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Keeping Faith With Peace
Outside the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Washington, on a crisp day in March, Buddhist monks in maroon robes rang a large ceremonial gong. A line of people wrapped around the block, hoping to pass through security to courtrooms already filled to capacity. They were there to support five silver-haired peace activists being sentenced for convictions of conspiracy, trespassing, and felony damage and destruction of government property on the Navy's Kitsap-Bangor Trident nuclear submarine base.
The activists, members of "Disarm Now Plowshares," were two priests, a nun, and two grandmothers: Bill Bichsel, Stephen Kelly, Anne Montgomery, Susan Crane, and Lynne Greenwald.
They entered the Trident base on November 2, 2009, used bolt-cutters to get through the first fence, and then walked nearly four miles to a nuclear weapons storage area, where they cut through two more fences. There they hung a banner, sprinkled the ground with their own blood and sunflower seeds, and prayed, before they were finally arrested.
Strange as the ritual sounds, it's a hallmark of the Plowshares Movement, founded by brothers Philip and Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic priest. Along with six others, they broke into a General Electric nuclear missile facility in Pennsylvania in 1980, damaging nuclear warhead nose cones and pouring blood over documents and files. By 2000, some 71 similar actions had taken place across the world following the Berrigans' model of nonviolence towards people, accountability for actions, and a commitment to peace. Their movement takes its name from a Biblical prophecy of a future of peace, when swords will be transformed into plowshares—tools of peaceful production.
While Plowshares activists the world over identify many different things as "swords," nuclear weapons are widely considered to be the most egregious, capable of the deadliest havoc against humanity.
Each of the eight Trident submarines at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor has 24 nuclear missiles, and each of these carries multiple warheads that can be independently aimed. According to the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolence at Bangor, the 2,364 nuclear warheads at the base make up about 24 percent of the entire U.S. arsenal—the greatest volume of operational nuclear weapons in North America, and one that trumps the national nuclear arsenals of China, France, Israel, India, North Korea, and Pakistan combined.
This weekend is the 66th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which launched the era of nuclear arms proliferation. It will be marked by acts of remembrance and resistance outside of the base at Bangor.
Jesuit Priest Bill Bichsel, now released from prison and back in the local community that treasures him as "Father Bix," spoke to YES! about a what it means to commit to a life of activism, and the inspiring life of his friend and colleague, Sister Jackie Hudson, who died this week.
Valerie Schloredt: You've been involved in active resistance to nuclear weapons since 1974. How many times have you been arrested now?
Fr. Bill Bichsel: Well, I'm not sure. My first arrest at Bangor was in '76. Sometimes we were arrested and nothing was done. Sometimes we were given time. The first time I served any time was 1979 for some of our actions at the base.
Valerie Schloredt: Some people would ask why it's important to do these kinds of actions and risk arrest over such a long period of time.
Fr. Bill Bichsel: I think our nuclear warhead superiority is the reason we can push around other nations, other people, in the world. Nuclear weapons create hopelessness and fear. And they don't deter anything. More and more nations, in order to feel safe, take up nuclear weapons, and so there's an escalation in which fear mounts—and when you fear, you arm yourself. So the possibility of use always grows, each year, each month.
Valerie Schloredt: Many who would prefer a nuclear-free world also concede that, now that so many countries have them, nuclear weapons are required to keep other countries in check. What's wrong with having them as a deterrent?
Fr. Bill Bichsel: It's the taproot of violence in the United States. The fact that we give assent to nuclear weapons as a deterrent means that we would be willing to see the deaths of millions of people around the earth if we felt endangered or if we felt we had just cause to fire off a nuclear weapon ... rather than turning to negotiation, talking, nonviolence, pledging ourselves to no first use, taking our weapons off hair-trigger alert, and living up to the non-proliferation treaty.
Valerie Schloredt: At the sentencing in Tacoma, you not only had great support from a church-based peace activist community, but also seemed to be getting the message across to the broader local community. The judge appeared to take the community's concern on board. Did you think he understood that the community supporting the Disarm Now Plowshares had a strong moral argument that deserved to be heard?
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Fr. Bill Bichsel: The sentences that he handed down indicated that he did listen. I think he was trying in some way or another to square his own thoughts—these are five people involved in community service, which he praised, and we appreciated his acknowledgement. But federal judges are pretty well governed by precedent. There's no federal judge yet that has allowed us to use the International Law or Necessity Defense: If you are going down the street and see a house on fire, and you see somebody trapped on the second floor, you don't ask if you can go in—you just break the door down to get the people out. With our actions at Bangor submarine base, there's that urgency: rescuing someone from imminent danger.
Valerie Schloredt: On November 2, you and the other defendants got into an inner enclosure of the Trident base, right next to the nuclear warheads. It's surprising that you were able to get that far.
Fr. Bill Bichsel: We were surprised as well. We got through the first fence, and then we were on the base for three and a half hours before we started cutting through the fences that guard where the nuclear weapons were. We never expected to get that far. We just feel it was the spirit or the grace of God or something that was working beyond us.
It was an area where lethal force was authorized. We expected helicopters, or dogs, or something. But we were able to cut through the first fence, and then there was a 15-foot-wide roadway that ran between the two fences, and the next fence had a lot of sensors.
That's when the Marines came. After we got through that second fence, into where the nuclear weapons are stored, that's when we were arrested. They kept us there for a number of hours, face down. They had sacks over our heads. They didn't want us to see what we had already seen. So it was something like Guantanamo.
Valerie Schloredt: I don't think everyone understands that people who do this kind of civil disobedience often come up against serious force. It shows how much you've been willing to risk.
How long were you in prison?
Fr. Bill Bichsel: I got a three-month sentence, and a six-month house arrest and one year of supervised release. I did part of my sentence at SeaTac and then I was shifted by air to Tennessee to stand trial in May for an action I'd done there in July of 2010 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
They kept me in the Knoxville County Jail while I continued to serve out my federal time.
Valerie Schloredt: I understand that conditions were not very good there.
Fr. Bill Bichsel: In regular jail time, you experience a lot of lockdown. It's not very conducive to a prisoner's health.
Valerie Schloredt: The Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action has a lot planned this weekend to honor the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My condolences on the loss, yesterday, of one of your longtime organizers and friends, Sister Jackie Hudson.
Fr. Bill Bichsel: She's been the heart and soul of resistance up there at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolence for many a year now. It is a great loss. She represents a continuing spirit of resistance. She was a woman of joy and song and humor. Just a wonderful human being. You might say that she really did give her life to that.
Valerie Schloredt: I understand that she was in prison herself recently, and in poor health.
Fr. Bill Bichsel: Oh yeah, she's the one who really went through the poor health. We did the same action together at Oak Ridge. She was a Dominican, and there were a couple other Dominican nuns with her there as well.
She had fallen in prison and she broke some ribs. Finally, her health was so bad that they had to release her to a hospital in Knoxville. They found out that she had kidney failure as well as pneumonia, and they did not catch the fact that underlying that she had multiple myeloma [diagnosed after her release].
War Is Not Peace
For decades, School of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois has argued that embracing
militarism will never bring us the security we seek.
But he thinks he knows what will.
Valerie Schloredt: I think most Americans, if they really understood what prison sentences are like, would understand that these acts of disobedience are not undertaken lightly.
Fr. Bill Bichsel: Right. I'd done time before down in LongPoke Federal Prison, and a year and a half down at the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon, and other times in county jails.
Valerie Schloredt: And yet you still did the action, knowing what prison was like. Why?
Fr. Bill Bichsel: It's a matter of faith with us. We prayed a lot before we did the action up at Bangor. We discerned and prayed and were together for almost a year before we actually whittled down who would be the five, and where would we go, and what would be the action.
Valerie Schloredt: For a lot of people, the deaths in Nagasaki and Hiroshima that will be commemorated throughout the world this weekend are ancient history. Yet you and your colleagues are taking action to keep that reality from happening again.
Fr. Bill Bichsel: Yes, and to keep that reality alive: It did happen, and it can happen again.
One of the tragedies of the United States is that we've never acknowledged the tremendous suffering we've caused—not only with the [hundreds of thousands] of people killed in the bombings and in the following months, but also the radiation sickness that has continued on down the generations.
We've never acknowledged the wrong that we've done, nor have we made any sort of attempt of apologizing or taken any sort of responsibility in saying we will not let this happen again. Japan has forgiven us, but we have not acknowledged the terrible wrong that we've done to them.
Valerie Schloredt: You've been working toward this for 35 years, and yet here we are in a country of ramped-up militarism and the continued production of nuclear weaponry. Do you ever feel your actions are ineffective? What is resistance really about?
Fr. Bill Bichsel: In the words of Dorothy Day, it's not so much a worry about being effective as being faithful to our vision of a world without nuclear weapons. My own personal faith enters into that.
It is my very strong belief that life is stronger than death, that instead of funding these weapons of destruction, we can create something that is useful for human existence.
- From Tel Aviv to Baghdad, a lifelong peace activist remembers why true transformation comes from the power of nonviolence.
How does the United States try cases of civil disobedience? Activist Tim DeChristopher on how much has changed since the founding fathers.
- Václav Havel called it "the power of the powerless." How regular
people, from Denmark to Liberia, have stood up to power—and won.


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Touching down along the small airstrip on the remote private island resort of Medjumbe is not for the faint of heart. Truth be told, the entire 45-minute flight from Mozambique in a small, single engine plane to this tiny jewel in the Indian Ocean can be a bit daunting…but, as the saying goes, getting there is half the adventure.
Located, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere, Medjumbe is a unique resort and just one of the 31 islands that make up the Quirimbas Archipelago, a cluster of islands stretching 200 miles along the coast of Mozambique in Southern Africa. These islands off the African continent may not be household names to many, most being more familiar with the Seychelles or Mauritius, but if you're looking for complete seclusion, this is the place.
From the air, Medjumbe looks like a masterful painting laid out on a turquoise blue canvas with wisps of white sand stretching out into the ocean. On the ground, the 13 palm-thatched chalets lie scattered along the beach, each with a private plunge pool and indoor/outdoor shower. During my visit a few months back, courtesy of Rani Resorts, I took advantage of just about everything there was to do. While boating and diving were the perfect daytime activities, it was the nightly stargazing from the main building's veranda while sipping the resort's signature Caipirinha that was perhaps my favorite pastime.
Drenched in luxury and impeccable service, the resort is ideal for honeymooners and although kids under 12 are not permitted, there was a good mix of age groups here; I was traveling solo but fit in nicely with the other guests. While I wouldn't recommend a trip from the States solely for the purpose of visiting this island, primarily due to the length of time it will take to get there, it's the perfect add-on to an African safari adventure; a bit of relaxation after dodging elephants, if you will.
To access the island you will have to catch a flight to Pemba, Mozambique (where you'll then obtain a Visa for $85.00 USD) and then hop on a small aircraft for the 45-minute flight over to the island. After touching down, where your cell phone won't work but your Wifi will, the staff will be meeting you with cool drinks and warm smiles, much like a scene out of Fantasy Island. And perhaps Medjumbe is just that…a fantasy come true.

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The NFL Draft is an unfolding drama not unlike a long-running television series.
The plot with each draft class twists and turns, and is often uncertain.
What is evident from the beginning is planning - good or bad - by teams.
The Lions had a solid plan entering this draft. It is in direct correlation to their division, the NFC North. It is a rugged division. The Vikings, Packers and Bears are not exactly finesse teams. Yet, all won 10 or more games last season because they combined ruggedness with athleticism.
The Lions lost every game within their division last season. The major reason why is their defense and special teams couldn't match those teams in the size-speed-strength-ruggedness equation.
So if there is something to be encouraged about with the first three rounds of this NFL Draft, it's the Lions have taken steps to correct that issue. Oh, and they filled a major hole on the offensive line.
'We wanted to get bigger, more physical and faster,' Lions general manager Martin Mayhew said.
The Lions did. With Brigham Young defensive end Ziggy Ansha in the first round, and Mississippi State cornerback Darius Slay in the second round, the Lions became more athletic on defense. And football is a simple game. The team with the bigger, stronger, faster players usually wins.
I did like their third-round pick, as well. Larry Warford is a 340-pound guard from Kentucky. He wasn't selected so much to be road grater in the running game, as to anchor their pass protection inside. It was the biggest failing of departed veteran guard Stephen Peterman.
'He (Warford) was built to play guard in the NFL,' Lions' coach Jim Schwartz said. 'He is a thick, powerful guy, who has good athleticism for his size.
'There were too many times we had inside pressure on (quarterback) Matthew Stafford.'
Were they obvious picks? Not necessarily. Ansah will play his career in comparison to LSU rush end/linebacker Barkevious Mingo, who was taken the pick afterward by the Cleveland Browns.
Slay will play his career in comparison to his teammate at Mississippi State Johnthan Banks, who was selected a few picks later by Tampa Bay.
Banks was the better college player, and certainly received more recognition. But while scouting Banks, NFL teams starting liking Slay more. Slay had the much better 40-yard dash time and is big (6-0, 190-pounds) for a fast corner. In my opinion, Banks will be the better NFL player, but it's an evaluation that is mixed among pundits and teams. Slay has a knee issue. He and the Lions say it isn't major.
'You can't have enough good corners,' Schwartz said. 'This is a good corner.'
Warford will be compared to Brian Winters from Kent State, who the Lions did have in for a pre-draft visit. He is not quite the same anchor (few players are as big as Watford), but more versatile than Watford. Winters starred at tackle. The Jets took Winters a could selections after the Lions picked Watford.
The Lions are also in need of a wide receiver. There was run on several good ones immediately after the Watford pick in the third round - Terrance Williams from Baylor (Dallas), California's Kennan Allen (San Diego), Oregon State's Markus Wheaton (Pittsburgh), Marques Goodwin a genuine speed burner from Texas (Buffalo) and West Virginia's Steadman Bailey (St. Louis).
Yet, it is splitting hairs. It's not like the Lions' reached with any of their choices. They were solid.
Last year, none of the players they took in the first three rounds started for the Lions on an extended basis their rookie seasons - offensive tackle Riley Reiff, wide receiver Ryan Broyles and cornerback Bill Bentley. The remainder of the 2012 NFL Draft wasn't particularly helpful for the Lions during the 2012 season, either.
I can already see where this draft will help the Lion sooner instead of later.
That's progress. Pat Caputo is a senior sports reporter and a columnist for Digital First Media. Contact him at email@example.com and read his blog at theoaklandpress.com. You can follow him on Twitter @patcaputo98


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If there isn't enough space to download and install an update, iOS temporarily removes some downloadable parts of installed apps. You shouldn't need to remove or relocate any content. If you still need more space than you have on your device, there are a few ways you can update:
- Plug your device into your computer and update using iTunes.
- Delete content from your device and try to update again.
- Manage the storage on your device with recommendations.
Update using iTunes
To download the latest version of iOS using iTunes, follow these steps:
- Install the latest version of iTunes on your computer.
- Plug your device into your computer.
- In iTunes, select your device.
- In the Summary pane, click Check for Update.
- Click Download and Update.
If you see a different alert during an update, learn how to resolve it.
Delete content manually
You can check your storage to see how much space your apps use and delete the ones that you don't need. You can download your purchased apps or other content again later.
- Go to Settings > General > [device] Storage.
- Select any app to see how much space it uses.
- Tap Delete App. Some apps, such as Music and Videos, let you delete parts of their documents and data.
- Install the iOS update again. Go to Settings > General > Software Update.
Manage space with recommendations
In iOS 11 and later, you can get tips for how to save space and how to offload or delete apps and content that you don't need. You can download your purchased apps or other content again later.
- Go to Settings > General > [device] Storage.
- Scroll to the Recommendations section to see tips.
Learn more
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- Learn how to save space on your device with Messages in iCloud.
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The Freshdaily web site will be launching soon. Freshdaily is Canada's first and only network of sites focused on hyper-local arts, music, film, fashion, food and news. We currently publish sites in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. If you want to be notified of our fresh launch, just enter your email address below.


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EVRAZ North America is a leading steel manufacturer built on the pedigree of successful steel companies – formerly known as Oregon Steel, Rocky Mountain Steel, Claymont Steel and IPSCO. EVRAZ North America produces more than 5 million tons annually of flat, long, and tubular steel products for major markets including infrastructure, defense, energy – plus... and rail.
Our diverse range of manufacturing capabilities allows us to produce a wide array of specialty steel products: plate, coiled plate, welded and seamless pipe for oil and gas applications, structural tubing, rail and wire rod / bar.
We take a dynamic approach to manufacturing, using the production flexibility of our facilities to respond quickly to changes in the market for maximum efficiency and cost savings.
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NXP's new energy-efficient processor features a single ARM Cortex-A7 core delivering speeds of up to 528 MHz with low-power operation and industrial temperature ranges. The new TX6UL integrates 256MB DDR3 RAM and 128MB SLC NAND, alternatively it can be equipped with 4GB eMMC. On the latest low-cost module the connectivity options have been extended to include a camera interface and 8 UARTs.
Addressing security, plagiarism and manipulation issues on embedded devices, Ka-Ro now offers two secure boot services for all TXCOMs based on NXP's i.MX 6 and i.MX53 processors. Customers can order either dedicated secure boot-enabled TXCOMs directly from Ka-Ro which come programmed with their secure key. Alternatively Ka-Ro's support team assists developers individually and enables them to implement this secure foundation to create trusted devices which will only boot and connect with digitally signed authentic code.
Embedded computing power is very much in demand in a growing number of multimedia-centric devices. The Ka-Ro TX6 is ideally suited for target markets requiring high-end devices for powerful images and impressive video streaming creating connected devices in the following vertical markets.
Expanding the i.MX 6 series, the i.MX 6UltraLite is a high performance, ultraefficient processor family featuring an advanced implementation of a single ARM® Cortex®-A7 core, which operates at speeds up to 528 MHz.
(By combining the power-efficient processing capabilities of the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture with bleedingedge 3D and 2D graphics, as well as high-definition video, the i.MX 6 provides a new level of multimedia performance to enable an unbounded next-generation user experience.)
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Often, devices are required in different performance and price classes. This is where Ka-Ro's TX standard comes into its own. With one single hardware design embedded engineers can produce a range of pin- and software-compatible products. Ka-Ro introduced the TX CoM standard over six years ago. Until today, the Ka-Ro Starter Kit V has served as the unchanged development environment for all Ka-Ro TX modules underlining Ka-Ro's long-term product and family strategy. All the TX modules can be used on the Starter Kit V which enables great scalability and flexibility.
The philosophy behind Ka-Ro's TX CoM family is to reduce a CoM down to the absolute minimum of components. In doing so, application designers and engineers using Ka-Ro CoMs can achieve maximum flexibility. Ka-Ro TX CoM modules solely feature the processor plus memory and the power supply. Any additional functions can be added to the base board.
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The signs on the freshly planted City Hall south lawn list a long string of don'ts.
"No tents, stakes, camping, open flames or cooking.... No writing/painting/affixing signs, projections or other materials to trees, landscaping or public property."
The message that the past can't be repeated comes through loud and clear. It wasn't missed by the dozen gathered in the shade of a big tree Monday morning to commemorate the first anniversary of when Occupy L.A. set up camp on the site.
PHOTOS: Occupy Los Angeles rally
Before leaving to mark the moment at a Pershing Square rally, they picked up everything — cigarette butts, plastic water bottles, hand-painted signs and banners.
They were mostly observant of the rules — "No dumping, littering" — but unwilling to bow completely to the man. A pipe was passed. Pot smoke wafted. Half of "No alcohol, no smoking," was ignored.
Someone got jumpy. "We'll get a ticket," he said. But a police officer watching from about a dozen yards away made no move to interfere.
A doe-eyed young man, long hair tamed by a cream-colored bandanna, wore a silver ring through his nasal septum and a T-shirt of the Statue of Liberty in a gas mask. He would only give his first name, Jared, and he divided the country into "two sides." One, he said, was "the controlling elite," which includes police and power-brokers and media outlets such as this one. The other was "low-income Americans" left out of the power and wealth.
As he held an upside-down American flag he'd wave on the march, he said people had mischaracterized the movement, depicting protesters as "terrorists" and "incompetent fools mooching off society."
"Which is not the case at all," he said. "We're fighting for society."
PHOTOS: Occupy Los Angeles rally
From the beginning, Occupy L.A. had to make its tent huge. Those on the lawn had numerous individual causes.
Alex Leos, 25, originally from Pasadena, wants to untangle society from money dependence, with hemp legal and clothes and food given to those in need. He spoke of not voting as a way to be heard, and of taking over banks to redistribute the wealth.
Nicole Riley, 46, originally from Philadelphia, wants to help the city's homeless. "I am from a place where people are treated with more respect," she said. "And I am a woman of color and women of color are not revered here."
One very tan young man who said he'd been living on the beach warned that everyone spoke for the movement, but not all had earned the right. Sometimes, he said, "it was like the janitor talking for the president."
At high noon in the heat at Pershing Square, the number of protesters expanded a bit — more than 50, fewer than 100. The number of causes grew too.
People held signs: "Billionaires, Your Time Is Up!" "Occupy L.A., Not Palestine," "Free Africa and Her Children." At the corner of 6th and Olive streets, they filled a sidewalk with pastel chalk messages: "Free the Weed," "Stop Drinking Starbucks!" "FTP, Feed the People," "Abolish Punditocracy."
A long, supportive honk came from a city bus wheeling past en route to El Monte.
People walking by on lunch breaks took cellphone photos. A man in a crisp suit and tie lifted his fist in solidarity.
Ron Sanchez, 57, a semiretired electrician, leaned on his bike and took it all in.
"Something like this, it's pretty neat. They all have their own ideas of what we need, but I love seeing everybody just trying to come together," he said. "Times are tough. They're frustrated. Me, I've been blessed. I'd like to see them have a piece of the pie."
This is first of Lelyveld's City Beat dispatches, which will appear regularly in the newspaper and on latimes.com. You can follow her on Twitter http://twitter.com/LATimescitybeat and on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/latimescitybeat.


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Welcome to Wisconsin
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Table of contents
1Elkhart Lake Kettle Moraine http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771
2 Heart of Luxembourg Tour & West Bend http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=2
3 Cedarburg, Hamilton & Grafton http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=3
4 Lions Den, Port Washington & Flag Day School http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=4
5 Holy Hill & Germantown http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=5
6 Sheboygan http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=6
7 Manitowoc to Door County http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=7
8 Fond Du Lac, Horicon Marsh, Hartford Auto Museum http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=8
9 South/West Wisconsin
10 Churches & Farms http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=10
11 Washington County Fairgrounds, BMW Dealers, TWT, Crud Run & Pre-Rally Camp http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=11
12 West Bend's Art Museum & Indian Mound Park http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=12
13 Harley Davidson Tour, Kohler-Andrae State Park http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=13
14IFond du Lac, Green Lake, Waushara, and Waupaca Counties http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=14771&page=14
A brief Wisconsin history
Before 1830, Wisconsin was home to just Indians and a relative few settlers & southwest Wisconsin miners
1832 Black hawk War ends and the signing over of the Indians land
Mid 1830's opening of Land Settlement offices in Wisconsin
Mid 1830's nearly half of WisconsinÔÇÖs people were living in the southwest lead mining region, producing half of America's lead
Mid 1830, the opening of the Erie Canal. Travel for immigrants made easier,
traveling from US East coast port, Hudson River, Erie Canal, Great Lakes and on to Wisconsin.
Another immigrants port of entry was Quebec City, then Great Lakes to Wisconsin Harbors
1840-50 mass advertising & letters home in Northern Europe of settlement land in Wisconsin
1848 Wisconsin becomes a State
In 1857, the first east-west railroad from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi was complete.
Soon after, a line from Milwaukee to La Crosse opened, and other lines were extended north from Chicago.
1869 America's first transcontinental railroad is completed with a ceremony at Promontory, Utah.
Again travel for immigrants made easier
"largest concentration of 19th century old-world settlements in America is found along the Wisconsin shore of Lake Michigan
" -- Wisconsin's Ethnic Settlement Trail (W.E.S.T.)
Milwaukee evolved as port city.
Started out exporting leather & grain back east, then importing shoes & flour at a much higher expense.
Having a large amount of Iron just west of West Bend, Milwaukee decided to make their own finished products,
so they created industrial foundries and machine shops
to make the gears and tooling to grind the grains and make the shoes and so started the industries,
besides beer, that made Milwaukee famous.
Between 1840 & 1880,
400 families (including my relatives) of Luxembourg decent
settled 30 miles north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the Port Washington/Belgium area.
Making it the largest settlement of Luxembourgers in the Americas.
When I was a kid, I remember Luxembourg/German was spoken by many of the old timers.


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Hiya, I'm Jude. I've been away for a *long* time, so here's the latest update.
Firstly, may I say that I truly miss being here. Your on-going support has helped me in so many ways, and I could never talk about the reasons why. Until now. My husband & I are preparing to divorce. It's not the easy choice for me in any way at all, but it is the necessary choice for many reasons.
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The wreckage of failed video game legislation litters the US judicial landscape at the moment; strangely, the states continue to push such laws (and spend citizens' cash). Surely, at some point, legislators and governors and attorneys general will take a look around, note the unbelievably lopsided set of rulings against these laws, and pack it in. That day is not today.
Oklahoma is now the newest member of the Unconstitutional Law Club as a federal judge in the state's Western District has issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of a law designed to restrict access to certain video games.
Judge Robin Cauthron, the first female federal judge in the state of Oklahoma, said that the Oklahoma law "violates the United States Constitution's First Amendment freedom of expression and is unconstitutionally vague under the Fourteenth Amendment." She also found no evidence that video games harm kids and rejected arguments that the "interactivity" of games meant that First Amendment provisions did not apply.
Judge Cauthron also noted that the law would have restricted minors' access only to video games but not to material that was just as violent or sexual in books, films, and other media. Violating the Equal Protection Clause in such a manner is a big no-no, and it's no way to write broad legislation.
The Entertainment Software Association was predictably pleased with the ruling but pleaded with the states to take a different approach to dealing with the games industry. "We now need to develop a public/private partnership that meets concerned parents' needs," said the ESA's president, Michael Gallagher. "State officials and policymakers should work together with our industry to educate parents about game ratings and the parental controls available on all new video game consoles."


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Kalyn and Mimi's Chicken Salad with Mustard and Cashews
Mimi says she makes it right before she uses it, but I knew that was not going to happen around here, so on Saturday, right after I included it in South Beach Recipes of the Week, I doubled her recipe and made a jar of dressing to go in the refrigerator. Then sometime around midday on Sunday that dressing started speaking to me from the fridge. I swear I have no idea how these things pop into my mind, but suddenly I channeled one of Mimi's French ancestors and came up with this salad recipe.
There are only a few ingredients in this salad. Do try it, unless you're another one of those bloggers who never tries any of the recipes they see on other blogs. And be sure to visit Mimi to see what type of salad she eats it on too.
I diced celery in 1/4 inch pieces to get 1 cup diced celery.
Kalyn and Mimi's Chicken Salad with Mustard and Cashews
(about 3 servings, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from Mimi's Honey Mustard Dressing for Tossed Salad.)
2 chicken breasts, cooked in stock and then cooled and diced in 1/2 inch pieces (2 cups chicken)
1 cup diced celery, cut in 1/4 inch pieces
1/2 cup sliced green onion, white and green parts
1/2 cup Mimi's Famous Dressing (see my version below)
1/2 tsp. additional honey Dijon mustard, if desired
1/3 cup or more coarsely chopped cashews
Combine chicken, celery, green onion, and 1/2 cup Mimi's Famous Dressing and stir until chicken is coated with dressing. Taste to see if you want to add the 1/2 tsp. additional mustard. Mix in cashews, saving a few to sprinkle on top, and serve. (Best served within a few hours, but I just ate some that had been in the fridge overnight and it was still very good. If you refrigerate it too long, the buttermilk will make it waterey.)
My take on Mimi's Famous Dressing:
(doubled and celery seed added)
1 cup buttermilk
2/3 cup mayo (for South Beach do not use light or fat free mayo which contains sugar)
2 heaping T honey dijon mustard with mustard seeds (Mimi uses French's)
4 tsp. grated onion
1 tsp. celery seed
Put all ingredients in food processor and process 1-2 minutes. Store in refrigerator in glass bottle with tight lid.
More Phase One Chicken Salads:
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Mimi's Saturday Night Chicken Salad from French Kitchen in America
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When you talk about grinding and hustling for your dream, Oakland's DLabrie has rocked mics from New York to Seoul and collaborated with some of the most intellectual rappers of our generation. A few months ago he premiered the "Stay Black and Die" video, which included appearances by rappers M1, Shamako, Mac Mall and Ray Luv, at the Oakland International Film Festival. He is definitely someone who has a lot to say. Check out DLabrie in his own words.


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|Advertisement announcing reward for runaway slave, Wilmington Advertiser, May 24, 1839. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database.
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and 1840. With its comprehensive focus, the project is a useful resource for scholars and students interested in the history of slavery and resistance. In addition to scanned advertisements, the database includes transcripts and rich metadata for easy querying of the approximately 2400 ads. Additonally, project staff have provided some brief historical context for researchers. Samantha Winer, a digitization and transcription assistant, writes that this project offers, "insight not only into conditions and lifestyles experienced by the slaves but also into the plantation economy."1
|Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database.
While the structure of most ads is uniform, some offer deeper insight into the global system of slavery. This 1775 ad from Wilmington, for example, details the escape of a slave named Quamino with two indentured servants. In addition to the typical physical description ("about 30 Years of Age, has a Scar above his right Eye . . ."), the slaveholder has noted that Quamino is "marked with his Country Marks," or patterns of facial scarification that served as markers of ethnicity and identification.2 Clicking through the hyperlinked term "country marks" reveals that the phrase is in circulation in the eighteenth century, but its last appearance is in 1807—a year before the United States prohibited the importation of slaves. This shift in the visuality of slavery might be of interest to scholars who want to study the changing nature of the US slave economy.
|Screenshot from North Carolina Runaway Slave database.
This database is one of the latest additions to digital resources about runaway slaves. While most databases do not yet provide features like transcripts, there are a number of useful tools available for researchers and students. UNCG has created the Digital Library on American Slavery, a database of nearly 3,000 legislative petitions, 14,500 county court petitions, as well as personal documents like wills and bills of sale. Professor Thomas Costa at the University of Virgina has compiled runaway slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. One of the most comprehensive sources of information about runaway slaves and their journeys comes from the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Their Runaway Journeys project contains maps, images, documents, and lesson plans. This comprehensive resource covers the history of slavery, routes of runaway slaves, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project's comprehensive coverage, rich metadata, and searchable transcripts make the database a highly useful contribution to these existing tools.
- 1. Samantha Winer, "A brief history of slavery in North Carolina," North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS.
- 2. Of course, physical markings cannot necessarily be correlated with ethnicity or geographic origin. As Michael Gomez notes in Exhanging Our Country Marks (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998), it is notoriously difficult to track the geographical origins of enslaved peoples, as owners would often ascribe places of birth that are difficult to verify.


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The three high school classmates from a workaday section of Queens were trained in bomb-making in the tribal areas of Pakistan, where they received their orders directly from senior members of Al Qaeda, prosecutors said. They gathered explosives, chose targets and picked the days in September 2009 when they planned to take their own lives, in three separate bombings in the New York subway system.
The three were arrested before the plot that prosecutors described could be realized. Two of the men, including the organizer, Najibullah Zazi, have pleaded guilty; the third, Adis Medunjanin, is to go on trial on Monday on a host of terrorism charges.
The trial, in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, is likely to be closely watched, not only for revelations regarding a plot that federal officials described as one of the most serious threats to the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks, but for greater insight into how the fight against terrorism is being prosecuted; rarely has a credible homegrown plot gone to trial.
In the years since 2001, there have been hundreds of terrorism cases. Many were built on the work of undercover informers who ensured that the plots, regardless of their plausibility, could never come to fruition. And many more were resolved through guilty pleas, when defendants described their crimes, but only in limited ways.
The trial is expected to feature the testimony of Mr. Medunjanin's former classmates, Mr. Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay, who are cooperating with the government, according to prosecutors.Continue reading the main story
Prosecutors will most likely ask Mr. Zazi and Mr. Ahmedzay to describe in an open courtroom the full narrative of their plot, including their recruitment to terror training camps abroad, the weapons training they received, and their instructions from senior members of Al Qaeda, judging from questions that prosecutors asked others in pretrial evidentiary hearings.
"Compared to other cases, the Zazi plot had more indicators of serious terrorism than almost any case we've seen since 9/11, and before that since the first attack on the World Trade Center," said Karen J. Greenberg, a terrorism expert at Fordham University School of Law.
"The Zazi case is qualitatively different in terms of the nature of the indictment and the details."
In this case, the details are filled with classified information — Mr. Medunjanin was under surveillance, according to court documents — and the prosecution has withheld much of its evidence from public view. The charging papers, which in most cases provide a basic narrative for the alleged crime, list the counts against the defendant but little additional information about the plot.
Prosecutors said Mr. Medunjanin was arrested on the Whitestone Bridge in January 2010 after deliberately crashing his car into another vehicle, in a failed suicide attack. Moments earlier, he had called 911 and spoken what prosecutors called a common jihadist motto: "We love death more than you love your life," court documents say.
Many of the pretrial motions, in which the prosecution and the defense argued over what evidence could be admitted at trial, remain under seal.
But an evidentiary hearing last year yielded clues about what testimony to expect. A federal judge ruled that the government could admit statements that Mr. Medunjanin made after his arrest, over objections from his lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb, who argued that Mr. Medunjanin had waived his Miranda rights only because the government had denied him access to a lawyer.
In the statements, Mr. Medunjanin told members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force that he saw himself as a prisoner of war who had been caught on the battlefield. He asked if he could be exchanged for a United States soldier captured by the Taliban, law enforcement officials said in the hearing.
Mr. Medunjanin, a naturalized American citizen who was born in Bosnia, also lectured the officials on religion and tried to convert them to Islam, the officials said. They said he admitted to receiving daily religious training in Pakistan and learning how to fire handguns, shoulder-fired weapons and hand grenades in a Qaeda training camp.
Mr. Medunjanin was evasive when it came to talking about the attacks in New York, officials said. He told the officials that he had declined the request of senior members of Al Qaeda to carry out the attack because he did not want to commit suicide.
Mr. Gottlieb said Mr. Medunjanin was not guilty.
During the hearing, an official also mentioned a confidential informer who was with the three men in Pakistan and helped them gain entry to the training camp. It is not clear whether that confidential informant will testify.
Bryant Neal Vinas, a New Yorker who converted to Islam and who has pleaded guilty to receiving training from Al Qaeda after traveling to Pakistan in 2008, is cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and could also testify in the case, according to prosecutors.
Federal agents were conducting covert surveillance of the mastermind in the plot, Mr. Zazi, before the attacks were to be carried out. But federal officials did not know the full scope of the conspiracy when Mr. Zazi was arrested in September 2009; a Police Department informer had tipped off Mr. Zazi that he was under investigation.
There were divisions between the F.B.I. and the Police Department in the early days of the investigation as a result; federal agents were concerned that the police had exposed the investigation.
Investigators later pieced together the case after a series of raids and arrests.
In August 2008, Mr. Medunjanin traveled with Mr. Zazi and Mr. Ahmedzay from Newark to Peshawar, Pakistan, with the goal of joining the Taliban and fighting against American soldiers in Afghanistan, according to court documents. Unable to reach the fight, the men were instead recruited by two senior Qaeda members.
"We told these two individuals that we wanted to wage jihad in Afghanistan, but they said that we would be more useful to them and to the jihad if we returned to New York and conducted operations there," Mr. Ahmedzay said later in court, when he pleaded guilty in April 2010.
Mr. Medunjanin and Mr. Ahmedzay returned to New York from Pakistan. Mr. Zazi moved to Colorado.
Prosecutors say that in August 2009, Mr. Zazi told the group's Qaeda contact that the suicide plot was operational. Officials said he had spent the summer visiting beauty supply stores in the Denver area and buying gallons of hydrogen peroxide and acetone, which the group planned to use in making bombs. In September, Mr. Zazi drove from Denver to New York with a detonator and his supplies.
Then a police informer, Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam, told Mr. Zazi that he was being watched by law enforcement, so Mr. Zazi abandoned the plan and returned to Colorado. (Mr. Afzali later pleaded guilty to lying to federal authorities about his role in the incident, and was deported.)
Mr. Zazi's visit to New York set off government raids on several homes in Queens and Colorado connected to Mr. Zazi, including the homes where Mr. Medunjanin and Mr. Ahmedzay were living with relatives.
Mr. Zazi was arrested in Colorado in September, but months passed before the arrests of Mr. Medunjanin and Mr. Ahmedzay in January 2010. In February 2010, Mr. Zazi pleaded guilty to several terrorism charges, and admitted in court that he had been a part of a "martyrdom operation." Mr. Ahmedzay pleaded guilty two months later. The men have not yet been sentenced.
Mr. Medunjanin is charged with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction and commit murder abroad, providing material support to Al Qaeda, and receiving military training from Al Qaeda, among other counts. He faces life in prison if convicted.Continue reading the main story


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momof3greatkid Posts: 1
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Can I listen to music in the front while the kids watch and listen to there video in the back?
indrgb Posts: 115Yes, but the kids have to use the head phones. If the radio is off, then the sound for the video will come from the rear speakers.0
john_april Posts: 1Is audiovox standard dvd player or aftermarket?0
my vcp will work sometimes then it will quit checked all i can has anyone had this problem0
no the vcp will not come on at all then it will just kick on and work no sound pic nothing0
cleeszoooo Posts: 1i have a dvd player built in to my van, i was wondering if there was a way to have the dvd player play in the back and the radio or a cd play in the front??? any help would be greatly appreciated...0
scottfl386 Posts: 1Does anyone know the MAKE of the DVD system that is factory installed? I bought the van used and it did not come with the remote and I got a universal but need to know who makes it so I can program the remote?
442dude Posts: 373Panasonic manufactured the DVD players that were in the Uplander/Relay/etc...maybe they made the older ones too?0
Has anyone experienced any problems with using the aux inputs to the DVD player? When I connect any device to the inputs and press the "Source" button nothing happens. The owners manual states that any external source can be viewed or listen to, when connected to the aux inputs (RCA connectors) and press the "Source" button. Track 99 should display on the radio, and it doesn't....
Anyone have any idea as to what the problem may be?
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I also have a 2002 Venture Warner Bros. Edition with a DVD player that does what the owner's manual indicated. I can connect devices to the inputs without any issues. Therefore, I went ahead and replaced the DVD player in the 05 Venture with the one from 02 Venture and it works. The problem DVD player from the 05 Venture does not work in the 02 Venture. (Yes, I am able to view DVD movies on both players without any issues in both vans.) Here's the real frustration, I also went ahead and sent in the problem DVD player to a repair shop in Massachusetts, they sent me a refurbished unit, and a new unit after that, and both did the same exact thing as the original that came out of the 05 Venture. Only the player from the 02 Venture seems to work as indicated in the owners manual and technical tech specs. Amazing! I am stumped!!!
The only difference between the 02 and 05 Ventures DVD players is the labeling in front of the players; the one from the 02 Venture has "PWR/AUX" label instead of "SOURCE" as labeled for the 05 Venture DVD players. What does this mean?0
I have a 2003 venture. I didn't have the foreshight to get a model with a DVD player in it - it just has a CD-Radio. Now the kids are growing up, and need to be kept occupied. While I'm at it, I'd also like to upgrade the sound system for a better quality player.
The possibilities are:
- install a DVD overhead player, and use the FM modulator to get the sound from DVD/MP3 to the current radio. I'm not sure the audio quality will be good.
- replace the radio with an audio player with aux input, and just use a portable DVD player as required. I'll probably need to use the AUX input to get the DVD audio to the speakers.
I have a bias towards the second option. Venture's door chimes and airbag logic is in its radio. So, I can't just replace the radio. I'll need to buy harness and some accessories worth $200, and leave the old radio connected and hidden under the seat. Apart from the additional expense, it seems like an untidy solution.
From what I've heard, it doesn't seem possible to just add an Aux input to the existing radio. (It won't improve the sound quality, but it can be good enough for movie audio.
Any advice? It seems to me that many people must be in this position.
Whichever way I go, my wife seems to think it's an old car, and is not worth spending much on. (I see a demand for a new car coming up :-) ). I don't believe the car is old - It drives well; and it seems like a waste to get rid of the car with only 65000 Kms on it.
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Greetings Sandyr.,
I also own a 2003 Venture; I replaced the radio with an after-market I bought at Target. It is a VRCD500SDU for $100 two years ago (installation kit from Best Buy) and it worked great. It has an auxiliary input, usb port, SD card port. Go to www.roadmasterusa.com/vr3_auto.html to read about the radio, as well as purchasing direct from the company. You can also call the company and talk to them about your concerns. I did not have any issues with door chimes or the airbag logic, or anything else. I connected a portable DVD player, sound output, to the auxiliary input of the radio, and the sound quality was fine. There are different setups as DVD players go, headrest mount is the way I went. Kids didn't have a problem with it.
You can also go to www.replacementradios.com and find other solutions. They sell interfaces that allow you to connect external devices to your existing OEM radio. Their phone number is posted on their website. I bought a radio and a XM tuner from them for my 2005 Venture and have not experienced any problems.
You can also try ebay motors, I've seen DVD Entertainment Systems from 03 Ventures being sold and/or auctioned off...If you go the ebay route you will probably need to have a professional installer do the work.
Well good luck, I hope this helps....
This certainly helps gb5. Thanks for your reply.
It's reassuring to know someone has done it without any issues. You've inspired me to act.
- sandyr.0
You're welcome, I'm glad that I could be of some help.
Again, good luck...0
jdlough Posts: 1Are you trying to play an audio-only device? Like an mp3 player hooked to the audio RCA jacks? I tried that and it doesn't work for my 2003 Venture. I found on another site a guy who said that it needs an active video input to turn on the aux inputs.
Here's what he said:
"I need an input to the, "Video In" jack on the factory-installed dvd player in my 2004 Chevrolet Venture mini van that will result in switching from playing disks to the auxiliary audio inputs.
I want to play my mp3 player thru the auxiliary audio inputs of the dvd player.
-- If I connect the, "Line Out" from my mp3 player to the audio phono input jacks on the dvd player and play the mp3 player, no sound sound is heard.
-- If I connect one end of a cable to the video phono input of the dvd player with the other end open, there is still no sound.
-- If I connect the video out from my camcorder to the the video in on the dvd player, there is still no sound.
-- If I now turn my camcorder on, there is still no sound.
-- If I now press, "Play" on my camcorder, the (mp3 player) sound plays just fine thru the vehicle's speakers."
If anyone knows a way to play audio only through the DVD player aux input, please do tell!0
Hi, thank you for the info...
Very interesting, I'll try experimenting with that and get back to you with the results.
I thought I tried that before with connecting an Atari video game unit and didn't get video or audio; but I'll try with my video camera and duplicate what that guy encountered.
Crazy, huh?
Thanks again....0
We purchased a used 2002 Chevy Venture WB Edition. While testing the features we noticed an issue with the DVD. We can hear sound, but there's no picture. Does anyone have any tips on troubleshooting this? Is there a trick to gettting the picture to appear. The owner's manual doesn't say. Also, ours did not come with the wireless remote and headphones. Does anyone know a good place to purchase these besides the dealer? We appreciate any advice. Thanks.0
jbil Posts: 2I've got an '03 Venture with the same problem: audio is fine but not video to the monitor. Did you ever figure it out?0
I have an '03 Venture with factory stereo and DVD system.
I recently had Best Buy put in a pioneer stereo with MP3, and remove the factory stereo. They informed me I'd lose the DVD. My kids are older so it didn't matter.
The stereo, (plus $200 in harness and accessories) went in fine.
My problem is this. I have an overhead console for the rear passengers to plug headphones into, and most importantly control their AC/Heat/Fan. This console no longer works. Unless someone here knows how to make it work, I have no option but to have the stereo removed.
Does anyone know anything about this? GM dealership is useless, and Best Buy doesn't know.
Thanks everyone!0
Sorry, I never did resolve the issue. I tried a cleaner CD for the drive, took out the drive to check the connections and took down the overhead console to check the monitor connections. Everything looks fine. No luck. I'll post a reply if I figure it out. Please let me know if you have any success. Thanks.0
kkilburn Posts: 1I have a '03 Venture with factory installed stereo. There is a CD stuck in the player. Does anyone know how to get it out? Is there someplace to put a jeweler's screwdriver, or a way to open it up?
chelminiak Posts: 1I encountered the same problem. What i discovered was you need a video input source (which mp3 players do not have) to activate the rca inputs. So,here is my fix for this. I have a small hand held video game that plugs into the rca jacks. I plug that in and get it running then i unplug it from the rca jacks and plug my mp3 rca cables in and wha la it works. By plugging in the video game you get the video input you need to activate the rca jacks. The only time you need to do it again is if the rca jacks from mp3 gets unplugged or a dvd is watched. Hope this helps0
confussed Posts: 1we just bought a 2002 warner brothers and after purchasing and taking it home we realize we have the same issue. we have audio but not picture on screen? did you figure it out at all? does your rear AC and heater control digital unit in front of the tv work ok? i think that is were the problem lies in ours but un able to find that part anywere. Please keep me posted on you findings
johnnyvette Posts: 1Hi all, great site! OK... so minimal problems so far, but sound only through DVD and no picture, LED above DVD player reads " Disabled". Nothing in manual or online, any help? Thanks!0
chases Posts: 41Once again...
Take it to your local car audio shop to debug. The dealership won't know what they are looking at.0
gericejr Posts: 1Have the 2002 WB edition and recently the dvd player has been selective as to which dvds it will recognize. One day it will play the movie when entered into the machine and the next it will not even show that a dvd has been put into the machine. Has anyone else run into this problem? Gets frustrating on long haul trips across the country.
jhd Posts: 20while driving 2001 Venture, step on the gas, gets louder. I checked the charging voltage, solid at 14.5. Would it be grounding issue? Where is the radio ground located? I will check at night if lights dim at the same time, not sure yet, acting promptly at the wife's request to do something (married guys will understand).
Thanks in advance!0
astra1 Posts: 5Chevy does it again, with their security lock out system. This is the problem. The curent AM/FM factory radio has no security lock out. I bought an AM/FM/CD/cassette unit off ebay from a 2000 Chevy Venture Van. I have a dealer mechanic that knows hot to retrive the lockout code. The problem is that apparently the small connector on the back of the radio, is used for lock out. I do not have this connector on my AM/FM radio, nor do I have the wire harness. I went to the junk and, and got a connector, that has two black wires wit a white stripe on each. Is this factory, and can these be grounded, to get around the lock out? Otherwise I scrape the radio, and look for another solution, unless some one wants to buy the radio. Please respond.0
obog Posts: 1I have an 04 Venture with the AM/FM CD & cassette player. When I put a cassette in the player starts to play then flips the tape then flips it back and ejects. Whenever I put the tape in it says "clean" on the display. I have tried several means of cleaning the player, bu the problem still occurs. Any suggestions?0
I don't know what you've done so far to try to clean the player.
There are a series of rollers and capstans (pins) that need cleaning. Generally a little isopropyl on a clean swab is enough, but sometimes you need to take some 'rubber renew' (dimethyl benzine and methyl salicylate) to resore the 'grip' of the rubber rollers. You may have to remove the deck. If thourough cleaning and renewing doesn't solve your problem, then it's not worth going further I'm afraid.
Use isopropy on all the rollers, and pins. Use rubber renew on the rubber rollers only.
Good luck.0
cassie3333 Posts: 1Mine is a 2003 WB edition and I've had the same problems with the DVD player being selective. Did you find an answer?0
sickofusedcars Posts: 1johnny,
I just bought an 03' and I get the "Disabled" message. Have you had a chance to take it in?0
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I'm new to HF and I'm currently 'experimenting' with wire aerials. I'm only interested in recieving.
I've got a G5RV Antenna in the loft, but I'm desperately short of space, so I've ended up with the wire being zig-zagged all over the place. I'm sure that this isn't exactly efficient.
While I can often get Shannon quite clearly, I rarely get to hear both sides of the conversation. I have recieved Gander VOLMET, but it wasn't ideal.
So I bought some speaker wire and started experimenting further.....
My garden isn't massive so I started with 33 feet from an upstairs window going to the end of the garden. The results were impressive, compared to the loft set-up. Still only getting one side of conversations generally, but much clearer. Then I tried 66 feet under similair conditions, although I had to do a 90 degree bend across the garden. This wasn't at all good. But was it the weather conditions ?
I then replaced the two 52 feet wire 'legs' on the G5RV Antenna with just one 33 feet speaker wire one and it was much better than the manufacturers set-up.
I relsih a challenge, but I do feel that I'm perhaps going around in circles to some degree.
Would a balun or unun have any effect ?
So to my real question ..... Discone offer a HF verison of their scanner antennas. It appears too good to be true - is it ?
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"Each time I'm asked to tell about myself, I find myself starting the same way: "My name is Kelsey and I'm nineteen.." but what I'd really like to say is: "My name means island of the ships but once I found a translation that said I'm a burning shipwreck— not a burning ship but a ship that has caught fire after the wreckage and well, I'd say that's more fitting."
I've learned that people don't have time for about me's. They need two things: a name and an indication you're someone special.
The doctors, they want facts not details. "I broke my leg when I was three, it's a funny story actually—" The right or the left?" Conversation over.
The teachers, they want interests, hobbies. You're sad, yes, but what do you like to do? The adults are a spew of questions. What school do you go to? What classes are you taking? What do you plan on becoming? Got a boyfriend? No, stop.
People my own age are the worst. "I'm planning on an English degree with a concentration in creative writing." Yeah, aren't we all. So how many times have you, you know, done it?
I'm pulled apart, my interests traveling highway to my goals at a stop light at traffic hour, my medical history on a billboard for the world to see. But what about me?
Where's the chance to say, "I hang on to fistfuls of poetry like loose change in my pockets, and I keep waiting for the day that the world turns upside down so I can swim with the stars. I'm not afraid of darkness, it's a loneliness I can empathize with it. It's the blackholes like cigarette burns inside of me that get troublesome. I walk through graveyards and read the dashes between years, each a story I'll never know. Sometimes I create my own."
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Florida counties sue state over Medicaid billing dispute
The Florida Association of Counties filed an anticipated lawsuit in Circuit Court today on behalf of 47 counties challenging the state's new Medicaid billing system. The counties are accusing the state of creating an unfunded mandate by withholding revenue sharing dollars to cover future Medicaid costs, as well as a disputed payment backlog.
"This suit does not challenge whether counties should participate with the State in making its Medicaid payments," the association said in a statement on its website. "That policy decision was made long ago. Rather, counties want to pay their fair and accurate share of the Medicaid bills on behalf of their residents, which they have been prevented from doing because of a State billing system plagued with rampant errors."
Manatee, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Broward, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties are among the 47 named in the suit. The Florida Department of Revenue, which collects tax revenue, and the Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees the Medicaid program, are named as defendants.
Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 5301 into law on March 29. Only a portion of the bill contains language disputed by the counties.
Acknowledging the controversy, Scott directed AHCA to meet with each county individually and said none would be forced to pay money unless both sides agree it is owed. But counties said there is too much uncertaintly about how the process would unfold and no guarantees that they still won't be left on the hook for millions in disputed payments.


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In Farbman's most famous picture of the critters—the shot above that has been reproduced countless times through the years—Brownie (Squirrley's son) makes a perfect catch while Blackie, a stray that "just wandered in one day and joined the act," waits his turn.
In the shot below, Blackie gets the good stuff while Squirrely (right) and Brownie duke it out.


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A tiny wooden structure just for you, filled with books and toys, nestled in the branch of a big sapling with the wind rustling through the leaves. What could possibly improve a treehouse?
Just ask children's fiction protagonists Jack and Annie. The stars of Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series are the possessors of just that, a magic structure that they use to travel through time and space and embark on adventures. The series currently consists of more than 40 books, including the newest, "A Perfect Time for Pandas," which was just released on July 24. The first 28 books follow Jack and Annie and their travels through time, while the rest center on the characters meeting up with famous wizard Merlin, who gives them tasks to accomplish as they go to each time period.
The series also consists of Fact Tracker books, nonfiction titles which delve into topics covered in the books such as dolphins and ancient Egypt.
The "Tree House" books have been adapted into a stage musical, co-written by Osborne's husband Will Osborne, and the book "A Good Night for Ghosts," in which Jack and Annie meet jazz musician Louis Armstrong, will be the basis for a musical titled "Magic Tree House: A Night In New Orleans," also co-written by Osborne, that will premiere at the James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival in Newark in October.
Author Mary Pope Osborne, who recently donated 28-book sets of the series to every third-grade student and teacher in Newark, N.J., discussed how she settled on a treehouse as a mode of transport, how she hopes to inspire kids about history, and which of the books young readers love the most. Here are excerpts of the interview.
Q: How did the idea of a magical treehouse come to you?
A: I'd tried many things to get kids back in time: a magic cellar, magic whistles, magic artist's studio, magic museum. Nothing was working and I was really about to give up after a year. I was walking through some woods in Pennsylvania near a cabin that Will [Osborne] and I used to have, and we saw an old treehouse that was all rickety and pretty well run-down. We started talking about, "What if I put the characters in a treehouse?" Because then it would always be hidden up in the trees and they could travel anywhere with stuff in it. Finally, that night, we thought it'd be cool to have the treehouse filled with books, because books are magic. The moral of the story is the simplest ideas are the hardest to find.
Q: After graduating college, you traveled with a group of other young people to various locations like Iraq and Pakistan and India – how did doing that traveling affect your writing of the series?
A: I was a vagabond, and what I realized was it was a lot safer to stay at home and be a vagabond. By writing the series, I got to indulge all my travel passions and still be home in time for dinner. [Through the books] I had been to or will travel to a lot of the places, but without a backpack anymore and without risking my life.
Q: What do you think it is about Jack and Annie that appeals so strongly to children?
A: Jack and Annie are ordinary kids, but they're really good kids. They're always trying to help others and they're very supportive of each other. They have a sense of humor, but they love reading and learning and they have great compassion for animals and people who need their help. The series is in over 100 countries, 33 languages, and [the kids] all identify with Jack and Annie. I find that so encouraging.
Q: You've said before that Jack and Annie's relationship is in some ways based on your own relationship with your siblings?
A: Yes, I have wonderful siblings. They're still my best friends. We were all raised in the military so we had to rely on each other. We moved almost every year or two, so we really bonded, and one of the things that we most enjoyed doing together was games of make-believe. We were reenacting Peter Pan and creating forts and spy networks – whatever. Of course, we didn't have computers, watched minimal TV. We read books, but we just lived outside. I think a lot of the impulse from the treehouse comes from an attempt to relive some of that joy, that freedom that we had.
Q: Is there a particular Magic Treehouse book that your fans bring up often when they meet you?
A: Of the first 28, "[Tonight on the] Titanic" is popular, and also "Dolphins at Daybreak." Of the next 20, the one that was so immensely popular was "Dragon of the Red Dawn." That had a great cover with a dragon. We spend a tremendous amount of time thinking about covers and titles and sort of trying to get the kids over the bridge into some meaty subject matter, but still sensationalize the covers a little bit to try to bring them in.
I just want the books to be a stepping-off point. I just want [readers] to go, "I now know a very little bit about Leonardo Da Vinci, I'm going to go learn more." And one way they can learn more is our Fact Tracker series, the nonfiction. My ideal is they read our fiction, read our nonfiction, and then, if they still are interested, they go and read more difficult books about the subject. And they'll always own it. When they really hear about Shakespeare when they get to their teens, they'll feel they're already friends with Shakespeare, or any of these – Mozart, Louis Armstrong. That imprints so much when you're seven and eight.
Q: When you recently donated the 28-book sets to every third grader and teacher in Newark, how did that idea come to you initially?
A: We're going to do a show in Newark next year based on the Treehouse on Louis Armstrong. It's going to premiere at the Jazz Festival. So it was my plan to give one book to every child – then every fourth grader – and probably try to do it before school was out, so they could read it over the summer. And then I came across a report, and I was so stunned by the need for third graders to read that I thought breezily to myself, I should give 28 [books]. So I called someone and said, "How many third-graders are there?" and there's like 4,300 third-graders. Will loved the idea and we said, "Let's just do it."
Prior to that, in the winter, we launched our new Classroom Adventures [program]. We spent the last two years, almost, with a team of teachers – we hired them ourselves – of giving teachers free information on how they can use the books in the classroom to enhance their core curriculum, and then we have a component of that, the Gift of Books, for Title 1 schools. We started giving away books in January through this program, and we were giving 2 or 3 sets to a classroom, any that applied and met the requirements. We'll get some feedback, hopefully by autumn, about whether this did work, whether it raised the scores, and if there's any way to quantify if it really helped the kids. If it didn't, this was still a joyous thing to do. We would do it all over again.
Q: Will the "Night in New Orleans" musical have a life beyond the Jazz Festival?
A: It'll go to all the fourth-grade classrooms in the city, and it'll be at the Performing Arts Center. And then beyond that – we haven't even looked beyond that, but we want it to have a long life. And our dream is that, of course, it gets to New Orleans, and that'll probably be the next big stop.
Q: Is there any news about the Magic Tree House musical?
A: We're planning to take it out again in 2014. Meanwhile, we'll be running the Louis Armstrong show and we have a wonderful new partnership with a group called MTI that's turning Magic Tree House plays into school plays that just kids can do. We'll be launching a lot of theater projects in the next two years. Live theater ignites imagination as much as reading books does.
Q: What do you have planned for future Tree House adventures?
A: I do them in quartets. The next four are "Crazy Day with Cobras," "Dogs in the Dead of Night," and then "Abe Lincoln at Last!," and then the one that's coming out late this summer is "A Perfect Time for Pandas." And then after that is "The Stallion in Starlight." And my sister's working on the nonfiction [Fact Tracker book] to go with that. She's done the nonfiction for the last 19 or 20.
Q: How did that collaboration come to be?
A: It started with my husband Will – he wrote eight of the nonfiction. And then he wanted to turn his attention to the theater projects. So we called up my sister, who's a wonderful writer, and we handed the nonfiction over to her. And they do it totally by themselves, even though my name's on the cover, because I'm working so hard on the fiction. And we just have so much fun because we do book tours together, and the three of us are sort of a wild trio on the road. It's just so much fun. It used to be kind of lonely to go on these book tours by myself, and now I always have one of them with me. It's just a vacation.
I owe everything to teachers, the ones who really got this series off the ground years ago by using it in classrooms.
The teachers have done so many incredible projects with the books. I have volumes of pictures and projects. That's why we have a "Magic Tree House" teacher of the year every year. The teachers are the key to this.


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I was lucky enough this past week to have the chance to work with artist Laura Gunn's upcoming line, Cosmos. Laura sent me a charm pack with 5" squares of each of her new designs and Painter's Canvas. As usual, the fabric is beautiful. If I had to pick a favorite, I think it would be the Tiny Cosmos print. I'm already thinking I need to buy more and make some pillows for my couch with it.
I was debating what I should do with charms, and I decided to use the Ribbon Star tutorial from the Solstice Stars Series, with some minor changes. Since the charms were a bit larger than I needed for the 12" block, I decided to increase all the squares that make the block slightly (up to 4" x 4" after trimming rather than 3.5" x 3.5"). Simple enough change that resulted in a slightly larger finished block.
I also decided to use several different shades of tan for the background rather than white. I just randomly selected these as I was sewing my HSTs. I quilted in diagonals, 1/4" away from each side of the diagonal seams. The binding is Skinny Stripes in Citron, from another Laura Gunn collection, Poppy.
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Another Setback for Dallas McPherson
Los Angeles Times beat writer Mike DiGiovanna reports that Dallas McPherson will see an orthopedic spine specialist Monday in Dallas, after experiencing more back discomfort.
DiGiovanna quoted Angels GM Bill Stoneman as describing Dallas' pain as "a big concern," suggesting that further surgery might be required.
Stoneman told the Angels Booster Club on January 8 that McPherson would be auditioned during spring training to lessen the strain on his back.
Now McPherson's status seems all the more uncertain.
Will the Angels move Brandon Wood to third base to start the 2007 season at Triple-A Salt Lake? That would seem to be the logical consequence. It might also suggest that the Angels are more likely to keep Erick Aybar as the potential future replacement for Orlando Cabrera at shortstop, who will be a free agent after the 2008 season. Maicer Izturis is still in the mix, of course.
Finding the silver lining in the dark cloud, DiGiovanna reported that Casey Kotchman was healthy and strong after his stint in Puerto Rico, so he seems likely to reclaim his first base post in spring training.
I'll be at Rancho Cucamonga in the morning for their annual youth baseball clinic. Expect a report in the next FutureAngels.com Radio podcast.
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