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On Sunday night, my mother's short one week visit to Israel came to a close. She needed to get to the airport. We needed to spend the afternoon and evening in Jerusalem finishing up some loose ends, gifts for family, last visit to the Kotel, etc.
We decided that the best way to get my mom to the airport was via a shuttle, known commonly as Nesher. The Nesher is just 45NIS per person, which is about 1NIS per minute of the trip from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.
Not residents of Jerusalem, we needed to select a place for the Nesher to pick up my mom. Thinking of a nice, comfortable place near to both the Old City and Ben Yehuda Street, I chose the David Citadel Hotel. Its a great hotel, with plenty of parking around.
We arrived at the David Citadel about 20 minutes before the Nesher.
All the parking spots on both sides of the hotel were blocked off with police barriers. I had forgotten all about it. Our dear friend Condoleeza Rice was back in town trying to advance those blessed peace accords that have made life in Israel so simple over the past 15 years. (That's sarcasm folks!)
I dropped off my mom, wife and kids in front of the hotel, while I went to find more distant parking. I found a spot not too far off, and returned fairly quickly.
My entire family was outside one of the country's nicest hotels with together with my mom's luggage sitting on the curb. I asked why they weren't inside.
My wife Tzippy told me that security was only letting paid guests and restaurant goers inside due to the increased security surrounding Condi and Company. I said "Okay."
Then Tzippy--who has clear conviction when it comes to politics in Israel and has her own ideas about where the Palestinians can shove, err...create a state of their own--pointed to a tinted window SUV.
"You'll never guess who just came out of that car parked right there," Tzippy said.
I was stumped. "Who?"
"Mohammed Dahlan."
"Really?" I said.
"Yep, he just walked right in with his entourage," Tzippy said.
At that point, I looked at the bags and my family sitting on the curb, Jews living and visiting the Holy Land of Israel, not allowed into the hotel for security reasons. All the while, one of the greatest threats to Israeli security was allowed direct access, on an invitation from our friend Condoleeza.
Honestly, I felt quite inferior at that moment.
Until we realize who the real threats to security here are, we are going to be in for a bumpy ride. Buckle your safteybelts.
PS. Here is a bio of Dahlan, put out by the ZOA in 2002. You can bet some details have been added to his resume since then:
MOHAMMED DAHLAN Dahlan, 41, is chief of the Palestinian Security Forces in Gaza. He spent four years in Israeli prison for terrorist activities, and was a commander of operations for Arafat's Fatah terror group during the mass "intifada" violence that began in 1987. According to the Israeli government, Dahlan is one of the primary directors of the current terrorist violence against Israelis in the Gaza region.
Masterminded bombing of Israeli bus: Israel Radio reported on October 20, 2000, that "Dahlan was behind the October 18 bombing of an Israeli bus in Gush Katif." The Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported on November 16, 2000, that "members of the Preventive Security Force in Gaza, headed by Mohammed Dahlan, were involved in a series of attacks on Israelis in Gush Katif and Netzarim." Ha'aretz reported on April 17, 2001, that Yasir Arafat "takes an active part in decisions regarding the firing of mortars. The general directives in this regard are passed to Mohammed Dahlan, and from Dahlan to his deputy, Rashid Abu Shabak."
Ordered rocket attack on an Israeli bus: Dahlan is currently a defendant in a lawsuit filed by victims Arab terrorism, including an American citizen as well as three children whose legs were blown off in a Dahlan-directed rocket attack on a bus on November 20, 2000. The Israeli daily Hatzofeh has reported (April 13, 2001) that the Central Intelligence Agency has tape recordings of telephone conversations in which Dahlan can be heard ordering the November 20 rocket attack and other terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Shelters Hamas terrorists: Dahlan told the PA-sponsored newspaper Al Ayam on Oct.26, 1998 that terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad "will not be outlawed."
Hired Hamas terrorists: Dahlan said in an interview with the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Sept.24, 1998, that 25 more Hamas terrorists have been hired by his force, specifically in order to protect them from being arrested by the Israelis.
Praised Hamas terrorists: In an interview with the Hamas newspaper Al-Risallah (cited in Ha'aretz, June 15, 1997), Dahlan said: "The presence of Hamas on Palestinian territory is very important for building the Palestinian homeland."
Threatened violence against Israel: On August 30, 1996, Dahlan said: "The Palestinian Authority does not exclude the return to the armed struggle, and it will then use its weapons." (Jerusalem Report, Nov. 28, 1996)
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Is legalization of crossbows off again in New York? State budget talks will decide
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on March 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, updated March 14, 2014 at 10:39 AM
The state Assembly earlier this week passed a budget resolution for the 2014-2015 state spending plan, leaving out any reference to legalizing crossbows for hunting and several other outdoors-related measures that were pitched by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year in his proposed executive budget.
Does that mean that crossbows will remain illegal for this year's hunting season?
It's too early to tell. The Assembly's budget resolution is essentially a "wish list" of the Assembly's Democratic majority.
The state Senate passed its budget resolution late Thursday evening, according to Jessica DeCerce, chief of staff for state Senator David Valesky, D-53th. She said it included support for Cuomo's crossbow proposal. Once all three of the budget-related documents are approved, the governor and Assembly and Senate leaders will go behind closed doors and hash out, tentatively by April 1, what will eventually become the state budget.
The fact that both the governor and the Senate want crossbows legalized still means that there's a good chance of it happening. Nothing is certain, though.
"That's the way things work here," state Assemblyman Will Barclay, R-Pulaski said. "The fact that the state Assembly didn't include crossbows doesn't mean the issue is dead. It's not a shocker. It could be used in the negotiations as a bargaining point."
Chuck Parker, president of the New York State Conservation Council and the Oswego County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, said the bottom is that sportsmen need to speak up - now.
"Contact your local state legislators and push hard for such things as making crossbows a legal hunting implement and other sportsmen-related items mentioned in Cuomo's budget," he said.
Other outdoors-related items favored by Cuomo that were not in the state Assembly budget resolution included reducing the minimum distance that an individual with a long bow or crossbow can discharge an arrow near an inhabited structure from 500 to 150 feet; clarifying the liability of owners, lessees and occupants whose property is used by the public for recreational activities and a provision for a vanity motor vehicle license plate for those who purchase a lifetime fishing or hunting license.
The Assembly, though, did give its nod to the following proposals that were in the governor's executive spending plan:
-Authorizing the state Department of Environmental Conservation to offer promotional, reduced cost licenses up to 10 days per year, and to designate up to eight free fishing days across the state per year.
-Creating three- and five-year hunting, fishing and trapping licenses.
-Allocating $6 million for about 50 public access projects for sportsmen on wildlife management areas including boat launches and parking lots. Spending $4 million for DEC fish hatchery improvements.
Meanwhile, in addition to supporting crossbows, the Senate resolution:
-Denies the expansion of liability releases, and creation of three- and five- year hunting, fishing and trapping licenses.
- The Senate accepts Cuomo's proposal to issue distinctive license plates for holders of certain sporting licenses. However as the Executive already has begun waiving statutorily required fees for such license plates before obtaining necessary authority from the Legislature, the Senate proposes that the Executive be granted such authority retroactive to January 1, 2014.
-There is no mention of reducing the required setback requirement for users of long bows and crossbows from 500 to 150 feet.


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before she past away , she was perfect and the woman of my dreams , i could never have asked for better !
My ideal partner would have to be one with a TERRIFIC sense of humour! (Not to mention tolerance!)
No kidding!
Angelhawke... Youe are such a troll! Fishsweeper is a great person.
And she's a LOT smarter than YOU are!
Hey guys...knock it off before I smack your heads together! This isn't real life... It's just a contest!
isn't sense of humour subjective? I dated a guy who thought he was funny but offended me with everything he said. Even my current bf's sense of humour took me time to get used to...I guess it is nice to have someone who cares to make you laugh and want to contribute to your happiness. Tolerance is an important one...so many egoists out there these days, no body wants to give in or take a step back.
Well, I've found my ideal partner. He isn't a barrel of laughs,but I compensate for that short-coming, and he's VERY tolerant of my hi-jinx!
This may sound cheesy...

The sufficient answer to this question contains only three words:

Like my wife.

Told ya it was cheesy.
He is kind, sweet, strong, intelligent and wise, tall, handsome, reliable, trustworthy, honest and loving. Thankfully, I have met and married him.
Well said!
Thought i found someone like urs but i think he lacked tolerence and didnt communicate! I donno if i dislike me or him for he didnt give a chance to understand me or let himself be understood! It was like a dream for a couple of days!
That is most unfortunate for you.
He would have to be sweet, and have a heart of gold. But I like some critical thinking and seriousness from time to time. A good sense of humor also helps! Luckily, I have already found him!
Hehe, we shall! Love Ironman :P
Sure! Take your pick, lol :D
I already have him.. and he is great. Makes me laugh my *** off until my cheeks are sore (unintentional pun lol). His sense of humor is totally out there and I couldn't love it more.. He has great aspirations in life and is honest. At times his honesty is harsh but hey, I learn alot about myself and in turn our relationship gets better everyday. He is gorgeous and well.. yeah. The private stuff is great too.. :) So yeah.. Ideally the best for me. Love him very much.
beautiful both within and outside
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self-reliant, intelligent,competent, thrifty, affectionate, warm, sexy, engaged with other people, generous, i.e., the woman with whom I have been married 45 years.
that is sooo very nice
One who is true, makes me laugh, and supportive... and who loves me. :)

I've found him already and I'm happily in love. :D
treasure that gift!
Some one flawed. Imperfect. Completely unable to be normal in any way
He would be my current husband, plus a little bit more emotional support.
My husband is my ideal partner
Someone who loves me the way I am
Mila Kunis on ecstasy...
Someone who is not perfect that accepts this not perfect and, live around it.
My ideal partner is a mature male who respects me and my decisions, who can relate to me.
Aah lots of lovely coupley answers on here, I find even when I'm single such things warm my heart.

I think my only requirement is to find someone who loves me. Hopefully I will one day :)
she has blond hair, green eyes, 5ft7in, a bit overweight, and I married her 18 years ago
Is a name a desc<x>ription.? Because right now I only want one person to be my ideal partner or spouse... <3
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Coming back from holiday at the beginning of the week and having been without internet access for the previous 10 days has left me with a lot to catch up on. Imagine my delight when trawling through my blog trying to make sure I had not missed anything, I came across a comment from Chloris of The Blooming Garden linking back to her blog and informing me that she had nominated Peonies & Posies for the One Lovely Blog Award!!
I am thrilled – I have never considered that I might get a blog award, so it came as a complete surprise. Although I am not new to blogging I still struggle with the mechanics sometimes, so it took me a while to work out how to display the award in my sidebar – after a few false starts I now have it proudly showing at the top of the page.
Thank you so much for this Chloris – I am genuinely touched that you thought my blog lovely enough to include in your nominations. For readers who have not already come across Chloris before, she is the author of the inspirational and informative blog The Blooming Garden. Chloris is a self confessed plant obsessive with a knowledge to match – if I have a horticultural question I can rely on Chloris knowing the answer. Chloris's blog also provides so much more than plant knowledge – she posts some truly fascinating insights into places she has visited and books she has read. A favourite of mine was about the Highgate Cemetery, published to coincide with Halloween.
One of the requirements of accepting the award is that you must post 5 things about yourself that your readers do not already know. Reading Chloris's list I was amazed by how much we have in common – particularly a dislike of ball games and sewing!
For my five:
- Whilst all my readers will know how much I love photography as it plays such a large part in my blog, you will not know that for Christmas my lovely husband bought me the macro lens that I have been wishing for – I am now the very proud owner of a Canon 100mm f/2.8L lens and the photos accompanying this post are the very first shots I have taken with it. I am delighted and looking forward to being able to get so much closer to my favourite blooms this year.
- When I moved to our current home five years ago I was a computer dinosaur – barely able to send an email let alone attach a photograph to anything. Thank you to our village computer club my life has been transformed. Run entirely voluntarily, this village group has given me the confidence to learn my way around a computer – here I am 5 years later with a blog, social media accounts and thousands of photos digitally edited and stored on my very own Mac Book Pro (with 2 forms of back up!!). I cannot praise the work of this group enough – so many people can now make use of all that technology has to offer them as a result of the work of this group – thank you GBCC!
- I have recently started learning to play the piano. I have never played an instument before (discounting the ubiquitous school recorder) and do not read music, so my brain is finding this quite a challenge. I am plugging away though and hope to make some progress in time for Christmas carols next year.
- My fridge essentials are a bottle of champagne, yogurt and chocolate – anything else is a bonus.
- Before we moved to the country we lived in London, where I was barrister specialising in corporate tax – suited and booted our life was pet free and most of our food came from M&S – 3 children and numerous pets later how different life is now!
So there you have it – the city loving, dog phobic barrister who now relishes her 'grow your own' country lifestyle!
Finally I need to nominate 5 more blogs for the One Lovely Blog Award – if you haven't got the time or inclination to accept I won't be offended – but at least you will know that I appreciate your lovely blog! It is hard to make a nomination as all my dear blogging friends have such lovely blogs, but I have concentrated on blogs where the photography is an essential part of the experience. I also think I met most of these lovely ladies on the excellent Blogging Your Way courses.
Once again thank you Chloris for this nomination – I am so pleased to have been identified as a 'lovely blog'!! All my photos today are taken with my new macro lens and feature a lonely rose I found in the garden this morning. I am astounded at the level of detail this lens picks up and really excited about learning to get the most out of it!
I will be back tomorrow with my first vase on Monday of the new year.


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For a decade, you've ignored friends' event invites. Now, you might have to say "maybe" if you want to preserve said friendship.
Facebook is testing adding read receipts to Events, meaning that you'll be able to see when a friend has seen your event invite, but is ignoring it (or at the very least is having to think about it).
Facebook already has read receipts for Messenger and Groups – which you can't disable (without third-party help). Allowing event creators to know when a person hasn't yet seen or has seen but is ignoring an invite could help them better plan – or at least prompt them to nudge the unsure friend along.
Or it could piss a lot of people off.
"We're piloting the ability for private event hosts and guests to know whether their friends they invited have seen the event," a Facebook spokesperson told The Daily Dot.
This is what Facebook's new friendship destruction device (event read receipts) looks like pic.twitter.com/Nv1IZfnCJ6
— Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor) September 14, 2015
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Summer of 2012, neighbors came together to pull weeds and lay down new sand in the volleyball courts. They also removed weeds from the garden beds and filled the beds with new wood mulch.
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Cherry Vs. Plum
Pink is the colour of spring in Vancouver, as the city's most popular tree, the flowering cherry, blooms into a cloudy rosé of pillowy pink blossoms. Vancouverites treasure this time of year, with a dedicated festival to the tree that lines almost 75% of our neighbourhood streets.
But did you know, mixed in among those cherry trees are a number of flowering plum trees. The differences are small, but a trained eye can easily distinguish the two.
Here is a quick guide for determining which flowering sapling you are viewing:
The cherry blossom flowers are constructed of five petals. Each petal has a small 'v' cut split at its narrowed tip.
The plum tree also has five petal flowers, but the petals are rounded at the tips.
The cherry buds can support multiple blossoms. This gives their branches their cloudy appearance. One of our favourite spots for viewing the dense blossoms is the Burrard Street SkyTrain station concourse.
Plum buds only support single blossoms. This limits the density of the pink clusters.
The cherry tree's bark often has horizontal markings on it.
The plum tree's blossom is much more fragrant then the cherry.


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Google will pay $3.2 billion to buy Nest Labs, which develops high-tech versions of devices like thermostats and smoke detectors, in its second-largest acquisition ever.
The search engine operator was an early investor in Nest Labs. It says the company's Nest Learning Thermostat has been a "consistent best-seller." The thermostat is designed to learn how inhabitants like their homes to be heated and cooled.
Analyst Shyam Patil of Wedbush Securities said Google is positioning itself to offer products in a "connected home" full of intelligent wireless devices that collect data and could be controlled with a smartphone.


text: Last week CrossWire's servers were hacked. God's gracious, as always, and I think I caught the hacker just hours after he broke in. He was logging userid's and passwd's so if you use the same id / passwd on crosswire as you do anywhere else, I would suggest changing your passwds. The log file only contained a few users, and I have informed all of them, but just to be safe, I would consider changing passwd's even if I didn't contact you. As I said, God is gracious and uses all things for His Glory. We now have a BEEFY box to serve: AMD XP 1800+ 1 gig of memory 120 gigs of storage 80 gig backup :) I've been spending much of my time over the past few days configuring the new server. I think I have most everything back online, but please let me know if you find things that aren't there. USER ACCOUNTS: If you previously had a user account on crosswire and would still like to receive mail sent to you at crosswire, please send me a private email with a forwarding address and I'll set up the alias. I'm being a little cautious for a bit, so please excuse me not dumping all the old accounts back on the new server. Mailing lists should be back up. Please resend anything that was sent in the past 3 days. CVS should be back online shortly. Thanks for your patience over these past few days, By God's Grace, -Troy.


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November 2013 - Majesty of the Seas to Caribbean - Bahamas
I have no complaints about this cruise. I think the time schedule, Monday-Friday is convenient for those with a week of vacation time. The crew provided satisfactory attention.. Food was impressively very good.
Although not the best of show entertainment.. it was acceptable..
The only big downfall, night before debark, my brother wanted to pay his portion of this responsbile portion of the bill.
They informed him that it would be charged to the account that was used to set up the on board account.
There was no way he could pay his portion..in "CASH".
Also folks in line wanted to pay there account in CASH.. and were not allowed.
This is an extreme inconvenience for many folks traveling with cabin mates seperating the bill costs.
If we were told this when checking in, we would have set up a seperate account for my brother.
I wish RCL would make some change in this process.


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A home in progress
Nothing is in its right place at the moment. I look forward to the day when this place feels like a home again, but first some painting. It's fun!
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I'm moving in this weekend just so you know.ReplyDelete
I love seeing the progress you make at your home <3 It's very inspiring!ReplyDelete
Oh Sandra, really love these glimpses of your space. Love that you stick things to the wall with washi tape, & you use a MacBook Pro. It does sound stressful but fun. Good luck!ReplyDelete
love to see your lovely space. yes, i've been painting the miles of trim in our home as well, painting is kind of calming and i love it. your front door is just amazing. so old and beautiful. best of luck with it, sandra!ReplyDelete
I'm really felling an urge to paint something.ReplyDelete
I reaaalllyyy love the first picture!!ReplyDelete
This building (and your apartment ofcourse!) is one of the most incredible spaces that I've ever seen!ReplyDelete
I love watching your remodel progress. What gorgeous architecture. We just don't see these kind of buildings in Portland.ReplyDelete
i love these glimpses sandra.ReplyDelete
We have just painted several rooms in our house and it has made such a difference. After each room I've thought "never again" - but then I've started with another one... It's an addiction! We have a few rooms left and I can't wait to get started but we need to take a little break first. You know how it is; when you change the atmosphere of a room you suddenly need new curtains, new carpets, new furniture... We're running out of money in this endless circle! :DReplyDelete
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An attempt to link religious work with recreational work as a new principle in the training of Jewish children constitutes the distinguishing feature of the program being carried out at the Nehr Tomid (Eeternal Light) School, on 101st Street, an institution which was founded and is being maintained largely by Elias A. Cohen or New York.
The Nehr Tomid Society, under whose auspices the school is conducted, was organized, according to Mr. Cohen, to meet the need for an organization American in its conception and Jewish in its origin, looking toward the development of Character Building Schools for the American born Jewish child.
The school, which is meant to be the forerunner of other similar institutions, has an enrollment of over 1,000 Jewish children and the outstanding features of its program are:
Every child is taught first, the Ten Commandments; secondly, the Hebrew alphabet; thirdly, the Bible and its stories and a proper interpretation thereof in English, then the reading of Hebrew and its translation, so that the prayers and Bible in Hebrew may be understood. Ritual singing, the usual Hebrew hymns, as well as the English hymns from the Hymnal of the Union are also taught.
This work is done in the afternoons from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M. The evenings are devoted to cooking, sewing, drawing, the social clubs, etc. There are hikes into the country and in the Summer time all of the children will be taken to the mountains where there will be no work except that of learning about the great out-doors.
The children are not allowed to come to the recreational work unless they partake of the religious work, nor can they do any of the Hebrew work unless they also share in the cultural and physical development work in the Settlement House which is called "Tranquillity House."
Owing to the fact that many of the children in the school are anaemic it has been decided to feed them milk and buns each day.
The school is free to all the children of the neighborhood. Each father and each mother, however, joins the sisterhood at $1 a year, and an effort is being made to have each of the parents being to the Nehr Tomid Society, the parent organization annual memberships of not less than $35 a year, which is the ###re cost per child for the reaching staff.
Jewish organizations of New York City were called upon to aid in the drive to raise $6,000,000 in New York for the United Jewish Campaign by Mr. William Fox, chairman of the New York drive Mr. Fox issued an appeal to fraternities, Jewish Centers. Mutual Benefit Societies, Landsmanshalten, Youth Organizations, Women's Groups and other Jewish bodies to lend their support in the campaign which is to be launched on April 11th.


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Where The Boys Are: Home Ec
By LISA M. MILLER
Published: December 16, 1993
FAIRFAX , Va.— GRAHAM McMAMEE stood at a counter in a classroom kitchen at his school preparing lunch for a group of hungry toddlers.
"Hopefully, I will work with children, maybe in day care, after I graduate," said Mr. McMamee, an 18-year-old senior at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Va., a suburb of Washington.
Some of the boys at Robinson still wouldn't be caught dead in them, and many still think they're only for girls. Yet, slowly but surely, home economics classes at other schools across the country are attracting boys who want to learn how to become good parents, improve their communications skills, cook pasta or have better relationships with their families.
Stereotyped for decades as "girls' classes," for teen-agers preparing to be good wives, home economics has a new focus and, in some parts of the country, even a new name -- Work and Family Studies or Life-Management Education.
And with those changes has come a new following.
Nick Rhoton, 17, a senior at Gate City (Va.) High School, likes to play tennis and basketball and acts in community theaters in his spare time. But Mr. Rhoton has an unusual item on his resume: he is the national president of a somewhat forgotten student organization, the Future Homemakers of America. He is the third young man to hold that office in the last eight years. "Males are realizing their roles in society," Mr. Rhoton said. "Everyone is a homemaker. Everyone will run a home. Home economics isn't just a class: it shows how to live in your society."
Of the estimated 5.3 million students in the United States enrolled in home economics classes this year in grades 7 through 12, 41.5 percent are boys, compared with 4.2 percent of 2.2 million students in 1968, said Alan T. Rains Jr., the executive director of Future Homemakers, in Reston, Va.
The group that Mr. Rains oversees started out in 1945 as a sister organization to the Future Farmers of America. Back then, its purpose was to use extracurricular activities to teach girls how to become better cooks and seamstresses. Future Homemakers has changed with the times, and since the early 1970's has aimed its programs at both boys and girls, teaching how to "balance work and family roles," Mr. Rains said.
The number of boys who call themselves Future Homemakers has risen steadily since 1965, from less than 1 percent of the group's membership to 16 percent this year. Nonetheless, the group is struggling to keep going, as overall membership has fallen steadily, from a high of 549,488 in 1965 (when the group merged with the New Homemakers of America, which operated in black schools in the segregated South) to 262,239 this year.
Mr. Rains attributed the drop in part to a declining high school population, lingering stereotypes about women who stay at home and what he said was a "decrease in the amount of extracurricular time a student has." In 1971, to increase its membership, the group started its Home Economics Related Occupations division, which helps schools develop a broad array of courses in skills that range from resume writing and preparing for interviews to entrepreneurship, family problem solving and financial management.
And to recruit more boys, it has also been stressing subjects that take into account the multiple roles that men can play in the family, with classes like Family Communications Skills.
Although the organization's overall focus, the family, has not changed, the "definition of what family is has changed," Mr. Rains said.
In some places, not just the curriculum, but even the course name is different. Last year in Virginia, Home Economics was changed to Work and Family Studies.
"The change is going on in junior high, high schools and universities all over the country," Mr. Rains said. "Some school systems are calling it Life-Management Education, Family and Consumer Sciences or Human Environment Ecology." Even Future Homemakers has debated over the years whether to change its name.
Whatever home economics is called, more boys are finding that so-called girls' classes can be interesting and helpful in their pursuit of an occupation or in their everyday lives.
"I'm learning how to coordinate my wardrobe and my room," said Vinnie Johar, a ninth grader at Robinson Secondary School who is taking Housing and Interior Design, a course that helps students make decisions on selecting, furnishing and decorating a home. "I don't want it as a career," he said. "I wanted to learn something new."
The idea that learning how to cook and manage a household might involve a process of education beyond the folkloric learning at one's mother's knee was largely an American invention. In 1841, a domestic reformer, Catherine Beecher, whose younger sister was Harriet Beecher Stowe, published her "Treatise on Domestic Economy," in which she complained that "women are not trained for their profession," and offered details on techniques for cooking, cleaning and furnishing a home.
The outlines of homemaking and home economics as a quasi science emerged early in this century. Two women whose husbands were disciples of the industrial-efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor offered guides to rationalizing and "scientifically" simplifying the work of the homemaker along the lines of more tangibly productive work, like farming and manufacturing.
Christine Frederick wrote "Household Engineering" in 1915 and later created a correspondence course based on its ideas.


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Orlando, FL – All of these points that are mentioned in this release have been substantiated! I have looked at many different perspectives of making money the old fashion way. My team of experts has done the math, looked closely at the revenue data mining, Deep Data analyzing of what travelers truly want when they fly and not what they are dictated to do when they fly. This is neither a form of Travel nor a form of Tourism; it is a form of fear and anarchy! We have looked at 50 other ways to make money without distressing our customer's pocketbooks and charging ridiculous, unwanted and unsubstantiated fees! We have also looked at getting back wherethe customers are our number one priority, whether they were flying First Class, Business or Coach.
Foreign airlines are making money and are not committing the unspeakable acts of what American customers are facing. USA airlines are bullies in the skies because it reflects our current culture and the lack of discouraging it from the CEO down to the ground crews. This philosophy has to change and quickly.
All it takes is listening; unfortunately, the industry has made its way back to a single monopolistic culture from the early eighty's, where it treasures large payoffs to the company's C class employees. These airlines truly do not give back to its customers. We need to take charge now or we will lose the way we want to travel as a society forever! Customers at some point in time will revolt! I wonder if the top threemajor airlines want to see this happen. United, Delta and American seems to have the same theme as our Police Departments do, act first and ask question later. This is a policed society bringing fear where ever it goes. We need to bring a sense of good back to our customers. Here's how I would stop this from happening. If one company becomes the role model, then most will follow the simple methods of making money and making customers happy. A true win-win for everyone in the industry!
Please keep in mind that there are true and real solutions that I can implement with a stroke of a pen that have been proven to work. We have tested and have asked what the customers want and we can give them these with true workable solutions that can be put into place within a 2 week to 4 week period.
These are just a few programs that I believe if instituted properly within all departments of the airline, there will be noticeable corrections and will help guide the movement away from what is noticeable today. These programs will make the airline not only profitable but will help the airline to become an airline built solely for the customer.
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Here is the song lyric of Necro : and you can also sing and watch music video
(Yo yo)
Bury you with satan
(Peep the death rap)
Bury you with satan
Death is in your future
Im gettin outrageous on you, pullin razors on you
Blazin on you, twelve gauges on you
Amazin the ways I print your veins on you
Ill warn you I'll bring euthanasia upon you
On some shocking asia shit
Split your face and spit on your corpse, you're a goner
Wrapped stabbed flesh juxed quick and grab your neck
Bludgeon you bloody, buddy you stupid what's after death?
You must be after gettin half your body cut in half
and after the aftermath of the bloodbath I'll have my laughter
You stupid fucks'll catch crew cuts
A chainsaw'll take the top of your brain off
Stabbin the two nuts of a Ku Klux - with scalpels
My rap'll leave you shackled
My rap is like crack inside a capsule
I'll shove an axe in you where your axel
Your main point your midsection where your ribs are flexin
Infested with injections you can't get rid of the infection
Kid you're destined for the death
Dead walkin, flesh exertin
Walkin through the streets dressed - being a corpse is next
Make a mistake a blade'll take ya life away
Leave you decayed inside a lake and break your neck down to your spinal
The gore shit I kick is sick cause I'm a bitter kid
I'll stick and vic you bitch
RIP you to pieces - pick you out a ditch
Go devour dick you coward
Catch a thousand hits around your skull
You won't get yourself know it bitin our shit
Niggas know who did it - kid you did it
Kickin it like you bit it - you never lived it
Kick in his head til it splitted
Open and liquid soakin a hemoglobin ocean
You're a victim, you're no one
I see him scopin - I choke him
(Hook) x4
Bury you with satan
Bury you with satan
Death is in your future
You're in for it
My sins are horrid explore it - cause death is torrid
You'll be dead for it - endure it
Morbid cold like Nordic
The hydrochloric - pour it
Onto your arm, it's awesome watch it melt the skin right off it
Right to the bone - forfeit
I offer you morphine and a chance to escape a coffin
Enter my auction
Become a slave I got nuns depraved
Under my cave I got a hundred ways to murder all of you gays
I'm ambitious for leavin you in stitches
I won't give up hope, seeing you hang from a rope - achieve my goal
Let the meat cleaver unfold
You traveled a great distance
And you still ain't sadistic - wait for assistance
You'll hate your own existance
Persistance overcomes resistance
When I persist to bash my fist in your face from instinct
(Chorus) x5
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Jamie Levine, a notable figure from the sport's earlier days, died on Tuesday of blood clot at 46-years old. The name may be unfamiliar to newer fans of the sport, but anyone around since the 1990's will recognize him as the often controversial – and often reviled – promoter of the World Extreme Fighting promotion.
In a time when the UFC itself was struggling to survive, Levine's WEF was a close number two in the industry, showcasing both UFC veterans and UFC stars in events that took place throughout the country. The WEF was where Din Thomas heelhooked Jens Pulver, where Marcus "Conan" Silveira got his revenge on Maurice Smith, and where Renato "Babalu" Sobral soccer-kicked Brad Kohler in the head (which, at the time, was the apex of sport's brutality).
Rich Franklin, Matt Hughes, Pat Miletich – so many greats fought for the promotion, which held its last event in 2011 (for a total of 46 installments).
It was even rumored that before Zuffa bought the ailing UFC company, Levine was part of a pool of investors who were going to swoop in and save the organization.
But for all his contributions, Levine was plagued by a self-inflicted dark cloud of bad business dealings, and was accused of stiffing many, many fighters. He was even banned from promoting events in certain jurisdictions.
Regardless of whatever shady dealings he took part in, his contributions to the sport were immense. For that alone, his passing is both noteworthy and sad.


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Drunk couple who ran up large restaurant bill flee without paying leaving their 10-year-old daughter behindBy Mason White 2:43 AM June 10, 2016
By: Chan Yuan
A couple was arrested on a charge of fraud after allegedly running up a large restaurant bill before fleeing without paying, according to police in Canada.
Manitoba police said that they have arrested the 29-year-old man and his 33-year-old wife, who were not identified, after being accused of abandoning their 10-year-old daughter at the restaurant because they did not want to pay the bill.
They were both charged with one count of fraud. The two were booked into the Brandon Correctional Centre, pending a bail hearing.
According to the police, officers were called to the restaurant on Tuesday night, after the husband and wife ran up a tab of $135 and refused to pay.
They then fled from the scene, but left behind their 10-year-old daughter. Police handed the girl over to the Child and Family Services.
Police searched the area, and they found the intoxicated couple several hundred feet away from the restaurant.


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Quotes, Aphorisms, Laws, and Thoughts
Three quotes by Harlan Ellison
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. [+]
Heaven began to run at the edges. [+]
I have no mouth, and I must scream. [+]
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GREELEY — The chatter of high school baseball is as timeless as the game itself. "C'mon kid. Whaddaya say here, keed? Atta baby!"
At Butch Butler Field on Friday afternoon, those and other aphorisms came at a steady clip from the dugouts occupied by the teams from Holy Family and Olathe in a Class 3A state tournament winners' bracket game. When it was over, Holy Family got to say a few more "atta babies" in its 25-6 victory over the Pirates.
That was especially the case when Devlin Granberg was done swinging the bat for Holy Family. The Tigers' sophomore pitcher/shortstop hit two mammoth homers, including a grand slam as part of a 10-run first inning.
Granberg's first homer came off struggling Pirates starter Ben Kaylor. With one out and the bases loaded in the top of the first, the ball easily cleared the 380-foot sign in left center.
Granberg's second homer, an uppercut bomb to left, had some of the locals in the press box saying it was one of the longest shots they'd ever seen at Butler Field.
"Yes, it was the longest I've ever hit," Granberg said of his second. "Both were inside fastballs, and I just tried not to do too much with them. I was just seeing them good today."
Senior pitcher Louis Simpson was the beneficiary of all those runs. Other than a tough fourth inning, when he was touched up for five runs, Simpson got the outs needed for the five-inning game.
The Tigers will play the Brush Beetdiggers here again today in a winners' bracket game. Brush won both of its games 3-2, defeating Weld Central and Eaton.
"We're getting close (to a state title), but there's still some real good teams left," Holy Family coach Marc Cowell said. "I'd sure like to go into that last Saturday having to lose two, for sure."
Of Granberg, Cowell said: "He's a great student of the game, and there's not a lot that intimidates him. We've come to expect him to get the big hit at the right time."
Granberg was a hero in Holy Family's 11-8 win over Faith Christian earlier in the day. He dropped in a big, late-inning hit for the winning runs.
"Our message was: We're not done, we're not just satisfied with that one win against Faith," Granberg said.
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In Indianapolis, September 11 was a day of tragedy long before 9/11. Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of a plane crash which killed four civic leaders.
Bank One CEO Frank McKinney, the Lilly Endowment's Michael Carroll former lottery director John Weliever and White River State Park Commission executive director Bob Welch were flying to Columbus, Ohio's, AmeriFlora flower show to gather ideas for the park when a midair collision killed them and two others.
Welch, McKinney and Carroll played key roles in Indiana's efforts to establish itself as a sports capital. Former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm says Carroll played a critical role in staging the Pan Am games, which Boehm chaired.
"There was a tremendous amount of work that needed to be done to just liaison with all the different government entities that needed to be involved in the Pan Am Games," Boehm says. "He was the perfect guy to facilitate that kind of complicated arrangement."
McKinney, an Olympic medalist in swimming, helped bring the Amateur Athletic Union to Indianapolis, while Welch made the first, unsuccessful effort to lure an NFL team to the city. Weliever was Governor Evan Bayh's director of administration in addition to stepping in at the lottery.
Bayh remembers him as a voice of veteran business sense in a youthful administration.
"I was fortunate to have a lot of very bright and sometimes very young people around me when I was governor, because I was young myself," Bayh says. "But John brought that hardnosed, real-world business experience to the table that really helped to leaven our discussions."
The track and field stadium at IUPUI is named for Carroll. A memorial to all four men sits in White River State Park near the historic pumphouse.


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An "important" speech by Sen. Barak Obama. While he is probably trying to position himself for a coming presidential election, he certainly knows how to do it.
But what I am suggesting is this - secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King -indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.


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September 11, 2008
'I Had to Do Too Much Teaching'
By Liz Lightfoot
COVER STORY Paul Jones is among a growing number of disaffected postgraduates considering suing their universities. Are PhD students neglected by their supervisors? By Liz LightfootIf things had gone according to plan, Paul Jones would be seeking work as a university lecturer. Instead, he is unemployed and trying to pursue a legal action against the university where he failed to complete his PhD.
The 26-year-old claims that his research is in ruins because the School of Business and Economics at the University of Exeter put unreasonable demands on him as a graduate teaching assistant when it placed him in sole charge of a module for final-year students. He claims that the supervision for his PhD was inadequate during the same period and that when he raised his fears of falling behind with his thesis, he was bullied by a lecturer who threatened him over a reference.
The university says that it disputes his version of events and does not accept his complaint, one of an increasing number being pursued by students in the UK. Though it is rare for cases to hit the headlines - most are either dropped or settled out of court with confidentiality clauses - lawyers say that they are most likely to be hired by students on postgraduate courses rather than students on undergraduate degrees, because the postgrads are older and have more to lose.
"It is disturbing to note the extraordinary number of calls we have received from aggrieved students in recent years," says Mike Charles, a partner at Sinclairs, the education law firm that is assisting Jones. "The number is certainly increasing; perhaps unsurprisingly, in view of the tuition-fee increases that result in students having greater inclination to turn to the law when they feel let down."
While pursuing his case through the internal procedures, Jones says that he discovered an email from a senior academic at Exeter warning of the risk of putting a teaching assistant in charge of a final-year undergraduate module at a time when students were becoming "increasingly snotty and litigious".
The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, which handles complaints against universities, confirms the trend of increasing postgraduate dissatisfaction. It draws attention in its latest annual report to the proportionately higher number of complaints from graduate students, saying they represent 37 per cent of the workload.
The increase in course fees has upped the ante for students who are more prepared to seek to enforce their rights, according to Salima Mawji of Match solicitors. "As our society becomes much more meritocratic, a degree becomes more important than ever and students are becoming more litigious to ensure they get what they set out to achieve," she says.
The cases that reach lawyers are the tip of the iceberg, says Clive Robertson, the head of the education law unit at Seddons solicitors. Left to their own devices, students can spend weeks and even months compiling lengthy dossiers of evidence and don't always realise that the courts will not get involved in questions of academic judgement, he says.
A student who fails a PhD will usually allege one of three grounds: mistake; extenuating circumstances, such as a family bereavement at the time of the viva; and bias or prejudice. The first two are rare, he says, and most cases allege that academics have shown bias or prejudice in their dealings with the student.
"You might think it hard to prove but I've seen some extraordinary comments made to PhD students," says Robertson. "One examiner commented in a viva that the work wasn't as good as something that could have come from someone with a full-time job at Tesco. I see students working for three or five years in a total vacuum with little or no contact with supervisors and then, when they finally submit their thesis, they are told it doesn't meet the requirements. It happens and it shouldn't happen."
The complaints that are most likely to succeed are those where the student goes on to finish their PhD at another institution and can therefore argue realistically that the supervision at the first university was the cause of the initial failure, says Oliver Hyams, a barrister at Devereux Chambers and chairman of the Education Law Association.
The biggest stumbling block for litigants is being unable to prove inadequate supervision. "If you claim that you suffered loss as a result of negligence on the part of the university then, essentially, you are claiming that the academic involved was professionally negligent and you will have to find another lecturer to back up your claim as an expert witness," he says.
Recent cases have suggested that universities are likely to settle the most viable claims rather than run the risk of larger losses and the publicity of a court case. But they are likely to defend weaker claims to make a stand. Because settlements almost always include a confidentiality clause, that gives the impression that student claims are less successful than they are in practice, he says.
Jones, who has completed three stages of the university's four- stage internal-complaints procedure, says that the university breached its contract to give him continuity of supervision and failed to provide the teaching support to which he was entitled during the same period. He is also alleging that he was subject to bullying and threatening behaviour and that the early stage of his internal complaint was handled unfairly.
He is seeking the funds to continue his research at another university, saying that his relationship with his supervisor has broken down irretrievably. He also wants an apology and an unbiased reference.
Jones's studies at Exeter began in 2003 when he enrolled on a Masters course after graduating from Aberystwyth University with a 2:1 in marketing and law. In January 2004, he was appointed as a graduate teaching assistant and transferred from the Masters course to pursue a PhD thesis on the political economy of dystopian literature. In return for teaching part-time under the supervision of the lecturers, his fees were waived and he received an annual stipend of 9,000 for two years, falling to 5,000 in the third.
He claims his problems began in June 2007, when Dr Janet Borgerson, the lecturer he assisted, announced that she was going on sabbatical leave during the autumn term with Professor Jonathan Schroeder, her partner and Jones's supervisor. "She told me I was to take over the whole of her module on consumer research," says Jones. "I was worried because it wasn't my area of specialism. I raised my concerns within the department about the workload in my write-up year and being in sole charge of a final-year module."
Internal emails obtained by Jones under the Data Protection Act show that Professor Steve Brown, head of the Department of Management in the school, wrote to Dr Borgerson in July 2007 telling her that it would be unwise to let a graduate teaching assistant take charge of the module, "especially a specialist third- year module". He added: "Students are becoming increasingly 'snotty' - litigious, even - and I think we need to cover all the angles with this." He suggested that two other lecturers be asked to help teach it.
He added: "I hope this isn't coming across as too paranoid, but I want to make sure that we don't have students sending in letters, and so on."
Professor Borgerson replied in an email: "I cannot in good faith ask a colleague to take on extra work simply because I have a sabbatical." She said of Jones: "He seems on track. The lectures he's done for my courses have been excellent, so on that point, he'll be fine."
Jones claims that he had to devote time in the summer vacation that he had intended to spend on his thesis preparing to teach the module. When Professor Borgerson returned in January this year, Jones asked her to take over the marking of individual assignments, saying he was behind with his thesis. She complained to Professor Schroeder. "She was very angry and asked me in front of my supervisor if I understood that they were the people who wrote letters of recommendation," says Jones. Dr Borgerson has admitted that she raised the issue of the writing of references but said she did not intend to convey a threat.
A spokesman for the university said: "It is unusual for graduate teaching assistants to deliver a full course module in the Business School and this would only be contemplated where they displayed a very high level of ability. In Mr Jones's case, he had been involved in delivering aspects of this module for the two previous years."
A hearing chaired by the deputy vice-chancellor, Professor Neil Armstrong, did not accept that unreasonable teaching demands were placed on the student. "It was not unreasonable for a graduate teaching assistant to be asked to teach an entire module and it was not in breach of the university's code of practice," said Professor Armstrong.
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I 've wanted to make a set of center drill holders for a long time. No matter what project I was working on, it always seemed like I spent half of my time with a chuck key in my hand swapping out center drills with drill bits. However, the thought of cutting a Morse taper (with no taper attachment) had always seemed daunting. After all, how in the world was I going to accurately cut a taper at 1° 26' 16″? One degree 26 feet and 16 inches? What? … Just kidding.
Then it occurred to me that I could use my compound to cut a Morse taper since it has plenty of travel. I needed about 4″ of travel to cut a number 3 Morse taper (also known as a MT3, MT#3, or a 3MT). Excited, I set to work.
Here is an image of all the dimensions of a Morse taper (click the image to go to the Wikipedia article on Morse tapers). But you don't have to calculate a single dimension if you follow my process for creating a Morse taper – it is very simple.
I set things up using a MT3 drill chuck arbor positioned between centers (the center in the 3-jaw chuck is a sacrificial center that I re-cut at 60° to ensure that it was perfectly centered). I didn't have an extra arbor sitting around, so I removed the arbor from my lathe's drill chuck and used that.
Using a dial indicator (attached to the compound with a mag base) I adjusted my compound to about 1.5° and began sweeping the indicator from one end to the other, making adjustments as needed until the indicator read zero across the entire length of the taper.
The Picture below is my attempt at a double-exposure to illustrate the process of sweeping back and fourth along the taper.
Make sure that the point of you dial indicator is on the centerline of the part, if it's high or low you're taper won't come out right! Frank Ford built a special dial indicator holder that helps ensure that his indicator is reading exactly from the centerline of a taper. Franks special indicator holder can be found here. If you plan on making a lot of tapers, Franks tool would definately speed up the process and help make it more precise.
Here's what 1° 26′ 16″ (one degree 26 minutes and 16 seconds) looks like on my compound – pretty precise … right? Which is exactly why it would be impossible to set up this angle using only the graduations on the compound – they're not nearly precise enough.
Once you're satisfied that your compound is set at the correct angle you're ready to start cutting your taper. It's a good idea to have a way to check the size of your taper occasionally. I used a Morse taper sleeve (4/3) for this purpose. Keep test fitting until the taper fits into the sleeve to the right depth. Be sure it fits far enough into the sleeve so that it can be knocked out with a drift, but not so far in that it bottoms out.
Here's an image to illustrate how to use a sleeve to check your taper for proper fit. The taper on the top is still too large and doesn't penetrate the sleeve far enough to be knocked out with a drift. The taper on the bottom has enough of the taper exposed to be knocked out by using a drift in the slot.
Here's what I mean by using a drift to separate a taper from a sleeve. Get my drift? …
Once you're satisfied with the size of the taper and the depth of the fit, you can fine tune the angle using layout die (or a Sharpie) and emery cloth. To test the fit draw a line along the taper and slide the sleeve over the taper giving it a few full rotations. The ink will be removed wherever the two tapers make contact.
Here you can see that my taper rubs in the middle more than at the ends, but it's making contact along about 2 inches of the taper. With a little fine tuning (polishing with fine grit emery cloth reinforced with a flat backing) I should be able to improve the level of contact even further.
You'll notice that my taper doesn't have a tang. This is because my tailstock doesn't have a slot in it so tangs are useless for my lathe – they just get in the way. Feel free to put a tang on your taper if you like.
However, if you decide to forgo the tang, be sure to turn down the first 0.300 so that you'll have a protective "button" (for lack of a better term) at the end of the taper. This button is intended to absorb any abuse the arbor might experience over it's lifetime (from being dropped or deformed by a drift). If the taper were to extend all the way to the end, any damage would cause the taper to not seat properly in the tailstock. Here is a picture of a manufactured live center with a black (hardened) protective button on the end.
I decided to cut several blank tapers while I had the angle set up. I'd advise you do the same. You can always think of uses for the tapers later! The long one on the left will be used to make a die holder. The third one from the left will probably become a slitting saw arbor. And the 3 on the right became the center drill holders shown at the very beginning of this article.
This was my first time cutting my own Morse taper, so If I missed anything please leave a comment. I'm sure there are several other methods of accurately cutting a Morse taper, so if you have one, please share your experience!
Update: There have been several comments on this project posted on the Machinist Workshop Forum. Feel free to visit the forum for more information and insight from others.
Update #2: Here's a picture of the completed Steve Bedair style Die Holder.
It's actually pretty similar in design to one that you can buy from LittleMachineShop.com. However, the LMS die holder fits smaller dies (13/16 and 1 inch). I made mine so that one end can hold a 1″ die and the other end can hold a 1.5″ die.
Also, the shaft is slightly longer than the sleeve, so you can pop the dies out easily when the set screws are loosened. Here's a pic of the 1.5″ die being pushed out.
I've been thinking about trying my hand at CAD and drawing up a set of plans for the die holder with the dimensions I used. I haven't seen plans for one anywhere else. If anyone is interested please leave a comment. If there is enough interest I'll draw them up.[ad]


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2013—The Beginning
Media recording of MCP's "2013—The Beginning" Meet the Authors online webinar session with Dr. Jim Young, Aluna Joy Yaxk'in and Dr. Mark Van Stone, the authors of Dr. Young's anthology titled "2013! The Beginning is Here."
The live event took place on Saturday, November 3, 2012. A warm thank you to all those of you who attended! We had a record turnout and did not have enough spots for everyone who registered, so we are making this recording available to all who could not attend.
2013! The Beginning is Here (book)
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From February 2 to February 14, McDonald's wants to give you a chance to win $5 worth of food for free, and all it will cost you is a hug or telling a close relative you love them. (Maybe you'd just prefer to pay?)
This is part of McDonald's "Pay With Lovin'" campaign, launching with the above commercial during Super Bowl XLIX. The "Lovin' Lead," as designated in the official rules, will select a person upon their entrance to a McDonald's. When that person orders, they'll be informed that they are an "unofficial winner," pending their performance of the "Lovin' Action." It's all very technical.
Here's the catch: Winners must "enter the restaurant through one of the restaurant's customer doorways." No drive-thru or sneaking through the air ducts a la Die Hard for you!
Over the two week period, each participating restaurant will select 100 total people as the winners, with about 1/3 of those happening on the first day of the promotion, so if you want a chance to give a fist bump in exchange for a Jalapeno McDouble, make February 2 the day you decide to head to a Mickey D's. It's also Groundhog Day, but don't worry, after 1,500 calories worth of McDonald's food, you won't have any trouble seeing your shadow.


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|Rediff India Abroad Home | All the sections
Infiltration has not decreased: Fernandes
Binita Parikh in Ahmedabad | June 24, 2003 02:11 IST
Defence Minister George Fernandes on Monday said infiltration from Pakistan has not decreased, adding India will wait for it to come down before talking to Pakistan.
On his recent trip to China and the Sino-Indian relationship, he said it was time to move forward by forgetting the past.
"China's dream is to become world's economic power by 2020 and the officials I met stressed that they wanted friendship across the border," Fernandes said.
On his talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, he said, "The prime minister told me that China was facing the problem of unemployment, spiralling well above 40 million mark, regional imbalance, as the eastern China has developed faster than the western China, and development of rural China."
"After my interactions with Chinese officials, I felt that there was a need for misunderstandings and tensions between India and China to take a back seat," he said.
"In fact, their prime minister told me that India and China has a long history of friendly relationship of 2,200 years. He had stressed that it was only in 0.1 per cent of this time that we had strained relationship. It was time to re-establish the 99.9 per cent time i.e time of smooth Indo-China relationship," Fernandes said.
Clearly wanting to avoid the pitfalls and negative points that lead to strains in the relationship, he said, "It is not advisable to just live in the past. Else, we will not be able to build the present and will negate our future."
"We need to take decisions and move on. Nationalism is not just about mere sloganeering but means taking decisions and putting them in practice," he added.
Fernandes was on a day's visit in the city for the Ekta Sammelan of the Samata Party.


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By Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Annette Lantos
Sixty-six years ago, when the Allied forces dismantled Hitler's Nazi regime, the world swore never to forget the horrors of the Holocaust and the millions of lives lost. Yet, to this day, many Holocaust survivors continue to suffer grave injustices from that grim period in history -- this time, at the hands of insurance companies. It is time to make these survivors whole again.
Prior to the Holocaust, many Europeans purchased insurance policies to provide themselves and their families with a means of protection against the growing Nazi regime. Following Hitler's defeat, many survivors approached the insurance companies to redeem their policies and were shocked to discover that the companies would not honor their claims. Without original certification of the policies' existence or other documentation such as death certificates, the companies refused to pay out the policies.
These requirements were ludicrous, given the circumstances: No death certificates were issued for those murdered in gas chambers and killed in concentration camps. Further, insurance documentation would almost certainly have been lost, confiscated or destroyed when a family was deported to the death camps. In many cases, the insurance companies possessed the only proof of a policy's existence and refused to provide information to the policyholders or their families.
In 1998, the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) was established to resolve these claims. Participation in ICHEIC was voluntary, meaning that while some companies chose to participate, many others did not. The ICHEIC process itself had a remarkably high percentage of claims rejection (approximately 84 percent), often due to the same limitations in documentation that prevented claims from being honored previously. Companies were never forced to make an adequate disclosure of policy ownership, leaving potential claimants unaware of funds they could be owed. When the ICHEIC process ended in 2007, many Holocaust survivors were outraged that their claims were dismissed.
Today, a tremendous number of survivors in the United States live below the poverty line and increasingly face the medical challenges of old age without the means to afford health care. I [Ros-Lehtinen] have the honor of representing one of the largest communities of Holocaust survivors in the country. These extraordinary individuals, having endured the horrors of the Holocaust, came to the United States to escape the injustice and brutal discrimination they faced in Europe. We will not allow Holocaust survivors to fall victim to companies that seek to profit from the Nazis' atrocities.
The Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act -- co-authored [by Ros-Lehtinen] with U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) -- addresses these pressing issues. This bipartisan legislation would allow survivors to avail themselves of state laws that were passed to allow them their day in court and to require European insurance companies conducting business in those states to disclose Nazi-era insurance policy information. This measure does not award any money; it simply affirms survivors' rights to bring the issue before a federal judge, a right that is guaranteed to all American citizens. The late Tom Lantos, former chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress, co-sponsored a version of this legislation in a previous Congress, for he understood this was an important means of making survivors whole.
For almost seven decades, the United States has led the charge to restore justice and dignity to Holocaust survivors. As long as European insurance companies continue to take advantage of the vulnerability of Nazi victims, injustice is perpetuated and the scars of the Holocaust grow deeper. We have the opportunity to right these wrongs and enable survivors to recover the funds they are owed; however, our window grows smaller every day. United States law will protect the victims of the Holocaust, not those who seek to gain from the Nazis' cruelty.
Source: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/ending_the_injustice_making_holocaust_survivors_whole_20111207/


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Contributor T. Fine recommends these excellent pieces on early electronic music. First, a really fun circa 2006 Australian documentary film:
…And a reminder that the MOMA is still running its "Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye" series:
In describing some of the musical objects in their collection, the curators write, "…MoMA was the first museum in the world to collect such objects, beginning in 1932, (and) also pioneered the live presentation of some new music technologies. For instance, Russian émigré Vladimir Ussachevsky performed the first tape-music concert in the United States at MoMA in October 1952. And though the Museum's collection does not include a synthesizer, it presented the famed Moog synthesizer as a live performance instrument for the very first time on August 28, 1969, changing the course of music history and influencing decades of future instrument design.
Learn more about this historic event at the MOMA's blog.


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MP3: To Be Sure
MP3: Todos
Today Numero Group, Chicago's masters of the amazingly detailed reissue, takes another dip into Ohio's unsung soul history with a self-titled release from Los Nombres. Los Nombres were a late 60s Latin Soul group from Lorain with a sound matching up with their more famous counterparts in New York and Los Angeles. Fresh off their two Grammy nominations for their recent monster of a Syl Johnson anthology, Numero continues to release lovingly crafted reissues of unheralded classics.


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New book imagines a Savannah Christmas
Doesn't it make sense that a woman named Holley would put together a book about Christmas?
Although that sounds like a plot of a cozy made-for-TV movie, the story of how a book about Savannah and the holidays came to fruition involves much more than the first name of one of its co-authors.
"A Savannah Christmas, Interiors and Traditions from the Low Country" is a beautiful new coffee-table book certain to be on the wish-list of anyone who wants to peek into some of the area's loveliest homes and familiar sites all dressed up for the holiday season. The 159-page book includes spectacular color photography by Richard Leo Johnson and Christine Hall, charming tidbits of information and history in addition to a sprinkling of recipes.
The book was the brainchild of Kimberly Ergul and Holley Jaakkola — two talented Savannahians who have spent the last few years fine-tuning the project recently debuted by Pelican Publishing Co.
The co-authors will be signing copies of the book, which sells for $24.95, today from 1 to 3 p.m. at E. Shaver, Bookseller, 326 Bull St.
The friends hatched the idea for a holiday book after Kim (as she is known to her friends) began noticing Christmas books about New Orleans, Charleston, S.C., and other cities. What she didn't see was a book about Savannah and the holidays.
"I mentioned the idea to Holley who seemed like a natural partner for such a project," Kim recalled.
Holley is a master gardener who has had a container garden business for several years. She was the lead garden expert for the G8 Summit at the Cloister on Sea Island and has arranged flowers for celebrities, including former first lady Laura Bush. Kim previously owned an interior shop in the Historic District and is a past tour home chairman and current real estate agent. Both volunteer for the Historic Savannah Foundation and other community groups and organizations.
"I thought we would make a great team," Kim explained.
Both Kim and Holley also share an affinity for holiday traditions. Kim, her husband, Mehmet, and their daughter, Nevin, attend the Christmas Eve service at Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church followed by dinner with all the trimmings at their Ardsley Park home. They open presents that night and hang their stockings so Santa Claus can fill them with surprises. Christmas Day is spent with extended family who help them celebrate Kim's Dec. 26 birthday.
The Jaakkola's favorite tradition is the Christmas Eve twilight service at Isle of Hope United Methodist Church.
"Our family, friends and children love to light each other's candles and sing 'Silent Night," Holley said. "It's magical."
Every year Holley and her friends take turns hosting a Christmas Eve dinner. Holley's husband, Juha, is Finnish, so in keeping with the tradition of his Scandinavian homeland, the Jaakkola's open a single gift on Dec. 24 and the rest on Christmas morning. The tree in their Bluff Drive home is decorated with photos of family, pets and friends.
"Our girls made sweet frames from acorns and things they found to remember how lucky we are," Holley said. (Ava is 8 and Sophie is 6.)
After they decided to do the book, Kim and Holley mapped out a plan and contacted homeowners and others to ask if they would like to participate in the project. "We both have incredible neighbors, friends and clients," Holley said. "Savannah is a very generous community."
With list in hand, the two contacted Richard because they wanted a photographer who would captivate readers with his pictures, which have been featured in such publications as Beautiful Homes, Southern Accents and Coastal Living.
"Both Holley and I had always admired (Richard's) photography," Kim said. "He is so creative with his camera lens, while staying focused on the subject." The co-authors also wanted Christine to be a part of the project because of her talent photographing food.
After deciding on a list of photos, Kim and Holley came face-to-face with another challenge. They didn't want to stage the holiday shots because, as Kim said: "It doesn't look appropriate for azaleas to be blooming in the background while a holiday wreath is being photographed on a garden gate."
As a result, all of the photos included in the book were taken during several holiday seasons. The finished product was exactly what the women hoped it would be.
Explained Kim: "Each home has its own personality and each homeowner has a unique style of holiday decorating. The churches and synagogue, festive shops and historical sites remind everyone exactly what makes this area special."
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Welcome to my blog! I'm Suzanne, the owner/writer/everything. I'm 26 years old and have a special place in my heart for fashion, interior design, photography, soccer, animal prints and leather jackets, coffee, and traveling the world.
I started this blog simply to collect and share all of the things I love - whether it be fashion,
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I try to keep track of all of the images I post on my blog, but a lot of them come from collection websites. If you have any issues with anything I've posted, please let me know; this also applies to any of the musicians that I have posted. I'm harmless - it's just because I'm a fan of your work!
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