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The Fog of War
It's an interview with Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968. The movie talks about both World War 2 and VietNam.
What made me think of this movie was our discussion about November 22, 1963.
McNamara talked about that day. His sentences get short, he's clearly emotional. He almost breaks down when he talks about walking the acreage at Arlington to pick the President's gravesite, and how he picked the most beautiful place he could find.
This man was Secretary of Defense when 50,000 Americans died in VietNam and during the bombing campaign that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. It's clear he regrets this, but only the death of JFK that, even 40 years later, moves him to tears.
For people of a certain age, it's the death of FDR. For others, the explosion of the Challenger.
What's the no-need-to-explain iconic moment for you?
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Easily September 11th, because of my age. That was my senior year of high school.
That's strangely beautiful, him walking across Arlington to pick the site. Terrible, but beautiful. I'm sure there are loads of personality studies that could be done on what might move a person to tears over one death instead of hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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9/11 supplanted Challenger as that moment for me.
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- Gina Black said...
December 8, 1980
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9/11. I think that would be everyone's.
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- Ballpoint Wren said...
September 11.
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- Remodeling Repartee said...
For me and a number of folks I've spoken with in the very small generation that is X, it was watching the television movie, The Day After, about the survivors of an all-too-believable nuclear attack on the heartland. I've met Brits my age who remember it too.
The cold war was still hot, the Berlin wall up, Sting was asking if The Russians Love Their Children Too, Reagan was shouting about Evil Empires and getting shot at (by an American). There was no pretense of "duck and cover." No one I knew who was 13 (who wasn't a nitwit) thought we would live to get our drivers licenses.
Douglas Coupland has a piece in his 1991 breakout novel, Generation X, about this generation's archtypal fantasy of where we'll be and what we'll do when the Bomb is on it's way.
This is a great thread, Miss Snark. When you develop a character, you need to know these kinds of things; what generation does she belong to and what shaped that generation as well as the generation of those who raised her.
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- Sandra Ruttan said...
There are three moments in time burned in my mind I suspect forever. When the Berlin Wall fell, especially poignant because I was there to see it. When Princess Diana died...one of those people you expected to hear about in the news forever.
And 9/11. We had the news on and watched the second plane live. At that stage it was so early, and my husband and I actually talked about "could you imagine if this was a deliberate attack?" That's almost like a snapshot of an innocence that can never be reclaimed, the world has changed so much since then.
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- Nicole said...
What's the no-need-to-explain iconic moment for you? 9/11. Without a doubt. I was in high school when Challenger exploded, and when President Reagan was shot. But being a new mother and signing onto the Internet to see a headline reading "America Under Attack" is something I will never, ever forget.
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- Cornelia Read said...
June 8, 1972:
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December 12, 2000.
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- Bonnie S. Calhoun said...
I too, remember where I was when I heard that JFK had been shot.
I was watching TV, when they announced the Challenger explosion and Princess Diana's death...
But the one that is seared into my memory is the morning I was sipping coffee and reading the morning paper in front of the TV...9/11/01.
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- Darlene Marshall said...
I'm old enough to remember the Kennedy assassination, but I have to believe for this generation it's going to be 9/11. I vividly remember walking my dog on that sunny September morning. A neighbor rushed out of her house and said to me, "Go home and turn on your TV. An airplane just flew into the World Trade Center."
When my husband came home a couple hours later I was sitting in front of the TV with tears running down my face. I turned to him and said, "They're gone. The buildings are gone. All those people are dead."
It was one of those defining moments.
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- pinch said...
I am from New Orleans. My iconic moment was the death of JFK; I was sitting in my third grade classroom, all had become silent as we waited, our teacher had put her head in her hands;then the statement "he is dead" came over the intercom. But what made it more painful, if that were possible, was that the boy next to me laughed when the announcement came and stated "well that n_ _ _ _ _-lover is dead." The boy, only a child. There are many days when I think of that boy, where he is, and if his soul is still black and how it had become blackened in the first place. I have completed a novel and the place is New Orleans. I have been fortunate to get a very good agent, but not three weeks after Katrina I received an e-mail from another agent who stated that "New Orleans was now no more than a period piece." Again, the memory of the boy reared it's ugly head, again an instance when iconic moments live in the writer's heart forever. I wanted to reply to that agent and ask if Dresden or Peking or Constantinople or New York were also period pieces. Of course I didn't.
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- Unknown said...
For me, it was the explosion of the Challenger shuttle. I was in 6th grade, we'd just come in from recess, and our teacher was in tears. She'd gone home for lunch to watch, and when she came back, they brought all the students into one room to show on tv and to watch what had happened. At twelve, I didn't quite grasp what I saw, but I knew it was very important. Not until about a year later, did I fully understand what happened, and how much it changed the way I wanted to view the world. (I had loved the idea of being an astronaut, and not until I put the reality of what happened to Challenger into my desire to be an astronaut did it click over.) I spent about two days in tears over it.
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- Rick said...
Kennedy assassination, Challenger, and 9/11. (I don't know the date of the Challenger explosion and wouldn't recognize it, but "the Challenger" says enough.)
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- Cassie said...
Oklahoma City bombing certainly has left a mark; it was my first tragic national event that I remember. I was in class and we watched in on the TV.
9/11 though has to be what my most memorable. We were in London, we'd just landed that morning and it was evening there, so about middle of the day in America. We heard about it over the radio in a grocery store and I spent the rest of the night glued to CNN. We couldn't call my brother or dad back in the states for a few days and everywhere we went people would tell us how sorry they were and share their stories. We didn't know anyone in NYC, but everyone over there seemed to know someone. Also, everywhere we went there were signs up about air traffic and every headline held up dates.
The most morbid and sinking in moment though, was when we found a post card that showed the twin towers and skyline, and said "Decided to skip London and went to New York City instead." With an arrow to the towers. We got that post card, just because it was such an odd moment and morbidly funny. Bet nobody will be finding any more of that one.
9/11 also is such an easy day to remember number wise.
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Bay of Pigs. This event helped to define our foreign policy for the next forty years.
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- Sal said...
November 22d? Seventh grade. I was at school. I remember Miss Kawazoe telling us that JFK'd been shot. Later she had a call on her intercom phone and she was quiet for the longest time. Then she told us that he had died.
I remember the aftermath, watching TV, Jack Ruby's surprise, the funeral.
Challenger? I couldn't give you the date (I had to look it up), but I remember being in my car, driving our sons to their in-home daycare that morning when the word came over the news. I'd been so excited about Christa McAuliffe and what she was doing. I was crying as I dropped them off.
9-11? We had just arrived in Bhutan. We'd come downstairs for breakfast at the hotel in Paro. Bhutan at that time had just had Internet access and TV connections for eighteen months.
The TV (the only TV in the hotel) was on in the bar. Some of the folks I was travelling with were in the bar clustered around the TV. How weird was that?
I just thought, "How weird is that?" and settled down for breakfast. At breakfast, someone at the next table said that two planes had whacked into the twin towers and the towers had collapsed. Unbelievable, wasn't it? Is this a joke? Not funny.
We went to the bar, where they were replaying the footage of the planes and the towers' collapse. We were numb. We headed to Thimpu that day. The Queen had arrange a separate remembrance ceremony at the main temple for us. The country had already had a remembrance ceremony earlier in the day for all the ex-pats and others to gather together and ache.
I don't remember anything about Lennon or Diana or exactly where I was when Columbia blew up.
JFK, Challenger, and 9/11 are my only "I remember exactly where I was when I heard ..." events.
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- Feemus said...
Oddly enough, it is 11/22/63 for me, although I wasn't born for another couple of years. There is something about the pervasiveness of media--the endless simulacral echoings of the event--and the striking ability of the boomers to continue to dominate our cultural consciousness. Their experience is my experience even if I toddled through the summer of love in diapers.
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- Mindy Tarquini said...
I was very small when Kennedy died. I remember my mother crying. They interrupted my cartoons to announce the assasination of Martin Luther King. They did it again to announce the assasination of Robert Kennedy. I watched the moon landing with family, in black and white. I was at my grandmother's house when they rang the bell in January of 1973 to announce the 'end' of the Vietnam War/ I watched the real end of the war, the fall of Saigon, again in black and white everyday after school at a friend's house when I was in high school - all those helicoptors, all those desperate people. I was ironing a blouse and chatting with my mother when the Challenger exploded. I was on a sofa in my second apartment in New York when the first missiles were fired in the Gulf War. I had an atlas open, and was screaming for my husband to join me because I was scared to death. I turned on PBS for my kids on Tuesday, September 11 and got myself a cup of coffee. My husband ran back inside after starting his car and said, 'Turn on the TV, something's happening at the World Trade Center.' I left the kids to teletubbies in one room and turned on the TV in the other. We're a few hours behind New York and it took a long time for me to understand that a plane had crashed into the first tower. I thought, 'What a fluke. What an awful flukey accident.' Then I saw the second plane approach.
Dummy me.
Yep, that's the defining moment. And thank God for Public Television. They kept Mr. Rogers and Arthur and Teletubbies and Zaboomafoo and Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street on all day - their normal programming - so the kids could watch something safe while their mother fell apart in the next room.
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- Desperate Writer said...
The OKC bombing, Challenger, Columbia (Rick Husband, Commander, is from my town, and the shuttle went down over my Uncle's home in East Texas. They found the body of the Indian astronaught 2 mi from his house.) 9/11, Princess Di . . . but most of all:
June 9, 1983, my grandpa died.
January 9, 2001, my Daddy died.
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- the chocolatier said...
Not a specific date, but the genocide in Rwanda. Everytime I hear about that, I cry. Rwanda to me is sadder than even the Holocaust, because it proves that the world never learns.
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I was 15 when John Lennon was murdered and it devastated me. I heard about the Challenger explosion while standing in line at the cafeteria in my college dorm. 9/11/01 was spent at my office but no one was actually working because we all had radios and TVs on.
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- Bernita said...
Sept 11.
The day I re-learned anonymous hate - and love.
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- Shadow said...
Even as I agree with the overarching sentiment that 9/11 is the most recent defining moment for those of us now living (save perhaps Katrina), I find it sobering to realize that 60 years from now the emotion of it will be remembered only in rhetoric. How do I know this? Remember this quote:
"December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy..." (BTW, I had to google it to get the year right; I thought it was 1942 at first.)
I daresay the emotion of that event was consummate with that of 9/11. (Notice how we don't even bother including the year anymore? Also, does anyone else recall the discussions within those first few months of "what are we going to call it?" and how "9/11" won that unspoken contest.) Now it is but a quote to be played with. To wit:
My son got his driver's license on Wednesday, December 7th, a day that will now live in more infamy than ever. (That was my email to my family about my son, btw.)
Amazingly, life goes on. Generations are defined and redefined. Do we -- humanity, that is -- really ever learn anything from these defining moments that survives longer than those who lived through them? And I don't mean that as a rhetorical question.
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- David Isaak said...
In response to Jack--yes, I agree, it is interesting that McNamara was so moved by the death of one as opposed to many.
On the other hand, a cynic would point out that Hitler was moved to tears by the deaths of pets.
And, a seldom-quoted fact: Hitler was a vegetarian. This was widely remarked upon in the 1930s, but largely forgotten today.
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It was Challenger until 9/11
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When I was 11, the Cuban Missile Crisis was going on. I remember standing in church for a silent prayer and grown men, hulking farmers, businessmen, neighbors, crying softly, scared to death, not knowing if they would see another sunset.
Taking my own 11 year old into the back yard, trying to explain the seriousness of 9-11, looking to the sky for jet trails, and how those empty skies had never happened in our lifetimes and, hopefully, that we'll never live to see it again.
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- Shesawriter said...
Princess Di's death. It was strange because I never really paid attention to her. I wasn't a royal watcher. I didn't catch the wedding. I gave the sordid snippets about Camilla, as well as Di's supposed mental issues an eyeroll, at most. But when she was killed, I broke down and cried buckets. Strange, because I never realized how much she (a complete stranger) meant to me until then.
June 1st, the day my 51-year-old Father died. I was 25 and old enough to know better, but I *swear* I thought he was Superman. So his death was a literal shock to the system.
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9-11. I was stuck in gridlock traffic on my way to work. For some reason, that morning, I switched from the CD player to the radio and could hardly believe what I was hearing. I looked around me, surrounded by a sea of cars, and in those closest to me I could see the drivers' faces. Expressions of shock, horror, disbelief - just like mine.
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- harridan said...
JFK, Challenger, Oklahoma City bombing, and 9/11
JFK - I was only a bit older than little John-John, but I distinctly remember not the assasination, but the funeral procession. As a mere babe I sat in front of the television and bawled. I didn't understand what was going on, only that everyone was very very sad. And that all the adults I knew were crying.
Challenger - I was working in an office at a bank. The minute the news came over the radio, everyone went silent. The silence lasted the entire day.
Oklahoma City bombing - I was working in a quality control office at a plant. Someone came running in with news they'd heard on the radio. I went home that night, saw the sketches of the alleged bombers, and while many people on the internet said it was the act of foreigners, I saw that one face and knew without a doubt one of our own had committed the attrocity. Sadly I was right.
9/11 - I was working in another plant and was heading through the plant to one of the main offices. (Where the coffee maker was.)
I stopped to talk to one of the young lathe operators (late twenties) and he told me he'd just heard on the radio that a plane had hit one of the towers. Our first thoughts, a private plane with a pilot who was either ill/dying or a student pilot.
But I had to know more. So I stepped into my bosses office and asked if I could use his faster computer. He was curious too, so he said okay.
As I was searching the net for info, the radio in his office said another plane had hit the second tower. We froze. No accident here.
I took a moment to go out to the lathe operator to tell him about the second plane. But he'd already heard the info. From there, the news traveled around the shop like wildfire. Then in seconds, the towers were down.
But you know what was really scary? Except for a few people, everyone was nonchalant about the thing. I mean, totally "Well it's a good thing we live in the country instead of some big old city."
I was mortified. I'm looking at all these guys and judging there ages. Why? Because all I could think of was that this was an attack and that the real possibility of a war draft loomed in the future. I pictured there kids, I pictured them having to go to battle, and I was freaking heartsick.
Then I heard that all planes were being grounded and I stepped through one of our big freight doors. The wires said that not all planes were accounted for yet. I stared up at the sky which seemed so peaceful on that fall day. I kept thinking "Where are those missing planes?"
Truth be told, my real worry was that we live about sixty miles from a nuclear power plant along the Great Lakes. What would happen if a plane flew into it.
Not 15-20 minutes later we heard of a jet that crashed in Pennsylvania. And when all was said and done, that same plane had turned its course to head back to Washington somewhere close to my very own position on the ground.
I will always remember looking to the skies for that silent killer. It truly enlightened me on the many brutal facets of war and hate.
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- THIRDWAVEDAVE said...
September 11th, 2001. Before that, Reagan being shot.
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I'm canadian.
So December 6th, 1989 - The Montreal Massacre. A man shot and killed 11 women at a Montreal university because they were women, and had gotten into a school he thought he had more right to go to as a man.
As a teenage girl that shocked me to the core. And the boy sitting next to me in math class made some comment about how it was only eleven women, that we couldn't even do mass murder as well as the Americans.
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- Stacy said...
Definitely Challenger. I was in Sixth Form - roughly the equivalent of American Grade 12 - going to the school office on some forgotten errand when I heard the news on the radion that the secretaries had playing as they worked. I remember that I was 16 years old and I stood in the schoolyard and cried, not sure why I needed to cry.
This supercedes 9/11 for me, not because my heart is cold, but because at 16 something was growing in me, a belief in humanity reaching the stars literally and figuratively, and the explosion of the shuttle and the death of the austronauts and the civilian, teacher Christa McAuliffe broke my heart in a way that nothing has been able to do since. I think that my cynicism really took root then.
I've said too much, I'm sure.
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August 17, 1977 - It was about eight-thirty in the morning, and I was in the back seat of my aunt's car. We were driving along a back road to get to my grandmother's house where my brother and I spent the summer weekdays while our mother was at work. The radio was playing "Love Me Tender" and as the song finished, the DJ came on the air and announced that Elvis had died.
My aunt pulled the car over and shut off the motor and we sat on the dusty road, surrounded by quiet forest as she and my mother cried, holding each other as their bodies shook with sobs and they searched the glovebox furiously for tissues.
I was only nine and hadn't really experienced death yet; I didn't really understand what had happened, especially why my mother and Auntie Bea were so upset. To see these two serious grown-ups so distraught over the death of someone they had never met both moved and frightened me.
I was more in tune for the other examples people have given; 9/11, the Challenger, the Berlin Wall, Princess Di, but the death of Elvis Presley is the defining moment most etched on my brain.
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- Sela Carsen said...
Oklahoma City was the first. An act of terrorism at home and the targets were children. He knew what was in that building and he murdered those babies.
After that, the bombing of the USS Cole on Oct 12, 2000. I had lived in the UAE as a child and was surrounded by acts of terrorism. We came home when my dad visited Bahrain on business and the building across the street from him blew up. But this was the first time I felt like a target just because I was American.
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- Mizrepresent said...
It was first the Oklahoma city bombing that left me numb an in a state of depression...i cried so many tears and then i wrote a poem..9/11 was just as devastating, since i watched like so many others the two planes in the air and then in the Twin Towers, unbelievingly so...wondering if this was real...i knew it was real when an announcement over the PA said we needed to vacate the building...i work for the government....i had nightmares for months about not making it out of our building, about bombs and sniper shootings...it's sad, so many innocent, just working, nothing more...and then came Katrina, America's postcard and wakeup call...i hope.
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After reading this thread, I'm reminded how much history I've lived through. The assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, the bay of pigs invasion, Kennedy telling America of the Russian bombs aimed at us 90 miles away in Cuba, the fall-out shelter market booming, watching Kennedy's killer on tv getting shot by Jack Ruby. For a kid in seventh grade actually seeing someone killed for read before my eyes, I'll never forget that.
9/11. I was home with a broken leg from a motorcycle accident, listening to Howard Stern when he said something was going on at the World Trade Center, some kind of fire. I turned on the television in time to see the second plane fly into the tower. My leg didn't seem to hurt so much after that.
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I was on my Grandma's carpet on my tummy with my chin resting in my little hands watching TV. I watched JFK and his lovely wife in a motorcar prosession. I watched in horror as the smiling man was shot. Funny, I don't much care for 'live' TV.
I got a phone call on September 11, 2001.
"What are you doing?" Came an overly excited voice of a woman whose child I watched.
I was brushing my hair. New York was being attacked and I was brushing my hair...
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"The black claw of death gripped our Nation,
Threatening to choke the life right out of her.
But United we stand, with our flags flying high,
Determined to defend her or die.
Dark was the day when our innocence fled, as terror overtook our skies."
- 12/13/2005
- Linda said...
I couldn't pick one event. There have been too many in my lifetime. I don't remember the exact dates of them all because my brain doesn't remember that stuff.
JFK's assassination was the first. RFK when I was in high school. Challenger, when my oldest was in early elementary school. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Princess Diana's death. 9/11. Those are the major ones that had enough impact on my life that they immediately pop into my mind.
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- Sponge Girl said...
The Boxing Day Tsunami.
Of all the times to have a natural disaster, Christmas is the cruelest.
The wall of water, the rubbish, the mass graves, the disgusting headlines saying "X number of Western tourists missing!", like the locals were an expected or unimportant casualty.
I used to live in South-East Asia. Seeing the region like that just gave my happy childhood memories a kick in the face.
Ever since then I've also been painfully aware that I'm not that far from the beach, is six stories high up enough?
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- Bunneh said...
When I was younger, I would have said the Challenger disaster was that iconic moment. But, like many others, 9/11 has become the day I'll never forget.
I was living about eight miles outside of DC, in my second year of grad school. I remember it was one of the first truly autumnal days we'd had, and I had the windows of my apartment open.
It was a Tuesday, which meant I didn't have to go into the District for class, but I was trying to plod through David Copperfield for 19th C Brit Lit later that week. I got up early, checked my email, made coffee, and settled back in bed with my book and a cup of java while my fiance slept (he worked from home). I remember hearing what I thought was the garbage truck slam into our Dumpster and thinking it was kind of weird, because Tuesday wasn't trash day. (Later I realized it was the plane hitting the Pentagon.)
My cell phone rang, which was odd in itself, and it was my fiance's mother, which was even stranger (I can count on one hand the times she's called me). She was insisting I stay at home and don't go into the city. Again, I didn't think much of it, because his mother is rather prone to histrionics. I assured her that, since it was Tuesday and thus one of my reading-days, I wouldn't be going anywhere. Then she said "The Pentagon's been bombed," and I stopped for a moment, sure she was overreacting, because that's what she does. Then I turned on the TV and everything seemed to freeze.
Whatever happened afterward rushed past in a blur -- frantic phone calls and emails to friends in NY and family in FL, the sonic boom of fighter jets overhead -- but everything leading up to that moment is eerily crystal-clear.
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- /anne... said...
I have two:
January 18, 2003, when 500 Canberra houses were destroyed in a firestorm which burnt up to my back fence. If I ever need to write about Hell, I'm set.
November 11, 1975. I was fifteen, and I thought democracy had died. I was probably right.
Maintain the Rage.
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I have always loved my Wii, but often worried that the control scheme, while great for some games really made other games suffer by forcing them to fit the controller or simplifying them. Wii Sports, while really fun, made me worry about this more with sports games as I wondered how accurate any of the sports games would end up being.
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This game has a steep learning curve, but once you start to get past it the aim-and-point control scheme really brings the game to life. I loved the early FIFA games, but my complaint was always a lack of control off the ball. With Pro Evolution soccer you can grab a player off the ball and have him make a run! You control the run, and with a little practice can learn to make that run open up space for your next pass (to a third player who you can direct to run into that space).
While defense seems strange at first, having left the idea of switching players just to chase down the player with the ball yourself, the ability to set a player to mark a open player off the ball is great once you get the hang of it. In PESoccer you don't control an individual player in defense, rather you choose to send a player (or players if you choose to double team) at the person with the ball while marking other men off the based on their positions. During this strategic set-up you can control if you want your players to clear, go for a steal, play it safe, or slide tackle.
I am still making my way through learning everything you can do with this game, but so far it has been the best soccer video game experience I have had.
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Search warrants are public records, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says.
Search warrants are public records, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says.
In a written opinion issued Monday, Madigan said the state Freedom of Information Act, which contains dozens of reasons why government information can be kept secret, does not apply to court records. Rather, she said, the records are open under the Clerk of Courts Act, which says virtually all court documents are public.
"There is no statutory or other authority for a circuit clerk to unilaterally seal or impound files containing complaints for search warrants, associated affidavits, and the search warrants themselves," Madigan wrote.
She issued the opinion after receiving a request in May from Sangamon County State's Attorney John Schmidt, who had backed Circuit Clerk Tony Libri in refusing to make public search warrants and accompanying paperwork outlining police investigations. Schmidt said then that he would abide by whatever opinion Madigan issued, and he reiterated that in a Thursday interview.
"I think it's a well-reasoned opinion," Schmidt said. "We're going to take it, and we're going to abide by it."
Libri said he was following Schmidt's advice in keeping the records secret and that his office will now release search-warrant files upon request.
"It works for me," Libri said.
Don Craven, a Springfield lawyer who specializes in public-records law, noted that other counties have long treated search warrants as public records. The attorney general's opinion, he said, underscores a law that's always been clear: Court records belong in the public arena.
"I think that decision states what many of us have been saying the law is for years," Craven said. "In some places, for some reason, people were keeping these things secret."
The paperwork that had previously been withheld from the public had routinely been provided to accused criminals during discovery after prosecutors filed charges. Opening the records is important, Craven said.
"It is one of the means we have to measure the performance of public officials," Craven said. "It's a whole lot easier to do when you can see it."
Acting on Schmidt's advice, Libri last year refused to give The State Journal-Register search-warrant files on cases involving former Springfield police officers Paul Carpenter and Jim Graham. Both were fired after a case against alleged drug dealer Larry Washington unraveled when testing by state police showed no cocaine on bags that Graham said he and Carpenter had found in Washington's trash. Graham in an affidavit used to obtain a warrant said that he and Carpenter had found cocaine residue on the bags. Prosecutors had previously dismissed another drug case, freeing a man from prison, after Carpenter admitted lying on an affidavit to protect an informant's identity.
Schmidt said Thursday that he was sending a copy of Madigan's opinion to Libri. While judges can seal warrants and accompanying paperwork to protect informants or preserve a defendant's right to a fair trial, Schmidt said he doesn't think that will happen very often.
"There will be cases when we have a compelling reason (to seal files)," Schmidt said. "I would say that would be the exception, not the rule.
"We're going to follow the law."
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Speaking of the Manhattan Project—and because I badly need to restore some gravitas to this blog after that last stunt—check out the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of the 11 Most Endangered Places for 2009. This year's list includes the Enola Gay hangar at Wendover, Utah.
A lot of other Manhattan Project sites are in jeopardy, too. Down the road from me in Oak Ridge, demolition of the massive (and massively important) K-25 uranium enrichment plant started last year. The news story that I just linked mentions something about a possible "memorial and education center" there, but I didn't see any statements to that effect from the Department of Energy. We'll see.
Here's a true story. Last year I sat in a meeting with community leaders from various counties in central Kentucky. One of the presenters was a lady from some historic preservation agency; I think she might have been with the Kentucky Heritage Council or the Kentucky Trust for Historic Preservation. When she took questions, one guy raised his hand and asked her—in all seriousness—how to go about getting a building's historic designation removed.
See, the local park evidently included a historic house that was in the way of a planned community swimming pool. And there are only so many places you can put a swimming pool.
He asked this question of someone working for a preservation agency, mind you. This would be analogous to asking somebody from the World Wildlife Fund if they could please recommend a good harpoon cannon for taking out humpback whales.
Thankfully, it's pretty hard to get a building's historic designation removed, unless its condition deteriorates to the point of becoming a hazard. So it looks like the gentleman is stuck with it.
Alas, being a "community leader" offers no inoculation against stupidity.


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Embracing Honors challenge
Student-athletes compete in the top level of JMU academics
By Meaghan MacDonald ('13)
Up Close
Sierra Hahn-Ventrell ('15)
Engineering, business
- Appeared in 15 matches, recording 13 digs, four service aces and an assist
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Award Recipient
- Smithsonian National Zoo intern
Embracing the highest values of sportsmanship and competition has benefits that extend far beyond the playing field. JMU student-athletes are supported in maintaining a balance between academic scholarship and varsity team demands.
JMU faculty members encourage student-athletes to balance competition with respect, victory with honor and contest with scholarship, and to channel the character-building power of athletics performance into a force for positive change.
JMU President Jonathan R. Alger says that during his "Why Madison?" Presidential Listening Tour many student-athletes told him that they chose JMU because of the academic program. "It is reassuring how much Madison student-athletes truly want to excel as students—in academics and organizations outside of their sport—despite the challenges of a rigorous athletics schedule," Alger says. "Their priorities are in the right place and align with the JMU philosophy that intercollegiate athletics are integrated into the overall educational mission."
A number of JMU's varsity athletes are taking their academic winning spirit to the next level as members of the JMU Honors Program. To maintain status in the JMU Honors Program, a student must maintain a 3.25 GPA and take at least one honors-level course each semester.
Rising sophomore Sierra Hahn-Ventrell ('15) of Chevy Chase, Md., told Madison magazine that the Honors Program influenced her decision to chose JMU. "My parents and I decided I had to be in the Honors Program to challenge myself academically. Without the JMU's Honors Program I may have chosen a different school," she says.
While there are both challenges and joys in being an honors student-athlete, Hahn-Ventrell is staying focused. "It will be such an accomplishment to compete in a varsity sport and complete the Honors Program," she says "I will be very proud of my accomplishments once I've completed my four years."


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Cotton Bowl Stadium Rich With History
DALLAS - Mizzou's game at AT&T Stadium on Friday isn't the only bowl game in Dallas. The iconic Cotton Bowl Stadium, which hosted the Cotton Bowl Classic the last time Missouri played in it, held the Heart of Dallas Bowl today.
The Cotton Bowl Stadium was built in 1930. It sits in the middle of the Texas state fairgrounds, surrounded by rides and other attractions. While it doesn't have the ammenties and features of newer stadiums, it has a history that can rival any sporting venue in the nation.
"This is my second game here on New Year's Day," said North Texas fan Scott Murphy. "I saw Colorado play, it was a great time."
The Cotton Bowl Classic began playing in the stadium in 1937. The first matchup features Texas Christian University against Marquette, with TCU winning 16-6. In 2009, 72 years later, The Cotton Bowl Classic moved out of the stadium and since then the game has been played in the hi-tech AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
After the Cotton Bowl Classic moved out, the Heart of Dallas Bowl began playing in the 83-year-old stadium. This year, the University of North Texas Mean Green faced off against the UNLV Rebels in the Heats of Dallas Bowl. The Red River Rivalry between University of Texas and Oklahoma University is also played at the Cotton Bowl Stadium every year.
North Texas won today's game at the venue, 36-14.


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This PPT places emphasis on being humble in your community, focus on being a participant, not just the owner. You have to celebrate your customers and follow steps to strengthen your community. This can be easily applicable to the Equine, Pet, and Agriculture community where folks are educated and need to learn about what they're giving their pets and/or now want to know where their meal comes from.
August 11, 2011
Social Media and Building Community
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Tags: Agriculture, building community, customer, Facebook, farming, food, goals, Horse, horse feed, Marriot, online, Pet, pet food, ROI, Social Media, team work, Twitter, Zappos


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Ingredients: Enriched Wheat Flour (Bleached Wheat, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin, Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Fudge Coating* (Powdered Sugar {Sugar, Cornstarch}, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa pressed with Alkali, Sorbitan Tristearate {an Emulsifier}, Soy Lecithin {an Emulsifier}, Artificial Color {FD&C Red #40 Lake, Yellow #6 Lake, Blue #1 Lake}, Natural and Artificial Flavors), Vegetable Oil Shortening* (Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel and/or Palm Oil), Assorted Nonpareils (Sugar, Cornstarch, Confectioner's Glaze, Artificial Colors {Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Red #3, Red #40, Blue #1}, Carnauba Wax), Contains 2% or less of: Corn Syrup, Corn Flour, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Cornstarch, Sodium Bicarbonate, Soy Lecithin (an Emulsifier), Natural and Artificial Flavors, Ammonium Bicarbonate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Artificial Colors{(FD&C Yellow #5, Red #40), Titanium Dioxide}. *Adds a trivial amount of Trans Fat. ALLERGY INFO: Contains Soy, Wheat. May contain traces of Eggs, Milk, Peanuts, Tree Nuts.
Allergen Information: Processed in a facility that also processes Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Wheat, Soy and Milk products


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For over 30 years, Industrial Fabrics has proudly served many diverse clients in the construction, industrial and residential industries along the Gulf Coast and around the world.
Our goal is to supply the best products, to preserve and to sustain our environment. Our sales and engineering staff are fully geared to support your project from engineering, to material logistics, to on-site technical assistance.
Industrial Fabrics, Inc. is a primary manufacturer and distributor of geo-technical products, including geotextile fabrics, geo-grids, liner material, silt fence, erosion control, pipe protection and paving products for the construction industry.
As a full-service company, with a well-trained dedicated team of professionals from Florida to Texas, Industrial Fabrics offers services including engineering, fabrication, installation, training and technical support. We understand what it takes to provide superior service. No project is too big or small. We take care of everything.
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Oman Air to fly Asian sporting delegations from across continent to participate in 2nd Asian Beach Games Muscat 2010 as official airline partner.
With 44 days remaining until the opening of the 2nd Asian Beach Games Muscat 2010, Oman Air has partnered with the Muscat Asian Beach Games Organising Committee (MABGOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to bring sporting delegations to the Sultanate of Oman and promote the Games through its extensive network. As the Official Airline Partner, Oman Air will fly athletes, officials, media and volunteers from 44 countries across 30 destinations to Muscat giving them the opportunity to experience the Airline's unparallel service prior to taking part in the Games – a celebration of sport and culture from 8-16 December 2010.
On the occasion, Philippe Georgiou, Chief Officer Corporate Affairs and Official Spokesperson for Oman Air stated, "Oman Air will not only unite the athletic world but also contribute in bridging cultures and fostering friendships between participating nations. The strategic partnership with MABGOC reiterates our firm belief in promoting in-bound tourism to position the Sultanate as a unique destination for international events. With unprecedented exposure across an entire continent, the 2nd Asian Beach Games Muscat 2010 is a great catalyst to achieve such a goal. "
He added, "The traditional Omani values, the genuine hospitality of the people and the dynamic soul of the nation are all elements that embody the Airline. This cultural fusion will crystallise the Omani experience as the athletes and delegations first come onboard our rapidly expanding and new state-of-the-art fleet."
Georgiou went on to say that the synergy between MABGOC and the National Carrier of Oman is an example of what a unified vision can achieve.
Expressing his appreciation to Oman Air, Eng. Habib Macki, Director General of MABCOC said, "The prestige of Oman Air, the national carrier of Oman, and a company focused on maintaining the highest standards of performance and service, supports the endeavours Muscat 2010 is working to achieve. By hosting the Games, together we show Oman as a progressive, outward looking and hospitable part of Asia. Along with the experience gained from the 2nd Asian Beach Games, we will position our country as an ideal host for future international events."
Macki concluded, "By joining together with Oman Air, we show the support the entire Sultanate is putting behind staging these Games. A new level of excellence will be achieved, and the benchmark will be raised for the Asian Beach Games! "
In efforts to share the excitement of the highly anticipated Games, Oman Air will be branding a number of Airbus aircrafts with the Games logo, and will screen the Muscat 2010 promotion video on the In-flight Entertainment System, harnessing the genuine Games spirit and celebrating sportsmanship, unity and cooperation.
Under the slogan, 'Together We Shine', the 2nd Asian Beach Games Muscat 2010 is one of the major sporting events under the Olympic Council of Asia's umbrella. Taking place for 9 days this December at venues located in Muscat as well as at the one-million square metre Al-Musannah Sports City, the Games will welcome competition in 14 beach sports.


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OCLC RDA Policy Statement
Effective 31 March 2013
OCLC member libraries may contribute new unique records to WorldCat formulated according to any cataloging code they are currently using. OCLC will not require libraries to use RDA. Libraries may switch to RDA for original cataloging on their own timetable, if they chose to switch at all. Libraries may continue to contribute records to WorldCat formulated according to AACR2 if they wish to do so.
WorldCat continues to be a master record database. This means one master record present in WorldCat per manifestation per language of cataloging. Duplicate records are contrary to WorldCat policy and hinder the work of the cooperative. Separate records for the same manifestation entered for different cataloging codes are not allowed.
The policies and planned manipulation of legacy records in WorldCat laid out below are intended to position WorldCat for an optimum transition to a post-MARC metadata structure in the future. They also attempt to balance the dual roles of WorldCat as a catalog and as a repository of bibliographic data.
This policy statement grew out of a discussion paper, Incorporating RDA Practices into WorldCat, and the many comments received from member libraries in response to that paper. OCLC staff are grateful for those comments. OCLC also acknowledges the work of a number of task groups of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, whose discussions of RDA practices have also influenced this policy statement.
Original Cataloging
When adding a new record unique to WorldCat, the records may be coded for RDA (Desc: i or c, 040 e rda), AACR2 (Desc: a), or any other recognized cataloging code. When creating a new record with English as the language of cataloging, consult the LC/NACO Authority File and use forms of access points found there, regardless of whether they are coded for RDA. The NACO file will continue to be the source of authorized name and title access points for all records cataloged in English in WorldCat. Please control all controllable headings to facilitate updating of headings as authority records are updated to conform to RDA.
Order of 040 subfields
The preferred order of 040 subfields is: a, b, e, c, d. This moves the key identifiers of language of cataloging (b) and cataloging code (e) closer to the beginning of the 040 string as a consistent place for easy identification by other catalogers.
Copy Cataloging
Libraries may choose to use existing records as is or locally edit them as needed. Catalogers are not required to upgrade master records to change them from non-RDA codes to RDA. Do not change RDA master records to conform to an earlier cataloging code.
Upgrading/Enhancing Existing Records
When using a record for copy cataloging, catalogers have the option, of enhancing or upgrading that record. Catalogers have always been allowed to "upgrade" pre-AACR2 master records to AACR2. Beginning March 31, 2013, catalogers may change/upgrade master records cataloged according to a non-RDA code to RDA. Do this only with the "piece in hand" in order that all necessary information will be available. When re-cataloging to RDA, the entire record must be examined and adjusted as needed before re-coding the record as RDA.
Catalogers may continue to enrich existing records with addition of fields such as call numbers, contents and summary notes, subject headings, etc. without adjusting coding of the record to RDA. Do not change an RDA master record to conform to an earlier cataloging code.
For more information on editing records please see Connexion documentation:
- Connexion client, under Section 3, "Replace master bibliographic records"
- Connexion browser, under Section 1, "Record actions summary"
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When editing and replacing master records in WorldCat, catalogers may choose to add some RDA elements to existing non-RDA records without re-cataloging the entire record according to RDA. Candidates for such editing include, but are not limited to:
- Adding relator terms to access points
- Spelling out non-transcribed abbreviations
- Adding complete statements of responsibility in 245 (in place of "[et al.]")
- Adding 336/337/338 fields
When adding or editing one or more such elements in the master record without re-cataloging the record to RDA, do not code the record as RDA. OCLC will generally adhere to the PCC Guidelines on Hybrid Bibliographic Records and expects member libraries editing existing records to add selected RDA elements to follow these guidelines.
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As recommended in the PCC Guidelines on Hybrid Bibliographic Records, OCLC will retain the 245 h GMD for a period of 3 years in WorldCat records where it currently exists. Catalogers editing existing non-RDA records are asked to leave formerly valid GMDs present in records through 31 March 2016. However, do remove the GMD when re-cataloging (and re-coding) a record as RDA.
Punctuation and Capitalization
Catalogers may enter data in RDA records with or without ISBD punctuation. Use code "c" in "Desc:" (Leader/18) when ISBD punctuation has been omitted. Use code "i" in "Desc:" when ISBD punctuation has been included. Headings should be entered with punctuation in all cases. If ISBD punctuation has been omitted, feel free to add ISBD punctuation to the entire master record and update "Desc:" to code "i." However, do not remove ISBD punctuation from master records (except when making local edits).
Catalogers may enter data per the capitalization instructions in RDA Appendix A or per the alternative instruction in RDA Appendix A.1 and the related LC-PCC PS. Capitalization input in accord with RDA Appendix A is preferred in WorldCat. If data has been entered in a record per the alternative instruction (e.g., all uppercase letters or with first letters of each word capitalized), feel free to change it in accord with RDA Appendix A. However, do not change capitalization in master records to conform to the alternative instruction (except when making local edits).
Parallel Records
Allowance for parallel records for different languages of cataloging continues as a policy within WorldCat. See Parallel Records for Language of Cataloging. Only one master record per language of cataloging per manifestation is permitted by policy within WorldCat. Multiple separate records for different cataloging codes are not allowed by policy. Feel free to report duplicate records not in accordance with these policies to email@example.com.
RDA Training
Please refer to the "RDA resources" section on About RDA for links to training from the Library of Congress, ALCTS, the OCLC training portal and others.
Machine Manipulation of Existing WorldCat Records
OCLC will begin changing existing WorldCat legacy records after 31 March 2013 to incorporate various useful RDA practices. Legacy records (non-RDA records) need to be made as functional as possible in the future RDA environment to benefit catalogers, systems, and catalog end users. As a post-MARC future becomes a reality in years to come, greater consistency of practice present in existing WorldCat records will allow easier migration to another metadata format.
OCLC will initially focus changes on English language of cataloging records. Records for other languages of cataloging will likely be changed similarly at a future date as appropriate. Some records representing materials for which RDA practices have not been finalized—including, for example, records created according to Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (DCRM) and its predecessors and Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)—will be excluded from processing. OCLC will announce changes in some detail as they are made via the OCLC-CAT list and on an OCLC web page (link for that page will be added to this paper when the list is begun).
Anticipated changes include, but are not limited to:
- Adding 336, 337, 338 fields
- Spelling out non-transcribed abbreviations in 255, 300, 500, 504 and other fields
- Converting Latin abbreviations to English equivalents in 245, 260, and other fields
- Converting dissertation notes in 502 field to multiple subfields
- Removing GMDs (after 31 March 2016)
- Heading changes in accordance with RDA
Heading changes are anticipated to spell out abbreviations in headings like "Dept." and to change Bible and Koran headings in accordance with RDA practice.
More information on heading changes may be found in the PCC Task Group on AACR2 & RDA Acceptable Heading Categories Final Report, August 2011.
OCLC also continues the controlling headings project.
Questions are welcome
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Please remember that these policies and planned manipulation of legacy records in WorldCat are intended to position WorldCat for an optimum transition to a post-MARC metadata structure in the future.
For more information please see OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards Ch. 5 and OCLC Authorities: Format and Indexes.
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As infographics continue to evolve and grow in popularity, so do the different ways we can view them. A bunch of infographic specific apps have begun showing up on mobile devices. The functions of these apps include viewing world statistics, infographic design portfolios, company dashboards, creating mind maps, finding new apps and exploring your music collection visually.
Today we look at 10 Infographic Apps for iOS devices (in no particular order):
1. Stats of the Union (FREE)
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Stats of the Union is a data visualization app from Ben Fry, Fathom Information Design and GE. Summarizing the census data by county, you can easily explore Births, Deaths, Diseases, Demographics, etc.
1. Stats of the Union (FREE)Explore the nation's vital signs―from life expectancy to access to medical care―and make your own conclusions about America's health. See a stat you'd like to share? Save it as a snapshot.
Stats of the Union is powered by the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) report, which consists of data from federal agencies including the Census Bureau, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Stats of the Union is a data visualization app from Ben Fry, Fathom Information Design and GE. Summarizing the census data by county, you can easily explore Births, Deaths, Diseases, Demographics, etc.
Explore the nation's vital signs―from life expectancy to access to medical care―and make your own conclusions about America's health. See a stat you'd like to share? Save it as a snapshot.
Stats of the Union is powered by the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) report, which consists of data from federal agencies including the Census Bureau, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency.
2. Photo Stats ($0.99)
(iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch)
A very cool app from Dear Future Astronaut AB. The Photo Stats app analyzes all of the photos on your iDevice and creates 11 different personal visualizations using the meta data of the photos. Then, with the click of a button, it will combine these data visualizations into one cohesive infographic that you can save or post directly to Facebook or Twitter.
Create cool infographics about how, when and where you take photos on iPhone. Visualize your iPhoneography habits, learn how to make better photos and show off photo skills to your friends.
3. Discovr Apps ($0.99)
(iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch)
Discovr Apps is a great, interactive mind map of related iOS apps, and works as a discovery tool to find new apps. Starting with one of your exisiting apps, the recommended apps or using the search, the app shows you related apps. Tap any of the to expand the related apps, and continue to explore deeper into any app displayed on the screen.
The author, Jammbox, has applied this same exploration user interface to Music with Discovr Music ($1.99) to find similar music and artists.
Simply search for an app that you like or choose from one of our featured apps. We'll show you how the apps you choose are connected in a massive, never-ending map of the App Store, and we'll give you great recommendations for other apps to download.
When you find an app you like you can read the app descriptions, check out the screenshots and ratings, or buy it directly from the App Store. You can also share your favorite apps and maps with your friends via Twitter, Facebook or email.
4. Infographics, by Column Five Media (FREE)
(iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch)
From the infographic design firm, Column Five Media, the Infographics app is a visual portfolio showcasing many of their designs. I love the coverflow mode when you view the list in landscape.
We have really appreciated everyone who is staying connected through our Infographics newsletter, and we are happy to bring fresh infographics to you for the iPad and iPhone with our brand new Infographics app, which you can download for free. If you have a chance to check it out on an iPad, that is definitely the way to go for the best browsing experience, but the iPhone version will give you some mobile eye candy as well. This is version 1.0 and there are a lot of new features in the works along with a version for Droid coming soon.
5. The Economist World in Figures 2011 Edition ($0.99)
(iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch)
From a collaboration between The Economist and XPLANE | Dachis Group, comes The World in Figures 2011 Edition. This app lets the user view global data and compare world statistics between countries.
"The process definitely challenged our designers, making us consider new ways to enhance functionality around how data was being presented, while also fostering intuitive interaction between the user and the application," said Parker Lee, executive vice president, global account services, Dachis Group. "The end result really does put a new face on information."
6. MindMeister for iPad ($7.99) or MindMeister for iPhone (FREE)
(iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch)
MindMeister started as an online mind mapping service that allows you to build, collaborate and share mind maps online. With the iOS apps you can access your online maps and edit them from your mobile device. Works with a free MindMeister account, but more features are available to members of MindMeisterPro.
Easily create, view and edit conceptual mind maps from this intuitive app, and then share them with friends and colleagues online. Automatic synchronization with the online MindMeister service ensures that your creations are with you wherever you go. This sync allows you to continue working on your ideas in our award-winning and full-featured web interface, on your own or together with your friends.
7. Planetary (FREE)
(iPad ONLY)
Planetary is a very cool app that visualizes your entire music library (as loaded on your iPad) as a galaxy. Stars are artist, planets are albums and moon are individual tracks. You can playback the tracks from the app, so it also makes a good visualizer. They even did the calculations to base each moon's speed on it's track length, so when you play a song it lasts one complete orbit. There a lot more behind the scenes information on the Bloom Blog.
Planetary is an all-new, stunningly beautiful way to explore your music collection, available only on iPad. Fly through a 3D universe dynamically created by information about the recording artists you love. Visit planets that represent your favorite albums and control the playback of your music on iPad by browsing and selecting astronomical objects.
8. Adobe SiteCatalyst Visualize (FREE*)
(iPad ONLY)
This only works if you are an existing Adobe SiteCatalyst customer (which isn't free), but if you are, the Adobe SiteCatalyst Visualize app will allow you to explore your web stats in a handful of different, visual ways.
Adobe SiteCatalyst Visualize enables active data exploration via trend analysis of key metrics. Business analysts and marketers can use "multi-touch" capabilities to zoom and focus on specific data points within the last 90 days. In addition, using a visual "word cloud" of the most frequently selected metrics, marketers can easily add or change metrics to customize the presentation of data. Finally, marketers can easily share the analysis by sending report views via email or connecting to an external display for presentations.
*Please Note: You must be an existing Adobe SiteCatalyst customer with valid login privileges to use the application.
9. Roambi - Visualize (FREE)
(iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch)
Roambi - Visualize is a mobile dashboard app that lets you explore different business reports and data visualizations. You can view data from Microsoft Excel or CSV/HTML data sources for free, or there are a couple paid levels of the Roambi Publishing Service that offer many more data source options.
Roambi is an innovative app that quickly transforms your business reports and data – from many popular business applications – into secure, interactive mobile dashboards, instantly delivered to any iPhone or iPad. It lets you easily view and interact with up-to-the-minute company information – giving you the insight you need for on-the-go analysis, impromptu presentations and smart decision-making. Roambi puts the pulse of your business, in the palm of your hand.
10. Pennant ($4.99)
(iPad ONLY)
Pennant is a beautiful app that visualizes over 50 years of baseball history (from 1952-2010) with some beautiful visual designs.
Pennant is an interactive history of baseball like none other seen before. Using Pennant's rich interface fans can browse and view data from over 115,000 games that have taken place from 1952 to 2010. For more info as well as a video preview please visit http://www.pennant.cc
Did I miss any that I should include in a future post? This is absolutely only the beginning, so expect to see more in the future.


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Pilates first gained popularity as the training regimen that gives dancers long, lean muscles, but in the past few years, several programs have sprung up across the country to offer the method to some of the people for whom it was originally created: military veterans. Joseph Pilates reportedly developed his eponymous method while he was being held in a World War I internment camp to help his fellow internees—many of them wounded servicemen—rebuild their strength.
Michael Podlenski, a physical therapist at Naval Medical Center San Diego, started a Pilates program for his veteran patients soon after he began working at the hospital about three years ago. Podlenski says the naval hospital was his first experience working with patients with amputations, so he spent a lot of time early on observing them.
Podlenski watched how patients with bilateral above-the-knee amputations walked, extending their knees through the momentum created by whipping their prosthetic legs forward from the hip.
"It puts an excessive strain on the back if you don't have really good core control," he says.
Having extensive training in Pilates, Podlenski knew that the method could help address this issue and that Pilates equipment could improve the way the amputees performed exercises to improve mobility and gait.
"For instance, they were doing hip flexor stretching on a mat, lying face-down with a bolster underneath their knee," he says. "[Using Pilates equipment is] more effective and it puts less pressure on the lumbar spine."
In addition to the physical benefits, using a reformer, trapeze table and other Pilates equipment in rehabilitation also offers some psychological advantages, Podlenski says.
"If you're stuck doing exercises on a mat … and you do that for weeks at a time, it's quite demoralizing. It doesn't motivate you," he says. "When you can have someone moving through space or flying through the air, it does something for their psyche."
Under Podlenski's advice, the hospital soon purchased several pieces of Pilates equipment, and since then he has been active in showing his colleagues how to use it with their patients. He also has worked with a therapist from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which purchased a reformer after hearing Podlenski and one of his colleagues give a presentation about the Pilates program at a recent American Physical Therapy Association conference. Pilates programs for veterans also have been established at several non-medical fitness facilities.
Chuck Paris, an Army veteran who operates a nonprofit chaplaincy organization, launched the Purple Heart Pilates program in May in cooperation with the owner of Health and Wholeness, the Arlington, VA, fitness facility where Paris' wife, Heather, oversees the Pilates studio.
The program, which offers free Pilates instruction for veterans, was the ideal way for the couple to work together to help a community they both care about, he says.
"When Heather was getting her certification, we thought: 'Why couldn't we use this now, since it was originally intended for wounded soldiers?'" he says.
Jean Leavenworth, an instructor at Pacific Northwest Pilates, Portland, OR, started offering free classes for veterans through the Returning Veterans Project, a local nonprofit she heard about from a client who donates her own services as a mental health counselor to the organization.
Leavenworth agrees with Podlenski that Pilates offers psychological benefits as well as the obvious physical benefits.
Some research already has demonstrated the effectiveness of yoga at treating anxiety disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, and Leavenworth says that practicing Pilates can yield similar results. Like yoga, she says, Pilates requires focus on the body and on breathing, which forces its practitioner to relax and to be present in the moment.
"We kind of specialize in rehabilitative Pilates at my studio," Leavenworth says. "I work with a lot of people with injuries, and hearing about the injuries that some of the veterans were coming back with—amputations and brain traumas—I knew that Pilates, and that mind-body connection, could really help them recover."


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I mainly use WC on shellac, and there, due to all the parameters of the format and the scanning process, a noise profile sampled in the lead-in will typically differ much from a noise profile as found in the lead-out.
When de-noising with one of these, it is typically found to work quite well close to where the profile was sampled and degrade in efficiency the further away one gets.
Why not allow to specify TWO noise samples N1, N2 say at times t1, t2 (beginning and end of track) and employ a time-dependent noise profile that is a linear mix of the two when de-noising the signal in between:
N(t) = N1x((t2-t)/(t2-t1)) + N2x((t-t1)/(t2-t1))


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Damascus is Iran's main ally in the Middle East, and a supply route to its other ally, the party-cum-militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, passes through Syrian territory. This means Iran, its partners and its geopolitical enemies all have a stake in the conflict:
• Hezbollah troops are fighting for Assad, and Iran was reported to have deployed in Syria members of its Islamic Revolutionary Guards, a special wing of the Iranian military. According to some media reports, 120,000 volunteers are on standby in Iran and ready to join the fray to prevent Assad's ouster.
• The Arab League – most of whose 22 members are Sunnite-dominated states that traditionally oppose Shiite Iran – are believed to be supplying arms to the Syrian opposition, mainly the jihadists. They would not support a plan to sideline the religious radicals in favor of liberals, many of whom are secular-minded, though they may be convinced not to interfere too much, Akhmedov believes.
• Iran's other enemy is the United States, which, along with the EU, has been providing the Syrian rebels with everything but firearms – medicines, communication devices, armored vehicles. Openly arming Assad's enemies is "Plan B" for the West in case the upcoming negotiations fall through, says Akhmedov, but that's hardly conducive to peace talks.


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Notícias Corporativas
Munich, 03 May 2016 - At the Annual General Meeting of Linde AG held today, Professor Wolfgang Reitzle was elected to the Supervisory Board as a shareholder representative. He will take up his position on the Supervisory Board with effect from 21 May 2016 on the expiry of the statutory two-year cooling-off period. Reitzle was Chief Executive Officer of Linde AG until 20 May 2014.
Following the Annual General Meeting, the members of the Supervisory Board elected Professor Wolfgang Reitzle as its new Chairman with effect from 21 May 2016.
Dr Manfred Schneider resigned from the Supervisory Board and from his position as Chairman of the Supervisory Board as planned with effect from 20 May 2016 and will cease to be a member of the Supervisory Board from that date. He has sat on the Supervisory Board since May 2001 and has been its Chairman since May 2003.
Dr Victoria Ossadnik, who was appointed by court in January 2016 to the Supervisory Board of Linde AG, was elected to the Supervisory Board as a shareholder representative at the Annual General Meeting.
About The Linde Group
In the 2015 financial year, The Linde Group generated revenue of EUR 17.944 bn, making it one of the leading gases and engineering companies in the world, with approximately 65,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information about The Linde Group, go to www.linde.com.


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Any further information about my Grandad or the time period he joined The Black Watch And also how he would have got back from Dunkirk where he was injured by shrapnel, would be greatly appreciated. Have a few gaps to fill in.
My Grandad died in 1984 and never talked much about his time in the war, I do remember the scar on his arm though and one on his leg.
A friend of mine has composed a lovely write up about my Grandad which you can find in the link below. Included is information about my Grandad, signed up when he was underage, left Stoke on Trent to join The Black Watch in 1930, we can only think that his home life was pretty awful. He met his future wife in Scotland during his time there.
If anyone would be kind enough to look through the information I would be really greatful.
Photos of my Grandad (included in the write up link) brought to life in colour by my friend.


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Meth found hidden in picture frames in Pa.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Customs officers found a kilogram of methamphetamine hidden in two large picture frames of religious artwork, according to a federal affidavit unsealed Friday.
The frames came from Toluca, Mexico and were delivered to a Pittsburgh store, where a man who picked them up was arrested and charged in federal court with drug smuggling.
Customs officials intercepted the package at a shipping facility in Memphis, Tenn., in late August and discovered the frames were hollow and contained long black packages filled with white powder.
A Pennsylvania state police trooper working undercover as a parcel delivery man allowed the Pittsburgh store owner to sign for the package. The store owner set it on a shelf and another man, Carmel Rojas-Perez of Pittsburgh, picked it up about four hours later, court documents said.
Rojas-Perez told authorities that a friend in Mexico sent the frames, according to the affidavit. Rojas-Perez was ordered held without bail.
His federal public defender declined comment.


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When you own a car with shaved off door handles, you tend to get used to people asking, "How do you get into your car with no handles?" Well, the answers usually vary and the way your vehicle is designed can limit your options. If you're fortunate enough to have power windows, you can set up your windows to roll down to allow you to open the doors from the inside; you could also set up the doors to pop open as a backup.
If you own a basic car, then a Pop Door Kit would be the way to go. It's more economical and it's a must if you do not want to lock yourself out of your vehicle. Manufactures like AutoLoc have developed kits especially for these modification needs. After talking to AutoLoc about project HellDorado, they stepped up and offered us a chance to check out their shaved pop door kit as a solution.
A 4 Function 50 Lbs Remote Shaved Door Popper Kit was all that we needed for our ride. AutoLoc's kits allow you to open your doors by remote or button and they come with your choice of high torque door popper solenoids or actuators, guaranteed to open the toughest of doors. All shaved door handle popper systems include detailed instructions, friendly tech support, a 1/16 stainless steel pre-stretched door popper cable, wiring, mounting hardware, shaved door cable guide, aluminum crimps, emergency door popper backup button, two long range code rolling remotes, and a limited lifetime warranty.
Now follow along, as Mario from Kulture Design installs AutoLoc's shaved handle door kit on a suicide door Cadillac.


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For me, this weekend was about raking leaves and cooking. My tax return was direct deposited into my bank account last week and aside from paying Amsterdam's ridiculously high property tax, I decided to invest in some much needed kitchen equipment.
A knife sharpener that works.
A bamboo cutting board and a potato peeler that isn't bent and rusted.
A twelve quart stock pot.
A strainer that fits the sink preventing backwash on the pasta.
A powerful stand mixer to replace my burned out hand mixer.
I tried some new recipes that came with the mixer, like these cookies that contain german, semi-sweet and white chocolate as well as toasted macadamia nuts.
My first attempt at Crusty French bread.
Pizza Rustica which is more like an Italian quiche containing mozzarella, ricotta and parmesan cheese with chopped prosciutto and sopressata, Italian sausage, fresh spinach and lots of eggs.
Anyone hungry?
Pizza Rustica Recipe for Stefan:


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Intel's hope that it can take on and beat the tablet with skinny laptops - Ultrabooks - may prove unfounded, in the UK at least.
That's the conclusion to be drawn from sales value data released by GfK, a market watcher, which shows that while tablets took a greater share of over-the-counter sales in February compared to February 2011, notebooks' share of sales fell.
In February 2011, tablets accounted for 10.1 per cent of sales value. A year on, the share was 16.5 per cent, down from seasonal peaks of 24.3 per cent in November 2011 and 32 per cent in December 2011.
Notebook sales value, by contrast fell from 57.8 per cent in February 2011 to 54.6 per cent in February 2012, GfK's numbers show.
Netbooks went from eight per cent to 2.4 per cent over the same period, desktops from 23.7 per cent to 25.4 per cent. The numbers don't add up to 100 per cent due to rounding, BTW.
From all that, GfK analyst Dominic Ashford concludes that while "there have been suggestions that solid state drive-enabled, ultra-thin PCs will re-assert notebooks' significance… it seems that the higher Average Selling Prices (ASPs) and differing functionality of these devices mean that consumers will not be choosing between a [tablet] and an ultra-thin but rather between brands and models within those kinds of devices".
So folk after an Ultrabook won't generally be considering a tablet as an alternative, and vice versa. It's not iPad vs Acer Aspire S3, but Aspire S3 vs MacBook Air, for instance.
That explains, perhaps, the rising share of desktop computers. To Ashford that suggests punters are keener to buy the products they need and not simply grab the cheapest kit.
"What manufacturers and retailers will need to achieve in 2012 will be matching new technologies and form-factors to consumers' needs," he said, "rather than a race to the bottom in terms of pricing." ®


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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Better than average chance of rain tomorrow = supply run to Alpine.
Buttoned stuff up just in case - including topping off my outdoor bundles of insulation with some extra waterproofing and raised them off the ground. 46,59,37,0,B
Posted by John Wells at 8:57 PM
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6 comments:
- jandean said...
Nicely done!
- February 8, 2012 at 10:12 PM
- MsBelinda said...
Did not realize your friends had brought you so many insulation sheets.
Kudos to them!!
- February 9, 2012 at 12:57 AM
- Ben in Texas said...
John I just Have to ask. Why isn't that big pile in one of the buildings? That stuff ain't heavy is it? Seems to me it'd be safer from rain, wind and cows in side.
- February 9, 2012 at 4:43 AM
- deguello said...
Great pic of the cloud spilling down over the mountain top. Is that Elephant Mountain?
- February 9, 2012 at 5:37 AM
- mike said...
Hay John have u done anything with the pond??
- February 9, 2012 at 9:59 AM
- Allen Hare said...
Very nice photo of the mountain and cloud.
I hope that is enough insulation for you to finish out the trailer. Looks like a lot.
- February 12, 2012 at 7:06 PM
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Announcing the Northeast MSDN Roadshow March 2010 Tour!
The plans are set for our next Northeast MSDN Roadshow series, and Jim and I will be consuming coffee aplenty and taking to the roads of the northeast to visit four cities in March.
These are free events with technical sessions for developers and architects. We'll be covering Windows Azure, data and services (including WCF Data Services and SQL Azure), and taking a look at what's new in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.
Full session descriptions are at the end of this post.
The Schedule
The Roadshows are 1-5 PM and, like our Fall 2009 series, several will be the same day as morning TechNet IT Pro events. (They're separate events, so if you want to attend both, please register for each.)
March 10: Rochester, NY – [ Roadshow Registration ]
March 12: Albany, NY - [ Roadshow Registration ]
w/ A.M. TechNet event [TechNet Reg.]
March 24: Waltham, MA – [ Roadshow Registration ]
w/ A.M. TechNet event [TechNet Reg.]
March 26: Farmington, CT – [ Roadshow Registration ]
w/ A.M. TechNet event [TechNet Reg.]
Also, keep an eye on the "Northeast Roadshow – Before You Leave the House!" page for any last-minute updates on venues and logistics.
After the tour, we'll post materials and record screencasts based on the sessions on the Northeast Portal on Channel 9 (head there now for content from previous Roadshows.)
We'll see you on the road!
The Northeast MSDN Roadshow - "Driving Toward a New Horizon" Tour
It's a new year and road and code warriors Chris Bowen and Jim O'Neil just can't wait to return to the highways of the northeast to talk about major technology releases and what's important for developers.
From writing applications that leverage Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud operating system that went live on January 1st, to new ways of working with services and data like WCF Data Services and SQL Azure, to a look at what's just around the bend with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, let Chris and Jim be your GPS of technology travel.
The Northeast MSDN Roadshow is a free series of deep technology sessions for developers and architects. Register today and join Chris and Jim for these relaxed events to gain practical insights.
So, rev up those developer engines and get ready to roll toward new sights and destinations!
The Agenda: Cloudy (but Clear) Skies, Driving Data, and Visual (Studio) Sights
Windows Azure: What? Why? And a Peek Under the Hood
What is Cloud Computing and where can it take you? In this session, we'll first focus on showing the potential benefits of creating applications for the cloud with Windows Azure. Then, we'll pop open the hood to show you around the main parts of the engine, including web roles, worker roles, and queues. You'll see how Windows Azure plugs in for interoperability with other on-premises and cloud applications via the App Fabric. You'll also learn how Windows Azure can be used to host technologies other than .NET – such as Java and PHP – and get a glimpse into what's coming next with project "Sydney" and the integration of Windows Workflow into the cloud.
Data: At Your Service
Services are more than just executable bits of business logic; data too can be provided as a service, and the Microsoft stack offers a number of ways to host your data on and off-premises. Windows Azure provides highly scalable table and blob storage, and SQL Azure brings the relational model to the cloud, but there's other options as well including exposing your domain data via WCF Data Services and leveraging vetted data service providers such as the Associated Press and the Data.gov via Microsoft "Dallas". Think of this session as a pit stop to help you examine the data and modeling options best suited to tune your applications.
Visual Studio 2010: That's a 10-4, Good Buddy
There's a buzz in the air as Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are arriving soon, and they're bringing plenty of cargo that developers will enjoy, from new features to improved productivity. We'll hop on and take a tour, giving you the lay of the land in terms of what will help you as a developer. The sights will include parallel application development, new editor features and debugging capabilities (including a new historical debugger), improvements for web and Windows development, new .NET language features, and much more.


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History is the study of human life recreated from the tracks our ancestors have left behind. The Mount's History program traces these tracks from antiquity to the present, and explores the rich variety of societies and cultures from around the globe.
In the study of the past, our program equips students with research techniques, analytical strategies, and reading and writing skills that students will find invaluable in a number of today's most vital occupational settings.
In organizing the curriculum, the faculty has taken care to provide students with a broad general knowledge of history, and a firm foundation for graduate schools or careers in business, government service, law and teaching. Practice and theory are linked through internships in local and regional historical sites and historical societies.
Students who major in History must complete a minimum of 30 credits, but not more than 40 credits, in the discipline. Six credits in political science may be used as part of the 30-credit minimum. The remaining credits should be distributed over three areas: American, European and non-Western Studies. At least 18 of the 30 credits must be taken in courses numbered at the 3000 or 4000 level. Additional requirements apply to students who are seeking education certification.
Students majoring in History must maintain an average of "C" or better in completing the requirements of the major. Those students seeking Education certification must also satisfy the course, credit, and grade requirements specified by the Division of Education.
Students who minor in History must take 18 credits in the discipline. Three credits may be in political science and at least nine of the credits must be in courses at the 3000 or 4000 level.
The New York State Senate, the New York State Assembly, the United States House of Representatives, the New York State Police, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Archives, Washington's Headquarters, Vanderbilt Mansion, Mills Mansion, the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, the Mount Saint Mary College Archives, and other sites throughout the tri-state area.
College professor, lawyer, archivist, elementary school teacher, high school teacher, law enforcement officer, government official, foreign service agent, state department analyst, politician, journalist, stock broker, corporate records manager, political pundit, bank manager, historical site manager, museum curator, military officer, and many other options.


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Portions of Texas Interstate Highways to see Speed Limit Increase
Miles and miles of Texas highway will soon see speed limit increases following Thursday's Texas Transportation Commission action approving 75 mph designations for close to 1,500 miles of interstate.
"Texas' economic strength depends on the efficient and safe movement of people and goods," Carol Rawson (TxDOT) explained. "These new speed limits increase highway efficiency while maintaining the safety of the transportation system."
TxDOT recommended to the Commission that speed limits be raised on segments of I-10, I-20, I-27, I-30, I-35, I-37, I-40, I-44 and I-45 after engineering studies showed that higher speeds could be posted safely. However, motorists must continue to travel at the posted speed until new signs are installed.
New 75 mph speed limits approved Thursday are located on:
- I-10-289 miles across El Paso, Gillespie, Kerr, Kendall, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Gonzales, Fayette, Colorado, Austin, Jefferson and Orange counties
- I-20-423 miles across Crane, Ector, Midland, Martin, Howard, Mitchell, Nolan, Taylor, Callahan, Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Van Zandt, Smith, Gregg and Harrison counties
- I-27-109 miles across Lubbock, Hale, Swisher and Randall counties
- I-30-139 miles across Hunt, Hopkins, Franklin, Titus, Morris and Bowie counties
- I-35-106 miles across Webb, Medina, Atascosa, Bexar, Hill and Cooke counties
- I-37-130 miles across Nueces, San Patricio, Live Oak, Atascosa and Bexar counties
- I-40-166 miles across Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Donley and Wheeler counties
- I-44-11 miles across Wichita County
- I-45-143 miles across Walker, Madison, Leon, Freestone and Navarro counties
Go to http://www.txdot.gov/safety/speed_limit/75mph.htm for more information on the locations of the new speed limits.


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The following FO was my oldest WIP in my knitting basket, steady but slowly I added row after row, until I finally ran out of yarn. This was very hard to photograph, in fact this is the only picture worth showing at all. As much as I loved the design, I'm glad it's done. Since starting this project I started and finished 22 others, so I never got to memorize this stitch pattern. I had to look at the print out especially for the edge part, which it makes this scarf so lovely.
pattern: Theresa of Knituition, link on the side bar
yarn: Rowan wool cotton, 50/50%, 50g 123 yds, 5 balls (this was yarn I got from Karen)
needle: 4mm
size after blocking: 14" x 80"
start-finish: August-November 2007
Although I LOVE the pattern and liked knitting with Rowan wool cotton very much, I think it was a poor choice combining those two.
No sooner had I pushed in the last pin to block the scarf (I found a dropped stitch by the way, had to fix that), had I cast on for my next project. By the way, I was not even WIPless for a minute. Had cleared all the "old" stuff off my plate, when several others where already waiting in line. Funny thing though, those are not projects, which I had been longingly waiting to cast on for at all, oh no. These are all new ones:
Here's the Yuletomten in progress:
The next one was totally unexpected, but very welcome: Mona Schmidt of Knit Stricken! brought forth the November Mystery Socks, >which I started and finished the first clue off. This doesn't really count, because I have to wait in between for new clues, so I'm free to do other stuff. I just know that this mystery sock will be wonderful, as I like all her designs. Thanks to Pat who had a link on her blog, I found out all about it. Oh, and I'm using Jojoland Melody for these socks. Honestly this yarn is bugging me quite a lot. It splits so easily, and it's quite harsh. I know from former experience, that it softens a little with a bath, but you have to suffer through it, while knitting. Hope the color turns out nice.
And there's Ripples socks designed by Anni Design for the Sockamania Club KAL, the November design. I didn't knit any socks in October, and felt quite sock starved. These I can knit on until they are done. I'm using Trekking XXL from stash for these.


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Never, ever trust a writer. They cluck and nod and listen and then three months later they splash your tragedy/foolishness/very embarrassing incident involving a raspberry jelly and a pair of warm curling tongs over the tawdry pages of a literary quarterly. We feel there is no shame in this. Quite the opposite: we believe this ugly fact deserves to be celebrated with all the pomp and hullaballoo we can possibly muster. Therefore we are compiling an anthology of the finest stolen stories, the anecdotes and overheard conversations that simply demand to be told. We feel that it is time to be honest. This is where our ideas come from.
Stories should not exceed 5,000 words in length and must, must, must be accompanied by a short note that explains the nature of your theft. We would prefer that you did not steal from well-known television shows or anything equally obvious.
Send your stolen story to:
Closing date for submissions: July 3rd
Call For Submissions: Stolen Stories: Deadline July 3rd
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I'm a christian and i have many friends that aren't and I've always wanted to know more about my own belief so i can tell others because if a person would just read what the bible states it's like a blind man finally seeing.
I stumbled across a site that basically had an answer for every question against the bible and every answer had the bible proving correct. If you don't believe me check out the site. And if you want to know more about a subject or topic from the bible there are links to explain further detail, a very good site..i hope some people open their eyes and read this inofrmation carefully.


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Career and Technical Education (CTE) New Teacher Mentoring Program
In December of 2016, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) contracted with Resources for Learning, LLC, (RFL) to launch the Career and Technical Education (CTE) New Teacher Mentoring Program. The CTE New Teacher Mentoring Program offers ongoing mentoring and induction-type professional development,...
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CTE TEKS Implementation Online Professional Development Modules
This binder contains TEKS implementation resources, that link to Gateway Courses at https://www.texascourses.org/.
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How do Dew and Fog Form? Nature at Work with Temperature, Vapour Pressure, and Partial Pressure
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In the early morning, especially here in Canada, I often see dew – water droplets formed by the condensation of water vapour on outside surfaces, like windows, car roofs, and leaves of trees. I also sometimes see fog – water droplets or ice crystals that are suspended in air and often blocking visibility at great distances. Have you ever wondered how they form? It turns out that partial pressure, vapour pressure and temperature are the key phenomena at work.
Dew (by Staffan Enbom) and Fog (by Jon Zander)
Source: Wikimedia