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The number of unique websites that link to you is one of the most important ranking factors in SEO.
The age of domains that link to you is very important. Older domains perform better than younger ones.
Google prefers to see links to your site come from authoritative domains, meaning links from them carry more weight than others.
The authority of a specific page that links to you also plays a role in your own page's ranking.
Quantity of links to your website make Google think you paid or traded for links, which can bring on a penalty. This is also a negative SEO technique that competitors may use to damage your rankings.
Unique C-class (or C block) IP addresses show that your links are coming from sources outside of your business, indicating that you have helpful, varied, and accessible information.
Having many links from the same C-class IP address may be a sign of blog network or affiliate link building, which can result in penalties.
When building links, the total number of other pages that link to yours plays a huge part in ranking well.
Links from .gov and .edu sites carry more weight when linking to your domain.
You and your competitors are always fighting for links. That means links from websites that share real estate with you in SERPs have a greater impact on your ranking than links from non-competitors.
If you are linked to disreputable sites, Google may associate your domain with poor sources. As a side note, you can request to remove these kinds of links with Google's disavow function.
If you only get your links from one source, those links will likely carry less weight than if you have a varied link profile stretching across several industries and fields.
Links from domains in a similar niche help you rank better than links from completely unrelated sites.
Google penalizes sites with large quantities of links from irrelevant domains, as this is a signal of link schemes.
Receiving multiple links from "expert" pages can make you an authority, giving your domain an overall boost.
Receiving multiple links from "authority" pages will help the linked page and your site rank better.
Wikipedia only uses nofollow links, but their brand mentions may still impact your site's ability to rank.
Establishing an internal link hub for different topics helps the rankings of your individual pages.
Getting a link from independent, "real" websites help your site more than links from blogs.
Snacking redirects are a huge no-no. If caught, it can get a site not only penalized, but de-indexed.
Links from 301s are similar to direct links, though they likely pass less equity.
In an effort to combat spamming, Google values links from forum mentions less than average sites.
Google's Penguin update penalizes sites that use black hat techniques to receive links and artificially inflate their SERP ranking.
Google has confirmed that site wide links only count as one link, though they can still help in SERPs.
If the linking site has a high Trust Rank, they'll pass more trust to you.
The more links a page has on it, the less link authority is passed to each link.
Anchor text isn't as important to ranking as it once was, but it's still an indicator of relevancy.
If several links to your site have similar context before them, Google may better contextualize what your page is about.
Link titles can act as a contextualization factor or signal for Google crawlers.
Links in the actual copy of a page are more important than links on the sidebar, footer, and other locations.
Body copy is important, and links located higher in body copy are read first, meaning Google's crawlers consider it better than links further down in copy.
Receiving links from domains with country codes help you rank better in those countries.
Google says they don't follow links with the nofollow attribute, meaning you receive no link equity from sources that link to you using the rel=nofollow tag.
Sites with positive link velocity do better in SERPs than sites with negative link velocity.
Sites that have a natural link profile are ranked higher than sites that appear to buy links.
Linking back and forth with a buddy domain will gradually reduce your rankings, and Google advises to avoid reciprocal links because they constitute a link scheme.
Google can detect and penalize sites involved in short-lived link schemes, even though they don't last long.
Google differentiates between owners of sites and user generated content when considering links.
The more words a page has, the more credible their link is to you.
Google likes to see that high-quality sources are linking to you as a reference, increasing your credibility and ranking.
Older links carry more weight than newer links.
The closer you are to high-authority sites in terms of links, the more Trust Rank they pass to you and the better you will rank.
Guest blogs shouldn't be used as your sole link building method, but they can still help your website.
Outbound links can help your page rank — as long as you don't overdo it.
Outbound links can help your page rank — as long as you don't overdo it.
Crawlers may contextualize the links you use to determine the overall theme of your page so it ranks for the most relevant queries.
Google may take manual action if they notice excessive amounts of spam that is nofollow.
The quantity of internal domain links that go to a page can show that the page is relevant to a variety of other information on your site.
Anchor text can contextualize internal links, though it's not a critical part of the link building process.
If you refer to too many broken links in tandem with other negative indicators, Google may decide your website provides a poor user experience and demote it accordingly.
Using roughly four or more 301 redirects chained together for the same page will make Google stop crawling your page.
"Cloaking" is the process by which webmasters list a website under one context and then redirect a user somewhere else after a click. It's a surefire way to get on Google's bad side and even de-indexed.
If you partner with other properties and you link lots of them together to gain credibility, Google will likely penalize you.
If Google finds that you're hiding affiliate links on your page, especially through cloaking, you will be penalized.
If you link to websites within a network of disreputable sources, you could be penalized for spam.
Google demotes all domains that they believe engage in link selling.
Google has a patent to read context for links. This mechanism sends significant relevancy signals to Google's crawlers.
Whether someone is linking to you because they like you or hate you is evident in what they write, and Google can most likely now gauge sentiment.
Using a brand name in anchor text may send a strong signal to users and Google.
Identical anchor text, suspicious exact-match links, and other indications of paid links can result in penalties.
Domain age definitely plays a role in your rankings; no matter how small it may be.
Domains that are registered for more than a year are more credible since they've outlived the usual lifespan of doorway domains.
Sites that have gaps in registration or questionable histories tend to have trouble ranking well.
New pages on authoritative domains will likely rank better than new pages on lesser-known domains.
Google can find parked domains, and they're not ranked well since they provide a poor user experience.
Google introduced an update to penalize low quality EMDs.
A country code may help you rank in that country, but it may also hinder your ability to rank globally.
If your domain is ever flagged for spam, it'll likely negatively impact all of the sites on that server.
Simple and descriptive URLs help Google contextualize your page.
Excessively long URLs hurt search visibility.
An easy-to-read URL sends positive signals to Google's crawlers.
Public WhoIs can help keep your site in good standing.
A "contact us" page may help a domain rank locally since it lists your name, address, and phone number — three of the most valuable ranking factors in local SEO.
These pages help tell Google that a site is a trustworthy member of the internet.
Pages with microformat support usually rank better than those without support.
The physical location of your servers affect rankings in geographically-sensitive queries.
A site with clean, well-coded architecture is easy for Google to crawl and index.
Websites that provide a smooth, intuitive interface for visitors commonly rank better.
If your site frequently crashes or experiences downtime, it may have trouble ranking well.
If you have good reviews on sites like Yelp, you could rank better than if the reviews were negative.
Google looks for over-optimization factors to determine if a site should be penalized.
Google likes to see new, unique, and "fresh" content routinely on sites.
Duplicate meta descriptions make it more difficult for Google to crawl and contextualize your pages.
Meta descriptions are important to show users what is on your page before they click - Google penalizes sites that either spam or mislead users in their meta descriptions.
Mobile-friendliness and responsive design are now ranking factors for Google. Websites that aren't mobile-friendly can suffer in SERP rankings.
Breadcrumb navigation makes it easy for visitors and Google to look through your website.
An HTML sitemap makes it easy for Google to thoroughly crawl and index your website.
Drastic changes to your site may signal a helpful timeliness factor to Google, but it may also harm your rankings for any factors that you've changed along the way.
If a visitor is active on your page for a few minutes, the page receives more credibility than if a visitor leaves after a few seconds.
The faster your page loads, the better it will rank.
Efficient coding and complying with guidelines may not be strong ranking factors, but they definitely help. Excessively large pages may not even be indexed.
Higher PageRank tends to correlate to more authoritative pages.
Aged evergreen content that is appropriately targeted can rank highly for relevant keywords.
Filed and relevant pages can get a leg up in rank, compared to those that are filed in irrelevant categories or unfiled.
A page's distance from the homepage impact its ranking.
Citing quality references for a claim can signal quality on your behalf, or make your site more trustworthy.
An attractive, intuitive, and engaging page layout that shows the main content immediately is important to your page's rankings.
The number of pages you have on a site can show Google that you're not an affiliate site.
Both of these certificates send positive signals to Google's crawlers.
Using spammy or flashing ads to distract users from a page's content usually make websites rank lower in SERPs.
Google penalizes sites with ads and thin content in the upper portions of their pages.
If you optimize your site with irrelevant or "toxic" assets, Google will penalize your individual page in SERPs.
If most of your users click a link to one of your pages and then leave right away, Google may view the page as low-quality and demote it in SERPs.
Google pays very close attention to "dwell time": how long consumers spend on your page when coming from Google search.
The length of content you have on a page reflects an attention to detail and quality.
Proper grammar and spelling help match keywords to user searches and show site visitors that you're professional.
Writing on a higher reading level may help establish you as a reliable authority on certain topics - it's important to also keep the tone conversational and accessible for your target demographic.
Semantics are important, and if you use a variety of terms related to the keyword you want to rank for your ranking may increase.
Useful content may rank better than other content since it provides a better user experience for searchers and entices links.
Having on-page content that is 100% unique tells Google that your page is quality and one-of-a-kind.
Content that shows thought and insight is the cornerstone of quality while also helping a page rank for the long haul.
In the event you have duplicate content on pages, rel=canonical will tell Google which page you want to show up in search results.
The approach to content covers topics by fully addressing them and similar issues for conveniently-packaged information.
Syndicated content - if it's not modified enough, it can be viewed as duplicate content, which can cause problems.
Auto generated content is often penalized, and it's a surefire way to lose rank in Google's search results.
Additional page content includes helpful on-site interactives like calculators and planners that indicate your page's context, relevance, usefulness, and quality.
Google likes up-to-date content for time-sensitive or newsworthy queries.
Deleting large sections of valuable content can make you lose rank on SERPs since you'll lose keywords, word count, and quality.
Updating your blog regularly will increasing the number of pages you can have on SERPs.
Google's Panda update penalizes low-quality content and demotes it in SERPs.
Audio, photo, and video should all be properly titled, tagged, described so Google's crawlers can properly read and understand them.
Using descriptive and informative alt text helps Google understand the images on a page.
Optimized images have relevant file names, titles, alt text, descriptions, and captions which make them easier to read for Google's crawlers.
Your YouTube account doubles as a strong SEO presence since YouTube is the second-largest search engine in the world.
Google demotes pages based on repeat DMCA complaints.
Sites that acquire more direct traffic are more likely to be high quality sites in Google's eyes, especially if site visitors are using Chrome.
If users return to your page often, you'll most likely receive a boost in your rankings.
Google may view the quantity of comments on a blog or article as an indication of its worth and engagement.
Keyword-rich title tags are essential to ranking well. Use them to your advantage.
When writing your title tags, keep your keywords as close to the beginning as possible with clear, concise language.
Keywords directly in URLs send helpful relevancy signals to Google.
Keywords beginning your domain name are helpful.
Keywords in domain names send a relevancy signal.
Keywords in meta descriptions also send helpful relevancy signals.
A page's H1 is basically a chance for a second, less important title tag.
Keywords in H2 and H3 tags can also signal relevancy to Google, though they're not weighted as heavily as H1 tags.
Using a keyword more often than other phrases sends relevancy signals.
Instead of spamming your keywords, Google prefers if you intercut them naturally throughout your content for a more user-friendly appeal.
Keywords appearing in the subdomain can boost rankings.
Keywords in important page locations help the page rank for those terms.
Exact match keywords may better reflect a user's intent and relevancy, so they could rank higher than partial.
Latent semantic indexing keywords help contextualize your page.
LSI keywords in important tags can help Google determine relevancy.
If your page ranks well for keywords on your site, it may signal quality so you can rank for new pages as well.
The number of clicks a page gets based on a query can reflect the quality of your user interaction.
If all of a site's keywords have a high organic CTR, Google may view your site as quality.
Verifying your social media accounts establishes trust with your followers and results in favorable rankings from Google.
Page-specific social shares is growing in importance for page rankings.
Google looks into the relevancy of social accounts and their links as a way to avoid spam.
Social signals throughout your site may increase authority and visibility.
Companies with Google+ accounts often rank better in local search results.
Google tailors results to users who have certain authors and businesses in their Google+ circles.
Google +1's have a higher correlation with positive search ranking than every other factor except page authority.
Google weighs links from high-quality, authoritative users more heavily than fresher accounts.
Reflects the authority of well-known bloggers, journalists, and other content creators.
Twitter profiles with sizable followings may indicate popularity and quality.
Twitter accounts with large followings impact the rankings on SERPs more heavily than tweets from newer accounts.
The quantity of tweets a page has influences its SERP ranking, though Twitter can also be used for marketing on its own.
Facebook pages with lots of likes show a brand's popularity, which may send signals to Google.
Authoritative accounts or authors may impact your SEO when posting links to your site.
Facebook shares may also influence a page's location on SERPs position.
Facebook Likes may mildly impact SERP position for a page.
Google owns Feed burner, one of the most popular RSS feeds and utilize the data that it acquires.
Company LinkedIn pages can help make your brand more visible.
When employees join you on LinkedIn, Google may read that as a legitimacy and relevancy signal.
Google considers Pinterest a social signal, based on the network's popularity.
Links from Reddit, Digg, and other post-based sharing sites are often nofollow, though some high-ranking links are followed.
Google displays timely results for time-sensitive queries like news.
Google may attempt to show results that include diverse, high-quality results, as opposed to pages from the same domain, depending on user queries.
If a user is signed into Google properties while browsing websites, Google will record history data as user preference for SERPs.
Google tracks the queries that users type as a personalization measure, which may factor into the results that users see on SERPs.
Google will change SERPs based on perceived user intent, especially for transactional queries.
Google Shopping results sometimes display in organic SERPs reflecting transactional intent.
Google pushes down organic rankings to show strips of images for common queries, reducing the likelihood of sites showing up at the top of SERPs.
Queries that reflect a strong tilt to a certain domain may result in SERPs that only have one website listed, eliminating you as a possibility even if you're in a related field.
Google won't show adult or profane material when users engage Safe Search.
If a user enters a query for a specific brand, Google will show results for it first, even if you rank for keywords that are similar.
"Google Dance" is the unofficial term for sudden, short-lived changes in SERP rankings. Google shuffles ranking criteria to check for domains that use black hat strategies.
Google will notify site owners about unnatural links. Typically, the owner's site will drop in rank until the problem is addressed.
Google's sandbox is used for new sites that receive an unnatural amount of links after their creation, which could be indicative of link schemes.
Larger, more well-known brands may receive preferential treatment since they've established reputations for quality.
Brand mentions that include news results may receive preferential treatment in SERPs.
News-related queries, or queries that have a lot of relevant and new pages, will activate the Google News Box to give preferential treatment to recent updates.
Businesses with Google Places listings in a user's area will show up above non-local competition.
Google's localization prefers sites with IP addresses that are country-specific to the user.
After the Bigfoot update, the number of unique domains on a SERP dropped in favor of relevancy.
Google's Easter Eggs may change or completely revamp SERPs based on hoaxes, gags, or other additions.
Google pulls data from Chrome users, so it's possible that frequently-bookmarked pages receive a boost in SERPs.
Google collects data from its browser toolbars and incorporates it into SERPs.
Google has handed out manual penalties.
Filing a reconsideration request allows Google to re-examine your site and determine whether or not to remove a penalty.
Google has filed a patent for a system that allows human editors to influence the SERPs.
Google gives DMOZ listed sites more trust.
Google may look at whether or not a site is associated with a tax-paying business.
Sites with low-quality content are less visible in search after getting hit by a Panda Penalty.
Due to industrial-level spamming, Google may significantly devalue links from forum profiles.
Google gives preference to sites with a local server IP and country-specific domain name extension.
Brands get mentioned without getting linked to. Google looks at non-hyperlinked brand mentions as a brand signal.
Receiving a notice of detected unnatural links will usually result in a ranking drop.
Bullets and numbered lists help break up your content for readers, making them more user friendly.


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Fowler's Vacola number 14 jar
100% pure soy wax poured into a beautiful vintage Fowler's Vacola jar. We try to use only vintage jars, lids and clips that we've sourced ourselves from garage sales or second hand shops along our travels. We like to use these amazing jars as they hold a large amount of wax and have a lovely nostalgic feel.
Burn Time: 50 hrs
Ingredients: Natural soy wax, cotton wick, premium fragrance or essential oil & a whole lot of love.
Please choose your scent from the drop down box.
All candles listed are in stock and ready to ship.
Other Fowler's Vacola jars are available upon request - please contact us if you would like to discuss what we currently have in stock.
When your candle is done burning, simply wash out the wax residue with hot soapy water and then you've got a beautiful jar to reuse or recycle.
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If you're ready to give your Lake Worth-area home a new look with brand new, top-of-the-line flooring, look no further than Carpet One. Lake Worth-area Carpet One stores can be counted on to supply your Florida home with the best flooring selection, expertise, installation, and protection in the industry. We have everything from quality ceramic tile to laminate flooring and beyond.
Carpet One redefines what it means to shop for flooring in the Lake Worth area. Whatever your lifestyle, whatever your price range, your Carpet One near Lake Worth has it covered. Our Carpet One sales professionals will help you navigate the selection process with additional guidance from our SelectAFloor™ system, which leads you to find your perfect floor at a perfect price. Whether you want the classic look of ceramic tile in your home or laminate flooring that is both durable and beautiful for the high-traffic rooms of your home, your local Lake Worth-area Carpet One delivers with great flooring at a great price for everyone. What's more, Carpet One offers a variety of flooring warranties to protect the life of your floor long after it is installed.
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text: Are we committed to quality? You bet we are! It is truly important to us that you have the best possible dining experience. That is why we only use excellent, high-quality ingredients that we know you'll love. We use natural Chicken that is NEVER frozen, and we prepare each chicken right in our shop. Add to that the fact that we only source the very freshest ingredients, and you can be sure that every bite you take will be tasty and satisfying.


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Let's talk about money.
Most of us have some sort of financial concern. Some estimates show that nearly 80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and 61% can't cover a $1,000 emergency. Wages have stagnated, but the cost of everything else has continued to rise meaning that purchasing power hasn't really moved in four decades.
It takes an annual income of one-third of a million dollars to buy a home in San Francisco, which is fascinating considering the median household income there is about $83,000. It's not just the coasts, either. Real median household income in New York City is just under $51,000 but in the entire country it's $59,000. Considering how expensive everything — housing, food, transportation — is, that's not very much.
Have you ever felt like if you had just a little bit more money it would make an enormous difference? The problem with that thought — one that I've had many times — is that the goalposts continue to move.
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Two Oils That Can Help Lower Cholesterol
Most of us don't pay attention to our cholesterol levels or the dangers thereof. After all, it typically doesn't cause any symptoms. But you should! High cholesterol increases your risk of heart disease and heart attacks.
And, you don't want to spend the rest of your life dependent on prescription cholesterol medication. So, before I tell you about the two oils that can help your cholesterol, let me explain what cholesterol is and what it does.
What it is cholesterol and what does it do?
Cholesterol is a fat-like substance found in every cell of your body. The fat-like substance in your cells is used to create structure for cell walls. Furthermore, it helps with digestion and also produces vitamin D. In addition, it helps make hormones such as testosterone and oestrogen.
Now, not all cholesterol is bad. There's HDL cholesterol which is also referred to as your "good" cholesterol. This helps remove bad cholesterol from the arteries to the liver where it's broken down and eventually leaves the body. Then, there is LDL which is "bad" cholesterol. High amounts of this bad cholesterol can accelerate plaque growth in the walls of the blood vessels. It's this build up of plaque that causes blockages and causes heart attacks or clots. Here's how you can lower bad cholesterol.
Two oils to lower your cholesterol
Remember to add a good amount of plant-based foods to your diet and exercise regularly. These are the easiest ways to be in control of your overall health.
1. Coconut oil
Coconut oil is packed with saturated fats. These have gotten bad press in the past but we now know just how unhealthy a "fat-free" diet actually is. The saturated fat in coconut oil helps raise good cholesterol and lower bad cholesterol. Furthermore, coconut oil is an amazing source of fuel source that can keep you energized all day.
You can use coconut oil for both cooking and baking. And, if you enjoy the taste, you can even just enjoy it straight from the jar with a spoon.
2. Hemp oil
Adding hemp oil to your meals is extremely beneficial to help keep cholesterol in check. Hemp is a great source of good fat (essential fatty acids), which our bodies do not produce. These fatty acids help lower levels of unhealthy fats and also prevent the build up of plaque in the arteries. You can splash some hemp oil over your meals or add it to your smoothies. Seeds are just as beneficial.
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The AVK Group is a privately owned industrial group that currently comprises 80+ companies. AVK's core business is the production of valves, hydrants and accessories for the water and gas distribution network, sewage treatment and fire protection industry.
AVK Holding Southern Africa, was established in Pretoria, in 1991. After acquiring a major stake in the Premier Valves Group, AVK SA relocated to Alrode, Gauteng. The Premier range of products will continue to be marketed by Premier Valves under its own brand and AVK branded products by AVK Valves Southern Africa. The two companies will work closely together to expand and strengthen the overall position of AVK in the Southern African market.
In December 2016, AVK Holding Southern Africa acquired 100% interest in Gunric Valves, including all brand assets and intellectual property (IP). Gunric Valves have always specialised in manufacturing and exporting large diameter and made-to-order Butterfly Valves and tilting disc check valves. Gunric will continue to operate at the existing facility in Robertville, Florida, Johannesburg.
This acquisition represents a substantial, confidence-boosting, inward investment by one of the world's leading valve manufacturers. Moreover, this attests to the efficacy of the DTI policy aimed at re-industrialising South Africa to meet the requirements of its state-owned enterprises and infrastructure spend by providing large volumes of world-class, competitively priced valves locally, defraying concerns over quality, capacity and delivery time.


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How is my child doing in the Foundation Phase?
The Foundation Phase is a developmental curriculum for three to seven-year-olds in Wales. It encourages children to be creative, imaginative and to have fun while making learning more effective.
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Cartoon Hell #22 – "Professor Yaya's Memoirs"April 13, 2009
Cartoon Hell is TheKarpuk's attempt to review every single installment in an awful $5 collection called "150 Classic Cartoons" purchased at his local Wal-Mart. Your prayers are welcome.
That's right, we're moving on from obscure shit like Popeye and Betty Boop to the real stars of yesteryear. That's right, the Hoffnung!
Yeah, I hadn't heard of them previously either. The instrument wearing the hat who introduces the cartoon didn't jog my memory. According to the title card they are, "Based on Books," which is pretty awesome. I like books, heck I have a Goodreads account and I'm one of the five people that actually write reviews there. It's literary grounding assures us of a superior viewing experience.
It begins the way all fast-paced cartoons should begin, with an old man napping peacefully. The action heats up when the old man receives a note. A simple card states, "Happy Birthday, The Family." It's good to establish the mafia connections up front.
Every single family member on the card breaks into song one after the other, giving me a good idea of how out of sync the dubbing will be for the remainder of the cartoon. All the sopranos sound like baritones and vice versa. I think the intention was for it to end with the child in the photo giving a vile belch, a weak but acceptable gag. The trouble is the sound is so off it seems more like the old man responded with the burp, like it's an expression of anger, or perhaps satisfaction
This portrait inspires the old man, who I assume is Professor Yaya to go traipsing down memory lane by perusing an old photo album.
The first picture features a young, bowl-haired boy singing, because this cartoon is dead-set on being a musical experience whether we like it or not. He sprouts wings and flies out of frame, but sadly not out of hearing range. The next 30 seconds consists of pre-painted scenery related to churches, which implies that the young cherub is flying through all these scenes, but the effect doesn't quite work, leaving me more with the impression that the animators were short on time and decided to pan the camera across still pictures instead of doing their jobs.
Next is Uncle Alfredo singing at a pig's head. If rendered in live action this would disturb me beyond all reason, yet making the pig head cute softens the blow considerably. The pig head singing back is unsettling regardless.
Cousin Augusta rains down spit on a beleagured pianist while singing an opera surprisingly lacking in lisping.
A young boy, or perhaps a midget hides under her gown either inflating her lungs or pleasuring her, I can not determine which. The midget loses his shit, and the cousin deflates into a disgusting pile. I have not included a picture of the pile, as I never wish to see it again even to edit it into the article.
Uncle Giovanni is a classical style opera singer, and as he sings, it broadcasts the gag pretty clearly. The glass shatters, then different men come up with glasses shaped like their body types. How awesome would it be to go to a bar where they gave you a drink appropriate to your physique? I need to make this happen.
He ends up shattering himself trying to break a martini glass. I've never really understood why it's considered prowess to break glass with your voice, that's more a demonstration of someone's yelling ability. It's like showing off your guitar virtuoso skills by making the most annoying noise possible, or showing off your babysitting skills by seeing how quickly you can make a child cry.
Sister Penelope's segments starts off with something damn inexplicable. There's a large, flowering cactus in her cleavage. Is the humor in this simply too subtle for my American sensibilities? As she sings, the plant grows larger too the point of being terrifying, a venus fly trap squirming out of the depths. Cartoon directors have a strange tendency to veer from humorous to disturbingly surreal without seeming to realize they've made the transition. The venus fly trap snaps shut on her, leaving the poor audience to work out the logistics.
Aunt Emma's portion of the program outright disturbs me. She's built like the Eiffel Tower, and her adam's apple bobs up and down while she sings. The expression she bares is far to extreme to be merely song related. I imagine that Emma loves to sing, but her mannish adam's apple and terrifying neck make it extremely painful even to talk, rendering singing a hideously masochistic act. It ends with a midget hitting her on the foot with a hammer. I think that's how all things should end.
Suave Uncle Enrico sings a song composed of the word "la", his mouth gaping open wide enough to accommodate a honey-baked ham. In a joyous celebration of his gaping maw, the camera descends down his gullet, which conveniently has stairs, and find a worker toiling away in his guts. That's the ending of the bit, there's a jack-hammering man inside him. That's the joke, it just stops there. Weak sauce Hoffnung, weak sauce indeed.
"Ja Ja Junior" is apparently the belching rock and roller of the family, seen posing in the photo with a guitar that looks to have been constructed from the parts of every single brand on the market. He makes a series of primal noises like "oohs" and "aahs" while playing his guitar in the style of mid-50's rock, which always amused me because in the absence of distortion they just hit the strings really damn hard. All the other family members in their various scenes recoil in horror from the mild specter of a child play inoffensive rock and roll.
The film signs off by telling me that it's, "A Halas and Batchelor Cartoon", which is fortunate since I was wondering who to blame. There are other Hoffnung cartoons in this collection, I'll treat this one as a warning shot.
UNPC Moment:
It's pretty consistently mean about body image in its caricatures, but not in any way that's strikingly offensive. The Hoffnung people don't come off as having a lot of malice towards anything except the hideous, clanging, jangle music that we today call "Rock and Roll".
Rating: Humorously Bad
It's not good, but not from a lack of trying. A lot of style and whimsy went into this train wreck. It's weird and unpredictable, but the jokes never came off all that well, the humor being pretty damn clumsy. The attempt at making it a high brow, music oriented affair just shows that taste doesn't automatically render you talented.


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Once again, Reddit and the internet have revealed some of the strange interests that people have.
I recently discovered the subreddit "r/dustypcs," which includes hundreds of pictures and several YouTube videos of incredibly dusty, filthy computers. It reminds me of the obsession some have with watching pimples getting popped.
With just under 2,000 followers, the "r/dustypcs" subreddit is nowhere near as popular as subreddits where PC enthusiasts show off their clean, pristine, and beautifully crafted PCs, like the "r/battlestations" subreddit, which has more than 450,000 followers.
Still, r/dustypcs is updated fairly frequently with new pictures, which means that dirty, dusty, filthy computers are a thing and people want to see more.
Check it out and see if you, too, like to look at pictures of gross PCs:
Indeed, fans and heatsinks clogged by dust will invariably make computers run hot, and electronics hate heat. It makes your computer run slower so that it doesn't produce as much heat.
This laptop's fans are meant to push hot air through to the vents directly above them. Yet, there's so much dust that you can't see the vents.
That means the hot air wasn't leaving the laptop, causing it to become hotter and run more and more slowly as the laptop tried to protect its electronics.
According to the the person who posted the image, the laptop came in to be repaired for "something completely unrelated." It's a miracle that the laptop was working at all.
Source: YouTube/Rumble Viral
This PC was apparently used in a coal testing facility.
Congratulations! You've just spent five minutes looking at dusty computers! Now here are some tips or how to keep your own computer clean and running properly.
- For laptops, blast air from a can of compressed air into the entry vents every six months or so. These are ports on your laptop that don't blow out hot air. You don't want to blow dust back into your laptop through the exhaust vents, where the hot air escapes.
- For desktops, you can remove the side panel (usually the left side of the desktop). You might need a screwdriver to remove the panel. It's best to bring your desktop outdoors and use compressed air until the majority of the dust is gone.
- Try to keep your computer off floors - especially carpets, beds, and other parts of your home where lots of dust accumulates. For desktop towers that rest on carpets, try raising the tower with books or racks.


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The Department of Employment, Small Business and Training is building partnerships between schools and industry to enable young people to acquire the knowledge, skills and attributes to participate effectively in the Queensland economy. The Gateway to Industry Schools program is a component of a state-wide industry engagement and workforce development strategy to support the long-term development of a highly skilled workforce in Queensland. The program provides opportunities for industry and the education sector to work together to deliver outcomes for students, local communities and businesses. Students that participate in the program will be exposed to a range of learning experience that will assist them in their career choices and pathways to employment.
Each project is led by industry organisations which develop and implement the school engagement activities in line with their industry's key skills and workforce priorities. Industry organisations have discretion over how the industry specific projects operate and the type and level of engagement with participating schools.
The program provides industry with the flexibility to develop and implement tailored school engagement approaches and activities.
Visit the relevant industry page below for more information about the school engagement activities being undertaken in each sector, learn which schools are currently participating and how your school can be involved in the programs and activities of any of the industry projects.
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Sustainable and Green, this small graceful residence utilizes recycled foam walls, stained concrete floors, solar power and natural solar heat gain. The site overlooks a large water reservoir to an expansive valley beyond. Beautiful large boulders and native plants compliment the arid setting, and the shape of the home mimics an eagle in flight as it soars over the hilltop.


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History of the Kilmuckridge Drama Festival
In 1958 the local Macra na Feirme branch was selected to host the County Macra na Feirme Drama Finals in the Kilmuckridge Memorial Hall. The officers of the local branch at the time were the late P.J. O'Connor as Chairman, the late Johnny Murphy as Secretary and the late Johnny Kavanagh as Treasurer. Such was the success of the competition that Kilmuckridge Macra continued to host the festival for the next eight years. The Kilmuckridge Drama Festival has been a member of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland (ADCI) since 1960. After the 1966 Festival, the local branch of Macra decided that due to the high cost of hosting the Festival and pressure of time because of other commitments they could no longer continue to host it. In 1967 some Kilmuckridge Macra members and some local parishioners formed an enthusiastic new committee, the Kilmuckridge Drama Festival Committee, to preside over the 1967 festival. This committee was formed under the Chairmanship of the late P.J. O'Connor, with the late Myles O'Connor as Secretary and the late Michael Walsh as Treasurer. Other members were Thomas Buttle, John Furlong, Pat Furlong, Hugh Harney, Josie O'Connor (now Josie Moran), Laurence O'Connor, and the late Leo Prendergast, Sean Cashe, Tony Cleary, Jim Furlong, T.J. O'Loughlin, Michael Sinnott, Laurence Somers and Frank Whelan. Since 1967 the Festival Committee has hosted a Full Length (Three Act) Drama Festival annually to the present day and a One Act Festival annually until 2006.
There has been a long tradition of drama in Kilmuckridge. Some people fondly recollect plays in The Ford Cinema and in Kilmuckridge Memorial Hall. The late Fr. Wheeler's productions of "The Colleen Bawn" and "The Rose and the Shamrock" are often recalled. Plays such as "Her Only Son" and "The Bishop's Candlesticks" produced by the late Paddy Kinsella, teacher in Kilmuckridge Vocational School, are also fondly remembered. The cast members of those days such as Betty Ryan (now Betty Young), the late Tom Bolger and the Bolger sisters, Jack Dempsey, John Downey, Jim (The Farmer) Murphy and Joe Sinnott, are an important part of our drama history. Those productions created a love of drama in Kilmuckridge and surrounding areas. With such foundations it comes as no surprise that a strong tradition of drama continues today in Kilmuckridge.
Following the "Stardust Disaster" in 1981 every Hall in the country was inspected and obliged to comply with up to date fire regulations. This presented the Festival Committee with a dilemma. They faced the decision to either close the Hall and abandon their Festival or take out a lease on the Hall, and refurbish it to comply with fire regulations. They chose the latter. The cost of refurbishment was paid for by running "Tops of The Parish" for a number of years. The local groups played to packed houses and raised much needed funds along with unearthing many up and coming actors and actresses.
Kilmuckridge Drama Festival Committee has not only fostered a love of drama at local level, it is also actively involved in running of drama at national level. In 1978 Fr. Laurence O'Connor was our first member to represent our Festival Committee at national level starting at Leinster Council Level. He soon moved on to National Council Executive where he served a two year term as National Chairman. Since then Kilmuckridge has been represented at Leinster and National Executive level by Pat Furlong, Billy McCreary, Anthony O'Connor and the late Jim Furlong and Marie Johnston. Pat Furlong has also served a two year term as National Executive Chairman. In 1988 Kilmuckridge had the great honour of hosting the All-Ireland One Act Drama Final. There were twelve groups participating from all over the country and the plays were adjudicated by Biddy White-Lennon. This record of service to drama speaks volumes for our committee.
Over the years the Festival has drawn Drama Groups from the four corners of Ireland along with local groups from Co. Wexford such as Ballycogley, Blackwater, Boolavogue, Bridge Drama, Bunclody-Kilmyshall, Enniscorthy, Ferns, Gorey, Kilrush, Monamolin, Wexford and of course our own local group, Kilmuckridge. These groups of talented actors and producers have skilfully presented many memorable productions which have captivated audiences. Numerous Drama Groups who have performed in Kilmuckridge Drama Festival went on to win All Ireland Finals.
The Three Act Drama Festival takes place annually in Kilmuckridge for nine nights at the end of February. In addition to the drama groups performances there have been other facets to Kilmuckridge Drama Festival including display of arts and crafts by local artists and art competitions and workshops for the pupils of Kilmuckridge and Monamolin National Schools.
Down through the years numerous committee members have come and gone each making a valuable contribution. Thomas Buttle, John Furlong, Pat Furlong, and Josie Moran are four members of the original committee still serving today. Since 1967 the position of Chairperson has been held by Richard Devereux, Pat Furlong, Anthony O'Connor, Fr. Laurence O'Connor, Michael Murphy, the late Jim Furlong, Marie Johnston, P.J. O'Connor and the current Chairperson Liam Buttle.
The Secretaries have included Fr. Jim Butler, Ann Furlong, Josie Moran, Bernie Sheridan, Una Prendergast, the late Kevin Moran, Leo Prendergast, Marie Johnston, Myles O'Connor, Dermot O'Hanlon and the current Secretary Annette O'Connor.
The Treasurers have included John Furlong, Peter Prendergast, the late Sean Cashe, Ted O'Loughlin, Michael Walsh and the current Treasurer Billy McCreary.
Kilmuckridge Drama Festival has been a long-standing platform for the arts and has worked with great commitment to encourage local participation and to nurture the enthusiasm for drama that is an important part of our community. With a rich history of drama in our locality and by continuing to foster an appreciation and love for drama, the tradition of our festival will flourish.


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Sweet Cassie from Tuli
I've been to Tuli Asturias' shop "Tuli" in Plush Rho a few times now, and this is one of her newest releases called "Cassie". It's oh so sweet and oh so innocent. Which as you know, is soooooo me! ;)
It's a flirty little virginal outfit with sweetheart rosebuds and pink polkadots. It comes in multiple layers and quite a few pieces to mix and match. The tops are in jacket or shirt layers, in long and short versions. The underskirt layers are either patterned or this sweet little naughty pink thing - heck, even I like to watch me walk when I wear it! :D
Tuli is definitely a new designer I am going to keep my eye on. She's now turning her talents to some very nice skins and even prim jewelry. I suggest you keep your eye on her, too!
SLurl to Tuli: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush_Rho/124/236/22
Cassie dress by Tuli Asturias of Tuli Designs
Veronica Sandals in Rose by Lyra Muse for Last Call
Cailyn's Gypsy Set in Silver Red and Pink by Cailyn Miller.
Bridget Hair in Crimson Blackened by Elika Tirmasu of ETD
Skin Obsidian Lush in Nimbus by Portia Sin of Sin Skins


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The Journal of the New York Museum of Transportation
With the simple snip of a ribbon, it was done. The museum's major push for 2008—extending the electrified zone of our joint rail line to a full mile in length—was officially achieved. It was a deceptively comfortable, bright afternoon, quite different from cold, wet weekends spent planting power poles and hot, humid evenings wrestling bracket arms in place. And, that simple snip of a ribbon belied the physical effort, heavy equipment, and money that were brought to bear to fulfill the task we had set for ourselves. The two halves of the ribbon fell, the crowd cheered, and trolley operations at NYMT took a giant leap forward.
NYMT Board President Ted Strang (center) cuts the ribbon and officially receives the line extension from Charlie Lowe (left) as Dick Holbert looks on. Photo by Bob Moore
In our last issue we featured the considerable track work we undertook as part of our electrification extension, so it's only fitting that we give equal time to the great job our volunteers did to reach our goal. Charlie Lowe was the hands-on leader of this effort, but he was given great support throughout by Bob Achilles, Dick Holbert, Tony Mittiga, Bob Sass, and Jack Trip. Scott Gleason was invaluable in the pole-setting stage as well, and we can't forget yeomen's duty performed by the auger truck and bucket trucks from our friends at RGVRRM. A big thank you is in order, too, for Alstom Signaling's donation of the power bonds needed to complete the line.
If you've been following the saga in these pages during the year, you know it all started with agreement between leaders at NYMT and RGVRRM to extend the line to milepost 0.5 on our joint rail line. This point happens to be the property line beyond which the Rochester Chapter, NRHS holds an easement.
Charlie Lowe did his
usual professional job on a detailed design for the electrification
elements. Needless to say a project like this isn't a casual
exercise. For safe, reliable service each pole has to be precisely
located, each curve in the
track properly measured for placement and type of pull-overs, and a careful accounting of each component has to be made to be sure we have in stock what we'll eventually need in construction. Charlie's design is the foundation upon which the whole enterprise is built.
Speaking of those "components", we've been fortunate to draw on a supply of overhead parts that came to us in the early days of the museum when Ed Blossom was hired for a short time to oversee car restoration and wiring the line. The many unique parts that support the wire don't come out of a bin at Home Depot, so we have been very lucky to have this supply. What we didn't have a supply of, however, was poles. Thanks to good efforts by Dave Shields of Rochester Gas & Electric, we were able to pick up a number of serviceable, used wooden poles for just the cost of transportation.
As winter droned on, equipment was prepared and work began setting those poles. Hard, dirty work in the best conditions, this was pretty brutal in the cold. But, Charlie's carefully designed plan had a schedule attached to it, and if we were going to see trolleys run through to the new end point, the work had to get started early.
The auger truck drills into the soil to prepare to set another pole, with Dick Holbert (left) and Scott Gleason on the job.
As soon as spring arrived, the crew began a regular Saturday schedule, attaching downguys, mounting bracket arms, constructing span wires, etc. This work proceeded down the line through May, June and early July.
Then, in a full week of concentrated effort, July 21 – 25, the overhead took a big leap forward. In that one week, our volunteers were able to place the wire in snatch blocks at each pole, transfer it to HS clamps, position it with pull-overs, and tension it. On Sunday, July 26, training runs were made to BOCES crossing, assuring us that trolleys would transport our visitors to the diesels at that point on Diesel Days, a full month ahead of time.
Part of the joint operation's track car fleet transported the heavy reels of wire as it was paid out along the line.
Photo by Charles E. Lowe
If the overhead wire transmits the 600 volt electricity from our substation to the trolley, how do we complete the circuit? The steel rails do the job for us, but they need a little help. Each rail joint has to be wired to assure a complete, low-resistance connection so that little power is consumed as the electricity flows back to ground. To do this wiring at each joint, we can employ some modern tools and techniques, but it's still a grueling task!
At each joint a heavy, stranded copper wire called a power bond is welded across the gap between the two rail heads. The first step is to grind down the rusty, heavily pitted surface in order to assure a tight contact with the welding mold. Here's a shot of Tony Mittiga working the grinder in the hot sun. Bob Achilles and Jim Dierks shared in the work, but the bulk of the bond grinding was done by Charlie Lowe. There were 90 bonds to do, in all!
Here's the rest of the process according to our Cadwelding guru, Dick Holbert: After the two mating rail surfaces are smooth and rust-free, Dick inserts the bond in the welding fixture and clamps the fixture to the rail, adjusting it for proper height and carefully examining and adjusting it to insure proper contact between the mold, bond wire and the rail.
upper part of each mold is a hopper that holds the weld metal.
Dick places a special metal disk over the opening in the bottom of
this hopper to retain the weld material until it reaches proper
temperature after the reaction is started, at which point the disk
melts and the molten metal flows down into the mold around the bond
wire and the rail surface.
Dick uses a flint "spark shooter" gun which throws a spark a considerable distance, holding it about a foot away and aiming it at the slot in the cover to shoot a spark into the igniter powder. When the powder inside the cover ignites, it drops down to the material in the hopper below, which starts the exothermic (heat- generating) reaction. Molten metal is produced in about a second which melts the disk in the bottom of the hopper and the molten metal flows down into the mold to form the weld.
The bonding work proceeded through late summer and into September, and with its completion, the first trolley test run to the new end of wire operated on September 26, 2008. We wanted to make good on our promise to provide passenger runs to this point before the ride season ended, so Charlie and his crew went to work on a platform with hand rails and a pedestrian crossing there. The platform is essential for riders to safely get off and on the trolley for connecting service to RGVRRM, as well as to make it easier for the conductor to get off and reverse the trolley poles for the return trip to NYMT.
With the final touches made, the line was ready for operation, with nothing left to do but celebrate…and to thank the many members and friends for the generous donations that made this wonderful accomplishment possible. James Root came through for us with some classy souvenir invitation post cards, the plaques honoring major donors were made and attached to poles, and party plans were finalized. The big day was Saturday, October 18, 2008. Anna Thomas brought mountains of cookies and treats, Dave and Sue Mitchell took care of the coffee, and Doug Anderson produced some nifty souvenir buttons for the celebration attendees.
Celebrating members check out the location of the new end of wire, a sunny glade deep in the cool woods.
When it was time to board car 161 and ride out to the ceremonial site, we were happy to see a standing-room-only crowd on board. What had been a gloomy, early fall Rochester morning turned into a much nicer afternoon, just in time. As the assembled members, families and friends gathered to get a good view, the thought was probably passing through many minds…how long it's been since the museum began to take shape in the early 1970s; how many people have helped in so many ways; how much effort it has taken…to reach this point.
There will be much more to do, but for the moment it was a time to reflect and to enjoy the accomplishment. And so, with a snip of the ribbon, it was done.
The world of trolley museums is widespread, and when the summer tourist season is in full swing there isn't a lot of time to keep in touch with each other. In an effort to fix that, some years ago an informal get-together was started, to give volunteers and staff of these organizations a chance to share the fun and learn from each other's experiences. It's called Winterfest, taking place in mid-winter, and the 2009 host for the event is the New York Museum of Transportation.
Photo by Charlie Lowe
A "Save the Date" flyer has gone out to trolley museums in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, and we've already received many expressions of interest. We could find ourselves amid 100 or more enthusiastic individuals eager to see what we've been up to, looking forward to trolley rides on our newly extended line, and happy to share what they've learned in their home operations.
The event is open to pretty much any volunteer and staff member from a trolley museum, but is not open to the general public. Charlie Lowe is heading up the planning effort and he tells us the invitees will start arriving on Friday, February 13 in time for a pizza dinner and nighttime trolley rides. Saturday will feature guest motorman training and operations, followed by joint trolley-and-train runs in cooperation with RGVRRM. Guided tours of both museums will be included. That evening there will be an off-site dinner and slide show. Our guests will head for home on Sunday.
Some NYMT members attended last year's Winterfest. It was held at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, PA, and we were represented by Charlie Lowe, Bob Achilles, Tony Mittiga, Paul Monte and Rand Warner. They comprise the Winterfest 2009 committee, and they eagerly invite all NYMT members to help with pre-event preparations and with the many activities during the weekend. Some of the needs are at the registration table, in food service and cleanup, trolley operation and guided tours of both museums.
Winterfest 2009 will be a great opportunity to let our trolley museum colleagues know about the progress we've been making over the past few years. It's also sure to generate lots of sharing and interchange of information among all participants, to the betterment of us all. NYMT is proud to be selected to host the coming Winterfest 2009!
OK, readers. Take a look at this 6 inch long device that came to us in a large collection of train and trolley items. Can you guess what it's used for? We'll try to remember to tell you in our next issue.
The item donation file lists three donations this period. The first is "bug spray and grinding wheels" which does a pretty good job of characterizing the rail bonding work that took place this summer! Second up is a nice Dukane liquid crystal projector to use for computer-generated audience presentations instead of traditional slides. The other donation came from Phyllis Griffith, Kevin's mom (Kevin and son Rob are really doing a great job cleaning the exhibit areas at the museum). It's a Vogue coaster bike that Phyllis received when she was a little girl. Here's a shot of her today, and one when she received the bike, back in 1938. The bike (and Phyllis) are still in great condition!
Photos provided by Kevin Griffith
From time to time, something we put in these pages tickles the memory banks in member Bob Fitch's head. We're always glad for that, as it enhances our knowledge of local transportation history. Bob recently sent us the following, referring to our donated 16mm color movie of some brand new Union Pacific passenger diesels with a train of antique equipment on its way to the 1939 New York World's Fair:
"The recent acquisitions from the estate of Earle Gardner listed in the summer issue of the HEADEND sent me to my photo archives for the enclosed photo. Living on the main line of the NYC allowed us to see a lot of train action and my Dad seemed to know when anything unusual was coming along. It's hard to imagine pushing that little 4-4-0 all across the country; you'd think they would have put it on a flat car??"
Young Bob Fitch watches the UP train, eastbound on track 2 of the NYC mainline, passing over Penfield Road, Brighton, NY.
Leigh M. Fitch photo, Bob Fitch Collection
Bob goes on to say, "The New York World's Fair also brought the Royal Scotsman by our home and I have a photo of that, but it's blurred due to the slow lens on Dad's camera and the speed of the train". Indeed, the nation's railroads featured a whole array of their latest locomotives and cars at the Fair, and our archives have many snapshots, slides and movies taken of them. Thanks, Bob!
REPORT by
Charles Lowe
remainder of the bonds were installed during several work sessions
in September, with 161 first run to the end of the wire in test
operations on September 26. About ninety bonds were installed by the
work crew for the 2008 trolley extension. During September and
October, the transfer platforms and pipe railings were installed at
the Midway Transfer Station located near pole 51.
Philadelphia and Western 161 and 168: Once the museum's operating season ended on October 26, some long-delayed work was undertaken. One of car 161's headlights had never worked on account of the cracked and disintegrated bulb socket. Dick Holbert installed a new socket on November 2. Both 161 and 168 had their fiberglass Norristown High-Speed Line map signs reinstalled on their bulkheads behind the control cabinets. Both signs had been removed for various repair work. The trolley pole on 161 which was yanked out of its base after a dewirement on October 26 was replaced on November 9. Also on that day, the steps formerly at BOCES were moved to Midway Transfer Station and set in place for use at 168's bus door steps so that car could be used in Sunday trolley service if needed.
Mack Fire truck: During last year's annual New York State inspection, loose rivets were discovered where the rear shackle of the left front-axle spring attaches to the frame. At this year's visit to Beam Mack for inspection, the service department corrected the condition by drilling out the bad rivets and replacing them with bolts.
Thanks to Mike Ziegler, Service Manager. The truck made a
well received appearance this year in the Brighton High School
homecoming parade. Total miles driven this year was 40, at an
average 5 mpg. In October, Don Quant and John Ross drained the gas
tank, added fresh gas and stabilizer, and checked the antifreeze.
Packard ambulance: Following the vehicle's arrival on September 18, Don Quant and John Ross determined that stale gas and three bad spark plugs were preventing the engine from running. An engine compression test checked out OK, at 150 psi in all cylinders. Lew Wallace is restoring two of the car's hubcaps. John and Don placed the car on blocks and labeled the battery cables + and -. To date we have received no 911 calls…
North Texas Traction 409: The trucks for this trolley body were donated by a private electric railway in Japan several years ago. Since then, pending time and resources to fabricate carbody bolsters and place the trucks under the car, they have been sitting on a section of track, outdoors, safely enclosed in several layers of tarps. Charlie Robinson is the caretaker for these trucks, each year providing a new tarp, and carefully re-tying the lines that secure them.
The first impression for our visitors is the smiling welcome they get from the volunteers staffing the gift shop and ticket desk. It's a great way to meet people, and all it takes is a short training session to get you started. Can you help? Give us a call at 533-1113. Thanks…we need you!
Fall 2008
Dear Friend of the New York Museum of Transportation:
It has been a year of dramatic progress at the museum with the extension of our electrified line to a full mile in length, once again doubling the previous distance. Generous support from our members and the community brought us the resources needed for this achievement. Our summer attendance appears to have held equal to last year's, despite record high fuel prices and reduced tourism throughout the nation, thanks to increased advertising and the unique experience we offer our visitors. We look forward to an exciting year to come, thrilling visitors young and old with a trip into the "interurban era", and we hope we can count on your support through your membership, donations, and encouragement. Please take a moment right now to renew your membership with us, and consider raising to a higher level of membership and adding an extra donation to support our many worthy projects.
Remember too: The key to continued growth of our museum is in the active participation of volunteers—people like yourself—who come from our membership ranks. If you haven't yet discovered the fun of working on a restoration project, creating an exhibit, selling tickets, archiving, or operating a trolley or a track car, 2009 is the year for you to get involved! As can be seen from the many exciting activities described in this issue, our volunteer opportunities are expanding in number and scope, and there surely is something for every interest, time constraint, and skill level.
Thank you for the support and encouragement you have provided during this past year. It's a valuable expression of confidence in the vision we've established for the museum and the work we're doing to make that vision a reality. Please help us continue to grow, by selecting a generous level for your 2009 membership and by becoming an active participant in our exciting progress.
Theodore H. Strang, Jr., President
Click here for the Membership Application Form
P.S. Remember, your membership contribution is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law and entitles you to a 10% discount in our gift shop, a museum reminder gift, and four quarterly issues of HEADEND. Family level memberships and above entitle you to free family visits to the museum.
The golden beams of the spotlight are directed this time on a guy born in Newburg, New York seventy years ago this December 2. Newburg is on the opposite shore of the Hudson River from New York Central's main line, and we are sitting here trying to imagine what Henny Youngman would have made out of "a birth on the west shore" and "a berth on the West Shore". We'll leave that to our readers and look forward to their responses, but right now let's get to know a versatile and dedicated NYMT member, Bob Moore.
Bob's earlier memories of life in Newburg, include taking the ferry with his dad, across the Hudson River to Beacon, NY for a train ride to Manhattan to visit relatives. It seems there were a lot of family connections with railroading, too. Dad worked for the BMT (the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) doing electrolysis tests, sleuthing leakage currents. Meanwhile, Bob's grandfather was superintendent of third rail for the Long Island Railroad. Juice and trains, therefore, can explain a lot about Bob's interests at the museum, but there's an even more interesting connection: Bob could well be our earliest volunteer!
Well, sort of. Bob's father joined the New York State Corrections System and ended up working from 1951 to 1954 at the State Industrial School at Industry (on whose former property our museum now sits). The family lived in a house provided by the State that was situated on a hill visible today on the left as our trolley heads south past BOCES crossing. Bob is impressed with the changes we have wrought since he was a boy playing in the area.
Dad took a job teaching at Edison Technical High School in Rochester, and the family moved to the city, with Bob graduating from Franklin High in 1957. He went on to an Electrical Engineering degree at Rochester Institute of Technology (at the old downtown campus). He was a co-op student, and worked for the Cunningham company on Canal Street, tucked in there with a good view of the B&O and the NYC. Bob "did everything" in the operation—designing and building test benches, making repairs, and so on. He recalls the wood block floors, black with oil, in the old plant where luxurious carriages and fine automobiles were once made. They tried to chemically clean the floors, but the oil kept wicking back to the surface.
Bob did another co-op stint at Taylor Instruments, calibrating temperature test instruments. A winter quarter in Engineering Maintenance at Kodak convinced him he wanted to work elsewhere, partly because he felt there were already more employees there than were needed. He remembers a continuing problem with dimensional changes of 5-foot-wide rolls of film that came from Roll Coating to the Finishing area via an overhead passageway between buildings. The passageway had the benefit of serving as a holding area when the rolls came in faster than finishing could use them up. Bob pointed out that the unheated passageway was pretty cold, which turned out to be the answer…but he couldn't figure out why the more experienced engineers didn't see that.
Bob pursued a teaching career, in Binghamton, NY at Broom County Technical Community College. There, he taught electrical technology at a time when techs were in big demand in industry. In 1964 he joined Xerox as a product development engineer. Bob became restless working in the lab, and when the company started up an Education Division the personnel people suggested he become a recruiter. He began to find his place career-wise, and did well as he traveled the country hiring technical people. In fact, during a business downturn with many layoffs, Bob kept his job after hiring 98 people in six months!
He moved on, however, through other personnel jobs; became employment manager over 400 employees at Xerox's University Microfilm division in Ann Arbor, Michigan; was promoted to College Recruiting; changed to the training department; then moved again, this time to Management Development. Finally, Bob tired of the changes and the corporate management "pressure cooker", and left Xerox for a position at Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf. There he developed and taught a program of electrical technology. Bob was Chair of the Engineering Technologies Department there three separate times, each period ending when he wanted to go back to the teaching he loved. Bob met his second wife, Dori, at NTID, and they were married in 1983. He retired in 2001.
Bob acquired "the train disease" as he calls it when he was two years old and was given a toy train.
In Rochester, he was in
the Iron Horse Model Railroad Club, and was an active modeler. As a
member of the Rochester Chapter, NRHS since 1989, he hadn't
been actively involved, but Don Shilling called him one day to be a
depot guide and the hook was set. Bob enjoyed that role because it
involved interacting with our visitors, "a main benefit of
being a volunteer", he says. He moved on to track car
maintenance and operations, and has most recently added lawn mowing
with the John Deere to help Dave Peet keep the place looking good.
He enjoys helping at the museum, and when we broached the subject of ticket desk and gift shop, he didn't say no. Trolley crew is another likely move. Bob does a great job with people, and we suspect he'd do well in all these positions. Dori is very supportive of Bob's contributions at the museum, and we appreciate that. Thanks to Bob as well, for all he does to keep us open and serving the public.
|New York state Railways, Rochester Lines 1218
|NYMT Collection
by Charles R. Lowe
The year 1936 proved to be the turning point in the struggle for survival of Rochester's streetcar system. Buses had by that point proved themselves capable of carrying the riders of even the most-traveled of transit lines, even in winter months. Rochester's streetcar fleet, despite the best efforts to keep them in good repair, were slowly wearing out. Perhaps more critical was the system's track. Since the mid-1920s, very little trackage had seen replacement, and some sections were in poor condition by the 1920s.
In our present photo of car 1218, one of Rochester's distinctive Peter Witt cars (1200-1249; Cincinnati, 1916), we are looking northward at the Clinton Avenue South loop near Field Street in 1936. Clinton Avenue is at the right side of the image. For decades, the Clinton Avenue South and Clinton Avenue North streetcar lines had been through-routed, forming a strong north-south line through Rochester. The Clinton Avenue South line, though, was the shorter and weaker of the two and it was slated to be bused during the month of August 1936 along with ten other streetcar lines, after which Clinton Avenue North would eventually be linked with the Monroe Avenue line, a through-routing arrangement that remains in effect to the present day (alas, with buses).
The time for Clinton Avenue South's abandonment, however, had yet to come when the photographer made our photo. Probably, he rode out the line and jumped off at the terminal loop after pleading with the motorman to a) pose the car in the sun, and b) neglect to charge a second fare when he re-boarded. We are glad he made the effort since this is the only known view of a streetcar at the Clinton Avenue South loop.
No, not the ladies of Greek mythology whose seductive calls lured sailors to their deaths on rocky coasts. We're talking about the kind once made in Rochester by the Sterling Company, and the vehicles that carried them in the line of duty. In fact, our museum now has two such vehicles, with the arrival late this summer of a 1952 Packard ambulance.
Rural/Metro Medical Services' area branch was once the locally owned National Ambulance Company whose familiar green emergency vehicles began zooming through our streets half a century ago. In 1990, National's owner, George T. Heisel, purchased this 1952 ambulance to commemorate his father's founding of the company in that year.
We had been aware of the Packard, and the fact that it had been retired from public relations appearances in parades and the like, but overtures to the company never went anywhere. But in late August, Rural/Metro's area manager, Dave Bonacchi, contacted us wondering if we'd like to add the car to our exhibits of local transportation vehicles. They even offered free delivery!
An inspection of the vehicle showed that it was in good shape, ready for display for our visitors, so we took measurements, figured out where to exhibit it (and how to get it in there), and advised Rural/Metro we'd be happy to accept the ambulance.
A press event to announce the move to NYMT took place on Friday, September 12, 2008, and the company had the Packard all shined up for the occasion. The following Thursday, September 18, Benson Towing drove up with one of their big tilt-bed trucks bearing the car to its new home. After Don Quant, John Ross, Lew Wallace and Jack Tripp looked the car over and checked the fluid levels, Don started it up and almost got it inside before bad gas brought things to a halt. The assembled multitude, now including Kevin Griffith and Jim Dierks, used human power to navigate the car into the planned display position.
The Packard came fully equipped with a National Ambulance driver's jacket (modeled here by Don Quant), a gurney with sheets and a blanket, and oxygen bottles.
John Halldow, spokesman for Rural/Metro, tells us that George S. Heisel, realizing a need in the early 1950s for modern customer-responsive ambulance service, cashed in his Rochester Fire Department pension and bought two 1947 Pontiac ambulances, forming National Ambulance. He later purchased a 1952 Packard like the one now at NYMT. At that time, John says, nearly half the country's ambulance services were provided by funeral parlors, and the vehicles were used solely to get the patient to the hospital. Little was done in terms of patient care en route, while today's ambulances carry so much hi-tech equipment and trained personnel that the vehicle is literally a portable Emergency Room.
In fact, the Packard is testament to the history John describes, with a decal on the glove compartment indicating a previous life at Harold C. Davis, Inc. "Chapel of Flowers" (still a going concern in High Point, North Carolina). The car bears vehicle number 2633 – 20II on the Packard builder plate; engine number is 200050; and the odometer reads 17,601. The gracefully curved ambulance body is by Henney Motor Company, a Freeport, Illinois maker of hearses and ambulances associated with Packard.
"Ask the Man Who Owns One" was Packard's slogan years ago, and the car is indeed luxurious. Just sitting in the comfortable driver's seat gives a hint at the smooth ride this car must have given its customers, whether they were aware of it or not. Packard had a lock on the luxury car market at one time, but after the Depression and World War II, the company struggled to stay competitive with the Big Three. It held on too long to its post-war design, finally managing a total restyling for the 1951 line-up. Well engineered with big, smooth, low-revving straight eights and road-smoothing suspensions, these cars still found favor, but in a small part of the market. Luxury cars and ambulances weren't enough, and after several years of struggle, including merger with the equally struggling Studebaker, the proud name faded from the highways of America.
With thanks to Rural/Metro Medical Services, our museum is pleased to be able to share with our visitors this fine example of Packard's engineering, Henney's beautiful body design, and a "scoop and run" era of ambulance service that once was the very best in emergency care.
Our new electrification extension brings with it much more than a longer trolley ride. When we began regular trolley operations on Sundays, we had to deal with the question of how to continue taking our visitors on to the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum at the south end of our joint rail line. Ever since the full length of the line was achieved in 1993, we have been making the trip by half-hourly track car runs. We were able to continue that by "interlacing" track cars and trolleys in a very strict arrangement of scheduling and communications that assured us a safe operation that gave our visitors a trolley ride as well as the full depot museum experience.
However, the interlacing depended on getting the trolley run out to the end of wire, and return, all within the half-hour that the track cars were away. Once we were able to extend the trolley run beyond pole 26, the scheduling became tighter, and running the trolley all the way to our present end of wire, at pole 51, made interlacing impossible. Anticipating this all along, the plan has been to change the operating mode so that visitors detrain from the trolley at a new platform at pole 51 and immediately board waiting track cars to continue their trip to the depot. The track car "shuttle" would also return visitors to the trolley platform on their return north.
We all agreed with our RGVRRM friends that it would be really cool if a diesel freight train could do the shuttle honors instead of the track cars, so a test was proposed. For the last two Sundays of the ride season, October 19 and 26, RGVRRM would operate a caboose/diesel train and carefully document fuel usage. They also planned to evaluate things like schedule-keeping, crew availability, etc. Charlie Lowe produced a timetable to govern both the trolley and the diesel train. Things worked great!
Visitors transfer from the RGVRRM train to the waiting car 161.
RGVRRM prepared their train with GE 80-ton diesel 1654 pulling Erie caboose C-254, and Penn Central transfer caboose 18526. In order to permit the most running time for both modes, the schedule called for the diesel train to follow the trolley on its northbound return to NYMT, going no farther than BOCES crossing, then reversing to the RGVRRM depot. Overall, the scheduling worked and there were lots of happy customers despite the fact that we hadn't advertised the experimental runs. RGVRRM is doing their homework now to decide if training and finances will allow them to do this on a regular basis in the 2009 ride season. If that becomes the case, our aging track car fleet will get a break and be used only for group tours during the week. Someday when the trolley operation runs all the way to the depot, we expect trolley rides will be the norm for groups as well as Sunday visitors.
As a historic footnote, if diesel trains become the norm for future ride seasons, we will have seen the end of regularly scheduled Sunday track car rides at the museum. Rides began in 1980, and the faithful machines have run their wheels off over the intervening years. Here's a shot of one of the last runs on October 12, the last Sunday before the diesel train rides operated. Perhaps fittingly heading west into the afternoon sun.
The world famous George Eastman House museum of photography is currently featuring (through late January) rail photography in their exhibition, "Trains!". We, along with members of the Rochester Chapter, NRHS and the RIT model railroad club, were invited to help the staff at the House in setting up the show and publicizing it. With support from CSX, Amtrak, local tour operators, etc., they have installed a nice exhibit of O. Winston Link's highly regarded night photography, along with an exhibit of rail photos of all kinds from the GEH collection, and some "experimental videos" by Andrew Cross entitled "Passing Time". It's worth a visit, if for no other reason than to see the nifty HO scale recreation by Otto Vondrak and Dave Scheiderich of one of Link's more well known photos. In a large glass case, the guys have a Norfolk & Western articulated steam locomotive passing a drive-in movie, just like Link's "Hot Shot Eastbound at the Iaeger Drive In, Iaeger, West Virginia, 1956":
Photo by Dave Scheiderich
With all the attention on Link's night photos from fifty years ago, and knowing the popularity of night railroad shots today, we decided to offer a modern counterpart to the Eastman House exhibit by mounting an exhibit in the NYMT gallery of night photography by Chris Hauf. Unlike Link who used multiple flash units to capture a speeding train, contemporary railfans pose the trains and use time exposures, "painting" the equipment with spotlights and carefully positioned flash units while the shutter is open. With digital technology, the results are immediate and the scene can be modified for better lighting or for special effects.
Chris has put together a very nice set of his night shots and the gallery show is something you'll want to see. Here, in a Link-inspired shot, is car 161 at Giles Crossing, meeting Jeremy Tuke in his 1940 Buick.
Photo by Chris Hauf
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Berber carpeting is distinguished by loop pile construction as opposed to cut or tufted pile construction. These carpets usually come in plain lighter shades, and some have small flecks of darker material interspersed over the surface to break up the pattern and to help mask soiled areas. Since they are cheap and durable, Berber-style carpets are ideally suited for high-traffic areas such as offices, hallways and family rooms. If you need to seam two pieces of Berber carpeting together, take extra care and use special tools.
Install the under-pad and use a layer of thin, dense carpet pad to minimize strain on the seams. Do not stretch the carpet or secure the perimeter until after you have joined the main carpeting section and filler piece together with a properly executed seam.
Plan the installation so that seams are positioned in low-traffic areas wherever possible. In addition, try to arrange seams so that they run perpendicular to the room's main light source; this way, without casting a shadow, the seams become less noticeable. Look at the back of the carpet for the arrow showing the direction of the carpet weave, and lay both pieces in the same direction as the pointed arrows.
Roll out the main layer of carpeting and allow an extra inch for overlapping and cutting. Place a strip of scrap carpet under the joint to protect the carpeting strip cutter blade. Line up a steel straightedge so that the cut line runs in the valley between two rows of looped pile, and fit a new blade to the strip cutter. Note: Please keep your hands away from the blades, and handle strip cutters and carpet knives with extreme care -- the blades on these knives are razor-sharp and could cause serious injury if handled incorrectly.
Use a regular carpet knife to start and finish the cut 6 to 8 inches from the joint's nearest abutting walls. Once you've started the cut, switch to the special carpeting strip cutter to perform the rest of the cut. With the straight edge as a guide, press down and carefully run the edge of the strip cutter along the side of the straightedge, and cut through the carpeting. Take care to keep the cut line between two rows of looped pile whenever you move the straightedge.
Allow an inch for the seam to overlap; together with an extra 3 inches on the adjacent wall ends when cutting the filler piece to size. If applicable, match up the pattern so that the darker flecks are properly disperse. Slide the filler piece under the seam edge and line it up so that the previously cut edge on the main piece runs parallel to the valley adjacent to the looped pile on the filler piece.
Install a new blade in the strip cutter and use the previously cut edge on the main piece as a guide. Press down and guide the strip cutter blade long the edge. Try to perform the cut without slicing through the looped pile on the filler piece. This minimizes the chance of the seam edges unraveling. Once you've made both cuts, remove the strip of scrap carpeting from under the joint.
Read the instructions on the roll of seaming tape before starting. Adjust the carpet seaming iron temperature to the correct setting and allow it time to heat up. Lift both seam edges and roll out a layer of seaming tape along the floor, with the center line of the tape between the seam.
Work from right to left. Slide the seaming iron between the two pieces of carpeting with its back resting against the starter wall. Allow two or three seconds for the tape adhesive to melt and slide the iron slowly 12 to 15 inches along the seam. Immediately flatten both sides of the joint behind the iron by hand, and place a heavy object such as a flat-bottomed toolbox sideways across the seam at the starting point.
Move the iron slowly forward about the length of the toolbox. Flatten the seam immediately by hand every 10 or 12 inches while doing so, and then slide the toolbox lengthwise over the seam to apply weight to the joint while the glue sets. Continue working this way across the floor until both sides of the seam are secured to the seaming tape.
Stretching the carpet against the side wall with the power stretcher as directed in the instructions supplied with the tool, and then fix the perimeter to pre-installed hooked-edge pieces prior to final edge trimming.


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Linear Vs. Logarithmic Control
|LFO Speed
|Modulation Amount
Note: These files are created by using a sequencer to send out the same CC# clip of linearly increasing control from 0 to 100 over a constant time.
Try opening these files in your favorite wave editor to both visually and audibly observe the rate of change curve.
In the case of volume, at half of the file, the linear volume change sounds to us like it is more than 50% of the maximum volume. The exponential volume change sounds more like it is actually 50% of the maximum volume at half of the file.
For the LFO Speed, observe that at half of the file the linear speed change sounds already too fast to tell the difference from half of the file and four fifth of the file. But the exponential speed change, at half of the file, doesn't. As a result, you have a wider useful range of sound shaping possibilities (especially for vibrato or tremolo) in the case of exponential speed change.
Anyhow, I think the most crucial downside of using linear change is in applying modulation amount. All though both linear and exponential change their values over the same range of modulation amount. The linear one appears to sound much coarser than the exponential . I think we miss out out a lot of subtle ranges if our synth can only apply the modulation amount in the linear fashion.
What made me think about this fact was when I tried to recreate this patch that I had created on the Virus on the uQ. (Essentially, the patch is nothing but 2 detuned saw waves with lfo modulating the cutoff of a lowpass filter with just a little hint of resonance.)The uQ modulation amount was too coarse to modulate the cutoff in the same range. Also there was no similar speed setting for the lfo, it was either too fast or too slow. By the way, I am not trying to trash the uQ here. I guess it just wasn't built for me. The uQ is probably great for loud and harsh sounds because its modulation and parameter ranges, that appear to be more linear than others, have more effect possibilities in the extreme side (rather than the subtle side). I just have no use for those types of sounds.


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N.E. Lions Club�s Newest MemberOlga Marie Anderson
Past District Governor Bill Middleton, her sponsor, inducted Olga Marie Anderson into the club on August 15th, 1998. Lion Marie was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. She attended West Virginia University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering. Lion Marie also graduated from the West Virginia University College of Law.
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Verify that Mailbox Database Points to the FQDN of the CAS Server Array, if CAS is Used
[This topic is intended to address a specific issue called out by the Exchange Server Analyzer Tool. You should apply it only to systems that have had the Exchange Server Analyzer Tool run against them and are experiencing that specific issue. The Exchange Server Analyzer Tool, available as a free download, remotely collects configuration data from each server in the topology and automatically analyzes the data. The resulting report details important configuration issues, potential problems, and nondefault product settings. By following these recommendations, you can achieve better performance, scalability, reliability, and uptime. For more information about the tool or to download the latest versions, see "Microsoft Exchange Analyzers" at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=34707.]
Topic Last Modified: 2010-08-20
The Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Tool performs the following tasks:
Determines whether a CAS Array exists in the site
If a CAS Array exists, collects all databases that are hosted on servers in the site
Determines whether any databases point to an out-of-site CAS array
Determines whether any databases point directly at a CAS server instead of at an array
During the transition from standalone CAS servers to a CAS array, a mailbox database might continue to point to a specific CAS server instead of pointing to the FQDN of the array.
To resolve this issue, use the Set-mailboxdatabase cmdlet to change the RPCClientAccessServer attribute on the mailbox database to the name of the array.
Change the RPCClientAccessServer attribute on the mailbox database to the name of the array
Start Exchange Management Shell.
Type the following cmdlet, and then press ENTER:
set-mailboxdatabase –rpcclientaccessserver <DNS FQDN of the Array>.
For more information about the Set-mailboxdatabase cmdlet, see Set-MailboxDatabase.