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When oil is spilled into the ocean, clean up efforts can focus on the surface, where much of it gathers.
That can be difficult when a spill occurs in the middle of the ocean and crews can't reach the area until hours after the oil has started to spread and sink deeper into the water.Argonne National Laboratory researchers have invented a technology for recovering oil and refined petroleum products from bodies of water.
Oleo Sponge offers several key advantages over the technologies and techniques that are currently used to combat this problem.
The researchers suspended their sponge-filled bags from a bridge over a large pool specially designed for practising emergency responses to oil spills.


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TRID Delayed
The day we've all been dreading has been pushed back a couple of months. The CFPB announced that implementation of the new discosures will not take effect until October 1, giving us all a few more months to worry about how many delays it'll cause for our business- yay!
The delay is supposedly an administrative hiccup, coupled with a weird explanation from CFPB director Richard Cordray about it not being a good idea to roll something like this out around back-to-school time. With that, I wholeheartedly agree. I also don't think it's a good idea to roll it out so close to Halloween though. Or Thanksgiving. Or Christmas. Certainly not the new year. They also shouldn't go breaking hearts around Valentines day...
Bottom line, this rule, and the new forms and regulations are something that should never go into place, but they will, because frankly, the CFPB has nothing better to do than fine lenders and make up new forms that consumers still either won't read or won't understand. I do think these new forms will be an improvement on the current "good faith estimate" which requires a doctoral degree and a 40+ hour course to completely understand and interpret.
What annoys me most about these documents is that they come in the name of 'consumer protection', but in reality, no one can force a consumer to read this documents, and even if you could, you can't force a consumer to understand them. A consumer still relies on a loan professional to explain these documents for the most part. A good professional will give them all of the pertinent information so that they fully understand the terms and costs of a transaction. A bad professional will gloss over the information that they don't want a consumer to ask too many questions about. There's no way around this.
Delaying the inevitable with TRID is actually pretty bad news. I think every professional, tech company, and all others involved in the industry are just about at a point where we want to say "bring it on" so we can learn how it'll affect our business, and we can simply adapt and get over it. This delay just adds a few more months of uncertainty. A grace period will still be needed too, considering no one is really going to know how much impact (if any) TRID will have on closings, and there are sure to be circumstances that fall in a gray area when it comes to delays, redisclosures, etc.
If you haven't signed up for a TRID webinar, or your title company hasn't yet offered a TRID course, rest easy, you still have time. For those of us ready to just get past this ridiculous regulation, this delay is a bit of a bummer. TRID is coming, like it or not, I'd rather it just get here already so the industry can focus on more important things.

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Artificial Sky is a 6 piece melodic metalcore band from Stockholm that hails great ambitions to reach out and spread their music on a global basis.
The band was created in the summer of 2015 and they called themselves Synchrony. During 2015-2017 the band went through a lot and its members were forged into one sharing one united goal... to perform the music they all love in front of fans from many genres.
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Spark Audi R10 TDI - 1st Le Mans 24 Hours 2007 - #1 1:18 (SPA18LM07)
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Cinematic intro for the Match 3 game set in the world of the Moshi Monsters.
I was responsible for taking the sequence through from concept to completion, providing all the Flash and After Effects animation, compositing and editing.
I also animated a number of characters and sequences for the promotional music video which accompanied the game's release.
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The things we do for the love of the internet (and you of course!).
As well as Designing and Building Websites, we get up to lots of things here at Eldo Web Design - this should cover most it. If you still have questions like "what's SEO?" or "why should I care about mobile traffic?" or even "why is belly button fluff always blue?" get in touch.


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Derrick Rose knows that Carmelo Anthony isn't the only Knick who might be traded before the deadline.
As New York continues to pursue trades for Anthony, Rose could be on the block too if the Knicks enter a rebuild.
Via ESPN:
"I'm on a one-year deal so I can't talk that much about it. The rebuild could be me going, too. I don't know," he said.
"My job is to focus whenever I'm on the court, just try to win games, try to be positive, try to get better. Like I said from the beginning, I'm chasing something.
"I'm trying to get back to myself and I'm trying to play consistent games."
Rose's contact expires at the end of this season, and it's unlikely New York will re-sign Rose to the max contract he's seeking.
Report: Derrick Rose to Seek Max Deal in Free Agency
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During the "patagonian rodeo", the farmers of the estancia go into the fields to collect the sheep. They are whistling and shouting to afraid the sheep and put them in the corner of the field, till they arrive to the estancia.
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Welcome to Spraywell Industries.
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we specialise in everything from precision decorative finishes to the most heavy-duty protection available. We deal with both large and small jobs, domestic and commercial clients.
We specialise in powder coating to achieve a durable and smooth finish. We work on all types of metals and plastics and give them a long lasting quality. Founded in 1985, Spraywell Industries strive to meet our customer's needs and be as user friendly as possible. We take responsibility for our products and are able to give sound, expert advice based on our many years of experience in the industry.


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Cognitive Bias and Decision-Making in the Workplace
Dr. Blacksmith's primary area of research focuses on understanding decision-making in the workplace. Recently, the US Army Research Institute (ARI) for Behavioral and Social Sciences brought Dr. Blacksmith onto the Foundational Science Research Unit (FSRU) to lead a program of research on cognitive-bias and decision-making in the workplace. This program was developed in response to the Nation Research Council's (NRC) comprehensive report that identified the domain of cognitive bias a necessary scientific endeavor to aid in preparing a future military force for the uncertainty and complexity the future promises. Broadly, her work examines how the use of cognitive heuristics impairs reasoning and how it plays a role in a wide range of military situations including routine decision-making and even life-and-death disasters. Current projects are investigating individual differences related to susceptibility to cognitive heuristics and moderating contextual factors.
Recruitment and Employee Selection
Dr. Blacksmith's other research interests and expertise are focused on understanding how organizations can attract, identify, and develop successful employees and leaders. Specifically, she examines the complex role of individuals differences such as intelligence and personality on performance across a wide variety of jobs and industries. In current projects, she is examining nonlinear and interactive relationships between narrow personality traits and narrow performance in leadership roles, effects of technology-mediated assessment in interviews, and target recruitment of high-performing sales associates.
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Bustle (2017). "How Do You Maintain A Professional Atmosphere When Your Company Is Centered Around Sex? These CEOs In Sex Tech Are Leading The Way"
Employee Benefit Advisor (2017). "Top 10 Trends shaping employee benefits"
Department 12 podcast (2017). "Nikki Blacksmith on Technology in Employment Interviews"
New York Magazine (2016). "A new study confirms your worst fears about phone interviews"
Real Simple Magazine (2016). "One Big Interviewing Mistake You Should Try to Avoid"
Business News Daily (2016). "Despite Technology, Face-to-Face Job Interviews Still Make the Best Impression"
Oklahoma's Own News9 (2016). "Job seekers, employers agree: Face-to-face interviews are best"
GW Hatchet (2016). "Researchers turn to GW student leaders to study decision-making"
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It's almost turkey time! This little crochet guy will look great hanging in your kitchen for Thanksgiving. I hope you will enjoy making him. From my family to yours, we hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. We are looking forward to being together with family and friends and giving thanks for our many blessings as we share a dinner of traditional favorites. We live simply but are so blessed and very thankful. I wish you a lovely week!
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Charles Lee (general)
Charles Lee (6 February 1732 [O.S. 26 January 1731] – 2 October 1782) served as a general of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence. He also served earlier in the British Army during the Seven Years War. He sold his commission after the Seven Years War and served for a time in the Polish army of King Stanislaus II.
Charles Lee
|6 February 1732 [O.S. 26 January 1731]
Darnhall, Cheshire, England
|2 October 1782 (aged 50)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| Kingdom of Great Britain
United States of America
| British Army
Polish-Lithuanian Army
Continental Army
|Years of service
|British Army: 1747–1763
Continental Army: 1775–1780
|British Army: Lieutenant Colonel
Polish Army: Major General
|44th Foot, 103rd Foot
|Commands held
|Southern Department of the Continental Army
|Seven Years' War
Lee moved to North America in 1773 and bought an estate in Virginia. When the fighting broke out in the American War of Independence in 1775, he volunteered to serve with rebel forces. Lee's ambitions to become Commander in Chief of the Continental Army were thwarted by the appointment of George Washington to that post.
During 1776, forces under his command repulsed a British attempt to capture Charleston, which boosted his standing with the army and Congress. Later that year, he was captured by British cavalry under Banastre Tarleton; he was held by the British as a prisoner until exchanged in 1778. During the Battle of Monmouth later that year, Lee led an assault on the British that miscarried. He was subsequently court-martialed and his military service brought to an end. He died in Philadelphia in 1782.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Seven Years' War and after
- 3 American Revolution
- 4 Later life
- 5 Legacy
- 6 In popular culture
- 7 Footnotes
- 8 References
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
Early lifeEdit
Lee was born on February 6 1732 [O.S. January 26, 1731][1][2] in Darnhall, Cheshire, England, the son of Major General John Lee [a][3] and his wife Isabella Bunbury (daughter of Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet).[1][3][4] He was sent to King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds, a free grammar school, and later to Switzerland, where he became proficient in several languages, including Latin, Greek, and French.[1][2][3][4] His father was colonel of the 55th Foot (later renumbered the 44th) when he purchased a commission on April 9, 1747 for Charles as an ensign in the same regiment.[1][3]
Seven Years' War and afterEdit
North AmericaEdit
After completing his schooling, Lee reported for duty with his regiment in Ireland.[1] Shortly after his father's death, on May 2, 1751 he received[4] (or purchased[1]) a Lieutenant's commission in the 44th. He was sent with the regiment to North America in 1754 for service in the French and Indian War[1] under Major General Edward Braddock, in what was a front for the Seven Years War between Britain and France. He was with Braddock at his defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755.[1][3][4] During this time in America, Lee married the daughter of a Mohawk chief.[1][2][5] His wife (name unknown) gave birth to twins.[1][2] Lee was known to the Mohawk, who were allies of the English, as Ounewaterika or "Boiling Water".[1][2][3][4][5]
On June 11, 1756 Lee purchased a Captain's commission in the 44th[1] for the sum of £900.[3][4] The following year he took part in an expedition against the French fortress of Louisbourg, and on July 1, 1758 he was wounded in a failed assault on Fort Ticonderoga.[1][3][4] He was sent to Long Island to recuperate. A surgeon whom he had earlier rebuked and thrashed attacked him.[1][3][4] After recovering, Lee took part in the capture of Fort Niagara in 1759[1][3][4] and Montreal in 1760.[1][3][4] This brought the war in the North American theater to an end by completing the Conquest of Canada.[3][4]
Lee went back to Europe, transferred to the 103rd Foot as a major,[1][3][4] and served as a lieutenant colonel in the Portuguese army. He fought against the Spanish during their unsuccessful invasion of the country, and distinguished himself under John Burgoyne at the Battle of Vila Velha.[1][3][4]
He returned to England in 1763 following the Peace of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War.[3][4] His regiment was disbanded and he was retired on half pay as a major.[1][3][4] In May 1772, although still inactive, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.[1][3][4]
In 1765 Lee fought in Poland, serving as an aide-de-camp under King Stanislaus II.[1][3][4] After many adventures he came home to England.[3][4] Unable to secure promotion in the British Army, in 1769 he returned to Poland and saw action in the Russo-Turkish War. He lost two fingers in a duel in which he killed his opponent.[1][3][4]
Returning to England again, he found that he was sympathetic to the American colonists in their quarrel with Britain.[1][3][4] He moved to the colonies in 1773 and in 1775 purchased an estate worth £3,000 in Berkeley County, near the home of his friend Horatio Gates. This area is now part of West Virginia.[1][3][4] He spent ten months travelling through the colonies and acquainting himself with patriots.[1][3][4]
American RevolutionEdit
Continental ArmyEdit
When war appeared inevitable he resigned his Royal commission and volunteered his services to the colonies.[1][3][4] He expected to be named Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, as he was the most experienced candidate in terms of military service.[3][4] On the other hand, he was born in Britain, somewhat eccentric, slovenly in appearance, coarse in language, and perhaps most of all, he wanted to be paid: by joining the rebellion, he forfeited all his properties in England, and wanted to be compensated.[3][4]
George Washington was sober, steady, calm, and best of all, would work without pay. Washington also was a good political choice: a southern commander to pair with a primarily New England fighting force. Washington received the appointment, and Lee was offered the subordinate rank of major general.[3][4] Because of this, Lee had nothing but the utmost disdain for his superior.[3][4] He once remarked, "Washington is not fit enough to command a Sergeant's Guard".[6] Lee was often considered second in command of the Continental forces,[3][4] although Artemas Ward, who was not in good health, officially held this position.
During the encampment at Valley Forge in late 1777 and early 1778, Lee's headquarters was at the David Havard House.[7]
Southern commandEdit
Lee also received various other titles: in 1776, he was named commander of the so-called Canadian Department, although he never got to serve in this capacity.[1][1][3][4] He was appointed as the first commander of the Southern Department.[1][1][3][4] He served in this post for six months, until he was recalled to the main army. During his time in the South, the British sent an expedition under Henry Clinton to recover Charleston, South Carolina.[3][4] Lee oversaw the fortification of the city.[1] Fort Sullivan was a fortification built out of palmetto logs, later named for commander Col. William Moultrie.[3][4] Lee ordered the army to evacuate the fort because as he said it would only last thirty minutes and all soldiers would be killed.[8] Governor John Rutledge forbade Moultrie to evacuate and the fort held.[3][4] The spongy palmetto logs repelled the cannonball from the British ships.[9] The assault on Sullivan's Island was driven off, and Clinton abandoned his attempts to capture the city. Although the credit of the defense was not Lee's, he was called "hero of Charleston".[3][4]
New YorkEdit
When Lee arrived in New York to join General Washington and the main part of the Continental Army, Washington chose to show his appreciation by changing the name of Fort Constitution, which was located on the New Jersey side of the Hudson opposite Fort Washington, to Fort Lee. General Lee was a very popular general officer among not only the army, but Congress.[3][4] Toward the end of 1776, Lee's animosity for Washington began to show.[3][4] During the retreat from forts Washington and Lee, he dawdled with his army, and intensified a letter campaign to convince various Congress members that he should replace Washington as Commander-in-Chief.[3][4]
Although his army was supposed to join that of Washington's in Pennsylvania, Lee set a very slow pace.[3][4] On the night of December 12, Lee and a dozen of his guards inexplicably stopped for the night at White's Tavern in Basking Ridge, New Jersey,[1][10] some three miles from his main army.[11] The next morning, a British patrol of two dozen mounted soldiers found Lee writing letters in his dressing gown, and captured him.[1][3][4][10][11] Among the members of the British patrol was Cornet Banastre Tarleton and William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt.[11][12][13]
Battle of MonmouthEdit
Lee was released on parole as part of a prisoner exchange in early April 1778 and, while on his way to York, Pennsylvania, was greeted enthusiastically by Washington at Valley Forge. Lee was ignorant of the changes that had occurred during his sixteen-month captivity; he was not aware of what Washington believed to be a conspiracy to install General Horatio Gates as commander-in-chief or of the reformation of the Continental Army under the tutelage of Baron von Steuben.[14] Lee was not impressed by what he saw; he allegedly claimed the army to be "in a worse situation than he expected" and described Washington as "not fit to command a sergeant's guard." While in York, he lobbied Congress for promotion to lieutenant general, and went above Washington's head to submit to it a plan for reorganizing the army in a way that was markedly different from that which Washington had worked long to implement.[15]
Lee's suggestion was for a militia army that avoided competing with a professional enemy in a pitched battle and relied instead on a defensive strategy which would wear down an opposing army with harassing, small-unit actions.[16] After completing his parole, Lee returned to duty with the Continental Army as Washington's second-in-command on May 21.[17] In June, as the British evacuated Philadelphia and marched through New Jersey en route to New York, Washington twice convened war councils to discuss the best course of action. In both, his generals largely agreed that Washington should avoid a major battle, Lee arguing that such a battle would be criminal, though a minority favored a limited engagement. At the second council, Lee argued the Continental Army was no match for the British Army, and favored allowing the British to proceed unimpeded and waiting until French military intervention following the Franco-American alliance could shift the balance in favor of the Americans.[18]
Washington agreed with the minority of his generals who favored an aggressive but limited action. He allocated some 4,500 troops, approximately a third of his army, to a vanguard that could land a heavy blow on the British without risking his army in a general engagement. The main body would follow and provide support if circumstances warranted.[19] He offered Lee command of the vanguard, but Lee turned the job down on the basis that the force was too small for a man of his rank and position.[20][21] Washington gave the position to Major General the Marquis de Lafayette. In his haste to catch the British, Lafayette pushed the vanguard to exhaustion and outran his supplies, prompting Washington to send Lee, who had in the meantime changed his mind, to replace him.[22]
Lee took over on June 27 at Englishtown.[23] The British were at Monmouth Court House (modern-day Freehold), six miles (ten kilometres) from Englishtown. Washington was with the main body of just over 7,800 troops and the bulk of the artillery at Manalapan Bridge, four miles (six kilometres) behind Lee.[24] Believing action to be imminent, Washington conferred with the vanguard's senior officers at Englishtown that afternoon but did not offer a battle plan. Lee believed he had full discretion on whether and how to attack and called his own war council after Washington left. He intended to advance as soon as he knew the British were on the move, in the hope of catching their rearguard when it was most vulnerable. In the absence of any intelligence about British intentions or the terrain, Lee believed it would be useless to form a precise plan of his own.[25]
Lee's battleEdit
When news arrived at 05:00 on June 28 that the British were moving, Lee led the vanguard towards Monmouth Court House, where he discovered the British rearguard, which he estimated at around 2,000 troops. He ordered Brigadier General Anthony Wayne with some 550 men to fix the rearguard in place while he led the remainder of the vanguard on a left hook with the intention of outflanking the British, but he neglected to inform his subordinates, Brigadier General Charles Scott and Brigadier General William Maxwell, of his plan. Lee's confidence crept into reports back to Washington that implied "the certainty of success."[26]
As soon as the British commander, General Sir Henry Clinton, received news that his rearguard was being probed, he ordered his main combat division to march back towards Monmouth Court House.[27] Lee became concerned that his right flank would be vulnerable and moved with Lafayette's detachment to secure it.[28] To his left, Scott and Maxwell were not in communication with Lee and not privy to his plan. They became concerned that the arriving British troops would isolate them, and decided to withdraw. To their left, Wayne's isolated troops, having witnessed the British marching back, were also withdrawing.[29][30] Lee witnessed one of Lafayette's units pulling back after a failed attempt to silence some British artillery around the same time as one of his staff officers returned with the news that Scott had withdrawn. With his troops withdrawing without orders, it became clear to Lee that he was losing control of the vanguard, and with his immediate command now only 2,500 strong, he realised his plan to envelop the British rearguard was finished. His priority became the safety of his troops in the face of superior numbers, and he ordered a general retreat.[31]
Although Lee had significant difficulties communicating with his subordinates and could exercise only limited command and control of the vanguard, at unit level the retreat was generally conducted with a discipline that did credit to Steuben's training, and the Americans suffered few casualties. Lee believed he had conducted a model "retrograde manoeuver in the face and under fire of an enemy" and claimed his troops moved with "order and precision." He had remained calm during the retreat but began to unravel at Ker's house. When two of Washington's aides informed Lee that the main body was still some two miles (three kilometres) away and asked him what to report back, Lee replied "that he really did not know what to say."[32] Crucially, he failed to keep Washington informed of the retreat.[33]
Without any recent news from Lee, Washington had no reason to be concerned as he approached the battlefield with the main body shortly after midday. In the space of some ten minutes, his confidence gave way to alarm as he encountered a straggler bearing the first news of Lee's retreat and then whole units in retreat. None of the officers Washington met could tell him where they were supposed to be going or what they were supposed to be doing. As the commander-in-chief rode on ahead, he saw the vanguard in full retreat but no sign of the British. At around 12:45, Washington found Lee marshalling the last of his command across the middle morass, marshy ground southeast of a bridge over the Spotswood Middle Brook.[34]
Expecting praise for a retreat he believed had been generally conducted in good order, Lee was uncharacteristically lost for words when Washington asked without pleasantries, "I desire to know, sir, what is the reason – whence arises this disorder and confusion?"[35] When he regained his composure, Lee attempted to explain his actions. He blamed faulty intelligence and his officers, especially Scott, for pulling back without orders, leaving him no choice but to retreat in the face of a superior force, and reminded Washington that he had opposed the attack in the first place.[35][36] Washington was not convinced; "All this may be very true, sir," he replied, "but you ought not to have undertaken it unless you intended to go through with it."[35] Washington made it clear he was disappointed with Lee and rode off to organize the battle he felt his subordinate should have given. Lee followed at a distance, bewildered and believing he had been relieved of command.[37][b]
With the main body still arriving and the British no more than one-half mile (one kilometre) away, Washington began to rally the vanguard to set up the very defenses Lee had been attempting to organize. He then offered Lee a choice: remain and command the rearguard, or fall back across the bridge and organize the main defenses on Perrine's Hill. Lee opted for the former while Washington departed to take care of the latter.[42][39] Lee fought the counter-attacking British in a rearguard action that lasted no more than thirty minutes, enough time for Washington to complete the deployment of the main body, and at 13:30, he was one of the last American officers to withdraw across the bridge.[43] When Lee reached Perrine's Hill, Washington sent him with part of the former vanguard to form a reserve at Englishtown. At 15:00, Steuben arrived at Englishtown and relieved Lee of command.[44]
Court martialEdit
Even before the day was out, Lee was cast in the role of villain, and his vilification became an integral part of after-battle reports written by Washington's officers.[45] Lee continued in his post as second-in-command immediately after the battle, and it is likely that the issue would have simply subsided if he had let it go. But on June 30, after protesting his innocence to all who would listen, Lee wrote an insolent letter to Washington in which he blamed "dirty earwigs" for turning Washington against him, claimed his decision to retreat had saved the day and pronounced Washington to be "guilty of an act of cruel injustice" towards him. Instead of the apology Lee was tactlessly seeking, Washington replied that the tone of Lee's letter was "highly improper" and that he would initiate an official inquiry into Lee's conduct. Lee's response demanding a court-martial was again insolent, and Washington ordered his arrest and set about obliging him.[46][47][48]
The court convened on July 4, and three charges were laid before Lee: disobeying orders in not attacking on the morning of the battle, contrary to "repeated instructions"; conducting an "unnecessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat"; and disrespect towards the commander-in-chief. The trial concluded on August 12, but the accusations and counter-accusations continued to fly until the verdict was confirmed by Congress on December 5.[49] Lee's defense was articulate but fatally flawed by his efforts to turn it into a personal contest between himself and Washington. He denigrated the commander-in-chief's role in the battle, calling Washington's official account "from beginning to end a most abominable damn'd lie", and disingenuously cast his own decision to retreat as a "masterful manoeuvre" designed to lure the British onto the main body.[50] Washington remained aloof from the controversy, but his allies portrayed Lee as a traitor who had allowed the British to escape and linked him to the previous winter's alleged conspiracy against Washington.[51]
Although the first two charges proved to be dubious,[c] Lee was undeniably guilty of disrespect, and Washington was too powerful to cross.[55] As the historian John Shy noted, "Under the circumstances, an acquittal on the first two charges would have been a vote of no-confidence in Washington."[56] Lee was found guilty on all three counts, though the court deleted "shameful" from the second and noted the retreat was "disorderly" only "in some few instances." Lee was suspended from the army for a year, a sentence so lenient that some interpreted it as a vindication of all but the charge of disrespect.[57] Lee continued to argue his case and rage against Washington to anyone who would listen, prompting both Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, one of Washington's aides, and Steuben to challenge him to a duel. Only the duel with Laurens actually transpired, during which Lee was wounded. In 1780, Lee sent such an obnoxious letter to Congress that it terminated his service with the army.[58][59][60]
Later lifeEdit
Lee retired to his Prato Rio property in the Shenandoah Valley, where he bred horses and dogs.[3][4] While visiting Philadelphia, he was stricken with fever and died[1] in a tavern on October 2, 1782.[3][4] He was buried there in the churchyard of Christ Church.[1][3][4] Lee left his property to his sister, Sidney Lee, who died unmarried in 1788.[3]
Fort Lee, New Jersey, on the west side of the Hudson River (across the water from Fort Washington, New York), was named for him during his life. Lee, Massachusetts; Lee, New Hampshire; and Leetown, West Virginia[61] were also named for him.
Lee's place in history was further tarnished in the 1850s when George H. Moore, the librarian at the New-York Historical Society, discovered a manuscript dated March 29, 1777, written by Lee while he was the guest of the British as a prisoner of war. It was addressed to the "Royal Commissioners", i.e. Lord Richard Howe and Richard's brother, Sir William Howe, respectively the British naval and army commanders in North America at the time, and detailed a plan by which the British might defeat the rebellion. Moore's discovery, presented in a paper titled The Treason of Charles Lee in 1858, influenced perceptions of Lee for decades.[62] Lee's calumny achieved an orthodoxy in such 19th-century works as Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (1855–1859), George Washington Parke Custis's Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington (1861) and George Bancroft's History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent (1854–1878).[63] Although most modern scholars reject the idea that Lee was guilty of treason, it is given credence in some accounts, examples being Willard Sterne Randall's account of the Battle of Monmouth in George Washington: A Life (1997), and Dominick Mazzagetti's Charles Lee: Self Before Country (2013).[64][65][66]
In popular cultureEdit
- Lee was featured as one of the main antagonists in Assassin's Creed III, serving as second in command under Grand Master of the Knights Templar Haytham Kenway.[67][68] He is killed by Connor Kenway.[69]
- Lee and his arrest following the retreat during the Battle of Monmouth was depicted in the animated television series Liberty's Kids.[70]
- Lee is a character in the 2014 AMC television series Turn: Washington's Spies, where he informs the British of a Continental Army patrol, which is then massacred by British-affiliated Rogers' Rangers. Next, Lee tells the British the location of a Continental Army safe house. British intelligence officer Major John André uses a honeypot to trap and arrest Lee at an inn in New Jersey, and he blackmails him to further help the British cause.[71] Lee was portrayed by Brian T. Finney in Seasons 1 & 2.[72]
- Lee is a character in Diana Gabaldon's novel Written in My Own Heart's Blood, part of the Outlander series.
- Lee, portrayed in the original Broadway cast by Jon Rua, is a minor character in the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton, appearing in the songs "Stay Alive," and "Ten Duel Commandments."[73][74]
- ^ John Lee served in 1st Foot Guards and 4th Foot. He was Colonel of 54th Foot and later 44th Foot.
- ^ According to Lender & Stone, the encounter between Washington and Lee "became part of the folklore of the Revolution, with various witnesses (or would-be witnesses) taking increasing dramatic license with their stories over the years."[38] Ferling writes of eyewitness testimony in which a furious Washington, swearing "till the leaves shook on the trees" according to Scott, called Lee a "damned poltroon" and relieved him of command.[39] Chernow reports the same quote from Scott, quotes Lafayette to assert that a "terribly excited" Washington swore and writes that Washington "banished [Lee] to the rear."[36] Bilby & Jenkins attribute the poltroon quote to Lafayette, then write that neither Scott nor Lafayette were present.[40] Lender & Stone are also skeptical, and assert that such stories are apocryphal nonsense which first appeared almost a half century or more after the event, that Scott was too far away to have heard what was said, and that Lee himself never accused Washington of profanity. According to Lender & Stone, "careful scholarship has conclusively demonstrated that Washington was angry but not profane at Monmouth, and he never ordered Lee off the field."[41]
- ^ According to the court-martial transcript, Lee's actions had saved a significant portion of the army.[46] Both Scott and Wayne testified that although they understood Washington wanted Lee to attack, at no stage did he explicitly give Lee an order to do so.[52] Hamilton testified that as he understood it, Washington's instructions allowed Lee the discretion to act as circumstances dictated.[53] Lender and Stone identify two separate orders Washington issued to Lee on the morning of June 28 in which the commander-in-chief made clear his expectation that Lee should attack unless "some very powerful circumstance" dictate otherwise and that Lee should "proceed with caution and take care the Enemy don't draw him into a scrape."[54]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai Paul David Nelson (1999). "Lee, Charles". American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b c d e Karels, p. 105
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar Henry Manners Chichester (1892). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 344–7. . In
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap John Fiske (1892). . In Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J. (eds.). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ a b J. L. Bell. "The Real Story of "Boiling Water"". Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ Flexner, James Thomas (1979). Washington: The Indispensable Man. p. 120.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). ARCH: Pennsylvania's Historic Architecture & Archaeology. Retrieved 2 November 2012. Note: This includes Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks (January 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: David Havard House" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
- ^ Allen, p. 185
- ^ Allen, p. 186
- ^ a b Karels, pp.108-9
- ^ a b c Allen, p. 221
- ^ Gardiner. Life of Sir William Harcourt. Constable. p. 9.
- ^ "The Capture of Charles Lee". TURN to a historian. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 110, 113
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 114–117
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 119–120
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 117–118
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 101, 173
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 174–177, 234
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 177–178
- ^ Ferling 2009 p. 176
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 178–182, 187, 188
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 p. 188
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 157–158, 184
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 191–193
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 198, 253–255, 261
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 264–265
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 262–264
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 264–266
- ^ Bilby & Jenkins 2010 p. 199
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 266–269
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 268–272
- ^ Ferling 2009 p. 178
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 281–286
- ^ a b c Lender & Stone 2016 p. 289
- ^ a b Chernow 2010 p. 448
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 289–290
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 p. 290
- ^ a b Ferling 2009 p. 179
- ^ Bilby & Jenkins 2010 p. 205
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 290–291
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 291–295
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 298–310, 313
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 315–316
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 391–392
- ^ a b Ferling 2009 p. 180
- ^ Chernow 2010 p. 452
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 392–393
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 395–396, 400
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 396, 397, 399
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 397–399
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 191–192
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 p. 194
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 195–196
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 p. 396
- ^ Shy 1973, cited in Lender & Stone 2016, p. 396
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 396–397
- ^ Ferling 2009 pp. 180–181
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 p. 400–401
- ^ Chernow 2010 p. 455
- ^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 366.
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 pp. 111–112
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 p. 431
- ^ Lender & Stone 2016 p. 112
- ^ Randall 1997 p. 358
- ^ Mazzagetti 2013 p. xi
- ^ "Charles Lee". IGN. Ziff Davis, LLC. 2 December 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ Dyce, Andrew (2012). "Assassin's Creed 3: Our 'Charles Lee Theory'". Game Rant. Warp 100 LLC. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ Hamilton, Kirk (12 November 2012). "Assassin's Creed III's Final Chase Sequence Was The Worst Thing I Played All Year". Kotaku. Gizmodo Media Group. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Battle of Monmouth". The American Revolutionfor Kids. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "John André". AMC. AMC Network Entertainment LLC. 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ Eyerly, Alan (21 April 2015). "'TURN: Washington's Spies' recap: Both sides step up covert activity". LA Times. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ Viagas, Robert (28 June 2016). "Jon Rua Will Play His Final Performance in Hamilton". Playbill. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ Mead, Rebecca (23 December 2015). "The Thrilling Uncertainty of the Understudy". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
Further readingEdit
- Allen, Thomas B. (2010). Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War. HarperCollins. p. 496.
- Axelrod, Alan. "The Real History of the American Revolution" Sterling Publishing, 2007.
- Bilby, Joseph G.; Jenkins, Katherine Bilby (2010). Monmouth Court House: The Battle That Made the American Army. Yardley, Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59416-108-7.
- Chernow, Ron (2010). Washington, A Life (E-Book). London, United Kingdom: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-141-96610-6.
- Ferling, John E. (2009). The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-59691-465-0.
- Karels, Carol (2007). "A Disobedient Servant". The Revolutionary War in Bergen County: The Times that Tried Men's Souls. The History Press. pp. 105–111.
- Lender, Mark Edward; Stone, Garry Wheeler (2016). Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-5335-3.
- Mazzagetti, Dominick (2013). Charles Lee: Self Before Country. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-6238-4.
- McBurney, Christian M. (2013). Kidnapping the enemy. The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott. Westholme Publishing. p. 234. ISBN 978-1594161834.
- McCullough, David. 1776. Simon and Schuster. 2005
- Nelson, Paul David. "Lee, Charles (1732–1782)". American National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- Papas, Phillip. Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee (New York University Press; 2014) 402 pages;
- Purcell, L. Edward. Who Was Who in the American Revolution. New York: Facts on File, 1993. ISBN 0-8160-2107-4.
- Randall, Willard Sterne (1997). George Washington: A Life. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-2779-2.
- Shy, John (1973). "The American Revolution: The Military Conflict Considered as a Revolutionary War". In Kurtz, Stephen G.; Hutson, James H. (eds.). Essays on the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 121–156. ISBN 978-0-8078-1204-4.
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Sisubari Tea Garden is a village located in Mal Block of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal. Situated in rural part of Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, it is one among the 103 villages of Mal Block of Jalpaiguri district. According to the government records, the village code of Sisubari Tea Garden is 306918. The village has 615 houses.
According to Census 2011, Sisubari Tea Garden's population is 2932. Out of this, 1419 are males whereas the females count 1513 here. This village has 378 kids in the age bracket of 0-6 years. Among them 184 are boys and 194 are girls.
Literacy rate in Sisubari Tea Garden village is 47%. 1394 out of total 2932 population is literate here. In males the literacy rate is 55% as 784 males out of total 1419 are literate while female literacy rate is 40% as 610 out of total 1513 females are educated in this Village.
The dark portion is that illiteracy rate of Sisubari Tea Garden village is shockingly high -- 52%. Here 1538 out of total 2932 persons are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 44% as 635 males out of total 1419 are uneducated. In females the illiteracy rate is 59% and 903 out of total 1513 females are illiterate in this village.
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The land on which our present structure stands, was given by a Black man named Gilbert Carmack. Many of his descendants are faithful and loyal members of our church today. He started out with one room and a handful of members. As one was taken into the Church, he/she was taken to the river and baptized. This was during the days when cars were few. He walked and changed clothes in a barn and baptizing was in a place called "Wells Bottom"
They had not a Church Bell, the people were called to Church by a trumpet, being blown by Gilbert Carmack..
I know that we cannot live in the past, neither can we go back in time, but t here are a lot of things that we love to remember.
From these humble beginnings Hasson Street Christian Church has grown into one of the leading predominately black Churches in our community
The Church was remodeled first in 1931. Down through the years various improvements have been made, including the additions of the basement and kitchen area where many delicious meals have been served. Since then, our membership has continued to grow. We now have the largest Sunday School participation among the other predominately black Churches in Rogersville.
As our membership grew, there was need of additional expansion. The Trustees and interested members began work toward this goal. In 1984, we started a building renovation project, which today has been completed. Through the loyal support of friends and members, we were able to "burn the mortgage" in April 1988. On October 4,1990 we had a Dedication Service to dedicate the new and rededicate the old
We have been very blessed with the leadership God had given to our congregation. Some of our past pulpit leaders were:
Elder D.W. Bradley of Rogersville, Tn
Pastored at Hasson Street for many years. Upon his death we were fortunate to have some yound white ministers to come from Johnson - Bible College, thereby enabling us to keep the doors of our Church open.
Elder Gentry Fitzgerald of Jonesboro, Tn
He was our "faithful" Pastor for 40 years and was like the mailman: "come rain or snow or whatever", he was in pulpit every Sunday. After his death many faith men and women filled our pulpit until God sent us a new minister
On July 17,1996 Rev. Terry Schofield of Knoxville, Tn began serving our congregation. He was Pastor at Hasson Street for 5 years. His desire to do God's work moved him and his family to Denver, Co. where he is affiliated with the Promise Keepers.
The year between August 2001 - 2002 was a trying time for our congregation. We prayed continously for God to send us a new Pastor. During the interim, our congregation was again blessed to have many faithful men and women to fill our pulpit. Elder Mary Fugate, Minister Roy Charles and Deacon Robert Pope are just a few of the dedicated people who gave their time to provide leadership to our congregation.
Our prayers were answered in August 2002 When Minister LaMarco Cable received the call from God to move from Memphis, Tennessee and come to serve at Hasson Street.
January 15,2006 Minister Roy Charles was elected to be the Pastor of Hasson Street Christian Church.


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More than 90 days of this "consulting" and "deliberating" and "solemn duty" stuff and Obama comes up with a Bush-esque surge...and oh, yeah, it's gotta be over in three years (by the time he's running for a second term)....
And why 10K less than McChrystal asked for? Anyone wonder why 30K is a better number than 40K?
Military.com|by Christian Lowe
President Obama's Afghan surge of 30,000 additional U.S. troops will include an immediate infusion of California-based Marines, with the first elements set to be on the ground in southern Afghanistan around Christmas.
The Leathernecks will bolster a force of about 8,000 Marines who deployed to the region in July to knock back Taliban gains in Helmand and Kandahar provinces where insurgents linked to Mullah Mohammed Omar threaten Afghanistan's second largest city.
"The first troops out of the door are going to be Marines," said Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway, according to the Washington Post. "We've been leaning forward in anticipation of a decision. And we've got some pretty stiff fighting coming." Sources also tell Military.com that the Army will likely send three additional Infantry Brigade Combat Teams, or about 9,000 more combat forces and 5,000 support troops -- including police and military trainers, bomb squads and engineers -- as well as around 7,000 headquarters staffers to manage the war more effectively.
The Soldiers will likely deploy to eastern Afghanistan, which is under the command of Maj. Gen. Curt Scaparrotti from the 82nd Airborne Division. According to Gen. McChrystal's strategic review, RC-East includes the key provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika where Taliban insurgents are vying for control.
Gen. Conway, who recently traveled to the region, said that the Corps is poised to send as many as 9,000 Marines to bolster efforts in southern Afghanistan, where the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade has been deployed since July to back up British, Canadian and Dutch forces who command operations there. McChrystal's analysis shows that Taliban insurgents led by Mullah Mohammed Omar are making a strong push to control Kandahar, the country's second largest city and a key logistics hub for RC-South forces.
"The [Taliban] has been working to control Kandahar and its approaches for several years and there are indications that their influence over the city and the neighboring districts is significant and growing," McChrystal wrote in his August 30 assessment.
Sources say the additional Marines will likely come from 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade based in Camp Pendleton, Calif.
While Army officials won't say on the record what units are included in the Obama surge, recent history in Iraq gives an indication of how the service might carry out the new plan - a combination of truncated turnaround schedules, redirections, and extended deployments. Army documents provided to Military.com show several infantry brigade combat teams that have more than a year back home that could be part of an escalation, including the 2nd IBCT of the 82nd Airborne, the 1st IBCT of the 10th Mountain Division and nearly all of the 101st Airborne Division.
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For several years now I've been using a web automation service called "If This Then That (ifttt.com). This streamlines my blogging process and makes me much more productive. Let me explain; IFTTT allows you to set up trigger events across a range of web services that you commonly use: Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, various blogging platforms, Evernote, Instagram and many more (check out all the "channels" IFTTT supports). When a new event is detected by IFTTT it can generate an action in one of its supported channels. Data from the triggering event can be used in the resulting action. For example, a new Gmail with a particular keyword in the subject line might cause a blog post to be created in WordPress with the text from the mail's message.
When it detects a new Evernote note (tagged with the term "blog") or a new Pocket item (also tagged "blog") it automatically creates a draft post on The Universal Machine blog in Blogger. I may also manually decide to "flick" an interesting Flipboard story to my Universal Machine Flipboard magazine (currently Flipboard isn't supported by IFTTT). Ok, so now I'll have several draft blog posts in Blogger. I will then (maybe the following day) go into Blogger and look at the drafts. One of them I'll decide will be the day's post. This I will edit as necessary and publish.
Blogger then automatically generates a Google+ post about my new blog post and now IFTTT really does some heavy lifting. Blogging is pointless if nobody knows about new posts; so, IFTTT tweets the title and URL of the new blog post to my followers. It also posts to the Universal Machine's Facebook page. IFTTT then copies the post to another Blogger blog I run for my work on computer science. IFTTT updates my LinkedIn status with the new post and copies the post to four other blogging services: Delicious, Storify, Tumblr and WordPress just because it can. All of this is done automatically, with no input or effort from me, once I click "publish" in Blogger.
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In the beginning of the month, I read about a reading challenge on a lovely blog called "Nonsuchbook", one in which the author along with 3 friends were going to read and discuss four of Virginia Woolf's novels: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves. They would begin the online discussions in the blogosphere starting with Mrs. Dalloway on January 15th. So being a fan of VW, and having not a lot of opportunity to discuss her fiction for quite some time (my current bookgroup shies away from stream of consciousness fiction), I thought it would be fun to join in and see how it went with the online version.
I have no time to describe my plans. I should say a good deal about The Hours, & my discovery; how I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humour, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment
-Virginia Wolf, in her diary, August 30, 1923.
I first read Mrs. Dalloway in a 20th century fiction course in college. The opportunity to be led through her difficult writing style by my professor was marvelous, and forever changed the way I read books. I have not encountered many novels in which the entire plot occurs over the course of one day, and I often wonder why not. Mrs. Dalloway is so beautifully constructed and leads us through Clarissa's whole life, it would seem an ideal model to follow. Of course I was surprised and thrilled to read The Hours by Michael Cunningham many years later, where he contructs a modern day Clarissa Dalloway and a party she is preparing. Cunningham thus does employ "the model", with prose also extraordinary in it's resonance. I'm sure if I tried, I might find more examples.
What I loved about Mrs. Dalloway was the bringing together of the worlds in England, the upper classes, post WWI and struggling with change, and those who would begin to lead England into a more modern and less restrictive society. This is how sublte a writer does things, creates the description of one small world, and in doing so lets us see a larger whole. Woolf at her best does this over in over in her writing.
(link to nonsuchbook.typepad.com for the Woolf In Winter reading challenge instructions)
http://nonsuchbook.typepad.com/nonsuch_book/ for the January 15th discussion
Addition on Jan 16th:
a partial list of those blogging about Mrs. Dalloway from Emily at eveningallafternoon.com
- Our lovely host Sarah at what we have here is a failure to communicate
- Amy at New Century Reading
- Anthony at Times Flow Stemmed
- Becca at Bookstack
- Belleza at Dolce Belleza
- Care at Care's Online Book Club
- Christy at Lil Bit Brit Lit
- Claire at Kiss a Cloud
- Eva at A Striped Armchair
- Frances of Nonsuch Book
- Jason at Moored at Sea
- JoAnn at Lakeside Musings
- Julia at A Number of Things
- Karen at BookBath
- Kaye at Kaye's Book Review Page
- Kristine at BasBleuBookshelf
- Lindsey at Sparks' Notes
- Lu at Regular Rumination
- Nicole at Bibliographing
- Rebecca at Rebecca Reads
- Richard at Caravana de recuerdos
- Sandra at Fresh Ink Books
- Simon at Savidge Reads
- uncertainprinciples at anothercookiecrumbles
- Victoria at Views from the Page and the Oven
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June 2016
I haven't played the game on my pc for a while, but the last time I checked the game logs, it said that my version of Windows is too new (Windows 10). I know that this game is really old and probably too hard to update, but I think that there should be a patch so that any version of Windows (XP and newer, at least) can run it without that really annoying title music playing at the end of the race. I really think that the title music is ok, but only in the title screen, but while the game is crashed makes no sense.
Any solutions?
Sorry, I don't have a copy of the log.
June 2016
You should be able to find a Windows compatibility mode that will allow you to play.
Check the following article for info on running the compatibility troubleshooter: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/older-programs-compatible-version-windows
June 2016
That seems good, but I'll see if it works before I mark it as a solution.
June 2016
That didn't work for some reason, all it really did was hurt my computer severely.
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"Turn To Page 394" – Alan Rickman's 21 Best Moments As Severus Snape In Harry Potter
Today we lost one of Britain's finest actors in Alan Rickman, the villain everyone loved to hate in Die Hard, Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves and, of course, Harry Potter, in his career-defining role as the inscrutable Severus Snape. He played the character in eight films over the course of 10 years – from 2001 to 2011 – and was spellbinding in every scene he was in. Look back at his best moments below…
The Philosopher's Stone – 2001
1. Rickman's first proper scene as Snape is this, in which he summons all the contempt he can for Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter. His RADA-taught enunciation caresses every line he speaks – "I can teach you how to bewitch the mind," he riffs, "and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death."
2. In this next clip, Snape confronts the whimpering Professor Quirrell, whom he realises is the one committing minor crimes for Voldemort. Snape never gets credit for it, but he was the only one actually looking out for the Philosopher's Stone.
Also, Rickman's diction for the phrase "where your loyalties lie" is a note-perfect blend of menace and grace.
The Chamber Of Secrets – 2002
3. He's proper pissed off here – his emotional tenor rarely reaches this height – as you can hear from the way he delivers the line, "Were you in Slytherin and your fate rested with me, the both of you would be on the train home. Tonight."
His newspaper flourish is killer villain material, too.
4. He's good at saying "Expelliarmus" for the first time in the films and making everyone remember what the word is – but he's also good at doing an uber-dramatic 180.
This is the uber-dramatic 180, in case you missed it.
The Prizoner Of Azkaban – 2004
5. Comedy? Yep, he nails that too. Here he is playing a fear-preying Boggart, being forced by Neville Longbottom into Longbottom's grandmother's clothes, and cringing at the laughter.
6. "Turn to page 394".
7. Usually so silky smooth, you can see him burrowing back into his old teenage angst as he confronts his former bullies, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black.
The Goblet Of Fire – 2005
8. When you want someone to shut up and do their homework, Snape's your guy.
9. This deleted scene is set during the Yule Ball and is basically about Bulgarian magical school headmaster, Igor Karkaroff, being scared of Voldemort's return. It has Snape doing four things:
A. Dashing through the snow.
B. Stopping teens from getting off in carriages.
C. Stripping points from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
D. Intimidating a fellow Death Eater.
Not bad.
10. "Don't. Lie. To me." Remixes have been of this clip. Many, many remixes.
The Order Of The Phoenix – 2007
11. Here Rickman does a perfect portrayal of discomfort as he fields Professor Dolores Umbridge's questions about why he's still not Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher.
12. "Life isn't fair."
The Half-Blood Prince – 2009
13. His double agent powers are put to the test here, but Snape has no trouble keeping a straight face as he makes the unbreakable vow to Draco Malfoy's mother to kill Dumbledore.
14. McLaggen voms all over Snape's (presumably shiny snakeskin) boots. He's less than amused.
15. When Harry and Dumbledore are away fetching the locket Horcrux from a distant cave, Malfoy is preparing to kill him (he's getting up from an infirmary bed after being cut up by Harry) and Snape is mentally preparing to do the same. This scene was deleted, perhaps to prevent spoiling the final film for fans who hadn't read the books – in which it's revealed Snape didn't really want to hurt Dumble-D.
16. Here he kills Dumbledore in one of the most memorable scenes of the series.
17. "I'm the Half Blood Prince". Of course he is.
The Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2 – 2010-11
18. Here as headmaster of Hogwarts, he addresses his students (or subjects) to maintain his facade as Voldemort's reliable insider. "Equally guilty" is a good line – and the fight with Professor McGonagall isn't bad either.
19. "You've been raising him like a pig for slaughter," he tells Dumbledore in this outraged flashback sequence. Full of sympathy for Harry, would you believe it.
20. Perhaps the best of the lot is this behind-the-scenes video, which shows Rickman playing Snape during his fight with Professor McGonagall. At one point he hits the camera boom with his wand – the pair wield them like swords, though – and drops it. His reaction, "Oh", is terribly English, and the room breaks into warm, gentle laughter.
The Snape Story 2001- 2011
21. Some fans think the film is better without any of the other characters at all, and have cut all of the above into a single half-hour film. Watch it below.


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Started in 2012, the Brandon Women's Basketball League is an annual Spring (and sometimes Autumn) event for the women of Brandon and area.
Registration Cost may vary from year to year as the league grows. This covers advertising, gym facilities, referee costs, insurance policy, a jersey for each player.
Games are hosted at the Healthy Living Centre (Brandon University) on Wednesdays from 6:45pm to 8:00pm. There is a 15 minute warm up starting at 6:45pm each night before the game. Games consist of two 25 minute halves.
Players register individually and are then placed on a team by the league organizers. To ensure that the teams are evenly matched, players fill out a section of the registration form pertaining to their skill level and experience with the game, rating their skills, comfort level, player experience as well as physical activity level.
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We are very fortunate to represent iconic musicians, who have played at home and abroad. Whether you are after a solo performance, a rock band, or an orchestra (and yes, we have access to one) – we have you sorted.
Lisa Crawley
With a back catalogue that boasts two albums and three EPs, coupled with countless collaborations, tours, television appearances and acclaimed music-based projects, Lisa Crawley has well and truly earned her reputation as one of Australasia's most well-respected musicians.
Debbie Harwood
Since 1996 Harwood has produced several albums, most of which were recorded at her recording studio in Devonport The Bus.
Jason Kerrison
Jason is proving to be a notable, relevant and exciting New Zealand artist.
The Ladykillers
The Lady Killers' approach is simple; take great songs and lovingly accessorise them with harmony.
For over a decade Lyrica have received rave reviews at high-end corporate events, festivals and concerts.
Shane Cortese & The 8 Track Band
With Shane Cortese and the 8-Track Band those days are back with the songs you know, love and can't help singing along to.
HALO are a 5 to 7 piece professional band based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Jordan Luck Band
'Legend' is a word suffering from chronic overuse syndrome these days, but when it comes to Jordan Luck, the word regains it's full meaning and one the NZ public associates with this true blue Kiwi artist.
James Reid
As the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for The Feelers, James Reid has already established himself as one of New Zealand's most successful song writers and musicians.
theSlacks are Taranaki's most favourite (Rockabilly-Blues) Celtic-Country-Ska-Folk (Boogie-Woogie-Swing) playing guitar band.
Frankie Stevens
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Looking For Alaska
Like two weary vagabonds hitch-hiking along the open road with nothing but a guitar and a suitcase of songs and wayward memories, pop-folk duo Looking For Alaska are ready to set the folk scene alight.


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Produced in myriad sizes from paper, plastic, metal, glass, and an emerging variety of compostable materials, packaging has become a ubiquitous component of the modern food experience. It allows food to be seamlessly moved from farm to fork, protects food during transport, extends shelf-life, and divvies products into convenient serving sizes.
The trouble with packaging is that it's so easy to overlook its harmful impacts. Until recently, food packaging was decidedly linear: its production involved extraction of natural resources followed by energy-intensive and often polluting manufacturing processes, it was put to brief use, and then disposed of in landfills or oceans. Driven by recognition of increasing resource scarcity, decreasing landfill space, and rising pollution, municipal recycling programs have been rolled out to transform many types of food packaging back into usable materials. But is this enough?
Today, systems thinkers are applying a circular approach to packaging, performing lifecycle assessments to select the right packaging for the right application, and weighing benefits of extended shelf-life and consequent food waste reduction against the potential impacts of additional packaging. Others are striving to move away from plastics, pursuing plant-based alternatives to facilitate composting. Another emerging trend is a shift back to reusable packaging once common in the beverage sector.


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October 23, 2013
Good News: Over 50 Brits Fighting in Somalia
The BBC claims they've compiled a list of nearly fifty British citizens fighting for the al Qaeda linked al-Shabaab in Somalia. The report actually includes the names of those who attempted to go to Somalia as well, but it also goes on to say that the number is probably far higher. That is, these are the 47 people that we know about.
And it's not just ethnic Somali youths, it's Muslims of all ethnic background. For instance, in this article they choose to highlight a London born man of Bangledeshi heritage:
Four of the men on the list are known to be dead, including men who featured on a video released by the group a week ago.Good news indeed, eh? He's dead.
The video included a message from a young man named as "Talha", who asked Muslims in Tower Hamlets - a borough in east London - to join the jihad in Somalia.
Talha, whose real name was Taufail Ahmed, died in Somalia in November 2012.
The Foreign Office said it had confirmed the death to his family, who are of Bangladeshi origin.
But not so fast, no good deed goes unpunished in the bizarro world we live in. Local Somalis claim that Ahmed was killed in a firefight between Shabaab and "British and American forces."
So what? Just another dead terrorist. Good riddance.
Well, his family has hired a lawyer to "investigate" the charge. I guess so they can sue the British for killing their terrorist son.
In Britain, terrorists sue you!
Thanks to Rahm at Terror Free Somalia


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Logan is dead, but his legacy lives on in the form of his friends and family, now tasked with protecting a new batch of Weapon X test subjects. Of course, that was an easier plan before a member of the Imperial Guard arrives from deep space with questions about Wolverine's demise… Your Major Spoilers review of Wolverines #9 awaits!
Writer: Charles Soule
Penciler: Peter Nguyen
Inker: Derek Fridolfs
Colorist: John Kalisz
Letterer: VC's Cory Petit
Editor: Kate Kubert & Mike Marts
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Previously in Wolverines: "Logan met his end while destroying a revamped version of the Weapon X project, located in a facility known as Paradise. Logan could not escape, but others did: Five test subjects, all granted strange new powers. None were ever intended to survive outside the program, and all have been infused with a ticking clock in their DNA that will kill them unless it can be deactivated."
Meanwhile, Wolverine's old frenemy, Fang of the Imperial Guard, has come to Earth to pay his respects and, along with Wolverine's son Daken, has stepped into the proverbial minefield, leaving them in the path of a Frost Giant!
So, Wolverine was killed something like two and a half months ago, followed by a weekly series featuring his nearest and dearest. Daken, X-23, Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth and Mystique are all part of this story, as well as six new Weapon X survivors, and last issue's new arrival: Fang of the Imperial Guard. I'm a fan of group books, and I don't mind a large cast, but this one feels a little bit full up, especially since the focus of the issue is on two stories: Daken's interactions with Fang, and Deathstrike forging a FWB relationship with new kid Shogun (who is somehow infused with the essence of Ogun, her old lover, another Wolverine villain.) Interestingly, it's Fang who steals the show, showing off an array of super-powers I didn't know he had, and goading Daken into realizing how much his late father hated him, which seems like an odd lesson. There's also a cute bit with another weapon known as Fantomelle being sent to retrieve Logan's eyepatch from the Madripoor bar where he used to bounce, which is cute enough.
On the plus side, this issue really does delve into Wolverine as a character, but it does so by showing us half a dozen different characters who represent different facets of his varied portrayals, sort of a 'Death of Superman' thing with more characters involved. The plotting feels a bit scattered and rushed to me, and the art doesn't really help that assessment, feeling scratchy and rushed itself. There are some really lovely moments in the pillow talk between Deathstrike and Shogun, but on the whole, the characters feel alternately bloopy and blocky, and Daken especially suffers from a lack of facial expression that makes his scenes feel flat emotionally. I don't have the same sort of cynicism that some might have about superhero stunt-deaths, and I am behind the decision to use secondary characters (notably trans-reversed Sabretooth) to tell a story off the beaten path, but the combination of a death that is obviously not final and using these characters to talk about Wolverine feels an awful lot like an issue worth of "I wonder what Poochie is doing?"
On the other hand, I get that this is a book for Wolverine fans dealing with the ramifications of the loss of their heroes, and while I'm not one of those folks, I can see the appeal of the title. Wolverines #9 does fun character work with Daken and Lady Deathstrike in different directions, but gives me some issues in terms of pacing and art, but earning a better-than-average 2.5 out of 5 stars overall. What I'm really wondering is when Fang became a super-powerful space god…[taq_review][signoff predefined="PayPal Donation" icon="icon-cog"][/signoff]


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Friday, July 19, 2013
Gunner, Missile ... Hopper
Stay with me here ...
The TOW missile has been one of the U.S. military's standard anti-tank weapons since first being introduced in the late 1960s. When I was a soldier (many years and several pant sizes ago) TOWs were just about the biggest and baddest piece of ordinance that an average grunt like myself was ever trusted to handle. It's probably a good thing too because I was foolish in all the ways young men are often foolish, and I really enjoyed making things go "Boom!" - perhaps a bit too much.
TOW is an acronym for "Tube launched, Optically tracked, Wire guided." As the name implies, TOWs are tethered to their firing tubes and guidance apparatus via a ridiculously thin and strong wire that spools out for a maximum distance of 3750 meters. Think about how many pheasant tails a bug chucker could tie with that much wire. Assume the average tyer uses three inches of wire per fly, and understand that one meter equals just over 39 inches. That means one meter gets us roughly 13 flies. Multiply 13 by 3750 and we discover that one TOW fired to its maximum range will give us a yield of 48750 pheasant tails.
Make flies, not war.
Anyway ... I remember wanting a memento of the first TOW missile I ever fired (on a live fire range in the California desert). Unfortunately, once a round is expended, little remains but the aforementioned wire - draped across the landscape from launcher to smouldering target. With no other option, I did what any fly-tying infantry soldier would do, and I scooped up as much of Uncle Sam's wire as I could retrieve and fit into the cargo pockets of my uniform. For half a decade, the First Infantry Division and the Raytheon company provided the ribbing for nearly every nymph I tied.
All of this brings us to Sergeant Shaun Gruner, a fly tyer and Army veteran who is a little more creative than was I in applying military surplus to his piscatorial pursuits.
Shaun began his military career many years after mine had ended. He went through basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia in 2007, and first deployed to Afghanistan in January of 2009. Gruner survived that deployment and another in 2010, only to be felled by a golf-ball sized rock while on a run along the dusty roads of Fort Bliss, Texas. Torn ligaments in his right foot prevented Sergeant Gruner from continuing to serve, and in January of this year he was given a medical retirement from the Army. He and his wife have now settled in Arizona.
As is the case with so many bug chuckers, Sergeant Gruner began fishing as a young boy but didn't pick up a fly rod until later in life. Gruner's first trout on a fly was hooked entirely by accident (incidentally, most of the trout I've caught in 30 years of fly fishing have been hooked accidentally). That first fish took Gruner's bug when Shaun dropped his backcast a little too low, and the trout found the sergeant's misplaced fly too good to ignore.
After a long hiatus, Sergeant Gruner now hopes to return to fishing with the long rod. He has started (or rather re-started) tying his own flies, but lacks a collection of that materials that many of us consider essential. True to his military training, however, Shaun has adapted to the situation. He ties a grasshopper pattern that uses materials taken from items that are common to any soldier serving at any post in the world.
Shaun first shared this fly with the world via the Project Healing Waters Facebook page, and he has graciously agreed to do likewise here on The Rusty Spinner.
Shaun Gruner's "Commando Hopper"
Hook: Any appropriately sized such as the Orvis 2x Dry-Fly
Rib: Copper Wire
Body and Head: Closed cell foam cut from a military issue sleeping mat
Legs: Knotted waxed-thread taken from a uniform repair kit
Eyes: 550 cord - burned and melted at each end (a brilliant idea)
Hackle: Olive grizzly
1 comment:
- RSGruner said...
Thanks for the kind words and the mention...That video of the TOW was awesome!!!
- July 19, 2013 at 10:07 PM
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We have added an interface to link our integrated channel manager to a new connectivity partner – RoomCloud. This is the newer version of the ParityRate interface. The RoomCloud functionality and organisation resembles the one of ParityRate.
Here are the improvements and changes introduced with the RoomCloud interface:
- RoomCloud has a slightly more different product organisation. There are room types (corresponding to the hotel room types) and Rates (as a single rate can be used with different room types).
- Example of room types: DBL, DBL-LUX, APP.
- Rate example: 2-ADULTS. In this case the 2-ADULTS rate can be used with all three room types, as the price will be different for every room type.
- Price examples: DBL/2-ADULTS = 90 EUR, DBL-LUX/2-ADULTS = 110 EUR, APP/2-ADULTS = 150 EUR.
In Clock PMS, you need the following mappings:
- Room Types. We support 'Room Type' mapping, where 1 room type of RoomCloud is mapped to 1 room type of Clock PMS. Two or more room types of RoomCloud can be mapped to 1 room type of Clock PMS. In other words, the same available rooms coming from Clock PMS can be sold under different room types in RoomCloud. For each line of the mapping, max room restricts the number of available rooms to be sent (channel width).
The combination of room type and rate of RoomCloud is mapped to one Clock PMS rate. Two or more RoomCloud products can be mapped to one and the same Clock PMS rate. And these products will be sent with the same array of prices and available room types.
- Rate - export disabled. A new option is the temporary stop of the export of a certain product. By clicking the 'Export disabled' checkbox in the mapping rate lines, you can temporary disable and then re-enable the export of a certain product.
OTA channels can be mapped to companies. Similarly to ParityRate, you can map them to an event and manage block pickups.
- Transfer charges to company. We have added a new setting to the company mapping. Use it for the setup of the automatic transfer of guests' charges to a company folio for certain companies. This option can only be used when creating a booking and resembles the function of the 'Transfer room charges to Company/Event' checkbox in a booking.
Other improvements and changes
Automatic charging of extra services.
All extra services, selected in the channels and present in the XMLs of bookings, are now automatically charged to guests' folios. The supported charging modes in RoomCloud are:
- Daily – one charge for each day of a stay – with the submitted quantity for each day.
- By Person – one charge with a quantity depending on the number of guests.
- By Number – one charge with the submitted quantity
- The revenue group of these charges is 'Other'.
- To-Do for prepaid bookings. For bookings tagged as prepaid by the connectivity partner, we have created a special To-Do for the hotel staff to handle them appropriately.
- An option for mixed sales of room types and rooms. Up till now you could only map and sell one of these two in ParityRate – either room types or rooms.
Improved logs of exports and errors.
We have developed a new log of exports for the easier tracking of export problems and the reasons for them.
- Flexible search. Now you can also search by 'Affected date', i.e. the date for which you need the price and the availability. There are also additional filters for RoomCloud codes of a room type and rate, as well as for Clock PMS codes of a room type / room.
- Due to the large amount of data in the log, we have set the following restrictions:
- Products. We support a log of all products, as for each one:
- Dates. We support a log by 'Affected date' - 360 days in the future and 30 days in the past.
- For each 'Affected date', we keep the last 10 real changes. Changes are tracked only if something is actually changed. If a message is sent, being the same as the previous one, it is not recorded as a change and is only counted.
- Errors. The detailed descriptions of the received errors from channels are stored for a period of 30 days.


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Head of Consulting (m/w)
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We capture offline behavior with our mobile SDK. Across EU Marketeers, Product Managers and Business Intelligence Specialists are buying our microtargeting solution to augment their tech stack. Large retailers, mobility companies and governmental agencies are among our clients.
The passionate multinational team is now looking for a deeply driven Head of Consulting. Your advice will be demanded both by our clients and our internal team. This is a unique opportunity to develop our young consulting practice to complement the core technology. You report directly to the CEO, team up strongly with the CTO and the technical architect, and work closely with your direct report (Manager Finance & Operations).
Learn more on our website www.predict.io.
Your Responsibilities
- Consult clients during implementation of our tech stack and run peripheral machine learning projects with clients
- Generate technologically sound solutions that meet client expectations throughout the ranks (from C-Level over Technical Decision Maker to Business User)
- Support clients in adopting micro-targeting into their daily routines
- Interface tightly with all team members to feed market requirements into product roadmap
- Produce winning business, financial, technological and strategical proposals for external and internal projects
- Manage internal financial and business operations together with your team member
- Constantly monitor market trends, emerging user expectations and best practices
- Show strong leadership and negotiation skills to support decision making and rationale inside and outside
- Lead and work amongst a partly-remote team, and enjoy the challenges and opportunities that go along with it
- Survive regular Nerf-gun battles in the office
Job Requirements
Not all of it, but most of it:
- Technical understanding of mobile app development (languages, frameworks, tools, PaaS)
- 2-4 years of proven success in technology consulting
- Superb analytical skills paired with highest business acumen
- Building stellar presentations and financial projections (Ninja-level at PowerPoint/keynote, Excel/numbers)
- Ability to work with code and data (e.g. know how to query data from a database, read and understand code on high-level)
- Deep economic understanding (P&L, digitalization, macroeconomics)
- Understanding or experience of mobile, marketing, machine learning and data science
- Effectively communicate and navigate between competing priorities
- Effortlessly walk up and down the ladder (between "command bridge" and "engine room")
- Absolutely fluent in English and German
- Motivation to be flexible in an agile start-up – things change fast!
What We Offer
- Inspiring high-tech endeavour at the forefront of micro-targeting
- Ambitious start-up with multinational clients
- We are financed by large institutions including HTGF and European Commission
- Passionate, experienced and hands-on management team (Ex-eBay, Cisco, Hitfox)
- Inspiring, intercultural and fun team
- Believe in authenticity and mutual support
- Flat hierarchies, fast decisions
- Location in the heart of Germany's start-up city #1: Berlin
- Nerf gun battles in the office
Everything Else
Level: Experienced/Entry-Level
Type: Full-time
Remuneration: 50-60K € (Shares optionally)
Location: Berlin (Mitte), Germany
Send us your application to firstname.lastname@example.com