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The original 1893 schoolhouse displays hundreds of original artifacts depicting immigrant turn-of-the-century life of families, businesses, and coal mines. Original items include the jailhouse iron doors, soccer trophies and bocce balls, coal mining tools, furniture and household items, old store supplies, Illinois coal reports, maps and plats, and plenty of family memories; there is something to interest everyone.
CITY:Coal City
Midwest SOARRING Foundation's Native American Cultural Center
Midwest SOARRING (Save Our Ancestors Remains & Resources Indigenous Network Group) Foundation was formed in November of 1996. They are a Native American non-profit organization who assists with repatriation, protection of sacred sites and educates the public about Native American culture, through Pow Wows, cultural programs and environmental issues. The new Cultural Center is made possible by a lease obtained through the City of Lockport.
A four-floor large museum located in a former stone mill, including items from the area and a room dedicated to Native America artifacts. A 24' long mural depicts the different eras of Indians and a buffalo hide nearby showing life of an Indian tribe. Open Sundays 1-4 pm from April to October. Tours by appointment.
Slovenian Women's Heritage Museum
This museum was established to preserve ethnic Slovenian heritage and honor the immigrants who settled the Joliet area.
Famed architecht Frank Lloyd Wright designed and engineered this bank in 1905, and it is the only one of his three designed banks still standing.
Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery
Features rotating, theme-based exhibitions of works created by past and contemporary Illinois artists and artisans. Exhibits are given added dimension through educational activities and tours for all ages.
Grundy County Historical Society
Museum hours of operation are Thursday, Friday & Saturday 10 AM to 3 PM. Call in advance for guided tours (48 hour notice). The museum has extensive Mazon Fossils, a replica of an early 1890 store, a replica of a 1900 living room as well as a 'tool shed' showing many of the early tools used by pioneers and early farmers. There are many other exhibits as well.
Public Enemies - Joliet Prison
The Feds hunt notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson during a 1930s crime wave. The restored period exterior of Chicago's Biograph Theater, site of Dillinger's infamous demise, is featured in a pivotal scene in the movie.
The Carving Shop features the work of Joe Dillet, Master Craftsman, and specializes in custom hand carved heirlooms for the family, church and architectural carvings. We work from your designs, or ours, to create an awesome look that only hand carving can achieve. All wood is seasoned. All work is protected with a finish that will last many years. All work is guaranteed.
The Sandwich Opera House functions as a community oriented facility. It brings to its stage: theatre, lectures, recitals, weddings and a wide variety of outstanding performers, ranging from country to classical.
Built in 1857, this church is a fine example of Carpenter Gothic Architecture. Pointed arched windows and doors as well as board and batten frame construction characterize this style. King Edward VII worshipped at the church in 1860, while on a hunting expedition in the area. The church was named as one of the "150 Architectural Treasures" in the State of Illinois by the Association of Illinois Architects in 2007, and is listed on the National Historic Register.
It happens the moment you turn onto the long, gravel road; it might be the charm of the converted century-old farmhouse filled with handcrafted pottery, homemade candles and other unique finds. It might be savoring the last bite of Blackberry Peach Cobbler after a delicious, freshly prepared lunch in the tearoom. Or it might be the peaceful serenity found only in the countryside. Whatever "it" is, friends young and old, male and female, have been coming back to Emerson Creek to experience it again and again.
Master architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created the ultimate minimalist masterpiece, the Farnsworth House, in pastoral Plano in 1951. The stellar structure of floor-to-ceiling glass seemingly "floats" above the rambling Fox River.
Kendall County Historical Society's Heritage Hall & Chapel on the Green
Dating back to 1855, the chapel is Kendall County's oldest church building, adorned with stained glass windows and a restored 1899 pipe organ. The adjacent hall houses local artifacts, including photographs and clothing.
Little White Schoolhouse Museum
Constructed in 1854 as a church, this Greek Revival building also served as a schoolhouse for nearly 50 years. A later addition now serves as a museum of Oswego memorabilia.
Will County Historical Society
Incorporated in 1964, the Will County Historical Society exists to connect people and organizations to the county's rich history. The Society's museum is housed in the original headquarters of the I&M Canal. Built in 1837, the structure played a central role in the design, financing, and construction of the Canal and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Changing exhibits highlight the history of Will County and the Canal. The Society's extensive collection includes significant county and canal-related records, including maps, plats, land records, obituaries, photographs, newspapers, receipts, and correspondence.
Art rubber stamps and accessories, brass stencils, ink pads, markers, books, magazines and videos. Free demonstrations.
Historical Society Museum/Alton Railroad Depot
The restored railroad depot, designed by Henry Ives Cobb, is now the home of the Dwight Historical Society and is still an operating Amtrak train station.
Will County Historical Society
Incorporated in 1964, the Will County Historical Society exists to connect people and organizations to the county's rich history. The Society's museum is housed in the original headquarters of the I&M Canal. Built in 1837, the structure played a central role in the design, financing, and construction of the Canal and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Changing exhibits highlight the history of Will County and the Canal. The Society's extensive collection includes significant county and canal-related records, including maps, plats, land records, obituaries, photographs, newspapers, receipts, and correspondence.
The Mar Theatre opened for business on June 15th 1937, and today much of the original stage and decorative ceiling are intact. The lobby and ticket booth area are in the original configuration. Much of the original architectural hardware and lighting fixtures are still in use. The original auditorium comfortably seats 300 moviegoers and a new second auditorium accommodates 64 patrons. Outside the original marquee is still used to inform moviegoers of the current movies.
M.J. Hogan Grain Elevator and Visitor Center
The earliest remaining elevator along the canal that was fully operational during the canal's heyday. Built in 1862, the grain elevator allowed farmers to unload their grain locally instead of hauling it to the Chicago market by wagon.
Public Enemies - Stateville Correctional Center
The Feds hunt notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson during a 1930s crime wave. The restored period exterior of Chicago's Biograph Theater, site of Dillinger's infamous demise, is featured in a pivotal scene in the movie.
CITY:Crest Hill
Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum
A museum established to promote and preserve the history of the Ottawa area and the colorful and proud traditions of Boy/Girl Scouting and Camp Fire. Features national traveling exhibits from museums and libraries. Open Thursday-Monday 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Closed on Holidays.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Sun Motel
An uptight businessman who is desperately trying to get home for Thanksgiving finds himself partnered with an easy going shower ring salesman who is on a journey of his own. The film was shot extensively in the Chicago suburbs. One of the most memorable scenes takes place when the two are forced to share a room at the Braidwood Inn (now the Sun Motel) in suburban Braidwood.
Incredible place to browse and shop. Glass jewelry, art and more. From Tiffany to Nedobeck.
Take a self-guided walking tour of the magnificent murals, sculptures and mosaics found throughout Joliet's city center.
Jacob Henry Mansion Estate Dinner Theatre
Located on the Jacob Henry Mansion Estate, guests are greeted with our famous family hospitality, homemade meals and heartwarming musical productions. Lunch matinees and dinner shows are complimented by itineraries that include tours of our other historic properties, or excursions into Joliet's vibrant downtown. The Jacob Henry Mansion Estate Dinner Theatre welcomes groups with onsite motorcoach parking and handicap accessibilty.
The Gladys Fox Museum is located in the beautifully restored Old Congregational Church, which is the oldest surviving building of its type in Illinois. The building was constructed in 1840 of native limestone on land donated by the Illinois & Michigan.
Handcrafted Soap, tea, chocolate and gourmet treats, fair trade clothing & goods, yarns, knitting & crochet supplies, fairy gardens, miniature plants, garden accents, home decor, lighting and more! Classes offered too!
Enter and enjoy a 3,500 sq ft. building full of unique gifts, florals, and home décor.
One of Ottawa's greatest treasures. Built in 1858, this three story, 22-room Italianate mansion was possibly the most expensive private home in Illinois at that time. Tours available 6 days a week - 11am to 3pm. Closed Tuesdays & major holidays.
Dedicated on February 12, 2009, Lincoln Landing is Lockport's newest attraction. This park, located on the original Public Landing platted as a dock area by Canal Commissioners in 1836, features a unique bronze statue of a young Abraham Lincoln created by artist David Ostro. Interpretive signage through the park highlights the history of the I&M Canal, its impact on the Lockport community, and Lincoln's connections to both. This open-air museum is self-guiding, but is enhanced by a website with school lesson plans.
Elegant National Historic Landmark offers unique Victorian setting for weddings/receptions. Groups and tours welcome.
Open 7 days a week to service the traveling public. The Ottawa Visitors Center is your one stop shop for information on the Starved Rock Areas special events, lodging, and outdoor activities. Stroll our turn-of-the-century Old Town with its lush walkways, boutique shops and unique restaurants. Stop here for your "Scenic Route to the Rock."
A Joliet staple for more than 30 years, this LGBT bar features dancing to live DJs on Friday and Saturday nights, Maneuvers Diva's Den drag shows and live entertainment.
Travel through time and space! Walk through a replica of the I & M Canal, window shop on a turn-of-the-century street, take a virtual ride on a replica trolley, live the legend of Route 66, land on the moon in a walk-in simulator, and experience space exploration and the Apollo missions. Temporary exhibits change often in our Special Exhibition Gallery. There's always family fun in our discovery room, and remember your visit with a souvenir from our Gift Shop.
Historic Vaudeville Movie Theatre listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wide variety of performances.
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les taylor wrote:Hey Bamber I thought it was just me. I was really quiet yesterday and Mrs Les thought that there was something wrong with me. I could not quite put my finger on it. But after Matt's and your commments. Its obviously pre show Blues.
My favourite pours were the Glenlivet 1964 which with my Guardian of Glenlivet was offered. Also the Hanu King of Diamonds, The Yamazaki 18 year old. Also surprisingly the new Bowmore Darkest which was just bueatiful.
We did not get to Ben Nevis PVW Rittenhouse and many others. We were there from opening until closing and can't believe how quick the day went.
les taylor wrote:Glenlivet 1964 which with my Guardian of Glenlivet
Malt-Teaser wrote:Come on all you WL London visitors, the reports so far have been interesting, but what we really want to hear about is who won their fortune(s) at the Casino?
ikendal wrote:Finally to WL knock a £5.00 of the ticket and let us chose our own food, a wafer thin slice of 'something' with mustard does not constitute food, same goes for the overcooked jacket with processed cheese.
Malt-Teaser wrote:I have seen some of these playing card bottlings. Are they planning on working through a whole 52-card deck?
MrTattieHeid wrote:Reminds me to ask, Nick, what are the dates for Whisky Live Stornoway this year?
Nick Brown wrote:MrTattieHeid wrote:Reminds me to ask, Nick, what are the dates for Whisky Live Stornoway this year?
I don't know but it won't be on a Sunday.

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text: On with another Mega Pokemon evolution and this time it will be on a species that is well known by a lot of people who are fans of Pokemon. Here we will learn "how to draw Mega Lucario", step by step. The Mega version of Lucario was introduced in Pokémon X & Y. I don't know how popular Mega Lucario is because I think he is a fairly new addition, but I do think that since it is a mega evolution of Lucario, it must be recognized. Anyways, have fun with drawing Mega Lucario and I will prepare another tut for you all. Adios amigos.


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Republican Andy Barr will be sworn in as the newest congressman from Kentucky on Thursday afternoon in Washington.
Barr, a Lexington attorney, won election in November over Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler in a bitter race to represent the 6th Congressional District.
Barr will serve on the House Committee on Financial Services, which he said he considers a top tier assignment.
He said he will be able to use the committee assignment to work on solving Kentucky's job crisis by pushing to lift regulations that are preventing community banks from making needed loans to individuals and small businesses.


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Guide to the Hopkins transportation collection, 1870-1964 (inclusive), 1877-1943 (bulk)
Guide to the Hopkins transportation collection, 1870-1964 (inclusive), 1877-1943 (bulk)
Collection number: M0234Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 1973 ; 1980
Container List
Airplane photos (See also nitrate negative file and James Deitrick Papers - 140/1/14)
1. Crissy Field, San Francisco, 1923.
Scope and Content Note
2. Stanford alumni: Floyd Merritt, J.E. Brick Elliott, Pat Ferris Jan, 1929.
3. Stanford alumni, geologists, May, 1929.
4. [Stanford alumni?]: Baker, Brandt, Schilder by a Douglas 0-32 May 1930.
5. [Stanford alumni?] for Stanford Illustrated Review, May 1930.
6. Six magazine clips [National Geographic?, n.d.]reproducing 12 photos including Lindergh and his monoplane and Byrd and his plane America.
7. Part of the Roger's aeroplane (a photo of); the first to fly across the U.S., 1910,(and descriptive letter).
Twenty 8 × 10 black and white photos; gift of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. [1926-1946].Information is on the back of each photo.
French aviation postcards. Gift of Hermann Knoche.
Sports-aviation series:
6. Wright, Wilbur and plane
21. Warflinger and single wing Antoinette IV (see 93)
23. Dumont, Santos and plane
25. Farman, Henri and plane
30. Aeroplane Vuia (May 1907)(See 101)
33. Koecklin and plane
43. Guilleband and plane in Rouen.
51. Bonnet-LabrancheII
54. Zens
54. Colonel Coddy's plane (See 103)
60. Bleriot-&-Voisin and plane
63. Equevilley's multiwing plane
64. Glider of M. Belin fils.
66. Gilbert and plane
72. M. Santos-Dumont and plane
76. M. Bleriot and plane La Libellule
90. M. Henri Farman and triplane
91. Delagrange airplane
93. Single wing Antoinette IV (see 21)
97. Auffin-Ordt
97. Single wing Esnault-Pelterce
99. June Bug
101. Vuia (see 30)
102. Esnault-Pelterie
103. English military plane of Colonel Cody (See 54)
104. Flying machine of Laurence Lesh at Morris Park, New York.
Different series:
12. Wilbur Wright airplane
13. Wilbur Wright airplane
15. Delagrange airplane
16. Delagrange airplane
72. Sommer airplane
80. Curtiss airplane
81. Bleriot airplane
83. Farman airplane
84. Voisin airplane
85. La Demoiselle de Santos Dumont (See #23 first series).
Fetes de l'aviation
[1] M. Latham dans le prix d'altitude
[2] Bleriot's last flight one minute before burning
Parked planes
60. Bi-plane
64. Voisin airplane
3. Clement-Bayard
Italian post card: Ala Littoria
Papers of the Early Birds of Aviation, Inc. Includes: newsclips, correspondence, photographs, membership lists, pamphlets. 1952-1964.
The Aero Manual First edition, Temple Press, Ltd., London, 1909.
1. Flight to the North Pole, 24 August 1949, by Francis P. Farquhar and Garfield Merner. 1950,San Francisco, CA
2. Two magazine clippings
3. Aircraft Magazine, (frag.) Dec., 1911.
4. Flying Magazine, Vol. III, No. 2. March, 1914.
5. Army and Navy News Vol. V. No. 7. July, 1917.
Aeronautical notebook;
Red letter days of aviation, (2 1/4 pp), and, Some well-known aeroplanes, ms. specifications accompanied by numerous ink line-drawings. By William Lockwood Marsh.
Original fabric from Kitty Hawk Wright Flyer, gift of Lester.D. Gardner. Accompanied by 2 pages of information.
23 French aviation photographs (postcards): [Gift of Col. W.Lockwood Marsh]
1. The Breguet of Henri Bregi
2. Ader's third plane
3. Ader's third plane
4. H. & A. Dufaux's helicopter
5. The Antoinette
6. Angers' plane Rene GAsnier
7. Henri Farman plane, built by the Voisin brothers.
8. The gyroplane Louis Breguet
9. The plane in which Bleriot crossed the Channel, pictured in the Conservatoire national des arts & metiers, Paris.
10. Deperdussin
11. The Paul Schmitt plane.
12. Works of Colonel Ch. Renard in the musee de l'aeronautique, Meudon.
13. Models of observation balloons in the musee de l'aeronautique.
14. Airplane models, and Fabre's hydroplane, and Breguet & Caudron's planes, together in the musee de l'aeronautique, Meudon.
15. Model of the dirigeable Zodiac.
16. Model of the first balloon to make a successful voyage. (Made by Pilatre of Rozier and Arlandes, 21 nov. 1783.)
17. Twin-winged Nieuport plane.
18. Model of the Voisin twin-wing.
19. Model of the Santos-Dumont.
20. Vapor helicopter of Ponton of Amecourt.
21. The Wright motor
22. The Lorraine-Dietrich motor.
23. The Renault motor.
Memoir re Lawrence Hargrave, by A.E. Berriman, December, 1923.11 typed pages inc. bibliography. Hargrave invented the box kite as well as experimenting with flight machines in general. (Gift Col. Marsh)
Incoming correspondence to Colonel W. Lockwood Marsh from collectors and dealers in aeronautical materials, (1921-1930).(Gift of Col. W.L. Marsh)
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaney from Col. W. Lockwood Marsh inc:
1. Programme to the garden party of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 8 May 1938.
2. A History of British aeronautical periodicals, by C.G. Grey, in Aeronautics, April, 1944.(pp 28-36)
3. One flyer and one ad from the Publishers' Circular for Marsh's book, Aeronautical prints and drawings.
4. Dealer's list for aeronautical material from Librairie Paul Ritti, Paris, n.d.,
Railroads: stock certificates, railroad and other, 1877-1943.
Scope and Content Note
1901 Oil Company (1901 Oil Company (1901)
Capay Valley Land Company (1918)
Central New York and Western Railroad Co. (1943)
Coal and products Co. (1909)
Colorado Steam Navigation Co. (1893)
El Verano Improvement Assoc. (1914, 1918)
El Verano Villa Assoc. (1920)
Fresno Land and Improvement Co. (1893)
Gravey Bar Dredging Co. (1910)
Ione Coal and Iron Co. (1890, 1893)
Oakland, Brooklyn and Fruitvale Rai-road Co. (1896)
Portland and Dambill Railroad Co. (1893)
Portland and Willamette Valley Railway Co. (1887)
San Lorenzo Flume and Transportation Co. (1877)
San Pedro Harbor, Dock, and Land Assoc. (1897)
Simmons Bar Dredging Co. (1911 )
Sonoma Valley Improvement Co. (1888, 1889, 1891)
Union Fuel Co. (1904, 1906)
Huntington, Hopkins & Company
Advertisement, September, 1880. Eades: Patent Differential Pulley Blocks, Sacramento, California.
Pennsylvania Railroad: Ticket offices and depots of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia. c. 1870?
Scope and Content Note
Gould-Huntington Contract, Nov. 26, 1881.El Paso, Texas. (west) Track Agreement. (Source: Hammon)
Pacific Coast Steamship & Central Pacific Railroad Co. & Southern Pacific Railroad Co. & South Pacific Company: Pool Agreement - original contract, 1 Feb. 1877,and modifications, 1 Feb. 1885.(Source: Hammon)
The early birds of aviation, Inc. - An organization of pioneers in aeronautics who flew solo before Dec. 17, 1916. 12 lithographs of the early birds, a reprint form the Thompson Products Aviation Calendar for 1956.
Calendar showing 1917 - 1947 photos of aircraft.
Curtiss aircraft photo album [1917-]
Scope and Content Note
Printed notice of the Yosemite Valley Railway Company, Merced County, California, Feb. 10, 1937.Howard C. Bonsall, Trustee. Re bankruptcy. Gift of the University of Nevada, Reno.
Framed tickets for Sierra Railroad and San Francisco Railroad.
1875 Aug 10,The Putnam Ledger, Unionville, Putnam Co., [Missouri?] Aerial voyage of the balloon `Cloud nymph.'


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I was under the impression you only needed the latest CU, that they contains all previous CUs. But I was reading some about slipstreaming on Todd Klindt's blog were he says:
Since the patches are discrete, something that's patched in June (like filterpack-x-none.msp and wasrvwfe-x-none.msp), might not be updated in August. In that case, if you want the all, you have to extract all the CUs and copy them over in order.


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6 Transportation Innovations More Baffling Than The Segway
#3. The American Chariot
Here at Cracked, we think that all police officers should be wise-cracking, no-nonsense badasses who are much too busy catching dangerous criminals and repairing their broken marriage to ever bother with, say, busting someone for driving a measly five miles-per-hour over the speed limit.
But that just wasn't enough for the folks at American Chariot. They wanted to make police officers faster, more mobile and able to carry more supplies. While this RoboCop-esque idea sounds great on paper, what they actually came up with was... well, we'll let you see it for yourselves.
The first thing you might notice is that the American Chariot literally looks like a chariot, only instead of a team of fierce stallions pounding the ground in front of you, you have three tiny little wheels. In fact, the configuration is kind of like the Big Wheel you had as a toddler. Only you stand up on it, because you're a big boy now!
And while that level of silliness is about par for the course for the vehicles on this list, it gains extra significance when you remember that the rider is an officer of the law. No matter how many times that video talks about "looking imposing" and "projecting authority, strength and commanding a situation," the fact remains that they took two of the least threatening vehicles ever made--the Segway and the tricycle--and merged them together in a way that would make any criminal shit their pants with laughter.
But, lest you think that this is a total bust of a vehicle, you'll note that around the 3:04 mark of that video, a police officer points out that the chariot can "keep people more confused." If that was the purpose of the American Chariot, we have to call it a resounding success.
What You Could Buy Instead:
Honestly? If you're a cop, you already have a badge and a gun; the people who don't respect the first one will probably respect the second. You don't need to buy a damn thing. Just grow a mustache and your arsenal is complete.
#2. The AquaSkipper
Crossing any body of water is always a hassle. But, as a cynical, jaded, 21st century consumer, the last thing you want is a boat. What with their ability to float, ease of use and general reliability, boats are just so passe.
No, what you really want is a vehicle that lets you frantically hump a metal pole while slowly sinking into the water. And you're in luck, because we've got just the product for you.
The epic marriage of form and function (sarcasm!) in that video is the AquaSkipper. It sounds like a fancy pool-cleaning device. It looks like a gorilla took the wheels off a bicycle and then had rough sex with the frame. It requires a perfectly flat lake with no waves whatsoever. And also there is no way to make it work. Why don't you already have one of these?
See, the thing about the AquaSkipper is that for a vast majority of the time you spend riding it, you'll jump off of a pier and instantly start sinking. If you can get physics to look the other way for a couple seconds, you might be able to dry-hump your way across the water for a bit. But eventually you're going to miss your rhythm, or lean too far forward, or not push hard enough, and suddenly gravity will realize that you're trying to travel across a lake on a goddamn metal rod and then things will become extremely wet. It seems like the only successful ride that guy in the video had was when he circled around and came back to the pier. And if you want to do that, why couldn't you just stay on the damn pier to begin with?
To look cool, obviously.
What You Could Buy Instead:
An inflatable boat. A pair of water wings. Swimming lessons. A piece of wood. A suitcase. The seat cushion from an airplane. Fake tits. Anything that actually floats, really.
#1. The Monowheel
Before we dive into this one, let's take a moment to talk about unicycles and motorcycles. The former makes you look ridiculous and is hard to balance, but if you fall off you're probably not going to get hurt (unless you're doing it on a tripwire, in which case, your life as a circus performer was going to end in suicide at some point anyway). The latter is tremendously unsafe and not terribly stable, but makes up for that by being totally badass.
At some point, someone looked at those two methods of transportation and decided to combine the worst elements of both of them without keeping any of the good ones. And thus the Monowheel was born.
Like the HyperBike, this seems to be another vehicle whose only practical use is roaming around a parking lot. But unlike the HyperBike, there is no way to fucking turn the Monowheel--not unless you want to turn over with it. Heck, even going straight forward seems like a risky maneuver with this vehicle, seeing as it's more unstable than the average South American republic.
Though, if you're going straight forward you now have a wheel blocking your field of vision.
Really, that's just the beginning of your problems. The thing about motorcycles and unicycles is that, if you crash, you'll be thrown clear and can potentially cushion your fall with a bush or an unsuspecting clown, respectively. With the Monowheel, any crash means your head will be abruptly and terminally introduced to piece of metal directly in front of you. And since this thing can get up to 53 mph (with a theoretical max of 100, which seems like a number they pulled out of their ass), that's no laughing matter.
Oh, and did we mention this bitch comes with a fun pull-start cord to get it started? To summarize, the Monowheel combines the maneuverability of a shattered femur, the safety of a mobile meth lab and the frustration of starting a goddamned lawn mower to create a vehicle that is most useful for coasting in a straight line on a closed course. Awesome.
What You Can Buy Instead:
Yes, much better to get the model with the V8.
A unicycle, a motorcycle and a lawnmower... and you'll still save $500, since the Monowheel costs $8,500.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Mercy Regional Health center in Manhattan debuted new technology this week, designed for minimally invasive surgery.
The hospital unveiled its da Vinci Surgical System, a sophisticated robotic device that gives a surgeon a better field of vision and surgical precision.
While seated at the da Vinci console, the surgeon views a magnified, high-resolution 3D image of the surgical site and the robotic arms emulate their movements.
Doctors say there are also many benefits for the patient including a smaller incision, less blood loss, and a shorter recovery time allowing the patient to get back to regular activities sooner. The technology is being used at hospitals throughout the country and state of Kansas.
John Broberg, Mercy's President and CEO, says having the equipment, which costs upwards of $1.5 million, will prevent area residents from having to do out of town to have procedures done.
"We purchased it in October and we've already done seven or eight procedures already. We have four surgeons that have gone through the training and the patient experience has been very positive," he said.
Dr. Laki Evangelidis, a urologist, demonstrated how the da Vinci is used Wednesday at the hospital.
The robot has assisted with general surgeries like gall bladder removal, kidney removal and prostate cancer and officials say it is preferred by an increasing number of patients.
"The instruments are much smaller than the human hand so it allows us to do things that we weren't able to do with our own hands. Even from a laparoscopic technique, the instruments are much smaller and have a lot more dexterity and flexibility," Evangelidis said.
Officials say the high-tech equipment will help the hospital recruit skilled physicians and operating room staff.


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Rilo Kiley perform in the Current studio
Returning for for their first full length following their individual solo projects - The Elected and The Watson Twins - Rilo Kiley is touring in support of their latest album, "Under the Blacklight."
They talked to Mark Wheat about focusing on the rhythm section, dancing the "smoke detector," and trying not to limit themselves.
Songs performed: "Close Call," "Dreamworld," and "Moneymaker."
- Rilo Kiley
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- Rilo Kiley perform in studio Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett from Rilo Kiley joined Mary Lucia in the Current studios to talk about their past few years as a band and the road ahead.


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Just what the title states.
Are there any plants/trees that exhibit a growth spurt at a definite interval after the shoot appears?
Just what the title states.
Are there any plants/trees that exhibit a growth spurt at a definite interval after the shoot appears?
In flowering plants (the angiosperms) there are several developmental transitions in the life of the plant. I won't list the plants, because the list includes pretty much all of them (although the magnitude in the change of developmental pace differs widely between taxa and environments).
First there is seed germination, which is controlled hormonally. Absence of germination is usually imposed by abscisic acid, whilst germination is caused at the appropriate time by gibberellic acid and ethylene (among other things; Holdsworth, Bentsink & Soppe, 2008).
Next, in many herbaceous species there is a transition between a spreading growth stage (e.g. rosette growth) and the flowering stage. The 'growth spurt' here is the differentiation and elongation of the flowering stem, and then subsequently the sudden flowering of buds. The transition is also controlled hormonally, by a variety of hormones including auxin (Zhao, 2010), gibberellic acid, ethylene (Schaller, 2012), and the long anticipated, recently confirmed florigen (Choi, 2012). Ethylene and abscisic acid then play important roles in the next developmental transition when seeds and fruits are produced and dehisced.
Small RNAs are also now being revealed to play a large role in controlling the timing of developmental, but they are upstream of the hormonal changes. In particular some key miRNAs are involved in auxin-based regulation of branching, and in embryogenesis (Nodine & Bartel, 2010), and RNA silencing is involved in the switch from rosette growth to flowering growth (reviewed in Poethig, 2009 and Baurle & Dean 2006).


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After Long Wait, U.S. Presses Terror Cases Against Five
The radical imam named Abu Hamza and four other terrorism suspects appeared in federal courts Saturday, hours after losing a long fight to avoid extradition from the U.K.
Khalid al Fawwaz and Adel Abdel Bary were arraigned in Manhattan before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas. They pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. They were remanded to prison pending trial.
Mr. Hamza, who was indicted in New York in 2004, faces 11 charges related to a kidnapping conspiracy in Yemen in 1998 that led to the deaths of four hostages and allegedly attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Ore., in 1999 and 2000. He entered no plea and is set to be arraigned Tuesday.
All three suspects are being represented by federal public defenders. Judge Maas said the cases of Messrs. Fawwaz and Abdel Bary will go to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who allowed the arraignments to proceed. Judge Katherine B. Forrest will get Mr. Hamza's case and will handle his arraignment separately.
Earlier Saturday in Connecticut federal court, Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan were arraigned before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall, according to a spokesman for the Connecticut U.S. attorney. They appeared together and pleaded not guilty and were remanded to prison. A trial is expected in December, the spokesman said.
The five terror suspects arrived early Saturday morning after years of unsuccessful attempts in British and European courts to block their extradition, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The most prominent suspect in the group is Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, who was known as Abu Hamza al-Masri during his tenure as imam at the Finsbury Park mosque in London. In separate proceedings in Britain, a jury found Mr. Hamza, 54 years old, guilty in 2006 of using his sermons to incite murder and racial hatred. He was handed a seven-year sentence and had been in a U.K. prison.
Mr. Hamza was born in Egypt and worked as a bouncer at a London nightclub before turning toward radical Islam. In the 1990s, he traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and when he returned to England he had lost both hands and an eye.
Counterterrorism officials say the Finsbury mosque attracted young men willing to engage in violent jihad, including "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted of being part of the Sept. 11, 2001, conspiracy. Both men are imprisoned in Colorado.
Mr. Hamza, who has no hands, appeared in court Saturday without his prosthetics, exposing red stubs from his blue prison suit. One of his lawyers, Sabrina Shroff, said she didn't know when the prosthetics were removed but asked the court to "return to him his prosthetics so he can use his arms."Ms. Shroff said Mr. Hamza has various medical problems including type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure. She also said he needs medically fitted shoes to help him maintain his balance.After years of diplomatic talks dating back to the Clinton and Bush administrations, U.K. officials agreed to extradition on the condition that the U.S. try the men in civilian courts and that prosecutors not seek the death penalty.
Mr. Hamza has said he isn't medically fit to face trial.
Among the other suspects are Mr. Fawwaz, 50, who has been fighting extradition for 14 years since he was charged with operating the London media office of al Qaeda at the direction of Osama bin Laden. U.S. officials say the purpose of the office was to publicize bin Laden's statements and to provide cover for the group's terrorism activities. He and Mr. Abdel Bary, 52, were charged with conspiracy in the 1998 U.S. embassy attacks.
Lawyers for Mr. Fawwaz and Mr. Abdel Bary have argued there is new evidence that undermines the charges against them.
Also in the group of five suspects is Mr. Ahmad, 38, who was first arrested in 2004. He is accused of using websites to gather money and material for the Taliban and terrorist groups. Also, Mr. Ahmad is accused of communicating with a sailor in the U.S. Navy and encouraging him to betray his fellow crew members and his country.
Mr. Ahsan, 33, was charged along with Mr. Ahmad in running the terrorist fundraising website Azzam.com, among others. The two are accused of conspiring to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure people or damage property in a foreign country.
The other two suspects have argued that they can't be extradited to the U.S. for charges they say they could still face in Britain.
Three of the men have been indicted in New York federal court and the other two in Connecticut. Republican lawmakers have criticized the Obama administration over earlier civilian trials of terrorism suspects, saying military courts are better-suited to that task.
However, Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.), one of the most ardent GOP critics of President Obama's policy on terrorism detainees, said Friday that he was satisfied with the handling of the five U.K. suspects. "I'd prefer they'd be tried in military court, but the British wouldn't have released them there," Mr. King said. "We have more capability than Britain in keeping them in prison for a long time."
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A couple of months ago I was playing with my camera and a magnifying glass and I noticed that this glass produced a very soft chromatic aberration. Here's an example:
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Altough the effect was pretty cool, I couldn't focus too far from the lens. Here's another example, but with an object to a few meters farther.
Maybe at this resolution the dog seems to be focused, but in the full picture you can notice that it isn't. Also the CA effect isn't that pronounced as in the first picture. (For pixel peepers, here's the full size image)
So, is there an easy way to produce chromatic aberration? I know that there are some lensbaby optics that can do that, but I'm looking for something like DIY.
Just a random thought: Could I emulate it by shifting the color layers of the image? I mean, the image is composed by three diferent layers of color, if i offset them a few pixels, will that produce some CA?
I'm pretty sure that the colors of the photo will go nuts, but maybe there's a related solution.
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5 Creepy Ways Animal Societies Are Organizing
One thing we've learned during our extensive research here at Cracked is that animals are more and more amazing the more you learn about them. But there's a point on the graph where they're a little too amazing, and then it crosses into "unsettling."
So we're not sure how to feel about the fact that...
#5. Chimpanzees Go to War
You'd think "Chimpanzee Researcher" would be the most hilarious job in the world, what with the subjects always putting on people clothes and pretending to smoke pipes. But during a 10-year study of a community of chimps in Uganda, scientists found something terrifying.
More terrifying than the Congo chimp's alliance with the Clown People.
Every once in a while groups of strong chimp males would form up and head north, toward the border between their territory and the land of the neighboring tribe. They'd move through the jungle silently and in a single-file line, with practically no eating, socializing, or masturbating allowed. They'd stealthily scavenge for signs of individuals from the other tribe, such as feces, abandoned termite-fishing tools, etc. When they found a member of the northern tribe off on his own, then they'd gang up on his ass and murder him, goddamn Sam Fisher-style.
Then they did it again. And again. It wasn't just random animal-on-animal savagery; when the scientists studied the pattern of the attacks, they found the chimps were at war.
You expect this kind of bullshit from apes.
During the decade they watched the area, scientists saw 18 of these attacks, mostly all along the northern border, wiping out more than 13 rival chimps from a tribe of 100 (you don't get kill ratios like than in most human wars). And each time, they moved the border north. They were fighting over land, and doing it in a very organized way.
This isn't some freak occurrence, either. In Tanzania, researchers witnessed a chilling civil war when one tribe of chimps got angry and split off from a larger tribe. Over the next five years, the group of heretics destroyed the original tribe with a series of covert attacks.
Previously it was thought that invasive human behavior was behind chimpanzee tribal violence, but now scientists are relieved to find out that chimps are just naturally prone to lethal, Splinter Cell-like military operations.
And while we're on primates...
#4. Monkeys Have Prostitution, an Economy and Labor Strikes
If you've ever watched monkeys at the zoo, if they weren't eating, sleeping or flinging shit at you, they were probably grooming one another. What you almost certainly did not know is that what you're seeing is an active, complex economic system in action.
"Spare some tick-plucking?"
Grooming (that is, picking lice out of the fur) is their currency. Females will trade grooming for sex, for instance. Specifically, researchers saw females giving it up for eight minutes of grooming (OK, so these aren't exactly Charlie Sheen-level whores here). And what's more, the system obeys the law of supply and demand -- when there were fewer females around, the price went up to 16 minutes of grooming for a session of monkey boning.
Grooming isn't exchanged for only sex, either. Female monkeys groom other females in exchange for favors (for instance, in order to hold their infants for a limited amount of time). When scientists trained a velvet monkey to open crates containing apples for the other monkeys, soon she was the most well-groomed monkey in the group (you can actually look at a community of monkeys and see which ones are "rich" by how nice their fur looks). Then they trained another monkey to do the same thing. Sure enough, the amount of grooming the first monkey got dropped in half. We're surprised they don't trade grooming in a freaking monkey stock market.
In other experiments, they've found that monkeys will actually go on strike if they are not given the same "wages" as their peers. When Monkey A and Monkey B both did the same amount of work, but with unequal payoff, the wronged monkey would become irate and quit. It's not that they were unhappy with their reward and decided it wasn't worth it -- as long as both monkeys were getting the same food for the same task, they were fine with it.
But when researchers increased the reward only for the first monkey, the second would walk away. The monkey wanted the market rate for his services.
#3. Fish Practice Smart Business Strategies
So, maybe you can get your head around monkeys running an efficient economy; after all, they're just like furry little people, right? But fish? Fish can't even think hard enough to notice it's abnormal for worms to have huge metal hooks in them.
Well, cleaner fish -- the tiny fish you see nibbling on the sides of bigger fish -- are able to survive despite doing what would appear to be supremely annoying. They're chewing off parasites from the scales or skin of the bigger fish. So they're actually performing a service.
Service? Hell, they're running a business.
"A happy ending costs extra."
For instance, cleaner fish gather in groups that other fish recognize as cleaning stations. Seriously, big fish will swim by and park there and let the cleaners do their job, like a freaking car wash. The cleaners, meanwhile have a customer service code, and they enforce it. The worst thing an employee can do is accidentally bite a customer (rather than carefully nibbling off the parasites) and when that happens, the other cleaners will go after and punish the bad worker. It's one of the only incidents scientists have ever seen of a species punishing members in an organized way.
And then there's their marketing technique. Customer fish can recognize the "cleaning stations" (as opposed to random gatherings of little fish) because the cleaners have a distinctive "uniform" consisting of blues and yellows. Those colors stand out against the coral reef, the same way a red and yellow McDonalds' billboard catches your eye on the interstate.
Over time, fish with those colors attracted more customers and natural selection made that their uniform. Today, you can take a regular fish, paint it blue and yellow and toss it in a tank, and the other fish will swim up to it, expecting to be cleaned.
All that water, and they still can't be arsed to clean themselves.
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Dave Houston's '32 Chevy Coupe - Different DeuceWritten by on December 19, 2007 Contributors: Bo Bertilsson It's A '32 Coupe,Jim, But Not As We Know It
On paper Dave Houston's '32 could be mistaken for a formulaic traditional hot rod-'32 frame and body, Chevy engine, split 'bones, buggy springs, I-beam, and wires, but even the most cursory glance at the pictures hereabouts will tell you it's anything but! That ain't no small-block and that ain't no Ford three-window body, though they are bolted to a much-modified '32 Ford frame.
Dave started this project in January 2006 with the engine, a '54 Chevy inline-six, and planned the car around it; drawing up plans for the chassis, which was built to his specs by Deuce Steel in San Diego. The '32 Ford frame is stretched 9 inches to accommodate the longer-than-usual engine and is swept up in the front and rear, as opposed to being Z'd. This accounts for the low ride height without resorting to channeling the body, something that's accentuated by the stretched wheelbase. Tucked way up in the rear is a 9-inch Ford axle, which, with its 3.70:1 gears coupled with the tall tires, means Dave is cruising at 70 mph in Fourth gear, and the car is equipped with a Tremec five-speed! "It's geared a little higher than I'd like," he told us, adding, "Those are tall tires!"
Y'know, what with the popularity of eBay and the Internet these days, we sometimes wonder how cars ever got built before everyone had computers. See, Dave's based in northern California but found the body down in L.A. thanks to the Internet. However, it's a '31 and Dave prefers the grille and cowl of a '32 Chevy. The bodies are very similar, but he favors the '32 cowl for its cowl vent, so a little more World Wide Web research unearthed a collector back East who provided the necessary '32 parts in exchange for some fenders and panels that were surplus to Dave's requirements; the guy even delivered them while on a trip out West. Dave is quick to credit fellow Sidewinders CC members Steve, Mic, John, and Skot for helping him with the build, and in particular Danny Angel, who was responsible for much of the fabrication work and the 6 1/2-inch roof chop. All the wood framing in the body was replaced with steel tubing, and once the cowl sections were swapped over and the body prep complete, Skot Randall sprayed the PPG Black.
It can't be denied that the pice de rsistance is the powerplant, or more specifically the induction setup. Dave sourced the reproduction Howard five-carb inlet in Arizona, once again thanks to the Net, the quintet of Stromberg 97s all feeding the engine, which is bored from 302 to 310 ci. We're willing to bet he paid more than the $48.95 that intake cost new from Howard's Automotive in the '50s! The exhaust header was fabricated by Dave and a friend, and then chromed, and, yes, each pipe has a short baffle in it.
Nine months after starting the project, Dave had a driver, although the interior could best be described as minimal, and there was no roof insert. The latter has now been completed, with rubberized black simulated leather. The interior panels are next on the to-do list. Hey, a little missing upholstery doesn't mean it can't be driven, and Dave's perfectly comfortable racking up the miles with the sound of an inline-six for company.
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Deuce Steel started with a '32 Ford chassis, stretched it to a 115-inch wheelbase and swept up the front and rear sections to create a low ride height yet retain the classic lines of the Ford chassis 'rails. With chromed split 'bones locating the frontend, a Pete & Jake's buggy spring suspends the dropped I-beam from the frame, with Delco Lovejoy hydraulic dampers keeping movement under control. Wilson Welding binders do a fine job of looking neat while scrubbing off the high speeds of which this coupe is capable .
Al Hubard bored the '54 Chevy six-cylinder from 302 to 310 ci, while the head was ported, polished, and treated to a three-angle valve job. The rods and crank remain stock, though JE 11:1 pistons now live in the rejuvenated block, kept company by a Sissell Automotive custom cam, one-off pushrods, and N.O.S. lifters. The Stromberg 97 carbs on that Howard intake are topped with air cleaners from O'Brien Truckers, and certainly make a statement, especially as they rise above cowl level. A Mallory distributor and custom wires light the fire. There's an aluminum flywheel, coupled with a Centerforce clutch, inside the '64 Vette bellhousing, which allows the inline motor to bolt to the Tremec five-speed. A 9-inch Ford rearend proved to be the right width to enable the tires to clear the low body. Dave runs his own company, Advanced Auto, so he tackled the wiring himself, using a 60-amp Powermaster alternator.
Wheels & Tires
Vintique Tru-Spoke wire wheels combine the early look with the peace of mind of new rims; the 16x4.5-inch fronts are wrapped in 5.25x16 bias-plies, and matching 8.25x16 wide whites are mounted on the 16x8-inch rears. Stainless rings and caps round out the timeless combo.
Body & Paint
You'd never know it now, but the body is an amalgamation of a '31 coupe and a '32 cowl section. All the wood was removed and replaced with steel, which significantly improved the structural rigidity, with a large amount of work going into the internal structure of the doors to mount the handles, window mechanisms, and hinges. The '32 Chevy grille now houses a Walker radiator, flanked by a pair of original '32 Chevy headlights. Repro '37 Ford lights bring up the rear.
The black paint is offset by a white vinyl bench seat and white accented stock dash, which holds a couple of vintage gauges, though the remainder of the interior is next on Dave's list. The LimeWorks steering column is topped and tailed by a '52 Chevy wheel and a Vega 'box. Air conditioning comes courtesy of the cowl vent that Dave went to all that trouble to fit, while in-car entertainment consists of listening to the bark of the six-banger and keeping the bias-plies between the white lines!


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It's been a very very busy week preparing for TNNA (the national needlework association trade show) and then working the show. I promised to give more pithy instructions for Margery's birthday afghan. I hope this will help as a start.
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i love the colours and oh boy it looks difficult to knit.
the knitter is very smart cause all the rows are perfectly in allignment
it looks like a maze that one has to figure out[ NOW WHERE DO I START.]
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K-State Shows The Way
The West Virginia Mountaineers are not in Kansas anymore.
(Although next year, they will be. Twice).
Defensive coordinator Joe DeForest, defiant during his postgame interview after Saturday night's loss to Kansas State, said as much.
"They have to understand, we're in a different league now," DeForest said of his players. "This is a league where everybody's physical, everybody's fast."
With Kansas State in complete control of the Big 12, the WVU coaches needed to look no farther than across the field to show them what it takes to win in this conference.
"That's the most well-coached team in the league," DeForest said. "They do things right, on and off the field. And that shows in their game. It shows in their season. We've got to get to a point where we hold our kids accountable both on and off the field so you can trust them on Saturday."
What he meant is exactly what all of the WVU coaches were saying about K-State in the days leading into the game. The Wildcats don't have the best players in college football – although in quarterback Collin Klein, they have one of its most unique weapons. They showed West Virginia you don't necessarily have to.
Kansas State wins because it's tough. It's physical. And it might be the most disciplined team in all of college football. The Wildcats play like they're coached by a 73-year-old man who has seen enough of the BS in his days and demands there is zero of it in his program.
That's how the Wildcats are able to do things like make their first trip into Milan Puskar Stadium feel like a home game. They weren't about to be distracted. Kansas State was as focused as they come.
The Mountaineers were not.
The result was a 55-14 beating, the second-worst loss that West Virginia had ever suffered in its current venue.
With two weeks to get it right, the Mountaineers must regain their confidence. They must regain their focus. They must find a way to get off the field on third down.
Until they figure out how to do that, it will be more of the same.
Other games
Oklahoma State won its second game in a row after yo-yo-ing its way through the first four and exacted a little revenge on Iowa State, 31-10. Quarterback J.W. Walsh threw for 415 yards and a touchdown and Mike Gundy became the school's all-time winningest coach.
Texas Tech sent TCU to a second consecutive home loss for the first time in 14 years by beating the Horned Frogs in a three-overtime thriller, 56-53.
Texas rebounded from a two-game losing streak and sent Baylor to its third straight loss, 56-50, as Joe Bergeron ran for five touchdowns. The Bears' Terrance Williams took another monster step toward a possible Biletnikoff Award with 10 catches for 183 yards and a touchdown. That's 47 catches for 1,013 yards and nine touchdowns on the season for that blur we saw at Mountaineer Field a month ago.
Finally, Oklahoma drilled Kansas, 52-7, the Sooners' third straight victory.
Kansas State stayed at No. 4 in the AP poll, while West Virginia's free-fall landed at No. 25. Oklahoma moved up from 10 to 8, while, Texas Tech moved from No. 20 to 15.
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Texas at Kansas
TCU at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Kansas State
Baylor at Iowa State
Notre Dame at Oklahoma
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The 7 Worst Things That Can (And Did) Happen at a Funeral
#3. Cremate the Wrong Body
While a missing body at the funeral is a pain in the ass, they generally tend to turn up since they're usually right where you left them. Except when someone lights them on fire.
Like misplacing your keys and then finding out someone else in the house reduced them to ash, occasionally funeral home workers will mix up bodies and put one in a casket while they cremate another, which is the exact opposite of what was intended. It's like a hilariously morbid episode of Three's Company that haunts the nightmares of all involved. So like most episodes with the Ropers.
The spinoff is a great idea! But let's call it "The Ropers" instead of "Sea Hag and the Goblin."
So how do you mix up bodies? How did Aurelie Germaine Tuccillo end up cremated when her family had been expecting to bury her, and someone else end up in her casket? Pop culture assures us that funeral homes, such as those in Six Feet Under and Phantasm, are nothing if not zany and full of homicidal dwarves. The funeral home in question only issued a statement of regret and condolences regarding the "incident," so we're forced to assume the workers got loaded the night before and played "Spin the Cadaver" and lost track of who was who in the fray.
#2. Beat Up the Corpse
There's some saying or other about beating dead horses, but we've been advised to avoid pissing PETA off. So instead, let's focus on what happens when a random drifter happens upon a funeral and decides to duke it out with the dearly departed in what would be a hilarious scene in a Will Ferrell movie yet in real life was probably just horrifying. Really, there's no reason to laugh.
Back in 2007, Timothy Cleary, out for a stroll, made his way to the Harvest Baptist Church where a funeral was taking place. I like to think he saw the open casket and thought something along the lines of "holy cow I'm insane!" then burst into a wind sprint and leapt on the corpse before raining down blows. Mourners, not fans of Will Ferrell-style comedy, then attacked Cleary and pulled him off the dead man before calling 911.
People actually ask him to come and beat up corpses.
Turns out Cleary didn't know the deceased and police weren't readily able to come up with a reason for the attack. Likely the responding officers were too busy trying to decide whether or not Cleary was batshit insane or simply crazier than a shithouse rat.
#1. Piss Off Minority Mourners
If you feel like oppressing a minority, timing is always essential. For instance, if you feel like raiding a gay bar, don't do it on the day of Judy Garland's funeral. Back in 1969, that's exactly what happened at the Stonewall Inn, and it led to a historic riot. On the surface, rioting is never a good thing, especially one as violent as Stonewall. But we can always get behind a bunch of homophobes getting their ass handed to them by guys they nicknamed Nancy in high school.
Judy Garland, who you may know as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and possibly as numerous dudes who dress up as her, became a gay icon through some means Wikipedia has been unable to explain to us. Shortly after her death, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular New York gay bar, intent on rounding up some lesbians and cross dressers because in the 60s, those were apparently the worst things happening in New York.
Actual photo of a 1960s gay bar. It was a very colorful time.
Instead what happened was a mob formed as the cops waited for backup and as quick as a lesbian can style her mullet, shit got decidedly real. While cops brutalized the people they had taken into custody, the crowd, which had grown to around 500 people, threw down. Bottles flew along with bricks, fists and fabulous shoes. Many cops had to give up beating on people with their clubs and simply run away while others barricaded themselves in the bar.
In interviews after the fact, participants expressed that it was a combination of the loss of Judy Garland and the desire to not be beaten mercilessly that triggered the event. Hard to say which one of those two was more at the forefront in the minds of those present. The fact that Garland's death had anything to do with the riots that most historians credit with the entire gay rights movement is both remarkable, and the second example that New Yorkers take the deaths of actors extremely seriously.
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End Date: Dec 31, 2014
This project addresses the need to understand regulatory mechanisms of feed intake and nutrient utilization in poultry species through identification and study of individual genes and gene products involved in these complex and economically important production traits. The first objective will investigate genes controlling feed intake and nutrient utilization and to determine how their expression is affected during the critical adaptation to feeding initiation occurring during early post-hatch development of broiler chickens and turkeys. The consequences of feed restriction and refeeding on expression of genes and gene products involved in key control points for feed intake and metabolic activity at different ages and stages of poultry production will be determined. Two genetic lines of chickens, selected for high and low body weight, will be studied to compare and contrast changes in gene and gene product expression and plasma metabolite and metabolic hormone patterns characteristic of these two phenotypes and to determine how such changes may relate to the marked differences in feed intake and metabolism exhibited by both lines. A second objective will determine the effects of feeding broilers varying levels of crude protein, individual amino acids or carbohydrate on the expression of genes and gene products that play important roles in growth and energy balance and to correlate gene expression and endocrine profiles with changes in whole body parameters such a fat accretion, meat yield and skeletal growth in broilers during the different phases of the production cycle. Broiler chickens and turkey poults from hatch to 4 weeks of age will be administered substances known to affect nutrient levels, endocrine profiles, metabolic activity and feed intake to determine relationships between these parameters and peripheral tissue and central nervous system regulatory mechanisms. Expression of candidate genes will be assayed in chicken and turkey tissue samples using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays. Total RNA from broiler liver, hypothalamus, breast muscle and duodenum tissues sampled at hatch (day 0) and on day 7 post-hatch will be subjected to in-depth replicated microarray screening to determine changes in gene expression related to the initiation of feeding. Plasma samples will be analyzed for metabolite/nutrient levels and a series of metabolic hormones. Tissues will be analyzed for enzyme activities, in vitro lipogenic activity, nutrient-sensing transcription factors, and activity of specific kinase pathways. Information on metabolic and endocrine profiles will then be correlated with changes in gene expression with particular emphasis on those genes whose expression is responsive to nutrient and/or hormonal signaling. This functional genomics approach will yield new information about genes encoding important regulatory factors such as hormones, neuropeptides, receptors, transporters, enzymes and transcription factors that together form a complex and interrelated series of neural, endocrine and metabolic pathway networks working in concert to control feed intake and nutrient utilization in poultry.


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The 4th Dominion expansion, themed around transformation and the new potion treasure card.
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I have the Dominion base set only, in what order should I buy the expansions?
I've heard a lot about the different Dominion expansions, but I'm still not really sure which direction to go. In what order would you suggest I buy the expansions? How does each one change the game?...
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If Possession is played while executing another Possession, who takes the next turn?
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How does the addition of the Potion treasure from Dominion: Alchemy change the game?
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terencegbg wrote:however the radio is driving me crazy! I have replaced the psu with a 12V 3A and everything works great now except that now the subwoofer does not work!!
there is only sound coming from the front.... i have felt on the subwoofer and there is defenately no action! removed it and tested it with a 9V battery and it jumped
this would mean it works or?
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tedhessjr wrote:The audio amp/display, however, will be under-powered.
tedhessjr wrote:Well, for diagnostic purposes, I do connect a suitable 12v@3a supply as follows: Positive to red/blue and negative to black(2) + white shield. If the radio powers up, you're good to go. As a long term solution, I'm not sure this is the best solution. The 9v supply should be able to handle 12v input as folks have mentioned herein. The audio amp/display, however, will be under-powered.
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I love the Soundbridge, -- when it works. However, because of the obvius shoddy design, and even more because of the LACK OF ASSISTANCE from Roku, I will not buy another Roku product again. I am using multiple Logitech products without problem
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Creamy Carrot Soup
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This carrot soup is made creamy with a bit of milk, and fresh dill and crushed marjoram make it delicious!
Serves: 6 servings
- 4 cups diced carrots (about 6 medium)
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 large Yukon Gold potato (about 8 ounces), peeled and diced
- 3 1/2 cups unsalted chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed dried marjoram
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1 can (12 ounces) evaporated skim milk
- Minced fresh dill (garnish)
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- Place the carrots, onion, potato, broth, marjoram, salt, and pepper in a 4-quart pot, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 25 minutes, or until the carrots are soft.
- Place 2 cups of the soup-including both vegetables and broth-in a blender, and place the lid on the blender, leaving the top slightly ajar to allow steam to escape. Carefully blend the mixture at low speed until smooth. Repeat this procedure until all of the soup has been blended smooth.
- Return all of the puréed soup to the pot, and place the pot over medium heat. Add the evaporated milk, and cook, stirring constantly, for several minutes, or until the mixture is heated through.
- Ladle the soup into individual serving bowls, and serve hot, topping each serving with a sprinkling of fresh dill.
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Deciding Whether to Move
Think Twice
Don't decide to move without thinking it through carefully. Being in a new place will affect many aspects of both of your lives.
If you're like most couples, the decision of whether or not to move is a tough one. There are so many factors to consider. If both of you work, you would each need to find a new job. Maybe you would be moving closer to family and friends or maybe you would be leaving them. Your economic situation might be better or worse in a new locale. If you have children, you have their education to consider as well.
Usually, if you're thinking about moving, something is prompting you. In most cases, work is the motivating factor. You might have been offered a promotion in a new city, or your current job is being moved to a new place. Or you might be looking for a different lifestyle: a change in climate, cost of living, or city size. The important thing is to think the decision through very carefully. It's a major life change.
Moving Questionnaire
The following questions will help you to consider your reasons for moving.
What is your main reason for moving? Is it a preference or a necessity?
Will both of you be able to find satisfactory jobs in the new city?
Will there be a change in your economic status in the new place? You need to consider cost of housing and living as well as your salary.
Will you be leaving friends and family who are important to you? Do you think you will be able to reorganize support in the new place?
Will your leaving have an impact on other people (i.e., family members who rely on your practical and/or emotional support)?
Can you anticipate hidden costs to living in the new place (i.e., higher telephone bills or transportation costs)?
- Will the climate be better or worse in the new place? Is this important to you?
Will the new locale be a city that is similar in size or much different (i.e., a much bigger city or a rural area)?
Do you have special needs as a couple that can be met in the new place (i.e., place of worship, medical needs, etc.)?
If you have children, are you satisfied with the schools where you would be moving?
We hope your answers to these questions will encourage you to consider issues you might have overlooked.
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Welcome to Transformation Thursday! It's the one day we all get together each week to hang out and visit each other to celebrate getting something done. No matter if this is your first time hanging out here with us, or you've been joining in for years, everyone is welcome to share their DIY & crafty awesomeness at the bottom of this post.
Can you even believe that next week is Halloween? Whhhhaaaa???? Since my girlies are too old for costumes, etc. then I just have to buy some candy and maybe make some cupcakes. Pretty easy around these parts! But if you're still looking for some great ideas, last week's party was chock full of them.
I love the blog Success Along the Weigh, Anele always has such great posts – like these Creepy (and oh so cute) Crawly Truffles. And they're even made a little healthier than most of the sweets of the season. LOVE them!
Looking for something a little less creepy? What about a brilliant idea for a dresser from Kammy's Korner? She took a dresser that was missing drawers and turned it into a piece for her den. And it looks FABulous!
Sooooooo……. whatcha got? I wanna see – and so does everybody else! Please put your PERMALINK into the linky – and link back here so everyone can find all the great ideas. Please, please, PLEASE – pretty please DO NOT LINK TO A SHOP!!! Be sure to visit your neighbors and have fun – it is a party after all. *Please note: If you link up you are giving me permission to use your photos on my blog without contacting you (don't worry, it's only to show off your beautiful stuff!)*
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6 Movie Characters You Didn't Know Died Horrible Deaths
For the past century, cinema has delighted us with thousands of the most creative ways to die, like being simultaneously impaled through the gut and electrocuted, getting rocketed into a warehouse full of deadly fireworks, or being hit by a car and torn apart by the engine of an exploding jet, to name a few examples from Disney movies.
But for every graphic movie death that graces our screens in glorious Technicolor, there's an even more gruesome one that happens just outside of frame. Like ...
#6. The Lion King -- Simba Ate the Hyenas
We've previously pointed out that Scar must have done a remarkably bad job during his time as lion king in The Lion King, because after he kills the king (aka Simba's dad) and exiles Simba, the kingdom goes from a vibrant land to this:
"You didn't have to mark every plant with your urine."
Not only does the place look terrible, but the food has run out, and worst of all, the lions have to co-exist with a bunch of annoying hyenas that sound like Whoopi Goldberg. But then Simba returns and reclaims the (sadly metaphorical) lion throne by kicking Scar's ass, and some months later, the kingdom is back to its original state.
Tourism is booming again now that Scar's racist ban on giraffes and elephants has been lifted.
Hold on a Second ...
Two questions come to mind after watching this ending: A) How did the lions survive in the deserted wasteland without food after Scar died? It didn't turn back to normal overnight; and B) What happened to all the hyenas? There were hundreds of them, and they're the only animals who don't show up in the epilogue or the sequels. As it turns out, these two things are related.
"Hold still. I'm trying to figure out how many of you I can fit in my mouth."
Yep, we're pretty sure Simba and friends ate those hyenas. The math works out: Female lions can survive off of 18 pounds of food a day, and if they gorge themselves, they can go a week at a time between meals. The average hyena weighs between 90 and 190 pounds -- that's plenty of food with some careful rationing, especially considering that Disney lions are capable of building functional cages.
"Did you ever try lowering your wings and walking forward?"
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By the way, in real life, lions fucking hate hyenas and will sometimes chase them for no particular reason. Other times, it's for the specific reason of eating them.
So now every time Simba looks into the sky, he doesn't just see his dead dad -- he also sees the hundreds of hyenas he probably murdered. And smiles.
#5. Battlestar Galactica -- Every Single Character Dies
If you're sensitive about spoilers for a show that ended four years ago, you might want to avoid reading what comes next (also what you just read up there). At the end of Battlestar Galactica, the characters finally settle on a planet that they name Earth. We find out that the entire sci-fi series actually takes place in the past.
The History Channel was right!
We can ignore the fact that this turns the entire series into something of a logistical clusterfuck, because, hey, at least the surviving characters get a happy ending, right? They have a brand-new person-friendly planet, and all 38,000 survivors decide to throw their spaceships into the sun and get a fresh start as a species.
Except for the dozen or so guys who chose to burn with their ships instead of living a life without easily accessible porn.
So you see, that explains why our ancestors didn't have spaceships: They threw them into the sun! It all makes sense!
Hold on a Second ...
However, "spaceships" wasn't the only significant advancement these guys had: There was also their complex social structure, a common written language, and, oh yeah, a shitload of other technology.
The survivors split into colonies and said they were going to keep track of where the other colonies were, so they had the means to communicate with each other. Two characters discuss teaching their kid how to hunt, farm, and build a house, so there's some advanced understanding of agriculture and architecture. The problem, however, is that this was 150,000 years ago, and humanity didn't develop even the most basic forms of that stuff until about 10,000 years ago. So how did we go from "early humans being really advanced" to "humans not knowing shit"? The answer, of course, is that at some point they had to start over from scratch, because everyone who knew what they were doing got fucking murdered.
Hence why they cut to a shot of Central Park.
The show itself gives us a pretty solid explanation for how an entire culture could have gotten obliterated. When they're first settling on Earth, Badger from Firefly speculates that the Cylon Centurions (a group of enemy robots that they've decided to let find their own path in the universe) may "come back in a few hundred years and wipe us out." Bill Adama's response to that is basically "Yep, that seems pretty likely."
That's a pretty specific scenario the writers are giving us there, because they knew that the only way their ending made sense was if all of human civilization was wiped from history by murderbots.
#4. The Wizard of Oz -- Miss Gulch Died in the Tornado
Miss Gulch is the old lady from The Wizard of Oz who wants to kill Dorothy's dog, Toto, after it bites her. As a result, Dorothy runs away from home until she meets a fake fortune teller who convinces her to return. But then a tornado strikes and Dorothy smacks her head, and when she wakes up, she's being transported to the magical land of Oz.
"Toto, I've a feeling that we're not in ... HOLY SHIT, MY DALTONISM IS CURED!"
Dorothy wastes no time in Oz, befriending some freaks, exposing a fraudulent wizard, and murdering a total of two witches. Of course, the whole thing turns out to be a dream, and when Dorothy wakes at the end of the movie, everything's back to normal.
Hold on a Second ...
Except for Miss Gulch, that is. She's dead.
Think about it: Before the tornado, Dorothy's aunt and uncle were pretty upset about Toto's impending execution, but that doesn't seem to be a problem at the end of the movie. Why? Because Miss Gulch is no longer around, probably having been crushed by a cow. The last time we see her is during the tornado when Dorothy sees a bunch of stuff flying by her window, including Miss Gulch herself, who transforms into the Wicked Witch before our eyes:
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But that's just part of the dream, right? Yeah, but the movie implies that Dorothy's stay in Oz was more than just a fantasy, and that there was some sort of connection between the characters that are played by the same actors in both worlds. For instance, the Wizard in Oz is played by the same actor as the fake fortune teller. Back in Kansas, Dorothy doesn't know that the fortune teller is a fraud: She follows his advice and almost dies in the process because she trusts him.
"Seems legit."
However, when she gets to Oz and meets the Wizard, he turns out to be a fake. If it was all just a dream, how did Dorothy know that the same guy was a fraud? It seems fair to assume that the Wicked Witches' deaths in Oz might be telling Dorothy something she doesn't already know about Miss Gulch in the real world. Namely, that she's dead.
Still don't believe us? Well, there's also the fact that the official website for the movie apparently agrees with us. Yeah, we probably should have started there.


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Kathryn is a proud alumna of Louisiana State University and Chi Omega. She earned her degree in Sport Administration with minors in both Business Administration and Leadership Development. While at LSU Kathryn was an intern for the LSU Athletic Department in Event/Game Management from 2012- 2013.
In 2012, she interned with the Double-A Arkansas Travelers in the minor leagues, where she managed the ticket office for the summer in her hometown of LIttle Rock.
Kathryn is an avid college football fan and enjoys playing intramural sports.
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An identity is a relation that means that whatever the number or value may be, the answer stays the same.
But is it possible to have equality without identity?
An identity is a relation that means that whatever the number or value may be, the answer stays the same.
But is it possible to have equality without identity?
An equality is not the same as identity. There are equalities of two different types: equations and identities. Identities and equation are equalities with two sides, where the equal sign separates the mathematical expressions of the LHS and RHS.
While the equations such as above may have solutions, identities are either true or false. If true, which remains the same is the truth of the equality whatever the values of the variables are.
To denote an identity, as commented by Ronald, sometimes is used the $\equiv$ sign instead of the $=$ as in $$(a+b)^{2}\equiv a^{2}+2ab+b^{2}.$$
Not quite. there is no "answer" in an identity; it's not a problem to solve. And you had better not change the constant numbers in an identity, then it wouldn't work! An identity is just an equation that is true (we also say the equation "holds" or is "satisfied") no matter what numbers we use for the variables. So for example, $$(x+y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy + y^2$$ is true no matter what numbers you plug in for $x$ and $y$ (try it!).
'Equality' is just when two things are equal, like $y = 3y - 6$, which is true when $y=3$. The word is not used too often, but you might see it in a big long statement in a proof or something like $$\text{blablabla} = \text{blebleble} = \text{blahblahblah} = \text{blehblehbleh},$$ and if the step from 'blebleble' to 'blahblahblah' is especially confusing, the writer might say, "the second equality is a consequence of Theorem 3.4" to explain where that step came from. And no, $\text{blebleble} = \text{blahblahblah}$ is not necessarily an identity just because someone refers to it as an equality; it probably only holds in the given context.
You might also see the word equality in a statement like, "for all real $x$, we have $x^2 \geq 0$, with equality when $x=0$."


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It seems that I wasn't clear about what I'm asking:
I've noticed that new users might not always post the best questions and subsequently have their questions closed. Usually the users with low reputation end up writing questions that get closed, so is there a way which SO can make them take an extra step or two before they post their question so that we ensure their question is not closed? These extra steps should only be present until the user gets a slightly higher reputation. I think this would save people some time and effort when they're answering a question which may potentially be closed.
Here is an example where the OP could have done a quick search and found the answer to his homework question and not have his question closed: