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At first I was completely daunted by the prospect of doing all the technical stuff BY MYSELF! (My husband, bless his heart, relies on me to do any techy stuff in our house, and our children, all very computer literate, live too far away to help out if I get stuck.) So eventually I took a deep breath and started.
The KDP helplines were helpful, at least to start with, until I reached the page where I had to give details about my tax status, when my computer froze completely and refused to carry on. I wasn't sure whether this was KDP, me, my new computer or the battery in my mouse that was causing the problem, so I turned it off in disgust and left it till the next day. Next day the same thing happened, despite me changing the battery in my mouse, so again I had to leave it. Then the next day, for no apparent reason, it all worked again, enabling me to go on and sort out the tax details. What a relief when it accepted what I'd done and allowed me to go on to the next page!
So far, so good.
Luckily by now I had my cover picture – my son Tim, who is a professional illustrator, did one for me to the exact specifications KDP required, so that was uploaded easily. The book itself, however, took a little longer…
I'd already tried formatting my book myself, checking all the time on my Kindle how many spaces I needed to leave at the start of each paragraph. But somehow, no matter how careful I was to make each indent exactly the same, when I uploaded it on the Preview they were all over the place. Very unprofessional. And as for linking the contents list to the individual chapters… that sounded so complicated that I contemplated not bothering with links at all.
Eventually I rang a friend who had already published several of her own ebooks and had a chat to her, and she advised me to look at Katherine Roberts' blogs, which, bless her heart, she would email me directly.
This proved to be the turning point. Katherine's instructions were so much easier to understand that I went back to square one with the formatting and managed it with no problems. Hooray! She also suggested the obvious thing that hadn't occurred to me: I should email my final ms to my Kindle for checking! That was brilliant – I could see immediately that it was all working – except for the links. So I took another deep breath and began on those. Again, it sounded easy – and it almost was. Except that my new computer had more options than I was anticipating, so I wasn't sure which to go for. Eventually, after two steps forward and one step back several times, I discovered that I had to make sure I clicked on "In This Document" at the Hyperlink stage, rather than going with the default "Web page".
And at last it worked. I sent it to my Kindle, and it worked. I previewed it, and it worked there too. So I took a very, very deep breath and clicked PUBLISH.
One thing I wasn't sure of was whether enough children of the book's target age range (it's intended for 9-12 year-olds) would be likely to access it as an ebook, so when friends (ie fellow-writers) suggested I should also make it available as a POD paperback I thought in for a penny… "It's quite straightforward," said KDP and CreateSpace.
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To date around 600 people have downloaded it or bought it, which sounds wonderful to me, though of course it's nowhere near the thousands mainstream publishers would expect to sell. (I now have a lot more respect for all the decisions they have to make before a book is published!) However, I feel really proud that I actually managed to do it myself.
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Amanda Knox's Parents Angry, Stunned Over Guilty Verdict
Edda Mellas and Curt Knox vow to continue to fight for their daughter.
Jan. 30, 2014 -- The parents of Amanda Knox said they were stunned and angry that an Italian court again convicted their daughter of murder and vowed to continue to fight to clear her name.
"Amanda's upset, we were all shocked and upset, but we're all ready to fight too," said Knox's mother Edda Mellas. "Everyone in the family, everyone in the extended family are all ready to continue to fight for truth and fight for her freedom and it's not going to stop."
Once again, Knox, 26, was found guilty of the 2007 murder of her former roommate Meredith Kercher by an Italian court, the latest twist in a case that has been at the center of an international media firestorm for more than six years.
Knox's former boyfriend, Raffaelle Sollecito, 29, was also convicted after nearly 12 hours of deliberations by two judges and six jurors.
Knox, who remained in her hometown of Seattle for the trial, watched the verdict with her family live on television.
"I am frightened and saddened by this unjust verdict," Knox said in a statement. "Having been found innocent before, I expected better from the Italian justice system. ... This has gotten out of hand."
Knox's parents sat down for an interview with ABC News shortly after the verdict was announced, and said they were not expecting this outcome.
"If you look at common sense, you look at evidence, you look at the fact that Amanda is nowhere in that room, then no, I wasn't expecting this, absolutely not," said her father Curt Knox. "They got it right in the first appeals trial where they found her innocent and allowed us to bring her home. And this is totally wrong."
"Everything they've looked at now has come out strongly for Amanda and so for them to rule this way is just mind boggling, but not all that surprising," Mellas added. "They get it, they've gotten it wrong, and they continue to get it wrong."
Amanda was mostly silent as she listened to the verdict, which was being read in Italian, her mother said.
"She just said, 'guilty, 28 years,'" Mellas said. "She was more concerned about what was going to happen to Raffaelle."
Sollecito, who is still in Italy, was not immediately arrested, but officials today said they would confiscate his passport so that he could not leave the country.
Amanda Knox Legal Drama Through the Years
Knox was first convicted of her roommate's murder in 2009 and spent four years in an Italian prison. She was freed in 2011 after an appeals court found the original evidence unreliable. Then, Italy's highest court overturned the acquittal and ordered a new trial.
Knox's parents said the ordeal has cost them everything, devastating them financially, but they are prepared to keep fighting.
For now, Knox remains in Seattle. Italian authorities can make a request for extradition, but Knox can appeal the latest verdict to Italy's supreme court.
"We will obviously fight it because it is not justified and there is no way she's going back over there," Curt Knox said.

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My good friend Ryan Martin made this collage and this mix for Soldier's Disease some time ago but I hadn't posted it thanks to general inactivity over there, which should be remedied soon. It's such a great mix that I had to get it into the world, so here ya go. You probably know Ryan from his solo work or in York Factory Complaint, On a Clear Day, Hanel Koeck. He is also one half of DAIS Records and runs his own cassette imprint Robert & Leopold. York Factory Complaint have a release coming out on Chondritic Sound soon. Below is what Ryan has to say about his mix:
"When I was putting together the tracks on this mix, I was gathering a collection of people or songs that I had an unusual, albeit interesting fascination with. Whether it was the people themselves or what they created, something compelling drew me to these tracks and how I understood them very well on their own. When I placed together these works, the invisible lines connected themselves in my mind and hopefully, with the help of technology, I was able to get these connections across to a yet to be determined audience.
Stated as a "tribute for voice" but it's not the voice of any one person speaking or vocal accompaniment. It's more in tribute to the voice this collection of people have found and when the pieces were put together, one voice was pushed along. This entire mix will make sense to someone, I hope it isn't just me."
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Sixty-six years ago, today June 6, 1944, the Allies stormed the beach at Normandy to free Europe from Axis control. Today, Gov. Palin wrote about the Anniversary in a brief Facebook Note, including an excerpt of speech from President Reagan who spoke at the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
Today, on the 66th Anniversary of D-Day, let's remember the courage and sacrifice of our Greatest Generation whose actions helped liberate a continent. I'd like to share with you excerpts from President Reagan's beautiful speech on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day honoring the Rangers who took the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc:
"Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them here. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem. You are men who in your "lives fought for life and left the vivid air singed with your honor."….
Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief. It was loyalty and love.
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead, or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.
You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you." – Ronald Reagan
May we never forget the sacrifices made for liberty.
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Investigators: 47-year-old woman told teens to leave scene
LANCASTER, Wis. — Investigators said Friday that original information about a hit-and-run in Grant County that left a teen badly injured was partially made up.
Investigators have now determined another driver backed up and ran over Jacob Colson and the story about him being a pedestrian was made up to cover the incident because the teens had been at a party.
It was originally reported that Cheryl Walton, 47, of rural Lancaster, was driving into town to get coffee when she located Colson lying on the side of the road.
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Other occupants in the vehicle, Nicole White, 24, of Lancaster, and Autumn Elliot, 17, of Lancaster, left the scene to get Walton.
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This time a couple of plantains made it into the basket for the first time. Large and thick-skinned banana cultivars, the starchiness, lower sugar content and more neutral flavor of green unripe plantains makes them a staple cooking vegetable in much of the world, as opposed to the soft and sweet bananas we usually eat here in North America.
But my plantains were ripe, which means that much of their starch content had been converted to sugar … still less sweet and milder than a banana, they're still not very appealing to eat on their own. But frying slices of ripe plantain in hot oil is a popular treat in central America, which is what I did. As the slices turn a rich reddish-brown, the sugar caramelizes and the firm flesh inside the sweet crunchy exterior softens into a mellow, slightly banana-y and melt-in-your-mouth creamy filling. They're beautiful to look at, and astonishingly tasty without being too sweet. Dressed with a simple coconut milk and peanut butter sauce, these sweet fried plantains are a lovely, quick and easy treat.
Select ripe plantains for this snack — green plantains will taste bland and feel starchy in the mouth. You can tell when plantains are ripe when they are yellow with dark splotches and yield to the touch.
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Soft melt-in-your-mouth fried plantain slices with a sweet crunchy exterior, served with a simple coconut milk and peanut butter sauce
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Quiet At Citizens Bank Park?
Baseball season may be over but that doesn't mean it is all quiet at Citizens Bank Park.
Winterization of the park continues, turning off heat and water in certain locations, closing restrooms in the seating bowl areas and power washing concessions floor drains.
Thursday evening is the Phillies Phantasy Camp orientation in the clubhouse, batting cages and media room. Not sure if the camp commissioner, Larry Andersen, will be there because he was married last Friday night. Honeymoon at a Phantasy Camp orientation?
Ballpark tours run all offseason, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, except for holidays. For information, call 215 463-1000.
Citizens Bank Park is a perfect place to host a meeting, wedding, or whatever. Events planned this week through the Special Events department include:
**Wednesday, Barton Supply Inc. meeting in the Executive Dining Room . . . Bire Pharmaceuticals reception in the Diamond Club.
**Thursday, Children's Scholarship Fund event in the main concourse/media room.
**Friday, Wordsworth 60th Anniversary Celebration, EDR.
**Saturday, Alzheimer's Walk, parking lots and main concourse. Some 8,000 people are expected to participate.
**Saturday, Shade/Taylor wedding ceremony and reception, Diamond Club/Hall of Fame Club. Please be aware November 2-9-16 next year are already booked for weddings, providing someone doesn't get cold feet.
**Sunday, breakfast with Phillie Phanatic, Diamond Club. Annually, Community Outreach receives thousands of requests for donations for charitable causes. The event was a new addition to fulfill some of the requests. Over 110 people are expected.
More information about booking Citizens Bank Park may be obtained at www.specialevents.com or by calling 215 218 5100.
Probably of the most interest to Phillies fans is the weekly conference call on Wednesday morning. Ruben, his staff and the pro scouting staff will be reviewing free agents and trade possibilities. I've said it before, would love to be a fly on the wall. Just afraid Ruben would have a fly swatter.
Alumni Notes
Happy Birthday to you….13—Gene Garber (65) . . . 14—Willie Hernandez (58); Curt Schilling (46) . . . 17—Mitch Williams (48); Billy McMillon (39).
Kruk's bucket list? Find out at www.phillies.com/alumni under Alumni Views.
Kruk's buddy, Randy Ready, was named the Braves' AAA manager, replacing Dave Brundage, who was recently hired by the Phillies for Lehigh Valley.
On behalf of the entire Phillies organization, our deepest sympathy goes to the family of Harold Gould. A pitcher with the Philadelphia Stars in 1946-48 in the Negro Leagues, Mr. Gould died on Friday at age 88.
Mr. Gould and other Philadelphia Stars have been saluted often by the Phillies, the most recent during Jackie Robinson Day last April. Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard and Milt Thompson became friends of Mr. Gould's through the years.
On Friday morning (10 o'clock), a wreath will be laid in his honor at the Philadelphia Stars Memorial Park in Philadelphia. David Montgomery and Ruben will attend.
Funeral services will take place Saturday morning in Bridgeton, NJ.


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Barnstorming was common place in the Negro Leagues
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Negro Leaguers like Monte Irvin faced a lot of racism during the barnstorming tours.
They would load their bats and gloves onto buses and into motorcars, and their caravan would roll like tumbleweed through the countryside of Indiana, Kansas, the Dakotas and places elsewhere.
They would chew up thousands of miles of bad road, hoping to stop in Small Town, U.S.A., where they could grab a meal, unpack their gear and play a ballgame or two.
But nothing was ever easy for these real-life "Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings" as they barnstormed in the late 1800s and in the first half of the 1900s.
How could it be?
The players often had to weave their barnstorming around a more formal Negro League schedule.
They would finish a series in, say, Kansas City, head east (or maybe farther West), stop for a series in St. Louis, move on to play exhibition games in Michigan City or Fort Wayne or Toledo and end up with league games in Indianapolis, Chicago and Pittsburgh.
Unwelcomed in most hotels, these black men lived out of suitcases. They slept on buses or in stadiums or on the side of the road, which surely proved this was hardly the high life.
"Out on the field, there'd be some white folks in the stands," Satchel Paige said in his autobiography. "Some of them'd call you (the N-word), but most would cheer you."
For Paige and others, their incentive to barnstorm was for the extra money they earned for exhibition games against white and other black teams. The games against whites were cash cows, often drawing thousands of fans to these small towns to watch the great Negro League players.
"The games made towns money," said Phil Dixon, an author, a baseball researcher and an expert on the Negro Leagues. "They made players money."
On the meager salaries from the Negro Leagues, the players valued the extra pay. They had the added satisfaction of showing fans in these small towns how well blacks played the game.
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Barnstorming was common place in the Negro Leagues.
And all the legends of the Negro Leagues barnstormed, often playing against Major League teams. From Pete Hill to Willie Wells to Josh Gibson to Monte Irvin, the players chased the money. They hustled baseball just as well as Minnesota Fats hustled pool.
They also won most of their games, too.
"They played mostly against whites," said Robert Ruck, an authority on the Negro Leagues and a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh. "A team like the Homestead Grays might barnstorm through the region playing one or more games a day against mill, mining and other kinds of teams."
Ruck said the white teams had little chance of winning. They were overmatched in talent, speed and experience. Yet, the white teams and their fans, regardless of the small town, seemed to relish the challenge.
"It was the highlight of their life," said Ruck, who has produced a TV documentary on the Negro Leagues. "Sometimes there would be meals for the black players -- or little celebrations after the game.
"This was the age of segregation, and you had black guys being feted by white people in what were basically all-white towns."
After the game, these baseball caravans went back on the road. Another stop, in another small town, chasing the game -- still chasing the dollars that came with barnstorming.
Baseball historians differ on whether many of the Negro League teams played the part of black minstrels. Some black teams like the Indianapolis Clowns did do a baseball rendition of the Harlem Globetrotters, but even the Clowns were a legit baseball team with the same high expectations as their Negro League contemporaries, Dixon said.
Ruck agreed.
"It's truer to say that the black guys realized that they had to put on a show," he said. "This is entertainment. Perhaps they kept the score down to draw fans. Nobody wants to see teams win 11-0 all the time."
Ruck had little doubt that black players rarely pandered to the racial stereotypes of the day. In most cases, they acted like professionals, and they rarely lost that firm grip on their professionalism.
Dixon echoed this view.
"That clowning and stuff, it was never an integral part," he said. "A ballplayer can do funny stuff and not be clowning. So I think for the convenience of history and how blacks are portrayed in history, it's more to the advantage to portray barnstorming as if it was more clowning."
In Dixon's opinion, Negro League players always had displayed a dramatic flair on the diamond. It made no sense, he said, to step onto the field in a white town and bore audiences who might never have heard of Biz Mackey, Cool Papa Bell, Smokey Joe Williams, Goo Goo Livingston, Moocha Harris, Bingo DeMoss, Double Duty Radcliffe, Buck Leonard, Pee Wee Butts, Bullet Rogan or Judy Johnson.
"Even if you could play, you couldn't be dull," Dixon said. "That wasn't a good formula. So you had to be colorful, but, at the same time, you had to have good ability to come in and play ball."
These weren't the easiest circumstances to play under either. While their talents on the field were appreciated, the black players still plied their trade in a segregated society. Black players could take no comfort in beating the white teams while trying to balance their lives off the field. The egalitarian concepts of fairness and justice didn't exist in the white restaurants, the movie houses, the nightclubs and the public accommodations that were closed to these black ballplayers in most U.S. towns.
Black players had to remain mindful of the color line. Not even money would let them cross it.
In his book,
Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues
, Donn Rogosin told a story about Hall-of-Famer Monte Irvin, who recounted a racial incident in the deep South.
While barnstorming with the Newark Eagles, Irvin said he and his teammates made a stop at a cafe near Birmingham, Ala. Seeing Irvin & Co. approach, the cafe owner shook her head, signaling to the players that she wasn't about to serve black people.
"Why are you saying 'no,'" asked Irvin, "when you don't even know what we want."
"Whatever it is, we don't have," she responded.
"Won't you sell us some soft drinks, some Pepsi-Cola or Coca-Cola?" he asked again.
"No," she said bluntly.
In the Deep South, no meant no. Irvin understood he was in no position to quarrel. He left the encounter with the woman bewildered.
"How could she hate us so?" he lamented. "She didn't even know us."
For Negro League ballplayers, it was just another hardship to overcome, just one more frustration that chasing the game brought these talented men. But they never let racism rob them of their love of the game.
"If anybody ever played for the love of the game, it was black ballplayers," Dixon said. "They certainly weren't playing for a lot of money."
Yet love of the game couldn't erase other hardships. The bus rides wore on a player. The towns started to look the same. The daily routine took on the feel of a scene from the movie, "Groundhog Day." Each day started to look like the one before.
Still, those men who barnstormed had more good to say about the life on the road than the bad. Against this backdrop, they went on to build long, rich friendships, and they earned a place in sports history.
These were not experiences black players would ever forget, even as they voiced their anger over how white booking agents such as Syd Pollack, Nat C. Strong and Ed Gottlieb had mined most of profits out of these exhibition games.
A few years back, somebody had asked Dink Mothel, the late pitcher/utilityman for the Kansas City Monarchs, what he remembered most about his barnstorming days.
Mothel's answer was short and to the point.
"The hunger," he said.
Justice B. Hill is a senior writer with MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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HRABOVE — Dutch forensic investigators told armed separatists guarding train cars full of bodies from the downed Malaysia Airlines jet that the train must be allowed to leave as soon as possible.
The experts from the Dutch National Forensic Investigations Team — which specializes in victim recovery and identification — also pressed yesterday for rebels to seal the refrigerated train cars parked in the rebel-held town of Torez.
Four days after Flight 17 was shot out of the sky, international investigators still have had only limited access to the crash site, hindered by the pro-Russia fighters who control the verdant territory in eastern Ukraine. Outrage over the delays and the possible tampering of evidence at the site was building worldwide, especially in the Netherlands, where 192 of the plane's 298 victims were Dutch and another was Dutch-American.
AP journalists said the smell of decay was overwhelming at the Torez train station yesterday and many with the inspectors wore masks or pressed cloths to their faces on the sunny, 84 degree Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius) day.
Earlier, a Ukrainian train engineer told The Associated Press that a power outage had hit the cars' refrigeration system for several hours overnight but was back up early yesterday.
The investigators led by Peter Van Vilet of the Dutch LTFO forensic office stood for a moment with their heads bowed and hands clasped before climbing aboard to inspect the train cars, surrounded by armed rebels.
"I think the storage of the bodies is of good of quality," Van Vilet said. "We got the promise the train is going."
However, he said the rebels did not say exactly when the train would leave. The Ukrainian government is hoping it will go to the government-controlled eastern city of Kharkiv, where it has set up a crash crisis center, but the rebels have not confirmed any movement yet.
In Kharkiv, another team of international experts arrived, including 23 Dutch, three Australians, two Germans, two Americans, and one person from the U.K.
At the charred crash site itself near the eastern village of Hrabove, emergency workers retrieved 21 more bodies yesterday, bringing the total to 272 bodies, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
Fighting flared again yesterday between the separatists and government troops in the eastern rebel-held city of Donetsk, just 50 kilometers (30 miles) to the west of the crash site. City authorities said battles were taking place near the town's airport. An AP reporter heard several explosions and saw smoke rising from that direction.
Fighting began in mid-April between the government and the Russian-speaking separatists in eastern Ukraine after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula a month earlier.
Pressure has been growing on Russian President Vladimir Putin — who the US and others say has backed and armed the rebels — to rein in the insurgents and allow a full-scale investigation into the downing of the plane.
Russia has denied backing the separatists.
Australia, meanwhile, pressed for a UN resolution calling for uninhibited access to the crash site and asking for the full cooperation of all countries in the region, including Russia.
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron said he hoped Russia will support the Security Council resolution.
"We would hope that, given what has happened, there would be unanimous support behind the principle of unfettered access to those who have the task of identifying and repatriating the victims, as well as to the investigators," Cameron's spokesman said.
The United States has presented what it called "powerful" evidence that the rebels shot down the Boeing 777 with a Russian surface-to-air Buk missile. That evidence included video of a rocket launcher, one surface-to-air missile missing, leaving the likely launch site; imagery showing the firing; phone calls claiming credit for the missile strike and phone recordings said to reveal a cover-up at the crash site.
"A buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence ... it's powerful here," said US Secretary of State John Kerry. "Russia is supporting these separatists. Russia is arming these separatists. Russia is training these separatists."
Putin lashed out against the criticism yesterday, accusing others of exploiting the downing of the plane for "mercenary objectives."
Putin said Russia was doing everything possible to allow a team of experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency, to investigate the scene. He again criticized Ukrainian government authorities in Kiev for reigniting the fighting with the rebels.
"If fighting in eastern Ukraine had not been renewed on June 28, this tragedy would not have happened," Putin said. "Nobody should or does have a right to use this tragedy for such mercenary objectives."
The head of counterintelligence for Ukraine's SBU security service, Vitaliy Najda, said the Buk missile launchers came from Russia and called on Russia to supply the names of the service personnel "who brought about the launch of the missile" so they could be questioned. He said the rebels could not have operated the sophisticated weapon without Russian help but did not provide specific evidence for his claim.
In Moscow, Russian officials offered evidence yesterday to counter US claims that the rebels were responsible for shooting down the jet. The Defense Ministry showed photos they said proved that Ukrainian surface-to-air systems were operating in the area in the days before the crash. The officials said the systems were operated nine times on Thursday, the day the plane was brought down.
Russian officials also said they had evidence that a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet had flown "between 3 to 5 kilometers (2 to 3 miles)" from the Malaysia Airlines jet.
"(The plane) is armed with air-to-air R-60 rockets, which can hit a target from a distance of up to 12 kilometers (7 miles) and guaranteed within 5 kilometers (3 miles)," said the chief of Russia's General staff, Andrei Kartopolov.
The defense ministry officials also insisted that Russia had not given the rebels any surface-to-air missiles and added they have no evidence that any missiles were launched at all. They asked the US to share any satellite images of the launch they might have.
Yatsenyuk, Ukraine's prime minister, angrily called on Russia to halt what he said was its support for the rebels.
"They have to stop, and President Putin has to realize, enough is enough," he said. "What we expect from Russia: To de-escalate the situation, to withdraw their agents, to close the border, to stop their support for these bastards and to stick to international law."
In the Netherlands, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told a news conference that repatriating the bodies was his "No. 1 priority" and victims' families were being consoled by the Dutch royals.
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Bars are societies writ small, and each has iron-clad regulations governing what will and will not be considered acceptable behavior. At one bar, patrons might be encouraged to dance on the bar and take shots with the bartenders. At others, the slightest exhibition of rowdy behavior might get a guest shown to the door.
Some rules are ubiquitous—"Tipping is not a city in China"—while others are specific to a particular bar or type of bars. I've been in joints that have rules regulating anything from card-playing to beer drinking, some of which are so specific that one can only imagine the circumstance in which they were deemed necessary. "No Dogs in the Bathroom" makes a lot of sense, though it might have been interesting to be around the night when there were so many dogs in the bathroom that a harried owner woke up the next day and decided they must be banned.
I currently work in a bar that has a set of ten rules delineated right in the menu. While most are a bit tongue-in-cheek, all are designed to address a series of issues that have come up, time after time, in bars that we have worked in over many years. Of these, one stands out for its versatility, pointedness, and its prevalence in application. The rule itself is very simple:
Don't Be Creepy.
Don't bother people. Don't force your conversation on them, nor your attention. If you see a person reading the newspaper, don't assume that they are there to make small talk with you. Instead, assume that they're there to catch up on the news of the day.
Often, the reason people come into bars is to meet other people. Just as often, it's not. While you may be on the prowl for some kind of connection, whether it's a political debate, a mild flirtation, or a random hook-up, the person on whom you are lavishing your attention may not be in the market for what you have to offer. Once you have had a drink or three, your attempts at charm and wit can be perceived as aggression. At that point, intentional or no, you are creepy. Period.
Alcohol gives us courage that we don't have when sober, which is how shy people have landed dates since the Egyptians figured out that distilled spirits made for a good party. When you drink, you think you are more charming and handsome than you normally think, and there are plenty of cases where your drunken derring-do leads to fabulous evenings spent in hot tubs, back seats, and trash-laden alleys. They also can lead to wedding bells. We bartenders are not there to prevent people from having a good time.
What we are there to do is to step in if whatever groove you're laying really isn't working for the person on whom you are laying it. There have been many occasions where I have seen a pair of pretty girls who are having a reunion barraged with a series of bar-flies (yes, that means you) who think that the women are fair game for hitting on, just because they are sitting there. These women are usually polite people, and they don't want to tell you that you are bothering them.
We bartenders have to make sure that everyone has fun. Everything is acceptable until it starts to impede on someone else's good time. The most common phrase I utter to a well-meaning drunkard is, "She's not here to talk to you; she's here to talk to her friend."
The "Don't Be Creepy" rule may suggest gender specificity, but that doesn't mean it doesn't apply to everyone. I was working the bar a few nights ago, and a woman persisted in intruding on a pair of men who were obviously catching up. After a few failed attempts to engage them in conversation, she deemed them "on a date," which wasn't okay either.
The rules of a bar are part of what make it a nice place to visit, and the bartender is most often the person who has to enforce these rules. We have a responsibility to make sure everyone in our bar is as happy as possible. If a bartender sees you've had one too many and asks you to leave someone alone, it's for your own good, and the good of your fellow patrons. You'll be remembered much more fondly by both patrons and staff if you heed that warning.
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Hail, Legionwood fans! I've got an update for you:As of this week, I'm resuming full time work on Chapter Two of Legionwood 2. Previously, I had university assignments as well as admin and publishing stuff with my novel to take care of, but I'm happy to say that I've got a few weeks coming up where I don't have any other matters to attend to, and I want to use this time to really push myself to work on the game and get the Beta 3.0 release closer to being in a playable condition. At the moment, Chapter 2: Aftermath and Alliance is roughly 30% complete. I was aiming for a late September release of the new version of the game and if I can still meet that, it would be great. On the other hand, I'd like to continue working on the game at my own pace, and take my time making sure that the new content I release is properly tested and worthwhile instead of rushing it, so please don't hold me to that release date. I just wanted to post and say that yes, Legionwood 2 is still being worked on, and I do still have plans to finish this game, and I want to make sure that you guys get the best game possible.Some info about what you can expect in Beta 3.0: Chapter 2: Aftermath and Alliance will see Lionel and the party travelling out of Trevelle into the neighbouring nation of Entoban to try and establish a peace treaty with the invading barbarians before full scale war engulfs the two nations. They'll also try to enlist the help of the king of Entoban in the quest to find out how to close the remaining Eternal Gates and discover more about who is behind the plot to infect Legionwood with the Darkness and their motives. Meanwhile, Lionel will continue to cope with the loss of Clara and forge bonds with his new friends. They'll race to stop the enemy from opening yet another Eternal Gate and, at the end of the chapter, one of the party members will die. In addition, you'll get to play with two new classes (Barbarian and Ranger), 20+ new Techs, and experience the consequences of Lionel's moral choices, with certain side quests, dungeons and bosses being sealed off in favour of others depending on the path you've chosen.I've also overhauled many of the game's systems. The battle system has been optimised and no longer crashes, there are now turn cooldown periods, alternate costs for skills, new buff/debuff rules, and more.


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LOUISVILLE, KY — Rec professionals from around the country gathered April 4-8 for the 2006 National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Annual Conference & Recreational Sports Exposition. The show brought together a network of professional, student and associate members from the recreational sports field for five days of educational sessions, networking opportunities and visits with manufacturers.
More than 180 exhibitors showcased their products and services at the show, and more than 2,100 attended the convention in Louisville, KY.
"We've been getting awesome feedback," Katherine Otten, NIRSA marketing assistant, said of conference evaluations from the five-day event.
Notable events of the show included two well-attended "big-picture" sessions. Heads of student affairs departments joined other leaders to discuss the value, benefit and role of recreational sports in higher education at the Senior Management Panel. At the Learning Reconsidered 2 session, Executive Director Dr. Gwen Dungy of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators led a panel discussion on the continued integration of all higher education's resources, including recreational sports programs, in the education of the whole student.
A panel presentation also drew a large crowd. More than 200 attended to hear all about officiating straight from the experts: Directors of Officiating for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League and the Canadian Football League, plus members of the Amateur Softball Association, the National Federation of State High School Associations, the Professional Association of Volleyball Officials and NIRSA's Sports Officials' Development Program, Otten said.
NIRSA also held elections at the annual show. Thomas Kirch, director of recreational sports at Oregon State University and assistant professor in the School of Education was named president-elect; George Brown, director of university recreation at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, was elected region II vice president; Michael Waldron, associate director-business services in the department of recreational sports at Texas A&M University, became region IV vice president; Jennifer de-Vries, associate director of facilities, operation and services — physical activity and recreation services at the University of Oregon, was named region VI vice president; and Amy Jo Jenkins, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, was elected national student representative.
At the show, NIRSA kicked off its $1 Million Milestone campaign, which aims to bring the total amount of money raised by the NIRSA Foundation since its inception in 1992 beyond $1 million by December 2010, Otten said. Member contributions to the NIRSA Foundation at the conference totaled $18,430, a record amount that more than earned a $15,000 matching gift from the United States Tennis Association. The NIRSA foundation is a not-for-profit organization that provides opportunities through professional development, research, scholarships and educational resources.
Other events at the show included educational sessions on everything from facility management to research and marketing, to social events such as the NIRSA dance party and bowling, and to member committee and business meetings.
Minneapolis will serve as the site for the 2007 NIRSA Annual Conference & Recreational Sports Exposition. Based on member feedback, the show will run four days instead of five and will run from April 18-21, 2007.


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In The Guardian today is feature called "Painted Ladies: Why women get tattoos." Normally, I find these types of articles banal, or even cringe worthy, for perpetuating cliches or not offering a broad spectrum of experience from our community. And so I was happily surprised to find many different voices of tattooed women in this article.
While there need not be any great miraculous reason to get tattooed, tattoos do come with a story, from an impulse to get a quick piece of historic flash to a full body project. I found the profiles of these women to be really interesting, and they made me think on the commonaIities and differences of our experiences with tattoos.
I particularly loved reading about Juanita Carberry, a merchant navy steward, who died in July at age 88. Here's a bit from her story:
The daughter of a renegade Irish peer, Carberry lived an extraordinarily full life. Her childhood in Kenya was difficult: her mother, a well-known aviator, died when she was three, and Carberry was often beaten by her governess. As a teenager, she was a key witness in a celebrated murder case, the 1941 shooting of the 22nd Earl of Erroll, and at 17 she joined the first aid nursing yeomanry in the Women's Territorials during the second world war. In 1946, Carberry became one of a handful of women to join the merchant navy, remaining for 17 years. It was during this period, says photographer Christina Theisen, that she started acquiring tattoos. Her first was a small spider on the sole of her foot; it didn't hurt, Theisen recalls Carberry saying, because the skin on her feet was so tough from walking barefoot as a child.
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It is the work of Christina Theisen and Eleni Stefanou that really makes this piece so engaging. Theisen and Stefanou are behind womenwithtattoos.co.uk, a photo and film endeavor that pays respect to all tattooed women. They offer this on their work: "Our project seeks to capture the personal and the individual, embracing each woman and her tattoos as one, rather than isolating or magnifying the inked parts of her body. At the same time, by using natural environments and the context of urban Western culture, we intentionally move away from the sexualised glamour model aesthetic that dominates tattoo magazines and popular culture."
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My regret is that I wasn't aware of the project when it first rolled out. I will continue to follow Theisen and Stefanou's work, and I hope that more media outlets also follow their lead in telling compelling stories without the usual pop culture hype and flash so prevalent today.
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A person stands in the middle of a crowd of on lookers pointing at a someone opposite him, loudly says something derogatory and cutting about them, while all his friends guffaw from behind him, slapping their legs in delight and joining in with the jeering. You could be forgiven for thinking that Prime Minister's Question Time was actually a bunch of boys in a prep school playground. Insulting not only the opposition, but also their colleagues, by calling them "a mug", "frustrated" (the implication being 'sexually'), or telling them to "Calm down dear" will no doubt soon be followed by such gems as "Yeah, well so's yer mum" and "I know you are but what I am I".
As I was listening to Ed Miliband on Radio 4's Today show yesterday, it struck me how exhausting it must be to constantly have to battle with the opposition, as well as actually doing the job of, you know, governing the country, or whatever it is that opposition parties do, tending to constituencies and stuff. I wonder how much more governments would get done if they weren't constantly nitpicking at their opponents, and having to fire fight problems arising from slips of the tongue, or throw away comments.
That's not to mention the financial cost of all this fighting. The US election this November is estimated to cost upwards of $6 billion, and that is without the expense of a Democratic primary. $6 billion! I can't even begin to conceive of how much money that is, let alone what that money could be better spent towards. I'm no statistician but I am guessing a few hospitals, doctors, nurses, ensuring that millions of poor and uninsured Americans receive medical support… Instead, around half of that money is spent on advertising. While in the UK we have to watch dull Party Political Broadcasts while we are waiting for Eastenders, the US are subjected to creative nefarious attack ads accusing the candidates of all kinds of conspiracies and evil deeds. These adverts cost hundreds of thousands to produce and air on prime time TV slots.
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DAVY COWAN _ A Working Man
Davy Cowan is a prominent singer/songwriter from the Highlands of Scotland, a home-grown Troubadour in the true sense of the word. His music is original, inventive and thought-provoking (The Scots Magazine) and encapsulates the essence of many of the stories and situations that have inspired him over the years: people, places, old memories, faces; sometimes quite mellow & reflective, sometimes edgy & rugged...'like the tough and vulnerable gravitas of Johnny Cash with the pleasing feel of Tom Russell' (R2 Magazine Rock 'n' Reel) or even a Scottish Steve Forbert - a mercurial melting pot of ideas and styles.
As well as being an accomplished solo artist, Davy was a founder member & front man of the Highland Celtic Rock band "Coinneach" who released 3 critically acclaimed studio albums, and he has toured extensively around the UK & Europe. 'Most importantly Davy is an original writer and outstanding performer, whose vibrant repertoire spans some 25 years!' (Martin Stephenson, The Daintees). Steeped in both counter culture and Highland tradition, Davy is a tasteful mixed bag of New Wave creative power and has a unique energy and spirit which is apparent in his solo albums, "Fragile People", "The Journey" and his last album release "Working Man's Dream" from 2013.. Davy's 2017 release in the form of the "Rushes" EP went down a treat with his loyal army of supporters as well as receiving airplay on BBC radio Scotland, BBC radio Wales, and various other stations across Ireland & Europe.
Over the past few years Davy has enlisted the talents of his son Sam on drums & percussion.. It's been a busy few years for them both with many festival appearances, gigs and tours up and around the UK - If there is a harder working man around at the moment I'd like to meet him; if Davy isn't playing a gig then he's travelling to it! (Invernessgigs.com)
Davy Cowan & The Storm Chasers-Holding Out For Freedom Live AT Belladrum Festival 20019
– Davy showcased his unique voice that can only be described as a strange mix of Highland grit and Americana twang... he keeps his audience tuned in with short tales before moving on..... . Davy's overall song-writing style is very straight forward and does not clutter it up unnecessary with flashy lyrics to show off his songs. What you get here is an honest man singing honest songs and the crowd reacting to it…honestly... (Celtic Music Radio)
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The triumph of Working Man's Dream lies in Cowan's ability to perform personal songs that resonate with common experience" (R2 Rock 'n' Reel Magazine)
2013 was a busy year of festival appearances, gigs and tours in the UK, Denmark & Germany - If there is a harder working man around at the moment I'd like to meet him; if Davy isn't playing a gig then he's travelling to it! (invernessgigs.co.uk).
Driven by his hard work ethics, 2017 is set to be another prolific year for Davy as he continues to map out a positive & creative journey through our ever-changing times with his own vibrant energy & passion!
No doubt about it, Davy Cowan is a unique talent! (Maverick)
While his folk rock roots shine through – there's also a nod to bluegrass and country – the lasting impression is of a storytelling songwriter at the top of his form regardless of genre (Hector Mackenzie, Inverness Courier)
Cowan's approach to song-writing is spot on — straight forward words and catchy tunes that soon have you humming along - fun, thought-provoking, original music - a fine musician (Bob Taverner, The Folk Mag Review)
You gotta hear this guy! He'll feel like your long lost friend, you will feel like you know him, because Davy Cowan is authentic through and through! Wonderful artist, check him out! (Martin Stephenson, The Daintees)
Davy Live in Grena Denmark on the Coast tour 2013
Closer to home, Busking in Inverness September 2013
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Busking In Inverness Falcon Square September 2013 Busking Tour
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Davy Cowan & The Storm Chasers 'Live at The Ironworks Inverness'
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With the majority of people who shoot slides using the 35mm format, at DVD Your memories in San Diego we are ready and able to give you the best possible scans from your slides. Our professional Nikon slide scanning equipment, along with the extensive training and slide scanning work being done by our technicians enables us to give you the best results from your slides. We are also able to correct color shift, fading and other potential problems that usually arise with older slides. All of our files are saved to 100 year archival DVD's in order to provide you with the longest lasting memories.
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- 3D Stereo or other irregular formats, including slides that are glass, metal, or plastic mounted, please add 50¢ per image.
- There is a $10 minimum for all orders. Also, if you are organizing your slides into groups of less than 20 images, then there will be a $1 per custom folder/filename only for the groups that have less than 20 images.
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Our professional-grade slide scanners can create JPEG or TIFF format images up to 4000 DPI. This is the highest resolution available and is recommended for the true archivist. Imagine being able to print out your images as large as 11"x17"!
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For most manual color corrections (color balance, levels, brightness, contrasting, etc.) the cost is $1 per image. A technician will inspect and manually adjust each image; we don't rely on an automated computer program to judge what looks good to the human eye.$1.00 per image restored
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DVD Your Memories charges $40 per half-hour for image restoration (fixing deep/wide scratches, scuffs, damage from tape/glue).$40 per half hour
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35mm film is the basic film gauge most commonly used for chemical still photography and motion pictures, and remains relatively unchanged since its introduction in 1892 by William Dickson and Thomas Edison, using film stock supplied by George Eastman. The photographic film is cut into strips 35 millimeters (about 1 3/8 inches) wide—hence the name. The standard negative pulldown for movies ("single-frame" format) is four perforations per frame along both edges, which makes for exactly 16 frames per foot. (for stills, the standard frame is eight perforations).
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Slides are first cleaned with compressed air. This removes any extra dust and other particles without damaging the slide. For this we use a special air compressor to allow just the right amount of air pressure.
We use the professional grade Nikon SuperCoolSCAN 5000 ED and 9000 ED slide scanners to digitize your slides. These are dedicated units that produce amazing results when used properly. There are companies out there that will scan slides to dvd using flat-bed scanners. Those companies will not be able to attain the depth of color or clarity of a more high-end dedicated slide scanner such as the Nikon SuperCoolSCAN 5000/9000 ED.
Slides are previewed in the scanning software program where the cropping and other adjustments are set. All slides are labeled numerically by box marking (ie: FarmHouse_001.jpg). Folders are also named according to the original organizational structure of the slides.
After all the slide scanning is finished we go through each image one-by-one and make sure that it is oriented properly (people are standing upright) and not flipped (words appearing mirrored). Once the image scanning technician has looked over all the images, a second technician will look over each image again and sign off on the "customer notes sheet" showing that each image has truly been double-checked.
Once all the slides have been scanned and inspected, they will be burned to our special 100 year archival DVDs (unless otherwise specified by the customer). These disks are regarded as the best medium for long-term storage.
Deteriorating slides
Almost every 35mm slide we encounter has deteriorated in some form. Let's face it, slides are usually pretty old and nothing stays looking new forever. There are many defects that arise through the aging process. The most common ailment for slides is simple fading. Fading usually manifests as colors losing their vibrancy and a general yellowing of the entire image. If you are interested in seeing how we can restore your old slides please ask your image scanning technician to give you an example.
Manual Color Correction Service vs. Image Restoration Service
Manual color correction is described in the Pricing and Basic Info section and mainly is used to fix problems with color. For example if the slide has a yellow cast to it, in many cases we can neutralize that color and bring back the original colors. We will check for the whitest pixel in the important viewable area of the image and reset that to the 100% white value, and do the same for black. No software program can do this because we are evaluating the image based on the important data and disregarding things like backlighting from windows and such. If your images has a color cast to them or are too dark, just ask our image scanning technician to employ the manual color correction service. We can even enhance one or two images so that you can see how beautiful your slides can be.
The Image Restoration Service will digitally repair your slides. If your slides have folds, scratches, color blots, fungus or any number of imperfections, ask our image scanning technician for a quote for your slide(s). Even if the image has a piece missing it may be possible to reproduce this missing section based on another slide or other data inside the same slide. It is amazing what can be done with Adobe Photoshop, some extra plug-ins, knowhow and experience. And don't worry, all the original data will be saved.
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High-capacity D design bearings
D design bearings (fig. 1) are designed to accommodate heavy loads at relatively high speeds under low to moderate operating temperatures. When compared to other precision angular contact ball bearings, D design bearings contain the maximum number and size of balls. Their close osculation provides a relatively high degree of stiffness and the highest possible load carrying capacity.
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- racing car wheels
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- machining centres (horizontal and vertical) (fig. 3)
- milling machines
- lathes (fig. 4)
- external and surface grinding machines
- boring machines
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- medical equipment
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- lathes (main spindles, tailstock)
- grinding machines
- boring machines
- Parallel Kinematic Machines (PKM)
- dynamometers for engine testing
- high-speed turbochargers