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Policy: XIII.E.1x2 (inactive)
Issued: December 15, 1994
Owner: Chief Facilities Officer
Latest Revision: March 27, 2001
1.0 Purpose
Key control is one of the most important phases of any security program. Without proper key control, locks provide little deterrent to unauthorized or illegal entry into a facility. Therefore, it is essential that the University of Virginia provide guidance and regulation on the issuance, accounting, control, and return of all keys under the Master Keyed System used to control access to facilities at the Academic Division (Agency 207) and University of Virginia Medical Center (Agency 209).
All University EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL facilities will eventually be secured by lock systems with the capability of being integrated into the University Master Keyed System. Exceptions shall be approved by the UNIVERSITY CHIEF OF POLICE.
2.0 Policy [Top]
2.1 Systems Authority and Responsibility
Facilities Management(FM) is authorized to make and issue keys for The University's Master Keyed System. Unless specifically approved by FM, keys manufactured or duplicated by a vendor or through any other source are strictly prohibited. (See CODE OF VIRGINIA Section below). Other organizations, such as the Housing Division, with the capability and resources for proper control, are authorized to make and issue keys in their areas.
FM is responsible for maintaining key and cylinder records, making keys, providing office forms used for the Master Keyed System, and providing an annual inventory of Master Keys issued to Deans/Department Heads. Other authorized key-making departments will do the same for their areas.
2.2 Code of Virginia
No person shall knowingly possess an unauthorized key or duplicate any key to property owned or leased by the University of Virginia. Violation will constitute a Class 3 misdemeanor of the State Code reproduced below:
a. No person shall knowingly possess any key to the lock of any building or other property owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or a department, division or agency thereof, without receiving permission from a person duly authorized to give such permission to possess such key.
b. No person, without receiving permission from a person duly authorized to give such permission shall knowingly duplicate, copy, or make a facsimile of any key to a lock of a building or other property owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or a department, division or agency thereof. (Code 1950, 18.1-408; 1972, c. 1939; 1975, cc, 14, 15)
- Procedure 13-50, Requesting University Keys.
- Procedure 13-51, Issuing/Returning/Destruction/ University Master Keys.
2.3 Master Key Approval and Verification
Deans/Department Heads may request master keys for personnel to use in areas directly under their control. Requests for master keys will be sent to the University Chief of Police for authorization. Annually, Deans/Department Heads or their designee shall verify the physical existence of Master Keys they have authorized.
Deans/Department Heads or their designee are responsible for 1) ensuring the return or 2) approving the transfer of all University of Virginia keys when an employee leaves their organization.
2.4 Financial Responsibility
Maintenance and repair of master keyed systems for Educational and General Facilities are funded by FM. Auxiliaries are responsible for funding repairs to their master keyed systems. Deans/Department Heads will be responsible for funding all costs associated to resecure (rekey) an area when security is compromised or becomes a concern because a key issued to their staff is lost, stolen or otherwise unaccounted for.
2.5 Issuing Keys
When authorized by a Dean/Department Head, and approved by the University Chief of Police, FM will issue a master key directly to the person responsible for its custody and use. Non-master keys will be issued to a departmental official, if desired, who is then responsible for issuing and controlling the keys within the department. Whether issued by FM or by a departmental official, the custody of a key is to be recorded on a Key-Issue/Return Receipt form. These forms can be obtained from the FM Work Control Division or the FM Lockshop, or on the FM website.
2.6 Returning of Master Keys
When master keys are broken or when no longer required, the responsible person shall return the master key in person to the FM lockshop. The FM Lockshop shall fill out receipt for the master key on the Key Request form, providing a copy to the responsible person.
2.7 Destruction of Master Keys
FM Lockshop is solely responsible for the destruction of the master key in such a manner to prevent its duplication.
2.8 Responsibility of Key Recipients
All keys remain the property of the University of Virginia. Individuals with custody of University keys are authorized to use them for access to their work areas. Key recipients are responsible for returning keys to the FM lockshop when they are no longer needed. Departmental keys are for use by several people within a department. These keys will remain secured at the University after working hours. A member of the department must have custody of these keys and be responsible for their security. Individuals assigned custody of departmental keys may request and receive more than one key to a particular area.
Key recipients are responsible for reporting lost keys immediately to departmental representatives who in turn must advise FM and the University Police. Lost or stolen keys or possession of unauthorized keys will be reported to the University Police and to the department head for appropriate investigation, disciplinary and/or legal action. In the case of students, failure to return keys can result in judicial action under the University Judiciary Standards of Conduct.
2.9 Vendor Access to University Property
Vendors requiring access to University property should obtain keys from the department responsible for the vendor contract. The issuing department is responsible for all charges resulting from lost vendor keys.
2.10 Non-University Master System Keys
Deans/Department Heads shall submit requests, with justification, to remove an area from the University's Master Keyed System to the appropriate vice-president, with notification to the University Police and the University Fire Safety Official. This includes electronic access systems.
The requesting department must furnish the University Police with names and phone numbers of two people who will be available for after hours call-out if an emergency occurs. If the police are unable to contact these persons and the safety of the building or occupants require forced entry, the requesting department will be responsible for the cost of repairs.
2.11 Lockouts
Occasionally, keys are forgotten by an individual requiring building access. When this occurs and a building master key is not available, security personnel may be of assistance. Additionally, FM lock-shop personnel will respond to a lock-out situation, but a service call fee based on time and materials will be charged. Medical Center security will respond to all lock out situations at the Medical Center. If FM lockshop personnel are required, Medical Center security will contact the FM lockshop.
University Police will respond only to emergency lockout situations.
2.12 Reports
FM will annually prepare and distribute Master Key Verification Reports to Deans/Department Heads. These reports are for informational purposes and used for verification of keys issued under their authority.
3.0 Definitions [Top]
4.0 References [Top]
5.0 Approvals and Revisions [Top]
Previous version in effect from 12/15/94 to 3/27/01 available in policy archive.


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BURLINGTON, N.C. – Needing a win to advance to the championship of the Conference Carolinas Tournament, the King University baseball team used a three-run sixth inning to break a 3-3 tie and went on to defeat Barton College by a score of 7-3 to earn the right to face the University of Mount Olive for the conference title.
Because Mount Olive has advanced through the bracket unscathed, the Trojans will win the Conference Carolinas championship with one win, while King (24-28-1) needs to defeat Mount Olive twice to claim the title by virtue of a Saturday loss in tournament play. Should the Tornado earn the win in today's contest, scheduled for 3:00 p.m., the teams will play a winner-take-all game on Monday at 11:00 a.m. with the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line.
Barton (16-32) took its first lead of the game in the third inning, scoring three times off of King starter Tyler Raymond on two hits in the frame. An RBI double started the scoring following a single and walk to lead off the inning before a suicide squeeze and a sacrifice fly made the score 3-2 in favor of the Bulldogs.
The Tornado tied the game in the fifth inning as Garrett Cook came home on a Stephen Mullins infield single. But King saved its biggest offensive fireworks for the sixth inning, exploding for a three-run outburst that sapped any remaining momentum from the Bulldogs' dugout.
King loaded the bases for right fielder Tom Hooker on a leadoff walk and consecutive singles by Geoff Cieslewitz and Justin Trent. Hooker drove in the first run of the inning on a sacrifice fly to center field. Garrett Cook then laid down a bunt single to again load the bases with one out for nine-hole hitter Cody Rogers. On an 0-1 count, Rogers bunted in front of the plate on a squeeze play that allowed Cieslewitz to score. Attempting to throw out Cieslewitz at the plate, the pitcher's throw was wide and allowed Trent to slide home safely as well to cap the three-run inning for King.
Alex Martin shut down the Bulldogs the rest of the way, inducing a bases-loaded lineout to Trent at second base on a spectacular leaping grab to end the seventh inning before working perfect eighth and ninth innings to earn his third win of the year. Martin pitched 4 2/3 innings in relief of Raymond, giving up just two hits and walking one while striking out four Bulldogs. Kerry Walker suffered the loss for Barton, giving up three runs in 1/3 of an inning pitched.
The Tornado jumped out to an early lead, scoring twice after Raymond worked a perfect first inning. After a one-out walk by Mullins, Raymond, who hit for himself in the lineup, lined an 0-1 offering into the right field corner for an RBI triple. He came home four pitches later on a JD Wallace single to give King a two-run advantage.
Mullins, Wallace, Cieslewitz, Trent, and Cook all had two-hit days for the Tornado, spearheading an offensive attack that racked up 11 hits and reached twice via the walk. Jacob Willis and Phillip Cotton combined for four of Barton's six hits on the day.
The Tornado are 0-4 against Mount Olive this season, including a 6-4 loss on Saturday night in a winner's bracket contest in the conference tournament. The top-seeded and 12th-ranked Trojans last fell to King in a conference tournament matchup last season, with King advancing to the championship round by virtue of a 6-4 win one year ago today. The Tornado went on to fall to Coker College twice, giving the Cobras the title in their final season as Conference Carolinas members.

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Sustainability & Recycling
Anderson University is committed to:
- Operating the university in a sustainable manner.
- Helping students live a sustainable lifestyle.
- Preparing students to take an active role in developing a sustainable world.
Over the past few years, students, faculty, and staff have worked toward reducing the university's environmental impact.
Above all, Anderson University is committed to its students. The university strives to educate its students on how to live in a sustainable manner today, and hopes to prepare them for life in a world that is awakening to the need to live sustainably. AU will continue to give students the tools, knowledge, concepts, and perspectives they will need in order to take an active role in developing a sustainable world.


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June 22, 1939 - March 24, 2013
Montgomery, NY
Patricia Marie Pangia of Montgomery, NY, a longtime resident of the area, died Sunday, March 24, 2013, at home. She was 73.
The daughter of the late William P. and Mary Lawrasik Gilmore, she was born June 22, 1939 in Brooklyn, NY.
She was a member of Goodwill Evangelical Church, Montgomery.
She was a graduate of Erasmus Hall High School and previously worked for Walden Telephone, General Slicing and the Thruway Market.
Pat was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend who was always good for a laugh.
She was the widow of Michael Pangia.
Survivors include her daughter, Terri Marotta and husband, Anthony of Walden; son, Michael T. Pangia and wife, Roxanne of Spring Glen; daughter, Karen Gracia and husband, Ramon of Bloomingburg; sister, Mary Elizabeth Gilmore Kidd and husband, Ron of New Paltz; brother, William Gilmore and wife, Patricia of Middletown; 13 grandchildren: Kori, Jordan, Anna, Andrew, Shianne, Michael, Elijah, Thomas, James, Kyle, Matthew, Noah and Tyler; three great-grandchildren: Kaiden, Kyah and Braden; nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brother, Joseph P. Gilmore.
Visitation will be Thursday, March 28th, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Millspaugh Funeral Home, 22 Bank St. Walden, NY. Funeral services will immediately follow the visitation at 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Pastor John Torres will officiate. Burial will be in Wallkill Valley Cemetery in Walden, NY.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Carmelite Fathers, P.O. Box 868, Middletown, NY 10940.
Arrangements were made by Millspaugh Funeral Directors; for directions or condolences, please visit millspaughfuneralhome.com .


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Goblin Shark
In 1897, David Star Jordan a famous American Ichthyologist of the time was presented with a most bizarre looking shark.
The shark had been secured by Mr Allen Owston from a fisherman who had caught it in deep water near Yokohama, Japan. Owston brought the specimen to the University of Tokyo placing it in the care of Professor Kakichi Mitsukuri. Mitsukuri took the specimen with him to the United States where he was attending an International Fur Seal Conference and requested Jordan identify and describe it. The specimen, a 1.7m young male became the type specimen of a completely new family of lamnoid sharks, which Jordan named Mitsukurinidae in honour of the Japanese Professor. He gave the shark the species name Mitsukurina owstoni in 1898.
The common name Goblin Shark comes from the name given to the shark by the 19th century Japanese fishermen from Odawara, where the sharks were often caught. The fisherman called them 'tengu-zame' which translates as 'goblin' or 'elfin' shark. Allen Owston reported that the Goblin Sharks were most often caught in spring from a bank (underwater mass) 94.6 m deep, with depths of 540-720 m close by. Females were mostly caught, and it is believed they moved onto the bank to breed. The fishermen caught the sharks in nets, extracted oil from the liver and used the flesh for fertilizer.
In the 105 years since its initial description, less than 50 specimens of Goblin Sharks have been recorded from scattered localities in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, with the majority of captures reported from Japan. The sharks are usually caught in bottom trawls at depths up to 1200 m.
A 3.84 m male was captured off Sydney in 1983. The Fisheries Research Vessel Kapala caught this large specimen in a trawl at a depth of 960 m. The specimen was measured, dissected and cast. The head, tail, fins and claspers (organs used to transfer sperm from the male to the female shark during mating) are now held in the fish collection of the Australian Museum. The Museum also holds three other specimens, the most recent caught off Bermagui, New South Wales, in 2000.
Little is known about the behaviour of the Goblin Shark, however, with 50 or so specimens held in museums around the world, Icthyologists are slowly beginning to understand more about the biology of these unusual animals and their deepsea home.
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Every family has holiday memories that are expressed and reinforced from year to year in special Christmas cookies, breads and family desserts that are often passed down from generation to generation.
If your Christmas would not be Christmas without Swedish rye bread or Aunt Marys thumbprint cookies, you know that many of our holiday stories are told through the confections that make our memories sweet.
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Beyond Cozy is very finely milled gold and silver glitter. In the store this leaned very gold, I was happily surprised when once I put it on it pulled a lot more silver on me most of the time. This polish is whoa, the glitter is insanely sparkly, it's one of those polishes that I'd be worried to wear while driving for fear of crashing from staring at my nails haha! The formula was awesome, not thick like I expected and the glitter was crazy dense. I only needed 2 coats for full opacity!
Butler Please is a bright cobalt blue creme. We can see why this called out to me, right? I don't care how many similar colors there are to this, I need them all. This was a bit of a pain to photograph, in real life it's a touch darker and has a bit of a dusty quality to it. The formula was really nice, a little sheer on the first coat but fully opaque with 2 coats. It also dried to a bit of a satin matte finish, I did use top coat for the photos.
Leading Lady is a dark red jelly packed with red glitter. This is another that called to me from the display, mostly because it reminded me of Essie's Ruby Slippers, which I love! The glitter in this was gorgeous out in the sun and it gave the polish amazing depth in the shade and indoors. If you like red glitters this is one you will definitely want to grab if you find it! The formula was great, really nice opacity, fully opaque in 2 coats. It was a little gritty and dull looking when it dried, I needed a couple coats of top coat to get it smooth and shiny.
Snap Happy is a brighter more orange toned red creme. It looks much more similar in photos to She's Pampered than it does in real life. Another that isn't any spectacular but it's pretty. The formula was good, I used 2 coats for the photos below.
Where's My Chauffeur? is a light blue leaning turquoise. Love this shade but again, not unique...I'm still however dying about how much I loved this as a base for OPI's The Man With The Golden Gun, I've been fighting the urge to put that combo back on! The formula was really nice, not thick or streaky like shades like this can sometimes be. I used 2 coats for the photos below.
Overall I like the majority of this collection, I feel like the 2 red cremes are passable along with Where's My Chauffeur? but the other 3 are ones I'm happy to add to my collection. Beyond Cozy, Butler Please and Leading Lady are my easy picks from this collection.
So far I've only spotted this collection locally at Target, like I mentioned at the beginning of the post it was on an endcap at my local store. If you can't find it at a Target near you don't give up...the day I bought these I went to a couple other Target stores and out of the 3 only the first store had the end cap out. I'm sure these will be more widely available at drugstores soon if not already!


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Economic activity revved up in the great majority of America's metropolitan areas - 242 of 366 to be precise, in 2011, according to a federal report released Friday.
Economic activity revved up in the great majority of America's metropolitan areas - 242 of 366 to be precise, in 2011, according to a federal report released Friday.
But San Joaquin County and several other Central Valley metro areas were not among them.
Overall gross domestic product gains were led by growth in professional and business services, durable goods manufacturing and trade, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported.
For all metropolitan areas, constant-dollar GDP increased 1.6 percent in 2011 after jumping 3.1 percent in 2010.
In San Joaquin County, known as the Stockton metropolitan area by the U.S. Census Bureau, GDP shrank 1.9 percent in 2011, falling to $16.9 billion as measured in 2005 dollars. That loss put it 343rd among all U.S. metros.
But it was not alone, the federal bureau reported.
Within the seven Western states, including Alaska and Hawaii, 25 of the 48 metropolitan areas saw real GDP declines, largely linked to drops in real estate, rental and leasing activities in areas hit hardest by the housing crisis.
Those included other Central Valley metros, such as Modesto, whose GDP fell 2.4 percent to a constant-dollar $13.2 billion in 2011 and was ranked 354th; Merced, ranked 346th based on a GDP decline of 2.1 percent; and Chico, with a GDP drop of 2.3 percent and ranked 352nd.
Jeffrey Michael, director of the Business Forecasting Center at University of the Pacific, said the picture may be far less bleak than suggested by the federal report.
"In 2011, we were definitely still lagging the recovery, not participating in the recovery as other areas have shown," he said. "(It) wasn't a good year, but I don't think it was quite as ugly as this report suggests."
Digging into the details, Michael said, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported the two leading contributors to San Joaquin County's shrinking GDP were agriculture and finance.
While the finance sector woes - a reflection of the housing downturn - make sense, the San Joaquin County Agricultural Commissioner's Office reported all-time-high farm output in 2011, $2.2 billion, which was up 14.2 percent from 2010.
As a result, Michael is sticking to his conclusion - based on other economic data, such as personal income growth - that the local economy was likely flat in 2011 and began to grow in 2012 for the first time since the onset of the Great Recession.
And he is "absolutely" sticking by his forecast that this year should see a continuation of that slow growth.
The federal bureau reported that, among the nation's 10 largest metropolitan areas, San Francisco-Oakland was the third fastest-growing with a 2011 gain of 2.6 percent. That performance was exceeded only by Houston, 3.7 percent for the No. 1 spot, and No. 2 Dallas-Fort Worth, at 3.1 percent.
Among the seven Western states, the fastest growth was seen in the San Jose-Sunnyvale metro, with a 7.7 percent gain in 2011 and Portland, Ore.-Vancouver, Wash., 6.5 percent. In both areas, durable goods manufacturing spurred growth.
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This is just one of those books where you wish you'd had it from the beginning. Or maybe not, because you're totally different then me. It's a book I'd love to have known about 10 years ago when my own SWC showed me that it really didn't matter what consequence was coming his way. He was his own person & nothing was going to change that.
It's not that I had a problem with him being his own person, not a bit. I had bigger fish to fry. Like the whole staying in bed situation, or potty training, or.. & as he got older things got crazier. The thing about well meaning mammas, especially those who love Jesus & want their children to follow suit is that they often believe every misstep or unwarranted look means that their child's heart is in the very wrong place.
Now don't get me wrong, I know that the Bible tells us that where our treasure is there our heart is also. Or that the words & thoughts stem from the heart. I'm very well acquainted with verses that discuss the overflow of the heart into our lives. Here's the thing though, you can have an amazingly wilful child who's heart is on fire for Jesus. I know it goes against everything you've ever heard from some pretty big names in the Christian parenting world, but it's still true.
That's the secret I wish I'd known years & years ago. I remember the day I looked at my husband & started crying because my SWC's feet could be heard upon the floor. We saw some pretty big changes in our SWC when we removed some food issues from his daily diet. They are still big triggers for him, but the person he is on the inside.. the one who makes me think what a great lawyer or politician he'd make is always there. If you have an SWC you know exactly what I'm talking about. That glint they get in their eye when you say, "Stop stomping so loudly.." & they proceed to stomp, but at a much quieter level. After all, they did comply with what you asked. You didn't ask them to stop stomping, you asked them to stop stomping so loudly..
Yep, we still have those types of days. Here's the thing though, I've learned to smile through them. A few years ago I went to bed after shouting at my SWC who then in turn burst into tears & said, "You always shout at me I don't think you even love me!" He ran & hid under the quilt in his room while I stood in the middle of the house bawling like a big baby. He heard me crying & came running back screaming & started hugging me begging me to stop crying, but the thing was he was still so mad at me that he ran back to his bed again & hid back under the covers where we heard him scream in absolute frustration. I still feel guilty & tear up thinking about that horrible day.
You know, I don't even remember what was so horrible that I shouted at him. I don't. I just remember going to bed completely dejected & feeling like that loser Mom who's child will most likely hate her for the rest of his life.. you know, if he doesn't turn out to be a total hooligan & in trouble with the law. I was that kinda low & horrible feeling. I feel asleep crying out for help, for me to understand my kid better.
It was a defining moment for me. I wasn't asking for my kid to be changed or act differently then he did. I wasn't asking for him to have this miraculous "come to Jesus I'll never be bad again in my whole life.." thing. I just wanted to understand him right where he was. I wanted to salvage my relationship with him. Crazy, huh? My kid was all of 9 & I was terrified I was ruining my relationship.
Before you laugh at me about that, let me just tell you that my husband & I would go to bed every night emotionally & physically worn out. He'd walk in the door & I'd completely check-out which meant he had to completely check-in. Our kid could go from the happiest of happy to the ugliest of uglies in less time then it takes to sneeze. Our other child broke down in tears one day & said, "I just wanted this to be a happy day not a shouting day!" So yeah, I was worried. I was worried our son would be alienated from his entire family, & that my friends, drove me to my knees far quicker then anything else could.
Then I heard about this book. I was caught reading it in every spare moment I had! I'm not going to say we had instant changes, bad habits take a long time to break.. & it's funny, you know, because those bad habits were mine, not my child's.
This is my third or fourth reading. Each time I read it I'm awe struck by the similarities of the children in the book and my amazingly awesome SWC. This is the same kid who, at age 5, spent 8 hours climbing a mountain with the rest of us. He was the youngest person on the adventure. We were probably half a kilometre from the peak when the other child with us said, "I don't think I can do it. I have to stop!" We sat down to take a break, to refuel people & gain strength for that final stretch. Not our SWC. He looked at us for about 30 seconds, turned around & started stomping right up that mountain.
He saw our break as giving in. Quitting. He didn't care if he had to climb that final portion by himself, he was going NOW. We had to chase that kid down & explain to him that no one was quitting, we were just taking a water break. He never sat down, he stood there & started counting. We told him we'd take a 5 minute break & he was determined to count off every second of those 5 minutes. The picture of him at the top of that mountain with that smile on his face. That's way more then, "We made it." That's his, "They didn't quit on me!" smile.
It was my second time reading through the book when I asked my husband for an opinion on the quiz in the front. He was happy to oblige until I asked his opinion on the scores I'd given myself. He didn't really want to answer some of the questions & I told him there was no wrong answer I needed that second opinion.
I learned something valuable that night.. My desire to die on a hill because I believe I'm absolutely right is seen by my husband as the desire to argue something into the ground just for the sake of arguing. Now in all honesty we don't fight that much at all, we disagree from time to time, but I honestly couldn't think of any time in which I'd argued for the sake or arguing.
It was really eye opening, for me, to see how others perceive how I may react to something. Not because it helps me justify to how I've reacted, but because as an SWC you really don't see what your'e doing as wrong. Seriously. I am totally opposed to rule breaking, I don't tolerate rule breakers & I'm not afraid to tell them so, or to simply leave a situation if I feel that rules are being broken.
I still remember visiting an NFL training camp, way back when the Carolina Panthers were new to the league. We were walking around the field on our way back to the car when I overheard a couple of big beefy linebackers bad mouthing the team that I happened to follow. I stopped dead in my tracks & shouted, "That's incredibly rude!" I do not remember what the family I was with said, but I remember the 2 men stopping & coming over to apologise & admit they shouldn't have bad-mouthed fellow players or teams.
For me, I don't even see the value in arguing for something that doesn't make sense to me. I'll often say, "Well if you feel that way fine. To each his own.." But if you tell me I'm wrong & you haven't got anything to back that up with, you better believe I'm going to take that to the cleaners. Which is why, I probably shouldn't be the least bit surprised that my own SWC is exactly the same way.
Rule breaking offends him on a deep & personal level. Not sticking up for people is like slapping him in the face. He tells us, often, that we should just get rid of him, but deep down he's petrified we'll actually take him seriously. I often say, "I don't get rid of things I love, you're stuck with me forever Mate!" He'll frown until a smile takes over & then move on with life.
I'm not saying this book will change your life, because it very well may not, but what I am saying is that if you're dealing with an SWC, or you are an SWC, it might help shed light on what sets them off. It's funny, being an SWC myself you'd think I'd know, but it's not always as straightforward as you'd think.


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Bubble Vocabulary: The Slate Email Thread
Behind the scenes of Seth Stevenson's piece on words you don't quite know how to use.
Excerpts from an email thread on the Slate Editors alias, April 1, 2014.
From: Seth Stevenson
To: Slate Editors
Subject: Your help: "bubble vocab"
Hi all,
I'm working on a piece about "bubble vocabulary"—words at the edge of your vocab. Maybe you don't 100 percent know how to pronounce them or what they mean. And yet you reach for one during a job interview, or a wedding toast, or a radio appearance. Later, you rush to Google to check if you pronounced and employed the word correctly.
This came up when a friend said "execrable" and I wasn't sure he'd pronounced it right, but I realized I'd never once spoken it out loud. Others have mentioned their fear of saying "correlative" and "folderol" for fear of pronouncing them wrong. David Foster Wallace wrote about pronouncing "facade" with a hard c in a student seminar and still feeling hot embarrassment at the memory.
So: Please tell me your own bubble vocab moments. Do you have any specific memories of reaching for a word in conversation and then fretting that you might not have wielded it properly? Ever stopped yourself from using a word at the last second out of concern that you hadn't mastered it?
From: John Dickerson
To: Slate Editors
Detritus is one that I never know how to pronounce because I think you can pronounce it two ways, right?
From: Dan Kois
To: Slate Editors
I didn't ask a question on a podcast the other day because I wasn't sure how to pronounce "correlative"
From: Emily Bazelon
To: Slate Editors
Atavistic. Actually this one is David's—he says it on the Gabfest and I'm never sure what he means, and then I look it up and forget again.
From: David Plotz
To: Slate Editors
I totally say atavistic all the time
Bespoke (though I finally learned what that means)
Ontological, which I have used wrong on the Gabfest, been corrected about, and immediately forgot the real meaning of
From: Bryan Lowder
To: Slate Editors
As I am currently writing toward a phenomenology of cleaning, I am (for the moment) very clear on the difference between ontology and epistemology. AMA!
From: Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo
To: Slate Editors
Don't know if this counts, but for many years I confused bedazzled and embezzled.
From: Chris Wade
To: Slate Editors
"He bedazzled almost $90,000 worth of company assets"
"Remember, she had that embezzled jean jacket"
From: Chris Kirk
To: Slate Editors
I said "gesture" like "guest-ur" for about five years and it was traumatizing when I found out.
From: David Haglund
To: Slate Editors
In high school English, I said the word "epitome" as "epp-uh-tome," and my (brilliant) teacher said very gently, "I think it's epitome, " and I said back to her, full of confidence, "I think it's two different words" (because I'd both heard it and read it but not connected what I'd heard and read somehow). She didn't correct me. So embarrassing when I later realized my error.
From: Katy Waldman
To: Slate Editors
Just sent Seth some French compound phrases that I will never master: bete noire, objet d'art. And I'd add to those: epaulet, cause celebre, piece de resistance (though the Lego movie helped with that one).
From: Laura Helmuth
To: Slate Editors
Ditto on the French. Oeuvre, fin de siècle.
Although the only time to say these words aloud is if you're making fun of your own or others' smartypants tendencies, so maybe it's meta to mangle them.
But good news—vocabulary is one skill that continues to improve throughout life. I can send studies if you want to mention this line of research in your story. Some studies show a pretty much linear relationship between age and vocab from 20s through your 80s. Yay old people!
From: Mike Pesca
To: Slate Editors
My bete noire is sui generis. I say it like an Arkansas pig farmer who is benevolent.
From: Julia Turner
To: Slate Editors
I avoid solipsism and solecism because I can't remember which is which.
On occasion when this has happened to me on the Culturefest I pull a diva move and do it over, correctly—Dana do you remember the last one I biffed like this? It was in the last month or so and I did a retake.
From: Dan Kois
To: Slate Editors
I didn't demand a retake when it turned out I spent an entire Spoiler Special pronouncing "Soderbergh" wrong!
From: Jessica Winter
To: Slate Editors
Related: the entire world pronounces "Scorsese" wrong.
From: Julia Turner
To: Slate Editors
It was mordant! I think I said mordant where I meant morbid. I am not sure what mordant means.
From: Andy Bouvé
To: Slate Editors
I thought I was being fancy by using denouement a couple times in a screenwriting course in college. Problem was I pronounced it "de-noo-ment," which I only realized about a year later while watching some movie with the director's commentary enabled.
From: Allison Benedikt
To: Slate Editors
All of these words (except for Soderbergh, bespoke, and bedazzled/embezzled). Also: I still don't know how to pronounce niche, Cannes gives me the sweats (I go with "can" not "con"—is that right or wrong?), and I just heard Jessica Winter say the word "avuncular" to Swans and I don't know what that means.
Also, I said "all intensive purposes" for a long, long time. I'm just going to own that.
From: Kristin Hohenadel
To: Slate Editors
I once dated a man with a ravage/ravish problem.
From: David Plotz
To: Slate Editors
This is the best one!


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|Biographical Information
|Thorin's Halls
Lonely Mountain
|Thorin and Company
|Khuzdul and Westron
|Physical Description
|Yellow hood
|Images of Bifur
Bifur most likely lived in the Blue Mountains with Thorin after the loss of Thráin II.[1] Bifur was one of the thirteen Dwarves of Thorin's company who journeyed to Erebor to challenge the dragon Smaug. After the death of Smaug, Bifur lived at the Lonely Mountain.[2]
Bifur's parentage is unknown; the only familial connections mentioned are that the brothers Bombur and Bofur[3] are his cousins.[4] He was not of Durin's line although he was descended from Dwarves of Moria.[1] His birth year is also unknown. However, from Bilbo Baggins' account of the quest to Erebor it is known that the brothers Fíli and Kíli were the youngest of the thirteen "by some fifty years"[5] and that after Thorin had been captured, Balin was "the eldest left".[6] Since Fíli was born in T.A. 2859 and Balin was born in 2763,[1] this would put Bifur's birth between 2809 and 2763, and he would have been between 132 and 178 years old during the quest to Erebor.
The Quest of Erebor
In T.A. 2941, Bifur was one of the four Dwarves in the fifth group to arrive at Bag End, wearing a yellow hood. He asked for raspberry jam and apple-tart. During the evening when Thorin called for music, Bifur (along with Bofur) played a clarinet.[7]
In the wolves' glade Bifur shared a pine tree with Bofur, Bombur, and Thorin.[8]
When Gandalf was telling the story of the company's adventures to Beorn, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur were the last of the Dwarves to show up.[9]
After the barrel ride down the River Running both Bifur and Bofur came out fairly dry and not very knocked about, but they lay down and refused to do anything.[10]
On the doorstep on the side of the Lonely Mountain, when Thorin commented that the next day was the beginning of the last week of autumn, Bifur pointedly added, "And winter comes after autumn".[11]
Bifur fought in and survived the Battle of Five Armies. He was given his share of the treasure by Dáin Ironfoot, and made his home in Erebor.[12]
Later life
By T.A. 3018 Bifur was living in Erebor, as Glóin told Frodo Baggins at Rivendell.[2]
The name of Bívurr originates in the Dvergatal. It is of Old Frisian origin, meaning "Beaver" or, by extension, "Hard Worker".[13]
Other versions of the legendarium
In one of the earliest manuscript fragments of The Hobbit, Bifur and Bofur went into the hall and came back with their walking sticks, which they turned into clarinets.[14] In the published text the two Dwarves came back from the hall with clarinets that they had left with their walking sticks.[7] John Rateliff (author of The History of The Hobbit) said that in the earliest phase Tolkien had added fairy tale touches of Dwarven magic to emphasize the uncanny, other-worldly nature of the Dwarves as opposed to Bilbo.[15]
Originally, when Bombur needed propping up in Mirkwood after being cut from the spiders' webbing, it was his cousins Bifur and Bofur who provided support.[16] In the published story this was changed to Bombur's cousin Bifur and brother Bofur.[3] Also, in the earlier version, when Smaug first came out and the Dwarves in the valley had to be hauled up to the Back Door, Bifur cried out to save Bombur and Bofur, who were both his brothers.[17] In the published text Bifur cried out for his two cousins.[4]
In Tolkien's unfinished 1960 rewrite of The Hobbit, Bifur, Bofur and Bombur were Thorin's attendants.[18] John D. Rateliff assumes this made them either courtiers or honor-guard.[19]
In the earliest partial manuscript of The Hobbit more of the dialog later assigned to a few of the Dwarves is more evenly distributed. In the opinion of John Rateliff (author of The History of The Hobbit) this streamlining strengthened the story through simplification, but at the cost of relegating some of the Dwarves to obscurity since they barely speak at all. Bifur is one of these "silenced" members of the company.[20]
Portrayal in adaptations
|Bifur in adaptations
1966: The Hobbit (1966 film):
- Bifur is omitted. Thorin Oakenshield only travels with an unnamed guard and the princess of Dale.[21]
1977: The Hobbit (1977 film):
- No actor is specified for the role of Bifur.
2012-14: The Hobbit (film series):
- Bifur is played by William Kircher.[22] A description of Bifur in The Hobbit films was released by the studio:
Born in the West, Bifur has the rusting remains of an Orc axe embedded in his forehead, which has rendered him inarticulate and occasionally feisty! He communicates only with grunts and hand gestures. Unlike most of the others in The Company of Dwarves, Bifur is not related to Thorin, nor is he of noble lineage, but rather is descended from miners and smithies – simple folk with simple tastes.
—Warner Bros.[23]
Radio series
1968: The Hobbit (1968 radio series):
- Bifur is played by Brian Haines.
1979: The Hobbit (1979 radio series):
- No actor is specified for the role of Bifur.
1982: The Hobbit (1982 video game):
- Bifur is omitted; Thorin is the only companion of the player, Bilbo Baggins.[24]
2003: The Hobbit (2003 video game):
- No actor is credited for the role of Bifur.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Many Meetings"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Flies and Spiders"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Inside Information"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Over Hill and Under Hill"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Barrels Out of Bond"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Queer Lodgings"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "A Warm Welcome"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "On the Doorstep"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Return Journey"
- ↑ Chester Nathan Gould, "Dwarf-Names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion", published in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol 44 (1929), issue #4, pp. 939-967
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Mr. Baggins, The First Phase, "The Bladorthin Typescript", p. 36
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Mr. Baggins, The First Phase, "The Bladorthin Typescript", (iii) Dwarven Magic, p. 54
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Mr. Baggins, The Second Phase, "Mirkwood", p. 313
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Mr. Baggins, The Second Phase, "Conversations with Smaug"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Return to Bag-End, "The Fifth Phase", "A Well-Planned Party", p. 774
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Return to Bag-End, "The Fifth Phase", "Arrival in Rivendell", note 32
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff (ed.), The History of The Hobbit, Mr. Baggins, The First Phase, "The Pryftan Fragment", (i) The Lost Opening, p. 14
- ↑ "The Hobbit.mp4" dated 5 January 2012, YouTube (accessed 10 January 2012)
- ↑ Peter Jackson, "Production begins in New Zealand on The Hobbit" dated 20 March 2011, Facebook (accessed 23 December 2011)
- ↑ Warner Bros., "Hobbit Movies" dated 7 September 2012, Apple iPhone/iPad App (accessed 19 September 2012)
- ↑ ZX Computing, 8304 (April/May 1983), p. 76, accessed April 24 2011
|Members of Thorin and Company
|Thorin · Balin · Dwalin · Fíli · Kíli · Dori · Nori · Ori · Óin · Glóin · Bifur · Bofur · Bombur · Gandalf · Bilbo Baggins


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I am not blaming Linux, I am just trying to use it, seeing that my hardware doesn't work, trying to find some way to make it work and eventually have to give up on Linux.
This isn't a matter of blaming Linux. It is a matter of "too bad, doesn't work on my hardware, back to Windows".
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Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 2:53 pm
Post subject: Mistral Malibu?
Relative newb here. 4 seasons. Typical sailing: Puget Sound off of Fauntleroy. 15-20mph, 7.0 Retro max, 170 lbs, Fanatic Ultra Cat. FINALLY into straps consistently on full plane, fin only, but water starts still elusive. Anybody have an opinion as to whether a 1985 Mistral Malibu would be a good "transitional" board for sharpening skills as well as working on waterstarting? I have a 125 L Tabou Rocket that sits in storage for the time being, but is getting closer to reality.
Thanks in advance for any sage advice! ~Steve
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My experience '85 Malibu is an xcellent transition board for that weight, sail size, and conditions --- if in good condition especially the mast track etc and with a good (U.S. box) fin.
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Steve, probably most here would have no idea, where you're talking about. But since I'm in the greater Seattle area... I do.
The '85 Malibu is only a bit smaller than your Ultra-Cat... maybe 187 L compared to the 220 or 210 L of the Fanatic. And it is pretty close in length, width and design (standard old longboard design with adjustable mast-track, retractable centerboard, footstraps and fin). But both are hi-quality, relatively light weight excellent boards.
I don't know where in the Fauntleroy area you're going to learn waterstarts... you should really go down to Hood River and take a lesson. With your current experience, you'll have them wired in 1 weekend. And, back up here in Seattle, be cautious in Puget Sound with tidal currents.
Anyway, the typical board for leaning waterstarts, would be much shorter than a Cat or old Malibu, and would not have a centerboard. This allows you to maneuver it around in the water while your swimming/treading water, much easier. And at your weight, maybe something around 120 - 135 L would be a good size. That way you can uphaul it, if the wind's dying, and still slog back in.
Oh yeah, you already have a 125L shortboard... why not just use that?
Anyway, sure you can learn to waterstart an'85 Malibu... but you can also learn that on a Ultra-Cat. But neither one would be as easy as a big shortboard.
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My 1984 Malibu was my first step down in size from longboards, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Getting WAY back there into its back straps was a challenge, and maintaining sufficient rail pressure to carve all the way through a jibe before learning
to jibe was also a challenge, but I really liked its responsiveness after owning 2 or 3 big longboards. It felt much faster and it footsteered. Sure, you could do much better with a newer, wider, more turny board, but for a hundred bucks for a Malibu whose mast track still works or has been modified to accept modern mast feet (a simple rectangular nut will suffice), why not?
OTOH, I suspect there are many boards of its vintage (read: price) and volume which are more user-friendly ... softer rails, more balanced volume distribution, etc. Given your Seattle and Hood River resources, you should have many options. Listen to the guys here who have tried other transitional boards than my limited exposure.
Waterstarting depends on focus and skills and necessity, not volume, at that stage. I.E., anything over 100 liters waterstarts more or less the same: ya keeps the nose off the wind 'til yer standing on the board. 260L, 180 L, 120 L are pretty similar challenges.
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Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 4:02 pm
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How much do you weigh?
200 lbs is standard weight for needing to uphaul the Tabou. Someone 220 can uphaul it, but it's a balancing act.
Anyone under 200 can easily uphaul it.
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I couldn't uphaul a frickin' Malibu in Oahu chop. That's why, when, and where I abandoned uphauling for waterstarting. With that motivation, I made the switch in a day or three. I haven't carried an uphaul with me since that board.
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Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 4:50 pm
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Thanks for the feedback folks. It's really helped that I transitioned to sailing fin only. Greg, I sail between fauntleroy and the north end of Vashon. (btw, I really enjoy your Lake Washington videos!) I've had a great season so far and lucked out one day when the current was going north and the wind was going south, so I didn't have to worry about losing position while I experimented with centerboard, no centerboard. It really did the trick for me. The ultra cat is really sensitive to foot steering when on plane which had me hooting and grinning from ear to ear. I felt like I was finally sailing instead of just tagging along for the ride while close haul beating to weather with the centerboard down.
So, I guess I'll stick with the cat and keep plugging away on the waterstart for the voodoo chop days. My main goal is to improve my skills to the point where I can safely pull the tabou out of storage and make it back to starting point every time. Thanks again everybody!
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Waterstarting? Front arm straight! Best tip I ever got.
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Wow, that's great Steve!
If you live on the water at Fauntleroy... then sure, sailing just where you said makes the most sense. If you're loading gear and driving...have you tried Lowman Beach... probably only 5 min away for you. I've sailed there quite a bit. Great parking, grass rigging, short level walk to the beach. And a nice beach for sailing from whether hi or low tide, very user friendly.
Did you know we put together the first official rounding of Blake Island from there last fall. Two of us made it out 6 that were there... was very fun.
You should come down to Des Moines this Wed at 5 for the first City League race of the series. Your Cat would be perfect, we'll sail even if it's only blowing 5mph. It's a great way to get lots of new knowledge and info.
And like Zirt said, at your weight, you can easily uphaul your shortboard. I mean, you'd like to waterstart it... but if the wind dies too low to do that, you can uphaul it.
Bring it over to Newcastle beach, it's the only good pace to practice waterstarts around Seattle. And you could get some helpful tips there. Also, ANY place on LK. Wash. is safer than Puget Sound, cause there's no current... so then, you could safely get some board time on that Tabou.
But don't get rid of that Cat... it'll be your most used board in Seattle.
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I figured out waterstarting only after I got my 93 lt board and 5.8 sail/I'm 170lbs/. The combination : strong wind, light sail and not too floaty board made the process way more easy. Clearing a sail bigger then 7.0 is a whole chapter by itself and I figured it later when I was already waterstarting confidently wit the small kit. So find a save realativly shallow and flat spot like a small lake, wait for stronger wind and let that Rocket thake you up...up...up...
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My foot, by kicking something not someone, I swear. Several ribs at concerts. My wrist twice, can't remember how. My arm, my brother pushed me off a fence, that was the worst one, compound fracture, my bones actually riped right through my flesh, I was about 4 but I remember it very well. My scull, that time my brother hit me in the head with a baseball bat, he said he didn't mean to... lies I say lies! I also broke my other foot in a car crash, that was my brothers fault too, he fell asleep while driving and went off an embankment. now that I'm thinking about all the times he's hurt me I think he might really be trying to kill me... I'm taking his Christmas present back, bastard!
Only DEATH can cure STUPIDITY!!
I never broken any bone in my body. I guess I'm too cautious or I don't adventure much.
Dead account.
Just a couple. A fractured left wrist when I was 8 or 9 years old and my right humerus (upper arm bone) a few years ago. My humerus snapped while arm wrestling. True story.
I had to undergo an operation to screw a large steel plate to my bone. I have an 8.5 inch scar on my right arm as a memento of the surgery.
It's Super Effective!
never had one
watching Kill la Kill
Doesn't make you an idiot to break brokes. Accidents happen, whether you took the right precautions or not.
Broken nose, both bones in my left arm, and my fibula (leg).
So, the arm was broken as a kid falling the wrong way on the playground sandbox. Snapped both bones in my forearm. It looked like I had 2 elbows. It didn't really hurt, pain endorphins kicked in damn fast and was mostly numb -- then they gave me morphine when the bones were set. No problems other than how much the cast itched.
My nose was broken in a bar fight. Technically it isn't a broken bone, but a separation or cartilage from the bone. That one stung, but wasn't unbearable.
Then I broke my leg, landed wrong on my ankle and folded my heel against the outside of my calf, shearing the fibula and destroying the Achilles tendon. That hurt. Again, the pain endorphins kicked in and numbed things pretty quick, but it was late at night and it took a while to get to the hospital and get treated. By the time I finally saw the doctor, the initial endorphins had worn off and it hurt like a bitch. They had to put my ankle together with 7 carpentry screws and a steel plate. THAT hurt like hell. I was popping Vicodin like tictacs for weeks.
But the body is pretty good at healing. Not too much sense in worrying about it.
But I find that injuries occur when people are distracted doing ordinary things -- I broke my arm falling in a sandbox and my leg taking two steps at a time on the stairs (I have long legs and was in a hurry). My nose was broken in a barfight. Honestly I think most people who do crazy things are less likely to be injured since they are aware that they are doing something crazy. Most accidents happen during the everyday mundane things when you aren't focused.
not sure how many, but i've broken my foot twice both times in a mosh pit and my hand from stopping some chick from kicking me in the nuts after loosing a game of pool. I apparently forgot she was a pretty big sore loser...lol
Hmm, I've broken my knee, my left foot, a few toes, two of the metacarpals in each hand, left collarbone, fractured my skull twice, jaw once, cheekbone once, and a rib...
I <3 martial arts... (although one of the occasions I found myself with a fractured skull was the result of an industrial accident - guess I'm just lucky)
Boneless. My weight is being supported by air buoyancy.
No longer a kid
Bones? I am limbless.
Broke my right wrist riding a bike with training wheels. I was 4, give me a break.
Broke my left arm by jumping off a swing. I was 3 ft off the ground... I was 11
24 years old and never broke anything.Lots of scars tho
The only thing I've ever broken was my toe. And it was from running in the house and crashing into a wall. How embarrassing...XD
Faaaar too lazy to think of something "deep".
Just the one. When I was four, I ran into a shelf at some shop and cracked my cheek open. The bones healed now, but there's a split along the muscle. Its not visible, but its there.
The next time I went to that store a few weeks later I walked into the doors and got a scar on my hairline.
I avoid that shop now.
Eat well, exercise and die anyway
I stay in my bed all day so never have


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Poplar Point Hutterite Colony (Poplar Point, Manitoba, Canada)
Poplar Point Hutterite Bruderhof in Manitoba, founded in 1938. Their preacher Joseph Waldner, chosen 15 October 1905 by the Bon Homme Bruderhof in South Dakota, confirmed 17 March 1907 by the Huron Bruderhof in South Dakota, left the Huron Hutterite Colony in Elie, Manitoba with 11 families in 1938, bought land, and built the necessary buildings at Poplar Point, Manitoba. In 1939 Friedrich Waldner was chosen preacher. When Elder Joseph Kleinsasser died in 1947, Joseph Waldner was chosen in his place.
In 1950, 75 persons from the Poplar Point Bruderhof, including 21 baptized members, established the Springfield Bruderhof at Vivian, Manitoba, with Joseph Waldner (d. 1951), the elder of the entire body of Schmiedeleut, as preacher. Samuel S. Waldner was chosen as assistant pastor in 1950 at Poplar Point for the Springfield Bruderhof. Friedrich Waldner, pastor at Poplar Point, confirmed in the ministry at the Huron Bruderhof in 1946, stayed at Poplar Point with 80 persons, 26 of which were baptized members. The 1958 membership at Poplar Point was 42, in a population of 151. John Waldner was chosen as assistant pastor in 1957.
Daughter colonies of Poplar Point Colony include: Clearwater (Balmoral, Manitoba); Good Hope (Portage la Prairie, Manitoba); and Springfield (Anola, Manitoba).
In 2012 the Poplar Point Colony was a Schmiedeleut Group 1 colony. The minister was Joe Waldner and the manager was Reuben Waldner.
Additional Information
Location: Portage la Praire, Manitoba (coordinates: 50.003056 N, 97.993056 W [50˚00′ 11″ N, 97˚59′ 35″ W])
Address: Box 910, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba R1N 3C4
Telephone: 204-267-7134
|David, Friedrich Waldner Decker
|Bert Friesen
|Date Published
|February 2013
Cite This Article
MLA style
Decker, David, Friedrich Waldner and Bert Friesen. "Poplar Point Hutterite Colony (Poplar Point, Manitoba, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. February 2013. Web. 14 Nov 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Poplar_Point_Hutterite_Colony_(Poplar_Point,_Manitoba,_Canada)&oldid=84116.
APA style
Decker, David, Friedrich Waldner and Bert Friesen. (February 2013). Poplar Point Hutterite Colony (Poplar Point, Manitoba, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 14 November 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Poplar_Point_Hutterite_Colony_(Poplar_Point,_Manitoba,_Canada)&oldid=84116.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 203. All rights reserved.
©1996-2018 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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The study found that the flu shot did not increase the risk of miscarriage; rather, not getting the shot doubled the risk of miscarriage in pregnant women who got the flu. Additionally,some immunity is passed to the fetus if expectant mothers get the flu shot, helpful since infants can't be vaccinated until 6 months.
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Shutter (HK - DVD R3)
The concept of weird images appearing in photos and girls coming back from the dead to wreak revenge is not particularly new, but ...
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Asian cinema appears to be cornering the market at the moment with some really unusual horror movies, all of which really spawned from the remarkable Ring Trilogy. The trouble is, a few years down the line and you realise that there are only so many ways you can do the same concept without it getting repetitive. The Ring films, The Grudge, Dark Water - they all relied on scary children and freaky occurrences within an average every-day existence. The question is, can Thailand offer something new into the bargain with Shutter, or is it just another retread?
Tun is a professional photographer. One night, after a few drinks, his girlfriend is driving him home when all of a sudden they hit a girl who walks out in front of the car. Jane wants to stop and help but Tun suggests they drive on and pretty soon they are trying to forget that the nightmare ever occurred. But then strange things start happening; they both start seeing ghostly images in their photos - images of a pale, deathly girl. Haunted by the terrible nightmares that plague their day and night lives, they eventually try to find out who the girl is, but not before she starts picking off Tun's friends one by one.
Initially, it seems as though this Thai movie borrows from almost every successful Japanese horror concept before it but it somehow manages to avoid seeming clichéd or unoriginal and is actually quite engrossing. Sure the archetypal pale young girl with long hair – who we've seen crawling around looking dead in umpteen of the aforementioned horrors – is present and correct but aside from that you tend to forget what you've seen before and become absorbed in the story. The twists and turns as Tun and Jane unravel the nightmare that they are embroiled in get increasingly disturbing and occasionally downright scary.
The movie is shot extremely well, creating a real sense of impending doom and the director does some pretty nifty tricks to get you jumping. Of course, much of the credit, as is often the case in decent movies, should go to the cast. Ananda Everingham portrays the damaged photographer Tun as a brooding, worried mess of a would-be hero. Natthaweeranuch Thongmee seems much more innocent as his girlfriend, Jane, who suffers the full horrors of the nightmare that her boyfriend appears to have involved her in. You really feel the shocks and frights through their reactions to them and the film has several unusual scenes that bring out the best in each actor's repertoire.
To top it all off, the score does an amazing job of bringing the horrors home, cranking up the tension as the need requires or just smashing down on you with a shocking surprise bang when you least expect it. Occasionally this movie lapses into familiar territory but overall it is a refreshing little horror-thriller from Thailand that is well worth your time.
Shutter is presented in an anamorphic widescreen format with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1, which seems have been green filtered to give the whole movie that clinical hue present in so many of those recent Japanese horrors. The detail is generally good with no signs of edge enhancement and only occasional softness in some scenes. As stated, the colour scheme is biased towards greens (apart from during the red-biased photo darkroom scenes), but the colours are generally well portrayed and the blood looks particularly convincing. Blacks are pretty solid but grain levels occasionally interfere with the shadows, although the grain seldom detracts from your enjoyment of the film. It is an average transfer that doesn't break any boundaries but is perfectly acceptable.
As with many of these seemingly basic Asian releases, the soundtrack is where all of the effort has clearly gone. Here we get two fantastic audio mixes in the original Thai language – a DTS 6.1 ES track and a Dolby 6.1 EX track, along with a third slightly poorer Dolby 2.0 mix also in Thai. Both the DTS and Dolby offerings are pretty top-notch, with clear and coherent dialogue throughout; mainly emanating from the frontal array and nice observation of minor effects from the surrounds. There is even a little bass, mainly thanks to a brooding soundtrack that explodes into life as and when it is required to. There is little difference between the two leading mixes although, as is normally the case, the DTS does tend to have slightly greater potency.
There are a few extra features on this disc but most of them are a little too short to get into. First up there is a Behind the Scenes section split into four parts – the Car Crash, the Suicide, the Ladder and a brief look at a real picture that they took on location which appeared to have a mysterious spirit on it. The segments are all little over a minute in length, featuring comments from the directors but very little revealing information or footage. There is a two-minute interview with the directors and cast, which consist mainly of the directors talking about their original concept and the research they did into making the movie. The 'Feature' section appears to be just a forty-second trailer-like montage with the directors talking again about what the film is about. The 'Scoop in the Picture' section has a brief ninety-second collection of interviews with real photography specialists and emergency staff talking about the film and their own knowledge of the realm. Finally we get three trailers: the first consists of just the weird photos from the movie, the second plays out one of the best scenes from the movie and the third is your usual style which tends to give a lot away.
It should be noted that the supplements have optional English subtitles and the menus are very easy to navigate.
Shutter is a remarkably enjoyable new Thai horror that only adds to other Asian movies in the genre that have paved the way. The video is little above average but the soundtracks are fantastic and there are even a few all-too-short extras to round off this disc. If you like your Asian horror then you should pick this up as a worthy addition and if you are bored by the last few similarly-themed films in the genre then this might just be a pleasant surprise.
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superpchan Member Join Date: February 2005 Location: United States Posts: 178
Eh Shutter's pretty generic and not scary. All I could do was roll my eyes at the ghost scenes. The only thing I liked the was "twist" at the end.
Bodhi Member Join Date: February 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 403
Personally I found it scary and unpredictable.
Mal Webmaster Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,290
I found this film to be pretty good. Strong suspenseful feel throughout with a few bits that I thought were unoriginal. The twist took me by surprise though.
adam roddis Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 100
this was the first film to scare me in 9 years, I luv it, even tho I knew when the scares were gunna cum. There's just summet about dead japanese ghost girls that scare me lol
Not suitable for young persons and children
Disc Details
Release Date: 17th February 2005
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS 5.1 ES Thai, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Thai, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Thai
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Extras: Behind the Scenes Featurette, Interview with Directors and Cast
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun
Cast: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana
Genre: Horror
Length: 93 minutes
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It's BBQ Season
One of the best parts of the summer is the outdoor eating and barbeque. Could it be because the men do the grilling?
Let's get started with some easy marinade recipes to add to your barbeque repertoire.
Soak wooden skewers for 20 minutes in water prior to adding the meat or chicken so that they don't burn while barbequing.
Ask your butcher to cut the meat or chicken into cubes.
Preheat the grill very well to avoid the meat sticking to the grill
Brush the grill with oil when its hot. It will help keep the food from sticking to the grates.
Keep rotating the meat so it will grill evenly.
Always remember safety first. Don't place the ready food on the same plate that held the raw meat.
Always defrost large cuts of meat, fish or poultry before grilling. You don't want the outside getting done even before the middle gets sufficiently hot. Smaller cuts of meats, such as thin steaks and small fish, may be cooked frozen if you are short on time.
Marinating meat tenderizes and enhances it's flavor.
Happy Grilling!
Chicken or Turkey Cutlets
8 chicken cutlets
¼ cup olive oil
3 tablespoon chicken soup mix
1 teaspoon curry powder
Dash of cumin (optional)
Mix the olive oil, soup mix with the curry and optional cumin. Smear the chicken cutlets well with the rub. Refrigerate and let marinate it for 30 minutes.
For kebabs, cut the chicken into cubes and place marinated cubes onto skewers. If you wish you can add vegetables onto the skewers alternating vegetables and chicken. Try colored peppers, onions, cherry tomatoes or zucchini.
Beef Kebabs
2 pounds cubed London broil
1 cup oil
½ cup soy sauce
6 cloves garlic, crushed
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
Ginger, optional
Combine the oil, soy sauce, crushed garlic and seasoning. Mix well with the cubed meat. Refrigerate and marinate for a couple of hours.
BBQ Lamb
2 pounds lamb leg steak or cubed
4 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped fresh flat parsley
1 tablespoon thyme
a pinch dried oregano
black pepper, salt and lemon wedges
Mix the olive oil, lemon juice, herbs and spices together. Place the meat in a shallow dish and pour the marinade over each lamb. Make sure to turn the meat so it's covered well. Let marinate 2-4 hours in the refrigerator. Remove about 30 minutes prior to cooking. Heat barbeque well and coat with oil. Place meat on the grill for 8-10 minutes, rotating it on each side.
Recipes sound good, however the beef kebobs say 1 cup oil. So much oil?? Is that a typo?
the oil together with the other ingredients is softening the meat to make it more tender and juicier. If you would like you can cut down the amount.
these all sound really great!! another marinade my family loves on chicken is a combination of A1 sauce and italian dressing!


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On the great yawning porch that once belonged to Confederate president Jefferson Davis, two women sit in rockers listening to the cicadas and looking out over Mississippi Sound as they wait for their tour to begin.
Before Hurricane Katrina, some 200 people came each day to visit the house—the only structure on the oak-shaded Beauvoir estate not destroyed by the storm. And that's just what's needed to break even. Tourism has dropped off 20 percent here, with just a few visitors on some days since the BP well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico.
The story here is mirrored across the Gulf Coast. Beaches have been cleaned of crude, the leak has been plugged and some cities never had oil wash ashore at all. Still, tourists stay away from what they fear are oil-coated coastlines—a perception officials say could take years to overcome and cost the region billions of dollars.
"We had Katrina, then the recession and now we have the oil,"said Rick Forte, executive director of the Beauvoir estate. "It's hard to overcome this when no one is coming."


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Wouldn't this be so much better if they were all riding Segways with chimps on their backs? Maybe even chimps riding Segways? Or better still, mini-monkeys riding mini-motorcycles? I think we could all be happy with that, but maybe it's just a fantasy of ours. Carry on.
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Nowadays, many machines are running with 2-4 gigabytes of RAM, and their owners are discovering a problem: When they run 32-bit GNU/Linux distributions, their extra RAM is not being used. Fortunately, correcting the problem is only a matter of installing or building a kernel with a few specific parameters enabled or disabled.
The problem exists because 32-bit Linux kernels are designed to access only 1GB of RAM by default. The workaround for this limitation is vaguely reminiscent of the virtual memory solution once used by DOS, with a high memory area of virtual memory being constantly mapped to physical addresses. This high memory can be enabled for up to 4GB by one kernel parameter, or up to 64GB on a Pentium Pro or higher processor with another parameter. However, since these parameters have not been needed on most machines until recently, the standard kernels in many distributions have not enabled them.
Increasingly, many distributions are enabling high memory for 4GB. Ubuntu default kernels have been enabling this process at least since version 6.10, and so have Fedora 7's. By contrast, Debian's default 486 kernels do not. Few distros, if any, enable 64GB by default.
To check whether your kernel is configured to use all your RAM, enter the command
free -m. This command gives you the total amount of unused RAM on your system, as well as the size of your swap file, in megabytes. If the total memory is 885, then no high memory is enabled on your system (the rest of the first gigabyte is reserved by the kernel for its own purposes). Similarly, if the result shows over 1 gigabyte but less than 4GB when you know you have more, then the 4GB parameter is enabled, but not the 64GB one. In either case, you will need to add a new kernel to take full advantage of your RAM.
On some distributions, you can add a generic kernel that meets your requirement in a matter of moments. In Debian, for instance, use the
apt-cache search command to locate a recent linux-image package for a kernel for a 686 processor if you want support for up to 4 gigabytes. If you want support for up to 64 gigabytes, look for a kernel that ends with
686-bigmem. These kernels will enable support for 64GB. Unfortunately, a generic kernel for only 4GB does not exist. Similarly, in Ubuntu, look for a recent kernel image whose package name ends in
smp; these kernels are designed for dual core processors, but work on single core processors as well, although sometimes with a small performance hit.
If your distribution does not include a useful generic kernel, or if you want to fine-tune the use of high memory on your system, you need to compile a custom kernel. You should consult your distribution's documentation for the details of where to get the source code and headers and any unique aspects of compiling a kernel for it. However, enabling high memory support involves no more than five parameters in the Firmware Drivers section:
- Make sure that
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEMis not set.
- Set either
yes, using whichever one is appropriate for the RAM in your system. If you have Note that you should use the 4 gigabyte parameter for less than 4 gigabytes of RAM, and the 64 gigabyte parameter for 4 or more gigabytes (4 gigabytes of RAM, remember is actually slightly more than that).
- Set
- Optionally, set
yesif you want to log error messages. Since many generic kernels turn this option off, you can probably do without it, especially if you do not delete other kernels from your boot manager's menu, so that you can still start your computer if your newly compiled kernel is unusable.
Compile the rest of the kernel as you choose and install it in your boot manager's menu. Consult the documentation for your boot manager for the details of how to do this.
The next time you start your system, run
free -m again. This time, the results should reflect the actual amount of RAM installed. In the few cases that it does not, add a parameter to your boot manager to specify the amount of memory on the system. For both GRUB and LILO, the parameter is
mem=<amount of RAM>M, placed just after the name of the customized kernel. The amount of RAM should be in megabytes.
Eventually, this problem will disappear as either high memory kernels become the norm in distributions or the transition to 64-bit Linux is finally complete. However, for the next year or so, this solution is likely to remain useful for anyone perplexed by the apparent lack of RAM on their system.


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College endowments took a big hit in their last fiscal year, suffering their worst annual returns since the Great Depression.
According to a new study by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the Commonfund Institute, endowments and affiliated foundations had an average investment loss of 19 percent between July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009.
CNBC.com looked at the 250 largest endowments in the U.S. and highlighted the 15 that suffered the most dramatic losses in market value. They are ranked according to the percentage change in market value between fiscal year-end 2009 and fiscal year-end 2008. Factors such as growth from gifts, reductions due to expenditures and withdrawals, as well as investment returns determine an endowment's fiscal year-end market value.
Click ahead to see the rankings. Some of the biggest losers may surprise you!
By Brooke Sopelsa


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