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Poor Tony Krause had a seizure in the fall. It happened on a Gray Line train from Watertown to Inman Square, Cambridge. He'd been drinking codeine cough syrup in the men's room of the Armenian Foundation Library in ghastly central Watertown, MA, for over a week, darting out from cover only to beg a scrip from the hideous Equus Reese and then dash in at Brooks Pharmacy, wearing a simply vile ensemble of synthetic-fibre slacks and suspenders and tweed Donegal cap he'd had to cadge from a longshoremen's union hall. Poor Tony couldn't dare wear anything comely, not even his boa or the Antitois' red leather coat, not since that poor woman's bag had turned out to have a heart inside.* He had simply never felt so beset and overcome on all sides as on the black July day when it fell to his lot to boost a beating heart. Who wouldn't wonder Why me? And his Chinatown connection Mr. Wo still had him marked for ghastly harm as a consequence of that horrid delivery mixup with Susan T. Cheese last winter, since which Poor Tony hadn't dared show one boa feather east of Tremont St. all spring; and now since 29 July he was non grata at Harvard Square and environs, and even just the mere sight of an Aigner accessory gave him palpitations.
Thus Poor Tony had no way to cop for himself. He could trust no dealer enough to inject his wares. His former friend and associate Susan T. Cheese was now no more trustworthy than the hateful Wo himself; he didn't even want Susan T. Cheese to know where he was. He began drinking cough syrup. He managed to get Bridget Tenderhole and the strictly rough-trade Stokely Dark Star to cop for him on the wink for a few weeks, until Stokely D.S. died in a Fenway hospice, and then Bridget Tenderhole was shipped by his pimp to Brockton under maddeningly vague circumstances.
Then Poor Tony had read the dark portents and swallowed the first of his pride and hidden himself even more deeply in a Dumpster complex behind the I.B.P.W.D.W.** Local #4 Hall down in Fort Point and resolved to stay hidden there for as long as he could send his last true friend and associate Lolasister out to acquire enough heroin to chip, accepting w/o complaint the shameless rip-offs he perpetrated upon him, until October, when the supply of retail heroin dried horribly up and the only people even copping enough to chip were people in a position to dash personally here and there under an open public-access sky and no friend, no matter how dear or indebted, could afford to cop for another.
Then, wholly friend- and connection-less, plus extremely low on funds, Poor Tony, in hiding, began to Withdraw from Heroin. Not just get strung out or sick. Withdraw. The various terms echoed in his head with the simply most awful sinister-footsteps-echoing-in-deserted-corridor quality. Withdrawal. The Wingless Fowl. Kicking. The Old Cold Bird. Poor Tony had never once had to Withdraw, not all the way down the sinister deserted corridor of Withdrawal, not since he first got strung at 17. At the very worst someone kind had always found him charming, if things got dire enough to have to rent out his charms. Alas about the fact that his charms were now at low ebb. He weighed 120 lbs. and his skin was the color of summer squash. He had terrible shivering attacks and also perspired. He had a sty that had scraped one eyeball as pink as a bunny's. His nose ran like twin spigots and the output had a yellow-green tinge he didn't think looked promising at all. There was an uncomely dry-rot smell about him that even he could smell. In Watertown he tried to pawn his fine auburn wig w/ removable chignon and was cursed at in Armenian because the wig had infestations from his own hair below. Let's not even mention the pawnbroker's critique of his red leather coat.
Poor Tony got more and more ill as he further Withdrew. His symptoms themselves developed symptoms, troughs and nodes he charted with morbid attention, in the Dumpster, in his suspenders and tweed cap, clutching his wig and coat and other comely habiliments he could neither wear nor pawn. The empty municipal Dumpster he was hiding in was new and painted apple-green and the inside was dimpled iron, and the Dumpster remained empty and unutilized because persons declined to come near enough to utilize it. It took some time for Poor Tony to realize why; for an interval it had seemed like a break, fortune's one wan smile. A city sanitation crew finally set him straight in language that left quite a bit of tact to be wished for, he felt. The Dumpster's green iron cover also leaked when it rained, and it contained already a colony of ants along one wall, which Poor Tony had ever since a neurasthenic childhood feared and detested in particular, ants; and in direct sunlight the quarters became a hellish living environment from which even the ants seemed to vanish.
With each step further into the black corridor of actual Withdrawal, Poor Tony stamped his foot and simply refused to believe things could get or feel any worse. Then he stopped being able to anticipate when he needed to as it were visit the powder room. A fastidious gender-dysphoric's horror of incontinence cannot be described. Fluids of varying consistency began to pour w/o advance notice from several openings. Then they stayed there, on the Dumpster's hot dimpled floor. There they were, not going anywhere. He had no way to cop. His entire set of interpersonal associations now consisted of persons who did not care about him plus persons who wished him harm. His late obstetrician father had rended his own clothing in symbolic shiva nine years ago in the kitchen of the Krause home, 412 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown. It was the incontinence that drove Poor Tony out of the Dumpster for a mad scampering relocation to an obscure Armenian Foundation Library men's room in his old home district, wherein he hung his coat and wig carefully from the hook and tried to arrange a stall as comfortingly as he could with magazine photos and cherished knickknacks, and flushed repeatedly, and sought to keep true Withdrawal at some sort of bay with bottles of Codinex Plus. A tiny percentage of codeine gets metabolized into good old C17 morphine, affording an agonizing hint of what real relief from The Bird might feel like. I.e., the cough syrup did little more than draw the process out, extend the corridor—slow up time.
Poor Tony Krause sat on the toilet in the domesticated stall all day and night, alternately drinking and gushing. He held his high heels up at night when the staff checked the stalls and turned off all the lights and left Poor Tony in a darkness within darkness so utter he had no idea where his own limbs were or went. He left that stall maybe once every two days, scampering madly from Equus to Brooks in cast-off shades and a kind of hood or shawl made pathetically of men's-room brown-paper towels.
Time began to take on new aspects for him now as Withdrawal progressed. Time began to pass with jagged edges. Its passage in the dark or dim-lit stall was as if time were being carried by a procession of ants, a gleaming red martial column of those militaristic red Southern ants that build hideous tall boiling hills; and each vile gleaming ant wanted a minuscule little portion of Poor Tony's flesh in compensation as it helped bear time forward down the corridor of true Withdrawal. By the second week in the stall, time itself seemed the corridor, lightless at either end. After more time time then ceased to move or be moved or be move-throughable and assumed a shape above and apart, a huge and orange-eyed wingless fowl hunched incontinent atop the stall, with a kind of watchful but deeply uncaring personality that didn't seem keen on Poor Tony Krause as a person at all, or to wish him well. Not one little bit. It spoke to him from atop the stall, the same things, over and over. They were unrepeatable. Nothing in even Poor Tony's grim life experience prepared him for the experience of time with a shape and an odor, squatting; and the worsening physical symptoms were a spree at Saks compared to time's black assurances that the symptoms were merely hints, signposts pointing up at a larger, far more dire set of Withdrawal phenomena that hung just overhead by a string that unravelled steadily with the passage of time. It would not keep still and would not end; it changed shape and smell. It moved in and out of him like the very most feared prison-shower assailant. Poor Tony had once had the hubris to fancy he'd had occasion really to shiver, ever, before. But he had never truly really shivered until time's cadences—jagged and cold and smelling oddly of deodorant—entered his body via several openings, cold the way only damp cold is cold (the phrase he'd once had the gall to imagine he understood was the phrase "chilled to the bone"), shard-studded columns of chill entering to fill his bones with ground glass, and he could hear his joints' glassy crunch with every slightest shift of his hunched position, time ambient and in the air and entering and exiting at will, very cold and slow; and the pain of his breath against his teeth. Time came to him in the falcon-black of the library night in an orange Mohawk and merry widow w/ tacky Amalfi pumps and nothing else, spread him and entered him roughly and had its way and left him again in the form of endless gushing liquid shit that he could not flush enough to keep up with. He spent the longest morbid time trying to fathom whence all the shit came from when he was ingesting nothing at all but Codinex Plus. Then at some point he realized: time had entered the shit itself, had become the shit: Poor Tony had become an hourglass: time moved through him, now; he ceased to exist apart from its flow. He now weighed more like 110 lbs. His legs were the size his comely arms had been, before Withdrawal. He was haunted by the word Zuckung—a foreign and possibly Yiddish word he did not recall having heard in civilian life. The word kept echoing in quick-step cadence through his head without meaning anything. He'd once naïvely assumed that going mad meant you were not aware of going mad; he'd naïvely pictured madmen as laughing. He kept seeing his sonless father again, stiffening in a bronze casket. "Chilled to the Zuckung."
When, then, finally, even funds for the codeine syrup were exhausted, he still sat on the toilet in the rear stall of the A.F.L. loo, surrounded by previously comforting hung habiliments, the fashion-magazine photographs he'd fastened to the wall with tape cadged on the way in from the Reference Desk, sat for almost the whole next night and day, because he had no faith that he could stem the flow of diarrhea long enough to make it anywhere—if anywhere to go presented itself—in his only pair of pants.
During hours of lit operation, the men's room was full of old men who wore identical brown loafers and spoke Slavic and whose flatulence smelled of cabbage.
Toward the end of the second medicationless afternoon, the day of the seizure, Poor Tony Krause began to Withdraw from the cough syrup's alcohol and codeine and demethylated morphine, as well as the original heroin, a set of sensations for which not even his recent experience had prepared him—the alcohol Withdrawal, especially—and when the true D.T.-type big-budget visuals commenced, when the first glossy and minutely hirsute army ant crawled up his arm and refused ghostlike to be brushed away or hammered dead, Poor Tony threw his last bit of pride into time's porcelain maw and pulled up his slacks—mortifyingly wrinkled from twelve days puddled around his ankles—made what slight cosmetic repairs he could, and donned his tacky cap with its Scotch-Taped scarf of paper towels and lit out in last-ditch desperation for Cambridge's Inman Square, for the sinister and duplicitous Antitoi brothers, their Entertainment-'N'-Notions-fronted operations center he'd long ago vowed never again to darken the door of and now figured to be his one place of very last possible resort—the Antitois, Canadians of the Quebec subgenus, sinister and duplicitous but when it came down to it rather hapless political insurgents he'd once availed of services through the offices of Lolasister, the only persons anywhere he could claim somehow owed him a kindness, since the affair of the heart.***
On Watertown Center's underground Gray Line platform, when the first hot loose load fell out of him like something off a shelf into the baggy slacks and down his leg and out around his high heel—he still had only his red high heels with the crossing straps to wear, which the slacks were long enough to mostly hide—Poor Tony closed his eyes against the ants formicating up and down his arms' skinny length and screamed a soundless interior scream of incontinent soul-scalded woe. The beloved feather boa fit almost entirely in one breast pocket, where it stayed in the name of discretion.
On the crowded train itself, then, he discovered that he'd gone in three weeks from being a colorful and comely—albeit freakishly comely—person to being one of those loathsome urban specimens that respectable persons on T trains slide and drift quietly away from without even seeming to notice them. His shawl of paper towels had come partly untaped. He smelled of bilirubin and yellow sweat and wore eyeliner that simply did not fly if one needed a shave. There had been some negative urine incidents, as well, in the slacks. He had never in his life felt so unattractive or sick. He wept silently in shame and pain at the passage of each brightly lit public second's pincers, and the driver ants that boiled in his lap opened needle-teethed little insectile mouths to catch the tears. He could feel his erratic pulse in his sty. The Gray Line's trains were of the trundlingbehemoth type, and he sat all alone at one end of the long car and felt each slow second take its cut.
When it descended, the seizure felt less like a separate and distinct crisis than simply the next exhibit in the corridor of horrors that was the Old Cold Bird.**** The first thing that didn't augur very well for the lobes was a shower of spark-sized phosphenes from the ceiling of the swaying train, plus a fiery violet aura around the heads of the respectables who'd quietly retreated as far as possible from the various puddles in which he sat. Their clean pink faces looked somehow stricken, each inside a hood of violent flame. Poor Tony didn't know that his silent whimpers had ceased to be silent, was why everyone in the car had gotten so terribly interested in the floor between their feet. He knew only that the sudden and incongruous smell of Old Spice Stick Deodorant, Classic Original Scent—unbidden and unexplainable, his late obstetrician father's brand, not smelled for years—and the tiny panicked twitters with which the unbrushable red ants skittered glossily up into his mouth and nose and disappeared, each of course taking its tiny pincered farewell bite as it went, heralded some new and vivider exhibit on the corridor's horizon. He'd become, at puberty, violently allergic to the smell of Old Spice. As he soiled himself and the plastic seat and floor once again, the Classic Scent of times past intensified. Then Poor Tony's body began to swell. He watched his limbs become airy white dirigibles and felt them deny his authority and detach from him and float sluggishly up, snout-first, into the steel-mill sparks the ceiling rained. He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
Then he had a seizure. The floor of the subway car became the ceiling of the subway car, and he was on his arched back in a waterfall of light, gagging on Old Spice and watching his tumid limbs tear-ass around the car's interior like undone balloons. The booming Zuckung Zuckung Zuckung was his high heels' heels drumming on the soiled floor's tile. He heard a rushing train-roar that was no train on earth and felt a vascular roaring rushing that until the pain hit seemed like the gathering of a kind of orgasm of the head. His head inflated and creaked as it stretched. Then the pain (seizures hurt, is what few civilians have occasion to know) was the sharp end of a hammer. There was a squeak and rush of release inside his skull and something shot from him into the air and hung there and sparkled. His father knelt beside him on the ceiling in a well-rended T-shirt, extolling the Red Sox of Rice and Lynn. Tony wore summer taffeta. His poor body flopped around without authorization from headquarters. He didn't feel one bit like a puppet. He thought of gaffed fish. The gown had a thousand flounces and a saucy bodice of crocheted lace. Then he saw his father, still green-gowned and rubber-gloved, leaning to read the headlines off the skin of a fish a newspaper had wrapped. That had never happened. The largest-print headline said "PUSH." Poor Tony flopped and gasped and pushed down inside and the utter red of the blood that feeds sight bloomed red behind his lids. Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn T-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once comely bod. Poor Tony convulsed and drummed and gasped and fluttered, a fountain of light all around him. He felt a piece of nourishing and possibly even intoxicating meat in the back of his throat but elected not to swallow it but swallowed it anyway, and was immediately sorry he'd done so; and when his father's bloody-rubbered fingers folded his teeth back to retrieve the tongue he'd swallowed he refused absolutely to bite down ungratefully on the hand that was taking his food, then without authorization he pushed and bit down and took the gloved fingers clean off, so there was rubber-wrapped meat in his chattering teeth, and his father's own head exploded like an exploding star into light between his gown's raised arms and a call for Zuckung while Tony's heels drummed and struggled against the widening stirrups of light they were hoisted into while a curtain of red was drawn wetly up over the floor he stared down at, Tony, and he heard someone yelling for someone to give him air with one fingerless hand on his belly as he spread and bore down to push, and he saw the legs they held would spread until they cracked him open and all the way inside out on the ceiling, and his last worry was that red-handed Poppa could see up his dress, what was really there. ♦
- —Excerpted from Moment Weekly, 10 August, 20—:
. . . victim, a 46-year-old Boston, Massachusetts, accountant with irreversible restenosis of the heart, responded so well to the replacement of her defective heart with a Jarvik IX Exterior Artificial Heart that within weeks she had resumed the active life style she had so enjoyed before stricken, pursuing her active schedule with the extraordinary prosthesis portably installed in an Etienne Aigner purse, where the heart's ventricular tubes ran up to shunts in the woman's arms and ferried life giving blood between her living, active body and the extraordinary heart in her purse.
. . . facts of her subsequent fate appear tragic, untimely, bizarrely [and] cruelly ironic: the . . . [woman] was actively window shopping in Cambridge, Massachusetts', fashionable Harvard Square, when a transvestite purse snatcher, a known drug addict with a criminal history well known to [police], bizarrely outfitted in a surplus cocktail dress, spike heels, and tattered feather boa, brutally tore the life sustaining purse from the woman's unwitting grasp.
The [victim] gave chase to the purse snatching "woman" for as long as she could, reportedly plaintively shouting to passers by the panicked words "Stop her! She stole my heart!" on the fashionable sidewalk crowded with shoppers. . . . [In] response to her plaintive cries, tragically, misunderstanding shoppers and passers by merely shook their heads [and] smiled knowingly at what they ignorantly presumed to be yet another alternative life style's relationship gone sour. A duo of Cambridge patrolmen were witnessed quipping, "Happens all the time," as the victimized woman staggered frantically past in the wake of the fleet transvestite, shouting for help for her stolen heart.
The drug crazed purse snatcher may have found even his hardened conscience moved by the life saving prosthesis the ill gotten woman's handbag revealed, which runs on the same rechargeable power cell as an electric man's razor, and may well have continued to beat and bleed for a period of time in the rudely disconnected purse.
That the prosthetic crime victim gave spirited chase for over four blocks before collapsing onto her empty chest provides testimony to the impressive capacity of the Jarvik IX replacement procedure. . . .
** International Brotherhood of Pier, Wharf, and Dock Workers.
*** The way Poor Tony Krause became in any way associated with the Antitois was that, for a heavily cut bundle to split six ways, Lolasister, Susan T. Cheese, P. T. Krause, Bridget Tenderhole, Equus Reese, and the late Stokely ("D.S.") McNair had had to wear identical red leather coats and auburn wigs and strapless heels and go and hang around the lobby of Harvard Square's Sheraton Commander Hotel with six mannish-looking women in the same wigs and coats while a strikingly androgynous Quebecer insurgent who filled out her/his red leather coat in a way that made Bridget Tenderhole dig his nails into his palms in sheer green envy came through the Commander's revolving Lucite doors and strode purposefully into the crowded Epaulet Ballroom and fired two rounds of 9-mm wadcutter into the right eye of the Canadian Minister of Trade, who was addressing the New England press from a leaf-shaped rostrum. The decoys were then required to mill hysterically in the lobby, all twelve of them, and then hit the revolving doors and disperse in a dozen different vectors as the sharpshooting Québécois cross-dresser legged it out of the Epaulet Ballroom and lobby pursued by burly federal men with earplugs and Cobray M-11 subs, so the federal men'd see identical epicene figures high-heeling it away in different directions and get fuddled about whom to chase. Lolasister and Poor Tony had originally met the Antitoi Bros (only one of whom could or would speak, and who'd been in charge of the diversionary aspects of the Sheraton Commander operation, and had clearly been subordinate to still other Quebecers of way higher I.Q.)—had met them at Inman Square's Ryle's tavern, which had Gender-Dysphoric Night every second Wednesday, and attracted comely and unrough trade.
**** In actual fact the seizure—a kind of synaptic firefight in Poor Tony's desiccated temporal lobes—was caused by Withdrawal not from heroin but from plain old grain alcohol, which was Codinex Plus cough syrup's primary ingredient and balm. He'd consumed upwards of sixteen little eighty-proof bottles of Codinex per day for an extended period, and so was cruising for a real neurological bruising when he just up and stopped.


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Srna and substitute Douglas Costa twice put the home side ahead in Wednesday night's Champions League last-16, first-leg tie at the Donbass Arena but goals from Robert Lewandowski and Mats Hummels, the latter coming three minutes from full-time, earned Dortmund a hard-fought draw.
"It could have been better and obviously this is not the result we would have wanted," Srna said.
"We were in front twice, but on both occasions we let that lead slip away, four minutes before the end of the first half and at the end of the match we gave away a silly goal.
"At this level you can't get away with making such mistakes. We have to look forward, it's just a shame that all our hard work has been undone.
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That is Latisse, which is often prescribed to cancer patients, and is alone in having gained rigorous American FDA approval.
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This product was formulated in France, made in the States, but really took off in Britain just over a year ago. It is sold across Europe and has recently come Downunder. The company says it will last four months and that it will not only lengthen but strengthen lashes, thanks to marine collagen and plant extracts. It also contains moisturising panthenol. (Selected department stores, pharmacies and beauty salons, ph 0800 144 562.)
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Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Research Notes Number 19)
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In his reminiscences, Captain Henry Brush described with precision what newly enlisted recruits wore during the War of 1812. Soldiers were outfitted for service in unbleached, tow-linen hunting shirts and trousers. On their heads they wore low-crown hats, on the left side of which were black cockades about two inches in diameter. A small silver eagle (about the size of a quarter) was fastened in the center of each cockade. Each soldier strapped a leather girdle around his waist, where he carried a tomahawk, a knife, a cartridge box, a bayonet, and a quart-sized tin canteen. He was armed with a musket and shouldered a linen knapsack with a blanket lashed to the top. Both were covered with oilcloth to protect them from wet weather. A soldier's arms and pack together weighed about thirty-five pounds, and troops traveled an average of twenty-five miles a day on foot. Writing home to his wife, one soldier confessed: "My limbs were so stiff and sore at the end of each day's march that I could hardly walk."
In response to complaints from militia officers about their bedraggled troops, Virginia governor James Barbour outlined new uniform requirements in January 1812. General officers, artillery, light artillery, and grenadiers stood out in cockaded hats, white cuffs, and epaulets. Cavalrymen wore distinctive black leather caps dressed on the crown with bearskin and a red and white plume. Riflemen wore purple linen hunting shirts and leather moccasins, while the main body of the militia donned blue hunting shirts festively trimmed with red fringe. Despite the governor's official proclamation, any soldiers who had provided themselves with uniforms different from those specified in the regulations could wear them for six months, and many probably went to war in the everyday clothing in which they had enlisted.
Virginia soldiers and sailors found themselves in the field as the result of international politics. Through the early decades of the nation's history, relations between the United States and Great Britain remained strained. The relationship deteriorated sharply with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1803, when Britain imposed a blockade on neutral countries, including the United States. In addition, the British seized sailors from American ships and impressed them into the British navy. In Congress, southern and western War Hawks, such as the new Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, of Kentucky, and Representative John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, led the sentiment for war, calling for defense of American interests and honor. On 1 June 1812, President James Madison asked for a declaration of war. Shortly afterward, Congress approved the declaration (despite the opposition of every Federalist member), and the United States was fighting a war with the motto "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights."
In Virginia, the British responded by blockading the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and raiding coastal settlements. In mid-June 1813, the British attempted to capture Norfolk, but were repulsed by militia stationed on Craney Island. A week later, however, the British captured and sacked the nearby city of Hampton. Although actual encounters were few, the threat of attack kept militia in the field throughout the war, which ended when the Treaty of Ghent was signed on 24 December 1814.
Records at the Library of Virginia
Records housed at the Library of Virginia may help document War of 1812 military and public service. Proof of military service may be found in two printed volumes of pay rolls and muster rolls: Pay Rolls of the Militia Entitled to Land Bounty under the Act of Congress of Sept. 28, 1850 (published in 1851) and Muster Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, Being a Supplement of the Pay Rolls (published in 1852). The supplement includes militia companies and parts of companies omitted in the Pay Rolls. These volumes are also available on microfilm and in a reprint edition that includes an index (Virginia Militia in the War of 1812: From Rolls in the Auditor's Office at Richmond. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001). Approximately 40,000 names appear in the printed pay rolls and muster rolls; they are also available in a searchable database on the Library of Virginia's Web site. A reference is provided with each name to the pay rolls, the muster rolls, House of Delegates documents (published in the Journal of the House of Delegates), or legislative petitions.
Archival records housed at the Library of Virginia concern the state's involvement in the War of 1812. Many of these manuscripts are fragile and oversized, and most are not indexed. Archival materials are served in the Archives Research Room, where special rules governing use and reproduction apply. Research in the materials described below requires patience, care, and diligence. Often records reveal a great deal about how soldiers were equipped and how supplies were obtained, but contain little information on individual soldiers. Records concerning War of 1812 soldiers are scattered and fragmentary, and proof of federal military service and benefits will be found only at the National Archives.
Primary among materials housed at the Library of Virginia are the records of the Auditor of Public Accounts (APA). For additional information, consult John S. Salmon and J. Christian Kolbe, comps., Auditor of Public Accounts Inventory (1992).
Military Records
General Militia Records, 1811–1821 (APA entry 247).
Keeping large bodies of militia in the field required an elaborate system of support based on the purchase of goods and services from civilians, in addition to the usual pay and allowances to officers and soldiers. The result was the creation of a large number of records concerning the state's disbursements to both soldiers and civilians. Many claims for payment went unsatisfied until 1821. This series consists largely of pay and muster rolls, accounts and vouchers concerning supplies, and claims for reimbursement for services rendered. The records are arranged by army unit and by support service, and are not indexed. Also included are receipts for the care of sick and disabled soldiers.
Account and Receipt Books, 1811–1816 (APA entry 248).
Accounts with suppliers of goods and services and records of supplies received, including tents, linen, and bedding. Also included are lists of horses and wagons impressed.
List of Articles Received at the Capitol, 1813 (APA entry 249).
A list describing the types of supplies received by the superintendent of military stores, names of suppliers, and dates of receipt. Items listed include belts, saddles, anvils, chisels, compasses, and pistols. Arranged chronologically.
Memoranda of Articles Received, 1815–1816 (APA entry 252).
Lists of camp equipment, military stores, and ordnance returned by militia units at the end of the war, including musket cartridges, pistols, grape shot, saddles, bridles, great coats, and tent poles. Arranged chronologically.
Muster Rolls and Payrolls, 1812–1815 (APA entry 253).
Twenty-seven unindexed volumes containing muster rolls and payrolls of militia companies, giving names of officers and soldiers and dates for which they were paid.
Register of Furloughs, 1814 (APA entry 258).
A volume containing names of soldiers, dates and lengths of furloughs, regiment numbers, counties of residence, and reasons for furloughs. It also contains a list of soldiers discharged, including ranks, dates of discharges, regiments, counties of residence, and reasons for discharges. Arranged chronologically.
Register of Applications for Appointments in the Force to be Raised for the Defense of the Commonwealth, ca. 1812 (War 13, miscellaneous reel 985).
The Virginia militia was organized by county during the War of 1812, with each county producing one or more regiments. These regiments were in turn organized into twenty-one brigades, and the brigades were organized into four divisions. In addition to other duties, the adjutant general was responsible for organizing the militia in the event the governor called it out. With the outbreak of war, President Madison called up the state militia, with each state satisfying a particular quota. These records contain a list of applicants, their regiment, county, appointment solicited, and by whom recommended. The register begins with applicants in the artillery, followed by cavalry, infantry, surgical department, and rifle corps.
Bernard Peyton. Order Book, 20th Regiment, U. S. Infantry, 1812–1814 (Accession 27776).
An order book including accounts documenting the day-to-day business of the regiment, accounts of clothing delivered to recruits, and enlistments. It describes the soldiers who enlisted at Charlottesville courthouse, including John Edwards (a black-haired, blue-eyed tailor born in Ireland) and Robert Stevenson (a farmer, born in Ireland, who died only six weeks after he enlisted). The clothing accounts list the type of items distributed (such as shoes and socks, hats and cockades, and knapsacks), and show the names or marks of roughly thirty individuals who received them. The enlistments provide a variety of information for about thirty of the regiment's members, including place of birth, age, height, complexion, hair and eye color, and profession.
Public Service
List of Certificates Issued for Militia and War of 1812 Expenses, 1807–1808, 1812–1817, miscellaneous reel 988 (APA entry 250).
A list containing names of persons to whom certificates were issued, dates, and amounts. Arranged alphabetically.
Quartermaster's Account Book, 1815 (APA entry 256).
A list of payment claims for services such as transporting supplies, as well as lists of military stores returned and sold. Arranged chronologically.
Register of Claims, 1813–1814 (APA entry 257).
Names of claimants, nature of services or supplies furnished, and accounts claimed. Arranged alphabetically by name of claimant.
List of Depositions Relating to Slaves and Other Property Plundered by the Enemy During the Late War, 1812 (Accession 36873).
A list containing the names of persons recording the deposition, the number of slaves, the property taken or plundered, the name of the slave owner, the value, and the county.
Claims of Virginia Against the U.S. for War of 1812 Debts (Office of the Second Auditor, entry 17).
Correspondence, receipts, and accounts; typed copies of acts, resolutions, and accounts; and printed acts and reports of the General Assembly concerning the cost of outfitting soldiers for the war. For example, William Coleman, a contractor for the troops stationed at Williamsburg, supplied rations, provisions, and forage. His bill amounted to $2,511.24 and was finally paid in 1820.
Business Records
John K. Martin Papers, Accession 12.
Martin lived in Richmond and was a pension and claims agent for military veterans. His papers consist largely of claim files, arranged in a chronological series by wars, and alphabetical files by claimant within each series. A typical file contains correspondence with the claimant, documentation concerning the nature and length of military service, proof of relationship to the individual performing the military service if deceased, and drafts of correspondence with various federal government agencies concerning pensions and bounty lands. Files vary considerably in size. A card index to the claimant files is available in the Library of Virginia's West Reading Room.
Organization Records
Society of the Soldiers of the War of 1812. 2nd District. Record Book, 1854–1866. Accession 23308.
A muster roll of War of 1812 soldiers residing in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Elizabeth City County, Norfolk County, Nansemond County, and Princess Anne County. Also included are meeting minutes and accounts.
Other Records
Military service may also be mentioned in local records, particularly order books. Details of a soldier's life may be gleaned from census records, land and personal property taxes, and other local records, such as deeds, wills, and marriages.
Records at the National Archives
Virginia did not grant bounty land or pensions for military service in the War of 1812. The federal government ultimately paid many of these soldiers, and records of their service may be on file at the National Archives and Records Administration, where the Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the War of 1812 is available on microfilm. The service records are not filmed, but are available for research in Washington, D.C.
Pension applications are also housed at the National Archives. An Index to War of 1812 Pension Application Files is available there on microfilm, and has been transcribed in Virgil D. White's Index to War of 1812 Pension Files (1989). Another useful index to these federal records is Patrick Wardell's War of 1812: Virginia Bounty Land and Pension Applicants (1987). Other helpful printed sources include Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812 (1988) and Virginia Soldiers in the United States Army, 1800–1815 (1986), and Clarence S. Peterson, Known Military Dead During the War of 1812 (1995).
War of 1812 payrolls and muster rolls. (The Library of Virginia)
http://www.archives.gov/index.html (Information on War of 1812 holdings in "The Research Room" under "Genealogy and Family History" and "Veterans' Service Records.")
www.history.navy.mil (List of commissioned and warrant officers in the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps in the War of 1812.)
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June 2001


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The Women in Trades Training program at Okanagan College is breaking barriers with a foundation metal fabrication program designed to help women build both skills and confidence in this expanding field.
Metal fabricators work on the design side of the industry, which means they require an ability to read drawings and layouts, and then fabricate metal parts to meet those needs. Students learn to work with steel plates and structural steel shapes, including shearing, cutting, punching, drilling, forming, fitting and welding.
The 23-week (690-hour) intake of the metal fabrication program for women starts on March 11, 2013 at the College's Kelowna campus. Classes run Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
"Metal fabrication is very closely tied to the welding industry, which is consistently the number one trades training choice for women in our programs," said Nancy Darling, Program Administrator for the Women in Trades program at Okanagan College. "Metal fabrication is one of the trades where demand for skilled workers is particularly strong right now, especially with the recent shipbuilding contracts awarded in the province."
Darling said scheduling an all-female intake for the metal fabrication class comes at just the right time to take advantage of the revamped entrance requirements. Up until now, students were required to meet the prerequisite of having a Level C ticket in welding prior to entering the metal fabrication foundation program. This new rule allows women to enter directly into the Metal Fabrication foundation program without prior welding experience or credentials.
"Our number one goal with the Women in Trades Training program is to increase the number of female apprentices in the province of B.C.," Darling said. "By removing the barriers to direct entry into the Metal Fabrication foundation program, we are seeing many women step forward as pioneers in this field. These women will be the first participants we have ever sponsored for this program, and we are excited to see them progress through their training."
The Women in Trades Training Initiative (WTTI) is administered by the Industry Training Authority (ITA) through the Canada-British Columbia Labour Market Agreement (LMA) and provides supports for eligible women who are either: unemployed and not eligible for Employment Insurance benefits, or employed but lacking certification.
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Dr. Mohammed El-Katiri is a Director of MENA Insight, a political risk consultancy that focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, and a Senior Research Analyst at the United Kingdom's (UK) Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC). Before joining CSRC, Dr. El-Katiri was a Research Fellow at the UK Defence Academy, and later served as a Political Risk Analyst at Eurasia Group and as a senior researcher at the Hague Institute for Global Justice. With more than 10 years of regional experience, his research interests include political and economic security in North Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, as well as North African relations with the European Union, and security policies around the Mediterranean. Dr. El-Katiri has published numerous internal and external UK Defence Academy reports, including reference papers on national and regional security issues in the GCC and the Mediterranean, and a monograph on the Algerian national oil and gas company Sonatrach. In addition, his publications include commentaries and research papers in a range of languages for research organizations in the UK and Europe, as well as various newspaper articles in and about the region. Dr. El-Katiri is a frequent commentator in media including the British Broadcasting Company, the Financial Times, and Al-Jazeera.
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SSI books and monographs by Dr. Mohammed El-Katiri
The Quest for Military Cooperation in North Africa: Prospects and Challenges
October 25, 2016
Authored by Dr. Mohammed El-Katiri.
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The deterioration of the security situation in most North African countries in the post-Arab Spring era has spurred a variety of urgently-needed security and military cooperation initiatives in the region. However, attempts to construct a security cooperation framework on more than a bilateral or trilateral basis have failed due to a variety of long-standing political and security challenges.
From Assistance to Partnership: Morocco and its Foreign Policy in West Africa
November 17, 2015
Authored by Dr. Mohammed El-Katiri.
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This monograph focuses on the geopolitical and economic drivers for the renewed Moroccan interest in West Africa. It also examines how Morocco is conducting its foreign and security policy in a variety of Western African countries. It highlights Morocco's contribution to counterextremism in West Africa and Sahel regions, through the provision of training to the imams and preachers of African Mosques.
Strengthening Statehood Capabilities for Successful Transitions in the Middle East / North Africa Region
April 02, 2015
Authored by Dr. Mohammed El-Katiri.
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The post-revolution political elites in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia are struggling to strengthen their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, but their attempts to gather support for much-needed new political institutions and reforms have made limited progress. This monograph explains why and suggests what can be done to help.
Regionalizing East Mediterranean Gas: Energy Security, Stability, and the U.S. Role
December 19, 2014
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The tremendous economic and geostrategic significance of the East Mediterranean's newly discovered and potential future hydrocarbon resources also holds the potential for new grounds for conflict. The significance of these discoveries to the geopolitics of the East Mediterranean and Middle East Regions as well as potential U.S. strategic responses to these unfolding challenges is examined.
United States-Gulf Cooperation Council Security Coopeeration in a Multipolar World
October 01, 2014
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Military and security cooperation with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states is of continuing importance for the United States given the region's pivotal location in the Middle East and proximity to Iran. This monograph examines recent developments in the political and economic dynamics in GCC countries and their neighbors, and the potential implications for this cooperation.
Revival of Political Islam in the Aftermath of Arab Uprisings: Implications for the Region and Beyond
July 21, 2014
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The rise to power of Islamist political parties in a number of North African states over the past 3 years has caused widespread concern over the future domestic and foreign policy directions of those states. This monograph explores political change in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, and concludes that despite political crises in each country, worst case scenarios have not been borne out and there is hope for optimism.
The Future of the Arab Gulf Monarchies in the Age of Uncertainties
June 10, 2013
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This monograph assesses the challenges facing the Arab Gulf's rulers, and proposes meaningful political reform as a means of mitigating these challenges.
State-Building Challenges in a Post-Revolution Libya
October 31, 2012
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It's amazing how many early cartoons had would-be rapists in them. Spiders are almost always rapists and they don't even want their own kind. They like mere six legged chicks.
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The funny part about all these old cartoons is that the little guy is always able to beat the crap out of the big hairy brute. They never even bother to explain it. Like Puddy the fly was bitten by a radioactive Ultimate Fighter and then gained super strength or something. Nope.
Merely because the little guy is good, that's enough to beat up a huge bastard. Today, the executives would make you explain why the little guy can vanquish the big mean monster. "Kids won't understand it unless it's logical." or some kinda poppycock like that. Maybe because executives are bad and ugly and they have vanquished the good and kindly cartoonists. For now.
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In the 30s you didn't need an excuse to be entertaining. You just did it and no one ever questioned it.
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I landed in the US on Nov 7… the "day after". Like many others on my flight, if not the majority, when I checked the results of the election, I was not surprised. I watched as the faces changed from the joy of landing safely and beating out the Nor'easter, to near horror-stricken when realizing that the White House would not be changing hands.
At the same time, I felt a bit of relief. It's over, results known; time to assess, and to move forward. Reports conveyed that approximately 70% of the Jewish vote went to Obama − again no surprise there. There were statements of shock regarding just how many "religious" Jews voted for a candidate who is in favor of ripping the Jewish heartland from its people. In fact, the chasm between those of us who live in Israel, and those in the US, once again proved to be as wide as ever, with no prospect of attenuating the intensity.
That chasm which is the real problem, that had it been truly addressed, analyzed, and properly challenged would have brought about a different result in the "Jewish" vote, and perhaps even in the election results.
The tens of millions of dollars or more donated to the Romney campaign by our Jewish brethren did little to sway the Jewish vote. Nine percent change in the Jewish voting margin cannot be considered success.
While Israel is not the top swing topic of liberal Jewish voters, it is right up there, next to Women's and Gay rights and other human rights issues. The Israel/Palestinian peace efforts have affected many of our voters and I find it troubling that 70% of American Jewish voters do not comprehend what's at stake. Worse yet, if they do comprehend then they presented a clear statement of apathy.
The support for Obama conveys indifference on the part of American Jewry over Israel giving up its heritage and its heartland. Their apathy paves the way for a new Arab state to rise, void of the ideals and values treasured in western culture, a state, which would undoubtedly be hostile to Israel and the United States.
Conversely, polls communicated unmistakably the over 80% of Israeli support for Romney as their choice for US president. Israelis, for the most part, recognize that Obama cannot be trusted with regard to Israel's security.
We are on our own, and we accept that.
Nevertheless, why is it that US Jews see eye to eye with Obama with regard to his foreign policy vis a vis Israel? What might have been done to precipitate a change, and what can we now focus upon?
The fact is that many US Jews if not most, regardless of their various backgrounds, have a misinformed and misconstrued view of the reality in Israel, especially of Judea and Samaria.
Take a moment to ponder the following: Barely any of them can actually connect our history to a map. They might send their children to Hebrew school or to day school, but ask them to trace Abraham's travels on a map or to point out the locations of the names mentioned in the bible, and they can't. Ask them about our history in the region and their response would be sorely lacking. Ask them if they have visited these areas, and they will tell you they haven't. Then ask why.
This lack of connection to our land is an orchestrated and nefarious effort that serves to maintain a wedge between our people and our land. This trend of disconnect to our history in our country has caused a major negative impact in the mindset of the American Jew.
Imagine the effect on the election results had a portion of the millions of dollars invested in the campaign been used to dissuade the lies regarding Judea and Samaria, expose the efforts (our own included) to separate our people from Israel, and used rather to educate and connect our people to the realities of the Middle East.
Imagine the effect had some of the funds been used to aggressively fight the perversions disseminated by groups such as J Street and Americans for Peace Now, as well as Sarah Silverman receiving a lesson and taste of reality, rather than contemplating which straddle position she would use to affect candidacy funding.
This is a real issue of critical importance. We must face it and deal with it.
Our people must be reconnected with their land, their eyes opened to the lies of our enemies, from within and without, and these lies and efforts must be fought. Complacency is not an option, when our people or our land is at stake.
That Obama was chosen to serve another term, as President of the United States, does not deter me. Such an ominous result actually shines a light on a challenge that we can and must overcome to bring about a brighter future.
How will we in Israel deal with the election results?
We will do fine. It might get a little difficult. The road might become slippery, rocky, and sometimes seem impassable, but we will engage in the 4X4 mode, put it in low gear, and get through what we need to get through, shoving aside as many obstacles as necessary through the hilly terrain. We are stronger than any candidate, and we have what to show the world.
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Kubota's Grand L60 Series is the ultimate package for outstanding performance and maximum operator comfort in the 37-62 HP tractor segment. Premium in design and powerful in performance, the Grand L60 Series is equipped with high quality Kubota engines and transmissions. Whether you're mowing, landscaping or needing front-mounted implements, Kubota has the versatility capabilities to match your needs. All of this is backed up with Kubota's reputation for quality and durability, so you can maximize your productivity.
- Type: Direct injection, vertical, water-cooled 4 cycle diesel
- Engine gross power hp (kW): 37.0 (27.6)
- Engine net power hp (kW): 35.0 (26.1)
- PTO power hp (kW): 28.0 (20.9)
- No. of cylinders / Aspiration: 3 / Natural with EGR
- Bore & stroke in. (mm): 3.4 x 4.0 (87 x 102.4)
- Total displacement cu. in. (cc): 111.4 (1826)
- Rated speed rpm: 2600
- Battery: 12V, RC: 133 min, CCA: 582A
- Alternator: 12V, 40A
- Fuel tank capacity US gal. (L): 13.5 (51)
- Rear PTO Revolution: 1 speed: 540 rpm
- Rear PTO Type: Independent
- Mid PTO: Option
- Mid PTO Revolution: 1 speed: 2000 rpm
- Lift control type: Position: Standard
- Lift control type: Draft: Option
- Implement pump GPM (L/min.): 8.1 (30.4)
- Power steering pump GPM (L/min.): 4.7 (17.9)
- Total hydraulic flow GPM (L/min.): 12.8 (48.3)
- 3-point hitch: Category I
- Lift capacity at 24 in. behind lift point lb. (kg): 2646 (1200)
Traveling System
- Transmission: HST Plus (3 Ranges)
- Steering: Hydrostatic power steering
- Brake: Wet disc type
Standard Tire Size
- Front: 7.0-16
- Rear: 12.4-24
Travel Speeds
- No. of speeds (at rated engine speed): HST Plus (3 Ranges)
- H-DS L-L Forward/Reverse - mph (km/h): 2.1 (3.4) / 1.9 (3.0)
- H-DS L-M Forward/Reverse - mph (km/h): 4.3 (6.9) / 3.9 (6.2)
- H-DS L-H Forward/Reverse - mph (km/h): 9.9 (15.9) / 8.9 (14.3)
- H-DS H-L Forward/Reverse - mph (km/h): 3.5 (5.6) / 3.2 (5.1)
- H-DS H-M Forward/Reverse - mph (km/h): 7.1 (11.5) / 6.4 (10.3)
- H-DS H-H Forward/Reverse - mph (km/h): 16.5 (26.5) / 14.9 (23.9)
Dimensions and Weight
- Overall length (w/o 3P): 115.0 (2920)
- Overall width (min. tread): 59.8 (1520)
- Overall height (w/Foldable ROPS): 97.2 (2470)
- Wheelbase: 71.1 (1805)
- Min. ground clearance: 13.5 (342)
- Tread Front: 45.5 (1155)
- Tread Rear: 47.2 (1200); 51.2 (1300); 54.5 (1385); 58.3 (1480)
- Min. turning radius (w/brake, 4WD disengaged): 8.9 (2.7)
- Weight (with ROPS): 3505 (1590)
- Transmission Options: Kubota's transmissions are built by Kubota and specifically designed to maximize the speed and torque to meet your needs. Fully Synchronized Main and Shuttle Transmission (FST) –The 8F/8R FST features two ranges and a fully synchronized main gear shift for easy shifting – without stopping; Glide Shift Transmission (GST) – Easy-to-use, featuring 12 speeds and clutchless operation to allow for greater speed matching with effortless shifting on the go; HST Plus Transmission – 3-range HST Plus transmission is easy to operate and comes with many other features to increase tractor productivity; Auto Throttle Advance – Automatically increases engine RPMs when transmission speed increases, then decreases engine RPMs when transmission speed decreases; Hydrostatic Dual Speed (HDS) – Allows for Hi-Low ranges in addition to the 3-Range HST which allows you to choose a lower or higher set of speeds within each of the main Hi-Medium-Low ranges; Auto HDS – Automatically adjusts the HDS depending on how much load the tractor is taking on; Adjustable Sensitivity – Adjusts the speed of response from the treadle pedal when increasing or decreasing speed; Cruise Control – Allows the operator to maintain a constant speed without keeping their foot on the treadle pedal; Stall Guard – A great feature for first-time users, the stall guard prevents the tractor from stalling out, even under heavy loads.
- Front Hitch: With two Kubota exclusive 4-point quick connect front hitch options, attaching front implements like blades, sweepers, snow blowers and flail mowers has never been easier. With a choice between a manual and fully auto front hitch, Kubota answers your needs for versatility. Available Implements: 62"/64"/72"/74" Utility Snow Blower Options, 74" & 80" Commercial Snow Blower Options, 60"/72"/84" Front Blade Options, 60" & 72" Rotary Sweeper Options, 72" Flail Mower.
- Performance Matched Front End Loader: Kubota Built Front Loader – Kubota's front loaders are built by Kubota and specifically designed to maximize the performance of the front loader and tractor; Standard 2-lever Quick Coupler – The standard mechanical or optional hydraulic 2-lever quick coupler make removing and attaching loader attachments quick and easy, with no tools required; Optional 3rd Function Valve – For attachments that require hydraulic power such as grapples; Easy-to-Remove – The Kubota LA555, LA805 and LA1055 front loaders are designed to be easy-to-remove and reinstall – without tools –whenever the job demands it; Maximum Visibility – Kubota's front loaders come with a curved boom design for optimum visibility; Ease of Use – With plenty of lift capacity, simultaneous lift and curl functions and a standard 2-lever quick coupler, the Kubota LA555, LA805 and LA1055 front loaders make it easy to complete your task with speed and ease.
- Performance Matched Backhoe: Kubota Built Backhoe – Kubota's backhoes are built by Kubota and specifically designed to maximize the performance of the backhoe and tractor; Easy-to-Remove – The Kubota BH77 and BH92 are easily removed without the use of tools; Optional Mechanical Thumb – Adding a thumb increases versatility and makes lifting objects even easier; Ease of Use – Designed with plenty of dig depth and reach, smooth hydraulics, cushioning valves to prevent shock when the dipper reaches the end of the cylinder stroke and ample room for the operator, you will find the BH77 and BH92 are not only easy-to-use, but also a pleasure to work with.
- Designed to Perform: The Grand L60 Series is designed with strength and durability in mind, featuring: Kubota Diesel Engine – Kubota is the #1 manufacturer of under 100 HP non-automotive, multi-cylinder diesel engines in the World; Common Rail System (CRS) – The CRS system delivers greater fuel savings, less engine noise and vibration and better emissions, while still maintaining a high level of power and torque; Kubota Performance Matched – The Grand L60 Series is built by Kubota for Kubota, it's not a rebranded product built and distributed by multiple manufacturers; Metal Hood and Fenders – Strong and durable metal hood and fenders will not only protect your equipment, but keep it looking good for a long time to come.
- Premium Tractor: The Grand L60 Series is designed with deluxe features for optimum comfort: Spacious Operator's Station – Easy to get on and off with plenty of leg room to increase operator comfort; Modern Dash Panel (ROPS Models) – Easy-to-read with all the information displayed right in front of the operator; IntelliPanel Display (Cab Models) – Stay up-to-date with our easy-to-read display, showing all of your information right in front of you; Easy-to-Use Controls – Simple controls that are easy to understand and operate, even for first time users; Kubota Treadle Pedal Design – Effortlessly change speed and direction using Kubota's forward and reverse treadle pedals; Deluxe Suspension Seat with Armrest– Increases operator comfort; Optional Air Ride Suspension Seat – Further increases comfort by absorbing shock; Tilt Steering Wheel – Allows you to adjust the steering wheel for maximum comfort; Rubber Floor Mat – Reduces noise and vibration, creating a more comfortable ride while decreasing fatigue; Cab & ROPS Version – Available with either economical ROPS or the comfort of a climate-controlled cab; Transmission Options – With a choice between the Kubota built, easy-to-use HST Plus, Glide Shift (GST) or Fully Synchronized (FST) transmission, you'resure to find the right balance of speed and torque to get your job done quickly and efficiently; Cruise Control – Allows the operator to maintain a constant speed without keeping their foot on the treadle pedal; Hydraulic Live-Independent PTO – Easy-to-use, no clutching or stopping; Ready for a Long Day – Standard cup holder, tool box and large fuel tank capacity; Power Steering – Hydrostatic power steering to increase smooth operation in tight turns.
- Engine Manufacturer
- Kubota
- Engine Type
- Direct injection, vertical, water-cooled 4 cycle diesel. Displacement:111.4 cu. in. (1826 cc)
- Horsepower
- Gross: 37.0 hp (27.6 kW); Net: 35.0 hp (26.1 kW)
- 28.0 hp (20.9 kW)
- Rated RPM
- 2600 rpm
- Bore and Stroke
- 3.4 x 4.0 in. (87 x 102.4 mm)
- Wheelbase
- 71.1 in. (1805 mm)
- Height
- 97.2 in. (2470 mm)
- Width
- 59.8 in. (1520 mm)
- Weight
- 3505 lb. (1590 kg)
- Ground Clearance
- 13.5 in. (342 mm)
- Tire Size
- Front: 7.0-16; Rear: 12.4-24
- Fuel System
- Direct injection
- Fuel Capacity
- 13.5 gal. (51 L)
- Transmission
- HST Plus (3 Ranges)
- Brakes
- Wet disc type
- Hydraulics
- Total pump output: 12.8 gpm (48.3 Lpm)


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S3 E07 Leap of Faith
POLICE LOG: A witness scheduled to testify against the mob is abducted while being transported by the police. The only lead to his whereabouts comes from an eyewitness who wasn't even at the scene. He only knows what he knows because he's a psychic. Detailed report follows:
Bobby Love is a witness slated to testify against Vincent Deluca, the mob man who killed some innocent people in some bar bombings. He's abducted while Oliver and Nick are transporting him from a safe house. In all likelihood, Bobby is already dead. That means the prosecution needs to rely on all other witnesses. Dov is assigned to prep Sue, as she worked the case. That's going to be awkward considering how he's been avoiding her lately. Gail advises Dov to be honest. Easier said than done, right?
There's a chance Bobby Love may still be alive. A witness, Darius, claims to have seen him being driven into a parking garage in a black SUV. He saw it clear as day… with his mind. Yes, Darius claims to be a psychic. With no other leads, Andy and skeptic Sam drive the guy around town trying to find the missing witness. Believe it or not, they actually find a parking garage just like Darius described. Time to investigate!
There no SUV inside the garage at first. One does drive in later though. BANG! BANG! BANG! The occupants of the SUV open fire on Andy and Nick. No one is hurt, but the bad guys get away. The officers of 15 smell a setup when they learn the psychic's sister is married to the mob. Jerry tosses Darius in a cell where he helps Nick flush out a description of the kidnapping suspect. He's identified at Vince Deluca's right-hand man. Darius also narrows down Bobby Love's location, once again, in his mind.[break]
Andy and Nick find Bobby and his captors at a cement factory. There's no time to wait for backup. They storm the building and get the drop on Bobby's captors. Their witness is beaten, but alive. He'll be able to testify without issue. None of this could have happened without a little psychic assist. Still, no one at 15 is ready to buy into the fact that Darius has a gift. More on that later.
Andy has been toying with the idea of saying those three little words to Sam. She's shocked to learn that Traci and Jerry said "I love you" to each other on their fourth date. Believe it or not, they've been together for three years. To mark the occasion, Jerry presents Traci with a present. It's a shiny new knife. Not exactly the most romantic gift in the world, but Chris thinks the thing's cool enough.
"Holy crap!" These are Andy and Traci's words as they see the message engraved on the knife's blade. It reads, "Marry Me." Like we said… holy crap! In other news, Chris questions a college professor who was a witness in the case. He's a drug addict who claims to be clean now. Chris doesn't buy it. He begs the guy to seek help. He knows an addict when he sees one. How? Apparently, Chris had to give up his own coke habit to play football. Whoa, total shocker![break]
On his way out of the station, Darius lets it slip that Noelle is having a girl. He also tells Traci that she's not going to marry Jerry. He advises Gail to start telling the truth for a change. He wants Oliver to tell his wife to stop seeing that other guy. He needs to get back home because his kids miss him. Elsewhere, Dov helps Sue calm her nerves while prepping for her testimony. It's a nice little moment that doesn't last. Dov finally gives her a by-the-numbers breakup speech. Needless to say, Sue is not happy.
Traci says that she doesn't need to get married. She makes some pretty good points, but Jerry's passionate rebuttal has her rethinking things. She ultimately says yes to his proposal. Outside the station, Andy finally says those three little words to Sam. Darius the psychic had warned her that she wouldn't get an "I love you" return. She doesn't. That's cool. Andy doesn't care if Sam never says it. That's not gonna stop her from saying it again and again and again.


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Looking for a city that never sleeps? Book flights to Delhi and admire a treasure trove of impressive buildings, from the 73-metre-high Qutb Minar to the modern marble Lotus Temple. Or cool off in Humayun's Tomb, the inspiration for the design of the world-famous Taj Mahal. Delhi is divided into old and new parts of the city. In the old city, cars, pedestrians, animals and rickshaws compete for space, whereas the traffic in New Delhi is much more organised. There is so much to see!
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Red hair is considered fairly rare among the human race. Overall, that Celtic gene seems responsible for most of those lucky enough to be born with this hair color. Scotland seems to have the highest rate, being around 13% of the population. Ireland follows. Thus, most of those displaying this crown, are generally judged to be from Ireland or Scotland.
Genetically, red hair is considered an autosomal recessive trait. The gene is carried on chromosome 16, and is tagged MC1R. A mutation of this gene is felt to have occurred, which caused it not to be able to breakdown certain chemicals. [Conversion of pheomelanin into eumelanin, for those who want to know.] When the genes (alleles) from mom and dad come together, they each provide one side of this gene. The outcome of this combination produces hair color. If one parent carries this mutated gene, it will be expressed when it is joined by another who transmits this mutation.
The picture above shows a bunch of red heads. They are all brothers and sisters who seem to have parents who had nothing but red head genes! [Mam maw is in the middle.] My Dad (b. 1926) is of course was grey headed at the time the picture was taken, but he often told me he would not wear red because of the "carrot top" jokes he received growing up in Winchester, KY. Aunt Thelma Rae (b. 1928) , uncle Eugene Turner (Gene, b. 1936), uncle Gayle Lynwood (b.1938), and aunt Linda Carol (b. 1941), all show expression of this phenomena. Not sure how rare it is that a family has all red headed children! Welsh and Scottish genes, you can imagine the childhood stories.


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The Wyler Aerial Tramway at Franklin Mountains State Park features an aerial cable car situated on 195.742 acres of rugged mountain and rock formations on the east side of the Franklin Mountains.
Activities: Driving the paved road that snakes up the east side of the Franklin Mountains from the intersection of McKinley and Alabama streets is half the fun. The visitor arrives at a parking area that sits at an elevation of 4,692 feet. The view of El Paso, to the east, is magnificent. Here visitors can admire the beauty of cacti gardens or watch the tramway gondolas take off.
Visitors can purchase tickets at the tramway station to ride a gondola that will transport them to the top of Ranger Peak. The Swiss-made gondolas travel on a 2,600 feet long, 1 3/8 inch diameter steel cable. While waiting to depart, the visitor can view part of the machinery and mechanism of the system through a window located on the south side of the base station. On the smooth ride to the top, the park ranger will describe the different cacti and rock formations along the way. Abundant wildlife, including reptiles, birds and insects, offer exciting viewing opportunities. The four-minute ride soars above a vast canyon that is 240 feet deep in some places.
From Ranger Peak, 5,632 feet above sea level, the visitor can enjoy the view of 7,000 square miles encompassing three states and two nations. The tramway ride is a memorable experience offering a vista of the vastness and stark beauty of the southwest.
The station at the top provides accessible ramps and paved grounds leading into an observation deck with a 360-degree view. Pay-per-view high power telescopes enhance the experience.
The facilities at the Tramway, including the platforms, gift shop, restrooms, and the tram itself, are considered wheelchair accessible. Contact the Tramway for more detailed information.
Access to the park is currently only allowed during guided programs; check our calendar for upcoming events.
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Birding in the El Paso area will take one into and through the Franklin Mountains and the Hueco Tanks State Historic Site areas. The local Audubon Society has created an excellent birding area known as Feather Lakes. The natural flyway that is the El Paso area brings a large variety of bird species to the area. Local groups are taking advantage of this natural flyway by rehabilitating the remains of local bosques (wetlands), adding to the available bird habitat in the area.
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Waltz Golf Farm, a cornerstone of the Limerick area, is marking 50 years in business. The owners plan to celebrate the anniversary in grand style, by sharing the celebration.
Before opening its doors in April of 1964, Waltz Golf Farm was a farm where Black Angus grazed. William G. 'Sandy' Waltz thought the front of his farm would make a nice golf course, and would be more exciting than watching animals graze.
When choosing a theme for the first miniature course, Waltz suggested a farm theme. The Farm Golf still exists today.
'After Waltz Golf Farm opened with the farm mini golf, driving range and Par 3, the rest of the farm was converted to Waltz Turf Farm through the 70s-80s,' said Lisa Waltz. 'Then my mom, dad, cousin Ray Waltz Jr. and Uncle Ray Waltz decided to turn the turf farm into an 18-hole golf course, so Turtle Creek Golf Course was built and opened in 1997.'
The Waltz Golf Farm was added to over the years. Batting cages in 1986, a grass Tee driving range in the 90s and a gemstone panning attraction called Golfer's Gulch in early 2000.
'In 1994 we decided it would be fun to have some fireworks to celebrate our 30th anniversary; we had a little show, and those who came thought it was great,' Waltz said. 'We never had the idea to continue it until the next year when everyone asked if we were having more fireworks, so a tradition was born.'
Thousands come out for the fireworks with blankets, Frisbees and beach balls, enjoying the food vendors and live music until the firework show at 9:45 p.m.
Waltz noted that they are very lucky to have the support of the Limerick Fire Company and Police, and neighboring companies who volunteer their time to be sure the event is safe.
'We sponsor the fireworks 100 percent; many people thought Limerick Township did it,' Waltz said. 'We thought it is a nice way to thank all of the folks who have come through the doors over the years and then come back again with kids and even grand kids. We are especially honored that our fireworks have become a family tradition for many, and we love having everyone sing 'God Bless America,' a tradition to start off our show since we started 20 years ago.'
Since Waltz Golf Farm is not the only one turning 50, the fun is being extended to everyone who was born in 1964. On Tuesday, anyone born in 1964 (must show valid driver's license) will be able to play one free round on Par 3, Farm Golf and Castle Golf.
On Thursday, the Golf Farm is offering its prices from 1964.
From 1 to 5 p.m., $0.50 for Farm Golf, $0.75 for Castle Golf and $1 for Par 3. At 6 p.m. there will be a special food offer, $5 BBQ to include hot dog or beef BBQ, potato salad, corn bread, drink and a cup of Nelson's Ice Cream, and from 6 to 9 p.m. there will be live music.
The biggest day of the celebration is July 4. There will be many food vendors, starting at 5 p.m. There will also be a free slide for the kids and live music will start at 6 p.m. At 9:30 p.m. there will be a welcome, everyone will sing 'Happy Birthday' to Waltz Golf Farm and there will be a special guest singer.
At 9:45 p.m. there will be a 25-minute fireworks show followed by half-price miniature golf from 10:15 to 11:15 p.m.
Waltz Golf Farm is also planning a special patriotic light show. This show includes stars and bells and flashing lights all set to patriotic music. The eight to 10 minute show is centered off of the Golfers Gulch, and will be shown at twilight every evening through July 6.


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