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From Awesome Stories Jumbo the Elephant was the star of P.T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth" where, it is said, he brought in the largest crowds in the history of the circus. Captured in Africa, Jumbo spent time in London - where he was greatly loved - until PT Barnum purchased him to star in his circus. Londoners were most distressed to see him leave, in 1882: ...The beast had been a pet with the children in the London Zoological Gardens ... It required two weeks to build a van-like cage for the journey by sea [aboard the Assyrian Monarch], and then keepers went to the zoo to lead Jumbo to the ship... He strode along all right until the gate of the garden closed behind them and then lay down in the street. It was a pure case of elephantine obstinacy, and the animal wouldn't budge. There he measured his length in the dust for twenty-four hours despite all urging and entreaty, to the despair of his custodians, who little realized the wonderful effect the incident would have on the owner's pocketbook. ... The animal finally got on his feet and marched to the boat. Weeping women and children lined the way. ... The story of the brute's reluctance to leave his young friends in England was broadcast and he became the feature of the circus... (How to Buy an Elephant and 38 Other Things You Never Knew You Wanted to Know, by John Krausz, pages 5-6.) Standing at about 12 feet and weighing 7 tons, Jumbo was the largest elephant anyone had ever seen. He liked "Scotch whiskey, which he was given regularly" during the Atlantic crossing. Barnum planned to take his circus to England, where he hoped people would fill his tents to see Jumbo again. But a terrible accident, in 1885, put an end to that dream: On September 15, the Barnum and Bailey circus was in St. Thomas, southwest of London, Ontario. Two parallel railway tracks ran close to the grounds where the tents were pitched. Although a level crossing was a short distance away, the circus had received permission from the Grand Trunk Railway to take down some fencing. This way, they could quickly move the animals along the track before and after the shows. (Celebrated Pets: Endearing Tales of Companionship and Loyalty, by Cheryl MacDonald, page 43.) By 9:30 that night, Matthew Scott - Jumbo's favorite keeper - was escorting Jumbo and another smaller elephant, called "Tom Thumb" toward their cages: ...They were still some distance away when a special freight train appeared in the east. Realizing the danger, Scott tried to move the elephants down the embankment on the side of the track. When this failed, he urged them to run toward the circus train, where they could get off the main track more easily. Jumbo led the way, with Tom Thumb following close behind. They had gone only 27 metres or so when Tom Thumb was struck from behind and tossed into the ditch, breaking his leg. Seconds later, the locomotive hit Jumbo in the back of the legs, bringing him to his knees. The huge animal cried out in pain as he was hurled into the rear of the circus train. The impact, witnesses said, was like two trains colliding, and the force was great enough to derail the oncoming locomotive and two cars. (MacDonald,pages 43-44.) The most popular animal in the world, at that time, could not survive the accident: Jumbo was mortally wounded. As he lay silently on the track, the big elephant reached out and slipped his trunk into Matthew Scott's hand. The man who had been his closest human companion for 14 years did what he could to comfort the creature he loved, but within 15 minutes, Jumbo was dead. (MacDonald, page 44.) It was next-to-impossible for anyone to comfort Scotty. Edgar Flach - an eyewitness - tells us about Jumbo's last moments: The animal… reached out his long trunk, wrapped it around the trainer and then drew him down to where that majestic head lay blood stained in the cinders. Scotty cried like a baby. Five minutes later, they lifted him from the lifeless body... That night Scotty laid down beside the body of his friend. At last exhausted from the strain, he fell asleep. So great was Jumbo's fame that news of his death was circulated everywhere: The news was telegraphed around the world, setting off waves of public morning. "Jumbo is dead," announced the Washington Star. "The friend of youth, the admired of all, the boast and wonder of the age is no more, and what remains to us is to bear our loss with resignation." (MacDonald, page 44.) Trying to capitalize on the death of his main attraction, P.T. Barnum sent a letter to W.A. Croffut (a journalist friend) who would help spread a tale about Jumbo's final act. Sensing danger, Barnum wrote, Jumbo saved the life of the human he most cared about - and that of Tom Thumb. The story wasn't true (although it has had a very long shelf life - see the May 1989 issue of Boy's Life), and his death wasn't the end of Jumbo (at least, for awhile). Barnum purchased Alice - Jumbo's friend at the London Zoo - and toured her with Jumbo's stuffed remains: ...Alice left London for North America, and in 1886 the two elephants toured the United States and Canada together. Then a serious fire broke out in the circus' winter quarters. Although Jumbo's remains were saved, Alice died in the fire. (MacDonald, page 45.) Jumbo's stuffed remains had one more journey to make. Barnum donated them to Tufts University. Mascot of the school, he was still around in 1975, when a terrible fire erupted: Following a 1975 fire, some of Jumbo's ashes were collected in a peanut butter jar and stored in the university's athletic department. (MacDonald, page 45.) What of Jumbo's bones? They were preserved, and his intact skeleton lives at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. From Awesome Stories |
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Feb. 19, 2013: See our note below about Gen. John Allen.
The sordid story surrounding the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus continues to grow. This morning there's word that the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for "inappropriate communications" with the woman who kicked off the chain of events that led to the uncovering of the extramarital affair Petraeus was having (with a different woman) and his resignation.
Allen, as NPR's Tom Bowman reported on Morning Edition, has told Pentagon officials that he did nothing wrong. But investigators have discovered, officials say, 20,000 to 30,000 pages of emails and electronic documents sent between Allen and Jill Kelley, 37, of Tampa. The Pentagon is now investigating Allen's communications with Kelley. Allen's nomination to be commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe has been put on hold.
With Allen's entrance into the story and the new twist involving Kelley, this seems like a good time for a guide to who's who and what's what:
-- Retired Gen. David Petraeus. The former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, the 60-year-old Petraeus became director of the CIA in the summer of 2011. It was sometime after he left the Army and took over at the CIA, Petraeus has reportedly told friends, that he began an affair with Paula Broadwell. She's a now-40-year-old major in the Army Reserve. They reportedly ended the affair about four months ago. This morning's Washington Post reports that some of the retired general's advisers say he "planned to stay in the job even after he acknowledged the affair to the FBI, hoping the episode would never become public. He resigned last week after being told to do so by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. on the day President Obama was reelected."
-- Paula Broadwell. A specialist in counterterrorism issues as well as an Army reservist, Broadwell is the author of All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, a biography of Petraeus. While working on that book, she lived and worked with the then-general's staff in Afghanistan. Like Petraeus, she is married. On Monday, FBI agents were seen searching her home in Charlotte, N.C.
-- Jill Kelley. Described in reports as a volunteer social liaison with military families at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Kelley knows Petraeus and his wife Holly. Earlier this year, she reportedly told an acquaintance who works for the FBI about harassing emails she had been receiving. During that investigation, the FBI traced the emails to Broadwell. According to The New York Times, officials say Broadwell "saw Ms. Kelley as a rival for her affections with Mr. Petraeus." As the FBI investigated the emails to Kelley, agents turned up online messages exchanged by Petraeus and Broadwell that revealed their affair. Kelley is married.
-- Gen. John Allen. The FBI's investigation that uncovered the emails and revealed the Petraeus-Broadwell affair also led to the discovery of communications between Allen and Kelley. According to a senior U.S. defense official, as The Washington Post writes, the emails are "potentially inappropriate." Again, the 58-year-old Allen has reportedly said there was nothing inappropriate in the messages. He is married. (Update at 1:30 p.m., Feb. 19, 2013: Allen was later cleared of any wrongdoing. Then, on Feb. 19, the White House announced Allen was retiring to attend to his wife's health. Allen told The Washington Post that his wife has chronic health issues that include an autoimmune disorder.)
-- The FBI Agent. According to The Wall Street Journal, the "federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns that he was personally involved in the case, according to officials familiar with the probe. ... New details about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation handled the case suggest that even as the bureau delved into Mr. Petraeus's personal life, the agency had to address conduct by its own agent—who allegedly sent shirtless photos of himself to a woman [Jill Kelley] involved in the case prior to the investigation." That agent also reportedly told at least one member of Congress about the investigation of Petraeus.
Update at 9 a.m., Nov. 15. He's Been ID'd:
"The FBI agent who helped start the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus has been identified as Frederick Humphries, a veteran agent at the bureau who investigated the foiled millennium terrorist plot in 1999."
-- Vernon Loeb. "My wife says I'm the most clueless person in America," The Washington Postjournalist writes this morning. He was the "ghost writer" of Broadwell's book about Petraeus. According to Loeb, "when the news broke Friday that Petraeus was resigning in disgrace because of an adulterous affair, I was dumbfounded."
Update at 2:30 p.m. ET. Another Guide:
We can't use some of the words that Jezebel does, but it also has a "guide to understanding the increasingly convoluted Petraeus sex scandal."
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LeBron James Debuts Kobe Bryant Tribute Tattoo
LeBron James shared a photo of his new tattoo that honors his former teammate Kobe Bryant.
James shared the snapshot of the new ink on his Instagram along with a photo of the pair on the sidelines with James resting his head on Bryant's shoulders. "My brother #Mamba4Life #RIPKobe #RIPGiGi" he captioned the photos.
The tattoo features Bryant's nickname, "Mamba 4 Life," with his Los Angeles Laker numbers 8 and 24. The black and white ink shows a mamba snake and roses in the background.
The tattoo session comes a day after James gave a heartfelt speech at the first Lakers game since Bryant's tragic passing.
"Laker nation, man, I will be selling you short if I read off this s--t, so I'm gonna go straight from the heart," James told the Staples Center crowd on Friday (January 31) night before memorializing Bryant. James was the last person Bryant tweeted before he passed away.
Bryant died in a fatal helicopter crash on January 26. Other victims of the crash included his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, Alyssa, Keri and John Altobelli, Sarah and Payton Chester, Christina Mauser and Ara Zobayan.
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About 14,500 years ago, Earth began transitioning from its cold, glacial self to a warmer interglacial state. However, partway through this period, temperatures suddenly returned to near-glacial conditions. This abrupt change (known as the Younger Dryas period) is believed by some to be the reason why hunter-gatherers started forming sedentary communities, farming, and laying the groundwork for civilization as we know it – aka. the Neolithic Revolution.
For over a decade, there have been scientists who have argued that this period was the result of a comet hitting Earth. Known as the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (aka. the Clovis Comet Hypothesis), the theory is largely based on ice core samples from Greenland that show a sudden global temperature change. But according to a new study by a research team from the University of Edinburgh, archaeological evidence may also prove this hypothesis correct.
The Younger Dryas period takes its name from a species of flower known as Dryas octopetala. This plant is known to grow in cold conditions, and became common in Europe during the period. Because of the way it began abruptly – roughly 12,500 years ago – and then ended just as abruptly 1200 years later, many scientists are convinced it was caused by an external event.
For the sake of their study – which was recently published in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry under the title "Decoding Göbekli Tepe With Archaeoastronomy: What Does the Fox Say?"- the team found an astronomical link to the stone pillars at Göbekli Tepe. Located in southern Turkey, this archaeological find is the oldest known temple site in the world (dated to ca. 10,950 BCE).
This site, it should be noted, is contemporary with the Greenland ice core samples, which are dated to around 10,890 BCE. Of the sites many features, none are more famous than the many standing pillars that dot the excavated grounds. This is because of the extensive pictograms and animal reliefs that decorate these pillars, which include various representations of mammal and avian species- particularly vultures.
Pillar 43, which is also known as the "vulture stone", was of particular interest to archeologists, as it is suspected that its representations (associated with death) could have been intended to commemorate a devastating event. The other images, they ventured, were meant to depict the constellations, and that their placement relative to each other accorded to the positions of the then-known asterisms in the night sky.
This theory was based on images they took of the site, which they then examined using the planetarium program stellarium 0.15. In the end, they found that the images bore a resemblance to constellations that would have been visible in 10,950 BCE. As such, they concluded that the temple site may have been an observatory, and that the images were a catalog of celestial events – which include the Taurid meteor stream.
As they state in their study:
"We begin by noting the carving of a scorpion on pillar 43, a well -known zodiacal symbol for Scorpius. Based on this observation, we investigate to what extent other symbols on pillar 43 can be interpreted as zodiacal symbols or other familiar astronomical symbols… We suggest the vulture/eagle on pillar 43 can be interpreted as the 'teapot' asterism of our present-day notion of Sagittarius; the angle between the eagle/vulture's head and wings, in particular, agrees well with the 'handle','lid' and 'spout' of the teapot asterism. We also suggest the 'bent-bird' with downward wriggling snake or fish can be interpreted as the '13th sign of the zodiac', i.e. of our present-day notion of Ophiuchus. Although its relative position is not very accurate, we suggest the artist(s) of pillar 43 were constrained by the shape of the pillar. These symbols are a reasonably good match with their corresponding asterisms, and they all appear to be in approximately the correct relative locations.
Of course, the team fully acknowledges that an astronomical interpretation is by no means the only possibility. In addition to the possibility of them being mythological references, they could also be representations of hunting or migration patterns. It's also entirely possible they were not meant to convey any specific meaning, and were merely a description of the local environment, which would have been rich in flora and fauna at the time.
In addition, the way vultures are commonly featured could be an indication that the site was a burial ground. This is consistent with iconography found at the archaeological sites of Çatalhöyük (in central, southern Turkey) and Jericho (in the West Bank). During the time period in question, Neolithic peoples were known to conduct sky burials, where the bodies of the deceased were left out in the open for carrion birds to pick over.
In such practices, the head was sometimes removed from the deceased and kept (for the sake of ancestor worship). This is consistent with one of the characters on Pillar 43, which appears to be a headless human. However, as the team go on to explain, they are confident that the connection between the site's images and the Taurid meteor stream is a plausible one.
"[O]ur basic statistical analysis indicates our astronomical interpretation is very likely to be correct," they write. "We are therefore content to limit ourselves to this hypothesis, and logically we are not required to pursue others." And of course, they acknowledge that further research will be necessary before any conclusions can be made.
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Record Broken!
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Most Consecutive Table Tennis Ball Bounces While Alternating Paddle Sides And Paddle Hand
Mick Cullen
Lindenhurst, Illinois, United States / June 14, 2010
Mick Cullen bounced a table tennis ball 737 times on a table tennis paddle while alternating hands and alternating paddle sides for each bounce, beating the previous record by 247 bounces.
- may only have one hand touching paddle for each ball bounce
- two hands on paddle for a bounce is a disqualification
Brian Pankey
I'm glad Peter corrected this!
Rob Birdsong
Hey guys, sorry for the mix up. Peter Craig is the current world record holder in this category. Great to see the competition taking off here.
Peter Craig
Rehashing previous comments, I don't understand this record status, my 1,130 should be current, Brian's 1,009 should be "failed".
Gold Member
Peter Craig should still hold this record. He did 1130
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If Brian did 1009
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If Brian did 1009
Peter Craig
I do agree with Mick. If I'm submitting a record with a count of 1,000+ then I should count and verify it myself and/or with my witness if there was one. This in itself should be credible enough based on a quick check of length of time - anyone who looks at the record can choose to count and reverify, particularly if you were a previous holder of the record.
Other record systems usually counts bounces/catches etc, but after one minute it is only timed. I prefer to count myself because I've always been that way, this is where it should become a wiki system and more trust given to "the people". Although this is higher risk, there are more people to verify. If a record has been submitted that looks unrealistic it can be reported. As a quick example, my record of 1100 is almost the same length as Micks 700 so time doesn't do it for me. But because I want to hold my title in this category, I'm happy to spend 5-10 minutes counting another submission to see if it is in fact better than my previous attempts. And if it's incorrect it can simply be noted and corrected. -
Mick Cullen
As a current record holder, I wouldn't really mind counting/approving records that break my own. However, I also think I agree with the spirit of the URDB-- pushing the bounds of what people can do and try, rather than just striving to hold onto records. What happens if you have a record holder who is more possessive and protective of his/her records? Obviously, as things move forward for URDB, you'll have to deal with more and more records that include long videos and tedious verification. It would be a shame to see credentialed witnesses required, because I think that reduces the accessibility that makes URDB so appealing to so many. But I also recognize the limitations of a lack of manpower to handle the volume of record submissions.
Dan Rollman
Peter, you raise an issue we've been discussing at URDB HQ: how do we scale the adjudication in categories like this? Do we insist on credentialed witnesses? Outsource it to a service like Mechanical Turk? Require the current record holder to count/approve it? Would love to hear ideas.
Peter Craig
Just submitting the new record... it really could go on for ever. I hate the thought of making these poor guys have to count 1,000+ bounces all the time... The new record is now.... 1,130 bounces. I've added another 393 on your new one, but it was far from easy! Not sure how much more I've got in me...
Peter Craig
Just quickly tried it, got 100 bounces in 45 seconds, if you could keep that rate up you'd get 500 in less than 4 minutes but that would be tough to keep up and tough to judge.
Peter Craig
Nice job Mick, I approved it myself, watched and recounted and 737 is the new record. You certainly make it difficult to keep up so it's back to me again I think on this one... I noticed you got to 500 in about 5:40 - I'm thinking we should mix it up a little and will try and get 500 in a much quicker time, maybe 4:30 or at least under 5:00 for now... And I reckon 1,000 is within reach...
Brian Pankey
All hail king Peter!
Peter Craig
Good job Mick, but sorry I beat you again. I like this one, you get into a bit of a rhythm and you could go on forever... The record now stands at 490... I noticed you're much better reserved then me - I run all over the place, you barely move your feet!
Mick Cullen
Good question! I'll give this a shot sometime in the next couple of days.
Peter Craig
Now does Rob like this because it's one less possible submission to count so many bounces and verify so many exchanges? :) Brian, so close...
Brian Pankey
I am officially done with this record. You & Mick can battle it out. I'm just a spectator now. I tried this record today & got 330. My right hand is really weak with a paddle so it's throws off my control & balance.
Mick Cullen
Nice job, Peter!
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together (again, it is divided diagonally); the second
"quarter" in gold and the third "quarter" in
azur. The main quarter sports the figure of a winged woman
carrying a lauril crown in her right hand and palm leaves in her
left hand; symbolising victory. The second quarter we have the
Samán of Güere, a tree of historical significance, as an emblem
of the endless fertility of the araguenian soil. we can see, on
the third quarter, a the historical house of the Bólivar Sugar
cane Farm, bursting in flames as it did in 1814 (San Mateo
Battle), when, serving as headqarters and armory for the
Independentist army, was blown up heroically by General Ricaurte,
who set fire to the Gun Powder deposits before they were captured
by royalist troops . Heading the CoA, a rising sun where the word
"ARAGUA" can be read. A Coffee branch and a Sugar Cane
branch circle the CoA, which sports a yellow band on its bottom,
where "February 1814" and "March 1814" can be
read, remembering the glorious battles of La Victoria (12 Febuary
1814) and San Mateo (20 March 1814).
Guillermo Aveledo , 4 November 1999
1) In October 20 of 1992, the state Legislative Assembly
proclaimed the Law of Flag of the Aragua State. The qualifier
panel of judges selected the design of Inés María Valverde
Pérez. The colours are the same of the flag of Spain, which have
been traditionally the colours of Aragua. Here is an image.
2) The coat of arms exists since the decade of the eighties of
the XIX century, as seal of the state. It was decree as coat of
arms in 1905 and ratified in 1926. It is divided in three
quarters: the first, in red field, ocupies in the superior part a
space as much as the double of the other two, from which is
separated by an oblique line that goes from up below and left to
right; the second, in field of gold, located toward the left,
forms an obtuse angle with the vertex to the right; and the
third, in field of blue, occupies the inferior part in form of
sharp angle with the vertex toward the superior part. In the
first quarter there is a woman's figure carrying a wreath of
laurel in the right hand and a palm in the left hand, in order to
symbolize the victory. In the second quarter appears the
"samán" of Guere (Pitecellobium saman Jacq. Benth,
emblem tree of the state, admired by Humboldt and Bonpland, whom
in 1800 calculated that it was about 1.000 years old; Guere is a
site near Maracay, the state capital), like symbol of the
inexhaustible fertility of the "Aragüeña" land. In
the third quarter appears the arsenal house of the Ingenio (Sugar
Mill) Bolívar, which belonged to the Liberator, covered of
flames, in order to commemorate the heroism of Antonio Ricaurte
(New Grenadian-Columbian colonel who sacrificed himself exploding
the arsenal of the patriot army in order to avoid its capture by
the enemy) during the second battle of San Mateo, 25 March 1814.
Adorning the superior part of the coat, there is a nascent Sun,
in whose disk appears the name of the state: Aragua. (I am not
sure, but it seems that in 1992 it was decided that each ray of
the Sun should represent a municipality; if so, the coat inserted
in the flag that I am sending should have 18 rays, and not 15).
The coat is fringed by a branch of coffee and another of cane of
sugar, tied below with a ribbon in gold with this dates: Febrero
de 1814 (February of 1814), in the left part (in order to
commemorate the second battle of La Victoria, important victory
of a group of soldiers and students, leaded by General José
Félix Ribas, over royalist forces, 12 Febuary 1814) and Marzo
de 1814 (March of 1814), in the right part (in order to
commemorate the battle of San Mateo previous cited).
3) The Anthem of the Aragua State was decree in 1906, modified in
1909 and ratified in 1926. The modification consisted in
suppressing the two last verses, because they were considered
laudatory towards the overthrown (1908) former president Cipriano
Castro, who achieved an important military victory, in 1902, in
La Victoria, against a revolutionary army that almost duplicated
his forces. Cipriano Castro was native of the Andean state of Táchira. Lyrics was wrotten by the poet
Ramón Bastida and the music was composed by Manuel Betancourt.
Music is almost like a subtle variation of The Marseillais, the
French national anthem.
4) As a curious note, I would like to add that the city of La Victoria , second in importance and
former capital of the state, don't owe its name to these battles,
that there were two during the war of Independence, one in 1879
and another, the last one, in 1902, but to its Lady patron:
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de La Victoria.
Pablo Acosta Ríos, 21 July 2000
The Flag - Attributes and Semiology: Consist in a field
divides per saltire, which generate four triangular sections: the
upper and lower are red, whilst the flanques are yellow. The
Araguenian Coat of Arms is emplaced on its center in all its
heraldic attributes. The yellow symbolizes the tropical sun,
which characterizes the state and equally the Nobility and the
Charity, virtues that are part of the personality of its native
ones. The red symbolizes the Strength, the Value, the Fidelity,
the Happiness and the Honor that purify the Araguenian identity
and remembers equally, the heroes which arose in Aragua and that
spilled their blood on its floor and on the rest of the national
territory, in favor of the Independence of Venezuela.
Historical Synthesis: Aragua is one of the north central and
coaster states of Venezuela and its Capital is the city of
Maracay. In the course of the year 1991 and by instances of Mr.
Carlos Tablante Hidalgo, Governor of the State, was given
beginning to the diligences for the creation of a regional flag
and for that purpose was requested the collaboration of the
Professor Oldman Botello, Chronicler of the City of Maracay and
of Villa de Cura, another of its important populations, who
suggested a flag in which prevails the colors Yellow and Red
taking as premise for that the semiology before mentioned with
base in its heraldic connotation. On January 16th, 1992 and for
disposition of the Regional Executive, a concourse was promoted
to determine the design of the new flag to the one that some
three hundred people converged, many of them students. After
considering the presented designs, the qualifier jury integrated
by the Professor Botello, the Professor Luisa Teresa Lanz de
León, Secretary of Education and Social Assistance of the Aragua
State and the Professor Enrique Salas Dugarte, President of the
Bolivarian Society of the State, selected on 17 February 1992, a
project presented by the Licentiate Inés María Valverde Pérez
that once remitted to the Legislative Assembly, it was approved
following 20 October when was proclaimed the Law of the Flag of
the Aragua State.
Sources: Symbols of the State Aragua, Prof. Oldman
Raul Jesus Orta Pardo, 24 November 2000
by Raul Jesus Orta Pardo, 24 November 2000
The Coat of Arms: The Araguenian Coat of Arms consists in a
field divided per bend and half counterbend. The first quarter in
gules (red) shows a blond woman dressed and winged of silver
which subject a laurel crown with her right hand and a palm
branch with her left hand: representation of the ancient greek
goddess of the Victory which allude to the battle which got rid
in the town with the same name, La Victoria (The Victory) on 12
February 1814, where young students and seminarians of the
University of Caracas fought jointly with the Patriot Troops
under the command of General José Félix Ribas, one of the most
valiant heroes of the Venezuelan Independence War, and won over
the royalist army under the conduction of the Spanish Colonel
Francisco Tomás Morales. The second quarter in gold (yellow)
shows a representation of the so-called Samán de Gu:ere:
historical tree admired by the famous German Naturalist Baron
Alexander von Humboldt and his friend, the French Botanic Aimee
Bonpland. In their visit to Venezuela on 1800, they calculated
that the plant then was about 1.000 years old. Time after, El
Libertador Simon Bolívar, it says, rested under its frond when
he was on campaign and from these times until now, it constitutes
ecological emblem of the State, representing too the
inexhaustible fertility of the Araguenian ground. The third
quarter in azure (blue) presents a semblance of the Historical
House called El Ingenio Bolívar (The Bolivar's Sugar Cane Farm
and Mill) located in the town of San Mateo and property of El
Libertador's family which was conditioned as Patriots' bastion
during the War of the Independence: place where surrendered
heroically his life the New Grenadine (Colombian) Colonel Antonio
Ricaurte firing the Gun Powder deposits when the royalist troops
took the house on 25 March 1814. As timmer, a nascent sun appears
with the name of the state ARAGUA like a war voice. To the
flanks, we can see a coffee and a sugar cane branches, two of the
most important agricultural products of the region, jointed by
means of a golden pennant which charges like mottoes the
ephemeris February of 1814 and March of 1814 to remember the
glorious facts of The Victoria and San Mateo, previously
This Araguenian symbol, whose origin was that of Seal of the
State starting from the eighth decade of the XIX century, it was
decreed as Coat of Arms in 1905 and ratified as such in 1926.
Sources: The Sacred Symbols of the Venezuelan Nation,
Francisco Alejandro Vargas, 1981.
Raul Jesus Orta Pardo, 24 November 2000


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"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
~Lord Byron
As we enter into our fifth year of writing Salvation Sisters, we sisters agreed that we would begin 2014 with our now established "tradition" of publishing a cocktail recipe on the last Sunday of the year. For the last several years, I have shared a recipe for one of my concoctions to celebrate ringing in the New Year.
Among we sisters, I am the sister who is known as the cocktail maker... well, I take that back since Juliette can lay claim to the title because she actually was a professional bartender in her fairly recent past. While I have never made drinks to earn a living, I do have a definite "penchant" (said by me with a French accent) for experimenting with cocktails at home and on the road. Michelle even refers to me as "The Transporter", because I am in favor of taking cocktails to go, such as our Strawberry Lemon Drop. At home, I love to experiment making various cocktails like my signature Cosmo, The Fort Bragg Blossom, our Fragolino Martini and my Blood Orange Cosmo inspired by a Sistercation in Las Vegas. Upon reflection, our very first post was written by Michelle about our Pineapple Martini, a.k.a "Happy Juice". This was a recipe that evolved from a famous Hawaiian restauranteur, but I had a desire to make it using real vanilla bean and no added sugar.
So why am I doing a post on a rum and coke cocktail you might ask, since it would seem that there is little left to say on the matter involving such a basic cocktail? Perhaps it is because this classic cocktail evokes images of balmy nights, now that I am in the midst of Winter here in Northern California (I know, I can hear the collective gasps of disgust from those of you from much colder climes). However, cold happens to be what you are acclimated to, and to me, several weeks of nights this past December in the teens constitutes cold! So, here is a toast to Summer, which thankfully is returning, and I do in fact, have a few tips to share for making what I consider to be the best rum and coke ever.
Happy New Year from the Salvation Sisters! Linda, Juliette and Michelle
Number One: Choose really good rum. I am a fan of Bacardi® Select. It is a premium crafted rum and it tastes better without the huge price tag.
Number Two: I am in the camp of those who think that Mexican Coca Cola tastes better. It also does not have HFCS. Maybe it is all in my imagination, but I think beverages made with cane sugar and no aluminum can just taste better.
Number Three: I like dark rum instead of the traditional light rum.
Here is my recipe:
Bacardi® Select Dark Rum
Mexican Coca Cola® in a glass bottle ( I found mine at BevMo, but they can often be found stocked in Mexican restaurants and on taco trucks)
Fresh lime wedges
Start with a tall glass. Add 2 shots of the rum and fill the glass to the top with coke. Add a lime wedge to the rim of the glass for garnish. When ready to drink, squeeze the lime wedge into the drink and drop into the cocktail.


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(AllHipHop News) Lawyers for Warner Brothers and former drug kingpin/community activist Freeway Ricky Ross faced off in court yesterday (January 9), in downtown Los Angeles.
Both sides were in Superior Court, for a hearing in the ongoing battle over the name "Rick Ross."
Judge Rita Miller finally set an August date for a trial by Jury, to hear the lawyers' arguments regarding the case.
Freeway Ricky Ross told AllHipHop.com that he would be deposing some of the industry's biggest executives in the case, all of whom are associated with the rapper Rick Ross.
"We will be deposing Sean Combs, Stephen Cooper, Lyor Cohen and Todd Moscowitz," Freeway Ricky Ross told AllHipHop.com today (January 9).
Freeway Ricky Ross claims that despite the ongoing court battle, Rick Ross is still flagrantly ripping off his image.
The rapper recently revealed the title of his upcoming sixth album will be titled Mastermind.
According to Freeway Ricky Ross, the rapper continues to subtly, or not so subtly associate himself with words, images and phrases that will fool fans – or search engines.
"He uses Mastermind that's exactly how the Wall Street Journal described me and my life story," Freeway Ricky Ross pointed out to AllHipHop.com.
Rick Ross dropped a slick trailer for his new album Mastermind earlier this week.
It featured Curtis Mayfield's classic "Gimme Your Love," along with a shot of the cover from the soundtrack to the 1972 movie "Superfly."
"This guy is literally trying to have people confuse him with me as an actual person," Freeway Ricky Ross told AllHipHop.com. "In every interview I mention 'Superfly' as the movie that pushed me into powder cocaine. I even said it in the VH1's 'Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and The Crack Generation,' that was shown around the world. Then he comes out with this new video with the 'Superfly' movie cover as the centerpiece?"
Freeway Ricky Ross is a former drug kingpin with a cult following, who served over 25 years in prison.
He was convicted of heading up a large-scale drug empire in the 1980s and nineties, that was infamously tied to President Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Scandal.
The staggering amounts of drugs that Freeway Ricky Ross pushed around the country have been the subject of numerous documentaries and news articles, including the Pulitzer prize-winning series from the San Jose Mercury titled "Dark Alliance" by Gary Webb.
Freeway Ricky Ross' original $10 million lawsuit claimed that rapper Rick Ross used these sources to steal his image and turn it into a multi-million dollar brand.
Freeway Ricky Ross appealed the ruling, but lost another round in court on a technicality in March of 2012, when a judge ruled that he waited too long to file a new lawsuit.
"The use of my name and image helps him in internet search globally. Its career launching high value to be believed to be the only hip hop artist on this list," Freeway Rick Ross told AllHipHop.com. "Initially it grounded his career in the confusion, now it helps clean up the inauthenticity that came out about being an officer. I don't need my name and image diluted and confused that way without license. The use of the 'Superfly' movie in this new video is directly connected with me personally as said prior."
A Jury will hear arguments from both sides in Los Angeles Superior Court, on August 27.
"We feel good about our case, and look forward to letting an LA jury make the decision," Freeway Ricky Ross told AllHipHop.com.


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Builders Express
Builders is the store of choice for all your building, DIY and home improvement solutions. We have amassed a group of stores around the country and on the continent that strive to provide everything you need to get things done. From humble beginnings, we are proud to operate 103 stores today:
38 x Builders Warehouse;
42 x Builders Express;
14 x Builders Trade Depot;
9 x Builders Superstore.
This includes 5 stores in Africa and the expansion programme continues:
1 x Builders Warehouse Zambia (Lusaka);
2 x Builders Warehouse Mozambique (Tete & Matola);
2 x Builders Warehouse Botswana (Francistown & Gaborone).
But it did not start like this. The history of Builders reveals a South African narrative of entrepreneurship that was born in Pretoria in the late 1800's by the Lewis family. This business cemented its legacy, over a period spanning more than a century, as it passed through the generations, from father to son, and grew to a group of 5 stores.
The successful family business attracted the attention of Massmart, the second largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa and by 2003, a deal was signed which transferred ownership to the retail group and created Massbuild.
Once Massbuild had taken time to assess the home improvement and building materials market, it embarked on an aggressive acquisition trail which witnessed the purchase of 51 stores countrywide.
This included the purchase of:
3 De La Rey stores in the Western Cape which were rebranded Builders Warehouse;
14 Servistar stores in Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape which were rebranded Builders Express; and
34 Federated Timbers stores which were rebranded Builders Trade Depot.
Over time, the acquisition honeymoon resulted in a rock-solid marriage and it became clear that a unified visual representation of the nationwide businesses had to be developed. During 2007, the rebranding of Builders Express, Builders Warehouse and Builders Trade Depot was completed and by this time, there were 56 stores within the Builders stable.
So when Walmart cast its eye towards South Africa in 2012, Massmart, with its growing Massbuild basket and other retail interests, was a viable investment option as part of its African expansion. The deal resulted in 51% ownership of Massmart transferred to the international retail giant, a move which had a significant impact on the South African retail scene.
This lead to the creation of a new format Builders store in 2013. The Builders Superstore, bringing the total Massbuild offering to 4 different store types, is aimed at homes in townships and rural and developing areas that would ordinarily benefit from government infrastructural spend as well as small contractors. By 2014, it was clear that a consolidated brand was inevitable and the Builders master brand was developed.
And the Builders journey continues as we regularly monitor our customer service levels and ensure that our product and process innovation leads the way.
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Implementing the Plan
Aligning Improvement Plans and Activities
Technology planning serves as part of the overall continuous improvement planning process (CIP), specifically aimed at the technology needs of the organization, and is used as part of documentation for accreditation.
The Nebraska Department of Education provides an online technology planning tool. The form provides the organization with documentation and data that can be used for continuous improvement planning, budgeting, and evaluation and also serves to collect data that the state must report for federal requirements. This data collection is to be completed by all Public Districts, and is available to Non Public Districts, Special Purpose Schools (State-Operated) and Educational Service Units.
The online technology planning tool also serves in meeting FCC regulations for Erate which requires a certified plan for Priority 2 funding. The Plan is organized to assist organizations in preparing and retaining needed documentation for Priority 1 & 2 funding that may be needed in case of audit. The online technology planning tool is a catalyst for CIP but may not contain all of the elements that the organization desires to include as part of its overall plan.
NDE Tech Plan Approval – The Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) reviews and certifies technology plans. Completing all of the sections within the online instrument allows NDE to receive the plan in a format consistent with technology plan elements specified by the FCC. Neither NDE nor the Tech Plan approver is responsible for Technology Plan content.
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The octonion_test.cpp test program tests octonions specialisations for float, double and long double (sample output).
If you define the symbol BOOST_OCTONION_TEST_VERBOSE, you will get additional output (verbose output); this will only be helpful if you enable message output at the same time, of course (by uncommenting the relevant line in the test or by adding --log_level=messages to your command line,...). In that case, and if you are running interactively, you may in addition define the symbol BOOST_INTERACTIVE_TEST_INPUT_ITERATOR to interactively test the input operator with input of your choice from the standard input (instead of hard-coding it in the test).


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The lender will not finance a vehicle they cannot lookupNADA publishes book values on vehicles as early as 1926. These publications tell the lender only what the base model is worth. If the car has been updated, modified, customized, or restored, a certified appraisal from Auto Appraisal Network® will be necessary to document all the work done to find the actual value of the vehicle.
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Inspired by caving friend Nathan Williams photos of this technique I decided to try to duplicate his results and then write some great software. The idea is to make profiles of cave tunnels known as cross sections very easily and accurately. Cross sections are commonly sketched by a cave mapper by eye with a very rough scale. Sometimes the passage is measured in height and width with a tape.
Here we use a motorized laser level and a DSLR camera to try to construct profiles. After seeing Nathan's photos I got the laser level from Harbor Freight Tools (~$60) and used my Nikon D40X in a local Arkansas cave.
Today I just did a quick test about 100 ft. into the passage. Below is a picture looking toward the level with flash so the tunnel profile can be seen. Then I did a 20 second exposure with the level running and all lights off. There was a small amount of light from the entrance, but negligible.
I then read the image into python, remove tripod reflections by subtracting the average of the blue and green channels from the red and then inverting the resulting monochrome image. The result is seen below:
The big thing I need is the software to then produce a set of points that describe the profile so I can implement routines to compute area and make a pseudo 3-D model of the cave by stacking many closely spaced profiles. I also tested the scale of the image by counting how many pixels wide the level appears and then determined the pixels/cm count to get the size of the tunnel. This process will be improved and automated as the software develops.
I'm open to suggestions from cavers and numerical methods folks. I have a contouring algorithm (Moore-Neighbor Tracing) coded, but it doesn't handle the breaks in the profile. Any ideas on making it continuous and possibly minor smoothing? I plan to build a "T" shape device with 4 dim LEDs to provide a larger scale target.


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Graphics Interchange Format and GIF are service marks of CompuServe Incorporated. This only affects use of GIF within Compuserve, and pass-through licensing for software to access them, it doesn't affect anyone else's use of GIF. It followed from a 1994 legal action by Unisys against CIS for violating Unisys's LZW software patent. The CompuServe Vice President has stated that "CompuServe is committed to keeping the GIF 89A specification as an open, fully-supported, non-proprietary specification for the entire on-line community including the web". Filename extension: .gif. File format. GIF89a specification. See also progressive coding, animated GIF.Last updated: 2000-09-12
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