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Well, why not visit the Emmet County Historical Society Museum at the corner of 18th Street and Third Avenue South in Estherville.
Open 2-5 p.m. daily from Memorial Day through Labor Day, the Museum Complex consists of the H. G. Albee Memorial Museum flanked by the Bolstad School, the former Palestine Lutheran Church building, a rural farm windmill site, an outhouse, a blacksmith shop and the Farm Heritage building. Special tours can be arranged.0
The Memorial Museum contains displays that relate to many aspects of Emmet County's history including home furnishings, commercial establishments, educational lore, theatre curtain painted by Estherville native Jesse Cox, military history and sports lore. The building was constructed in 1991. The restored Bolstad School, last used in 1953, is an example of a typical Iowa one-room rural school and has been moved to the complex. The Palestine Lutheran Church, built in 1904 between Huntington and Dolliver, was restored in 1988 after it and its furnishings had been transported to the complex area. An annual service continues to be held in the church and there is even an occasional wedding.
A 32-foot Woodmanse windmill, built by a company in Des Moines in the early 1900s, was placed in the park in 1987. The outhouse, which had been on a farm, was placed in the park in 1991 and has been restored. A typical blacksmith shop building was constructed in 1991 and has been furnished with artifacts from the Nels P. Peterson shop formerly on a farm near High Lake from 1900-1949. Artifacts from other area blacksmiths complement the Peterson collection.
In the Farm Heritage building visitors will find exhibits of antique farm machinery, tools, a buggy, and other typical farm memorabilia.
The Emmet County Museum is a wonderful collection of our area heritage, a collection that deserves to be admired and appreciated.
So the next time you have visitors, take them to the museum. You just don't know what old family stories you might share.


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Love the BIG text boxes for filling things in......
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The header, footer, main background and left columns will be used with CSS and masterpages - meaning they will be on every page of the website.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Brandeis volleyball dropped its opening match at the 2011 University Athletic Association championships to top-seeded and second-ranked Emory University, 3-0, at the Coles Sports Center at New York University. Set scores were 25-22, 25-18, 25-11. With the loss, the Judges fall to 9-20 on the campaign, while the Eagles improve to 33-3.
The Brandeis offense was paced by a pair of outside hitters. Rookie Liz Hood (Albuquerque, N.M./Albuquerque Acad.) and sophomore Si-Si Hensley (Fullerton, Calif./Troy) each had eight kills, but the rest of the squad only combined for four kills. Hensley was the only player with a positive hitting percentage at .261 (8 K-2 E-23 TA). Sophomore Elsie Bernaiche (Plantville, Conn./Southington) was the squad's defensive leader with 13 digs, while sophomore setter Yael Einhorn (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East) had 19 assists.
In the consolation semifinals, the Judges fell to host NYU in a marathon first set, 28-26, before dropping the next two, 25-19, 25-14, to drop to 9-21. Hood had nine kills and Hensley added another eight. Junior middle blocker Becca Fischer (San Antonio, Texas/Clark) had a nice performance with four kills and five blocks (two solo). Bernaiche tallied a match-high 21 digs, while Hensley added 11. Einhorn had 19 assists.
In the first set, the Judges trailed by as many as four points, as late as 13-9, before a 7-1 run gave them a 16-14 lead. Hood had two kills and Hensley one in the stretch, while sophomore Susan Sun (Acton, Mass./Acton-Boxborough) had a service ace to cap the run. Ahead by two at 18-16, the Judges gave up five straight to give the Violets a 21-18 edge. Hensley helped them tie the set with a kill and a block assist along with Fischer and an ace by rookie Vanessa Bodie (Grand Junction, Colo./Fruita Monument). The teams traded the lead, with NYU serving for the set twice before Brandeis rallied to go ahead, 26-25, on a Lauren Berens (Boulder, Colo./Fairview) to try to take the first. NYU's Kolby Warren responded with back-to-back kills, and an attacking error by the Judges gave the hosts the momentum.
In the second set, the Judges were ahead early, 7-3, though many of the points were the result of NYU errors. Trailing 12-8, the Violets put together a five-point run on the serve of Alex Mao to take a 13-12 lead. The teams traded one and two points at a time until Mao stepped behind the line again, and she closed out the set with another five-point run to give NYU a 25-19 set and momentum into the third. The Violets raced out to leads of 8-4 and 13-7 and never looked back in clinching the match.
The Judges close out their season with the UAA tournament seventh-place match against Carnegie Mellon Saturday morning at 10 a.m.


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Accreditation and recognition of programs
Students are sometimes justifiably confused about whether or not the program they are enrolled in is accredited or recognized by ALA and what it all means. One major point of confusion is that accreditation and recognition of individual programs as practiced by ALA are two distinctly different but related processes.
The reason for having two separate processes is due to the fact that many School Library Media Specialist (SLMS) programs are in education schools rather than Master's in Library & Information Studies (MLIS) programs. ALA accredits MLIS programs directly, but any SLMS programs in education schools must be accredited by a non-ALA accrediting agency before the ALA American Association of School Librarians (AASL) will recognize them.
Still confused?
(Andrea, edit the above at will and then maybe we break off to our own Wiki pages at this point? We could each write a few sentences here with a link to the separate pages …)


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An Emmy Award-winning television, radio and newspaper journalist has joined the anchor team of Channel 4's The Morning Show.
Bruce Hamilton first realized his broadcasting dream while attending high school in Philadelphia.
During his career, Bruce's job as a newsman has taken him from his hometown to Albuquerque, N.M., Tucson, Ariz., Orlando and Jacksonville.
Along the way, Bruce has engaged in one-on-one interviews with presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as numerous world leaders.
Bruce also covered the major political conventions and reported from breaking news spots around the world.
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5 Amazing Mechanical Devices from Muslim Civilisation
During the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation creative new innovative ideas travelled across the land from southern Spain to China – innovations in medicine, astronomy, trade, navigation, architecture, technology, industry, agriculture and much more were common place. In the field of agriculture, innovation meant that farmers were planting new crops, developing state-of-the-art irrigation techniques, using organic fertilisers, harnessing global knowledge in local areas, and basing their agronomy on scientific findings. This all led to an agricultural revolution, harnessing clean energy sources, making fresh food available to more people.
"It is admitted with difficulty that a nation in majority of nomads could have had known any form of agricultural techniques other than sowing wheat and barley. The misconceptions derive from the rarity of works on the subject… If we bothered to open and consult the old manuscripts, so many views will be changed, so many prejudices will be demolished..."
Farmers and engineers in the Golden Age inherited existing techniques of irrigation, preserving some while modifying, improving and constructing others. It was common across the Muslim world to see hundreds of windmills and waterwheels busily irrigating crops. But they did not have the capacity to supply ever town and village. Engineers like Al-Jazari designed water-raising machinery aimed to bring the supply directly to local people and enhance the framing capacity.
Here we look at a few innovative machines that powered the agricultural revolution in Muslim Civilisation.
Double Suction Pump of Al-Jazari
(Left) A manuscript shows Al-Jazari's reciprocating pump. This was the first time an illustration of a crank appeared in a manuscript* - (Right) 3D animated image of reciprocating pump
A chapter of Al-Jazari's book was devoted to water raising machines. It also included sophisticated machines powered by water and gravity, simulating the principle of the balance (see the video below). As the water fills one bucket and as it spills into the large cylindrical tank a siphon sets into action and so on, to generate air pressure through a flute and gives out a sound at controlled intervals. The interval is controlled by the rate at which the water flows from the tap.
It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of al-Jazari's work in the history of engineering. Until modern times there is no other document from any cultural area that provides a comparable wealth of instructions for the design, manufacture and assembly of machines… Al-Jazari did not only assimilate the techniques of his non-Arab and Arab predecessors, he was also creative. He added several mechanical and hydraulic devices. The impact of these inventions can be seen in the later designing of steam engines and internal combustion engines, paving the way for automatic control and other modern machinery. The impact of al-Jazari's inventions is still felt in modern contemporary mechanical engineering..."
This is a water-driven twin-cylinder pump. The important features embodied in this pump are the double-acting principle, the conversion of rotary into reciprocating motion, and the use of two suction pipes. The hand-driven pumps of classical and Hellenistic times had vertical cylinders which stood directly in the water which entered them through plate-valves in the bottoms of the cylinders on the suction strokes. The pumps could not, therefore, be positioned above the water level. This pump of al-lazari could be considered as the origin of the suction pump. The assumption that Taccola (c. 1450) was the first to describe a suction pump is not substantiated. The only explanation for the sudden appearance of the suction pump in the writings of the Renaissance engineers in Europe is that the idea was inherited from Muslim Civilisation, whose engineers were familiar with piston pumps for a long time throughout the Middle Ages.
Read More
Muslim Heritage: Transfer of Islamic Technology to the West
by Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan
Muslim Heritage: Muslim Heritage in Mechanics and Technology
by Mohammed Abattouy
- History-Science-Technology.com: History of Science and Technology in Islam
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
Market Zone, 04 Water Supply, Page 122-126
The Six-Cylinder Water Pump of Taqi al-Din
(Left) Third page of the section devoted to the six-cylinder pump in the Chester Beatty MS (p. 38) of Al-Turuq al-Saniya. - (Right) 3D animated image of six-cylinder pump
Among the original machines described in the corpus of technology from Muslim Civilisation, the six-cylinder "monobloc" piston pump designed by Taqi al-Din Ibn Ma'ruf in the late 16th century holds a special place. Working as a suction pump, this complex machine included components that are often associated with modern technology, such as a camshaft, a cylinder block, pistons, and non-return valves. In this article, Joseph Vera, an expert in re-engineering ancient inventions, describes how he created a SolidWorks CAD model of this remarkable pump, that he completed with a motion simulation. The conclusion he drew after creating the model and the simulation is that the engineers of the Muslim tradition, represented by Taqi al-Din, had a very solid grasp of kinematics, dynamics and fluid mechanics. He notes also that Taqi al-Din's "monobloc" pump is a remarkable example of a machine using renewable energy, a topic that is currently of utmost importance…
Taqi al-Din... completes the Islamic Era's most crucial phase in mechanical engineering..."
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Muslim Heritage: The Six-Cylinder Water Pump of Taqi al-Din
by Salim Al-Hassani & Mohammed Al-Lawat
Muslim Heritage: Creating a 3D Model with Motion Analysis...
by Joseph Vera
Muslim Heritage: Filling the Gap in the History of Pre-Modern Industry
by Salim Al-Hassani
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
Market Zone, 04 Water Supply, Page 122-126
Vertical Windmills
(Left) A 14th-century manuscript by Al-Dimashqi shows a cross-section of a typical windmill whose vertical vanes rotate around a vertical shaft*, (Right) Windmills in the Iranian region of Nishtafun Right (Source)
[Most historians believe that it was the Crusaders who introduced windmills to Europe in the 12th century. A Persian had come to the second Caliph Umar, who reigned for ten years from 634, and claimed he could build a mill operated by wind, so the caliph ordered him to have one built. After this, wind power became widely used to run millstones for grinding corn, and also to draw up water for irrigation. This was done first in Seistan, and Al-Masudi, a geographer who lived in the tenth century, described the region as a "country of wind and sand." He also wrote, "[A] characteristic of the area is that the power of the wind is used to drive pumps for watering gardens."]*
Joseph Needham, in his multivolume work on Science and Civilization in China, notes that 'the history of windmills really begins with Islamic culture, and in Iran'. The Banu Musa mention windmills in their Book on Mechanical Devices, where they say that they 'are commonly used by the people'. These windmills were of the horizontal type and came into common use in Europe in the sixteenth century. According to Needham, `this must surely have been a westward transmission from Iberian culture originally derived from Muslim Spain'. Needham believes that the vertical windmill was a European invention, stimulated by the horizontal type that had been acquired from al-Andalus..."
[A thousand years ago, geographer Al-Istakhri wrote of seeing windmills used to provide power, running mills that were built everywhere. Unlike the traditional European design, Central Asian windmills had vertical vanes to catch the wind. Built on top of castles or at the crest of hills, the windmills had two stories. In one story were the millstones, one connected to a vertical wooden shaft. This shaft extended into the other story, where six to twelve windmill sails were mounted vertically, covered in cloth or palm leaves. The structure of the windmill was open to catch the wind on the northeast side.]*
Read More:
Muslim Heritage: The European Muslim Heritage and its Role in the...
by Salim Al-Hassani
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
Market Zone, 06 Windmills, Page 128-131
Large Waterwheels (Norias)
These norias, which raise water from the Orontes River, are in Hama, Syria*
[Large waterwheels, or norias, have raised water from fast-flowing waterways to higher land since 100 b.c.e. Vitruvius, the Roman writer, architect, and engineer, mentioned this simple yet powerful device. Like any waterwheel, it was turned by the force of flowing water against paddle compartments on its rim. These filled with water and took it to the top, where they emptied into a head tank connected to an aqueduct. Already used by the Romans and Persians, they were adapted and redeveloped by the Muslims.]*
"The norias were widespread in the land of Islam, the water wheels of Hama, according to Sarton, being some of its great glories"
"It has been claimed that water-wheels were brought back to Europe by the Crusaders. Some water-wheels must have existed in Europe before this time (cf. e.g., Gregory of Tours), but it is probable that the Crusaders saw more of them and better ones in the East and brought back home that improved type or at least a clearer conception of their usefulness. Moreover the enormous economic expansion which took place in Western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries must have brought into being a great number of water-wheels, whether of the Western or of the Eastern type...."
[The first Muslim mention of norias refers to the excavation of a canal in the Basra region in the late seventh century. The wheels at Hama, on the river Orontes in Syria, called by Sarton: Hama's Great Glories, still exist, although they are no longer in use. They were big wheels and the largest was about 20 meters (65.6 feet) in diameter, with its rim being divided into 120 compartments. The noria at Murcia in Spain, LaNora, is still in operation, although the original wheel has been replaced by a steel one. Apart from this, the 'Moorish' system is otherwise virtually unchanged. There are still many norias in various parts of the world, and they are often able to compete successfully with modern pumps.]*
Arnold Pacey for instance, notes how mechanical techniques reached a high level of sophistication in the Muslim civilization as well as in China, notably with respect to the application of water wheels to generate power...
Read More:
- Muslim Heritage: Muhammad Al-Karaji by Mohammed Abattouy
- Muslim Heritage: The Scholars of Hama by Salah Zaimeche
*1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
Market Zone, 04 Water Supply, Page 122-126
Third Water-Raising Device of Al-Jazari
(Left) Page from a 13th-century manuscript depict a water-raising machine designed by Al-Jazari. Water-raising machines are driven by a water turbine through geared shafts, which turn a sindi wheel carrying a long belt of buckets. Al-Jazari made a wooden animal and placed it on the rotating disc on the machine so maybe people would not think the automatic machine was driven by "magic"; they thought it was driven by an animal, operating multiple gears with partial teeth to produce a sequence of motion in four scoops that took water from the river one scoop at a time. This design included a camshaft, which controlled the mechanism - (Right) 3D Animated Image of the device
"1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization"
Market Zone, 04 Water Supply, Page 122-126
The Third Water-Raising Device was intended as a decorative attraction near an ornamental lake, with an element of mystification about it. Thence an ornamental lake erects an elegant open structure, with only its automata working parts visible to spectators, thus leaving the spectators curious on how the device is powered (see image). Consider the nature of al-Jazari's working environment, it is most likely erected in the King's garden, where it caused wonder and aesthetic pleasure to courtly circles and raised water for irrigation to the garden at the same time. It was however, simply an elegant development of a utilitarian device that was used for supplying water for irrigation and domestic purposes. A development of the Saqiya, having the main difference of the device being powered by waterpower instead of animal power. The structure itself is quite small, being divided into 2 sections; the lower chamber whereby the water driven mechanism is 'hidden' under the ground and upper chamber whereby the automated mechanism above the pool was made visible
Al Jami' Bainal Al I'lm wal A'mal al Nafi' fi Sina'at al Hiyal (A Compendium on the Theory and Useful Practice of the Mechanical Arts) also referred to as Kitab ilm al-Hiyal (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices)... Al-Jazari narrates his experience: "I was in [Sultan Nasir ad-Din's] presence one day and had brought him something which he had ordered me to make. He looked at me and he looked at what I had made and thought about it, without my noticing. He guessed what I had been thinking about, and unveiled unerringly what I had concealed. He said, "You have made peerless devices, and through strength have brought them forth as works, so do not lose what you have wearied yourself with and have plainly constructed. I wish you to compose for me a book which assembles what you have created separately, and brings together a selection of individual items and pictures..."
Read More:
- Muslim Heritage: Al-Jazari's Third Water-Raising Device by Salim Al-Hassani
- *1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
- Market Zone, 04 Water Supply, Page 122-126
Further Information
There are multiple other mechanical devices. For example Al-Jazari has designed three more water-raising machines and many additional indigenous devices like clocks, some of them feature in our previous story entitled "Top 7 ingenious Clocks from Muslim Civilisation that defied the Middle Ages" along with those developed by Taqi al-Din, Al-Muradi and Ridhwan al-Sa'ati. The Banu Musa brothers also produced fascinating machines such as like Hydraulic Organ, wudu' (ablution) water machine, The Self Changing Fountain and the drinking device for animals (right figure). There are also trick devices like a drinking bull and tea-making lady robots (See 1001 Inventions book, Trick Devices) and let's not forget to mention Al-Muradi's "Book of Secrets". Other devices and tools invented or improved upon from scholars from Muslim Civilisation include a paper-glass-ceramic-pottery making machine, various musical, astronomical, medical, military, agricultural and alchemy instruments. These will be mentioned in our future stories.
For nearly eight centuries, under the Mohammedan rulers, Spain set to all Europe a shining example of a civilised and enlightened state. Her fertile provinces, rendered doubly prolific by the industry and engineering skill of her conquerors, bore fruit a hundredfold. Cities innumerable sprang up in the rich valleys of the Guadelquivir and the Guadiana, whose names, and names only, still commemorate the vanished glories of their past…"
"Muslim devices were used for many practical ends such as pearl fishing, protection in polluted wells, clepsydre used to regulate irrigation time with extreme accuracy through the year, and telling time. With regard to bulky machinery, the same concern for practicality was also in force; water lifting devices, for instance, were used for irrigation, whilst other machinery was used for crushing sugar cane and for extracting vegetable oils. Al-Hassan, in his edition of Taqi al-Din (Taqi Eddin), also points out that the Muslim engineer, from the early days of Islamic civilisation, used his skills and knowledge to build cities and dams, projects for irrigation, and in making machinery that had a wider public use. Colish also notes: There is another dimension to Muslim science that must be noted along with the indubitable creative achievements of its golden age. The Muslims were interested in selected fields and in particular problems... In each case, the subject was appealing because it had practical applications. Pure scientific theory, the lure of scientific knowledge for its own sake that had animated ancient Greeks, was not." (Al-Djazairi, S.E.)
The use of the crank and connecting it to what we call a cam-shaft, this had revolutionized machinery and engines like the steam engines and the diesel engines and the petrol engines…
Read More:
- The European Muslim Heritage and its Role in the Development of Europe by Salim Al-Hassani
- Filling the Gap in the History of Pre-Modern Industry: 1000 Years of Missing Islamic Industry by Salim Al-Hassani
Hydropowered water-raising machine in the book of Al-Jazari on mechanical devices
A 3D model of the wudu' (ablution) water machine constructed from Banu Musa's manuscripts
A 3D graphic model of the gun powder propelled Torpedo constructed from the manuscript of Hasan al-Rammah.
The Self Changing Fountain of Banu Musa bin Shakir
An artist's whimsical ideas about a 12th century method of increasing hydro-power train by 1.0 ox-power, for a water bucket elevator for water supply (Source)
The Albolafia noria, or waterwheel, is the last vestige of an array of mills and dams built on the Guadalquivir River in Cordoba between the 8th and 10th centuries as it appears in its present condition. (Source) and below is a picture of a noria in Hadith Bayadh wa Riyadh (The Story of Bayad and Riyad) , an Andalusian love story, 13th-century (Source) Outside the palace an agricultural setting is suggested by the depiction of water and the water wheel. (Source)


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Citi currency guru Steven Englander has a new note out this evening titled: No coin + temporary debt ceiling extension + sequester = US Dollar negative.
In it he notes that the rejection of the trillion dollar coin idea to avert the debt ceiling is not alone a market moving event, but that the hard language taken by the White House that the choices boil down to clean lift or default raises the odds of a debt ceiling breach.
His take:
So it is possible that we will get a technical default for a few days, but more likely that Congress will give in, vote the debt ceiling up temporarily, and let the automatic sequesters kick in. Mounting risk of a technical default was USD positive in 2011 because it led to cutting of long-risk positions and the USD/Treasury market remained safe havens. However, it also occurred in an environment of slowing EM growth and intensifying euro zone sovereign risk pressure, so the USD support came from external forces as well. Given that investors are now somewhat long risk again, the position cutting is again likely to be USD positive, however, unattractive US assets were. As was the case in 2011, it is very unlikely that the Treasury will not pay its bills, although even a technical default could have very unforeseen consequences, given the multiple functions that Treasuries play in global financial markets. The more likely scenario of sequester plus grudging debt ceiling rise is USD negative. It will put more pressure on the Fed to keep pumping liquidity into the US economy without giving any reassurance to investors that long-term fiscal issues are close to resolution.
That seems reasonable. A debt ceiling hike + a full sequester, which would equal a weaker economy and more pumping.
With Europe healing and China rebounding, USD would be the big loser.


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Keep Copyright Balance: Stop SOPA and PIPA
As I wrote over on the Tor Project blog, SOPA and PIPA (the House's "Stop Online Piracy Act" and the Senate's "Protect-IP Act") go beyond enforcement of copyright. These copyright bills would strain the infrastructure of the Internet, on which many free communications — anonymous or identified — depend. Originally, the bills proposed that so-called "rogue sites" should be blocked through the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). That would have broken DNSSEC security and shared U.S. censorship tactics with those of China's "great firewall."
Now, while we hear that DNS-blocking is off the table, the bills remain threatening to the network of intermediaries who carry online speech. Most critically to Tor, SOPA contained a provision forbidding "circumvention" of court-ordered blocking that was written broadly enough that it could apply to Tor — which helps its users to "circumvent" local-network censorship. Further, both bills broaden the reach of intermediary liability, to hold conduits and search engines liable for user-supplied infringement. The private rights of action and "safe harbors" could force or encourage providers to censor well beyond the current DMCA's "notice and takedown" provision (of which Chilling Effects documents numerous burdens and abuses).
On January 18, we're joining Wikipedia, Reddit, the MIT Media Lab, and hundreds of others in protest, turning a portion of the Tor site black to call attention to copyright balance and remind the US Congress and voters of the value of the open Internet.
U.S. citizens, please call or write, to urge your representatives to stop SOPA and PIPA. Elsewhere in the world, keep an eye out for similar legislation. and bring the fight there too.


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Eugene Fleharty is an award winning woodcarver of life-like American waterfowl decoys, shore birds and song birds. His love of nature is evident in the painstaking detail with which he carves each feather and applies acrylic color to faithfully represent the species. Please select sub-category under Eugene Fleharty's name to the left to see certain category of birds.
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Because it's my blogthday
48 comments:
- Bells said...
All i can say is it's a very good thing that when we were discussing shoe totals recently, you didn't actually tell me, because that would be cheating. I'm going to say 67.
Overseasian is the best term. I want to use that from now on!
And blothday is also a stroke of genius!
- 04 July, 2008
- Bells said...
i mean blogthday.
- 04 July, 2008
- chocolatetrudi said...
Happy Blogthday!
How many pairs? How's 78 for a wild guess?
- 04 July, 2008
- Kristie said...
Since you have been so kind as to provide the question, I believe the answer is 42.
- 04 July, 2008
- Caffeine Faerie said...
Christie stole my answer, so I'll have to say 43 - I've counted 21 already!
And Happy Blogthday!
- 04 July, 2008
- m1k1 said...
This isn't an entry, because I can't guess.
It's a btw to Kristie and Caffeine Fairy. You know how the question appeared in the Scrabble game as "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?"
6 * 9 = 42 in base 13, thereby proving the mice had 13 toes! Or 12 toes and they counted with their tail as well.
Because I said.
- 04 July, 2008
- m1k1 said...
oh and happy blogthday, RR
- 04 July, 2008
- TinkingBell said...
I'm going to say 73 (because I've got 60 and I KNOW you have more than me!!!)
Happy Blogthday (do we nearly share our blogiversary? Twins again!)
Perhaps you should buy yarn - or shoes - to celebrate?
- 04 July, 2008
- Jen said...
Wow, you are so generous! I wish I was able to have (and store) as many shoes as you... my guess is 82.
Jen from Sydney
- 04 July, 2008
- 2paw said...
Happy Blothday!! I like 'Blothday', it sounds like birthday!!
And may there be many more, and shoes too!!!
- 04 July, 2008
- Snoozen said...
I am going to say 68 as I have counted 61 already and 68 is a good number!
Happy 2nd Blogthday
Origin: Sydney but you knew that already
- 04 July, 2008
- Bells said...
I should also add that I think this is totally worth celebrating because I love your blog and all that you do. Big fan. But you knew that. :-) May there be many more years of happy blogging ahead of you!
- 04 July, 2008
I'm thinking around 47 - 'not quite a years worth'....
- 04 July, 2008
- rachel said...
I am going to say 34 pair of shoes. Purple is my favorite color,just letting you know.
- 04 July, 2008
- claudine said...
I'm going to guess 91 :) Happy Blogthday RoseRed!
- 04 July, 2008
Happy blogiversary!
I'm going to go conservative and say 37, because I haven't been reading your blog for very long so I haven't seen many shoes! I'm an Aussie, so I definitely count thongs as shoes...
- 04 July, 2008
- Nora said...
Happy 2nd! I remember when you first started blogging - I was mesmerised by the red shoe! :)
And you've just reminded me that I missed my 2nd blog birthday last month! Oh, MAN!!
I couldn't even begin to guess how many shoes you own... 45??
- 04 July, 2008
- sue said...
Ooh red is one of my favourite colors, although I dont knit with it very often. Happy Blogthday too, what a great saying. I would have to guess 93 pairs of shoes.
- 04 July, 2008
- missfee said...
happy blogthday it's my birthday today too champagne and cake all round and I'm older than yesterday no not really !!! and I have 3 anwers to your number of shoes - 1. not enough shoes in your cupboard 2. perhaps around 120 pairs in your cupboard at the moment - altough I am not sure how big your cupboard is - and3. sock victim thinks over 200
xxxx and I live local.....
- 04 July, 2008
- Terhi said...
Happy blog birthday! I have not commented here before, but I really enjoy your blog and especially the shoe posts. I love shoes too!
My guess is 100. :-)
- 04 July, 2008
- Ann said...
Happy Blogiversary! July 4 is also American Independence Day. I guess you have 80 pairs of shoes (it's a guess & 8 is a lucky number).
I am an Australian from Perth.
- 04 July, 2008
- Michelle said...
I was going to say 67 but Bells beat me to it.
So I'll say ... 64.
Havve 2nd Blogthday! May there be many more! (shoes and blogthdays)
- 04 July, 2008
- Janette said...
Happy Blogthday!
Wishing you many more.
Enjoy your blog, especially SHOESdays.
- 04 July, 2008
- Leah said...
Happy blogthday! I'm going to guess 46 - and think we need a post on how to organise a fairly large shoe wardrobe too :) Leah in Canberra.
- 04 July, 2008
- Queen of the froggers said...
Happy 2nd blogibirthday! I think my guess from here in the uk is 84!
- 04 July, 2008
- Carolyn said...
Happy Blogthday! I'm guessing 104 pairs of shoes...I hate to buy shoes and I have at least 15 pairs, so you must have way more than me! I'm an overseasian...in the US.
- 04 July, 2008
Happy Blogthday! I'm guessing 88, and I'm an overseas-ian. In fact, I was watching the neighbor shoot fireworks off last night from the end of the driveway, and got a couple of mosquito bites while I was out there. :)
- 04 July, 2008
- kim said...
Oh, now this is going to be interesting indeed! I can't even begin to imagine. I just picture you having a closet like Oprah's with racks and racks of shoes... :)
- 04 July, 2008
- ikkinlala said...
I'm going to guess 63, and I'm overseas from you. Happy blogthday!
- 05 July, 2008
- MadMad said...
Happy blogthday, RR! I would like to see the closet that stores 'em, now that Kim mentioned it... Maybe that could be the final shoesday post (you know, when you've run out. I mean, assuming you'll run out. I guess you could just keep shopping, right?)
- 05 July, 2008
- MadMad said...
Oh, and I LOVE "overseasian" as a word! Not that blogthday was bad, either, hahaha!
- 05 July, 2008
- Sarah said...
This overseasian guesses 80 and I'd love to see a picture of them altogether :o)
Happy blogthday, my wish is for many more to come on this lovely blog, hope you get your blogging wishes
- 05 July, 2008
- Donna Lee said...
Happy July 4th! I'm going to guess you have 76 pairs of shoes. I'm not good at saving things. If I don't wear something I get rid of it. I grew up with a father whose favorite saying was "when in doubt, throw it out". I guess more of it is ingrained than I had thought.
- 05 July, 2008
- Kate said...
Happy Blogthday! I have to start using "overseasian" more often. I'll find occasion to, I'm sure.
And I'll guess that you have.... hm... 68.5 pairs of shoes. Because I'm sure you must have lost half of a pair at some point. Maybe you just haven't noticed?
- 05 July, 2008
- Maggie said...
Well my guess would have to be 99.Ohby the way i am from Sydney also.
- 05 July, 2008
- lilypotter said...
I'm going to guess 117 pairs of shoes.
Also, happy blogthday from the U.S.! (As I type this I can hear fireworks out my window- the grand finale I think. How nice of them to celebrate your blogthday!)
- 05 July, 2008
- amanda j said...
My guess is 69 because I am still being Wicked.
I am technically overseas, but not! Tasmania!!
Happy blogthday to yoooooooou.
- 05 July, 2008
Happy blogaversary. This fellow Aussie guesses 150 pairs. Sounds like a lot, but there's as many places to hide shoes as there is stash, so you probably have heaps hidden away.
- 05 July, 2008
- Shazmina Bendi said...
Happy Blogthday you gorgeous thing!! And I guess I am the luckiest blog friend because I am Aussie AND and Overseasian!!! MWAHAHAHA! I really dont know how many shoes, all I know is that they are all fabulous, just like you! The Blog fairy wishes you many more shoes and beautiful yarn!! xxxx
- 05 July, 2008
- catsmum said...
57 and you know perfectly well where I'm from.
Happy blogiversary - it CAN'T be a year since the last one... can it ?
- 05 July, 2008
- metal and knit said...
For your bogthday I say hipp hip hooray.
I guess you have 96 pairs of shoes as I know one at my work had 197 pairs of stillettos. So one can never have too many shoes.
- 06 July, 2008
- Sonia said...
How about 87 pairs! I'm from the US and always enjoy seeing your stash of yarn and shoes. Happy blogthday!
- 06 July, 2008
- Nellie said...
I reckon its got to be 74, Rose Red. And happy blogiversary to you!
- 06 July, 2008
- Michele said...
so sorry to be late in wishing you Happy 2nd blog birthday. but that's wonderful. i mean it takes stamina! so happy blog birthday. couldn't possibly guess # of shoes - but you know up close to 200 wouldn't surprise me. (and if you don't have that many you can always tell husby you shouldn't be letting your reputation slip).
- 06 July, 2008
- kms said...
yay, happy blogthday! well done. such a great blog. and soooo many shoes...im going to say 49 pairs (has someone done that already?) it seems like it could be more but thats a real lot of shoes. i know how much sock yarn stash you have, does that count?!
- 06 July, 2008
- Jan said...
Well, my guess is 71 pairs. Lovely looking wool there.
- 06 July, 2008
- she knits said...
Hi Rose Red, I am guessing 69 pairs, all awesome to boot! And your choice of wool colour to give away is awesomely red :0)
I be an aussie as you probably know!
I love your blog :0)
Best wishes, Mel
- 06 July, 2008
- Em said...
My guess is 104. A fabulous number for a fabulous collection of shoes. Contest and prizes notwithstanding, I hope the upper guesses are correct, because you shoe collection is one I aspire to rival one day, and hundreds of shoes would make up for the dozens of cars Jim collects.
- 07 July, 2008


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When writer/director J.J. Abrams teams-up with Steven Spielberg to bring back that old school, early 1980's feel of a summer movie to a whole new generation, what you get is Super 8. It's a retro look at the cinema of most of our youths, with a hint of modern day monster thrills thrown in for good measure. It's like The Goonies and The Monster Squad meet The Thing. There are also some elements of Red Dawn in there, and I think it all works pretty well overall. Super 8 is loosely based on the supposed transfer of the alleged items found at the Roswell UFO crash site in New Mexico, to a military air base in Columbus, Ohio. Fun little side fact, I used to live down the road from that alleged air base in college. Pretty cool, huh?! Okay I'm getting off topic. In the movie the train is derailed during the transport, and a group of kids who've snuck-out to make a homemade zombie movie with their Super 8 camera witness the whole thing. The train wreck is amazing, a little over the top, but that happens a lot in this film. A lot of moments are played in this very real, nice and quiet manor, and then there are these other moments where everything is just so over the top you can't help but notice the two contrasting each other. One of these moments is when the town is just all of a sudden full of tanks, and they all just start firing causing mass hysteria and World War III to breakout in this small suburban town. It looks amazing, and it's really well shot from a filmmaking standpoint, but I'm afraid it just doesn't fit with the retro style. But, that's not to say the mixing of the monster movie and the boy and his alien genre doesn't work. I think Abrams manages to knock that out the park. The look and feel of Super 8 is fantastic! It drags in a few places, but overall I think it works. I was kind of hoping the kids would stick together a little more. The middle of the movie kind of focuses a little too much on just Joe (Joel Courtney) and Alice (Elle Fanning), the other kids are kind of M.I.A. and I wish there was a little more interaction between the group on a whole. With all these minor things aside, I think Super 8 is a great old school summer matinee movie! I sadly don't see it becoming a timeless classic like its predecessors; but time will tell.


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As you can imagine, every journalist on the face of the earth kind of descended on Baghdad. There were only two hotels, it was one the most chaotic situations, we couldn't even move in the Palestine [Hotel]; there were just people throwing money at reception trying to get rooms.
Back in 2003-04, we were able to live as we'd live here in New York: We went out, went to dinner parties--it was not a problem. We could move freely, live comfortably. My brother asked me at one stage, I think it was January of '04, what are you doing in Iraq, what are you still doing? I wasn't too active, I was freelancing shooting for myself to sell the pictures, and it was great. It was cheaper than New York. It was comfortable, cost-of-living was obviously low, so, why not?
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I think it's a common misconception that we are really monitored and really censored [on an embed]. My experiences have always been quite the contrary. They've always been like, you want to get someplace? We'll get you there. If, say, during an operation, me as a photographer, I really pushed to be on the front line....We really need to be as close as possible to get decent pictures. They've been, it's been a positive experience. But it varies. There's so many soldiers there, so many units, it's a crapshoot.
If something happened to you, they [the U.S. military] would be the ones to help you, it would be their Black Hawks. OK, yes, your tax dollars but, they are the ones that would treat you like an equal, they would push you to get the proper care, they wouldn't throw you to the wayside at all.
It's a two-way street: They respect you and respect that you will make the right decisions, and then let's say you do get pictures that are sensitive, it's your responsibility to come back and say, "Look I've got these pictures, and I need to let you know that we are going to release these pictures," and if it's an operation they can apply a 24- to 48-hour embargo. If there's an operation, just so people don't know what's going on because news travels fast, and if they're after an enemy they don't want people to know, and you respect that, obviously, because you put people's lives in danger.
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I think that an important platform that we need, in my opinion, is some sort of thruway for the information from local journalists to be channeled into our media here. The likelihood of that happening, I couldn't say. They are really the ones out there doing jobs. It's us too, Western journalists, the magazines, but you know, in 2005, 2006 when no one was able to go out, it was, I think back to the photographs of the contractors in Fallujah who were hanging from that bridge, had it not been for an Iraqi photographer, there is no way those photographs would have been taken. And he, he just barely escaped with his life, so I can't stress enough to myself and others, how important it is, the work that they are doing. It's a challenge. They don't have the resources that a lot of the Western journalists have. A lot of the Western journalists live like kings in Baghdad. They have enormous budgets and they are obviously doing their work, and the Iraqis, they don't. They don't have bodyguards, they don't have hard cars, they don't have the resources that if something were to happen that they could get out of there.
On what journalists can cover
When I first arrived in Baghdad, I could take a photo of anything, you could do a feature on anything and they were just gobbling it up....It was one big black spot, so people were kind of desperate to learn more. Gradually, that would subside and that's natural. So there's that and the safety has gone up and down. In the "good old days" it was easy, you wanted to go and do story, you just went and did it. There wasn't a lot of red tape there. So it comes as surprise to me sometimes--what do you mean we can't do it? Well, we need to get permission.
That's what we know, that's what we've been told, that there was a decree that we couldn't show up to the scenes of bombings and take pictures of dead Iraqis. What they would do is, after the IP, after they would respond to bombing, clear the scene, go through the various stages, clearing and trying to recover, if there had been any casualties, and then after that they would allow us to do our jobs, but yeah it's not something you can do anymore. Those scenes are serious, it's usually, "Kaboom," and then a couple minutes of gunfire, then they respond and they are clearing the crowd, but they are quite trigger happy and understandably so because there have been secondary explosions. There's been and explosion, people respond, and then there's another explosion.
On getting the story out
Right now in America, we are kind of bottlenecked because of the elections. I find it very frightening that there is this enormous global blackout, if you're watching American news networks. It just does my head in right now and it's not to say there's nothing going on now, it's not to say that in Iraq, everything is cool. I understand that, viewers, and all that stuff, demands, but there's a lot of information out there. There are a lot of Iraqi journalists, and not just journalists--writers, people out there who are doing phenomenal work, and in many cases, digging. They may break through and go deeper than we can ever go and we need to create some sort of gateway. To tap into that information more freely would be a great benefit to people.


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HARRISBURG, PA, Sept. 20, 2005 (PRNewswire) -- Gov. Edward G. Rendell today introduced a nutrient and sediment-trading policy that will help farmers, communities and industry meet and exceed state and federal water quality goals. Trading has long been a staple of state and federal air quality programs -- Pennsylvania is among the first to apply this strategy to water quality.
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While requiring nutrient reduction at significant point source dischargers ultimately will help restore the Bay, it also provides invaluable environmental and public health benefits right here in Pennsylvania.
"Pennsylvania's wastewater infrastructure is among the key missing links in the state's attempt to promote economic prosperity. We have to upgrade our infrastructure if we are going to grow our economy," McGinty said. "The generous and aggressive economic development efforts of state government will not change Pennsylvania without wastewater infrastructure that can support our growth and if families and businesses don't have confidence that water is safe to drink."
Several streams within Pennsylvania's portion of the Bay basin suffer from elevated nitrate levels threatening drinking water supplies. Excessive levels of nitrate in drinking water can cause serious illness and sometimes death. The serious illness in infants, often called "blue baby syndrome," is due to the conversion of nitrate to nitrite by the body, which can interfere with the oxygen-carrying capacity of a child's blood.
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More than half of Pennsylvania is within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Pennsylvania's tributary strategy will improve water quality in the 13 sub-basins that make up the Susquehanna and Potomac river watersheds. The strategy embraces a suite of best management practices for nonpoint and point sources --- agriculture, wastewater treatment plants, urban stormwater and septic systems --- to meet nutrient and sediment reduction criteria.
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The department has issued both the general trading policy and Appendix A, which contains the specifics of how the program will work, as "Interim Final" documents, allowing temporary use of the policies during the public comment phase. A 45-day public comment period will begin upon publication of the documents in the Oct. 1 Pennsylvania Bulletin.
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