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Ecolab's educational campaign is centered on common causes of foodborne illnesses and includes information, prevention tips, best practices and interventions to prevent incidents, along with remediation guidelines in the event of an incident. The first set of materials includes information on norovirus and Salmonella – the leading causes of foodborne illness, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control. The materials will be provided to customers and available on Ecolab's website at www.ecolab.com.
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Kurt Nimmo
April 12, 2012
Earlier this week, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke again warned that out of control borrowing and spending will eventually destroy the country.
Said Ben to the the Budget Committee:
Sustained high rates of government borrowing would both drain funds away from private investment and increase our debt to foreigners, with adverse long-run effects on U.S. output, incomes, and standards of living. Moreover, diminishing investor confidence that deficits will be brought under control would ultimately lead to sharply rising interest rates on government debt and, potentially, to broader financial turmoil. In a vicious circle, high and rising interest rates would cause debt-service payments on the federal debt to grow even faster, resulting in further increases in the debt-to-GDP ratio and making fiscal adjustment all the more difficult.
But here is something Bernanke didn't mention – a large chunk of that debt is owed to the Federal Reserve. In February, the corporate media fessed up to this undeniable fact. From CNBC:
That's right, the biggest single holder of U.S. government debt is inside the United States and includes the Federal Reserve system and other intragovernmental holdings. Of this number, The Fed's system of banks owns approximately $1.65 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities (as of January 2012), while other U.S. intragovernmental holdings – which include large funds such as the Medicare Trust Fund and the Social Security Trust Fund – hold the rest.
The bankers that own the Federal Reserve love debt and that's why they continually expand the money supply.
"Without the Fed's relentless expansion of the money supply during both the Greenspan and Bernanke eras, the U.S. Treasury never would have been able to issue the staggering sums of debt that now threaten our economic well being," Ron Paul told the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy last year. "This Treasury debt is the very lifeblood of deficit spending, permitting one Congress after another to spend far more than the Treasury collects in taxes. It is precisely this unholy alliance between the enabling Fed and a spendthrift Congress that I hope our witnesses will address today."
It's a great situation for the warheads in the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. Excluding Social Security and other "trust funds" (no pun intended), the Pentagon spends most of this money. Flush with trillions, they are free to continue and expand the wars necessary for the globalists to extend their reach (as they are now doing in Africa).
The debt wrecking ball is doing a fine job of destroying the middle class and making sure America becomes another third world cesspool like Mexico and eventually sub-Sahara Africa. As of last year, the debt officially exceeded 100% of the nation's gross domestic product, in other words the debt is now as big as everything we produce in America.
In order to pay off this staggering debt, the Federal Reserve will print more money out of thin air and expand the money supply which will lead to more inflation that will whittle away at the middle class and the living standards of all Americans.
"Greece, and more precisely Italy and Spain, are our ghosts of the future past. The Fed will print more money. That's what they do. They work for the banks," Capital Waves Strategist Shah Gilani told Business Insider in January.
The Greek dilemma is coming to America. The debt owed by Greece was 160% of that country's GDP last August and the average yield on Greek debt was around 15%. "Thus, if Greece's debt is rolled over without restructuring, its interest costs alone will amount to approximately 24% of GDP. In other words, if debt pardoning does not occur, nearly a quarter of Greece's economic output will be gobbled up by interest repayments," writes Puru Saxena for 321 Gold.
In August, Ron Paul introduced HR 2768, legislation designed to cancel $1.6 trillion in debt. "I would say that is not a real debt. It's a fictitious debt. It's a dishonest debt, and that we're not obligated," he said.
HR 2768 disappeared into the maw of a congressional committee and will likely never be seen again. A previous bill introduced by Ron Paul, Audit the Fed, was severely adulterated under pressure exacted by the Federal Reserve and the Obama administration. In June of 2010, the bill failed by a vote of 229-198.
Bernanke's remarks earlier this week serve as a warning of things to come. His "fiscal adjustments" (i.e., tax increases and the entire palette of IMF styled austerity) will indeed "come as a rapid and painful response to a looming or actual fiscal crisis," one designed by a cartel of international bankers who specialize in the destruction of nations, fire sales, and wholesale misery.
Ron Paul offered an escape hatch, but it was shuffled off to the oblivion of a congressional committee.
Soon enough, we will suffer the result.
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BANGOR, Maine — Clerks in at least nine Maine municipalities have scheduled office hours Saturday for couples who want to be among the first to catch the same-sex wedding wave.
Bangor, Brewer, Augusta, Brunswick, Falmouth, Gardiner, Hallowell, Portland and South Portland are among the Maine communities that are providing the service, according to David Farmer, spokesman for EqualityMaine, a Portland-based gay rights advocacy group.
Farmer said Friday that several Maine town and city offices have regular Saturday hours and also could be issuing marriage licenses that day.
Under the state's same-sex marriage law, which becomes effective on Saturday, the marriages of Mainers who married outside the state now are recognized as legal, Farmer said.
In anticipation of the legalization of same-sex marriage, the state's marriage license has been amended to reflect the new gender-neutral nature of Maine marriages, Deputy State Registrar Roberta Fogg said Friday.
Among the changes are that a "spouse" option has been added for parties entering marriage, known as "Party A" and "Party B." Until now, applicants had the choice of checking off the "bride" or "groom" boxes.
"It doesn't really matter which box you check off. It's strictly the choice [of the people who are marrying]. We don't care about who is applying. It's our philosophy to be gender-neutral. A marriage license is a marriage license. Period. The end," Fogg said.
While applicants will continue to be asked to provide their ages, dates and places of birth, first, middle and current last names and any suffixes, they now have the option of providing either their maiden surname or birth surname. In the past, the "maiden surname" question was asked only of brides, Fogg said.
Also new is a gender question that Fogg said "is basically used for statistical purposes" to avoid having to guess the sex of a married person who checked spouse based solely on his or her name.
Fogg said the amended Maine marriage license is closely based on that developed by Vermont, the first state to authorize same-sex marriage through legislation rather than a court ruling.
On Nov. 6, Maine became the first state to allow same-sex couples to marry through a popular vote of the people, according to EqualityMaine.
On Saturday, four city staffers will be on hand from 6 to 8 a.m. at Bangor City Hall to issue marriage licenses, Deputy City Clerk Dianne Lovejoy said Friday. In addition, she said, at least eight local notaries public — including City Councilor Joseph Baldacci — have volunteered to be there to perform weddings.
While it wasn't clear Friday exactly how many couples would show up, Lovejoy said that three couples have confirmed they plan to pick up licenses and two indicated they plan to marry at City Hall that morning.
Brewer officials also are opening their City Hall from 6 to 8 a.m. to anyone who wants to apply for a marriage license, according to member of the city clerk's office staff.


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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Blogger Manual?
OK, as those of you have noticed, those of you who read this blog, this blog does not have all of the bells and whistles that other blogs have. Even Blogger blogs. I haven't looked up how to add links, how to track my progress on the side, how to add lists of other blogs that I like to read. Where do you find the directions to all of these add-ons?
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- Nico said...
lol, Julie, finally someone who understand me. It reconfort me to see that even your language is english it is still a mess for trying to add new links. Imagine when you are french.
I am still all f...ck up with the photoshop logiciel that I bought. I would had like to put picture side to side like Maggies, but hell.... I still can not make do anything with it. I should I invested my money in some whey protein.
Hope someone will be able to help you. I don't know if it's doable transferring all your data into another blog.
OH well I think that tripod has been desing for dummy just like me.
Take care
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I have a JFrame, a JSplitPane as the container of the frame.
On the left side of the splitpane, there are two radio buttons (more to come, but I am stuck).
On the right side, there is a CardLayout. This CardLayout has two 'cards' (JPanels, actually). And to test if it shows the panels when I switch them, I put one checkbox each.
But it does not show anything. I cannot think anything to do. I tried to put only the checkboxes thinking maybe it only accepts components, but it didn't work.
This is the GUI class I have. I have commented what I am trying to do so that you don't have to read everything. Also, it does not have the imports and it is started from another class.
Since I am just testing, I created a project for this, so the main class main method just starts this.
public class SolveSomehow extends JFrame{ private JSplitPane splitPane; private JPanel leftPanel,rightPanel,panelOne,panelTwo; private JCheckBox cbTwo,cbOne,cbCardOne,cbCardTwo; private CardLayout cardLay; private final String ONE = "PanelOne"; private final String TWO = "PanelTwo"; public SolveSomehow() { setResizable(false); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE); setBounds(100, 100, 450, 300); // I use WindowBuilder as GUI designer and it had a JPanel as the container. // I deleted and added splitPane. splitPane = new JSplitPane(); splitPane.setResizeWeight(0.5); setContentPane(splitPane); //Next 6 lines I put panels to the left and right side of the splitpane. leftPanel = new JPanel(); splitPane.setLeftComponent(leftPanel); leftPanel.setLayout(null); //WindowBuilder made this null but it actually has absoluteLayout rightPanel = new JPanel(); splitPane.setRightComponent(rightPanel); // I have to define the cardLay before the rightPanel, or else it does not recognize it // as the parent. [show(Container parent, String name);] cardLay = new CardLayout(0, 0); rightPanel.setLayout(cardLay); //Next 6 lines are about the left side of the splitPane. I add my checkboxes cbTwo = new JCheckBox("Box Two"); cbTwo.setBounds(6, 7, 97, 23); leftPanel.add(cbTwo); cbOne = new JCheckBox("Box One"); cbOne.setBounds(6, 34, 97, 23); leftPanel.add(cbOne); // The two panels I try to add to the cardLayout. panelOne = new JPanel(new FlowLayout()); panelTwo = new JPanel(new FlowLayout()); // Adding the checkboxes to the panels before adding them into the cardlayout. cbCardOne = new JCheckBox("Panel One"); cbCardTwo = new JCheckBox("Panel Two"); //Finally, boxes are added to the panel panelOne.add(cbCardOne); panelTwo.add(cbCardTwo); //Panels are added to the cardLayout cardLay.addLayoutComponent(panelOne, ONE); cardLay.addLayoutComponent(panelTwo, TWO); //I want it to show the relevant panel when the checkbox gets the focus. //So I wrote this Focus Adapter. cbTwo.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter(){ @Override public void focusGained(FocusEvent arg0) { System.out.println("Did it change?"); //Testing if 'focus' is what I thought, cardLay.show(rightPanel, ONE); //And it is what I thought. } }); cbOne.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter(){ @Override public void focusGained(FocusEvent arg0) { System.out.println("Didn't it change?"); cardLay.show(rightPanel, TWO); } }); } }
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Okay I had decided I wanted to try and do laser refractive surgery. I had gotten a recommendation from a friend of mine who is an OD (but doesn't do the surgery) for a place in town. Went in for the initial consultation. I'm 54 and currently wear monovision contacts. My goal was to have the correction so that I could see distance without glasses or contacts but I was going to go with a non-monovision correction and just use reading glasses. My hope was that this would last 10-20 years and I felt that at some point I'd have a regression and have to go to glasses again but at least they wouldn't be "coke" bottles and at that point they'd be bifocals as well. My current contact prescription is -6 right and -6.5 left (nondominant for my monovision contacts). I'm not sure what my actual left is but a 1.5 reading glasses worked when they had me try two distance contacts just to make sure that I would be okay moving away from monovision to just distance. I do have a small amount of astigmatism but not enough to have to wear torics. Regular soft contacts are okay.
Everything looked good and I agreed to go forward with LASIK. Set up a pre-op date and surgery date. Went in for pre-op and everything looked like a go. Told the doctor that I was a little nervous about the flap cutting but that I'd get through it. She indicated she'd give me some extra anti-anxiety medicine the day of surgery. That was a Friday. The following Wed (1/31/07) was my scheduled surgery date. The Tuesday night before surgery she called me to indicate that she had consulted with the other two doctors in her practice and they all agreed I'd be better off with PRK. She explained the differences and was helpful in answering any questions and told me if I had anymore questions to let me know. She also said it was no problem if I wanted to postpone the surgery to think about it. So I postponed a week.
So the PRK surgery was scheduled for today. Since I had researched LASIK on the internet pretty thoroughly I did a little research on PRK. Found out about the longer recovery (which the doctor had already told me about) but one thing that I did find was that PRK typically is used for "mild to moderate" myopia. And what I was seeing was that the range for that was about -3 to -5. Also what I was seeing was that the need for enhancements was perhaps slightly higher than for LASIK. So Tuesday morning I called her to ask her about those things. She indicated that because of my prescription strength the chance a non-full correction to 20/20 was higher but could give me no percentage on what that might be. She also said that there could be a greater need for enhancements again due to my prescription strength. I asked about the cost of enhancements and the cost was reasonable. So everything seemed to be settled.
So last night at 9pm I get a call from her indicating that she's not sure that my expectations of the surgery are consistent with the potential and indicating that we should cancel the surgery and that I should probably seek a second opinion.
I'm confused and bummed out and am not sure where to turn now. I'd still like to do the surgery but if it was PRK I'd have to put it off for a while as I don't have the time available right now for a recovery of more than a few days away from work.
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Africa's Lost History
The African Experience: Major Themes in African History from Earliest Times to the Present
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
It is now sixteen years since Dr. David Western, an ecologist, threw a ball of dry elephant dung at Dr. Andrew Hill, a paleontologist. The two scientists were gamboling, as learned mammals sometimes do, on a dry riverbed in Tanzania. Dr. Western missed, but Dr. Hill fell over. Given their respective professions, this was a lucky division of functions, because while on his knees Dr. Hill noticed a series of pockings on the rock surface around him.
These turned out to be raindrops which had fallen, something over 3.6 million years before, into a quick-drying layer of volcanic ash. Soon animal tracks were found too. Two seasons later, the footprints of hominids were uncovered—that "Laetoli Trail" which has become recognized as one of the wonders of the world, and down which three somebodies or somethings ambled splashily across a mudflat. The smallest somebody or something halted and half-turned for a moment to gaze sideways. The third one came along a little later, and amused itself by putting its feet rather imprecisely in the first one's prints. They were tiny people or creatures, probably with apelike heads, but the high arch of their insteps and the splay of their toes (the wet mud squeezing up between them) is entirely modern. No relic in paleontology is as charming and touching as the trail of the Laetoli walkers.
Because of Laetoli, because of all the archaeological toil of the Leakey dynasty in Olduvai Gorge and Turkana, because of "Lucy's" skull in the Afar desert, the world now accepts that the human species originated in Africa. More recently still, the so-called African Eve" hypothesis indicates a single common female ancestor, located in Africa at that place where the countless ramifications of the gene tree run together.
It is not new that Africa, more than any other continent, should be used as a means of divination for the anxieties of the "developed" world. But in every generation, the omens extorted from Africa are different. Once, in the later nineteenth century, Africa appeared at the same time unspeakably rich and the place of unspeakable wickedness. Its jungle glades glittered with gold and diamonds, while Satan ruled over cannibal orgy and slave-raid. Much later, the image of Africa was of culture and constitutions, of Ife bronze heads and the anticolonial struggle of a continent. Now the "significance" of Africa has become even more desperate. On the one hand, the place which Europeans for five hundred years regarded as the stagnant backwater of human development has turned out to be the fountain-head of all human development. Man began there; Africa is Mother. On the other hand—to give those already contorted emotions a further twist—Africa is represented as the very emblem of human failure. There, on those dried-out savannahs and eroded hills, the politics of optimism and the energy of international altruism and the hope that human ingenuity will always keep one hop ahead of the population surge seem all to have come to grief in one gigantic refugee…
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Twin Red Flatties
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A lot of the time we feel like we are chasing ghosts. For a few days during the 2011 Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, we were asked by many people if we'd seen the father and son flatfenders. Of course, we hadn't, and when we finally did, we almost didn't know it. We saw one flatty in a tire shop parking lot and while it was definitely nice, we decided there was just more chrome involved than we'd normally shoot. Plus it was very clean, and we were wondering if it really went wheeling. So, we went about our business until a van moved revealing the other flatfender to us. That's when we went over to talk to the father and son team of Gerald M. Roberts and Gerald Roberts, Jr. (Jerry).
What we found that was not only do these Jeeps go wheeling, but they were built at-home over many years. The Jeeps have seen such trails as the Rubicon, Dusey-Ershem, Fordyce, and many around Moab, Utah. The two flatfenders are Chevy-powered, stretched 8 inches for more interior room, and have a slew of custom and functional modifications to make them better drivers on- and off-road. Once we got down to the nitty-gritty we knew we had to shoot these Jeeps and bring them to you.
The frame is where it all starts. You'll not find any flatfender here. The frame is custom-made from 2x4, 3⁄16-inch-wall square tube. The amount of time in this frame is incredible. The welds were all ground smooth and after the body mounts were added, it was coated in gloss black powdercoat. From the middle of the frame to the rear it was widened like a later Wrangler frame is and a 19-gallon Ford truck fuel tank with an internal fuel pump is tucked up high and tight within the framerails and all-but invisible under its re-appropriated Ford skidplate. The 4¼-turn lock-to-lock Cadillac-sourced four-bolt Saginaw steering box provides more precise steering control and the leaf springs are soft-ride 3-inch lift '79-'85 Toyota springs. A Warn Mx-8000 sits out in front of the grille between the Warn auxiliary driving lights.
Power comes from a GM 4.3L V-6 with throttle body fuel injection out of a '90 donor mule. It's cooled by a Fiero aluminum radiator. An engine-mounted York compressor provides the air for the lockers and the on-board air system. Across from the York is a Hehr Powerline 150-amp alternator. Power goes through a bellhousing from a '65 Chevy pickup to the SM420 transmission. A Jeep Dana 300 is bolted up thanks to an Advance Adapters adapter and splits power to the front Dana 44 and rear Dana 60. The axles were both snagged from Chevy donors. Superwinch hubs were added to the Dana 44 and Summer Brothers chromoly axleshafts were added to the Dana 60. ARB Air Lockers are spun by 4.56 gears and send power out to the 35x12.50R15 BFG MTs wrapped around 15x10 Mickey Thompson rims. Front brakes are the factory ½-ton Chevy parts while the rear discs are pre-'87 Ford discs and they are pushed on by a Ford Mustang booster and master cylinder.
Body and Interior
The body is stretched 8 inches in the door openings to allow for easier ingress and egress. The cage is tied in through the floor and some isolating rubber mounts to the frame. It also serves as backup to the under-floor-mounted air tank. Custom retractable manually operated steps make the big leap up into the Jeep easier. The lever for the step pokes through the floor between the Flo-fit seats and the door openings. A tilt Chevy steering column and Denon head unit and 10-disc CD-player makes for a much better driving experience than would have been possible when this Jeep was first built. Painless Performance was used to wire the whole thing up with a wiring harness and fuse panel. Most of the gauges are Datcom electronic units with a VDO clock and VDO air temp gauge. A custom console houses the CB radio and ARB Air Locker switches within easy reach of the driver.
Hard Facts (Father)
Vehicle: '52 Willys CJ-3A
Engine: '90 4.3L GM V-6
Transmission: SM420
Transfer Case: Dana 300
Axles: Dana 44 (front), Dana 60 (rear)
Wheels: 15x10 Mickey Thompson Classic II
Tires: 35x12.50R15 BFG MT
Built For: Rockcrawling and exploring
The big difference between the two Jeeps is the engines. While there was a throttle-body-injected engine planned for this Jeep, a deal came up on a multiport-injected engine from a later '93. The rest of the drivetrain is the same, with the SM420, Dana 300, front Dana 44 and rear Dana 60.
Up close there are scores of minor differences but another big one is the underhood welder this one has in it. For all the rest of the specifics you can read the "Hard Facts (Father)" on the opening spread.
Good, Bad, and What It's For
If you are going to build and wheel more than one Jeep, it makes very good sense to build them the same so that parts interchange between them. The use of 3⁄16-inch-thick tube for the entire frame is a bit overkill, but there will never be any breakage issues. We also like that simple leaf springs were used with simple and relatively inexpensive front Dana 44 and rear Dana 60 axles. We'd have tried to keep it spring-under, but that would have required custom springs and more cost, especially when building two of them. We'd have stayed away from the dual front shocks and a lot of the chrome as well but overall this is a pair of very capable and cool Jeeps.
Hard Facts (Son)
Vehicle: '42 Willys MB
Engine: '93 4.3L Chevy Vortec V-6
Transmission: SM420
Transfer Case: Dana 300
Axles: Dana 44 (front), Dana 60 (rear)
Wheels: 15x10 Mickey Thompson Classic II
Tires: 35x12.50R15 BFG MTs
Built For: Rockcrawling and exploring
Why I Wrote This Feature
I would have loved to have gotten a chance to build a Jeep with my dad, much less two. If I did have the chance, odds are good it wouldn't have been anywhere near as cool as a pair of flatfenders. If I were going to build a flatfender from the ground up, I'd probably stretch it like the Roberts did here. The Chevy V-6 is one of my favorite engines for smaller, lighter, Jeeps, and the choice of transmissions and T-cases is also spot on.


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NUECES COUNTY. Nueces County is on the Gulf of Mexico southeast of San Antonio. It is bounded on the north by the Nueces River and on the east by the Laguna Madre, Corpus Christi Bay, and Redfish Bay. San Patricio County is on the north border, Jim Wells County on the west, and Kleberg County on the south. The county seat and largest city, Corpus Christi, is 210 miles southwest of Houston and 145 miles southeast of San Antonio. The center of the county lies roughly at 27°44' north latitude and 97°33' west longitude. Two major highways serve the county, Interstate 37 and U.S. Highway 77. Two railroads, the Missouri Pacific and the Texas-Mexican, cross the county.
Nueces County comprises 847 square miles of the Coastal Prairies region. The terrain is generally flat. The elevation ranges from sea level to 180 feet above sea level. In the central part of the county the soil varies from very dark loams to gray or black cracking clayey soils. In the west the soils are light to dark with loamy surfaces and clayey subsoils. In the coastal region the soils are sandy; in marsh areas the soils are also very dark with clayey subsoils. Vegetation varies from cordgrasses, salt grasses, and marsh millet along the coast to tall grasses, oak, prickly pear, acacias, and mesquite trees in the central and western parts of the county. Between 61 and 70 percent of the land in the county is considered prime farmland. The Nueces River drains the northern and western portions of the county, Oso Creek the central portion, and San Fernando and Petronila creeks the southern portion. The climate is humid-subtropical. Temperatures range from an average high of 93° F in July to an average low of 47° in January. The average annual rainfall is thirty inches. The growing season extends for an annual average of 309 days, with the first freeze in December and the last in early February. Crops include sorghum, cotton, hay, corn, wheat, watermelons, peaches, and pecans. Beef and dairy cattle and hogs are raised.
The area has long been the site of human habitation. Archeological artifacts recovered in the region suggest that the earliest human beings arrived around 6,000 to 8,000 years ago. Following these earliest inhabitants was a culture known as the Aransas. Aransas campsites, some dating back 4,000 years, have been found from Copano Bay, in Aransas County, to Baffin Bay, north of Kenedy County. The Aransas Indians, a nomadic hunter-gatherer people, appear to have left the Gulf Coast around A.D. 1200–1300. The region apparently remained uninhabited for 100 years, until the ancestors of the Karankawas moved there around A.D. 1,400. During historic times, the Coastal Bend area was occupied by several groups of Indians: the Coahuiltecans, Karankawas, Lipan Apaches, and Tonkawas. These groups were subdivided into numerous smaller bands: the Atakapa, Borado, Cavas, Capoque, Emet, Kohani, Kopani, Malaquite, Payaya, Sana, Tamique, and others. These nomadic hunter-gatherers shared a common linguistic basis but did not form larger alliances. After the arrival of Europeans most fled, succumbed to disease, or were absorbed by other indigenous groups; by the mid-1800s virtually all trace of them had disappeared.
The earliest Europeans to reach the area of the future Nueces County may have been the party of Alonzo Álvarez de Pineda, who reputedly reached Corpus Christi Bay on the feast of Corpus Christi, 1519. Conclusive evidence, however, is lacking because the records of his expedition are lost. Nine years later Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his crew were shipwrecked on the Texas coast. Although Cabeza de Vaca's exact route is unknown, historians believe that some members of his party skirted Corpus Christi Bay. The Spanish, however, largely ignored Texas until the French, under René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, established a colony in the region in 1685. Spanish authorities dispatched an expedition to the region in 1689 under Alonso De León, the governor of Coahuila. Corpus Christi Bay, however, remained unknown and unexplored until 1747, when Joaquín Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra, captain of the presidio at La Bahía, led an expedition down the Nueces River to its mouth, where he arrived on February 26. After his return, José de Escandón, governor and captain general of Nuevo Santander, proposed to found a settlement called Villa de Vedoya at the mouth of the Nueces. Indians living in the area were to be served by a mission named Nuestra Señora del Soto. In the summer of 1749 fifty families accompanied by a squadron of soldiers and two priests set out, but because of drought and poor provisions they never reached their goal. Several other attempts were made to found a colony at the mouth of the Nueces, but not until the 1760s, when ranchers from Camargo, Nuevo Santander (now Tamaulipas), pushed northward in search of new grazing lands, did the first Spanish settlers reach the area. The first settlement was founded by Blas María de la Garza Falcón, captain of Camargo, who in 1766 established a ranch called Santa Petronila, on Petronila Creek. In 1787 Manuel de Escandón, the son of José de Escandón, proposed another settlement at the mouth of the Nueces, but the project never advanced beyond the planning stages. In the late 1780s and early 1790s Spanish authorities also considered moving Nuestra Señora del Refugio Mission to the mouth of the Nueces, but abandoned the idea because of continuing friction with the Lipan Apaches. At the end of the eighteenth century ranchers from the Rio Grande valley began applying for and receiving land grants in the lower Nueces valley. By 1794 a large ranch belonging to Juan Barrera and known as Rancho de Santa Gertrudis was in operation on the north side of Corpus Christi Bay. Between 1800 and the end of Spanish dominion much of what is now Nueces County was granted to ranching families, most of whom were related by marriage. In 1812, after an Indian uprising, the colonists abandoned the area and sought refuge in the Rio Grande valley. The colonists returned, but repeated skirmishes with the Indians continued until about 1824, when peace was made with the Comanches and Lipans. After Mexican independence, the region became part of Tamaulipas. During the period from 1829 to 1836 most of the land in the lower Nueces valley that had not been granted under Spanish rule was deeded to individuals by the Tamaulipan government.
In 1830 new attempts were made to establish colonies in the area. Gen. Manuel de Mier y Terán proposed founding two towns near the mouth of the Nueces. One settlement was to be located at the site of present-day Corpus Christi, but it was never realized. The other settlement, however, a military post known as Fort Lipantitlán, was established in 1831 in the northwestern part of the future county at the point where the road from Matamoros to Goliad crossed the river. During the remaining years of Mexican rule no other towns were established on the west bank of the Nueces, but in the 1820s two Irish colonies were founded on the east side of the river under contracts issued to James Power and James Hewetson by the state of Coahuila and Texas. In 1828 John McMullen and James McGloin obtained a grant to settle a tract of land along the east side of the Nueces ten leagues west of the coast. Later, some of these colonists and their descendents moved west of the river.
During the 1830s two further unsuccessful attempts were made to establish colonies at the mouth of the Nueces. German nobleman Baron Johan von Raiknitz attempted to found a German settlement on the west bank of the Nueces, but the ship carrying the colonists was prevented from landing by the French during the so-called "Pastry War" between France and Mexico. A second ship transporting colonists from Germany was shipwrecked. Around the same time abolitionist Benjamin Lundy proposed to established a colony for freed slaves, but the plans were abandoned after the outbreak of the Texas Revolution. During the revolution, Texans under Ira Westover captured the Indian village of Lipantitlán, which was later occupied by Francis W. Johnson and the New Orleans Greys . After the revolution, the area south and west of the Nueces River was a no-man's-land. Texas claimed the territory, but Mexico said it was part of Tamaulipas. Neither exercised effective control. Both Texan and Mexican raiding parties made periodic forays into the region between 1838 and 1841. Mexican Federalist forces twice sought sanctuary at Fort Lipantitlán in the late 1830s, and in 1838 Gen. Antonio Canales organized his army for the Republic of the Rio Grande nearby.
During this period both Mexican and Texan merchants engaged in illegal trading in the Nueces valley. Among the most prominent of these was Henry Lawrence Kinney, who established a trading post and fort on Corpus Christi Bay in 1839. The land belonged to Capt. Enrique Villareal, a rancher from Matamoros, who had obtained it in 1832. Villareal led a force of 300 men to confront Kinney in 1841. Kinney, however, managed to negotiate an agreement and purchase the land from him. The small settlement soon became the focus of trade in the area. Repeated attacks by Mexican bands forced Kinney to abandon the post in 1842, but he returned a short time later and reestablished his trading business. A post office opened in 1842 with William P. Aubrey as its postmaster. The population of the small settlement—now known as Corpus Christi—boomed briefly when Gen. Zachary Taylor's army arrived there in September 1845, but it quickly shrank again after the Mexican War.
Nueces County, including the entire area south of Bexar County west to the Rio Grande and east to the Gulf of Mexico, was formed from San Patricio County in 1846 and organized the same year. Corpus Christi, which was incorporated in 1846, became the county seat. The population of the county, however, remained small. Although large numbers of fortune-seekers passed through Corpus Christi to join wagon trains heading west during the California gold rush of 1849, few settlers put down roots. Continuous Indian attacks and the relative isolation of the region kept away most would-be settlers. The first census of the county in 1850 showed a population of 689. Between 1850 and 1861 the Nueces County area was further divided to form several new counties.
Kinney, who continued to promote Corpus Christi, organized a major fair in the town in 1852, reportedly the first state fair in Texas. Despite extensive preparations, however, it proved to be a failure. Two years later, yellow fever decimated the population. Nonetheless, the early 1850s saw the construction of a county courthouse and jail and the beginnings of regular county government.
The mainstay of the local economy in late antebellum Texas remained ranching. Between the Texas Revolution and the late 1840s the area's ranches had been virtually abandoned. After the Mexican War the land grants of Mexican ranchers in the region were gradually acquired by Anglos who reestablished the cattle and horse industries. Tax rolls in 1848 reported only 647 cattle and nineteen horses. By 1860, however, records showed 56,454 cattle and 8,554 horses and mules worth an estimated $489,520. Farming was not extensive and was only for subsistence.
During the early years of the Civil War, Corpus Christi was an important center for Confederate commerce. In 1859 no fewer than forty-five small vessels carried trade between Corpus Christi and Indianola. Small boats sailing inside the barrier islands transported goods from the Brazos River to the Rio Grande, while inland cotton was moved along the Cotton Road through Banquete to Matamoros and the mills of England. In an effort to halt the trade, Union forces seized control of Mustang Island in the fall of 1863. Corpus Christi was twice bombarded by federal gunboats, but the overland trade continued without interruption until the end of the war.
Although Nueces County escaped the destruction that devastated other parts of the South, the war years were difficult for the county's citizens, who were thwarted by the lack of markets and the wild fluctuations in Confederate currency, as well as by concern for combatants. After the war Nueces County residents experienced a protracted period of lawlessness and violence. Although the black population before the war had been very small and no Ku Klux Klan chapter was organized in the county during Reconstruction, political violence was commonplace, as Republicans and former Confederates struggled for control. Turmoil continued along the Mexican border, and cattle rustling and raids by bandits were frequent problems. In the end, however, because of its relatively small population, Nueces County was spared much of the fighting that other Texas counties experienced, and order was generally restored by the early 1870s.
The war and its aftermath also had a less serious effect on the county's economy than was the case in much of Texas. Land prices fell significantly, from fifty cents an acre in 1860 to twenty-eight cents an acre in 1869. But the boom in the cattle industry in the early 1870s helped Nueces County to overcome the postwar economic depression. In 1871 local tax rolls showed 218,969 cattle worth more than $942,000, more than four times the number from 1860. The cattle were shipped to market by two main routes: by water to New Orleans and Havana, or overland to Kansas, where they were shipped by rail to the East. During the early 1870s some ten meat-packing plants operated in Nueces County, but most were closed by the middle of the decade because the cattle drives proved to be more profitable.
Mustangs and other horses also contributed to the county's new prosperity; in 1871 there were 34,077 horses and mules in the county. But the greatest competition to the cattle industry came from sheep ranching. Before the ranges were fenced, Nueces County was an important center for wool production. During the late antebellum period, the number of sheep had been relatively small, with some 35,000 reported in 1860. By 1871, 363,835 sheep were counted, and by 1876 the number of sheep topped 650,000. In 1875 and 1876 the assessed value of sheep in the county actually exceeded that of cattle. Falling wool prices in the 1880s, however, and the advent of fencing eventually caused the sheep industry to decline. But for a number of years between the mid-1870s and early 1880s Nueces County led all Texas counties in the number of sheep and cattle.
During the latter half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, the population of Nueces County grew markedly, particularly in the decade after the turn of the century. In 1860 the county had only 2,906 residents, but the number increased rapidly in the post-Civil War years, to 3,975 in 1870, 7,673 in 1880, 8,093 in 1890, 10,439 in 1900, and 21,955 in 1910. Much of the population was centered in and around Corpus Christi, which gradually emerged as the commercial hub of the region. As the city grew in importance as a shipping center, efforts were made to improve access to the ocean. In 1874 the main sea channel was dredged to a depth of eight feet to allow large steamers to navigate. During the mid-1870s construction also began on the county's first railroad, a narrow-gauge line from Corpus Christi to Laredo. After its completion in 1881 a second line was begun, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass, which was completed in 1886 and extended from Corpus Christi to San Antonio.
The mid-1880s also witnessed the beginnings of cash-crop agriculture in Nueces County. During the late 1870s and early 1880s livestock raising in some areas of the county began to be supplanted by more traditional farming, particularly of cotton and vegetables. The growth of such farms began the breakup of the huge expanses of pastureland in the county and spelled the beginning of the end of the old cattle-ranching life. In 1889, 1,010 bales of cotton were produced; by 1910 the figure had grown to 8,566, and by 1930 Nueces County was among the leading cotton-producing counties in the state, with 148,442 bales (see COTTON CULTURE).
Although cotton was the dominant crop during the early decades of the twentieth century, Nueces County farmers also produced large quantities of vegetables, including cabbage, onions, spinach, carrots, cucumbers, and turnips. The transition to cash-crop farming brought dramatic changes in land tenure. While large ranchers had predominated during the antebellum and early postwar period, by the turn of the century the land was increasingly worked by tenant farmers. In 1910, when agriculture was still developing in the county, only 35.3 percent of farmers were tenants, below the statewide average of 52.6. By 1925, however, 76.4 percent of all Nueces County farmers were tenants. The majority of the leaseholders were Anglos, but much of the labor was performed by Mexican Americans who were poorly paid and frequently lived in poverty.
During the 1920s agricultural mechanization began in the county. Tractors and other machines appeared in increasing numbers, and by the eve of World War II Nueces County farms were among the most mechanized in the state. The onset of the Great Depression, falling cotton prices, and the arrival of the boll weevil brought new hardships for county farmers. Many were forced to move to the cities. The total number of farms in the county fell from a high of 1,969 in 1930 to 1,306 in 1950. Cotton production, which had peaked during the mid-1920s at more than 100,000 bales a year, fell markedly during the 1930s and early 1940s. In 1945, only 46,000 bales were ginned. Cotton farming rebounded in the late 1940s, and in 1949 production once again topped the 100,000-bale mark. Since that time cotton production has declined, though it remains a significant part of the county's agricultural receipts. Truck farming flourished in the 1950s, but was afterward increasingly replaced by sorghum, which in the 1980s and 1990s was the county's largest crop. The decline in cotton and truck farming in the post-World War II era also forced many tenant farmers to leave the land or to hire out as agricultural workers. In the 1980s the economic base of the county, outside of the Corpus Christi area, was still overwhelmingly agricultural. In 1982, 85 percent of the county was in farms and ranches, with 77 percent of the land under cultivation and 1 percent irrigated. Nueces County ranked twenty-ninth in the state in agricultural receipts, with some 87 percent coming from crops.
Another important sector of the Nueces County economy in the twentieth century has been oil and natural gas. In 1922 natural gas was discovered in Nueces County, and a few years later several major oilfields were developed. Gas-recycling plants and carbon black plants (see CARBON BLACK INDUSTRY), as well as oil refineries, are located in the county. Total oil production in the county from 1930 to January 1, 1989, was 533,831,701 barrels. Soda and salts of several varieties are produced from raw materials chiefly from Duval County. Other industries include a Celanese chemical plant and copper and lead refineries.
In 1926 the port of Corpus Christi was opened. The legislature made the port a state project by allocating the taxes from seven adjacent counties for the construction of breakwaters, jetties, and other ancillary improvements. The channel from the Gulf of Mexico to the turning basin is a part of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which connects the port with cities of the Mississippi valley as well as with foreign markets and makes it potentially one of the chief ports of America. In 1935 the depth of the channel was increased to thirty-five feet so that large ships could be accommodated. The 1930s and 1940s also brought improvements in the transportation network of the county. By 1940 most of the major roads in the county were paved, and U.S. Highway 77 and State highways 44 and 286 had given farmers better access to markets.
The military importance of the area has been recognized since the time of the Mexican War, when Fort Marcy, the first federal post activated on Texas soil, was established. At one time Nueces County had five federal forts; Corpus Christi was a supply depot until 1857. On March 12, 1941, with the establishment of the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, the town became the home of the so-called "University of the Air."
Since World War I Nueces County has shown a remarkable growth in population, increasing from 22,807 residents in 1920 to 165,471 in 1950 and to 237,544 in 1970. In 2014 the reported population of the county was 356,221. About 31.4 percent were Anglo, 4.4 percent African American, and 62 percent Hispanic. The largest towns were Corpus Christi (population, 317,004), Robstown (11,730), Port Aransas (3,772), and North San Pedro (906). During the early 1980s the county had thirteen school districts with sixty elementary, twenty middle, and fifteen high schools, as well as six special-education schools.
From the time of annexation to the 1950s, Nueces County remained solidly Democratic. Dwight D. Eisenhower won by a small margin in 1956, but Republicans otherwise failed to receive a majority of the county's votes until the election of 1972, when Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern, 41,682 to 33,277. Subsequently Democrats won the county in every presidential election except 1984, when Ronald Reagan outpolled Walter Mondale by a small margin.
The total number of businesses in the county in the early 1980s was 6,425. In 1980, 7 percent of workers were self-employed, 20 percent in professional or related services, 12 percent in manufacturing, 23 percent in wholesale or retail trade, and 10 percent in construction. In addition 5 percent were employed in other counties, and 14,911 retired workers lived in the county. Leading industries included tourism, agribusiness, general and heavy construction, oil and gas field services, meat packing, soft-drink bottling and canning, commercial printing, petroleum refining, ship building and repairing, and zinc refining. Also important were manufacturers of dairy products, bakery products, men's and women's clothing, plastics and resins, cement and ready-mix concrete, prefabricated metal buildings, oilfield machinery, and electronic components. Leading attractions in Nueces County include Padre Island National Seashore, Mustang Island State Park, the Texas State Aquarium, the Art Museum of South Texas, and the USS Lexington, a World War II aircraft carrier-museum in Corpus Christi Bay.
Eugenia Reynolds Briscoe, City by the Sea: A History of Corpus Christi, Texas, 1519–1875 (New York: Vantage, 1985). Marvin Lee Deviney, The History of Nueces County to 1850 (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1935). Frontier Times, April 1949. Coleman McCampbell, "Nueces County Originally Covered Vast Area," Frontier Times, April 1935. Marker Files, Texas Historical Commission, Austin. Mrs. S. G. Miller, Sixty Years in the Nueces Valley, 1870 to 1930 (San Antonio: Naylor, 1930). Glenn A. Mitchell, The Geography of Nueces County, Texas (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1959). Margaret Sellers, The History of Public Schools in Nueces County (M.A. thesis, Texas College of Arts and Industries, 1957). Paul Schuster Taylor, An American-Mexican Frontier, Nueces County, Texas (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934). Frank Wagner, ed., Fires and Hard Times (Corpus Christi: Friends of the Corpus Christi Museum, 1982). Bill Walraven, Corpus Christi: The History of a Texas Seaport (Woodland Hills, California, 1982). Bill Walraven, El Rincon: A History of Corpus Christi Beach (Corpus Christi: Texas State Aquarium, 1990).
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The Hudson River was loaded with raw sewage. That's right, we swam in raw sewage. You know, to cool off. And back then the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids every year were dying of polio. But you know what, in my neighborhood, nobody ever got polio. No one. Ever. You know why? BECAUSE WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE. It strengthened our immune system. The polio never had a chance. We were tempered in raw shit. What are you going to do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit? I'll tell you what you're gonna do. You're gonna get sick and you're gonna die and you're gonna deserve it because you're fuckin' weak and you have a fuckin' weak immune system.


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Liberty News
Celebrate July 4 at Snowflex, Poplar Forest
Due to the current construction project at Liberty University's Williams Stadium, there will be no Celebrate America event, Thomas Road Baptist Church's annual celebration of America's independence, on July 4.
In years past, Celebrate America offered carnival attractions, food, live music and more within the Williams Stadium, followed by a fireworks show. But don't despair — there are other family-friendly activities to be held on Liberty's campus and around the area.
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest will offer live music, theatrical performances, crafts and activities suitable for every age from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 4. Admission is free for children under 16 years old, $5 for everyone else. Visit the event's website for more information.
On campus, Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre will host Celebration on the Mountain from 2 p.m. to midnight July 4. The event will feature free slip and sliding, water games, bounce houses, food and the movies Up and The Blind Side. You'll have a chance to see the area's firework displays from the highest point in the city of Lynchburg.
Skiing and snowboarding will be offered at a special discounted price of $5 per hour (includes lift ticket and rentals).


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Posted by Mackenzie on Tuesday, October 31, 2006
We haven't done this in a while. Let's troll!
First- we have a really unique wedding gown. Yes it's from the 70's. Sure you could say it's a little "hippy-ish". But I just can't get over the embroidery. The colors! I think it would be really perfect at a beach wedding in a tropical local. I suppose I might alter the sleeves slightly, but that would be pretty easy. I'd say definitely give it a look if you're looking for a really unique summery wedding dress.
Next- we have what I think would be a fun gag gift for a bride-to-be. A book, published in the 30's for the engaged woman, filled with recipies, advertisements, tips on how to dress for your man...
Then- we have a set of pretty pretty toasting glasses. Something Blue!
Last- very pretty mantilla hair comb.


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Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
Complete these two jigsaws then put one on top of the other. What happens when you add the 'touching' numbers? What happens when you change the position of the jigsaws?
Group work depends on effective team work. This article describes attributes of effective team work and links to "Team Building" problems that can be used to develop learners' team working skills.
Use a single sheet of A4 paper and make a cylinder having the greatest possible volume. The cylinder must be closed off by a circle at each end.
Which pairs of cogs let the coloured tooth touch every tooth on the other cog? Which pairs do not let this happen? Why?
You are organising a school trip and you need to write a letter to parents to let them know about the day. Use the cards to gather all the information you need.
What happens to the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes when you enlarge them?
Although almost any NRICH activity could be tackled in a group, these upper primary activities have been created specifically with group work in mind.
This article for teachers suggests a range of activities to help children get better at working in groups.
In this article for teachers, Jennie Pennant outlines how group-worthy tasks support the development of children's problem-solving skills.


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One of the best experiences I ever had after so many years visiting boutique hotels, villas & private guest houses, was at Mediterraneo Suite Home in Rethimno, Creta. That was unique because of many attributes.
Creta is a blessed island. Not because every time I visit, it feels like I have Cretan blood in my veins, but because it was one of the few islands that stayed pure most of the time, against various conquerors throughout the centuries. Hence, the blonde, blue-eyed, light complexion people and the free and independent vibe that is obvious in any instance. However, Venetians left many good things behind and Mediterraneo Suite Home is one of them.
Mediterraneo Suite Home is exactly what it says, a Home away from home. An old Venetian home, perfectly located in the Ancient city of Rethimno and totally renovated, with every single detail perfectly taken care of, so that it could satisfy its customers every need. If you drive there, there is a parking space waiting for you, just around the corner. By entering the old city, you pass by an arch while you walk in-between beautiful ancient buildings made of stone. The entrance of Mediterraneo Suite Home is post modern, perfectly combined with the surrounding environment. The MSH consists of three levels. On the ground level, there is the main entrance and a beautiful big bedroom with a private bathroom.
To go upstairs, you have to walk up an artistically made, marble staircase that is hanging from the wall. When you reach the first floor, a thick glass floor stands in front of you and a glass ceiling/skylight above you. The living room is huge, with happy colours, conveying freshness, optimism and vitality. This level, is dominated by typical Venetian stone elements. On the same level, there is a spacious, fully equipped kitchen with my favourite Nespresso coffee machine for me and for all those coffee lovers out there. Six people have the possibility to dine in, stay at the house and enjoy it. Kids are very welcome, hence the kids corner with their bunk beds, sweet little desk, all the educating material from Mediterranean publications and their private bathroom. On the same level, you can find a master bedroom, impeccably coexisting with the ensuite bathroom. There, handmade products are offered, showing the artisanship of the island, under the brand name "Eau De Grece". Inside the master bedroom, one can find a spacious closet, with a washing and drying machine and not only. The hosts of Mediterraneo Suite Home are ready for that even. Detergent and everything that you might need to wash your clothes is there. Last but not least, the Cocomat mattress and sleepers are there to spoil us. I think everyone know by now that sleeping on coco-fibers is one of the best ways to relax at night, when you need it the most.
Going up, on the second floor, there is a small room equipped with a day bed and a wooden desk, ideal for work and rest. Right outside, a large terrace is located. Time for barbecue, relaxation or even private parties with friends, are in order. A Jacuzzi is coming soon, which will be a nice surprise!
For all those who want to visit a sandy beach, it is only 500m away, while the bars, cafes, restaurants and even the Archeological Museum is at the very close distance of 200m. As the residence is being managed by Hotel Ideon, 24 hour concierge, maintenance & pool service is available just around the corner.
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T3 Spy Planes are a late game ordnance used for gathering intelligence. They are upper tier versions of the T1 Air Scout, equipped with more health and abilities for intelligence gathering, but still fast, cheap, and weak planes. By faction, T3 are quite diverse. However, all Spy Planes have the same Radar (96), Visual (64), Omni (30) range. All Spy Planes also share the same Movement Speed (30), Build Time (900 seconds) and Build Costs (195 mass /5000 energy).
Spy Planes fill the mobile reconnaissance niche. They are able to:
- Scout Enemy Bases
- Provide Mobile Radar, Omni Detection (Cybran and Seraphim Planes also provide Sonar)
- Substitute for Intelligence Installations
Spy Planes are most able to provide additional intelligence. When scouting enemy bases, it is often necessary to use groups of Spy Planes to get enough intelligence. A stream of Spy Planes can also be used for continuous intelligence. Cybran and Seraphim Spy Planes are especially useful for scouting Naval Bases due to their Sonar Abilities. Due to the prevalence of T3 SAM Installations, scouting missions are often suicide missions. Having a Spy Plane accompany a force working outside the bounds of a radar installation is especially useful, and they are key when dealing with the possibility of stealthed or dangerous enemy units. As Spy Planes require no power and are mobile, they are useful backups for Radar Installations. They can also substitute for an Eye of Rhianne or Soothsayer, often with better results.
Spy Planes can also be used for a variety of other purposes, such as drawing SAM Fire, however these techniques are more controversial.
Factional DifferencesEdit
UEF BlackbirdEdit
The best health of all Spy Planes (1150).
Cybran SpookEdit
Comes equipped with Sonar (96 range) and free Personal Stealth. However, it has by far the lowest health (700) and lowest Fuel (16 minutes 40 seconds). Its stealth grants it improved ability to scout bases, making it perhaps the best choice available.
Aeon SeerEdit
Has the second least health (1050) , and no other distinguishing features. The worst of the T3 spy planes, although the difference is minimal.
Seraphim IaselenEdit
Comes equipped with Sonar (96 range) and the second highest health (1100). Especially useful due to the lack of a Seraphim T3 Sonar.
-The UEF's Spy Plane, the SR 90 Blackbird, is named after the real-life SR 71 Blackbird, a retired spy plane. It also resembles the SR71 blackbird very closely.


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Still catching up on posting my purchases…..here's what I bought in April…..
Newbury Comics
Accept – Stalingrad (2012) – $10
Municipal Waste – Fatal Feast (Waste In Space) (2012) – $10
Jeff Scott Soto – Damage Control (Deluxe CD/DVD) (2012) – $20
Fastway – Eat Dog Eat (2012) – $15
Roulette – Lifeline (2011) – $4 used
Primal Rock Rebellion – Awaken Broken (2012) – $10
Into Eternity – Incurable Tragedy (2008) – $4 used
I made a few trips around the Rhode Island area to various Newbury Comics locations because I wasn't banging on the door of the closest store on consecutive Tuesdays for new releases! My first trip to the North Attleboro, MA store netted me the new Accept, Municipal Waste and Jeff Scott Soto albums all at sale prices. The Jeff Scott Soto album is the limited edition with bonus tracks and bonus DVD so it's still a pricey $20 but, when it's an artist I enjoy, I will always pay the extra money. The second trip on the second Tuesday of April was where the problems started this month! I went to my usual Attleboro location for two new releases, Fastway and Adrian Smith's new side project Primal Rock Rebellion, but I got there about an hour late and the two copies of Primal Rock Rebellion were sold! Not to be shut out, I had the store call the Warwick location to hold a copy for me. After I bought the new Fastway on sale, and added a dirt cheap used copy of Roulette's LIFELINE (2001), I went the 25 minutes to Warwick, RI for the Primal Rock Rebellion album and added a cheap used copy of Into Eternity's INCURABLE TRAGEDY (2008) to make the drive worth it.
Ronnie James Dio – The Elf Albums (1994) – $12 used
Shark Island – Gathering Of The Faithful (2006) – $1 used (was $10)
Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination (2011) – $10 used
Rush – Caress Of Steel (1975) – $1 used (was $9)
Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire (2009) – $8 used
Rush – Power Windows (1985) – $1 used (was $8)
Rush – s/t (1974) – $8 used
Elegy – Forbidden Fruit (2000) – $1 used (was $7)
Rush – Grace Under Pressure (1984) – $7 used
Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes – Loaded For Bear (The Best of) (1999) – $1 used (was $5)
From The Inside – Visions (2008) – $6 used
DeAllen – Twisted Inside (2000) – $1 used (was $6)
Arabia – 1001 Nights (2001) – $6 used
Black Robot – s/t (2009) – $1 used (was $4)
24K – Bulletproof (2001) – $4 used
Faith Circus – s/t (2006) – $1 used
The third trip of the month came just a few days later because there was a used CD sale, "Buy 1 get 1 for $1", so I made sure I was outside the door of the Attleboro location early so I could grab some of those used albums I've been watching for a while. I use these sales to fill up some band collections quick and I had two bands in mind: Rush and Skeletonwitch. The problem on this sale was that the used CDs were a little thin compared to how many they usually have so there wasn't a ton of Metal to chose from but I did get the Skeletonwitch records I was looking for and I was able to add four more Rush albums to fill those holes up but I also grabbed a couple of gems that I had been eye-balling with the Elf collection and the Shark Island reunion record. If you look at the prices, I listed the actual used prices for the $1 CDs and, after Rush – s/t & Rush – Grace Under Pressure, all the used CDs came from a special bargain bin the store's had for years. What I like most about this type of sale is that the store takes the highest price CDs and pairs them all together for maximum savings instead of pairing the highest price with the lowest price, etc.
Dario Mollo & Tony Martin – The Third Cage (2012) – $18
The Sign – The Second Coming (2004) – $6 used
April was kind of a thin month for new releases so I started to search for for the new Mollo/Martin album because I never saw it in Attleboro or Warwick. I found it at the Providence Newbury Comics at the mall which is a dead zone for Metal and Hard Rock because it caters more to the Pop and Rap demographic of the area. I was a little surprised to actually find the CD at this location on a rare trip into the Providence Place Mall so I also bought The Sign's second album at a nice used price while I was there.
Ebay (includes shipping)
King Kobra – s/t (2011) – $13
Black 'N Blue – Hell Yeah! (2011) – $9
Just a little Ebay action this time around…..I found both the latest King Kobra and Black 'N Blue albums for decent prices. I already had both as downloads from the label but I need the CDs for the collection. Both CDs were mint condition but the Black 'N Blue CD was a pressing from Argentina. Nothing against pressings from other territories but I prefer the U.S., European or Japanese pressings because I'm worried about bootlegs. HELL YEAH! is from Argentina but the booklet shows that it was licensed from Frontiers Records for release so I felt a bit better about it. I wish the seller had noted the pressing in the auction but what can you do?
Scorpions – Lovedrive (1979) – $7
My wife was buying a book so we needed something to else to get the free shipping on Amazon so I threw in a copy of LOVEDRIVE with the original cover. I already have LOVE DRIVE with the "scorpion" cover so it's not like I was missing anything., it was a quick impulse buy.
Sentinel Steel
Sergeant – s/t (1984) – $15
Last but not least, I ordered this Sergeant reissue from Sentinel Steel mailorder because I noticed the price start to rise on Ebay. This limited edition reissue was released through Stormspell Records a few years ago but it's sold out. The CD arrived and I found the booklet inside was damaged…..not good at all. I'm not going to return the CD because it's too much hassle but I will keep my eys open for a copy on Ebay and sell the damaged one cheap at some point.
Total = $210
Total (year) = $868
Average Price (per item) = $8.35
Total CDs (year) = 99
Total DVDs (year) = 4
Total Blu-Rays (year) = 1


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Corporate Canada's "dead money" is showing signs of life.
Executives at Royal Bank of Canada say they are starting to see more appetite for loans from the corporate sector, after two years of stagnant growth during which companies hunkered down and delayed expansion plans.
Those positive signals come months after Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney chided corporate executives for failing to invest in growth – and for sitting on large cash stockpiles – which he argued was hindering an economic recovery. Mr. Carney referred to it as the "dead money" problem: Companies have declined to spend their cash or use their credit lines, out of fear that another economic shock could roil financial markets and disrupt their access to capital, as happened in 2008.
But those fears may be starting to subside. RBC, which reported a 22-per-cent increase in fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, said the bank is seeing more demand for business loans. Wholesale lending in Canada rose 11 per cent over last year. "The type of investment we're seeing is stuff that's been put off because of the recession and the financial crisis," RBC chief financial officer Janice Fukakusa said in an interview. "There has been more volume growth there, and draw-down of loans."
A resurgence in trading revenues in the capital markets division, along with an uptick in lending, pushed Canada's largest bank to a profit of $1.91-billion, or $1.25 a share, in the fourth quarter. For the year, it earned a record $7.5-billion – an increase of 17 per cent from 2011.
"We ended the year strongly," chief executive officer Gordon Nixon said in a statement. "While the financial industry is expected to face headwinds in 2013, we are confident in our ability to weather these challenges given our strong financial and competitive position."
While the bank says it is seeing positive signs from corporate Canada, it had a bigger increase in corporate lending south of the border. Wholesale lending in the U.S. jumped 53 per cent amid a surge in demand for large financing deals through RBC's capital markets division. A retreat from the North American market by European banks during the financial crisis has created lending opportunities for RBC, the bank said. Wholesale lending in the U.S. in the quarter was $17.1-billion, compared to $54.5-billion in Canada.
But analysts remain skeptical that business lending is picking up in a meaningful way in some key areas in Canada. Analyst Brad Smith of Stonecap Securities said in a research note that the increase of less than 1 per cent in loans to medium– and small-business clients was "anemic."
In the United States, however, the bank has added about 40 new lending clients per quarter in the U.S., Doug McGregor, co-CEO of RBC Dominion Securities Inc., told analysts on a conference call.
The bank said it is considering expanding its operations in the U.S., including asset management and retail banking. After RBC sold off its struggling U.S. retail bank operations last summer, Mr. Nixon suggested it would consider further deals if they arose.
In retail banking, however, he said the bank has been considering a different approach, such as online banking, rather than invest in branches – a strategy it tried during the past decade and suffered vast losses on.
"In the United States, although we don't have the branch network … there are still some pretty attractive opportunities, at least in our view, for us to conservatively continue to take advantage of our strength," Mr. Nixon said, pointing out that RBC's New York-based U.S. capital markets operations are bigger than that same business in Canada.
RBC's earnings in the fourth quarter were slightly better than what analysts expected. Excluding non-cash items, Royal Bank made $1.27 a share. Analysts were expecting about $1.26 per share for the quarter on average. RBC is the first of Canada's major banks to report fourth-quarter earnings. The rest report next week.
The bank's personal and commercial banking operations, which include its network of retail branches across Canada, made $1.03-billion in the quarter, up 9 per cent from last year.
The bank's capital markets division made $410-million in the quarter, up $285-million from last year when slumping markets took a toll on profits. In particular, higher revenue from fixed-income trading helped boost profits in the quarter, RBC said.
Provisions for credit losses, or the money that banks set aside to cover bad loans, rose to $362-million, up $86-million from a year ago. RBC said the increase was mainly due to a loss associated with a single account in its corporate lending portfolio.


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It's not even quite August yet and he's still ahead in the polls, but Barack Obama has played the race card, claiming that he expects Republicans to inject race into the campaign. In Missouri, he told a crowd:
Nobody [ed: nobody?] thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, 'he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, 'he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
The Obama campaign denied that the comment about "presidents on the dollar bills" was a reference to race. It claimed that Obama was referring to the fact that "he didn't get here after spending decades in Washington." But, of course, neither did the presidents on the dollar bills (Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant). Thus, the campaign's spin does not pass the straight face test.
Moreover, a month ago, Obama explicitly claimed, without evidence, that the Republicans will attack him on racial grounds:
The choice is clear. Most of all we can choose between hope and fear. It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy. We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?
It seems clear, therefore, that the race card has become a permanent part of Obama's hand, a wild card to be played whenever the spirit, or the circumstances, so moves him
What does Obama's latest play tell us about the current circumstances? I think it tells us that, despite Obama's presidential preening, he senses he may be in trouble. The "world tour" bounce appears to have been a short-hop only, and his pretentiousness and arrogance are beginning to grate even on some in the MSM. The McCain campaign is ridiculing Obama as a celebrity and little more. There's enough truth in this suggestion to make the candidate uncomfortable. He doesn't feel he can ignore the attack, but he also cannot respond with "I am too a man of substance who deserves my celebrity." Hence the whining; hence the race card.
Shelby Steele has divided African-American public figures into two categories: bargainers and challengers. Bargainers state, in effect, "I will presume that you're not a racist and by loving me you'll show that my presumption is correct." Challengers say, in effect, that whites are racist until they prove otherwise by conferring tangible benefits on them. Oprah is a bargainer; so was Louis Armstrong. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are challengers.
Barack Obama made his political breakthrough as a bargainer. By constantly referring to the national yearning (including, he said, by many Republicans) to "come together" as blacks and whites, Obama presumed we are not racists. His reward was an almost magical appeal to broad portions of the electorate.
However, Steele (who believes that bargainers are masking their real, more subtle, view of whites) predicted that Obama would not be able to maintain his bargainer status. That prophecy began to come true when the tapes of Rev. Wright surfaced. Now, as Obama feels the heat of the campaign, he continues his transformation to challenger. In Steele's terms, he no longer offers us the assurances, required of bargainers, that he knows we're not racists; we now have to prove it to him. Having issued this challenge, Obama can no longer receive our unconditional love.
Of course, Obama doesn't need our unconditional love; he just needs 50 percent plus one of the vote. Straining to get to that number, his mask is coming off, probably to his detriment.
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Timber Shipping Costs
Transportation Method
We have a large fleet of dedicated vehicles fitted with a crane for offloading. The cranes have a reach of approximately 5 metres so can be placed on a driveway or in a front garden with little problem if the area is accessible with the crane (the driver will offload over small walls or fences at your risk, the drivers decision as to whether it is possible is final!), if not then the delivery will be to the kerbside.
Shipping cost will remain the same whether 10 sleepers or 50 are ordered. For larger quantities you should either telephone or email for a quotation - discounts are available!
Shipping by Courier
Due to the heavy awkward nature of the products on this site, courier deliveries are only possible with certain products eg, oak boards, posts and small numbers of new sleepers - our courier will NOT handle used sleepers. Next day delivery is available by this method - please email for costs!
Dedicated Crane Vehicle Delivery
Costs Are as Follows:
0 - 40 miles £32.40
40 - 50 miles £99.00
50 - 60 miles £126.00
60 - 100 miles £144.00
100 - 135 miles £159.30
135 - 160 miles £ 171.00
160 - 250 miles £192.60
250 - 350 miles £208.80
350 - 550 miles £262.80
These costs include offloading to a kerbside location (or similar) with a crane!
Delivery Times (approximate guide)
It is our stated aim to deliver all orders within a 10 working day period (15 working days for Scotland, Wales and Cornwall), in certain areas it is necessary to wait until there are enough orders to fill a truck so the maximum delivery period can possibly (but very rarely) be reached.
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