as Oprah put it "The signs are always there, we just chose to ignore them". A year of marriage and a beautiful princess later, I decided to walk out, with absolutely nothing but my daughter. It was hard, really hard, but something deep inside me told me I'm enough, I deserve better, I deserve to be loved. I cried, studied 'The Secret', bargained with God, and cried some more. I crawled, I walked, I ran, I flew, I grew stronger, and I healed. Two years later, I made space in the closet for my future husband (that's the power of 'the secret' positive thinking). I then looked up to God and my everyday prayer went something like this: Dear God Thank you for saving my life, for giving me the strength to survive such a painful divorce. I think I've met enough rebound guys and well, I've had my fun and am ready to move on. I am ready to meet the one you chose for me, but please please make sure that he loves my daughter just as much as he loves me or more if possible.
A couple of weeks later, he came into my life. Just when I least expected it. At 27 I got the same butterflies as I did at 16. I remember telling God "If you just make him say hello to me, I'll never ask for anything else, I promise." He did more than that; he told me that I'm beautiful. He was so different, so secure in himself. A year later he quit his job and moved all across the world for me. I knew he was the one the day he asked my daughter permission to marry me. At 4years of age, she helped him chose the ring. She held the ring as he proposed.
Fast forward 2 years later we have a beautiful son. And with his birth was a start of horrific PPOCD. When I thought I was losing my mind, my husband told me everything will be ok. He held my hand and never missed a single doctor's appointment. He reminded me to take my meds, assured me that he loves me more now than he ever did and treated me the same way as he did when we met.
And so my mind goes back goes back to the movie I adored as a teenager….. A tale of love so unconditional, so strong and so pure…. Love that sticks with you no matter your past, your baggage, your illness or imperfections. And my heart is full of gratitude, for having been blessed with such love.


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Institute for Combustion Science
Dr. Wei-Ping Pan
Sumpter Professor of Chemistry
Western Kentucky University
Over the last sixteen years, Dr. Wei-Ping Pan has established three prominent laboratories in the Department of Chemistry at Western Kentucky University. The Thermal Analysis Laboratory is one of the best, if not the best, equipped thermal analysis laboratories in the United States. Since 1987 there have been many research projects conducted in this laboratory, including several federal and industrially related projects. For example, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory at WPAFB, Southern Clay Products, Inc., and Triton Systems, Inc., Dr. Pan's research team is studying the thermal stability, degradation mechanisms, and the properties of a specific polymer made from originally modified layered silicate nanocomposites. The goal of this project is to produce materials with properties suitable for cryogenic tanks for the aerospace industry.
The Combustion Laboratory, which was established in 1992, focuses on the behavior of chlorine, sulfur, and mercury during combustion. Since the construction of the 0.1MWth Laboratory scale Fluidized-Bed Combustion (FBC system) in 1995, over half a million dollars in research funding has been received from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Illinois Clean Coal Institute, and TVA. This FBC system has been involved in over 7000 hours of testing. This amount of testing time is the longest time that has been conducted by any University FBC system in the United States.
The Emission & Control Laboratory was established in 2002 after a Mobile Monitoring Laboratory was constructed. All three laboratories mentioned above were recognized in the Materials Characterization Center. The Thermal Analysis, Combustion, and Emissions & Control Laboratories are growing and evolving as we strive to maintain excellence in our programs and create a hands-on learning environment for our science students. In light of this growth and the changing needs of both our educational and economic climates, on March 1, 2004, these three laboratories officially changed in the organization of the Applied Research & Technology Program (ARTP) centers to form the newly created Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology (ICSET). Thanks to the ARTP's financial support for the past several years, we have been able to increase the effectiveness and outreach of these laboratories. The new Institute is still an integral part of the ARTP program but is no longer dependent upon ARTP funding for daily operations.
The mission for this institute is:
• To provide the best educational experiences for WKU students, including opportunities to use state-of-the-art instrumentation in course work and research.
• To provide multidisciplinary approaches to solve industrial problems and for research projects.
• To promote professional growth of faculty by providing avenues for collaboration with professors at WKU and other institutions and with professionals in industrial, state, and federal research institutions.
• To provide professional contacts for WKU professors in search of funding for research projects.
The distinctiveness and impact of this institute is:
• According to several officers of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, the Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology (ICSET) has the best-equipped Thermal Analysis Laboratory in the U.S.--possibly the world.
• The ICSET combustion laboratory has ten years research experience with fossil fuel combustion including high sulfur, high chlorine coals, MSW (RDF) and other fuels.
• The ICSET is an academic and industrial research and development facility located in an academic institution.
• All ICSET labs are multifunctional facilities used for teaching, research, and service work.
• All ICSET graduates have co-authored one or more papers, made one or more presentations at professional meetings, have instructed lab sessions, and have worked on several industrial research projects. In other words, the ICSET graduates are well-trained and experienced professionals.
• ICSET has had over 200 industrial clients in the 2000-2004 period. Many of these clients have visited the Institute to discuss projects.
• There have been over 70 graduates (Ph. D., M.S. and B.S.) who were employed as students in the labs of ICSET. After graduation, 45% of these students entered graduate and professional degree programs. The other graduates were all professionally employed within two months of graduation.
• The ICSET Combustion Laboratory has operated its multifunctional fluidized-bed combustion (FBC) system nearly 8,000 hours, including seven runs with 1,000 hours of continuous operation. This 12-inch combustion system has seen more hours of operation than any university FBC system in the U.S.
Students, Staff, faculty and visiting scholars from many countries will continue to staff the advanced laboratories of this institute utilizing sophisticated and cutting-edge instrumentation that in turn provides the most relevant training experience.
The Institute for Combustion Science and Environmental Technology is pleased to announce the renovation and construction of two new laboratory facilities, totaling over 38,000 square feet to be located in the former Bowling Green Mall on Nashville Road. The Combustion Laboratory and the Emissions & Control Laboratory will be housed in a 13,500 square foot facility that includes fuel preparation and analysis equipment, as well as the newest circulating fluidized bed combustion systems (CFBC). The expected completion date for the renovation is the beginning of 2005 and the expected completion date for CFBC construction is the summer of 2005.
Hand-in-hand with the construction of the Combustion Laboratory will be the construction of a substantially expanded Thermal Analysis Laboratory (ICSET) and Coal and Fuel Laboratory (Materials Characterization Center). Presently these laboratories, housed at Western's South Campus, have outgrown their space. Consisting of 24,500 square feet, the new facility will increase the capability of services offered to many industries, both regional and national, that require accurate and fast analysis for manufacturing, quality control, and public health purposes.
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Losses of plant air capacity have caused production issues. The plant air system is supplied by four compressors, each turned by a 400-hp motor. One of these motors kept blowing its overloads, and the plant engineer had this motor replaced.
The new motor worked fine for a few weeks, and plant air was not a problem. But then it, too, started blowing its overloads. The other motors aren't having this problem, so you don't suspect it's related to the supply power. Testing with a DMM shows no voltage imbalance. Setting the DMM to record high/low over a three-day period produced no anomalous readings.
What's next?
The DMM is a great tool, but it isn't going to give you enough power information for a proper analysis. Use a power analyzer for that.
Have your motor shop do an autopsy on the failed motor. The fact that it's drawing enough additional current to blow its overloads but not tripping its breaker is significant. You need to look for chronic, rather than acute, causes of excess current.
Some possible culprits:
- Low power factor at the motor. If the motor has a PF correction capacitor, test it.
- Load problems. Has anyone looked at the compressor itself? Conduct a full PM on it, including lubrication replacement.
- Mounting problems. Put a vibration analyzer on this motor, and make sure you capture data during the compressor loading phase. If there's a mounting deficiency (e.g., cracked base), then the motor sees the additional movement as extra load.


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"Only those closest to me can see the scars," Carter said, reading his statement. He added that those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder "are not damaged, they are just burdened by living when others are not."
"It's a proud day for our community, and bittersweet for Ty remembering the events that brought him to this proud day," adds Josie Monaghan, head of the East County Veterans group.
for our country honored," Antioch resident Terry Furry said of Monday's ceremony.
"If you remember one image, it's Ty carrying Mace and cradling him to safety," Obama said.
"Let me say it as clearly as I can to any of our troops or veterans who are watching and struggling," Obama said. "Look at this man. Look at this soldier. Look at this warrior. He's as tough as they come, and if he can find the courage and the strength to not only seek help, but also to speak out about it, to take care of himself and to stay strong, then so can you."
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The president also acknowledged Carter's advocacy in trying to help soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
Monday's ceremony marked the first time since 1968 that there are two living Medal of Honor recipients for the same battle. Staff Sgt. Clint Romesha received the medal in February.the American public to better understand the "invisible wounds" still inflicting him and thousands of others.
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The Salvation Army of Florida urges residents to prepare as Tropical Storm Karen churns near Florida's Gulf Coast
Tampa, Fla. (October 4, 2013) – As Tropical Storm Karen churns near the Gulf coast, The Salvation is prepared to send crews from Florida to the impacted areas.
Currently The Salvation Army has 44 mobile feeding units (food trucks) ready to support those impacted by Tropical Storm Karen. The Salvation Army of Florida also has two semi-truck size field kitchens, five shower units, a communication trailer and a mobile command center. It also has 750 trained volunteers around the state and a 50,000 square foot disaster warehouse in Tampa that serves as the epicenter of operations in a disaster or hurricane.
Salvation Army canteens can prepare and service between 500-2000 meals on site where it is needed the most.
The Salvation Army of Florida is focused on potential flooding from Pensacola to Jacksonville, as several counties in the area continue to be saturated by rain from last year's Tropical Storm Debby.
Salvation Army units in each community are coordinating with local emergency management for possible feeding or shelter support as needed. Also, The Salvation Army continues to work with locations outside of Florida – in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia to offer support if needed.
The Salvation Army of Florida is reaching out to its corporate partners regarding donations of cleaning supplies. Additionally, The Salvation Army is seeking monetary donations to support our disaster relief by going to disaster.salvationarmyusa.org
"We are coordinating very closely with emergency management throughout Florida. While Karen doesn't look like a catastrophic hurricane we do have very saturated areas throughout north Florida that we are concerned about," said Kevin Smith, Emergency Disaster Services Director for The Salvation Army of Florida. "Currently our teams are readying themselves and their mobile feeding units to be ready as needed."
In Pensacola where Karen is expected to hit the region, Salvation Army Captain Bob Cornett is gearing up for what could be an interesting weekend in the Panhandle.
"We are prepared to respond to the needs as they present themselves Sunday morning, when the storm is expected to make landfall," he said. "We have teams on stand-by; we're getting our canteen ready and plan to respond if called."
The Salvation Army encourages all residents of areas in the storm's path to prepare an Emergency supply kit and stay informed to all warnings. Disaster response professionals recommend having a three to five day supply of food and water for each individual of your family as well as flashlights, medication, and battery powered radio.
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The Salvation Army asks people who want to help those affected by this or other disasters to visit www.salvationarmyusa.org or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769). Donors may also contribute $10 via their phone bill by *text messaging the word STORM to 80888, and confirming the donation with the word, "Yes." Checks may be made out to The Salvation Army Disaster Relief and sent your local Salvation Army.
At this point, in-kind donations are not being accepted. Used clothing and used furniture are seldom required during an incident. However, these gifts are vitally important in supporting the day-to-day work of your local Salvation Army. Please consider giving these items to your local Salvation Army Family Store or dial 1-800-SA-TRUCK (1-800-728-7825).
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The Casualties of Credit
by Carl wennerlind
Harvard University Press, 2011, $39.95
A Barnard professor's new book explores credit's past, shedding light on the problems it causes in the present.
When Carl Wennerlind began work on his first book, The Casualties of Credit, more than a decade ago, he had no idea that the global economy was heading for the greatest credit crisis in more than two generations. Wennerlind, assistant professor of history at Barnard, insists that he was not looking for parallels between the past and the present. His goal as a historian was solely to map the financial revolution that occurred in England beginning around 1620, a time when the need for access to credit was a driving force behind economic thought and innovation. "My book's timeliness is purely a coincidence," says Wennerlind.
But, the book makes for fascinating reading at a time when headlines are often dominated by credit-related problems. The wide-ranging narrative—populated by a diverse cast of players including alchemists, tramps, economists, speculators, and kings—reminds us that credit has always carried significant risks as well as benefits. "Credit is an ingenious mechanism," notes the author. "But it comes at a price."
Wennerlind, whose wife, Monica Miller, is an English professor at Barnard, joined the College's history department in 2004 after four years in its economics department. He earned his PhD in economic history at the University of Texas at Austin and taught at Elon College (now Elon University) in North Carolina while writing his dissertation. He's been studying money—in particular credit—and its philosophical, political, and cultural implications for most of his career, teaching courses such as "Filthy Lucre," which studies the history of money from Mesopotamian times through 1900. "A lot of big questions about the world can be answered through the lens of money," says the professor.
Last fall, he taught "History of Political Economy," and before that, in the spring of 2009, a class called "Merchants, Pirates, Slaves and the Formation of Atlantic Capitalism." Says Wennerlind, "The virtue of teaching here is that I have some really smart students. The resulting conversations allow me to further develop my thinking."
His new book's main purpose is to illuminate the seventeenth-century financial debates that arose in response to economic problems ranging from money shortages and mass unemployment to the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. Such debates engaged the leading political economists, social reformers, and government leaders of the times, along with intellectuals and philosophers such as Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke.
Without a doubt, the seventeenth-century arguments and ideas highlighted by Casualties of Credit resonate with current debates over social and economic dilemmas. Learning of past attempts to resolve fundamental economic problems provides a reminder of the intractability of societal challenges such as poverty, speculative bubbles, and economic slumps. Wennerlind's book does not deal directly with today's credit-related issues, but it suggests that credit has always been a slippery tool, subject to variables as intangible as faith, imagination, and public opinion. "I am trying to understand how people became comfortable with the idea that both the state and the economy rested on a foundation—credit—that really is just a figment of the imagination," he says.
Most economists treat the emergence of modern credit as an inevitable result of rapid economic growth and political change during the English financial revolution. Casualties of Credit offers an alternative account of modern credit, tracing its development back to a specific set of intellectual and political conditions. These conditions arose in the seventeenth century, a time of rapid economic growth for England. At the time, England and the rest of Europe relied on metal currency for the vast majority of commercial transactions, and there weren't enough coins to satisfy rising demand. Finding a solution to the money shortage became a sort of Holy Grail for many of the day's most brilliant economists, such as William Petty and Charles Davenant.
A crucial shift came in the 1640s, as men like Francis Bacon and Samuel Hartlib began to promote a new, dynamic view of the world. They envisioned a society in which capital could be created out of thin air, with credit as the foundation for infinite progress. As this vision turned to reality, and credit became central to economies, governments looked for ways to strengthen the public's trust in its ability to issue, regulate, and fundthe new system. They encouraged the transparency of banks and financial institutions, punished counterfeiters and anyone else who undermined confidence in the system, and hired reputable people to manage the financial institutions and banks that issued and regulated credit. "I'm struck by the fact that these issues of securitization, transparency, character, and punishment are as relevant today as they were 300 years ago," notes the author.
At the same time, governments played a role in fueling speculative bubbles, such as the South Sea stock sales, and other problems. The governing party hired writers (including Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe) to promote the South Sea Trading Company through fictional accounts of the profits to be made by its backers. When the company's stock collapsed, investors paid the price.
Causalties of Credit is just one of several ambitious projects that have kept Wennerlind busy. He recently finished editing a book on mercantilism, which is due out this summer; its working title is Rethinking Mercantilism. Meanwhile, he's at work on Scarcity: Historicizing the First Principle of Political Economy, which explores political economists' ideas about the relationship among humanity, nature, and goods. A second book-in-progress, Science and Economy, examines how political and economic factors affected the work of scientists such as Emanuel Swedenborg.
None of these projects will offer solutions for our current credit problems, but Wennnerlind hopes they will illuminate the inherent nature of those problems. "One thing we're realizing right now is the limits of our power to control credit," he says. "Credit allows us to have the growth that we've come to depend on in our society. But it's also unstable by its nature, because it depends on trust—in institutions, markets, and individuals. When that trust is threatened or undermined, the social costs can be profound."
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TripleMania will be on conventional PPV. AAA confirmed this last night and posted the pricing today. If you order before the show, it's $18, plus $5 more for HD, plus $2 more if you call to order instead of using the internet. If you wait until Sunday, there's another $5 surcharge in there. Whatever way you do it, it's cheaper to buy the iPPV – but you get on TV, which is nice and I'd pay a little extra not to have to deal with cords and multiple screens. No word about that movie theater plan.
AAA's been doing a lot of press all week to talk about TripleMania. The annual pilgrimage, taking place the same day as Antonio Pena's birthday, is happening right now.
CMLL closed the En Busca de un Idolo polling much earlier this week, updated the scoreboard, then took the scoreboard down and just posted the final totals. They might have done this because the polling scores made no sense. This is what they appeared to be (based on what they had for the last 3 weeks.)
40 Stuka
39 Valiente
37 Vangelis
22 Fuego
5 Sangre Azteca
4 Tiger
4 Hijo del Fantasma
0 Misterioso
The numbers on the website didn't make any sense as they were listed. It looked like they gave Fuego 42 points for the 40 point poll (despite giving the actual winning 40 to Stuka for the third straight week.) What appears to actually have happened is Fuego got 22 points for votes, and they threw in the 20 points for winning his match over Misterioso in the same column. (The last update still had him listed as 1 win instead of 2.)
The final totals were 333 Valiente
280 Vangelis
278 Stuka Jr.
208 Fuego – should've been 206 but there was a typo never fixed
202 Hijo del Fantasma
164 Tiger
140 Sangre Azteca
113 Misterioso Jr.
Walking thru the math fails is truly exciting, but the bigger point here is even the people running this system can't keep track of these numbers – this point system is wildly unsuccessful. Please make this easy to follow next year, if there is a next year.
For what it's worth, if you take out the fan poll points, the order would've been Valiente, Hijo del Fantasma, Vangelis, Tiger, Stuka, Fuego, Sangre Azteca and Misterioso. The 3/4/5 group are all grouped in within 4 points.
Valiente, Vangelis, Stuka and Fuego advance, three tecnicos and one rudo like last year. Valiente and Stuka are the favorites for making the final two. The intermission trios match this Friday will be Negro Casas, Valiente & Stuka vs Vangelis, Virus and Fuego. Schedule, based on what they announced at the start, looks like
06/21: Valiente vs Vangelis, Stuka vs Fuego
06/28: Valiente vs Fuego, Vangelis vs Stuka
07/05: Valiente vs Stuka, Vangelis vs Fuego
That'll probably change.
You can now rent the CMLL edecanes – for your corporate or private event. The 16 women currently working as ring girls for CMLL are going to be working as a group named "Chicas Vuelta, Vuelta", they'll be booked out thru CMLL's office the same as the luchadors, they'll be available to be booked on lucha libre shows as well as other events and they can work as dancers and singers as well. There's been mentions in the past of some of the CMLL edecans having to choose between working for the promotion or working elsewhere due to conflicts, and this would seem to give them more work if they stay with CMLL. Having all of them at the Father's Day show this Sunday is the kick off to the initiative.
Rob has highlights of AAA 06/17/07 Toluca, AAA 05/12/13 Durango, and CMLL from the first, second, third and fourth week of May 2007. Plus, typical CMLL editing.
Bill has highlights of 06/07/12 IWRG.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ's news update.
Lucha Libre in Japan
Super Crazy gets his GHC Junior Heavyweight title shot against Taiji Ishimori on July 7.
Super Crazy teams with Ricky Marvin NOAH's July GHC Junior Tag Team tournament. Pesdailla teams with someone who translates to "Dual Force" as the "Ultraviolent Lucha Libre." team Maybe Santo Jr. – I guess you can get from Tempestad to Dual Force. The South American team of Kaiser & Gaston Mateo are back as well.
Soul Rocker says Machine is (back?) wrestling with the group tomorrow.
Daga wants to settle outstanding accounts with Davey Richards.
AAA is taking part in the campaign against childhood obesity again.
Hugo Savinovich likes AAA's innovation and WWL and AAA working together.
Blue Demon & Hijo del Santo defend their PWR tag team titles in Watsonville, CA in July (assuming they get by Zumbi & Karaoui next Saturday.)
CMLL (TUE) 06/18/2013 Arena Mexico
1) Metatrón & Robin vs Camorra & Ramstein
2) Pegasso, Starman, Súper Halcón Jr. vs Hooligan, Nitro, Skándalo
3) Hombre Bala Jr. vs Shigeo Okumura [lightning]
4) Bushiroad, Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado vs Felino, Pólvora, Puma
5) Máscara Dorada vs Averno [NWA WELTER]
Mascara Dorada is champion. First defense.
6) Mistico, Titán, Valiente vs Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero
I guess if your usual high flying Guadalajara tecnico partner is busy, Titan is a good fill-in.
Dorada vs Averno should be great.
CMLL (TUE) 06/18/2013 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Black Metal, Leo, Magnus vs Disturbio, Magnum, Sádico
2) Marcela & Silueta vs Amapola & Princesa Sugheit
3) Gallo, Guerrero Maya Jr., Stuka Jr., Super Porky vs Kráneo, Maléfico, Sangre Azteca, Vangellys
4) Bam Bam vs Mercurio [hair]
5) La Máscara, La Sombra, Shocker vs Mr. Águila, Rey Bucanero, Volador Jr.
I really have no idea how that hair match is going to go.
Kraneo vs Guerrero Maya! An actual good CMLL women's tag match! Wish this was still airing.


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Vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) is a surgery to decrease the size of the stomach.
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An IV will be placed in your arm to give you fluids and medications. A breathing tube will be placed through your mouth and into your throat. This will help you breathe during surgery. You will also have a catheter placed in your bladder to drain urine.
An 8-10 inch incision will be made to open the abdomen. Surgical staples will divide the stomach vertically. The new stomach will be the shape of a slim banana. The rest of the stomach will be removed. Your new stomach can hold 50-150 mL (milliliters) of food—about 10% of what a normal adult stomach can hold.
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A custom forage harvesting business practiced for many years by the late Fred Shields of Lincolnville continues under the management of his grandson, Heath Shields.
Shields, who turned 24 Monday, runs the Claas harvester purchased two years ago by the farm corporation. He is a 2008 Centre High School graduate and spent three years as a certified mechanic at KanEquip in Herington before returning to the farm full-time. His father was the late Carroll Shields, who died in July 2003 from injuries sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident.
The expanded business is in its fourth year. With a crew of up to four truck drivers, Shields works for local farmers and others within a 150-mile radius of Lincolnville. He owns a semi that is used for jobs with large, open fields.
"The big cutters are out-of-state, down in Texas, and local farmers are looking for someone," Shields said.
His uncle Glenn Shields and cousin Kevin Shields are regular drivers along with several hired men. Glenn's wife, Marcia, sometimes fills in when needed. Heath's uncle Kenneth Shields drives when he finds time away from the family's large farming operation. Meals for the crew are provided by Kevin's wife, Susan, as well as Marcia, and Heath's mother, Kim.
The cutter has a 650-horsepower motor and rotary blades. It cuts an eight-row-wide swath. Shields plans to expand soon to a cutter with a 10-row header.
The season usually begins with harvesting alfalfa as haylage, followed by silage corn and forage sorghum. The crew has been busy for two months, and it looks to stay that way for some time. They have done jobs as far away as Wamego and Solomon and recently spent 1½ weeks at Lyons, producing silage for a feedlot.
Shields Farms runs 300 cow-calf pairs and harvests up to 400 acres of its own forage for silage feed but takes on whatever it can in outside jobs.
Heath Shields is available at (620) 382-0464.
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Kenneth Shields, 62, said his father, Fred, started custom harvesting forage in 1942 with a one-row, pull-type cutter. As time went on and machinery improvements were made, he advanced to a two-row cutter, then a self-propelled two-row cutter.
Shields said he started driving a silage wagon when he was 7 years old and was operating the cutter at 13. In those days, most silos were upright, and a blower was used to carry the silage to the top and into the silo.
In 1972, Shields Farm bought a three-row cutter. Business slowed some when big round balers were invented, he said, but they continued to work for four or five customers in the area.
Six years ago, Shields Farms bought a used New Holland cutter and spent two years fixing it up. After two years of operation, it was traded for the current Claas harvester.
"This business carries a lot of risk," Heath Shields said. "There are breakdowns, and tires and fuel are a big expense."
So why does he do it?
"In years past, there were no custom cutters around here," he said. "I like helping other farmers out."
He also gets satisfaction from knowing he is continuing a family tradition that started more than 70 years ago.


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Comerica Park opened in 2000. It didn't have a chance compared to Tiger Stadium.
It was faceless and lacking charm. Its surroundings were barren. There were memories and stories at dilapidated Tiger Stadium.
So Comerica Park had luxury suites galore. The aisles were wide. There were plenty of restrooms, concession stands and restaurants. Owner Mike Ilitch did add the extras, such as statues near the outfield.
The missing element: The club on the field. It was dreadful.
It was bad enough the memories were of another time, but they had become of another place.
The Tigers were in the midst of 12 straight losing seasons, some among the worst in franchise history.
We'd remember the 10,000 truly great seats at Tiger Stadium and forget about the 40,000 awful ones because it was where Ty Cobb flashed spikes, Hank Greenberg hammered home runs, Al Kaline gunned down runners and Tram and Lou turned two.
Comerica Park has grown on us in time. The area surrounding the stadium, which was noticeable blight when it opened, has filled in nicely because of the construction of Ford Field beyond left field, and the Karmanos Building beyond right field.
More importantly, the ball club has been constructed on the field.
The Tigers enter the 2013 baseball season having reached the playoffs in back-to-back years for the first time since 1934-35.
The World Series didn't go well for the Tigers - they were swept in four straight games by the San Francisco Giants. Yet, it was the first time the Tigers, who also won the American League pennant in 2006, had played in the World Series in such a close time frame since the 1940s.
Since the 1920s, the standard the Tigers could never reach was the New York Yankees. The Tigers have jettisoned the Yanks out of the playoffs three of the last seven seasons. In 2012, it was a four-game sweep.
There is little doubt Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander will have statues at Comerica Park someday. It's likely both will have plaques in the Baseball Hall of Fame. It's a pretty good bet Prince Fielder will, too.
The Tigers have the best hitter and pitcher of this generation, and an outstanding supporting cast with Fielder, Austin Jackson, Victor Martinez, Max Scherzer and Doug Fister.
The Tigers' player payroll for this year is approaching $150 million. Only a handful of teams pay their players more. The Tigers drew over three millions fans to Comerica Park in 2013.
Verlander just signed a long-term contract extension. Cabrera is signed through 2015. Fielder has eight years remaining on his deal.
Each is 30 years old or younger.
The resurgence of the Tigers began in 2006. They have never been in better position to grab an era of Major League Baseball than right now.
The Boston Red Sox are reeling and confused. The Yankees are old and beaten down.
The Tigers are the American's League's preeminent franchise - the standard others seek.
Maybe the Los Angeles Angels can threaten that status, but they didn't even make the playoffs last season. The Toronto Blue Jays? They are currently going for it all in Toronto, but when was the last time the Blue Jays won anything? Tampa Bay has an excellent club, but the Rays are as known for pulling the chute as much as for seeking excellence. It's the financial reality of their circumstance.
You can define organizations by their accomplishments, but perhaps a more accurate gauge is expectations.
In the early years of Comerica Park, the Tigers were just another club hoping to have a good season.
Now it is anticipated they will reach the postseason, and anything short of winning the World Series, is deemed disappointment.
It's because fans have seen the Tigers celebrate two pennants at Comerica Park. They witnessed thrilling game after thrilling game there and on the road since 2006.
It's because this era of Tigers' baseball, potentially, is the best in the history of a storied franchise.


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Jessica Snyder's heart leapt into her throat when she heard the news: Her 6-year-old daughter, Deanna, had a brain tumor.
"It was my worst fear," the Marion mother said as tears rolled down her cheek.
Jessica and Trinity Snyder knew something was wrong with their child in late December, when she came down with flu-like symptoms. They brought her to the doctors who — after they ran all the blood, urine and stool tests — deemed her to be "normal."
The Snyders sent Deanna back to school, only to pull her out a few days later, on Jan. 12, when she started having balance issues.
"She had a long week and looked exhausted, so we sent her to bed," Jessica Snyder said. "By the next morning it was obvious that there was a major problem. When she was eating breakfast, we noticed her fine motor skills seemed off, and she was having trouble getting her spoon into her mouth. We weren't sure she wasn't just being silly until she got up and staggered around a bit."
They also noticed her speech was slurred and her eyes were glassy, so they rushed her to the emergency room. They did a CT scan, more blood work, and still everything "looked normal." But, they could tell something was amiss, and they decided to keep her overnight for observation.
The next day they went to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, where a pediatric neurologist took over her case. She had an MRI and a spinal tap, which gave the doctors the much-needed information to make a diagnosis.
Deanna Snyder has a pontine glioblastoma tumor on her brainstem. Glioblastoma is a highly infiltrative form of brain cancer ranked as grade IV astrocytoma because of its rapid volumetric growth. These tumors tend to infiltrate throughout the area of the brain where the tumor is located, making them more difficult to completely remove surgically. In Deanna's case, the cancer has progressed to the point that surgery and chemotherapy are no longer options. She is currently undergoing radiation treatments in Wichita.
"They told us this condition is very hard to treat because, even if the treatments are successful, the cancer is likely to come back," Jessica Snyder said. "The outcome doesn't look promising. Usually patients with this disease die within 12 months. When they finally diagnosed her she was barely able to walk, her fine motor skills were almost non-existent, and her speech was so slurred we could barely understand what she was saying, without several repetitions."
After a few days on steroids and radiation therapy, the doctors determined that she was at risk of aspiration and decided to put her on a feeding tube.
"It's a very scary thing to watch your child go through all that," Jessica Snyder said. "Everyone said she was normal just a few weeks ago. But, we have seen improvements and that is encouraging."
Throughout the whole process, Jessica and her husband Trinity have been able to stay with their daughter in Wichita. The Snyders said they were blessed that their workplaces allowed them to have some sick time off — and that they could spend this time with their daughter. Meanwhile, their other three children are staying with friends in Marion, so that they don't have to make the long commute every day. Others, they said, have brought food, given them money, and dealt with many of their immediate needs.
"This whole thing sucks," Jessica Snyder said. "But everyone in the community has been wonderful. They make it suck a little bit less. It's all really overwhelming when you think about it. Saying thank you doesn't nearly cut it. People in the community have done so much for us. People I don't even know have come by, asked if we needed anything, or have just outright given me money for anything we needed. I can't tell you how much that means to us. We have been blessed beyond measure."
Now, Deanna spends most of her days watching movies and talking with her schoolfriends on her iPad. Jessica Snyder said her daughter has good days and bad days, but that they walk through her treatment with one thing in mind: God is in control.
"If it weren't for my faith, I wouldn't be able to cope," Jessica Snyder said. "I'm really holding on to 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 right now. It says: 'But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.'
"It gives me peace to know that, even though I can't do anything about her condition, she is in God's hands and He can do miracles."
Mail can be sent to Deanna Snyder, Building 4, Room 505, Wesley Medical Center, 550 N. Hillside St., Wichita, KS 67214. To donate, visit the CaringBridge website: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/deannasnyder/
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Statistical Inference
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This book builds theoretical statistics from the first principles of probability theory. Starting from the basics of probability, the authors develop the theory of statistical inference using techniques, definitions, and concepts that are statistical and are natural extensions and consequences of previous concepts. Intended for first-year graduate students, this book can be used for students majoring in statistics who have a solid mathematics background. It can also be used in a way that stresses the more practical uses of statistical theory, being more concerned with understanding basic statistical concepts and deriving reasonable statistical procedures for a variety of situations, and less concerned with formal optimality investigations.
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Some good news following last week's defeat in the Senate of the Australian emissions trading scheme. The Senate is voting today on the big increase in the mandatory renewable energy target (MRET), and it's expected to pass after the government and opposition reportedly reached a compromise yesterday.
The target - 20% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020 - wasn't in doubt, but there was debate over the assistance to be given to electricity-intensive induestries.
The MRET was originally included as part of the CPRS (emissions trading) legislation, but the government agreed to split it as it was clear that the MRET could be passed and there was no use condemning it to defeat by insisting on it being a joblot with the CPRS.
This is good news. The new target is a big increase from the previous one and this gives some certainty to investors in renewable energy at a time where there's still considerable uncertainty about the timing and form of the emissions trading scheme. (And depending on what happens with the CPRS, it's possible that MRET, not emissions trading, will be the real driver of emissions reductions for Australia over the next decade).
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Update: The scheme has indeed now passed. Also, Sam Wylie at Core Econ has a nice summary of the scheme.


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JERUSALEM – The governor of Israel's central bank says he's stepping down to be closer to his family in the United States.
Stanley Fischer told reporters on Wednesday — a day after he resigned — that after eight years on the job he's achieved most of his goals. He says he is leaving behind a strong central bank and a strong economy.
Fischer is a former top executive at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He is widely credited with steering the Israel's economy safely through years of world financial turmoil.
His departure comes two years before the end of his second five-year term. The 69-year-old says he has no other job waiting.
Fischer and his wife will return to the U.S. to be closer to their children and grandchildren.


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America. It's the land of the free, where freedom reigns, the internationally envied embodiment of a free society. The U.S. Constitution and accompanying Bill of Rights even guarantee our freedoms.
The Fourth Amendment in particular demands the government to have probable cause before a warrant can be issued to search or seize a person, their house, papers and effects. It struck the Founding Fathers that Americans could and should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
No such privacy exists in the United States today. Only the delusional and ignorant remain unaware of the calculated undermining that likely has the Constitution's framers turning in their graves.
Working in collaboration, government and private industry track most every move we make. Thanks to the likely treasonous uncovering of the National Security Agency's collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records, the balance of safety vs. privacy has become a hot topic for debate.
We know our phones are not the only effect being searched. Emails, internet postings, searches, updates and friending on social media sites, and text messages are being monitored as well. Credit card transactions, financial information, banking activity, hotel bookings, music downloads, court filings, arrest records, birth and death notices, marriages and divorces, property transactions, credit ratings, tax returns, professional credentials, driver's license information, and myriad other data are as accessible as the government allows.
We would like to say all that information is as accessible as the people permit, but most are in the dark. Many elected congressmen and women have little knowledge of what bureaucracies are really up to.
We do know individuals can be stopped, questioned and frisked. Automated scanners throughout the nation capture license plate information that is dumped into massive files. We track 911 calls, geo-locational data from phones, PING locations and cell tower dumps. Drivers may be pulled over just to see if they're breaking particular laws. We have no-fly lists with no accountability. We have secret courts that grant agencies permission to spy.
Fingerprints, footprints, photographs and biographical information is kept on millions of U.S. citizens. DNA samples get added when available. So will searchable face recognition images, iris scans, scars and tattoo records. Dental and medical records are going electronic for a reason. So-called commercial drones will add an entirely new layer of real-time information.
The justifications vary, but generally center on the current war. The war against terrorism, sparked by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and amplified with ever-sophisticated technology, has taken surveillance to unimaginable reaches. In their own ways, so did the war on crime, war on drugs, war on drunk driving and, of course, the real wars against other nation-states.
We put boots on the ground and sacrifice our sons and daughters to defend our freedom. When the same government that sends in the troops shreds the Constitution for its citizens, what freedoms are left to defend?
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In this talk, Karen explains how the FDA never reviews the source code that runs our ICDs and pacemakers and makes a case for free and open platforms for life-critical software.
"I don't want to rely on one company for any part of my life. I don't want to rely on Medtronic for my heart, and I don't want to rely on any other company for any other thing. I want everybody to be able to see the source code. And I specially want to see the source code. We're at a crossroads and it's time to change."
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Munich comes to the streets of Vail in September for the world's greatest celebration of beer, music and autumn: Oktoberfest! Dust off the lederhosen, throw on the dirndls and toast your steins to the world's most popular party. Oktoberfest's dual celebration weekends will happen in Lionshead Sept. 5-7 and Vail Village Sept. 12-14.
Emulating the more than 200-year-old celebration known by millions around the world, Vail's Oktoberfest will delight guests for two whole weekends with Bavarian music and dancing, traditional fare, yodeling, alpenhorn blowing, Bavarian beverages and much more. Oktoberfest 2014 will see the return of many crowd favorites like bratwurst eating contests, Keg Bowling and the Oktoberfest Fun Run.
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Major markets: Morocco and Egypt
Morocco added 203MW in 2013, bringing its total installed capacity to 495MW at year end. The new capacity belongs to Moroccan conglomerate Nareva Holdings. Alstom 1.67MW turbines make up the 101.9MW at Akhfenir, while the remaining 101.2MW is split equally between Foum el Oued and Haouma, powered by 2.3MW Siemens units.
Nareva is also part-owner, along with GDF Suez, of a 300MW facility being constructed at Tarfaya under a build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) contract.
The first 50MW should power up in April, followed by the rest of the Siemens 2.3MW turbines by the end of the year.
Likewise, EDF energies Nouvelles and Mitsui are building 150MW at Taza, with Alstom supplying the turbines, also under a BOOT contract. Completion is slated for early 2015.
Egypt failed to add any new capacity last year, sticking at 550MW, although a 200MW plant being built and equipped by Gamesa on the Gulf of El-Zayt is expected to come online this summer. Other projects are either effectively on hold or creeping forward very slowly.
The government's New and Renewable Energy Authority says it has received seven bids for six blocks of up to 100MW each, put up for auction in 2012, and is now evaluating the offers. Similarly, private investor Italgen, owned by cement firm Italcementi, hopes to sign an engineer, procure and construct (EPC) contract for 120MW on the Gulf of El-Zayt by the summer.
Steel in the ground: Tunisia and Algeria
Tunisia commissioned another 54MW near Bizerte in 2013, giving the country a total of 209MW by year end. The project's last 26 Gamesa 1.32MW turbines were due to be brought online in late March. After that, there is nothing concrete in the pipeline as the industry waits for the government to issue regulations covering private-sector initiatives.
Algeria built its first pilot project last year, a 10MW facility at Adrar equipped with Gamesa 850kW machines. It is slated to start operating this spring.
Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
While none of these countries installed anything in 2013, all have projects in the pipeline or have announced ambitious plans. Jordan should commission a 1.65MW pilot project in March and start building 117MW at Tafila this year, with Vestas executing the EPC contract. The government is also negotiating with three potential contractors to build 66MW at Maan.
Libya's first 61MW project, near Dernah, has been delayed because of problems over land-use rights. Spain's MTOI hopes to complete turbine shipments this year, however, and bring the first machines online in late 2014 or early 2015.
In Israel, Mei Golan has started work on the repowering of the country's only installation, a 6MW facility on the Golan Heights, which will be expanded to 15MW using Goldwind turbines. Again, completion is slated for late 2014 or early 2015.
Kuwait announced plans last year for 10MW of wind capacity as part of its renewables masterplan, while Saudi Arabia unveiled plans for 9GW of wind by 2032. Around 2GW of this will be offered for tender over the next two or three years.


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Do you ever discover a blog and just fall head over heels in love with it? That was exactly how I felt upon visiting Arabelle's Fashion Pirate for the first time! Here was a person who was not only blogging about beauty and clothing through her own individual perspective, but also was tackling subjects not usually talked about in the blogging community - and all the while being incredibly articulate.
Much to my surprise, Arabelle agreed to be the next blogger interviewed for this feature, and I got to ask her about make-up, film, and the future.
Where do you hope to see yourself in five years?
Describe the average day in your life.
Can you remember what the first makeup product you completely fell in love with was?
Let's say your a superhero - what are your powers, and more importantly, what does your costume look like?
Hopefully I'll be working in beauty at a magazine, and doing something regarding women's rights as well. Honestly I have so many interests right now that I'm juggling I'd be happy to do any of them.
I'm boring as hell most days, I fluctuate between never leaving my room/computer and never being in my room/running around screaming, and rarely like, just hang out with my friends. They yell at me sometimes about it and have to drag me to be social. I wake up (late), fall asleep standing in front of my closet and wake up leaning over drooling on one of my dresses, pick that one to wear because why not, and go to class. Then I watch a movie 'cause I'm doing a 365 film challenge that I've fallen behind on because of fashion week and general madness. In class and between them I answer emails, tweets, schedule photo or video shoots for Rookie or powder doom or whatever and do my social media internship with a company that hasn't launched publicly yet. On week days I'm really boring and just go to class and be narcissistic and outfit blog or stuff. I get everything done on weekends when I can go back home / into the city and visit showrooms and designers and whatever and do fashion stuff.
I was way into this shimmery blue lipstick from Hot Topic in middle school. I thought I was hot shit when I put it on, and used to smell it a lot because it smelled like vanilla. Wish I still had it, it'd probably look dope with my hair. Also I could probably pull it off way better now.
The power to convince anyone to do anything I want. I wouldn't be a very good hero, I think. Maybe an anti-hero. I'm way too much of a sociopath to be a proper good girl, I know this already. But ummm... I'd wear a costume designed by Yohji. He's dabbled in movie costume design before so I'm sure it'd be rad.
Describe the average day in your life.
Can you remember what the first makeup product you completely fell in love with was?
Let's say your a superhero - what are your powers, and more importantly, what does your costume look like?
I love reading your thoughts on movies - are there any in particular that have inspired your style?
Not really, no. I like movies more for the feelings than for the visual effect in a lot of cases. My favorite films re: style would be maybe The Fall (SO BEAUTIFUL I WANT TO CLAW MY EYES OUT) and Top Hat. My personal style is very much a uniform as of late and isn't influenced by music or movies or what have you -- more by... Wednesday Addams. I guess The Addams Family would be my major filmspiration if you were to pick one. I just want something to feel safe and dangerous in at the same time, which is why I wear what I wear. It gives me that feeling. I guess it's no surprise Thrillers are my favorite movies. I can be a voyeur and safe as the viewer but still be totally caught up in the danger of a good plot.
If you had a dinner party and could invite any five people, living or dead, who would they be?
Rei, Audre Lorde, Luce Irigaray, John Waters, G-Dragon.
You are one of my favorite voices in the blogosphere - do you ever have difficulty expressing how you feel in writing?
I think the hardest part is just pressing publish. If I've written it down already, it means it's been in my head for awhile. I'm in my own head a lot, I am my own best friend and enemy for this, but it makes me a prolific writer when I get off my ass. I've never had a problem saying what I mean -- I used to get chastised by people for not shutting up or not thinking before I speak. But I can't help being truthful. I don't want to help it. I like to be liked by people on the internet, but I also don't seek anyone's approval for what I say. I just need to say it. It's a need. I need to say these things. I think if I didn't write or vlog or whatever I'd probably just sit consumed in my own thoughts to a point where I would go mental and start gnawing on peoples spinal cords.
If you had to choose, would you rather live without lipstick or eyeliner for the rest of your life?
Eyeliner. I feel naked without at least 2 lip products in my bag. I would cry if I could never do a cat eye again but lipstick makes me happy. I remember in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hepburn would always apply lipstick to arm herself against the world and bad news. I do the same thing. When I'm stressed out you have to pry my chapstick or lipstick from my manicured talons.
Want more? Visit Arabelle at these links!
Fashion Pirate
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Emporio Armani Spring 2013 | Runway
Emporio Armani Spring 2013
Emporio Armani Spring 2013
Giorgio Armani called his Spring 2013 collection for Emporio Armani "Neat," and that was an apt description: the overwhelming lightness of color and the simplicity of the shapes he sent down the runway were very neat indeed.
The show started with menswear-inspired separates (think Prince of Wales check shorts paired with blazers and jackets, and suiting in shades of taupe and olive green). This faded to airy pieces in the palest pinks and blues, like two short-sleeved cardigans cut from a pleated, sheer material and cocktail dresses so light they fluttered as the models walked down the runway.
But as with all of Armani's collections, this one was strong — not sweet. There was a toughness to a metallic one-shoulder shirt that suggested chain mail and a selection of gently pleated pastel shorts with sheen. There weren't any gowns in this outing, but with so many other ways to sparkle, who needs them?


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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Random Thought
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Here's another random thought. Wouldn't it make an interesting mystery book to be haunted by a genealogist ghost who had not completed their research yet? Hmmmm..... anyone?ReplyDelete
Boy, I know that feeling!! Had hoped to do a LOT of inputting of info today but the AZ shooting totally sidetracked me...hopefully will able to get at least a few things done tomorrow (the famous last words of all genealogists!!)ReplyDelete
Yes. I need to get all the research done before I get there, so I know who to look for. Just like how you google people before you meet them for the first time.ReplyDelete
Here I sit, every day caually inputting death and birth information. But the day I had to input my father's death date I cried like a baby. It took me weeks to do it.ReplyDelete
Yes, I sometimes wonder what I will say to the ancestors I meet "on the other side" before I found them here. I guess it will be something like, "I just ran out of time."ReplyDelete
If you find someone to write your mystery, please keep us alerted so we can all read it when it's published. It's a great idea for a book. Or another idea: to be haunted by someone who wants to help with the research. Now I would sure appreciate a ghost like that!
Funny...I was just kidding with someone about this very thing last week. Told them I couldn't go until my research was finished. Doesn't it just crack you up when someone asks you if you are almost finished with your genealogy? Sheesh, like they think there is an *end* somewhere!ReplyDelete
End? *snort* Now that's funny. I've often thought about & felt my ancestors standing or sitting there as I write. Are they mad? Sad? Laughing? Who knows? I always try to address them directly in my writing because it's the closest thing I have to an actual conversation with them. Well, until I "go". Then we're *really* talking.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2011 at 9:32 AM
My worst fear is when I get to the gates of Heaven someone will say - "well you got that [genealogy gem] wrong!"ReplyDelete


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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Anvil mini-Guide
This guide is for oblivion quests in Anvil.There is not many but i should help. The Siren's Deception is the first one.You will hear about a female gang luring men with there charms and then robbing them. The people around town will tell you that Gogan was there last victim.Go talk to his wife Maelona and she will tell you that they stole a family ring and she wants you to get it back.After that head to the flowing bowl in the docks.If you wait a few moments you will be approached by two girls,a imperial and a nord.They will ask you to meet them at Gweeden farm at 11.00 pm. When you enter the house they try and kill you.When you have finished Gogan and Maelona will come in and tell you that they are secret agents who were set out to find the gang.Before you leave don't forget to loot the corpses of the siren's. The next quest is The Ghost Ship of Anvil.You can start the quest by talking to Vaulae in the docks part on the Serpents Wake ship. She asks you to go into the ship and get back an artifact in the ships storage hold,but be careful because the ship is full of wraiths. When you enter the ship find the captain's corpse and take the key [you can use this key to open the captain's chest].Go below deck and fight your way through the wraiths.Eventually find a crystal ball take it and give it to Vaulae and in return she will give a cutlass called Redwave. thenext final quest of Anvil is Where the spritits hve lease.In the counts arm in the east of Anvil is Velvyn Benirus and he is trying to sell his grandfather's house.You can buy the house for 2500 septims you the house he will head to the imperial city.Head to the house and sleep for a few hours.When you wake there will be three ghost kill them and head down stairs.There should be a broken vaze pick up the note and the skeleton hand and travel to the counts arm again.When you get there talk to the inn keeper about Velvyn and he will tell you that he went to the imperial city and that he is staying in the King and Quenn tavern in the elven gardens district.Tell him about the manor and he will agree to head back to Anvil with youand to meet him in the counts arm.When you arrive talk to him and then you and him go to the manor. Fight your way through the ghosts and go to the basement.He will open the secret passage way and then run of like a coward.Head through the passage way.Activate the skeleton and the hand will be place to complete the skeleton.The skleton will start to talk.A lich will appear kill him and go talk to Velvyn.After the talk is over head back to the manor and you will find out that is fully furnished. This is the first part of my walkthroughs to the side quest in the citys.Hope the walkthrough was helpful.


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We use Right Hand Rule in calculating Torque not because that's the direction torque is pointing in the real, physical world, but because it's a convenient way to indicate the "sign" of the rotation and its axis, and as long as we pick one coordinate system and stick to it, everything works out.
I think (I might be incorrect) we use the Right Hand Rule in Electromagnetism arbitrarily, but it happens to be very convenient only because of the right combination of Benjamin Franklin's arbitrary choice for designating current flow and the way our magnetic field was aligned at the time of the convention choice for North. But essentially, it is arbitrary -- if Benjamin Franklin had chosen current flow to match the flow of electrons, we'd either use another choice of axes or say that the magnetic field is negative.
What I'm saying is that I don't think that nature itself is inherently "right handed" in this situation.
Is there any case/situation in physics where the Right Hand Rule and choice of coordinate axes is not arbitrary, but rather inherent in nature itself? How so?


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Made some of my fave Skins
And more...
Made some of my fave Skins
And more...
YouTube // DeviantART // Steam
If I want to take screens I use the command "Freezeat" and "Freezeat here". These lock the camera in the location it is currently in but still allows you to move your character around. Controlling can be tricky at times (for me anyways) but allows you to take a pic from any angle without the need of others.
I tried, and I think I got some decent ones...
Related to the creator in a sense but yet not. I'd consider this more of a "lovely screenshot" than skin creation since the ones shown are for personal use/posed screenshots and nothing more.
The grey skin is still in progress but I felt more like trying to pose than working on the skin again this morning. I'll polish it up more later when I get off work.
Also the water in the image is slightly modified because I love making shiny things shinier.
Also here's another I did originally as a quick test and gives a better view of the small one up top in the previous image.
Credit for the black one[aka Kai raptor] goes to Senoba.
Did a couple more..
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Just gonna drop some stuff off here :P
And here's from screen shots from open testing from the new 'Island' map.
People exist to save themselves.
Is there any way to bind a console command (the high res screenie one) to a key?
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(CNN) -- Maybe it didn't have quite the grandeur of President Barack Obama's historic inauguration four years ago. But Monday's Inauguration Day events showcased the pomp and circumstance of the U.S. government at its finest.
We may not have royal weddings in the States, but this is about as close as it gets.
And, where there is public spectacle, there is Twitter, the rapid-fire platform where the world's online social critics record their musings. Twitter said its users sent 1.1 million inauguration-related tweets during Monday's swearing-in ceremony, way up from 82,000 in 2009, when Twitter hadn't yet been widely adopted.
From politicos to comedians to ordinary citizens, some offered heartfelt thoughts on the historical importance of the day, while others jockeyed for a cheap laugh and a few retweets.
Here are some of our favorites. (We'll be adding to this list as the day goes on.)
Barack Obama -- I'm honored and grateful that we have a chance to finish what we started. Our work begins today. Let's go. -bo
These 4th graders from L.A. spent the weekend learning about US history and government. Now they're seeing #inaug2013. twitter.com/obamainaugural...— Obama Inauguration (@obamainaugural) January 21, 2013
Eric Cantor, House majority leader -- This is a great day for all Americans to celebrate and to remember that the Capitol belongs to all.
TJ Holmes -- Can't help but wonder if this is last time in my lifetime I'll get 2 see an African American take presidential oath of office. #Inaug2013
Sandra Lee -- OK #inaug2013 watchers, who is that handsome teenaged boy making eyes at Malia Obama? #VeryCute
Michelle Obama's Bangs arrive at the inauguration ceremony #inaug2013 twitter.com/LanceUlanoff/s...— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) January 21, 2013
Philip DeFranco -- Excited about this inauguration. If Obama sees his shadow there will be 6 more years of crippling crippling debt.
Speaker John Boehner -- Embracing #MLK's call to serve & make the most of this moment God has given us http://1.usa.gov/10gcJvH #MLKDay
Andrew Kaczynski, BuzzFeed reporter -- Can't believe you guys are watching the inauguration while Scooby Doo is on.
p>Check this out: Sasha and Malia Obama in 2009 and 2013. Look how much they've changed! @jummytv twitter.com/jskarp/status/...— Justin Karp (@jskarp) January 21, 2013
Catherine Q -- Malia and Sasha look so sweet. And so grown up! #inaug2013
Mark Harris, EW columnist -- "There's Morgan Freeman--I'm sorry, uh, sorry, Bill Russell!"--George Stephanopoulos, who will never live that down, on ABC just now.
Ana Marie Cox -- Karl Rove in his basement, enacting a Romney inauguration with life-sized cardboard figures.
p>The National Mall from orbit, courtesy of the #ISS astronauts in time for #Inaug2013 nasa.gov/multimedia/ima...— NASA (@NASA) January 21, 2013
VI -- Look at all those flags! Proud to call myself an American today
Michelle Freed -- Me: Kids, come watch the Inauguration! Kids: Neat. Now, can we go watch SpongeBob upstairs? *bows head and sighs* #Inaug2013
p>Maybe the coolest photo I've ever been in ....ever :) twitter.com/kelly_clarkson...— Kelly Clarkson (@kelly_clarkson) January 21, 2013
Malcom Glenn -- Unquestionably the largest cheer so far for a jumbotron appearance has gone to Jay-Z and Beyonce...louder than Joe and Jill Biden. #inaug13
The White House -- "Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people." —President Obama #inaug2013
p>"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law" #inaug2013 twitter.com/whitehouse/sta...— The White House (@whitehouse) January 21, 2013
Omar L. Gallaga -- I opened for Beyoncé." -- something inaugural poet Richard Blanco gets to say forever. #inaug2013
StevieG the truth -- Obama's being inaugurated, it's Martin Luther King Day and Beyonce's singing the anthem. Black folk are having the best Monday EVER.
John Fugelsang -- Highlight of the Richard Blanco poem - Eric Cantor's confused face upon hearing the word "namaste." #presidentialinauguration
p>CHART: #Inaug2013 Tweet Volume vs. the 2009 #Inauguration. twitter.com/gov/status/293...— Twitter Government (@gov) January 21, 2013
Al Gore -- Great to hear President Obama call for climate action in today's #inaug2013 address. Congratulations Mr. President http://bit.ly/VgnNwd
Kerstin Shamberg -- Since there's no outgoing president, Obama should say goodbye to himself, fly off in Marine One and then come right back #inaug2013#ornot
p>My double is ready to roll in #inaug2013 parade with @nasa & @nasajpl mission team members.twitpic.com/bx6jbu— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) January 21, 2013
Andy Borowitz -- Republicans Praise Obama for Offering Bold Vision to Thwart: http://nyr.kr/Ufd56w
Allison Hagerty -- Don't understand the point of obama being in this parade when you can't see him..
Jason Fekete -- That's not Joe Biden running down Pennsylvania Avenue. Looks more like Biden running for the Democratic nomination four years from now.
Carrie Drummond -- Love that the Obama girls sat down and immediately pulled out cellphones. #justlikeus #inaug2013
p>Vernon: "I never thought I'd see this in my lifetime. I'm here because I see Obama living out MLK's words." #inaug2013 twitter.com/obamainaugural...— Obama Inauguration (@obamainaugural) January 21, 2013
Ari Fleischer -- Obama's thought bubble: Come on. Is this thing still going on? Get me back to the White House.