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Valentine's Day – West Shore is the Best Shore Contest!
Here's a chance to qualify for our West Shore is the Best Shore Valentine's Day package!
We'll randomly qualify listeners to win this awesome package for two.
- One pair of Homewood Resort lift tickets. ($100 value)
- $50 Tahoe Dave's Gift Certificates ($50 value)
- Dinner at West Shore Cafe ($100 value)
Tune in daily and listen for the DJ to prompt you to call in.
- Contest will begin on February 9, 2018 and end at approximately [10:00am PST] on February 13, 2018.
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By Autumn Rice
Imaging USA is less than a month away, and although everything about the convention is fantastic, there are some events outside of the class curriculum you just have to attend while in San Antonio. From the Grand Imaging Awards and the Award & Degree Ceremony, to the parties and PPA Charities' Fun Run, these special events are sure to create special memories from your time in San Antonio.
To help you navigate some of the special programs at Imaging USA we gathered the top 7 events that you can't miss! Check them out:
7. Grand Imaging Awards: Celebrate with friends as we honor the 2016 Medalists, Diamond Photographers of the Year, and all the elite Loan Collection artists from the most recent International Photographic Competition (IPC).
6. Award and Degree Ceremony: This ceremony is all about your peers and their accomplishments in the professional photography industry. If you need some inspiration, going to cheer on your fellow photographers is the way to do it!
5. The Expo: The Expo is where all the action takes place. Marvel over everything from the PRINT Movement Theatre, Drone Zone, and the IPC exhibit to vendors offering the best discounts on the industry's latest products just for you! Going to the expo is a must!
4. Charities Reception: Mingle with your fellow photographers before the charities auction. This is a ticketed event!
3. Charities Auction: Kick off Imaging USA as you enjoy fun, auctions and all the good deeds that have been done. This is a ticketed event so pick those up at PPA2016.Gesture.com
2. Fun Run: Get up, get out, and get running at the annual 5k run for PPA Charities. Don't stay out too late the night before because the race starts at 7am and you don't want to be left behind!
1. AND THE PARTIES!!!: The parties at Imaging USA are a great way to kick off the New Year. Dance the night away with all of your photographer friends while having the time of your life. Don't miss the opening party or the closing party!
These are only a few of the special events that Imaging USA has to offer. Don't forget, you can take your Certification exam, watch the incredibly kick-in-the-rear-end motivational and inspiring presentation by CNN Star Mel Robbins, and so much more!
Find a complete list of the special events and their descriptions at ImagingUSA.com/Programs. And don't forget to visit ImagingUSA.com/Register to sign up for Imaging USA. The early bird rate is being extended until midnight ET Dec. 15, 2016. Don't be left behind!

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My friend has been playing MoP and has convinced me to start again.
I've decided to be more pvp focused than before, and would like to play a class that is doing fairly well / nicely balanced at the moment.
My friend plays a Frost DK in pvp and he says they do good damage but are kinda squishy so i'm trying to find a class a bit more well rounded.
I have all classes at 85 so its just a matter of choosing one to level.
Thanks for any advice or input you have.


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When: Today, 4 p.m.
Where: Mt. Tahoma H.S.
Records: Mountlake Terrace 17-7; Wilson 20-3
AP rank: Mountlake Terrace NR; Wilson 4th
Scoreczar rank: Mountlake Terrace 10th; Wilson 3rd
Key wins: Mountlake Terrace—Edmonds-Woodway, Shorecrest, Glacier Peak; Wilson—Timberline (twice), Bellarmine Prep, Union, Franklin, Lincoln (twice), Foss (three).
How they got to regionals: Mountlake Terrace beat Marysville Pilchuck in the District 1 third-place game to earn the district's No. 3 seed. Wilson lost to Lincoln in the District 3/4 championship game to earn the district's No. 2 seed.
Players to watch: Mountlake Terrace—Greg Bowman, P; Loren Lacasse, P; Yoel Tekle, P; Isaiah Green, G; Wilson—Ivy Smith Jr., G; David Jenkins, G; Alphonso Anderson, G/W; Jamal Welch, G/W; Keun Thompson, G.
Breakdown: These are two teams built on contradictions. Mountlake Terrace is a team built around post players like Bowman and Lacasse who can live on the perimeter and hit shots, while Wilson is populated with athletic guards who can post up and live down low. Wilson has waves of athletic playmakers with length like Anderson, Welch and Thompson. The Rams also have a pair of strong ballhandlers in Smith Jr. and Jenkins. This could give the Hawks, who have had issues with guard play all season, fits. Mountlake Terrace's young guards like Green and Prescott Day must play the game of their lives if the Hawks want to return to Tacoma.
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Prediction: Wilson, 70-61


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|Jobs says town's times will stay lean
|Written by Mark Jaeger
|Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:44
Chairman outlines how state budget crisis will put community in even more precarious financial position
Saukville Town Chairman Barb Jobs used Tuesday's annual meeting to paint a grim financial picture for the times ahead.
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Major players are Zytronic (U.K.), Wintek (Taiwan), Rechner Sensors (Germany), Lion Precision (U.S.), Synaptics Inc. (U.S.), Cypress Semiconductors (U.S.), Silicon Laboratories (U.S.), Atmel Corporation (U.S.), Analog Devices (U.S.)
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The report "Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Market by Type (Planar, Tubular, Others), Application (Large Stationary, Small Stationary, Transportation, Portable & Military), Geography - Global Trends & Forecast to 2018" defines and segments the global solid oxide fuel cell market with an analysis and forecast of the revenue. The SOFC market will grow from an estimated $2.19 billion in 2013 to $3.32 billion by 2018, with a CAGR of 8.7%.
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Asia-Pacific is estimated to be the largest revenue-generating region for SOFC. Japan and South Korea will be the major countries driving the market. SOFCs are also dominating the European and North American markets. In the ROW, different applications are growing, but the growth rate is low due to lesser awareness. These regions contain prospective future markets for SOFC along with some other regions in Asia-Pacific.
Planar SOFC: Biggest market by type
Planar SOFC is the largest SOFC type used across the globe. Despite having a higher installation cost, it has higher power to area ratio compared to the other types. Planar SOFCs, with their high electrical efficiency and ability to be used in sub megawatt and megawatt applications, are one of the widely used fuel cell systems. Planar SOFC technology can be adapted for all types of applications and it also supports portable and military applications due to its high electrical efficiency.
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells are extremely versatile compared to other types of fuel cell systems. SOFCs can be used for developing portable, transportation, and stationary applications. They are also flexible when it comes to the type of fuel required as they can run on a variety of fuel including natural gas, gasoline, diesel, and hydrogen. These qualities have resulted in various government institutions, companies, and universities conducting research on SOFC to facilitate their rapid commercialization. SOFC systems are made of different types depending on the technology used in its electrolyte. The most commonly used types are planar and tubular, which are available commercially.
The SOFC market scenario is competitive with various companies covering one or more applications. Asia-Pacific is the most active market for SOFC. However, the important challenges for SOFCs are in terms of commercialization. The rise in production and commercialization would in turn decrease the cost. This industry is expected to see rapid commercialization in the next few years.
The focus on research and refinement of the technology helps the companies to minimize their cost of operation and maintenance while increasing efficiency and stability of the product, thus, generating great revenue for the companies. Currently, the market for planar SOFCs is higher. The research and development of SOFC involve huge investments and greater risks. So, to minimize the same, the leading players are signing contract agreements and joint ventures to have expertise in all areas of research and shipbuilding. In addition, the continuous refinements happening in technology are leading to many new product developments.
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Rao steps up political parleys, dinner diplomacy
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao busied herself with political parleys on the second day of her three-day visit to Nepal.world Updated: Jan 19, 2011 19:13 IST
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao busied herself with political parleys on the second day of her three-day visit to Nepal.
On Wednesday morning, she met Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala and discussed government formation, constitution drafting and status of peace process after exit of the UN mission in Nepal.
She also met Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) chief Jhalanath Khanal later in the day and got to know their views on the same issues.
Nepal's three main parties—Maoists, NC and CPN (UML) are locked in a fresh struggle over heading the next government after 16 rounds of voting in parliament failed to elect a new prime minister.
They have time till Friday to forge a consensus or else another round of voting to elect the PM by majority vote is likely.
After hectic meetings, Rao is slated to engage in dinner diplomacy with leaders of Madhes-based parties at a reception held in the evening.
The Madhesi-parties from Nepal's Terai region are crucial in formation of the next government as they have 82 lawmakers in parliament.
During her discussions with caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Tuesday evening, Rao had made it clear that India would support a government led by any party in Nepal.
In the past, Maoists have accused the southern neighbour of scuttling their attempts at regaining power by putting pressure on Madhesi parties not to support Dahal in the PM poll.
Taking time off from meetings, Rao also visited Pashupatinath temple, the most popular Hindu shrine in Nepal, to offer prayers and inquire about the security of Indian priests.
Rao will meet Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala on Thursday where she is expected to raise the issue of the long pending extradition treaty between both nations.


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I believe that any company interested in maintaining a profitable business should be interested in customer retention marketing. Customer retention and customer retention marketing are crucial for converting one-time customers into long-term brand advocates.
I am looking at customer retention purely from a university alumni angle (more so alumni associations). It seems that very few Australian associations have got it right in terms of retention. Most of them spend huge amounts for initial alumni acquisition but it seems alumni retention is not taken as a priority. It's a real pity to see them acquire members, service them, and leave them unchecked for future sales/purchases and word of mouth marketing.
One of the most simple, yet most effective ways to help improve retention is to listen to alumni members. If alumni feel like their concerns are addressed and questions answered in a timely and appropriate manner, they are more likely to continue to be associated with the university. Alumni loyalty retention becomes a major concern if and when universities fail to respond to alumni inquiries and/or fail to address problems within the university.


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Sertoma Clubs: Service To Mankind.
Sertomans across the country are unified with a single purpose: serve our communities and improve the lives of those who need help.
Action Sertoma Club #10590
Visit website for information about Action Sertoma's various fundraisers and activities
American Heritage Sertoma Club #10494
General meetings on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. Location varies.
Burbank Sertoma Club #10627
General meetings 3rd Tuesday each month at 7 p.m.
Chicago Lawn Sertoma Club #10547
Meetings held 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of each month
Hickory Hills Sertoma Club #10058
Meetings held the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.
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Lemont Sertoma United Club #10312
Dinner Meeting held 2nd Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m.
Madison Sertoma Club #10264
For information about Madison Sertoma Club
Middleton Sertoma Club #10290
Meeting held 1st and 3rd Monday of each month
Milwaukee Sertoma Club #10295
Meeting held 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month
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Meeting held 2nd Wednesday of each month
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and a benchmark for the U.S. economy, posted higher first-quarter profit but yesterday said earnings may trail analysts' estimates after record gasoline prices buffeted consumers.
Sales at stores open at least a year may be unchanged in the three months through July, the retailer said on Tuesday. Wal-Mart dropped $1.37, or 2.4 percent, to $56.65 at 4 p.m. yesterday in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
The forecast may be further evidence that consumer demand is slowing, pushing the U.S. economy toward a recession.
Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott ordered discounts as deep as 30 percent to spur demand for drugs, groceries and flat-screen televisions and lure customers to Wal-Mart, which accounts for almost a tenth of spending at U.S. retailers.
"There are still uncertainties about the rest of the year," Scott said. "The economy is playing a critical factor in 2008. Customers are focusing on food and daily-use items."
Net income increased 6.9 percent to $3.02 billion, or 76 cents a share, from $2.83 billion, or 68 cents, a year earlier, the Bentonville, Ark.-based company said in a statement. Profit beat estimates by 1 cent. Revenue for the three months through April 30 rose 10 percent to $95.3 billion.
Retail sales in the U.S. excluding cars rose 0.5 percent in April, more than twice what economists had forecast, a Commerce Department report showed in Washington on Tuesday. Including autos, total purchases slipped 0.2 percent.
"In this environment, I don't think you'd want to go" higher with the forecast, said Joseph Feldman, managing director at Telsey Advisory Group in New York. "It makes sense you'd be cautious."
Separately, TJX, the owner of the Marshall's and TJ Maxx discount chains, said net income climbed 20 percent to $193.8 million as sales rose 6.2 percent to $4.36 billion. The retailer also fell in New York trading after forecasting second-quarter profit that may trail estimates.
Same-store sales at U.S. retailers will probably advance 2 percent in May as consumers spend tax rebates, the International Council of Shopping Centers said in a statement. Wal-Mart sales may climb at that pace, the retailer said May 8.
"Wal-Mart had a nice quarter," said Michael Binger, a portfolio manager for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, which has $73 billion in assets under management. "In reality, in this environment, it was a great quarter. I would be a buyer on this dip."
Wal-Mart has gained 19 percent in trading this year. Sustaining that pace for all of 2008 would result in the best performance by the stock in nine years. Wal-Mart is the second- biggest gainer in the 40-company Standard & Poor's 500 Consumer Staples Index after chewing gum maker Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., which Mars Inc. agreed to buy for $23 billion last month.
Twenty-four analysts estimated first-quarter profit at Wal-Mart of 75 cents a share. Sales rose 10 percent to $94.1 billion, slightly higher than the company's preliminary statement last week.
The retailer said last month it expected to earn 74 cents to 76 cents a share in the first quarter after marking down less merchandise for clearance sales, helping to widen profit margins. Wal-Mart had forecast 70 cents to 74 cents previously.
Wal-Mart increased traffic to its U.S. stores for the first time in more than two years as consumers sought lower prices, said Chief Financial Officer Thomas Schoewe. The additional visits boosted comparable-store sales by 2.7 percent, the best performance in eight quarters.
Wal-Mart customers spent an average 2.4 percent more per transaction, reflecting a consolidation of shopping trips.
"Clearly there is a higher stress related to higher gas prices, higher food prices and less disposable income," Schoewe, 55, said from Bentonville. "The customer is very concerned about filling up their gas tank, so rather than coming to visit two times a week, maybe they'll visit once and load up the basket."
Wal-Mart is in the final year of a three-year restructuring plan that's slowed the growth of U.S. stores to focus on distribution, information systems and merchandising to boost profit with fewer clearance markdowns.
A week ago, Wal-Mart expanded its $4-a-month drug offering with three-month prescriptions for $10, causing Target to respond with similar discounts.
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Build-a-Bear books on the way
Pedigree will publish two Build-A-Bear Workshop titles this year – an activity handbook and an annual.
The Activity Handbook is set for publication in April and will feature content based around special occasions throughout the year, such as birthdays, Easter, Christmas and Halloween.
Each section will feature colouring, recipes, make-its and activities based around the occasion. Activities include making balloon bears for birthday sleepovers, designing a bear dress, and 'bunnying up your bear' for Easter.
The Annual will follow a similar format and is set to hit retail in August.
This new relationship builds on the existing programme of activity for the Build-A-Bear Workshop brand which has already seen a phenomenal reaction from retailers to the launch of a collectable mini plush Fun Pack and premium gift tin programme launched by Click Distribution UK at Toy Fair this year. Other categories are also planned for the UK market.
"It is fantastic to be adding to the Build-A-Bear Workshop licensing programme with a major name such as Pedigree," says Bulldog MD Rob Corney.
"The new books are fun and innovative and are certain to fly off the shelves, as there isn't a child in the country that hasn't heard of Build-A-Bear Workshop."


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I don't care what anyone thinks of MoP. I don't usually make comments like "if your opinion is different than mine your stupid".
But seriously...it doesn't matter if you think MoP sucks or whatever. Nobody can say it is worse than Cataclysm. Before you even hit 90 you realize how much Cataclysm sucked and how much of a difference putting all that work into cracking the barrens in half into a new continent instead. Get over the pandas people.


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The Globe
It is well-known that the Ancient Greeks were skilled sailors, in fact they are also the inventors of the globe.
We not know yet who was the first to invent it but we know that the globe was invented in Salamina in the past before the battle Homonym, that we remember today as the big victory of the Greek fleets over the Persian fleets.
In some manuscripts that were found on the island was written that the globe was invented to deceive the enemies in many different ways.
It was necessary to invent something that allowed the Greeks to have a major possibility to attack the enemies. The greatest writers of Ancient Greece said that the invention of the globe was very important for the victory over the Persian fleet. However, thanks to this invention the discovery of new areas began and step by step those were engraved on the globe.
The first globe was designed on goose eggs with a goose feather.
On the small globe contained the known areas until to the Columns of Hercules.
Also, idyllic areas, sea monsters and intricate sea currents were engraved. According to many myths of the Ancient Greek culture this areas were occupied by the demigods.
This story is not true. The globe was invented between 1490 and 1492 by Martin Behaim. However, the most ancient globe dates back to 1500 and was constructed in Florence, maybe by Leonardo Da Vinci.
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Did the CIA commandeer the Boston bombing investigation?
It's been more than 300 years ago since demonic possession figured as heavily in a criminal probe as it has in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing.
Not since the Salem Witch Trials has the search for accomplices to a major crime centered so heavily on finding a suspect who believed he could talk to demons.
"He took (and ate?) his brains"
Since the remaining of the two brothers accused of planting the bombs was found cowering under a tarpaulin in a boat in a backyard in Watertown Massachusetts two weeks ago, coverage of the bombing by the most respected organs of the American mainstream media has been full of breathless updates—delivered with a straight face—about the progress of an FBI manhunt for a red-haired Muslim who talked to demons, dabbled in exorcism, and walked around carrying other people's brains.
The drumbeat was started by Ruslan Tsarni, who became famous as "Uncle Ruslan" for his forthright condemnation of the attack in a now-famous news conference on his front lawn just four days after the Boston Marathon Bombing.
"There is someone who brainwashed him, some new convert to Islam,'' Tsarni said. I would like to stress (the acquaintance was) of Armenian descent.''
Since then he has been using the media to press investigators to find Misha, a man who appeared to combine the worst features of villains from two different horror movies.
"The Exorcist" meets "The Walking Dead."
"This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely," Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN from his home in Maryland, describing the friend as an Armenian convert to Islam.
"The bombers' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, depicts Misha as a Rasputin-like figure who "took [Tamerlan's] brain" and said that his presence soon became a source of tension within the family," reported USA Today.
Also citing the boys' uncle, London's Daily Mail reported that "Misha used to give one-on-one sermons to Tamerlan over the kitchen table, during which he claimed he could talk to demons."
Tsarni, Tsarnaev's uncle, told CNN he was so concerned about someone brainwashing his nephew that he called a family friend in the Cambridge area to investigate.
"I said, 'Listen, do you know what is going on with that family? With my brother's family?' Then he says … there is a person, some new convert into Islam of Armenian descent," Tsarni told CNN's Shannon Travis.
Tsarni said, "Armenians, I have no intention to say anything about Armenians."
Then he proceeded to do just that. "It's a neighboring region with North Caucasus," the same area where the Tsarnaev family also hails from."
A red-haried Armenian exorcist…with a big mouth…in Cambridge
Tsarni described Misha as being "chubby, a big guy, big mouth presenting himself with some kind of abilities as exorcist . . . having some part-time job in one of the stores, not married. All of the qualifications of a loser, just another big mouth."
According to Uncle Ruslan, Misha, over a considerable period of time, had radicalized Tamerlan.
"But there are signs that Tamerlan had become radicalized — apparently from a friend in the United States named "Mischa" — described as a Russian of Armenian descent who was a relatively recent convert to Islam and who lived in Cambridge, according by Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni," NBC reported.
Tsarni told NBC News that Mischa presented himself as an "exorcist" who specialized in "removing demons from people's bodies."
Not a day went by without references in the press to the search for Misha. There were literally hundred of news reports about him. Very soon, it began to appear there was nothing new to be said.
But that didn't stop anyone. Reported New York magazine:
"According to reports, family members point the finger at a man identified only as Misha, a friend whom Tamerlan knew through a local mosque. Misha is described as a bald, red-bearded, 30-year-old Armenian convert to Islam who "claimed to be an exorcist who is fighting with demons."
OMG…you mean he's even scarier than…Alex Jones?
There was also a half-hearted attempt to draw Alex Jones into the controversy. Reported the Atlantic Magazine online:
"The major development in the sleuthing of the Tsarnaev brothers, specifically sinister Tamerlan, involves a red-bearded exorcist named Misha."
"Tamerlan listened to Alex Jones's popular and usually looney radio show Infowars. BuzzFeed's Rosie Grey reached out to Jones to see how he felt about having a suspected terrorist as a listener."
It's hard to imagine anyone asking Alex Jones, "How does that make you feel." But the effort to smear him was no doubt duly noted. But the problem with doing any serious damage to Alex Jones was simple: When you're lookng for an Armenian exorcist who talks with demons, slandering a poor radio host in the bargain loses its lustre.
The fever over finding Misha finally broke when somebodsy actually found him. Christian Caryl of the New York Times Review of Books scored the first media interview with Misha. In her interview with the alleged Boston Bomber's 'Svengali,' he told her he hadn't seen or spoken to anyone in the Tsarnaev family for more than three years.
Ooops! Uncle Ruslan's response spoke volumes about him. Was he abashed? Far from it. He changed his story without batting an eye, and turned his attention to a secondary target, a woman who, if you're trying to create a distraction, is right out of Central Casting.
"Check out Bomb Mom"
Ruslan dismissed Zubeidat, who was arrested last year for stealing $1,600 of lingerie from a department store, as a 'bad character'.
"Ruslan Tsarni, told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on her older son's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school."
" Ruslan Tsarni claimed that Zubeidat allowed a firebrand cleric into their house to give one-on-one sermons to Tamerlan over the kitchen table during which he claimed he could talk to demons and perform exorcisms."
He told London Daily MailOnline : 'The change of the older boy, one of the biggest causes is her. 'First she started playing into this religious crap, they say is a devotion to Islam."
"I work. Why do you want to know?"
Tsarni was cagey with reporters about what he did for a living.
"Tsarni was careful not to give out too much information, reported the Washington Post. "When asked about his profession, he responded, "I work, I work.'"
And with good reason, because for the past twenty years he has almost certainly been a CIA asset operating in a number of former Soviet Republics.
Tsarni's bio, in an official SEC filing, stated he worked for the US Agency for International Development, USAID, during the early 1990's. Bloomberg Business Review revealed last week that since 2008, he's again been working for USAID.
Famously, USAID workers build schools, as well as provide cover for CIA assets overseas. Recently they were thrown out of Russia. Just last week, they were asked to leave Bolivia.
In between his stints with the obviously-conflicted US Agency, Ruslan Tsarni worked for several Halliburton-controlled oil companies, as well as a Kazakh man charged with a major banking scandal in Kazakhstan whose repercussions earlier this year stretched all the way to London.
Maybe Ruslan Tsarni's commute car doesn't bear a "smoking gun" parking sticker from CIA headquarters in Langley. But neither his bio nor his demeanor since the bombings qualify him for a "Humanitarian of the Year" award, either.
Of demons, exorcists, and shoddy shoddy journalism
The search for foreign involvement in the Boston Marathon Bombings has been a sad joke.
The fact that no one has stood up and called "shenanigans" on the mainstream purveyors of what is supposed to be responsible journalism in this country is a national disgrace.
When you look at how this happened, its hard not to suspect that a "higher power" than the FBI was steering the investigation.
This raises the strong possibility that the FBI's investigation into the bombing has been manipulated, or steered, by the CIA.
In the post-mortems to come on the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, the crucial question will be: Who was behind this effort, and why?
A big question is what Uncle Ruslan stood to gain by making accusations about Misha.
If you're on a CIA's crisis management team, and your job is to play for time and try to run the clock out on the American people's attention span, the result might look something very much like the last two weeks in America.
And if your goal was to forestall pointed questions about Ruslan Tsarni and top CIA official Graham Fuller's roles in the Tsarnaevs family's frequent trips to Dagestan, you couldn't have played it better.


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Issue 21 Electricity Spring 2006
Volts from the Blue
Steven Connor
Whenever she passed under an electricity pylon, my mother would hold her breath. I knew enough in my scornful thirteen-year-old superbia to be able to tell her how quaintly crazy such thinking was, just as crazy as that of her mother, who thought that one should never leave unoccupied plugs switched on overnight lest the electricity should leak out, and spread across the room at ankle level, in a deadly, prickly, miasmatic carpet. For did not, does not, every schoolboy know that electricity is force, not stuff, the nature of which is to dart undeflectably to its goal, following its fluent route at the speed of light, not to diffuse or linger malignantly in clouds? Electricity was either stored, as in batteries or live wires, or it was in vehement motion. It was either absolutely on, or entirely off. It was positive or negative. It could never just loiter, lurk, or drift about. It couldn't haunt. One might see in this near-miss of, if not exactly minds, then at least of mentalities, an ancient and deep-rooted distinction between man's belief in his power to jump the tracks, to vault across spaces, and woman's role as the inert space itself, across or beyond which it is man's destiny incontinently to leap, the blue from which he bolts. Luckily I was never called upon to explain how it is that electricity also forms fields of force, which, though you might not be able to breathe them in, or obviate their action by holding your breath, certainly do seem to occupy and constitute space rather than traversing it.
Our elective, or electric, affinities have their historical correlatives. I want in what follows to trace the evolution of the imagination of electricity, or one strain of it, through the ways in which the notion of electricity was exhibited to the mind, from the earliest periods through to the middle of the eighteenth century. Because electricity is visible only in its effects, it tended to be associated with and understood in terms of the varied airs, vapors, ethers, and effluvia that occupied the imagination of natural scientists from the Classical period onwards. It is with the patchy, spasmodic, and never-quite completed surpassing of this conception of electricity—the pneumatic complexion of the electrical, as it might be called—that I will be occupied.
Electric Breath Most early theories of electricity depended upon an idea that electricity was a kind of matter—diffuse, airy, but materially in and of the world. A leading idea was of electricity as an effluvium, or stream of tiny corpuscles released by the friction or attrition of electrical substances. The earliest and for some time the most influential of these theories was set out in chapter II.2, on the attractive power of amber, in the De Magnete (1600) of William Gilbert, to whom belongs the credit of isolating the study of electricity as a distinct force and scientific topic.1 Gilbert relies upon the Aristotelian explanation devised to account for the winds, namely that they are formed from moist exhalations drawn up from the earth by the sun's heat. One must recall here that early theories of the elements saw moistness and dryness as qualities encompassing more than relative degrees of liquidity; this is what made it possible to distinguish, puzzlingly in modern terms, between dry and moist humors. Dryness meant a tendency towards hardness or compaction, and moistness the tendency towards dissolution or evaporation. This theory does not make as strong a distinction as we might between liquidity and gaseousness, both being forms of fluidity. Gilbert saw the earth as containing a succus, or juice, which could be drawn out of it by the sun, forming both water and air. Amber is regarded as a concreted form of this humid matter. Along with "all bodies that derive their origin principally from humors, and that are firmly concreted, and that retain the appearance and property of fluid in a firm, solid mass," it has the electric power of attracting.2 This power comes from "something imperceptible for us flowing out of the substance into the ambient air."3 Gilbert reminds himself that Plutarch, in his Quaestiones Platonicae, sees "something flame-like, or having the nature of the breath" in amber, but observes that such effluvia "are not a breath, for, when given forth, they do not exert propelling force; for they flow forth without any perceptible resistance, and reach bodies."4 And yet these attenuated vapors are also indeed a kind of "breath," as they "lay hold of the bodies with which they unite, enfold them, as it were, in their arms, and bring them into union with the electrics":5A breath, then, proceeding from a body that is a concretion of moisture or aqueous fluid, reaches the body that is to be attracted, and as soon as it is reached it is united to the attracting electric; and a body in touch with another body by the particular radiation of effluvia makes of the two one: united, the two come into most intimate harmony, and that is what is meant by attraction.6
Gilbert is at pains to distinguish this breath from ordinary air, which is much denser. It is for this reason that moist atmospheres and cloudy days inhibit electrical action: for "in thick weather light objects are harder to move, as also (and rather) because the effluvia are stifled, and the surface of the rubbed body is affected by the vaporous air, and the effluvia are stopped at their very origin."7 Nevertheless, because Gilbert believes that "[a]ll bodies are untied and, as it were, cemented together by moisture," he sees strong resemblances between the attractive powers of ordinary air (this being how he explains gravitation) and the moist but subtle effluvium that is responsible for electric attraction:8 "as air is the earth's effluvium, so electric bodies have their own distinctive effluvia; and each peculiar effluvium has its own individual power of leading to union, its own movement to its origin, to its fount, and to the body that emits the effluvium."9
Other accounts quickly enlisted the air more directly in the operations of electricity, suggesting, for example, that the thin electrical effluvium created an area of low pressure around the electric, upon which the surrounding denser air could press, thereby conveying light objects to the electric.10 From this developed the notion that the electric force was best thought of as an atmosphere, surrounding, or produced by electric objects (by which is meant non-conductors that produce static electric charges when rubbed).
The notion of an electric atmosphere was still being confidently reported in 1745, when Albrecht von Haller published his synoptic account of recent experiments in and theories of electricity. "This electric atmosphere, when produced from very large globes, extends itself four or five feet in circumference, and agitates leaf gold at the distance: I call it an atmosphere, because it really is so, as appears by the smell."11 He also reported the distinction made by Georg Bose between "the male fire, which is attended with crackling, and has a considerable force, and the female fire, which is a luminous emanation, without violence or percussion."12 Women were in fact thought to be altogether more atmospheric than men. Jean Nollet, the leading French authority on electricity in the mid-1740s, used to demonstrate the speed of electricity and its ready transmissability through the human body by passing shocks along lines of human subjects. He once electrified a daisy chain of Carthusian monks in this way. Women were suspected of being liable to arrest or deflect the longitudinal surge of the electricity. In one experimental line of electrified men, the current came repeatedly to a standstill at the same person, whose manhood came as a result into embarrassing question. His reputation was only restored when experiments on accredited castrati failed to show any difference in their conductivities. The maligned man had in fact been standing in a puddle (as I think I would have been under the circumstances) that had discharged the current.13
At the same moment, the German J. H. Winkler described how "the surface of an electrified body is surrounded by a subtle matter in movement," explaining that "[b]y the 'atmosphere' of a body is to be understood a fluid matter which is much subtler than the body itself and, joined with it, surrounds its complete surface."14 Meanwhile, in England, Benjamin Wilson was venturing an explanation of electricity in terms of the suggestions thrown out by Newton at the end of his Optics regarding the existence of an aether. For Wilson, as for many others, electricity was to be thought of as a subtle form or state of matter, exhibiting gaseous properties of propagation:The electric matter is always endeavouring to pass into the largest bodies when accumulated until it is equally distributed every where, and, as in the experiment of the feathers, an elastic atmosphere surrounds them, so it may be conceived to surround all other bodies … THIS ELECTRIC MATTER seems to be composed of aether, light, and other particles of matter that are of a sulphurous nature.15
The strangeness of electricity seemed to be that it was at once "so moveable and incapable of rest" and yet also capable of being arrested if deprived of a suitable conductor, for example, by the air.16 This latter had been demonstrated most dramatically by the experiments of Stephen Gray in the early 1700s, who had electrified charity boys, an ample supply of which was furnished by Charterhouse where he was resident, hung from silken cords in mid-air. The sense that electricity belongs naturally to "the more hidden properties of the air" is borne out by the fact that so many demonstrations and depictions showed electrified subjects who were themselves suspended in mid-air (even though the reason for this is actually to use the air as insulation).17 Charles Burney, the father of the novelist Fanny, recorded in 1775 his terror at being caught in a thunderstorm in Bavaria, and his wish for a bed off the ground, so he might sleep in safety "suspended by silk cords in the middle of a large room."18
Geometry of Air Two things happened in the mid-1740s to put pressure on the idea of electrical atmospheres. First of all, in 1745 and 1746, Ewald Jürgen von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek separately discovered the properties of what was called by Jean Nollet the Leyden Jar, which for the first time allowed electrical charge to be stored. Experimenters and demonstrators quickly discovered that the jars could be connected in series to form batteries that amplified their stored potential. As a consequence, and for the first time, the shocks delivered by electricity became powerful enough to injure and even to endanger life. The other important development of the 1740s was Benjamin Franklin's practical demonstration of the long-suspected identity of lightning and electricity. His work depended upon the capacity of pointed conductors to attract the charge from highly charged clouds passing overhead.
The principal outcome of the Leyden Jar and Franklin's lightning conductor was a strongly marked sense of the dichotomy between nebulous or atmospheric electricity, as embodied in Franklin's highly charged thundercloud, and the rapid power of the shock, as embodied in the lightning bolt. The dichotomy between atmosphere and spark, fuzzy and forked, can be thought of as announcing a shift from electrostatics to electrical current. From this point on, the turbulent effluvia of the air came progressively to be reduced to a kind of sharp-edged geometrics. One can also find something of this concern with the geometry of air in the strange controversy that grew up in the 1750s regarding the relative merits of pointed and rounded conductors. Franklin had insisted that the more pointed the conductor, the more effective it was at drawing off electrical charges from the atmosphere. Franklin's Royal Society rival, Benjamin Wilson, thought that Franklin's conductors were in fact dangerously effective, and attracted lightning where it might not otherwise strike, and so recommended blunt or rounded conductors, buried beneath the roofs of buildings rather than protruding from them. Wilson put on a huge demonstration at the Pantheon in 1777 and won over George III, who promptly changed all the lightning conductors in the Palace.19 Though one may indeed be able to detect significant differences in the effectiveness of sharp or blunt conductors when one's representation of a charged cloud is a swab of cotton wool in a brass pan, on the scale of a cloud several miles across, it makes no difference at all. Perhaps the importance lies rather in the setting of the geometry of point and line against the diffuse topology of the cloud. It is as though nature, in the form of electricity, were being schooled by the rod of man.
After the revolutions of the later eighteenth century, a more romantic temper was inclined to identify the surcharged thundercloud with the malignity of established power. Franklin's republicanism and, in particular his role, later in life, in drafting the American Declaration of Independence, secured for him a place as culture-hero in Erasmus Darwin's extraordinary naturalist poem The Botanic Garden of 1799. Where for previous generations consecrated church-bells had been thought bluntly to pulverize the diabolic air, Franklin's rod is here thought of as pricking the bubble of tyranny and superstition.
Bright Amber shines on his electric throne,
— Led by the phosphor-light, with daring tread
So, born on sounding pinions to the West,
Electricity developed a political ambivalence to match its new two-sidedness. It stood both for the Promethean power of the fire-stealing individual genius, and for the democratic currents of fellow feeling. It signified both the hic-et-nunc of individual revolutionary decision and the ubiquity of communicated sympathy. As Alison Winter has suggested, the figure of the musical conductor, drawing and directing the energy of the orchestra, belongs to this electrical economy.21
Bodies Electric At the junction of power and pleasure was the human body, and the medicine that, increasingly systematically, ministered to it. Medical applications of electricity began to multiply during the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many of these, such as the use of electricity in the treatment of paralysis, stammering, gallstones, and depression of spirits, seemed to depend upon the powers of electricity to loosen, unbind, or encourage flow. (Late in the nineteenth century, Nikola Tesla invented an electrically powered vibrating platform for the treatment of constipation, and afforded much delighted relief to a costive Mark Twain.) In England, such applications were encouraged by Newton's suggestions, thrown out in a number of queries at the end of the 1713 edition of his Optics, that the animal spirits or nervous fluid which communicated impulses from the brain to the muscles might be related to a subtle ethereal or electrical fluid that constituted a kind of universal medium in the universe. Hints such as these, combined with the strong inherited tendency to think of electricity as a vapor or effluvium, made it easy to see electricity as a mediator between microcosm and macrocosm, and as the principle of life itself. In America, where electrotherapies formed a strong field of what has been called "electrical humanitarianism," Dr. T. Gale wrote in his Electricity, Or Etherial Fire, Considered (1802) that electricity was a kind of universal atmosphere, which all living creatures inhabited and respired.22 Some years later, Michael La Beaume prepared the readers of his guide to the medical uses of electricity with an interesting account of Franklin's taming of electricity:The great Franklin, to inspire confidence in the powers of this elementary fire—to trace the origin of its high descent, and to shield the defenceless from its unrestrained and dreadful contact, sent up a kite to the clouds and fearlessly brought down the lightning within his grasp. He wrapt himself in its diffusive rays, and proved to the world the perfect safety to be found in its expansive and diluted form.23
The benignly "diffusive rays" of the electricity evoked here, along with its "expansive and diluted form," return it to the atmospheric condition that Franklin in fact transformed. La Beaume emphasizes the sensory nature of electricity throughout his book, with a particular emphasis upon its taste and smell. Indeed, the latter seems to clinch his version of the often-repeated claim that electrical ether is the soul of the universe:The smell of the electric air, is phosphoreous and sulphureous—these two properties, added to the others, complete the attributes of that material soul, which inhabits this system or world, and is to its motions and revolutions, what the heart is to the human frame—"the well-spring of Life," and the vital source of action and re-action.24
The strong association between electricity and the diffusive powers of aroma had been secured much earlier, in the work of the Venetian physician Gianfrancesco Pivati, who asserted that if odorous medicinal substances were put into glass vessels, and those vessels then electrified, the odor would transpire through the glass, encouraged, perhaps, by a similar transpiration effected by the electrical effluvium itself, thereby allowing the device to be used as a vaporizer. Pivati's claims seemed to be confirmed by J. H. Winkler in Leipzig and were reported in England by William Watson.25 Joseph Priestley's popular survey of electricity in 1767 includes a detailed account of one of Pivati's treatments:[A] manifest example of the virtue of electricity was shown in the balsam of Peru, which was so concealed in a glass cylinder, that, before the excitation of it, not the least smell could by any means be discovered. A man who, having a pain in his side, had applied hyssop to it by the advice of a physician, approached the cylinder thus prepared, and was electrified by it. The consequence was that when he went home and fell asleep, he sweated, and the power of the balsam was so dispersed, that even his cloaths, the bed, and the chamber, all smelled of it. When he had refreshed himself by this sleep, he combed his head, and found the balsam to have penetrated his hair; so that the very comb was perfumed.26
Meanwhile, however, Benjamin Franklin himself was slowly abandoning the atmospheric theory of electricity with which he had begun. In 1784, Franklin would serve on a committee, established jointly by the French Royal Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Medicine, to determine whether there was any physical basis for the claims made by Franz Anton Mesmer about the existence of a healing mesmeric fluid, and supported their conclusion that no such fluid existed.
Electric Affinities For nearly three hundred years of experiment, speculation, and spectacle, the study of electricity remained focused on electrostatics. For all of the splendor and amazement of electricity and for all the highly energetic work of theory and imagination that it evoked, it was not at all clear that electricity would ever be much practical use for anything other than philosophical entertainment until the work of Michael Faraday made it possible to conceive of electricity being put to work. One might see this first epoch of electricity as trying to establish electricity as a sensory object, something that could be seen, known, and understood. Franklin's experiments with lightning were only the last in a long line of attempts to make brightness fall from the air, to pull electricity out of the sky. After Faraday, electricity became something that one could use, the question of its mysterious nature lost to view, dissolved, as it were, into ubiquity. Electricity was no longer a substance, but a force, its potential and effects precisely controlled, even as its nature became less and less apparent, less and less available to be exhibited to the eye. Electrostatic electricity had been intensely present, but always short-lived; current electricity was powerfully and continuously available, but was no longer materially present. Where earlier theorists had accounted for the puzzling alternations of attraction and repulsion with the hypothesis of different kinds of electrical matter discharged by different substances, the resinous and the vitreous, Franklin had suggested that what counted were abstract variations of quantity: plusness and minusness. As with Freud's libido, a thoroughly electrical conception, it was no longer necessary to decide quite what electricity consisted of: all that mattered were its varying quanta, the economies of its energetics.
The decline of the effluvial conception of electricity, at least in official and technical understandings of its operation, paralleled a more general move at the end of the nineteenth century from gas to electricity. This is more than just a technological shift. Electricity represented the future; gas the clinging, lingering past. Gas was slow, odorous, insidious, organic, laborious, approximate, fluctuating, mucky, noisy, and massy. Electricity was fast, clean, absolute, mathematical, and abstract. Gas lighting is mysterious, impulsive, erotic; it belongs to what Bachelard calls the "igneous time" of replenishment and exhaustion (the gasometers that survive across London used conspicuously to respire, rising and falling as reservoirs of gas changed). Electric lighting is rational, homogeneous, and eternal, abolishing time and crime. The opposition between the allegedly quick and humane electric chair, that guillotine of the twentieth century, and what many regarded as the barbarism of the gas chamber also embodies this contrast between the newness of the electrical and the archaism of the gaseous. The position of poison gas in twentieth-century warfare, at once up-to-date and atavistic, belongs to this pattern of thought.
But the twentieth century saw electricity taking to the air once again, with the move from the electric to the electronic. With this, lines of force have begun once again to be calculated, imagined, and lived as fields of force, thus partially reviving, or keeping fitfully alive, the archaic conception of electricity as effluvium. Our world is governed not only, and perhaps not principally, by the sense of the network, the relay, the switchboard, and the circuit, but by incontinent dreams of shifting, dissolving, overlapping fields of force, of hot spots, data clouds, and the exquisitely oxymoronic notion of the "wireless network." Electricity used to be meteorological; the electronic has become our weather. Perhaps my mother was right: in the matter of electricity, what matters most is what is in or on the air.
P.S. There is disagreement about how many monks were included in Nollet's experiment, how long a chain they formed, and indeed whether they formed a line or a circle. Lines of 200, or 700 monks, are regularly reported, and the line rendered variously as a kilometer, 1.5 kilometers, and a mile in length. The largest estimate suggests that more than 1,000 Carthusian monks held hands in a circle 900 feet across. Some math may help. If we assume that the monks were standing with their arms almost outspread, they might reasonably take up five feet each. That yields approximately 1000 mpm (monks per mile), or around 620 mpk (monks per kilometer). It is very hard to see how 200 monks could be stretched into a line a mile long, unless of course they were stationed at rather lengthy, and lonely, intervals—8.8 yards apart, to be precise. A circle of 1000 monks (the idea of the circle perhaps being generated by some mistaken scruples about the necessity of closing the electrical circuit) standing five feet apart would have a diameter of 1591 feet. A circle 900 feet across would require only 565 monks to form its circumference of 2827.43 feet. But 1000 tightly bunched monks might easily form such a circumference.
Steven Connor is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London, and a writer and broadcaster. He has written on a wide variety of topics in cultural history. His book Fly will appear from Reaktion Books later this year, and he is currently writing about air. Unpublished works, lectures, broadcasts, and works-in-progress can be found at www.stevenconnor.com.
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text: If there is going to be a negotiated settlement in time to save spring training, "the groundwork is going to have to be laid this week" (Jayson Stark, PHILA. INQUIRER, 11/29). BACK AT IT TODAY: The owners and players meet again today in Leesburg, VA, but the session "may be nothing more than the players officially rejecting the owners' tax proposal." The owners had expected the players to use the tax plan as a "framework for a new agreement" (I.J. Rosenberg, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 11/29). There had been speculation that the MLBPA would offer a counter-proposal to the owners' tax, but sources familiar with the "union's thinking said that the counter proposal will not be made until the executive board has reviewed it during a meeting in Atlanta next Monday" (Ross Newhan, L.A. TIMES, 11/29). MLBPA General Counsel Gene Orza was quoted last night on CNN responding to the owners' tax plan: "The more we analyze it, the less possible it seems to be the basis for an agreement" ("Sports Tonight," 11/28). However in Boston, Larry Whiteside cites sources who say that MLBPA Exec Dir Donald Fehr might resubmit the owners' proposal in an "amended form" (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/29). FROM MANAGEMENT'S VIEW: Braves President Stan Kasten said if the players return to the table "under a pretext of continued negotiation" and make no counterproposal -- "that would be distressing and really would pretty much dictate what the owners have to do. Because we do need to go on with our business whether the union feels like participating in the future or not" ("Sports Tonight," 11/28). "There is every indication that the players will choose to stall until [December 5], which would put the owners in the uncomfortable -- and perhaps untenable -- position of declaring an impasse while there is a union counterproposal pending" (Peter Schmuck, Baltimore SUN, 11/29). POST-IMPASSE: If the owners do implement their system, "the rift between owners and players will widen, making the start of spring training in mid-February with anything but replacement players unlikely." The union would be expected to file an unfair labor practices charge with the NLRB (Hal Bodley, USA TODAY, 11/29). Phillies Owner Bill Giles said another option would be to try to persuade the union to agree to a "freeze" on all aspects of the current system -- including the December 7th free- agent deadline and the December 20th deadline for tendering contracts to all unsigned players. But both sides would "probably wouldn't agree to that" (Jayson Stark, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 11/29). SIDEBAR: Owners' chief negotiator Richard Ravitch's contract expires December 31 "and the owners apparently don't expect him to remain on the job beyond then." Selig said that Ravitch has given no "indication of his intentions" (Mark Maske, WASHINGTON POST, 11/29).


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BACHMAN, Wilbur 'Bip' -- Age 88, an electronic engineer and pioneer in ham radio communication, died peacefully of heart failure at his home on Wednesday, February 2, 2000. He was a native Californian born in Santa Rosa living in San Francisco most of his life. He loved to travel and communicate around the world on his Ham Radio and was known as W6BIP internationally. Bip was an active contester and provided the SF section for many SweepStakes participants. Bip seldom used his name, even professionally as he preferred to be known simply as Bip even to his non ham conemporaries. His passing once again creates an emptiness recently filled by a whole generation of experimenters and communicators who made our hobby unique.
Contributed by: Natan Huffman (W6XR)
Amateur Radio in San Francisco has indeed lost a very good friend. I met "Bip" only once during a Field Day outing many years ago, but exchanged QSOs with him during all the major contests and sweeps during the last 6 years. His QSL card is proudly displayed on my wall - not as an accomplishment of achieving any great distance, but rather the pride I felt in contacting a celebrity within the history of Amateur Radio in San Francisco. I wish I could have known Bip better. However, I'll always remember his steady and skilled fist.
73s, Bip
Contributed by: Peter Wm. Bradley (KA6SGT)
I remember Bip at many a dx convention. He would walk around with a cw osocliator and a small visual led display at the yearly conventions. Bip reminded me of the old time ham with a passion for cw.
Contributed by: K6ST (K6ST)
When I was living in Lilburn Georgia I had unbelievable problems with RFI and TVI. A friend who knew Bip suggested that I contact him. Bip graciously stayed on the phone with me as long as I wanted to talk to him. He sent me a HUGE package of information on RFI and TVI in the mail, and offered in his note to talk to me again if I needed him.
Bip will be one ham I never forget because of his willingness to work with me (a stranger) on my problem and do so as if he had known me his entire life. Rest in peace Mr Bip.
Contributed by: BILL (W4AN)
Bip was a fascinating on-air contact. A frequent visitor to the low band
CW DX scene, he had a very rare attitude toward helping others in
less favorable positions get that special and needed contact. For example,
he worked for a number of months as a go-between just to get me JT on
40CW .. culminating in my only two contacts and a card for it that I would
likely never have gotten, without his help...
This man was a gentleman and a scholar .. plus he was kind.
Contributed by: W5WQN (W5WQN)
Having had many CW contest exchanges with W6BIP over the years, I always added something ... " tks OT ". His call in my log will be dearly missed. Mr. Bip, tks OT, SK.
Contributed by: Bobby Webb (BOBWEBBEXW5ER)
To All,
Thank you for your kind words on my Uncle Wilbur(w6BIP)Bachman.
He was my Mother's brother and a very nice and kind man, who was intensively interested in the ham radio thing. You should have seen thae aparatus of electronic radio machines in his and auntie Elsie's back room in their house in San Francisco. Boy was I impressed as a young girl in the 50's!
My Mom, Lucille Bachman Krieger (who also has departed) told me that Uncle Wilbur won the worlds best ham radio contest 2 years in a row in the 20's(if she was accurate). Does anyone have any details on the years that this happened?
My hats off to Uncle Wilbur, a very nice uncle, and apparently a very very good ham radio operator too!
Candy Hammer
Contributed by: Candice Hammer (CANBIP)
You will be missed. You sent me information about TVI many years ago. What many people do not realize is that BIP was the president of the Ford Aerospace Amateur Radio club that I had the privledge of being the president also. Bip was involved in Oscar 1, which many people may not know.
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Many years too late, since I just found this listing in 2013. Bip was a good friend and college. He and I worked together at Ford Aerospace, and I designed a digital memory contest keyer for him about the time he was retiring from the company. He loved the device I gave him and I loved him as a very nice person and ham. I remember being invited to his San Francisco shack and being totally intimidated (in a very nice way) by his setup. A ham's ham, for sure, and nice guy. He is missed.
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May 27, 2002 - Leigh Ross attended the 2002 Shrinemont Retreat in Virginia, sponsored by the National Polymer Clay Guild, and again had a fantastic time of claying, visiting many old friends, and as usual, making new friends! Here are some candid shots of some of those artists who attended this year, as well as unique community project - The Shrinemont Frame! See these great pics right here!
More than just a "First Article" for the Guild Gazette, this is the story of one clayer's journey out into the world of Polymer Clay Retreats for the first time! The National Polymer Clay Guild holds a retreat at Shrine Mont every year, and this year SincereLEIGH was there! Take a look at all the fun and sharing that took place during this five day romp in the Mountains of Virginia!
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|Reviews for The Diary
| MLEK chapter 3 . 11/14/2009
Cute story. It's interesting to see things from Tina's point of view. I hope you continue to update. I'd like to see where this story is going.
| penny3 chapter 3 . 11/13/2009
I loved this chapter, especially when Tina had her chat with "GW" at the end.
| jadedXelement chapter 3 . 8/18/2009
pretty cool story. i love being about to kind of see Tina's thoughts and feelings. the first three chapters were pretty nice letting us be able to see tina's life and then her feelings/thoughts about her group of friends. i look forward to what you will write for your next chapter.
| GWgurl9 chapter 3 . 7/6/2009
This is such a cute story, and getting just Tina's perspective on this really is cool. You never get the first person's point of view on the show, and I think you introducing this is really original. Is Tina your favoirte character by the way? Anyway just to let you know I put another new chapter up on my story just for you! I will write something more soon. Thank you for always reviewing my stories as well. I love ghostwriter :) Write something soon now you here? Don't be waiting another month again! ;-)
| penny3 chapter 2 . 4/15/2009
Please keep writing. I'm curious as to how Tina will write about her friends (and Ghostwriter) in the diary.


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HALIFAX — Training camp is not a happy time for rookies. Beyond the beating they endure during two-a-day practices, they can also be subjected to the initiation ideas of their veteran teammates, who revel in the possibility of seeing the young kids squirm.
And so it was on Saturday. With about 7,000 fans in attendance at the Halifax Metro Centre, second-round draft pick Quincy Acy was called out to centre court. Acy turned 22 on the most unfortunate of days — one with thousands of fans ready to serve as the audience to his humiliation.
"Play Something Country" by Brooks and Dunn was played over the sound system in honour of the birthday boy from Texas, and Acy was made to sing. His two rookie teammates, Terrence Ross and Jonas Valanciunas, were called over to help soak up the embarrassment. Valanciunas, the Lithuanian centre who was gregarious enough to once dress up as a wizard at a European all-star game, clapped along enthusiastically. Ross, the lithe swingman from the University of Washington, shrank from the moment. It looked like he wanted to run far, far away.
"They need to give back that singing lesson money that their parents gave them because it was bad," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. "And the moves were even worse. They were out of rhythm."
Ross was, by some distance, the most demure of the three. And, yet, he has had to be assertive in his first NBA training camp in what could be considered a very uncomfortable situation. One of Ross's primary goals in his first year: get in the face of DeMar DeRozan, one of the franchise faces and heading into his fourth year as a starter.
DeRozan received the loudest ovation from the crowd on Saturday; Ross is supposed to agitate the fan favourite. A certain confidence is required.
"He's taken it well," Casey said of Ross. "It's always a hard thing for rookies but he's taken it well. He and Quincy both come in and mix it up every day and that's what you want your young guys to do, come in with energy and when everyone else might be dragging a little bit, you're coming in being a rabbit."
DeRozan scored a scrimmage-high 22 points — warning: intra-squad scrimmage statistics are especially meaningless — but a lot of that production came after Ross pestered DeRozan in the scrimmage's opening moments.
It is not as if the rookie was channeling Bruce Bowen, sticking his feet under DeRozan. But he was trying to crowd his opponent, taking away DeRozan's first step. That is a clue that Ross is a very heady defender: DeRozan can be dangerous when he is given room to start his attack.
"The coaches have been on me, telling me I have to play him this way, I have to play him that way," Ross said. "I'm just trying to figure out myself what's the best way to approach him, the best way to get under his skin. It's taken some time."
The rookie is still finding his way, and that will likely be the case all season long. For one thing, Ross seems impossibly skinny at this point. His offensive game for the moment will be limited to jumpshooting off of ball movement, taking a dribble or two at most, likely. And, even his defence, the thing the Raptors want to see from him more than anything, has flaws.
"When you get winded a little bit, the first thing that goes down are your hands," Casey said. "It's like a boxing match: You have to keep your hands up. He could be such a better defender if he keeps his hands up."
It is not difficult to see why the Raptors surprised many by taking him eighth overall, however. Along with being precocious enough to go after DeRozan — Ross says the relationship is friendly, with the veteran offering the rookie advice, even in the middle of a scrimmage — Ross has a silky jumper that does not require a ton of time to unleash.
"I think he's a guy with a lot of talent. He can do a lot of things," point guard Jose Calderon said. "I know everybody talks about the defence part, but he can score the ball. … Really complete guy."
When asked how he thought his first training camp went, Ross did not hesitate: "I think I did well. I think I did really well."
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