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What in your life is irreplaceable? NBC News' David Friedman asked himself that question again and again as he worked in debris-strewn Breezy Point the last two days. The neighborhood was devastated by a fire that ripped through more than 100 homes the night Hurricane Sandy struck.
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Items lay among the burned and flooded homes in Breezy Point, N.Y., on Thursday, Nov. 1.
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By virtue of the Power of Sale contained in the Deed to Secure Debt from WILLIAM DEL ROSARIO to FNB South, dated June 14, 2006 recorded in Deed Book 417, pages 821-827, Clerk's Office, Appling County, Georgia, there will be sold by the undersigned at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the courthouse door at Appling County, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in May, 2013, the following described property:
All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in land Lot No. 526 of the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, consisting of 3.00 acres, more or less, being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of Land Lot No. 526 thence South 44 degrees 21 minutes East a distance of 3845.27 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING; thence South 16 degrees 25 minutes 25 seconds East a distance of 374.72 feet to a point; thence South 65 degrees 25 minutes 50 seconds West a distance of 150.00 feet to a point; thence South 77 degrees 44 minutes 30 seconds West a distance of 119.12 feet to appoint; thence South 60 degrees 08 minutes 20 seconds West a distance of 63.85 feet to a point; thence North 24 degrees 50 minutes 35 seconds West a distance of 60.23 feet to a point; thence North 24 degrees 50 minutes 35 seconds West a distance of 296.54 feet to a point; thence North 66 degrees 13 minutes 35 seconds East a distance of 384.81 feet to the Point of Beginning
Said Property being more particularly shown and described according to a survey and plat thereof by Denean W. Dixon, GRLS No. 1647, dated march 21, 2001, recorded in Plat book 15, Page 428, of the records of the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia, and incorporated herein for a more full and complete description and all other purposes.
ALSO CONVEYED is a non-exclusive easement for access to the above-described property from County Road No. 450, said easement being 60 ft. in width and more particularly described according to the courses, metes and bounds of the hereinabove referred to plat of survey.
Property address: 636 Sandy Rd, Baxley, GA 31513
Map and Parcel # 0045-005G
Said Deed to Secure Debt having been given to secure a note dated June 14, 2006 in the original principal amount of $25,176.00 and June 3, 2010 in the original principal amount of $22,646.75 with interest from date at the rate as specified therein
The debt secured by said Deed to Secure Debt has been and is hereby declared due because of among other possible events of default, failure to pay in accordance with the terms of said notes. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of the sale, including attorney's fees.
To the best of the undersigned's knowledge, the party in possession of the subject property is: William Del Rosario
The above described property will be sold subject to unpaid state, county and city taxes to the highest bidder for cash and the proceeds will be applied to said indebtedness and the lawful expenses of said sale as provided in said security deed and a conveyance will be made to the purchaser at the sale as authorized by said security deed.
Debtor should contact FNB South, 198 W. Parker St., Baxley, Georgia, 31513 phone # 912-367-0200, as to any negotiations, amendments or modification of the above stated Note.
This the 28th day of March, 2013.
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Why Ryan's Hope Would Be An American Nightmare
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Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee announced that he has selected Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice presidential running mate.
Conservatives are hoping against hope that this selection will relaunch Romney's campaign by providing the necessary policy focus that has been lacking up to this point. Conservative columnist Paul Gigot recently wrote, "The case for Mr. Ryan is that he best exemplifies the nature and stakes of this election…Against the advice of every Beltway bedwetter, he has put entitlement reform at the center of the public agenda…" Gigot calls Ryan "a man of big ideas". Ryan's hope could be America's nightmare.
Romney's choice of Ryan was not as much of a bold move forward as it was a bad selection from a pool of bad options. Conservatives looked at Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, Chris Christie, Condie Rice and others as potential running mates for Romney. Before Louisiana Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal started palling around with Romney he endorsed Texas Governor Rick Perry, "Rick Perry is the candidate who can lead our party to victory in 2012…" And Jindal is hailed as one of the "brightest minds in the Republican Party." Really? Can anyone honestly believe that ultra-conservative WASP's in the Republican Party would vote for a VP nominee named Piyush? To them that is almost as bad as a president who's middle name is Hussein.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty would have had trouble overcoming his primary challenges to Romney's health care initiatives. According to Pawlenty, "President Obama said that he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and basically made it Obamneycare…" By his own admission, New Jersey Governor Christie understood that he was not ready: "It doesn't feel right to me. If I do this, I just feel like I'd be second-guessing myself the entire time I was out there, and I can't do it that way."
Former Secretary of State Rice's perspective's on Affirmative Action and abortion make her too liberal and like Jindal, I have a difficult time seeing ultra-conservative WASP's backing an African American woman on the Republican ticket. Usually, during the primary process a candidate will tack towards the extreme end of the political spectrum to capture their party's nomination and jib back towards the center to capture the more moderate faction of the electorate in the general election. In this instance, Mitt Romney tacked to the furthest extremes of ultra-conservative ideology by changing his positions on issues such as immigration, health care reform, and contraception. With the selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate Romney has compounded his tack towards the right in an effort to convince ultra-conservatives that he's really in their camp.
Conservatives will have the electorate believe that Ryan's budget, his so-called "Path to Prosperity" is new and innovative. It is actually the latest version of Reagan administration budget director David Stockman's "starve the beast" fiscal philosophy.
"Starving the beast" is a fiscal-political strategy of American conservatives to cut taxes in order to deprive the government of revenue in a deliberate effort to create a fiscal budget crisis. Creating the crisis then allows conservatives to make the case for cutting the social programs or "the beast" they have opposed since their inception. They force the federal government to reduce spending by cutting programs rather than raise tax levels.
Ryan's proposed cuts to social programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and housing assistance while maintaining the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy is a 2012 version of a failed 1980's idea. The "trickle down" economics of the Reagan era as applied during the George W. Bush era has contributed to sinking fiscal boat America finds itself in today. During the 1980 presidential campaign, George H.W. Bush called it "voodoo economics."
Part of the solution is to simply go back to the tax rates of the Clinton era. Congressman Bobby Scott's (D-VA) idea of allowing the Bush-era tax cuts and the 2% payroll tax holiday to expire is a very simple way to revenues back on track. According to Scott, "The President's FY 2013 budget proposes ending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, among other savings…My proposal is to let all the Bush-era tax cuts and the 2% payroll tax cut expire as currently scheduled. This would yield approximately $5 trillion – $4 trillion more than the sequester. In the first year, the additional revenue could be immediately put towards direct job creation, such as investments in transportation and infrastructure, to accelerate economic growth. It would also be more than enough to cancel the economically damaging sequester. These proposals put real numbers on line items, and do not hide behind poll tested talking points and generalities, such as 'reduce the size of government,' which do not propose any concrete solutions."
If Ryan is the "man of big ideas" they are the wrong ideas. It's bad policy with the wrong focus.
Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ Host of the nationally broadcast call-in talk radio program "Inside the Issues with Wilmer Leon," and a Teaching Associate in the Department of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Go to http://www.wilmerleon.com or email: firstname.lastname@example.com. http://www.twitter.com/drwleon © 2012 InfoWave Communications, LLC.
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Connecticut drivers to face fines for failing to clear vehicles of snow, ice
BRIDGEPORT >> A state law is about to take effect imposing fines on truckers and motorists who fail to clear their vehicles of snow.
Three years after the legislature and then-Gov. M. Jodi Rell enacted the so-called "ice-missile" legislation, the measure makes drivers liable for fines of $1,000 or more if flying ice and snow causes damage or injuries. Motorists whose vehicles are piled high with snow can be stopped by police and ticketed for $75.
A legislative compromise delayed the effective date of the law in exchange for passage in the final days of the 2010 General Assembly.
The state's trucking industry fought 20 years to block the so-called ice-missile legislation. It's now selling a product that allows drivers to reach up and scrape the tops of their big rigs.


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The wet weather pattern continues after storms brought rain and flooding to inland areas Sunday. Flooded intersections in the Indio area, about 130 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, caused problems for drivers as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ivo brought rain to the region.
A flash flood watch -- which officials issue to warn residents of the potential for danger -- was in effect through Monday night for the foothills and valleys of Riverside and San Bernardino counties and the Santa Ana Mountains, the National Weather Service said. The region is seeing an influx of moisture from the remnants of Tropical Depression Ivo.
"Showers and thunderstorms are on the move," said NBC4 forecaster Elita Loresca. "These slow-moving thunderstorms could produce some heavy rains."
Rain was reported early Monday afternoon in the Morongo Valley area. Flooding was reported along Highway 62 and in the Desert Hot Springs area near Indian Road.
Heavy rain on the Falls burn area in Lake Elsinore could result in dangerous flash flooding, weather forecasters said. Officials recommend that residents have a plan to shelter in place or move to higher ground when warnings are issued.
Up to one inch of rain is possible in Inland Empire mountains and deserts.
A flash flood watch is expected to go into effect for Los Angeles County mountain areas at about 1 p.m. Monday. Wet conditions are possible in Acton, Lancaster, Palmdale and other areas.
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A bipartisan group of senators has reached a deal on a bill that would make it a federal crime to buy a gun for someone who isn't legally allowed to own one.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy announced the agreement on the Senate floor Monday evening.
Illegal gun "straw" purchases, made by a buyer on behalf of someone who cannot pass a background check, are often not prosecuted under current law, usually because conducting such a sale yields such a weak penalty.
The new compromise legislation would make the consequences for both straw buyers and sellers far more serious - to the tune of decades in jail.
"Instead of a slap on the wrist or treating this like a paperwork violation, these crimes under our bill would be punishable by up to 25 years in prison," Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said.
In broad strokes, cracking down on gun trafficking has wide support in both parties and isn't intensely controversial, as other potential gun control measures are. A bipartisan group of House members have already introduced a similar trafficking bill in that chamber.
The National Rifle Association appears to be reaching out to minorities in its fights against new gun laws. TheGrio.com's Earl Ofari Hutchinson responds to the ad.
The Senate legislation will include penalties for the straw purchaser as well as for the gun seller. Collins is a cosponsor, as is Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Richard Blumenthal, D- Conn., have also signed on.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will take up the trafficking bill on Thursday, when it also plans to consider three other pieces of gun control legislation: an assault weapons ban, a school safety measure and a bill to require background checks for all gun buyers.
With an assault weapons ban all but doomed to fail, the focus is still on the universal background check bill. Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Charles Schumer of New York have been negotiating with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., but those talks have mostly stalled over disagreements about whether to require that private sellers keep records of private gun sales.
"We're working through all that and Tom will make a decision at the end where he is on the bill," Manchin said Monday.
Coburn told reporters late Monday that he spoke by phone with President Barack Obama earlier in the day, but would not elaborate on the subject of their discussion.
Democrats have been circulating the potential background check bill to other Republican senators as they continue talking to Coburn. Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake have both been involved, as has Collins.
It's unlikely that they'll reach a deal before Thursday's planned Judiciary Committee markup, Democratic aides said Monday. If there's no deal, the committee would take up a background check bill that Democrats wrote during the last Congress.
Manchin said he hoped to reach a deal before the committee meeting. "We're trying. But if not, it's not the end of the world," he said.
Negotiations around background checks could then continue until the bill reaches the Senate floor. The National Rifle Association opposes universal background checks; Coburn has an "A" rating from that group.
Asked which Republican senators might emerge as a potential cosponsor if Coburn decides not to, Manchin told NBC News: "I think that anybody that comes from the gun culture, especially those that have had A ratings."
Senate Democratic aides say the chamber is likely to consider gun legislation on the Senate floor during the first week of April.
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2015 is coming to an end. I can't believe it. Every year flies by faster than the previous year. Craziness! I am ready for 2016. New beginnings as always! Here's the traditional year in review for 2015.
Jackson visited Crystal Bridges museum for the first time this month. He also went to two birthday parties. Busy boy! KK also came to visit this month. Too fun!
Look at this sweet boy's cheeks! We celebrated Jackson's first Valentine's Day with hundreds of hugs and kisses. :) XOXO!
Happy Spring! We celebrated Springtime in the daffodils, went to South Arkansas to visit family, and more.
We celebrated Jackson Randolph's 1st birthday!!! He had a Poky Little Puppy party complete with birthday cake, ice cream, strawberry shortcake, and chocolate custard. :)
Oh, how precious. Jackson loves smiling for sure!
We had several walks with the wagon. It's one of our favorite things. :)
We took advantage of Russell's weekends off and went on a couple of road trips. This was taken in Eureka Springs. Oh so fun!
Jackson's first train ride! We got to spend time with family on this fun adventure. We love his little conductor hat. :)
I started my own business, "Baked with Love" selling homemade cinnamon rolls.
Also, friends and family surprised me on my 30th birthday with an 80's theme party. So special!!!
Russell and I celebrated our 8 year wedding anniversary at one of our favorite places downtown.
I also got to go to a Kelly Clarkson concert with my sister, Kelly, Whitney, and more friends. We had a blast!
Jackson's first haircut. He did great and was so well behaved the whole time. My handsome boy.
Met Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, for the.......fourth time. No lie. I would meet her again and again if I could. She's the sweetest!!
It was a busy month. Jackson and I went to the library for the first time and had such fun. His favorite part were the puzzles.
Thanksgiving with family...Russell took this picture. We loved fall so much!
We went to Journey to Bethlehem with Amy, Tony, and Leighann. It truly was wonderful.
Christmas 2015
Jackson is now 20 months old and learning new things every day. Time flies. We say is often, but time truly does fly. Wow!! Here's to a blessed 2016!
Happy New Year!
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TROLL STATION, Antarctica (Reuters) - Nations claiming parts of Antarctica are quietly staking out rights to the seabed, in stark contrast to the North Pole where Russia ostentatiously planted a flag to back its claim. "We have a vessel making seismic surveys of the continental shelf," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters at the Troll research station, 155 miles inland in a part of Antarctica claimed by Oslo.
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
TROLL STATION, Antarctica (Reuters) - Nations claiming parts of Antarctica are quietly staking out rights to the seabed, in stark contrast to the North Pole where Russia ostentatiously planted a flag to back its claim.
"We have a vessel making seismic surveys of the continental shelf," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters at the Troll research station, 155 miles inland in a part of Antarctica claimed by Oslo.
Interested countries are tiptoeing around the question of who owns the Antarctic seabed, and potential deposits of oil and gas, fearing it could open the floodgates to counter-claims or undermine a treaty protecting the continent as a nature reserve.!ADVERTISEMENT!
Unlike the Arctic, which is open to competition for minerals, Antarctica is set aside forever for peaceful purposes and scientific research under a 1959 treaty that was a big success of the Cold War.
Argentina, Australia, Britain, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway -- all close to Antarctica or with historical ties -- made claims before the treaty took effect. Moscow and Washington did not make claims but reserved the right to do so.
Norway's interests go back almost a century -- Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was first to reach the South Pole in 1911, before Briton Robert Falcon Scott.
However, the Antarctic Treaty is being tested by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, which has set a deadline of May 2009 for most coastal states to map their continental shelves, aiming to define rights to seabed areas.
Johannes Huber, head of the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat in Buenos Aires, told Reuters: "Under the Antarctic Treaty you cannot increase your claim, you cannot make new claims."
He added: "There are quite a few prohibitions, so anything that makes it seem like they are increasing their territory could lead to trouble. None of the moves so far have caused any controversy among the Antarctic Treaty parties."
Australia and New Zealand are the only states to have made low-key bids so far over seabed rights, but insist they will respect Antarctica's status as a natural reserve. Others have yet to decide.
Although its deposits of oil, gas and minerals must remain undisturbed for now, Antarctica has other assets that countries are able to exploit.
Its tourism industry brings in almost 40,000 visitors a year, and abundant stocks of krill, a small crustacean, provide a source of fish feed, dietary supplements, food flavoring and pharmaceuticals, and can even be used for cleaning Old Masters.
The Antarctic treaty puts territorial claims on hold and bans hunting for minerals until 2048 at the earliest, when a review is possible.
The shadow-boxing over Antarctica's seabed is far from the unbridled rivalry over resources in the Arctic, which could hold a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves according to some official U.S. estimates.
Russia, in the boldest claim, said in August that explorers using a mini-sub had planted a rust-free metal tricolor on the seabed beneath the North Pole in waters 4,261 meters (13,980 ft) deep. Copenhagen has said the North Pole is Danish.
Exploiting oil, gas or minerals off Antarctica would be even more daunting than in the Arctic because of ice, cold, huge distances, storms and deep water.
The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea specifies that states own the seabed beyond an existing zone of 200 nautical miles if it is part of a continental shelf of shallower waters.
Australia made surveys and submitted data defining its seabed off Antarctica to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) in 2004.
"In Australia's note accompanying the submission it requested the CLCS not to take any action for the time being," a spokesman for Australia's Foreign Affairs and Trade Department said. "The CLCS agreed to this request ... Australia is committed to the Antarctic Treaty."
New Zealand took a different tack in 2006, saying it would not, for the time being, submit any data but reserved the right to do so in future. Other countries have yet to decide.
It is unclear what the rules, which will affect rights to oil and gas drilling, minerals or "bio-prospecting" of life on the seabed, mean for Antarctica.
"The decision is up to the coastal states," said Alexandre Albuquerque, a Brazilian who chairs the U.N. commission, when asked if states with Antarctic territorial claims should submit data.
"It would be comfortable to the commission if Antarctic claimants got together and made a joint submission. However ... this decision is up to the coastal states," he said.
On one hand, failure to submit a seabed claim might make it seem countries are no longer interested in their territorial claims. However, aggressively making a claim to the seabed could be seen as a violation of the Antarctic Treaty.
Failing to meet the commission's deadline of May 2009 could mean forfeiting its approval of any claim.
"I don't think that the Antarctic treaty is threatened," Norway's Stoltenberg said. "It has survived the Cold War and the great powers disputes and it will survive this."
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Los Angeles theatrical rockers BLACK VEIL BRIDES have tapped their longtime friend, artist Richard Villa, to create the artwork for the band's third album.
The group was assisted by GOLDFINGER's John "Feldy" Feldmann during the tracking sessions for the CD, which is tentatively due in January 2013.
BLACK VEIL BRIDES frontman Andy Biersack previously stated about the band's new effort, "I'm so happy, excited and proud of this album!" He added, "Thank you, [Feldy] for helping us to create something we are all so proud of! This entire record is a dream come true!!"
Biersack told NME earlier this summer that the follow-up to "Set The World On Fire" was going to be "more of a punk rock record than anything we've done before. It's SOCIAL DISTORTION meets METALLICA." Biersack also confirmed that the album has a title, but declined to reveal it, explaining, "Of course we've got a title. I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance. We've got a title, we've got a story. It's a bit of concept record, there's a very serious story behind it. It's full of surprises."
BLACK VEIL BRIDES' new song, "Unbroken", appeared on the soundtrack to this year's movie, "Marvel's The Avengers". "Unbroken" is included on "Avengers Assemble", a 14-track compilation of music from and inspired by the film. "Avengers Assemble" was released on May 1.
BLACK VEIL BRIDES' latest EP, "Rebels", was released last December, exclusively through iTunes.
Pictured below: BLACK VEIL BRIDES with producer John "Feldy" Feldmann


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text: Internet 9 November 2011 The IAEA are in America's corner on Iran, says Mehdi Hasan Don't believe me? Ask the Americans. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up There was a time when I had a lot of admiration for the work of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Its Nobel-prize-winning chief, Mohammed ElBaradei, stood up to the Bush administration over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the 2003 invasion in 2003 - and was vindicated by the subsequent, post-war failure to find WMDs in the country. He also had the guts to resist US pressure on Iran; prior to his resignation from the agency in 2009, he bluntly described the threat from a nuclear Iran as "hyped". His replacement as director-general of the IAEA, however, isn't as independent-minded or strong-willed as ElBaradei - especially on the contentious and politicized issue of Iran's nuclear programme. How do we know this? How else? WikiLeaks. According to an October 2009 US state department cable released by the whistleblowing organisation late last year, Yukiya Amano, the Japanese diplomat who took over at the IAEA in July of 2009, seemed ultra-keen to show his loyalty to the United States from the very start of his term: Amano reminded [the] ambassador on several occasions that he would need to make concessions to the G-77 [the developing countries group], which correctly required him to be fair-minded and independent, but that he was solidly in the US court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. "Solidly in the US court"? Er. . . The same US cable described Amano as: DG of All States, But in Agreement with Us In another 2009 US state department cable, released by WikiLeaks and examined by Iran expert, Professor Juan Cole, on his blog, the then British foreign secretary David Miliband spoke of putting some 'steel' in Amano's spine. Ellen Tauscher, the US under secretary for arms control and international security affairs, said that the US and the UK must work to make Amano a 'success'. Let's be honest, it doesn't fill you with much confidence in the Amano or the IAEA, does it? (Oh, and for more details on the exaggerated threat from Iran's nuclear programme, see my column in this week's magazine. Out on the newsstands tomorrow.) › Whatever happened to libel reform? Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics) from 2009-12. Subscribe To stay on top of global affairs and enjoy even more international coverage subscribe for just £1 per month!


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Arenado offers apology for not hustling on grounder
DENVER -- Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado circled the bases at a pace pleasing to manager Walt Weiss, his teammates and a Coors Field crowd of 44,611 on Saturday night.
A seventh-inning solo home run off Pirates pitcher Jeff Locke was the punctuation to Arenado's return after receiving a punitive benching for not running out a ground ball during Friday night's victory over the Pirates.
Arenado's Saturday started with an apology, mixed with a thank you, in an afternoon meeting with Weiss. It ended 3-for-5 with his eighth homer of the season, two RBIs, and two dazzling defensive plays.
"Obviously, it's hard to end on a day like yesterday," Arenado said. "It was nice to get back out there, but the most important thing is to help the team win. it was nice to win. The feeling of winning is so much better."
Weiss finished Friday night saying Arenado didn't meet his simple requirement -- "Play the game hard, play the game right." Saturday, Weiss was back to being quite fond of Arenado, who last year was the first National League rookie third baseman to win a Rawlings Gold Glove Award and this year had a club-record 28-game hit streak.
"We've all seen him do those things before, but it was real impressive tonight to see him go back out there and play the game that he did," Weiss said. "He's a special player. We all know that."
In the fourth inning on Friday, he jogged despairingly out of the batter's box on his fourth-inning ground ball to the mound. Pirates pitcher Charlie Morton fumbled the ball, but because Arenado didn't hustle immediately, he had time to retrieve it and throw in time to first base.
The act was out of frustration rather than defiance. Still, Weiss had to punish it, and Arenado understood.
"Honestly, I thanked Walt for it," Arenado before Saturday's game. "I said, 'I thank you for doing that. You were absolutely right. I messed up. I appreciate what you did.' There's a standard that he holds us to, and the only standard is he wants us to play hard. It's not that hard. That's something I need to do on a daily basis. I'm going to start doing that."
Arenado had struggled since returning this month from a broken left middle finger -- .206 with a .219 on-base percentage in 17 games going into Saturday. Arenado had similar incidents in the Minors, but club officials and coaches realized it was Arenado not channeling his competitive nature.
Weiss understood that as well. He likes Arenado's boyish energy. It was Arenado's idea for the Rockies to wear high-cuffed pants -- a fashion statement whose advent coincides with the team's three-game win streak. As long as the energy is channeled positively, Weiss has no qualms.
"He gets frustrated," Weiss said before the game. "He's got a burning desire to be great. That's what makes him who he is. At the same time, in a lot of instances our greatest strength is the thing that we battle.
"That's how it is with Nolan. That's what drives him, that desire and drive to be great. He practices with that intensity every day. It's just frustration that gets the best of him sometimes."


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Leading the star-studded event with five nominations, hip-hop royalty, Jay-Z is expected to sweep the 2010 BET Awards that airs tonight at 8pm EST. Following close behind the rapper is wife Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Trey Songz and Melanie Fiona, each with four nods.
The hip-hop power couple will battle against each other for the Video of the Year title. Jay-Z has a slight advantage since he is nominated twice in the same category for his collaborations with Rihanna and Kayne West for their hit, "Run this Town," and then with Alicia Keys for the New York anthem, "Empire State of Mind." But Beyonce has pop sensation Lady Gaga in her corner for their collaboration on "Video Phone," in an effort to beat out her husband for the award. Tween heartthrob, Justin Bieber, racked up a surprising nomination for Best New Artist, while fellow tween star, Selena Gomez, is nominated for the Young Stars award.
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The BET Awards which celebrates the best of music, movies, and sports, promises live musical performances from Kayne West, T.I. and Eminem, each attempting to make their own respected comebacks.
West will return to the spotlight, after he stole the microphone from winner Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, shocking audiences when he declared that Beyonce should have won for MTV's "Best Female Video."
The Awards will also mark T.I.'s first televised performance since December, when he was released from prison.
Following the release of his new album, "Recovery," Eminem, is also slated to take the stage.
Prince and John Legend will receive special accolades during the night, for Prince, a lifetime achievement award, and for Legend, a humanitarian award for his education and health care charity work.
Hosting the celebrity-filled affair will be none other than the woman who can do it all, Academy Award Winner and rapper Queen Latifah.


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Who could think that in 4 short and I mean very short months; one girl can go from being with a man she thought adored her, to actually being with someone who would & could do everything to hurt, manipulate and use her? You maybe wondering how I come to this conclusion with just one fight and some name calling, right? Well, let's take a really quick trip down another short road that happened. In the three months prior to our first Thanksgiving together, ROB, lost his 3 figure income, talked to me about purchasing a used Harley Davidson…which I agreed to but only in the amount of roughly $10,000.00 as he had not found another job yet, had started to gamble (and NOT on a casual basis), and started staying out later and later with THE BOYS at the bar. Oh and not to mention, that jackass pulled up in the driveway with not a used Harley Davidson, but a brand new 100th addition Fat Boy with a customer paint job. He put me on the back of that damn thing and took was going to take me on a ride to meet some of our other BIKER FRIENDS!!!!! I was so tense he turned around a mile from our home. Before the bike reached the driveway I think I was on the couch and ready to kill someone. ROB, decided to come in and ask me, WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM? My problem, oh know you want to know MY PROBLEM? Let's see, we agreed on something and ROB couldn't even make that work. Oh, I will tell you what MY PROBLEM is…I let him have it! Again I almost for batem restated the conversation we had about that $10,000.00 bike in the garage! He admitted it was more like $25,000.00 he spent and that he had been SINGLE for almost 10 years and I couldn't expect him to change overnight! Oh REALLY!!! I had NEVER been married and I had NEVER had to talk to ANYONE about my money or how I spent it…but I was trying! So, I simply explained it to him that when I purchased a $25,000.00 TENNIS BRACELET that only I would get the use out of, he best keep his damn mouth shut and accept it! His reply…YOU WOULD NEVER…no I didn't think I would, but things changed and so had I!
Along with this new Harley…I had watched ROB gamble over $2,000.00 away one evening…not even really an evening, but a couple hours. You are probably wondering why this is so upsetting, right? Well, it was because he had already been out drinking for a rough 5 hours and I was sitting at home watching the money come out of the bank account when he had called and said he was on his way home! Oh yeah, I in my pajama's stormed into Mystic Lake Casino and let him have it!
So, know that you have a little more into my WONDERFUL life, let's get back to that wonderful first Thanksgiving dinner.
As you remember, I had been up all night trying to figure out what to do and make a dinner for 10 people. Yep, his parents, sister, my parents & my step-son. The table looked perfect with MY best china, the house smelt great and all was in place. When ROB finally decided to wake up and journey up to the kitchen from the guest room in our lower level where he slept that night, the first thing he saw was me in the kitchen crying. Do you know what his first words were? Yep, HONEY WHAT'S WRONG? Are you kidding me…with swollen red eyes, I spun on him and asked YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG? I WILL TELL YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH WHAT'S WRONG! I married someone I thought had a heart and cared about me, but what I got was someone who only cared about himself and fuck the rest of the world or those in it. He just stood there. To his amazement, I asked him directly; DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER WHAT YOU SAID TO ME LAST NIGHT? His reply, not really. I started to laugh, if I only had had a camera to take a picture of him tilting his head and trying to figure out what was going on. I replayed the night instance for instance and word for word and then I added…SO LET'S DO THIS! He just stood there. I told him; he best get a move on, he still had to go pick up our son from his moms and people would be coming soon. At this point, he looked at me with a ghostly look on his face and said, I don't really thing we should have Thanksgiving and I don't think Pete (name changed to protect him) should come over either. I didn't even face him with my reply of, OH HELL NO! WE ARE DOING THIS AND PETE WILL BE HERE ALSO. GET MOVING.
As ROB went off to shower, I took a deep breath and made my way from the kitchen to our sun room to sit and look out and get my plan together. Oh I wanted everyone there for this one. I thought how perfect this was going to be and I was going to leave him holding the spoon of guilt and having to answer LOTS of questions; especially from my mom & dad whom would not have a clue as to what just happened.
My plan…in my mind, this is how it was going to go. Since this was our first joint family gathering and everyone was expecting things to be special, I wanted to make the moment special. With that said, I saw things going down something like this:
Everyone would take their places at the table, I would bring over the turkey (that by the way was GREAT and everyone did love it), and once everyone was seated, I was going to pour the wine for those that did drink and sparkling juice for those that didn't. At this wonderful moment, I was going to stand next to my newly BELOVED husband and say:
And with that I was going to storm out the door and leave. Where I was going to go or what I was going to do…that I wasn't sure of. But I am sure I would come up with something.
When ROB came home from picking up Pete, he had a gas station bouquet of flowers, a huge hug and tears with tons of SORRY's. Only problem was, I had received so many of these bouquets, hugs and sorry's, it didn't really matter to me. But you know what somewhere, it did.
As the families started to come, I had a hard time looking at anyone or even mingling with anyone. My mom asked what was wrong & if she could help with anything so that I could relax a little. NO! I didn't want to relax or have to look or talk with my parents! Then I would have lost it and started to cry all over again and my plan would be ruined.
My plan was ruined by my own heart. As we all gathered around the Thanksgiving table, I couldn't do it! I looked into the eyes of my step-son that had such adoration, I saw my parents standing there and thought I can't cause all this hurt for them and his family! Well, I wasn't sure what his family would think, but I didn't want to be the one that walked out on my marriage.
I took those vows, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, FOR RICHER OR POORER, IN SICKNESS & IN HEALTH. I told myself, this was his sickness & we would get through this also.
Look for my next entry and we come closer and closer to the conclusion to this marriage!
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Jesque-Guice binding
In our Java stack, we use Guice IOC library quite heavily. We are kind of smitten with it. Now, when we needed a task queue to process our background jobs, we settled with Jesque which is a port of Github's Resque project, and runs on Redis which was already part of our stack. In the process, we also added delayed task functionality to this.
Anyways, the problem we were facing was with Injecting Guice dependencies into Jesque workers. Our workers performed heavy operations and at times had to read-write from DB, or speak with other services.
Jesque uses Java reflection APIs to instantiate and run its workers (which are Runnable classes) and so, it becomes very difficult to inject Guice managed objects and services into Jesque workers.
We started the hacky-and-ugly way by creating static references to relevant services that our workers needed. if it were for few services, this would have worked, but our workers kept growing in features and reach, and after a while the whole code base was stinking. We had to do something about it. Something elegant!
So, we created Jesque Guice binding project. You can annotate your worker classes, and Guice will then discover, register and start them. Let me show you some code.
First, let's create an ExampleWorker. You have to remember that the Worker must implement Runnable interface, and it must be annotated with @Worker which Guice uses for discovery and binding.
// ExampleWorker @Worker(job = "ExampleJob", // job name queues = { "EXP_QUEUE" }, // queue names enabled = true, // enabled count = 1, // 1 instance of this worker running events = { WorkerEvent.JOB_SUCCESS, WorkerEvent.WORKER_START }, // Events to listen to listener = EchoListener.class // WorkerEventListener ) public class ExampleWorker implements Runnable { // LOG private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ExampleWorker.class); // Note: Only field level injection would work! @Inject ExampleService service; String arg1; String arg2; // Must keep an empty constructor for Guice to discover this public ExampleWorker() { } public ExampleWorker(String arg1, String arg2) { this.arg1 = arg1; this.arg2 = arg2; } @Override public void run() { LOG.info("Running worker={}, with arg1={}, arg2={}", new Object[] { getClass(), arg1, arg2 }); // calling service service.serve(); } }
@Worker attributes let you control the behavior. The above worker, ExampleWorker, listens to EXP_QUEUE queue, accepts Jobs by name ExampleJob, has an WorkerEventListener defined by Guice Managed class EchoListener which listens to WorkerEvent JOB_SUCCESS and WORKER_START. There is only ONE instance of this worker running.
Note: ExampleWorker has been field @Injected with ExampleService. Please remember, that
– Only field @Inject will work with Workers, because Jesque uses constructors to pass Job arguments.
– Also, you must keep an empty constructor around so as to let Guice discover this worker.
Now, since we have added a Listener, we must define it.
// EchoListener public class EchoListener implements WorkerListener { // LOG private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EchoListener.class); @Override public void onEvent(WorkerEvent event, Worker worker, String queue, Job job, Object runner, Object result, Exception ex) { LOG.info("onEvent ==>> queue={}, event={}", new Object[] { queue, event }); } }
For the sake of demonstration, this has been kept very minimal. But, mind you, you can @Inject any Guice managed objects into this, using constructor and/or field injection.
Now, let's define the ExampleService that we want to @Inject into our worker.
// ExampleService public class ExampleService { /** The Constant LOG. */ private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ExampleService.class); public void serve() { LOG.info("Heya! I am not here to serve, just to show you how injection works."); } }
Wonderful! Let's now bind these all together in a GuiceModule.
// ExampleModule public class ExampleModule extends AbstractModule { @Override protected void configure() { // Jesque Guice install(new JesqueModule()); // Jesque Client Config config = new ConfigBuilder().withHost("localhost").withPort(6379).withDatabase(0).build(); bind(Config.class).toInstance(config); bind(Client.class).toInstance(new ClientImpl(config)); // Worker bind(ExampleWorker.class).asEagerSingleton(); // Must be singleton // WorkerEventListener bind(EchoListener.class).in(Scopes.SINGLETON); // Worker Executor (This is where they actually run) bind(WorkerExecutor.class).to(SimpleThreadBasedWorkerExecutor.class); // Service (will be injected into workers) bind(ExampleService.class).asEagerSingleton(); } }
Here, first we install JesqueModule, and then bind other objects.
– Bind Jesque config and client.
– Bind Worker, Lister, Service etc.
You will notice we have also bound WorkerExecutor. This interface accepts net.greghaines.jesque.worker.Worker instance and runs that on a thread. Jesque-Guice comes with 2 simple implementations:
1. SimpleThreadBasedWorkerExecutor which run each net.greghaines.jesque.worker.Worker on an unmanaged separate thread, and
2. CachedThreadPoolBasedWorkerExecutor which creates a CachedThreadPool where net.greghaines.jesque.worker.Worker is run.
You can implement your own strategy or provide your own ExecutorService.
Now we have everything, let's run it then.
// Main public class Main { /** The Constant LOG. */ private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Main.class); /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(Stage.DEVELOPMENT, new Module[] { new ExampleModule() }); // Get Jesque client Client client = (Client) injector.getInstance(Client.class); LOG.info("Publish jobs"); // Push jobs client.enqueue("EXP_QUEUE", new Job("ExampleJob", "hello", "job1")); client.enqueue("EXP_QUEUE", new Job("ExampleJob", "hello", "job2")); } }
You should see,
// Job - 1 DEBUG c.s.commons.jesque.GuiceAwareWorker - Injecting dependencies into worker instance = com.strumsoft.commons.jesque.example.ExampleWorker@6b754699 DEBUG c.s.commons.jesque.GuiceAwareWorker - Delegating to run worker instance = com.strumsoft.commons.jesque.example.ExampleWorker@6b754699 INFO c.s.c.jesque.example.ExampleWorker - Running worker=class com.strumsoft.commons.jesque.example.ExampleWorker, with arg1=hello, arg2=job1 INFO c.s.c.jesque.example.ExampleService - Heya! I am not here to serve, just to show you how injection works. INFO c.s.c.jesque.example.EchoListener - onEvent ==>> queue=EXP_QUEUE, event=JOB_SUCCESS // Job -2 DEBUG c.s.commons.jesque.GuiceAwareWorker - Injecting dependencies into worker instance = com.strumsoft.commons.jesque.example.ExampleWorker@6602e323 DEBUG c.s.commons.jesque.GuiceAwareWorker - Delegating to run worker instance = com.strumsoft.commons.jesque.example.ExampleWorker@6602e323 INFO c.s.c.jesque.example.ExampleWorker - Running worker=class com.strumsoft.commons.jesque.example.ExampleWorker, with arg1=hello, arg2=job2 INFO c.s.c.jesque.example.ExampleService - Heya! I am not here to serve, just to show you how injection works. INFO c.s.c.jesque.example.EchoListener - onEvent ==>> queue=EXP_QUEUE, event=JOB_SUCCESS
Works… eh? 🙂
You can grab the project source at github https://github.com/anismiles/jesque-guice Give it a try. I hope this will help some of you folks. Share your thoughts with me.
Happy hacking!
Delayed Jobs with Jesque
Jesque is an interesting project. It's a Java port of Github's Resque task queue library. Works on top of Redis. It is fast. It eats less. And doesn't need a lot of maintenance, as long long your Redis is okay, you are okay! We have been happily using this in production for a while.
And then, we encountered a need for delayed jobs. We needed an ability to execute jobs in future with deterministic delay. We had 2 options:
1. Either, schedule these delayed jobs in Quartz – that was okay because we already had been using Quartz – and then, once Quartz jobs get fired, they publish a Task into Jesque, and let the workers handle the rest. (This was too contrived to implement, and would have become maintenance/reporting nightmare!)
2. We extend Jesque to support delayed jobs inherently.
We decided to go with option-2, and started exploring Redis datasets. Turned out, ZSET was all that we needed.
Jesque uses Redis LIST for job storage, workers keep polling the list, and LPOPs tasks from the LIST.
This is what we ended up doing:
When adding a delayed job,
1. Calculate future timestamp when the job should run,
2. Use that timestamp as SCORE to ZSET entry.
// Java final long delay = 10; //sec final long future = System.currentTimeMillis() + (delay * 1000); // future jedis.zadd(QUEUE, future, jobInfo); // Redis // ZADD <queue> <future> <job-information>
On the other hand, Workers' poll logic was updated. For Delayed queues,
1. Check if there are any items with SCORE between -INF and now,
final long now = System.currentTimeMillis(); final Set<String> tasks = jedis.zrangeByScore(QUEUE, -1, now, 0, 1);
If tasks are non-empty, try to grab one to execute.
if (null != tasks && !tasks.isEmpty()) { String task = tasks.iterator().next(); // try to acquire this task if (jedis.zrem(QUEUE, task) == 1) { return task; // Return } }
This way, we ensure that no 2 workers would grab the same task to execute.
Also, an important point to note here is that – You don't have to change your existing workers or redo new workers in any way. Just bind them to a Delayed Queue, and start publishing delayed tasks.
// DelayedJobTest.java package net.greghaines.jesque; import static net.greghaines.jesque.utils.JesqueUtils.entry; import static net.greghaines.jesque.utils.JesqueUtils.map; import java.util.Arrays; import net.greghaines.jesque.client.Client; import net.greghaines.jesque.client.ClientPoolImpl; import net.greghaines.jesque.worker.Worker; import net.greghaines.jesque.worker.WorkerImpl; import redis.clients.jedis.JedisPool; public class DelayedJobTest { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { // Queue name final String QUEUE = "fooDelayed"; // Config final Config config = new ConfigBuilder().withHost("localhost").withPort(6379).withDatabase(0).build(); // Client final Client client = new ClientPoolImpl(config, new JedisPool("localhost")); long delay = 10; // seconds long future = System.currentTimeMillis() + (delay * 1000); // Future timestamp // Enqueue job client.delayedEnqueue(QUEUE, new Job( TestJob.class.getSimpleName(), new Object[] {"HELLO", "WORLD" } // arguments ), future); // End client.end(); // Worker final Worker worker = new WorkerImpl(config, Arrays.asList(QUEUE), map(entry(TestJob.class.getSimpleName(), TestJob.class))); final Thread workerThread = new Thread(worker); workerThread.start(); // start } }
And, this is the TestJob,
// TestJob.java package net.greghaines.jesque; import java.util.Date; public class TestJob implements Runnable { final String arg1; final String arg2; public TestJob(String arg1, String arg2) { this.arg1 = arg1; this.arg2 = arg2; } @Override public void run() { System.out.println("Job ran at=" + new Date() + ", with arg1=" + arg1 + " and arg2=" + arg2); } }
We have using this solution in production for quite sometime, and this has been pretty stable.
BTW, you can grab the source here: https://github.com/anismiles/jesque and give it a try yourself.
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1310 ? In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics. King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, had them arrested. They were charged with apostasy, idolatry, heresy, obscene rituals and homosexuality, fraud, and worst of all, secrecy.
1720 ? Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von M�nchhausen, German adventurer, is born. The Baron's astounding feats included riding cannonballs, travelling to the Moon, and an island of cheese, surrounded by a sea of milk. It?s possible.
1857 ? Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. Hotterdeedoo.
1894 ? Martha Graham, an American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. When she passed in ?91, she was cremated, and her ashes were spread over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico.
1904 ? Salvador Dal�, Spanish surrealist painter born in Catalonia, Spain.
1960 ? In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement. Suh weet! After the war, he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross. He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962.
1981 ? Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician dies. He was diagnosed as having a cancerous growth on his big toe that had metastasized and spread to his brain, liver and lungs. Less than eight months later, Bob Marley, died in Miami, Floria. He was only 36 years old.
1987 ? Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, former Nazi Gestapo chief of German-occupied Lyon, France, goes on trial for crimes against humanity. He personally tortured prisoners and is responsible for thousands of deaths, including one of my favorite resistance fighters, Jean Moulin.
He returned to Germany, and at the end of the war burned off his SS tattoo and assumed a new identity. He surrendered himself to the U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps after the Americans offered him money and protection in exchange for his intelligence services. We are assholes. Barbie worked as a U.S. agent in Germany for two years, and the Americans shielded him from French prosecutors trying to track him down. In 1949, Barbie and his family were smuggled by the Americans to South America. Barbie settled in Bolivia and continued his work as a U.S. agent.
France offered Bolivia aid in exchange for Barbie, and they said, our bad, he's right here.
On July 4, 1987, he was found guilty. For his crimes, the 73-year-old Barbie was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, France's highest punishment.
In reading, I found out the COCO Chanel was a collaborator. What?
2001 ? Douglas Adams, English author, hitchhiked out of here.


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Our latest Car-Toon straight from the 2012 Detroit Auto Show is a car that should go a long way to support my "eyes-as-headlights" argument.
Look at that face! I'm not sure if that's what Bentley was going for with the Mulsanne, but they've made one of the friendliest looking cars currently available.


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Dear Em.
As this is all the paper Ive got at my command, and in receipt of your long letter dated Feb 5, I am only going to write a short note in answer to your letter, for I don't have much time just now. We are beginning to get some more winter for it has snowed now for two days and the atmospher is very much colder than it has been since our entrance into this sector. I also got a letter from Lena which I will answer as soon as posible, one from a chap at the shop and one from Southy.
Your discription of the folks, and their doings there at home, makes me feel almost that I was there, and beleive me, not, that I was here. How am I feeling, and how is that awful cold you and Lena seem to be worrying about? Say kid I never felt better in my life, and don't see how I ever can unless its when I jump on a car at either Sullivan Sq. or City Sq. (Im planning now which it will be) and that old car (I wonder if it will be in the summer time and they will have open affairs) and said car starts to climb that hill. Over the hill to Lena's. My Lena's.
My cold is gone, with it our first real test of shell fire, and the idea that we wont be back soon. A few of the boys in the company will never go home as the result of this but we're wise or getting more so. I don't know how long we are to stay here before getting a leave that they say is due us after our first hitch but it will be welcome when it does come. I never thought that Ingersol would remind you of me but I can say that this watch reminds me of you, Lena and Bert every time Im asked what time it is or when I use it for my own information.
Now Em isnt this an awful letter to send you after the nice long one you sent me. But I only sent you one yesterday and I got to answer Lena's. Besides if you really knew conditions here you would excuse me I know.
With love to all
Sgt. S.E. Avery Hdq Co 103rd Inf A.E.F.
P.S. The clipping (about the funeral of the old fellow I used to work for on Main St.) will show that I read what papers we get.
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After World War 2, the US Army wanted be prepared for the possibility of a third war in Europe, and designed a fleet of lightweight, disposable railcars. These cars were built to specifications to allow their use on lighter weight and possibly damaged European Railroads. With a simple change of the wheels, these could be used on standard, narrow, or broad gauge lines. These cars complement the US Army AlCO MRS-1 locomotives, which we also have on display. Note the holes in the end sills for the mounting of European style bumpers. The American style knuckle couplers can be removed and chain style couplers installed. These cars were recently repainted by a local Boy Scout troop as an Eagle Scout project. Minor details such as completing the lettering and car markings are still needed to complete the project. These are a work in progress.
Also built during the 1950's, these cars were designed to carry two Sherman tanks around North America, between Military Bases and Ports. Originally designed for travel in troop trains, they were built with steam connections and dampening systems on the couplers. When the Army decided to not use trains to transport troops, these cars had the extra equipment removed. Today the museum owns three of these cars, with plans for at least one to be built into an "open air" coach.
Two steel gondolas purchased as surplus from the Army. These will become part of a military display train after museum volunteers can complete construction of additional display tracks on the grounds in Versailles.
A steam powered crane used by K.U. until donated to the museum. Today this car is in storage awaiting funds and room to make a restoration attempt. The boom for the crane recently became accessable again with the reopening of our entire line to Tyrone.
Steel boxcar from a shortline subsidary of Norfolk and Western. Currently out of reach in Tyrone.
NC&StL/L&N Dynamometer Car
Built by ACF in 1916 and completed by the NC&StL in 1917 as #90130 this car was originally a dynamometer car used to measure the power and performance of steam locomotives. The car was purchased by the L&N in 1937 and renumbered to #41900. The car served the L&N until the end of steam operations in 1957. The car was again renumbered to #42365 and because of it's existing kitchen, office, and berths it was used as a camp car. Sold for scrap in 1970 this rare and unique piece of railroad history was saved by a private individual and stored at the Kentucky Railway Museum in Louisville until purchased by the Bluegrass Railway Musuem in 1978. This is the rarest piece of equipment in the museum's possession. A cosmetic exterior restoration, as well as a recreated interior of the car in dynamometer use are planned at this time. Research is in ongoing. If you have photos or information of this car detailing is appearance as a dynamometer car please contact the museum so we may preserve this rare piece and display it for the education and enjoyment of all.
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Novell has committed to keep surfing Google's Wave despite the search giant stopping development of its new-age collaboration tool.
The Linux vendor has said it'll keep building Novell Pulse, its implementation of Wave built using Google's APIs and protocols, as it can turn Wave into a successful technology.
Pulse targets enterprises, Novell said, who need combined real-time communications with social connections, while Wave was targeted at a generic consumer audience.
Novell's Wave is in technical preview with 7,000 of the company's employees, customers and partners.
Google this week said it's killing all new development of Wave because not enough people had shown interest in the fledging technology. According to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, Wave was "a very clever product" — but nobody could understand or use it, Eric.
Google will maintain the Wave site until the end of the year, but there'll be no new features or code released. Asked by The Reg whether Novell would now maintain and develop the 40,000 lines of code open sourced by Google, Novell said it has not yet "made an assessment."
Instead, Pulse has its own site, here, and Novell said it has no plans to maintain Google's site.
Novell Pulse uses the Wave Gadget API, based on Google's Open Social protocol, and the Wave Federation Protocol for real-time co-editing.
Andy Fox, Novell vice president of engineering, told us over email that Pulse doesn't use a significant amount of Google's code, and that it's focused on the operational transform protocol that helps enforce conflict resolution in the co-edit process.
From WordPerfect and Quattro Pro to GroupWise and OpenOffice, Novell has been all-in, then all-out, on collaboration software over the years.
With Pulse, the company now appears to believe it can now offer business users a form of web- and HTML5-based collaboration with a technology that provides the ability to co-edit documents, manage files, get social connections, provide rich profiles, and create groups all wrapped with the kinds of security controls that business types want to see deployed.
We'll see whether Novell can get Wave up and running, and whether the idea survives an eventual buyer for the company. ®


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The heat contributed to the atmosphere over the past 15 years due to rising CO2 levels is equivalent to four Hiroshima atomic bombs per second. So said John Cook at the Climate Action Summit in Sydney this weekend.
That puts it in context, doesn't it?
It doesn't leave me feeling relaxed and comfortable. Not at all. Most of this added heat has gone into the oceans rather than into the atmosphere, land, glaciers, ice sheets or sea ice.
Ocean temperatures affect world weather patterns because they drive ocean currents. It's one big planetary system, and we're pumping an extra four Hiroshimas of heat into it, every second.
There's no time for complacency, no time to be relaxed and comfortable. You're not sitting on the sidelines. You're right in the middle of this big planetary system. It's time to tell policy-makers that we want strong action to cut back from four Hiroshimas every second to zero.
Send your elected representative a letter today telling her/him that you care. If YOU don't speak up, they'll never know you care. Instead, they'll only hear the loud and persistent voices of oil, coal and gas businesses telling them that this isn't happening and people don't care anyway.
News from the Transformation tab.
Coal India, the largest coal mining company in the world, will invest in solar power in order to reduce energy bills and to diversify. Unlike ExxonMobil, Coal India is preparing a succession plan for the post-carbon world.


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Economic data proved so weak at the beginning of 2016 that global markets fell and China halted stock trading. In China, the Caixin Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), released by Markit Economics, fell to 48.2 in December, down from 48.6 and indicating the tenth month in a row of a contraction in activity.
"Data suggested that client demand was weak both at home and abroad, with new export business falling for the first time in three months in December," said Markit in a public statement, noting that the weakness in purchases extends beyond China's shores and may indicate a weakness in the global economy as a whole.
The news spooked equity markets globally, causing the Dow Jones Index to lose over 300 points, or nearly 2 percent, in pre-market trading and face similar losses as trading began. The S&P 500 fell 1.7 percent, while the small cap Russell 2000 index noted a 1.66 percent drop at the same time.
Many analysts fear the weakness in the PMI could have a deep and far-reaching impact on the domestic Chinese market, causing layoffs, lowered demand, liquidity constraints, and other indicators, that China's growth, which has slowed for years and has reached a very weak point in recent months, will slow even further. "As a result [of the low reading], manufacturers continued to trim their staff numbers and reduce their purchasing activity in line with lower production requirements," Markit said in a statement.
Global Contagion
While U.S. markets fell, they were extremely strong relative to the steep declines throughout the world. In London, the FTSI 100 fell over 2.5 percent by mid-day trading, while the Paris CAC 40 fell 3.7 percent and the Euro Stoxx 50, which measures the largest stocks in the European area, fell 4.2 percent in early trading.
Asian markets received the hardest hits, with the Nikkei 225 falling over 3 percent and the Hang Seng falling 2.7 percent. Relatively stronger was the Seoul KOSPI, down just 2.17 percent, but the hardest hit by far was the Chinese market in Shanghai, with over a 6 percent drop in value before the government intervened and halted trading. While stocks recovered slightly after stocks resumed trading, the Shanghai Composite Index was still down nearly 6 percent by the end of Monday's trading.
Future Fears
With negative earnings growth in America, weakening demand in Asia, and fears of rising interest rates making debt untenable, particularly in U.S. dollar denominated issues have all contributed to a weak stock market in 2015. Analysts worry that 2016 may have a similar or even worse performance, as global growth remains weak and little remains to catalyze future growth.
Two large investment banks released notes to clients warning of under-performance in equities and high-yield corporate bonds, also known as junk bonds. At the same time, analysts worry that few safe alternatives remain available in the market, predicting a year of relative weak performance across asset classes as economic growth proves unobtainable.


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Two of the women allegedly abducted by Ariel Castro 10 years ago in Cleveland are lucky to be alive after one of them suffered five miscarriages because Castro allegedly punched her in the gut and the other was forced to give birth in a basement with no medical help, obstetricians said today.
Michelle Knight, 32, was impregnated five times by Castro, but he aborted the fetuses by punching her repeatedly in the abdomen, according to a police report obtained by ABC News affiliate WEWS-TV.
"To be quite honest, I've been doing obstetrics 17 years and spent 10 as a midwife, and I've never actually heard of somebody being beaten so severely that it would cause a miscarriage," said certified nurse and midwife Pam Hetrick, who works at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. She did not treat Knight.
RELATED: Cleveland Kidnap Suspect Charged with Rapes, Abductions
Knight probably miscarried when she was at least 12 weeks pregnant because it's unlikely that blunt trauma would cause a miscarriage before that, said Dr. Taraneh Shirazian, an OB/GYN at Mount Sinai Medical Center who directs its global health program. This is because the uterus is small enough to be protected by the pelvis during the first trimester, but by the second trimester, Knight's belly would have been exposed. Then, when Castro allegedly punched her, she would have had a placental abruption, cutting off the baby's blood supply.Kidnap Victim's Mom: 'I Didn't Know How Strong She Was' Watch Video Kidnap Suspect's Daughter 'Disappointed, Embarrassed' Watch Video Alleged Kidnapping Victims Left House Twice in 10 Years Watch Video
"It's still pretty unusual," Shirazian said. "In order for that to happen, I would assume it was pretty brutal blunt trauma."
Complications Knight could have faced included hemorrhaging and infection, Hetrick said.
The fetuses also could have died inside Knight without causing her to go into labor, putting her at risk for even more complications, such as a fatal blood clotting disorder, Hetrick said. If Knight's cervix was repeatedly forced open to remove the fetuses, she could face problems in future pregnancies.
It's not clear whether Berry delivered prematurely.
Hetrick said Berry could have faced complications during birth including infection and bleeding, but she and the baby could have also died if her labor stopped progressing. She said that although Ohio has seen a rise in home births, those are usually attended by a midwife or someone else with birth training. If labor stops progressing, or another complication occurs, they know what to do.
"Typically women who choose home birth, if they get into trouble, they will come and get medical care," Hetrick said. "It doesn't sound like he would have taken her to medical care if there would have been an obstetric complication. She could have died."
Dr. Kimberly Fortner, an OBGYN at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said that Berry is also lucky that her red blood cells didn't lack a certain protein, called the Rh factor, which could have caused her immune system to attack the baby's blood if it didn't match her blood. About 20 percent of Caucasian women lack this protein, she said, but this is easily fixed with an injection of a drug called Rh immunoglobulin.
But Berry wouldn't have had that injection.
"We know that women can give birth without intervention," Hetrick said. "Amanda didn't have that choice. Amanda was left in the basement in the kiddie pool to give birth by herself without any support, and it had to be extremely terrifying."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cleveland-kidnap-victims-died-birth-miscarriages/story?id=19144386


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text: I agreed to do a challenge in February. I joined a group to do 29 Faces. It's a face a day plus one extra. When I started this challenge, I thought the challenge would be to draw faces, but as it turned out, that wasn't the real challenge at all. The real challenge was to see it through! Normally, I would get half way and then procrastinate or find excuses to say that life got in the way. This time, and in this year, I am challenging myself to quit putting off things and finding a balance in Life. I now have a full time job that takes up all my mornings, and many evenings and weekends. That's the beauty of working from home and the hazard of working from home. I get to set my working hours and my commute is from one room to another and in my PJ's, if I want. However, I'm always next to my work, so I never get away from it. In February, I thought if I did this 29 face challenge, I would get some time to play. So, I worked in the day and then I quit for the evening and weekends (well, mostly). I drew every evening. As the days wore on, I found that I craved the time I spent immersed in my drawings. As each day passed, my husband and kids watched me curl up on my couch and pull my drawing supplies to me and amazingly, let me be. My husband made me cups of tea and my son brought me cookies. So, even though, some days I did more than one drawings and other times, I worked on the same drawing for more than a day, I learned an awful lot. And I'm not just talking about drawing. I realized I am a perfectionist, a procrastinator, shy about touting about my art and awed when people appreciate my sketches. However, when I look at my collage, I was hit squarely between the eyes with the realization that not only on good days, but even on bad days, I can draw!


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And having zero overlap on your roombrushes appears to work fine (and some crazy authors always insist on doing it), but it seems to me that it makes it much harder to see which parts of your map are roombrushed and which are not.
Sliptip.....that's......Dark Engine?
I swear that looks like Nova Prospekt.
That's a good point, but you can keep track of that in other ways. One way could be "Terrain brushes with textures applied are room brushed and terrain brushes with jorge are not." or is this just me being naïve? I plan on doing it that way, anyway.Originally Posted by Nameless Voice
The advantage with zero overlap ( = smaller room brush) as I understood it was that it's easier to fit a room brush in tight spaces (without it overlapping into disjoint room brushes) and you avoid the clutter.
I have read a lot of threads about room brushing in The Editors' Guild and everyone has said that room brushes should (the word used has been "should", not "must") overlap, but no one has actually said exactly why and it seems that everyone has just accepted the default as an unbreakable rule. No one has really questioned the default setting (at least not publicly) until now.
Maybe the only real reason for using an overlap is that it makes it easier to see the room brush?
I only overlap room brushes on doors. I have propagation issues otherwise, i.e. lock and unlock sounds seem further away.
Actually two, if not three. If it's two, it's one on each side of the door. Three when it's a sliding door.
I just tested with non-overlapping room brushes for doorways and it works for me at least (all door sounds are okay).
Looks like some nice improvements since the last Alpha, Slip - did you lower the ambient light a little? I can't wait for Alpha3... you guys are not going to believe how amazing this mission looks in game, it shatters all the current standards.
Thanks everyone!
Yandros did the ambient light need to come down a bit (did you start with a centered gamma?) I swear I'm lost with this new monitor of mine. It doesn't help that most of the brick textures are white either.
My monitor's also one of those streched out ones 1440x900, so I've been building with a streched view. I hope it's not too cramped and compressed when people play it
Heh. Who knows? Your monitor may actually improve how you build!
Hahah I'm kinda hoping that's the case!
No I didn't think so, the new shots just seemed a little darker, that's all.
Sliptip, these screenshots are fantastic, Impressive of realism !
Slip's stuff is so good it's scary. I'm planing a home invasion to make him do all my brush/texture work from now on.
"That's good...good...now Optimize damn it!"
I'll hold off until his latest release of course.
Oh Yeah...what I'm working on now. "Sly's U.T. Arena II"
I won't post a screen since the mission is basically one big room with a half dozen different textures. But I can promise two textures that are quite...unique. Not necessarily good mind you...but unique. :grin: This version will make version 1 seem like a cake walk. You better be damn good if you want to survive!
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. . .funny I had the same in mind for you. . .
"I need voice acting bitch! now sound scared. . .that's it. . .that's it. . ."
I'm getting an overpowering "Deep Cover" vibe from those screenshots...
I'm two brushes below the limit and that's only because I just deleted three terrain brushes and replaced them with one object
For too long now I've been reluctant to start bringing my level to life because of the number of objects I'll need, and the overall brush limit. Now I've decided to just do it. If I decide to alter the terrain brushes (which is not very likely now), I can just make multibrushes of objects, delete the objects to reduce brush count, and reload them after the final optimise.
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Good luck with that brother.
Well, back to Ed. I have finished a block from the castle, but it's just a small part of the level. Now I start the another block and the basement. Next then I have the mountains and some small willages... Maybe I have to cut the mission into two parts because does not fit into one. The brushes pile up quickly...
Just started a mission in DromEd 2. I truly tried to build small and cosy mission and... succeed? Now it's 200x400 units and it still grows up.
Base brushes are placed, now I tried to apply textures and don't like a result. Remove textures and try again and again...


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Matt Lepacek had valid CNN press credentials and was doing freelance reporting according to InfoWars.com. He asked Adolf Giuliani some inconvenient questions about the events of 9/11/01.
Thereupon, Adolf Giuliani's
reichsminister of propaganda press secretary had the gestapo state police rough up Lepacek and fellow reporter Luke Rudkowski.
He said police physically assaulted both reporters after Rudkowski objected that they were official members of the press and that nothing illegal had taken place. Police reportedly damaged the Infowars-owned camera in the process.
Though CNN staff members tried to persuade police not to arrest the accredited reporter– in violation of the First Amendment, Lepacek was taken to jail. The police station told JonesReport.com that Lepacek is being charged with felony criminal trespass.
According to Rudkowski, Lepacek was scared because he had been told he may be transferred to a secret detention facility because state police were also considering charges of espionage against him– due to a webcam Lepacek was using to broadcast live at the event. State police considered it to be a hidden camera, which led to discussion of "espionage."
Wearing a webcam at a press event is not an act of espionage.
The state police in Goffstown, New Hampshire, where the arrest was made, confirmed that Lepacek is in custody on charges of criminal trespass.
These are blatant violations of the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Actions like this would be more appropriate in the Third Reich, a
communist nation, or perhaps Italy under Mussolini. A clue, perhaps, as to what awaits America if this moral leper of an authoritarian dirtbag thug is allowed to stink up the white house the way he did Gracie mansion?
We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
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Yugo // Jello
I should no doubt preface this bit with the "[OT]" disclaimer, but as there's a design/photography angle, let's pretend it's all germane to this blog.
- The absurdly talented Yugo Nakamura has produced Honda Sweet Mission, "a kind of enhanced podcasting site." Yugo writes, "We made an experimental interface system for a program broadcast by
TokyoFM. Posted MP3 data is analyzed in the server and its volume history is visualized to Avatar motion. I'm sorry that all language is Japanese, you will not able to know what they
are speaking." No, but it sure looks cool, and the groovy pixel-globe is another idea on burrowing through a large set of images.
- Liz Hickock sculpts San Francisco out of Jello. Yes. (Take that, Richard Dreyfuss ;-)) Stunning.
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