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What where the impacts of WW2 on Germany? Obviously the war meant that a lot of resources where spent and that the youth population was significantly reduced. How did this affect Germany's post war economy and life of people in general? Were the Germans discriminated against thereafter for being supportive of the Nazi regime while they were under it?
This is a pretty big question; entire books have been written on the subject of postwar Germany. You might want to narrow it down. I'll take a shot at the discrimination portion:
While there was a lot of resentment towards the Axis peoples, the growing rivalry between Russia and the western Allies changed the dynamics a lot. American leaders took a more pragmatic view than the general citizenry. Even before the war ended they were working to soften public attitudes towards the German people, as opposed to the Nazi leadership.
They did this because they wanted, at all costs, to limit the spread of both Communism and Russian power (which they thought were closely related, but that's another issue entirely :P).
They knew that the harsh settlement after WWI, coupled with the worldwide Depression of the 30s, had had a lot to do with the popular support for Naziism; and they worried that another long period of suffering could make the German population go Communist.
Moreover, they needed to prepare for a possible war with Russia, which meant fortifying the areas they'd occupied. Germany ended up being partitioned, with the Russians controlling the east and the western Allies taking the West (incidentally, Korea's division into North and South happened at the same time and for the same reason).
The western Allies, especially America, knew that if there was to be another shooting war, it would likely be along this border. They wanted the local economy to be both able and willing to support the capitalist faction if that happened. So, the western Allies invested a lot in reconstructing the German economy. In America, the money for reconstructing Europe (not just Germany, though that was a lot of it) was called the Marshall plan.
They sold the idea to their populations by downplaying the responsibility of average citizens in the former Axis countries. There were certainly elements of the population that would've preferred to take a more punitive stance, but the combination of moral and practical considerations made the Marshall plan reasonably popular.
Of course, even with that help, conditions in Germany (and a lot of other places) were quite rough for the decade or so following WWII. But again, that's a subject for a bookshelf, not a single post.
Initially Germany was treated extremely harshly under the Morgenthau Plan. However with concerns over the Soviet Union rising and the importance of the German economy to the rest of Europe, eventually that plan was shelved and reform measures were initiated.
Somewhat analogously, concerns about Soviet power also made the US push for rapid economic development of Japan.
The Post War II treatment of Germany was relatively mild, and aimed at "rehabilitating" the country. (Germany was a recipient of Marshall Plan aid, and the Allies organized the (West) Berlin airlift to supply the city with food when the Soviets cut off land-base supplies).
It was after the FIRST World War that Germany was treated like a pariah, through the Versailles Treaty. This, unfortunately, led to the rise of Hitler and World War II. The Allies appear to have learned a lesson the second time around.
There are a number of very obvious and not obvious effects on Germany, both practical and social.
After WW2 Germany was out of young population, which pushed it to welcome many immigrants from other countries, and especially Turkey. Initially it was meant to keep this working class for a limited amount of time. However, things did not go as planned because of 2 main reasons:
Right now about 4 million people in Germany have Turkish origins.
treatment was not consistent with the allies pretence of a moral high ground. a book by Giles MacDonogh "AFTER THE REICH" provides more than sufficient proof of harsh treatment of all Germans including women and children after WW2. Only when US leadership relized (1947/48) that the west will need strong Germany to set up a natural counterbalance against Soviet Russia's European ambitions was there a about turn to help (Marshall plan) and respectable treatment of all things German. Yet another example of general hypocricy of the west.
Mr. Mitch your assertion that 15mil Germans were removed from Bohemia is wildly incorrect, Bohemia did not contain even 10 mil population before WW2! Also Czechs went into a wild revenge mode and tortured and or killed aprox. 300000 Germans out of perhaps 3+ millions living in Bohemia pre-WW2
Germany had an enormous war industry during the war. After the war this was turned into a civilian industry, as mentioned, largely to rebuild the country in the first years, but also eventually turning Germany into being a strong industry nation. Japan was also in a similar position.


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All major Linux distributions include a lot of free software applicationsand libraries, which turn Linux into a powerful desktop or server.
Red Hat in particular has done a great job in including numerous applications and libraries which work right out of the box, without much tweaking required.
This is a screenshot tour of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.
Terminal Server Client
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 comes with a free Terminal Server Client available from the GnomePro site, which lets you connect to an MS Windows Terminal Server. In addition to supporting multiple resolution and full screen mode, it supports multiple protocols like RDP, RDPv5, VNC, XDMP, and ICA. The Terminal Server Client is a front end for rdesktop.
Citrix Client 8.0 for Linux
Citrix Client 8.0 is another free client that allows Linux users to connect to Citrix Sessions. The client installed smoothly on the default install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. However, it was not able to read proxy settings from Firefox. So I had to launch Mozilla once, which created the settings file ~/.mozilla. After that, Citrix Client 8.0 worked flawlessly, and I was able to connect to a Citrix Metaframe 3.0 Presentation Server.
CD and DVD burning application – K3b
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 came with K3b, which is a CD and DVD burning application. It required no configuration, and was able to detect CD Writer without any issues. On the default install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, K3b is available under Applications Sound & Video -> K3b
Accessing network storage
When it comes to accessing files from network storage, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 offers a multitude of selections, including SSH, Public FTP, FTP, Windows, WebDAV and Secure WebDAV. All of these options come with the default install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.
Music encoder – Sound Juicer
Sound Juicer is a free software application that rips and encodes CDs as compressed music files. It supports file format such as Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, and Wave. It comes with the default installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0.
Web browser – Firefox
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 came with Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 Web Browser. The browser worked fine right out of the box. I had to manually install the JRE plug-in.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 comes with FileRoller, a free software application that provides the same functionality as Winzip on Windows. You can create an Archive by right clicking on a folder,
and view or extract files from the archive using a GUI.
WebEXworked fine on the Firefox browser with JRE plug-in installed. WebEx is a web based conferencing tool.
Crossover Office
Crossover Office allows you to run many popular office productivity software applications, such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project and Visio, graphics applications like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, and Adobe Photoshop. Crossover, though a commercial application, is based on Wine - a free software implementation of Windows API on top of X.
Lotus Notes in Crossover Office
Lotus Notes 6.5.1 ran fine on CrossOver Office, available from the Code Weavers site. The installation of the Notes client was pretty straight forward, and after that, it worked just like running Notes on a Windows machine. In fact, it operated much faster in the CrossOver environment compared with running natively in Windows. However, I was unable to make the integrated SameTime Client work on Linux. It wasn't even able to connect to the SameTime server.
Internet Explorer in Crossover Office
Internet Explorer 6.x also ran fine on CrossOver Office. The installation of IE was pretty straight forward, and after that it worked just like running IE on a Windows machine.
PrepLogic Test Engine in Crossover Office
PrepLogic's computer based Practice Exam Engine runs fine in Crossover Office.
Server Applications
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 comes with many free software applications that make it a powerful operating system for servers. At the time of installation, the server administrators can choose to install Apache, mySQL, PHP, OpenLDAP, SAMBA, FTP server, and lots of other very capable server applications.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 includes Apache 2.0.x, PHP 4.x and mySQL 4.x .
mod_auth_ldap (LDAP Authentication Module for Apache) came with the default install of Apache that came with RH 4.0 ES. mod_auth_ldap worked without any issues, and I was able to connect to my LDAP server. Getting the mod_auth_ldap to work on Apache has always been a pain, but the pre-configured version of Apache that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 ES makes using the LDAP authentication module a breeze.
mod_dav (WebDAV Module for Apache) was pre-installed as well.
I installed Netegrity's Siteminder plug-in for Apache on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 to test the compatibility of the libraries with commercial software. The siteminder plug-in installed without any issues. I was able to connect to the Siteminder Policy server as well.
If you are a Microsoft shop, and have implemented Active Directory, you can make your Red Hat box join the AD domain as well. Check out the Centrify site for more information. With Centrify you can use your Active Directory accounts to login into the Linux workstation.
No JRE came pre-installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. I had to download and install the JRE from Java's site. After install I had to create a symbolic link to the Java Plug-in (libjavaplugin_oji.so) in the Mozilla Plug-ins directory. Easy enough, but it took some time to get everything running.
No DVD player with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. Why? I don't know. Xine looks like a decent DVD, CD, and VCD player for Linux. For more discussion on why Xine is not included, please read: here and here.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
My encounter with RED HAT
It all began with Red Hat Linux version 8. After getting 22 copies of corrupt Red Hat 8 CDs (copied) that were not working, I never gave up. Luckily the 23rd finally worked and the journey of Red Hat was something I enjoyed very much with books with each version up to 9.
Come Fedora I went upto the Core 4 and got fed up and turned to SuSe (their public relationship is better than Red Hat).
Today I am going to the city (Kandy) to get a copy of Red Hat Version 3 (DVD version)from one of my friends to try it.
My question is why the Red Hat Enterprise is not working on a book with a Editors Copy for poeple (poor) like me to obtain the same from a local bookshop (who had to wait for years to get a enterprise version)?
Visit my site at www.geocities.com/asokaddd/index.html
Or WWW.writeclique.net (British Council)
Author name as Dr.S.B.Asoka Dissanayake
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
May I suggest trying out CentOS 4.4? It is the latest offering (as of September 2006) from the folks at CentOS and it is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They maintain their offering of Linux as being binary compatible with RHEL, but are free of charge. Mostly they only remove the copyrighted images, etc. from RHEL. You can download their ISO images freely by starting at -- http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13
- Jerry
redhat linux based terminal server
readhat linux based terminal server creat what service is acive in server configuration and what will be required for the made by terminal server

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I don't know if someone else has already reported this. If they have, sorry it must have slipped by my radar.
When I first started coming to Thailand the direct flight choice from London used to be limited to 3 carriers.
Thai Airways
Then, a little while ago from memory, BA opted out of their partnership deal & the 3rd, choice became Quantas only.
I now read that Quantas are finishing the Bangkok to London route in March this year.
They have also just cut a few other long haul routes because of falling half year profits, but the London decision was made prior to that anyway.
I only took the flight once with them & was disappointed enough not to want to repeat the experience, but I am sorry that they are finishing as more choice is always better than less.


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i have gone through the following question security sources and found testing resources for testing desktop and web applications, any realtime resource to test an mobile web applications?
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For the most part mobile web applications behave exactly the same as their counterparts on a desktop. Even if the user input is slightly different, the mobile application is still interfacing with the device running it in a similar fashion, sending along similar protocols and being interpreted on the back end is as well (likely). If information is being stored locally about the user, including detailed personal information that will vary from OS to OS, but still isn't that much of a departure.
OWASP has some mobile specific info, but in all likelihood you can use the same information from your previous research for base level security testing. If you're looking to go deeper than basic security coverage that a functional tester would perform, the folks here may be more helpful: http://security.stackexchange.com/


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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Lakeside Happiness
Lately, Aston and I spend most of our time here.
Except when we're not actually there, and we're in here. Looking out there.
It's beautiful and it's our happy place. Seriously.
We laugh and putz around and talk. Usually about how pretty it is or what we're going to make for dinner. Yesterday I read him a little Michael Palmer organ theft medical mystery thriller. Sometimes the conversation turns toward politics. You never know with that kid.
Also, before you ask (because I know someone will), I'll tell you. That belly. Yes. It is killing me. My back. My feet. My neck.
Did you happen to notice that first photo? The pulling to the left in my stomach?
That, my friends, IS A MOTHERLOVING KICK.
(Probably because I'd just told him he couldn't go swimming or that we were out of milk or something. Kids.)
Anyway, all kinds of weirdness is going on over here. Suddenly, I can no longer stomach bread crust. And I've developed this thing where all of my drinks must be consumed by straw. Even bottled water. Oh, and my hips. Oh. my. gosh. my. hips. They feel like they're being attacked with machetes pretty much all of the time.
My body has morphed into a science fiction version of Million Dollar Baby and I'm like Rudy on the training squad at Notre Dame. Aston has the power of no less than fourteen commercial jets and when he kicks, entire villages are relocated in Mexico.
Maybe because I've been feeding him this?
almond milk (vanilla/unsweetened) + banana.berries.kale.spinach.stevia
mix, rinse, repeat
I can't help thinking that by the time he's done baking they'll need a Caterpillar and three Jaws of Life to unearth that beast. My lady parts are legitimately terrified.
Along those lines, I've stopped reading any and all pregnancy, baby, and motherhood books and websites. And, honestly? Sometimes I wish I still had an assistant to screen my email. For anyone who has felt the need to impress upon me how essential their birth coaches or lamaze classes or parent groups or diets or breastfeeding theories are slash were slash will totally be for me (in romantic and overly passionate bordering on obsessive tones), I say to you. I SAY TO YOU.
Go forth, good soul!
I applaud you and your unsolicited, uncomfortably personal, overly informative, well meaning rhetoric.
I have taken mental note and will be preparing for this birth by doing shots and choosing a carefully selected playlist comprised of Mozart and The Ramones and Keren Ann, minus the shots. But I did go see Hugo and The Muppets, so I figure the extra credit should cover me skipping out on the other stuff.
And thank you for thinking of me.
But enough baby bidnid, let me show you what I found for Andrew.
I love big, chunky, executive desks and I've wanted to get him one ever since laying eyes on our new humungo office. The one we scored on consignment is a 1920s walnut Doten Dunton that weighs nearly five hundred pounds. Which explains why it has not moved a single hair from the precise awkward spot it was left in upon delivery.
Maybe I should ask Aston to kick it.
(By the way, ignore everything else in that photo. Aside from setting up shop we have yet to touch anything in that room, save the fireplace that singed Andrew's eyebrows. Soon, though. Probably.)
Oh and, before I forget, I have a dishwasher dilemma that I'm hoping you might be able to help with. I'm looking at that one, a basic stainless steel Magic Chef workhorse. I talked my South Florida appliance place down to $239 for it, which is sort of irresistable for a tall tub. I thought I'd ask if any of you have it and what you think before I give the salesguy the green light. The reviews are pretty good, and I need a new one, like, yesterday since our GE model just pooped out on us at The Downtown Townhouse. Would you let me know if it is awesome or notsoawesome?
Also, one more thing. Thank you to everyone who has said slash emailed nice things to me about the baby slash nursery slash pregnancy. Most of the support I've received has been amazing and not of the my two epidurals didn't work slash let me tell you about how I never had morning sickness slash blah, blah, blah, I didn't gain any weight slash I gained four thousand pounds slash what do you mean you haven't read every single pamphlet published about SIDS on the face of the earth variety.
Anyway, you're the ones who make my day.
8 comments:
- Elisa @ What the Vita said...
You have just totally inspired me to start drinking veggie shakes. That stuff looks GOOD.
And as soon as I saw that first pic I was like, that baby is a-KICKING!! I remember it, I do, vividly. Love your attitude about everything!
PLZ do update me on the dishwasher. I HATE our dishwasher and curse at it silently daily.
- January 12, 2012 at 6:45 PM
- Life in Rehab said...
Kelly my dear, you make impending motherhood glow. Dozens of women have flung their pills in the garbage after reading this.
- January 13, 2012 at 4:13 AM
- Katy said...
hate the baby stretching :( ..when I saw that top pic with him over to your left side I cried a little bit in sympathy.
Cant help with the dishwasher since I don't have that one...hmm. but i'd buy it because of the price.
- January 13, 2012 at 5:34 AM
- Corey said...
our son was a much bigger kicker than our daughter was. Out of the womb, he is much calmer than she is. Not sure how that happened. Best wishes for continued good health and fortune during the rest of your pregnancy.
- January 13, 2012 at 7:47 AM
- Deb said...
LOL! Unfortunately becoming pregnant/parent = unsolicited advice :( On the bright side you can always have Aston kick people who offer you their two cents worth!
I second Sunny - you look AH-MAZ-ING! :)
- January 13, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- Sarah Ann said...
Those photos are some of the MOST stunning pregnancy photos I've ever seen. You will CHERISH them. Simply gorgeous.
- January 13, 2012 at 9:36 AM
- NotesFromAbroad said...
I am not pregnant, although I would love to do it again ( and be the worlds oldest pregnant lady?) but I think I might try the drink, minus the kale.
Something tells me I might explode if I included kale . But you need it, Aston and all.
While pregnancy is right out there in everyones line of sight, most people should have the good manners to not talk to you about it unsolicited.
On the other hand .. I would like to say that I think you look fantastic and you remind me of the sensations that only a pregnant woman will ever feel and I feel blessed that I can say I felt them.
In Case we decide to move back to the US .. I will ask you how the dishwasher worked out :)
Give Aston a pat from me , please.
love . C
- January 13, 2012 at 7:11 PM
- Cathy said...
Looks like you're doing a great job at the whole pregnancy thing! Keep up the good work :) Also, that desk is b-e-a-utiful!
- January 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM


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Ted Gwartney
Ted Gwartney is the former Assessor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Until November 2000, he was the Executive Director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation in Manhattan. He has made nineteen trips to Russia to consult on land valuation during the past ten years.
He has been actively engaged in land valuation, analysis, assessment, consultation and management since college graduation. He was the City Assessor of Southfield, Michigan, Hartford, Connecticut and the Deputy County Assessor of Sacramento, California. In 1976 he became the Assessment Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the British Columbia Assessment Authority and implemented an annual Province-wide revaluation of the 1,500,000 land parcels.
Additional activities include:
- Professor, Department of Law, Real Estate Appraisal, Baruch College, New York;
- President, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Boston;
- Treasurer, Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, New York;
- Director, Land & Public Welfare Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia;
- Professional Designation, Appraisal Institute, Chicago.


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When I open a simple juice carton I fail on opening. I always seem to waste some of the concentrated juice on the kitchen sink and I wonder – do I do it wrong or is it the package that does not have a useful design?
Cartons definitely need re-design. The case is being:
Solution towards this should be strengthen the material used or redesign taking the pressure fact into consideration.
Cartons as far as I seen are one with "tearable slot" as it is with tin cans, other way of cartons are one which are sealed and have or do not have "tearable slot", with tearable slots either at the top of the cartons or at the end of it - forming a triangle pattern.
As you also practice along, the spill can be avoided if you had to hold the top portion of the carton without applying more pressure, need to keep it on a surface (such as you can avoid the full force).The edges of the carton are little firm than the center portion.
The problem is that the seal needs to be good enough to keep the juice inside, throughout its journey to your fridge. At the same time, the opening process needs to be easy enough to tear by hand. In many cases, this balance is not reached, because it is too hard to open.
The process of manually opening a juice carton involves holding tight and tearing ( or cutting ). It is quite an aggressive action. In the process of making this hole in the packaging, there is a likelihood of the package shaking, spilling the juice.
Most of the more advanced methods - as Liam indicated - remove the need to grip the carton so tightly. But, of course, they cost a bit more.
Definitely poor design! I avoid those types of juice containers for that very reason.
Another design that seems like it should be good, but always seems to leak, is this one:
Screw-top FTW.
Poor design i'd say. I tend to cut off the corner, with an optional hole the other side to allow air to get in to stop the erratic pouring.
Alternatively, my mum used to have something similar to these (pictured below). That particular one is discontinued, but Amazon lists a few alternatives which look like they do the same job.
In the UK Tetrapak dominated supermarket shelves for liquid packaging, but increasingly I see plastic and screw top waxed cartons: http://youtu.be/2-p8YpR7rJc - No wonder !
They'd work much better if there were a tab with which to break the seal and pull the mouth open.


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I have to copy a directory structure to a new host as part of an application migration. The directory structure is as follows:
{10 - ff} / {00 - ff} / {00 - ff} (non-inclusive) / uniquefilename
So there are millions of files. The third level of the tree is not fully populated, and not every third level directory has a file in it.
a du takes a LONG time to complete for even a second level folder. Using tar | nc would take 10 days. I can get a 1 day outage, but not 10.


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Hi there,
I posted this video loke a month ago:
Here is the thread:
Now I playes VS Chelsea and my GK got a yellow card for this!!!
Come on!! How stupid is that??
Seriously SI you should fix this **** up GK AI cuz it ******* up the game for real.


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The Tom Medley StoryWritten by on January 1, 2011 Contributors: The Rod & Custom Archives, Courtesy Of Tom Medley
Do you want to put creativity, as well as fun, into your business? Hire a gag cartoonist, 'cause nobody thinks like those comedic pencil pushers. That schnozzle, that lantern jaw (and that cool hot rod, too) may be material for their next cartoon character. Robert Petersen got all of the above and more when he hired 28-year-old Tom Medley in 1948 to add a little humor to his new mag about hot rods. Little did Mr. Petersen know his employee would become a much-beloved legend.
Tom, former publisher of Rod & Custom, recently turned 90 years young. I underscore "young" because I don't know many in his age bracket who own, let alone work on, their '40 Ford, campaign a go-kart, or high-tail it to Alaska to go fishing every year.
Tom's First Gig
"The Army had me fill out a form to see what I was good for. They listed me as a cartoonist and a mechanic. They sent me to Omaha to Motor Mechanic school; I was supposed to fight the war with wrenches," Tom laughs. (He laughs a lot.)
Allowed to go into town to a YMCA dance, Tom rode in on a deuce and a half (2 1/2-ton Army truck), got off, and walked back to a bar close by to have a beer (or two) instead of going to the dance. Tom was sitting on a curb waiting for the Army truck to pick up the soldiers when the dance let out.
"All of a sudden all these girls were walking by me so close I could touch them. My wife-to-be, Rosemary, walked by and I saw a good lookin' set of legs. I reached up and grabbed her by the skirt and said, 'Can you dance?' I got up and started dancing with her right under the street light. Best move I ever made." That chance-dance would lead to a love affair that lasted until Rosemary's death.
"I always wanted to be a sports cartoonist," Tom says (like New York Daily News' Bruce Stark or Tom's hero, award-winning New York World-Telegram's Willard Mullin. Tom has one of Mullin's baseball cartoons framed in his home). "I was a gym rat," laughs Tom. "I spent all my time in the gym. I used to sneak into every gym in town till I got thrown out.
"Because I was interested in gag cartoons, I started sending Rosemary letters and I'd put my cartoons on them. The Army started a newspaper. The guy who was the editor was also the sports editor for the Cincinnati Post and found out I did sports cartoons."
After the war ended, Tom was assigned to the Stars and Stripes newspaper in Paris, France, until he was discharged from the Army in 1946. Then it was back home to Oregon (Tom had already married Rosemary), when he got a call from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles (before they moved to Pasadena) to say he had been accepted.
Tom had sent cartoons that he did while in the Army to the school for consideration. He received the news on a Thursday but had to be in L.A. that Monday morning to sign in. He kicked it in high gear and headed there in his '36 Ford roadster. "I was taking advertising and design. The gal who ran my class said every ad layout I did had a cartoon on it. Well ... you betcha! I was there less than a year when I got the nod from Petersen."
Providence was in Tom's corner when he stuck his cartoon on the wall at Blair's Speed Shop in Pasadena, California. It just so happened that Mr. Petersen, there to sell Don Blair an ad, spotted it.
You're Hired
"When Petersen called me he said, 'I like your stuff,'" Tom says. "How'd you like to go to work for Hot Rod magazine? I said, 'hell yes.' But Pete didn't even know I was a photographer. We had a lot of fun in those early days; I wouldn't trade it for anything."
Tom told his instructors he was leaving to work at a magazine. "What kind of magazine?" "A hot rod magazine," he replied. "What's a hot rod?" When Tom finished his description he was told summarily, he was making a big mistake. Yeah, right! Tom grabbed a fist-full of No. 2 pencils and began a journey that even Stroker couldn't conjure up.
Turn Me Loose
The staff at Hot Rod became known for the parties they threw. One Thanksgiving party, the staff members' wives and girlfriends thought they were getting frozen turkeys if they came up on stage. Tom was the emcee and always the instigator. It was the ladies who became frozen when they realized the turkeys were live!
At another party, Editor Wally Parks was asked by Tom to sit in a rocking chair that was rigged to look like a roadster he'd done. It was powered by a hamster in a treadmill. Tom's last touch was a slightly modified aircraft seat belt. Parks didn't know the belt couldn't be unlocked and therefore spent the entire party in the chair. Every time he rocked back a Model T bulb horn attached to the rocker would sound. He was left in the chair for the entire party. It's a good bet that Tom was nowhere to be found when Parks was released.
Educated Hot Rods
Where have all the hot rods gone? Why, to school, silly! Looking for fresh material for the magazine, Parks would grab Tom and the two would head out in Parks' '29 Ford roadster tooling all over town to every high school and junior college to scour the parking lots for hot rods.
"We'd see a cool rod and wait for the guy to come out of school and we'd have a car shoot right there and get it in the magazine. They said there weren't any hot rods on the street, but that's because they were all at school. On one occasion a whole football team stood around a guy's hot rod."
Tom wore other hats at Hot Rod besides Stroker, including becoming the ad manager: "I'd go out and hustle up some deals to guys like Vic Edelbrock. I'd show up in my '29 coupe and if Edelbrock was underneath a car, I'd grab a creeper and slide under it too to see what the hell he was doing. I'd shoot some pictures of his Flatheads; do a little caption on it, and get it in the magazine."
Tom hand-printed his work, even though he knew how to type. "There were some damn good typists at Hot Rod, one gal in particular who the guys liked to go to. She was fast and accurate. There was one guy at Motor Trend, they would send everything through him and he'd check for grammar and spelling."
Rosemary wasn't just a great dancer, but a whirl behind a keyboard as well. She did the entire catalog for Dean Moon (Moon Equipment Company) while Tom did the artwork.
Just when the magazine was starting to grow, disaster struck: "We came to work one morning and the safe with a load of subscriptions that guys had written in for with money was stolen from the office. We didn't dare put something in the magazine about what happened because then everyone would say their subscription got lost. They later found the safe behind the big Hollywood sign; of course the money was long gone."
Tom began creating cartoon characters while in the military: "That's when I started doing 'Fearless Freddy Flash', an infantryman in the Army." Once at Hot Rod, Tom introduced a rodder simply as McGurk, but when the curtain rose in the third issue a full-blown Stroker McGurk with his now-famous Gatsby cap hit center stage.
Tom's cartoon character showed hot rodders, not much younger than Tom, how to solve problems by using their heads. "Stroker," began Tom, "did all the things that hot rodders did and got tangled up in. He always looked for a simple solution. Stroker never said anything. It was always pantomime. Pantomime was harder to do, it would have been easier to make a caption and throw it in there."
Indy Tom resembled a silent movie at Petersen Publishing; he moved so fast from assignment to assignment: "I was shooting photos for three magazines at one time, plus the Stroker cartoons and artwork for some of the advertisers ... I was always gone on weekends.
For sure, every year during the month of May, Tom was gone at least four weekends, plus travel time to Indianapolis. Hot Rod was still a fledgling mag in 1950 when Tom was given the assignment to cover the Indy 500, so hopping on a Douglas DC-3 to fly to the Brickyard was out of the question. It was crank up the trusty '41 Ford and head it to the sound of the screaming Offys: "I went back all by myself in the rain that first year. I'd never been there before so when I got there I had to get credentials." Tom was asked what newspaper he was with. He answered: "Hot Rod." "What the hell is Hot Rod?" they replied? He was given a bronze pass. "Hell, I couldn't even get to the latrine with it.
"Hot Rod was a mechanical magazine, so we didn't care about covering qualifying, we were hot rodders. We did stories about the cars that were being built in our backyard in California that were there. We were interested in the engines and chassis."
It was old home month for Tom as so many of the drivers were friends of his, being regulars at Gilmore Stadium and Carroll Speedway in California: Walt Faulkner, Sam Hanks, Jack McGrath, Johnnie Parsons, Jim Rathmann, and Troy Ruttman. Many gained valuable racing experience by driving Model T track roadsters on both the dry lakes and dirt tracks of Southern California before graduating to the Championship Cars.
Jack McGrath (from the track roadster and dry lakes ranks) was about to enter the track for practice and spotted Tom. "Jack handed me his silver pass and said, 'Get out there, it will get you anywhere on the track.' For 16 years, I'd go to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the whole month of May. It was all work; I never sat down the whole time. Rosemary never complained."
Got ... Malted?
Tom rented a room in a stately old three-story home ("from an older couple named Manifold," laughs Tom) several blocks from the Speedway for $12 a week. "They only had one bathroom and it was on the top floor. One morning I got up and ran like hell to the WC and who got there before me? Billy Vukovich, who was staying there too."
Indy wouldn't be Indy without that traditional winner's gulp of cold milk (dating back to 1936 when winner Louis Meyer drank cold buttermilk when his mom told him it would refresh him) ... but a malted? In 1953, Vukovich won what became known as the "Hottest 500" with track temperatures hovering at 130 degrees. (Carl Scarborough died of heat exhaustion after retiring from the race.) Several hours after the race ended, Tom and Don Francisco (the late-tech editor of Hot Rod) hot-footed it out of the speedway and found some shade under the trees of nearby homes, stretching out on the grass to cool off.
"There was an old-fashioned drug store nearby, with a soda fountain, so we went in there and who's having malt? Vukovich who had just won Indy!" Tom looked at 'Vukie' and said, "What the hell are you doing here, you should be back at the speedway playing hero? 'For the last hundred miles,' Vukovich says, 'all I could think about was this malted. As far as hero, I'll do that Wednesday night when they give me the check.'"
Most of the magazine publications that began, or were around, in 1948, are long gone and there is a reason: The pioneering staff Mr. Petersen assembled was the best of the best in Ray Brock, Don Francisco, Tom Medley, Wally Parks, and Eric Rickman. Tom's "what made it run" curiosity transcended his job description when he crawled under that car, which one of the best mechanical minds in hot rodding, Vic Edelbrock was working on. In turn, Stroker passed on that knowledge, through humor, to his multitude of fans. Bud Bryan recalled that the great thing about R&C Publisher Medley was that Tom would share an idea with you, a concept about a story or a feature, but he would never tell you what to do or how to do it.
Jane Barrett, research editor for Road&Track magazine worked with Tom at Petersen Publishing from 1978 until he left the company. Barrett had this to say about Medley: "Tom and Rosemary were great dancers in their younger years, winning all sorts of contests. They spent many, many hours on the dance floor ... jitterbugging hours, not waltzing hours." Spencer Murray, founding editor of R&C, remembers when, "Fred Waingrow handled the day-to-day operations under Mr. Petersen, he was very stern, cold, demanding, and kinda feared. He had an office on the top floor next to Pete's office. That was the inner sanctum. If you ever got called up there, it was bad news.
"He called me and Tom, who was the publisher of R&C at the time, up to his office which was very spartan, but it had bright green carpet. Waingrow was sitting at the far end of the room at his desk. We knew he was looking for a secretary when he called us up there. Tom said, 'You don't need a secretary, you need a gardener.' Waingrow broke out laughing."
Tom became the scatter shield between management ("suits" as he called them) and his extremely talented staff, Gray Baskerville, Bud Bryan, Jim Jacobs, and Tex Smith. They were scribes, with skinned knuckles, whom any publisher would die for. When Tom, or the boys, got a harebrained idea, Tom ran with it and worried about repercussions from upstairs later. Tom hit on having "special issues" like the Nov. '73 "Chopped Top" issue. Why not get a '70s-looking Stroker to chop the letters ROD on the cover to roD (he was about to chop the "D") to emphasize what awaited inside? "I thought the suits were going to mess their pants when I got a wild idea to chop and channel the masthead ... you know, make it smaller. I had a little Stroker up there working on it to cut it down. Stroker was never in R&C per se, but I used him that one time." Tom respected the fact Stroker belonged to Hot Rod.
Tom's popularity is not just through his work over the years, it is his approachability. His coworkers noted that Tom was a "laid-back boss" who initiated the conversation with them and with the street rodders at events he attended.
Tom's Coupe
No, not that coupe. Tom is a pretty crack upholster, but he also wanted to fly. Living close to the Burbank and Glendale, California, airports helped to whet his whistle. Tom stopped by the Glendale Flight School in 1960-61 to inquire about lessons. "The upholstery in the planes was pretty shabby," noted Tom to the instructor. "I'll trade you new seats for flying lessons. When they came in for maintenance I'd go over, take the seats out, take them home, and re-upholster them. That's how I got my license."
In the meantime Tom acquired a military '49 ERCO Ercoupe for $1,500, which was the safest, fixed-wing aircraft at the time. Before Tom flew the single-engine plane he took the wings off and snuck it in his backyard to restore it. He probably didn't have to sneak it in because the neighbors knew that having a cartoonist on the block, there was no tellin' what he'd drag home next. They'd seen it all from go-karts to hot rods and slot cars (oh yeah, Tom built a slot car track in his backyard for his son, Gary, and the kids on the block). So of course he'd have an airplane in his backyard.
Turn Out the Lights
Jack Chisenhall, president of Vintage Air, was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the Air Force at the time he attended the 2nd Rod & Custom Street Rod Nationals in Memphis in 1971. "Tom stood up on the stage and told all of us that Petersen Publishing had decided they were not going to publish R&C anymore. I walked up later and shook Tom's hand to thank him for telling us the real story. I saw tears from some of the people in the audience; it was a heavy deal. I've been a big fan of his ever since." Tom was as much in shock as the enthusiastic street rodders who attended the event when he broke the news. Tom only found out about R&C's fate shortly before he made the announcement.
"One of the street rod guys in the audience," continues Tom, "spotted one of the suits that went back with us and had him up against the wall and was going to smash him, he was so mad." The suits? Oh, they're long gone. Looking back, it was a little late for management to see firsthand the effect the first two Rod & Custom Street Rod Nationals (and R&C in general) had on street rodders, since the damage had already been done to scupper the magazine and the event. The next year it became the National Street Rod Association's event. Petersen Publishing was no longer involved. Maybe that's the problem today; too many suits! As an artist, a photographer, a salesman, or as a writer, Tom brought to Petersen Publishing an enthusiasm for his job that never ebbed till the day he left the building for good.
May I call Tom Medley "Smedley" for just a moment? A respected automotive journalist, who worked with Tom, made a rare slip of the keyboard when replying to my email. Medley became Smedley. But was it a slip? Medley ... Stroker, so why not Smedley? Sure, there's no doubt that Tom could have become a celebrated newspaper sports cartoonist. We tend to squirrel away our old Hot Rod and R&C magazines, we know where newspapers end up. Besides Tom didn't hang out at some sports bar, he hung out at Blair's. We got him instead.
A shindig took place recently at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum in Pomona for Tom. Guys and gals who worked for, sat next to, secretaried for, wrote for, sold for, sold to, raced with (get the picture?) and stood by Tom Medley gathered together. We spent a ruckus day with nary a dry eye in the house.


text: Here is the second Gravity Falls character that I said I was going to upload. Here is "how to draw Pacifica Northwest", step by step. As you can imagine Pacifica has a very demanding and ultra conceded personality. She thinks she is the boss of everything and everyone because of her cockiness which is due to the fact that she is the great-great grand daughter to Nathaniel Northwest, the founder of Gravity Falls. All that is well and good but the veil is exposed when people realize that she is a blown out fraud. Anyways, Mabel is her enemy and so id Dipper and Uncle Grunkle Stan. Drawing Pacifica will be easy, and fun so have a go at it, and see if you can recreate her. Peace out mi amigos.


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What is the difference between protein supplements and branch chain amino acid supplements? Isn't protein composed of amino acids? Are there scientific studies showing the benefits of BCAA supplement as compared to protein supplements?
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Branch-chain amino acids (BCAA) are a set of amino acids with a particular chemical structure involving an aliphatic side-chain with a multiple carbon-bond. There are three relevant BCAA: leucine, isoleucine, and valine; these are three of the nine essential amino acids for humans.
BCAA by themselves could be considered a protein supplement, but they are not complete for dietary purposes as a BCAA-only mix does not contain all nine essential amino acids (or more, for efficiency). Any commercial protein mix could have some or all BCAA, but that's going to vary.
BCAA supplementation has been demonstrated to decrease muscle damage and increase muscle-protein synthesis. A couple relevant studies:
A lot of protein supplements out there already have BCAA in them. BCAA are the type of amino acids that your body cannot naturally produce, so taking them in addition to protein might be a good idea. BCAA's are known to be anti-catabolics which is beneficial for recovery when working out.
Even though the answer has already been accepted, thought I'd throw in my two cents. I've been on protein shakes for a year or so and going to the gym and other activities. After going to the gym I'd get extremely exhausted and it would take me a week to recover each time. So I went to the nutrition store and they suggested I take BCAA and right away I noticed that I would recuperate a lot faster after going to the gym. So for me, this really worked.
So what's the difference, when you got the answer already checked. Does it work? Heck yeah.


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25 Dec 2012 9:29 AM #1
MVC - Grid with rowexpander, Unable to get Handle to View from within Controller
I need to capture the row extender plugin's "expandrow" event, in order the change the appearance of the row, once it has been expanded. The problem is I have not able to get a handle on the grid view to make the format change. (I am fairly new to Extjs and attempting to convert some Extjs 3 code to comply with the new MVC architecture).
Here is the controllers control method:
this.control({ '#alertsgridview': { afterrender: this.bindview, expandbody: this.expandbody } });
bindview: function(view) { this.expandbody = Ext.bind(this.expandbody, view); },
expandbody: function(rowNode, record, expandRow, eOpts { if (record.get('unread')) { this.removeRowCls(rowNode, 'alert-unread'); AlertHelper.markRead(record.get('id')); record.set('unread', false); } return true; }
What am I missing?
26 Dec 2012 3:37 AM #2
Most events include a reference to the observable as their first argument for this very reason but some slipped through when ExtJS 4 was being updated. The expandbody event seems to be one of those.
I think your best bet is to catch this event on the component itself and re-fire a new event that includes a reference to the grid or view.
26 Dec 2012 10:12 AM #3
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Putting the event handling back to the view does seems to defeat the purpose of separating the event handling (Controller function) from the View itself. Is this something that will be fixed in a future release?
Also, I am curious why my solution of creating a closure (Ext.bind) between the handler function and the controller object did not work?
Again Thanks,
26 Dec 2012 12:15 PM #4
It is the view's responsibility to fire appropriate events. In this case it isn't firing the event you need, so you have to add the event yourself. That is very different to putting the event handling into the view.
If you wanted to get the binding to work you'd have to call control after you've done the bind.
I would highly recommend that you do not pursue the binding approach, you're tying a method on your controller to a particular instance of a view. If you really want to do something along these lines then you'd probably be better off registering the listener directly on the view from within your afterrender handler.
My first choice would still be to subclass the view to add an appropriate event rather than hacking it in the controller.
27 Dec 2012 7:48 AM #5
Your comments have been insightfull to someone fairly new to Extjs.


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When we studied undergraduate, we were always in a dilemma of shorter-time versus deeper-understanding.
For example, to complete the whole study material we always had few hours in our hand. If we tried to deepen our knowledge about the topic, we didn't have enough time. So most of the time we preferred memorization over extensive study.
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Cyrus king of Persia revealed to Daniel that something bad was happening. He fasted and did the whole 9-yards for 3 weeks. My question is, what happened afterwards? He obviously was super tired and lack of energy, but Daniel saw a Vision, and I presume this was Jesus.
What really happened? Did Daniel fasted this intensely to get His attention?


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Fillmore, Utah— The Fillmore Field Office (FFO) of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) would like to remind everyone to please use caution when recreating on BLM managed public lands in Millard and Juab Counties during these unpredictable winter months. Many BLM maintained roads become impassable due to snow drifts or damage from winter storms. When possible the BLM makes every effort to keep roads passable where conditions allow. Many roads will remain impassable until weather conditions improve.
The public is encouraged to know before you go: take the time to learn about the conditions and weather forecast before heading into the backcountry. Drivers are reminded to avoid driving on saturated surfaces to prevent road damage, soil erosion and getting stuck. Winter recreationists who plan on traveling into the backcountry areas should think "preparedness." The most important aspect of preparedness is to provide someone with detailed trip plans, including exact locations and expected trip length. Always pack enough food and water to sustain you and your family for at least three days.
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The 5 Least Subtle Product Placements in Gaming History
Most people see video games as a source of entertainment. Others see them as a forum for competition. Still other visionaries see them for what they truly are -- a golden opportunity to shamelessly peddle wares to a captive audience. We've highlighted some particularly shameless instances of advertainment before, but far from being dissuaded by their examples, these folks stepped up to the plate, rolled up their sleeves, and said, "That's not how you whore out your integrity -- this is how you whore out your integrity."
#5. Doritos, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and AXE Body Spray in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker designer Hideo Kojima, on a self-proclaimed mission to "surprise players," littered the world of Solid Snake with the most blatant product placement this side of a grocery store shelf -- Mountain Dew, Pepsi NEX, Doritos, and even AXE Body Spray made appearances in the otherwise "serious" and "philosophical" series. So Kojima technically did surprise players, much like getting caught in bed with half a sorority is a great way to surprise your wife.
They weren't just there for window dressing, either. The game's designers (and the products' PR departments) wanted to make damn sure you associated these endorsements with peak health of both body and mind. To that end, they turned chips and soda into power-ups that could restore your health and psyche, the latter being the game's measurement of how quickly your body can naturally heal itself. So they're essentially saying you will die if you don't rabidly consume those chips and soft drinks, but they don't stop there: Should you actually die with Doritos or soda in your inventory, they will bring you back to life. As far as Peace Walker is concerned, junk food is the new Jesus Christ.
That one bag can feed 5,000 mercenaries.
Then there's AXE Body Spray, which improves your psyche gauge by making you smell better. That's how they reconciled including a product that wasn't even around in the '70s (when Peace Walker takes place). Pretty thin justification -- but not as thin as you'll look in this slimming black AXE T-shirt!
Perfect for repelling any female enemies.
Unfortunately for diehard capitalists in the Sweet Land of Liberty, by the time Peace Walker made it to the states, all licenses had expired. The idea of replacing everything with more logical military items like first-aid kits and MRES never occurred to the developers, so they just palette-swapped the chips and soda to generic store brand products. And all the other soldiers made fun of Snake for drinking Alpine Mist until he had to eat his lunch alone in the band room.
#4. Chupa Chups Lollipops in Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension
Few realizations are more depressing than the point when you first understand that, to bring your dreams to fruition, you may have to sell out to Big Corporate. This must be how Amiga felt when they made Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension. Their game was supposed to be competition for Mario and Sonic, a side-scrolling adventure perfect for kids who could identify with neither plumber nor rodent.
The problem was, Amiga didn't have Mario or Sonic money and could not afford to finish the game on their own. That's when they approached lollipop conglomerate Chupa Chups for a sponsorship deal and the two sides forged an agreement that would subtly promote Chupa Chups in-game, while leaving the integrity of the experience intact.
"There is no Zool, only Chupa Chups."
Chupa Chups ejaculated their logo and product all over the unsuspecting platformer, leaving the poor game sticky and ashamed. But Chupa Chups did not care -- even if it made zero sense in context, their product was first and foremost. The entire first world (the Sweet Zone) became nothing but a giant commercial -- every few screens, you'd find the Chupa Chups logo glaring loudly in the background, 10 times larger than Zool and utterly dominating the entire design of the level. Players were understandably put off by the punch-in-the-face advertising, and Sonic and Mario, the two video game mascot superpowers, continued their bloody and terrible war unopposed. Well, except for Bonk. But fuck Bonk.
#3. The Ford Simulator Series
Cars are possibly the easiest and least obtrusive product placement in gaming: It adds realism to your game to show genuine makes and models while you execute handbrake turns and take bitchin' jumps. That Jaguar drove like a dream in those Gran Turismo races -- maybe you should check one out for real! That's the obvious route, anyway. But then you have the path less taken -- the Ford Simulator series, perfect for people who can't drive 55, but only because they never really wanted to in the first place.
Beat it on hard to upgrade to rust undercoating.
Originally released by Ford as a promotion for its 1988 models, Ford Simulator consisted of little more than the player sanely test-driving Ford cars. Realism is all well and good in auto games, but this was 1988, when gaming had like 20 pixels to work with, total. The player couldn't get a genuine sense of the car's looks from the simulator, much less its handling or its power, because you didn't race the Fords in this game. You didn't perform stunts with them. You didn't run over old ladies with them. There were real and immediate consequences for any tomfoolery:
Like GTA for Mormons.
You simply pressed the gas button until you didn't press it anymore. You ostensibly needed to "race" to your destination, but if you crashed or sped, you were out, so gameplay was mostly adhering to the speed limit and staying within the lines. Thrills around every corner! Too bad this is the highway. To be fair, though, there were various mini-games you could play to break up the monotony of driving sensible cars in a sensible way. You could fill up your gas tank:
If you time it just right, you unlock a windshield cleaning mini-game.
You could stop at the local mini mart to buy a map:
"You've always been this car's owner. I should know, sir. I've always been here."
And that was it.
Back to sane and sober driving, please! Oh, and don't think Ford Simulator was a one-and-done deal. Nope -- they released a new one every year for six years.


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Jesse Tarr was just named interim head coach of the 49ers men's tennis program. Tarr enters his sixth season in 2015-16 as a member of the 49ers men's tennis program. Tarr also spent the past five seasons as assistant coach of the 49ers women's tennis program.
He has played an integral role in both programs during his tenure. The men's program amassed an 18-4 mark last season, one of its best in school history, while winning a school-record 13 matches-in-a-row. Four different 49ers were honored as All-Conference USA selections.
The women's team in 2014-15 doubled its win total from the previous campaign against a schedule that featured five nationally-ranked opponents. Charlotte tallied a 10-2 record at home, its best since the Halton-Wagner Tennis Complex opened, and advanced to the Conference USA Championships Quarterfinals behind a stacked lineup.
Both programs ended up in the ITA Carolina Regional rankings, marking only the third such listing for the women's program in school history.
In 2013-14, he coached Macy Vonderschmidt to an All-Conference USA Second Team Singles honor as a freshman. He also played an integral role in helping the 49ers' men's tennis program earn its first ITA national ranking since 2002.
Tarr helped lead the two programs to the third-best combined winning percentage in school history in 2011-12. Both squads earned byes at the Atlantic 10 Championships that season, including the women as the No. 2 seed and a top seed for the men's program.
He has been instrumental in helping both programs secure signees that have drawn notoriety on tennisrecruiting.net. Among the top mid-major classes, the 49ers' women's signees in 2011 and 2013 were listed at No. 21 and receiving votes, respectively, while the men's 2011 group garnered a No. 6 ranking.
Most recently, in 2015, both programs continued to bring in solid recruiting classes according to the website. The women's team was listed at No. 12 in the mid-major rankings, while the men's squad received votes in the national rankings, while also holding the No. 12 spot in the mid-major rankings.
In addition to the success on the court, Tarr has pushed the Charlotte women's program to even greater achievements in the classroom. During the Spring 2014 term, the team earned a combined team GPA of 3.68, the highest by any athletic program in school history for a semester. The women's program had also been honored by the NCAA six-straight years, through 2013-14, as one of its Public Recognition Award recipients for having a perfect 1000 APR score. The run of half-dozen years marks the longest streak by any Niners' athletic program.
He came to Charlotte after a one-year stint as an assistant men's coach at William & Mary. The Tribe tied the school record with 20 dual match victories on 2010 and clinched the No. 1 seed in the Colonial Athletic Association for the first time in school history. Five W&M players garnered All-CAA honors, the most in program history as the school reached as high as No. 53 in the national poll before finishing among the Top 75.
Tarr served as the recruiting coordinator for the program, whose recruiting class was ranked sixth in the top mid-major classes and received votes for top recruiting class on tennisrecruiting.net. The Tribe had a doubles pair reach as high No. 19 in the national rankings on its way to qualifying for the main draw at the ITA All-American Championships and the NCAA Championships.
He started his coaching career in 2008-09 as a volunteer assistant at Boise State University, which finished No. 20 in the final men's rankings and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 following a 24-9 campaign. Five Broncos earned All-Western Athletic Conference accolades, while Boise State also had the league's player and freshman of the year.
Tarr, a Midlothian, Virginia, native played collegiately at James Madison, where he was a four-year starter for the Dukes. He amassed 110 total victories during his career, collecting five All-CAA plaudits (four in doubles, one in singles).
He was a finalist for the Athletic Department's Athlete of the Year award as a senior and entered the ITA Mideast Region rankings at No. 15 in doubles play with partner Mike Smith during his junior season. The tandem started its senior year with a No. 46 national preseason listing in 2007-08.
He was tabbed a 2006 ITA Scholar Athlete and garnered the CAA Commissioner's Academic Award in 2006 and 2008. He also was active with the Student-Athlete Advisory Council all four years.
While a student at James Madison, Tarr started the "Day with the Dukes" event as a way to give back to the community. Each year, Special Olympics athletes interact with a variety of Dukes athletes from different sports for a fun day on campus, including a home football game. Participants receive a tailgate lunch, have the opportunity to interact with football players at Bridgeforth Stadium, attend clinics with the basketball and soccer teams and one is chosen to flip the pregame coin at the football game. Approximately 60 athletes attend the Day with the Dukes each year, a program that continues after his graduation. The psychology pear advisory group provides one-on-one buddies for the day.Tarr received his bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in athletic coaching from James Madison in 2008. Tarr and his wife Erin (Rash) Tarr were married in early January, 2016.
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<RP> Jolly Roger
Jolly Roger
Yes, folks, another one! Reason for this is that I got the book Treasure Island last week and a Pirate game yesterday. XD
In another world, another time, Pirates rule the seven seas and all its borders. They are Gods, holding the lives of all in their hands. Or rather, cutlasses.
The two most prominent Pirate fleets are the Skulls and Seekers. And they are at war, destroying the coastal towns in their furious battles for control of the oceans.
The Seekers are the more humane, they do not submit to such debauchery at the Skulls. Only killing when needed, they are the Black Barts (Search him up, hes real nice.) of the sea.
The Skulls however are completely different these men are the Pirates of imagination, uncouth, destructive rapists with a love of gold that surpasses mere greed.
But they are winning.
Romance is very much allowed. Because its fun. ^_^
Modern music is also allowed, but not modern inventions.
Fantasy creatures, such as Dragons, Faeries and Goblins are also allowed. So are Witches, Wizards and all kinds of sorcery.
Clothes: Girl characters may wear pants on board a ship, but all dresses must be to their ankles (Blame the fashion). Both genders can wear any kind of material like denim, cotton or lace if they wish.
The youngest Captain in the Heartens Island Merchant and Navel Fleet (HYMN), 17 year old Kaine Green strode across the gangway of the just docked Victory. Heartens was his birthplace and he felt most comfortable standing by its shores.
To look at, you would think that Kaine was an actor. The handsome face and slim toned body gave that impression. However, look into his eyes, green as the sea itself, and there was steel. His hair was a coal black, falling over his forehead and into his eyes.
There was a cutlass by his side and a fresh scar from his right eyebrow to below his cheekbone; acquired from the last run-in with the Skulls.
A young woman dressed as a boy walked confidently forward. The name her parents had given her was "Nicola", but she always prefered to be called "Nikki". She had run away from home a few years back to become a pirate, dressing in boy's clothes rather than the heavy skirts and bodices that women were supposed to wear. Her skin was creamy, her eyes were green, like emeralds. Her hair was black, with reddish lights in it.
Now, seven years on, she was still lightweight and slim but muscled. There was one difference tho; she wore a silver plated full face mask, due to having been scarred horribly in a battle with the Skulls on the last boat she'd been on. The battle had been hard won, but she felt that she needed a change of boat. She liked the look of this one; and the name, "Victory", appealed to her.
Kaine seemed to looking around for someone.
Kiana ran down the beach, her eyes sparkling. She herself was a tomboy, but her brother refused to let her out sailing until she was 16. Today was her 16th birthday, and her brother was home.
She was wearing a long t-shirt that reached to 3 inches past her waist, calf-high dark blue boots and dusky blue leggings.
With a yelp of joy, she wrapped herself around a not-so-surpised Kaine.
"Your back! Your back!" she squealed.
"And I'll be dead soon, if you don't let me breathe!"
Nikki watched, unmoved. She was 20 now, and memories of her family had grown distant. Her invalid mother had smothered her with suffocating love and her father had been stern, wanting his daughter only to make a good marriage and raise a family. He had been lenient with her brothers, which had angered Nikki to the point of her final rebellion, when she ran away.
She was dressed all in black, with only the silver of her mask marring the look. She waited patiently; she would ask the ship's master if she could join his crew when the moment was right.
Kiana jumped away from her brother, grinning.
"Are you Captain yet? Are you Captain yet?"
"I heard you the first time, you know."
Nikki thought to herself, "I was First Mate on the other ship... doubt I will be on this one. Still, time for a change, whatever that change brings."
"Are you? Are you? Are you?!"
"-_-;; Oy... yes, I am. Now quit it."
Nikki walked up to Kaine. "I would like to join your crew."
"Can you wait until I shut my psycho sibling up?" Kaine asked her as he tried to cover Kiana's chattering mouth.
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KILLEEN (November 2, 2012)--The CTC Distance Learning Department will host a series of events in honor of National Distance Learning Week which begins on Monday.
Distance Learning incorporates the use of technology like the Internet and video chat to conduct classes so that students can learn in the comfort of their own homes.
The week is designed to generate greater awareness and appreciation for distance learning while recognizing leaders and best practices in the field, a CTC spokesperson said.
The CTC Distance Education Department will host an open house for students on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. to give them the opportunity to participate in hands-on demonstrations of the newest learning technology, including the Biometric Signature ID program which facilitates verification of enrolled student participation in online courses and testing.
The open house will be held in Building 156 in the Anderson Campus Center upstairs.
CTC faculty members will participate in a similar open house where they will learn about professional development and participate in webinars and technology demonstrations.
A week-long scavenger hunt will get underway for students which will give them a chance to win a Kindle Fire 7, iTunes gift cards, CTC apparel and more.
The public is invited to attend the events and gather information and resources on online learning.
Presentations on note-taking, enhancing study skills, test-taking and time management will also be offered.
The events will conclude on Friday.
For more information or for a schedule of events, call the CTC Distance Education Department at (254) 526-7161.


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All-New Invaders #12
The Martians attack in "All-New Invaders" #12, written by James Robinson and drawn by Marc Laming and Barry Kitson.
|December 1st, 2014
Original Sin: Hulk Vs. Iron Man #4
Kieron Gillen and Mark Waid somewhat redeem Tony Stark and clarify his role in creating The Hulk in "Original Sin" #3.4, with action and revelations that salvages the series, and has a convincing Hulk vs. Iron Man battle drawn by Luke Ross.
|August 11th, 2014
All-New Invaders #2
The old Invaders start to reunite in "All-New Invaders" #2, and are looking good as drawn by Steve Pugh and Guru-eFX. Writer James Robinson makes this reunion fun, but relies on a few too many contrivances to hold it together.
|February 7th, 2014
All-New Invaders #1
The Kree have been busy at the start of James Robinson & Steve Pugh's "All-New Invaders" #1 -- and that's never a good thing, especially not for Jim Hammond, who has something they want.
|January 24th, 2014
All-New Marvel NOW! Point One #1
With no stinkers and quite a few standouts, "All-New Marvel NOW! Point One" #1 is a collection to get you excited for 2014.
|January 10th, 2014
X-Men: Battle of the Atom #2
"Battle of the Atom" comes to a stumbling awkward end, including a few impotent deaths in "X-Men: Battle of the Atom" #2.
|October 31st, 2013
Thunderbolts #14
In "Thunderbolts" #14 by Charles Soule and Jefte Paolo, the team takes down a cow and then hold the first official team lottery, with Punisher being the first winner of his teammates' combined firepower.
|August 26th, 2013
Iron Man #14
"Iron Man" #14 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land continues "The Secret Origin of Tony Stark: The Best Offense," as Tony tries to thwart Recorder 451's plan to install him as driver of the Godkiller weapon.
|August 12th, 2013
Thunderbolts #13
"Thunderbolts" #13 by Charles Soule and Phil Noto is a powerful and haunting character study of Mercy, the most recent, most mysterious and possibly the most powerful addition to Red Hulk's strike team.
|July 22nd, 2013
In "A+X" #10, B. Clay Moore and Kris Anka team-up the Black Widow and Fantomex while Adam Warren takes on Domino and the Scarlet Witch.
|July 22nd, 2013
Thunderbolts #12
In "Thunderbolts" #12 by Charles Soule and Steve Dillon, Punisher launches and concludes a relentless seek-and-destroy for a quarry that his team members have neglected.
|July 8th, 2013
Iron Man #12
Tony is finally born, as the third installment of "The Secret Origin of Tony Stark" continues to unfold in "Iron Man" #12 by Kieron Gillen and Dale Eaglesham, in an issue that's more fun as a shoot-em-up than as part of its main s
|July 5th, 2013
Iron Man #10
Kieron Gillen and Dale Eaglesham begin to spin a new origin story for Tony Stark in "Iron Man" #10, but while some of the smaller details are fun, this first chapter is decidedly average.
|May 17th, 2013
Thunderbolts #2
"Thunderbolts" #7 from Daniel Way and Phil Noto is a thin issue of a team book that's enjoyable but doesn't really have much to it.
|March 27th, 2013
Iron Man #7
Kieron Gillen, Greg Land, and Jay Leisten continue their outer space adventure in "Iron Man" #7, and while this middle-chapter drags a bit with a bit too much exposition, it's a pleasant enough transition to next issue's conclusion.
|March 6th, 2013
Thunderbolts #3
In "Thunderbolts" #3 by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon, the black ops team continues their first mission in Kata Jayan as it becomes clear that Red Hulk is keeping more than one element of his plan hidden from his team.
|January 14th, 2013
Iron Man #5
"Iron Man" #5 presents another tightly plotted standalone script written by Kieron Gillen unfortunately mishandled by art from Greg Land.
|January 3rd, 2013
Iron Man #4
"Iron Man" #4 from Kieron Gillen and Greg Land shows a short mission for Tony Stark in France to take down a mindless pack of gorgeous women who have been turned evil with Extremis.
|December 11th, 2012
Iron Man #3
Kieron Gillen and Greg Land bring Living Laser, Vibro and Firebrand back into Tony Stark's life in the pages of "Iron Man" #3.
|December 6th, 2012
Thunderbolts #1
General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross decides it is high time to form a team around his ideals and thanks to Daniel Way and Steve Dillon, that team begins to come together in the pages of Marvel NOW!'s "Thunderbolts" #1.
|December 4th, 2012
Wolverine and the X-Men #21
After the events of "Avengers Vs. X-Men," it seems only fitting that Jason Aaron and Nick Bradshaw would take the mutants to the circus in "Wolverine & the X-Men" #21.
|November 26th, 2012
Iron Man #2
Kieron Gillen and Greg Land's story in "Iron Man" #2 about hunting the Extremis virus is pleasant enough, but so far it lacks a strong enough punch to entirely draw the reader into its core.
|November 21st, 2012
Wolverine and the X-Men #20
Angel takes on a primary role in recruiting new mutants for the Jean Grey School in "Wolverine & The X-Men" #20 by Jason Aaron and guest artist Steve Sanders.
|November 15th, 2012
Iron Man #1
No longer Invincible, "Iron Man" #1 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land pits the armored Avenger against a weapon as dangerous as he is, as Marvel NOW! begins its launch.
|November 7th, 2012
Wolverine and the X-Men #19
With the crossover finally over, Jason Aaron and Nick Bradshaw continue the path of strong stories in "Wolverine & the X-Men" with a search for a new teacher, plus the fates of Broo and the new Hellfire Club.
|October 30th, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #20
Cyclops and Mr. Sinister have one more conversation in "Uncanny X-Men" #20, the final issue of the series courtesy Kieron Gillen and Carlos Pacheco.
|October 22nd, 2012
Wolverine #311
Simone Bianchi's art for "Wolverine" #311 is eye-catching, but the story involving the resurrection of Sabretooth still feels unimpressive with this second installment.
|August 13th, 2012
Captain America #15
Cullen Bunn and Scot Eaton join the creative team in "Captain America" #15 and bring the Discordians with them to make Cap's life even more complicated.
|July 30th, 2012
"FF" #20 is now more than ever an overflow title for "Fantastic Four," its apparent purpose being to help Jonathan Hickman wrap up storylines like the Inhumans' status in the Marvel Universe.
|July 26th, 2012
Wolverine & the X-Men #13
Gladiator thinks he can take on the Phoenix Five in "Wolverine & the X-Men" #13. He's not exactly right.
|July 16th, 2012
New Mutants #44
"New Mutants" kicks off "Fear the Future" with an issue that leaves the readers in the dark, but that's a good thing.
|June 20th, 2012
The bout in "AVX: VS" #3 features Thing against Colossus and Black Widow against Magik.
|June 18th, 2012
Fantastic Four #607
Black Panther returns to the pages of "Fantastic Four" and brings a Wakandan history lesson with him.
|June 15th, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #13
"Uncanny X-Men" #13 tries to balance its own plots with "Avengers vs. X-Men" with some success but also a bit of slowness.
|June 7th, 2012
X-Men #29
Victor Gischler and Will Conrad wrap up their run on "X-Men" with a bit of a thud rather than a bang.
|June 1st, 2012
Fantastic Four #606
"Fantastic Four" #606 is cute, but we've all seen this story before.
|May 23rd, 2012
Fantastic Four #605.1
"Fantastic Four" #605.1 reads more like a "What If…?" than a mainstream "Fantastic Four" comic, but that doesn't stop it from being great.
|May 18th, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #11
More battles between Avengers and X-Men in "Uncanny X-Men" #11, this time between Red Hulk and Colossus/Juggernaut.
|April 30th, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #10
The X-Men attack Unit, but things don't quite work out as planned.
|April 16th, 2012
If Valeria's expression on the cover isn't enough to get you to check out this book, then maybe the incredible cliffhanger at the end might be.
|March 30th, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #9
"Uncanny X-Men" #9 represents the lull before the coming "AvX" storm, showcasing both teams in action while somewhat muddying the waters of the event.
|March 22nd, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #8
The battle for Tabula Rasa is over, but are the inhabitants doomed anyway?
|March 8th, 2012
"FF" is entertaining but it's also starting to lose its identity.
|February 29th, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #6
It's the small details of "Uncanny X-Men" #6 which sing.
|February 1st, 2012
Uncanny X-Men #5
Cyclops's Extinction Team explores Tabula Rosa and its strange evolved environment that didn't exist the day before.
|January 23rd, 2012
Skaar: King of the Savage Land #2
"Protect the muscled green friend of Ka-Zar! Show this unnatural mechanism the warrior might of the Devil Dinosaur and his loyal brother, Moon Boy!!!"
|April 23rd, 2011
Skaar: King of the Savage Land #1
"Pain is my past. Anger my legacy. I am savage. I am Skaar, son of Hulk. And I have no home."
|April 7th, 2011
Sigil #1
"And I had another one of those dreams. The ones where my birthmark keeps popping up. I'm spooked Chrissie. I really don't want to have to go back into therapy."
|March 9th, 2011
Heroes For Hire #4
Misty Knight, suddenly sans any heroes for hire to aid her, fights the Puppet Master for control of her life, only to find it in very real jeopardy.
|March 3rd, 2011
Wolverine #1000
Five stories make up this anthology one-shot featuring Wolverine. Two feature Werewolves, two are set during the war, and one is missed off the contents page entirely. Oh, well.
|February 14th, 2011


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The 6 Most Utterly Insane Attempts to Kill a US President
Anyone can change the course of history. You can start a movement, run for office, or if you're too insane for that kind of thing, buy a cheap gun and try to kill the President.
Now killing the President requires a lot of planning, but when you're crazy, planning involves casting imaginary spells and talking to ghosts. All of which makes it even stranger that some of the craziest assassination plots ever hatched by some of the craziest people came so close to succeeding.
For instance...
#6. Richard Pavlick (1887-1975)
The Target:
John F. Kennedy
The Man:
At the dear old age of seventy-three, Richard Pavlick maintained his youthful vigor by constantly ranting about politicians, wealth and Catholics. So naturally when these things converged in the form of John F. Kennedy's presidency, Pavlick felt that something drastic had to be done and that he was just the senile nutbar for the job.
Apparently Pavlich learned everything he knew about committing crimes from The Riddler. After giving away his property and most of his possessions, he decided it would be a good idea to mail postcards around town, with cryptic clues about his intentions.
Pavlick began stalking Kennedy and on December 11th this elderly one man League of Evil launched his plan.
The Attempt:
Fun Fact: Guns can be problematic. They require training to use well and even then they can still jam or miss. But do you know what never misses? A 1950 Buick filled with dynamite.
Maybe Pavlick felt that the revolution he'd spark would be so awesome that he didn't need to live and witness it. Maybe he just had a gross misunderstanding of how dynamite works. Whatever the reason, one Sunday as Kennedy left for mass, there was an old man in an exploding car, prepared to kill him in the flashiest way possible.
What Went Wrong:
On the first attempt, Pavlick saw Kennedy had his wife and two children with him, and got cold feet (note that if you're that concerned about bystanders, a car bomb is probably not your best weapon).
This bought time for the good guys to work through the diabolical clues he mailed out. And by that we mean the postmaster glanced at the dates and postmarks and told the Secret Service where he was. By the time he was working on his second attempt on Kennedy's life, the cops were closing in.
When they pulled him over, the cops found seven sticks of dynamite wired in the vehicle. Pavlick originally had much more, but when he became nervous about getting caught he removed most of it, apparently under the impression that it's ok to have just a few explosives in your trunk at any given time.
"What? There's, like, four sticks in there. Come on."
He was held in a mental institution for a few years, then upon release decided to stalk and terrorize the postmaster that had tipped off the Secret Service on the Kennedy thing. Before he could come up with a more efficient way to kill than the old exploding Buick trick, he died in 1975, and was no doubt buried in a dynamite laden coffin.
#5. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (1948-)
The Target:
Gerald Ford
The Woman:
Growing up, Lynette "Terrible Nickname" Fromme lived a little girl's dream. A local dance troupe she participated in toured the country and parts of Europe. Then this promising young lady grew up, moved to LA, got hooked on drugs and met the charismatic and clearly trustworthy Charles Manson.
She was quickly lured in by his philosophies and joined the Family. Fromme was happy to be accepted, even if it was by a bunch of sociopaths. Then Manson was found guilty of orchestrating the Tate-LaBianca murders and Squeaky was back on her own. She latched onto environmentalist cause, which would seem like a step in the right direction unless you know that "environmentalist" translates to "killing a United States President" in the language of Crazy Hippy on Acid.
The Attempt:
Fromme met Gerald "The Game" Ford in Capitol Park on the morning of September 5, 1975. She disguised herself with a red robe, apparently under the impression that bystanders wouldn't notice a flamboyant warlock walking around.
While Ford was taking questions from the crowd, he noticed a hand go up near the front row. Much to his surprise there was .45 Colt pistol in that hand.
"I got a fucking question!"
What Went Wrong:
As soon as the weapon was drawn, a Secret Service agent was on her like Nixon on Cambodia. In a moment that must have occurred in slow motion, the agent tackled Fromme and jammed his finger behind the trigger of the gun before wrestling it out of her hand. Fromme was arrested on scene and quickly found guilty of batshittery in the third degree.
If you're thinking that this was actually a good assassination attempt, prevented only by the Secret Service and their Matrix-like skills, you should know Ford would have been fine either way.
It turns out the morning of her attempt, Fromme was still unsure if she actually wanted to kill Ford or just spook him and make him pee a little. She decided she would settle it later and ejected the bullet from the gun. She must have forgotten by the time she met Ford, because the gun she tried to fire at him still had no bullet in the chamber.
Though Fromme failed, she blazed a path for female Presidential assassins and people wanting to kill Gerald Ford in general. Sara Jane Moore tried killing Ford only seventeen days after Fromme. Then again she also didn't manage to get off a shot, so maybe there's still a bit of a glass ceiling there for female assasins, despite what the film Wanted would have us believe.
#4. Richard Lawrence (1801-1861)
The Target:
Andrew Jackson
The Man:
Richard Lawrence blazed his own trail as the first person to attempt to kill a U.S. President while being crazier than a bag of agitated cobras injected with some sort of... crazy serum. For cobras.
In his youth Richard lived a quiet life as a painter. Then he quit his job, donned a fancy cape, grew a mustache and told everyone who would listen that he was King Richard the Third of England.
"Hey, guys, I'm King now, okay?"
When folks started to question why a long-deceased British ruler was huffing paint on American soil, Richard gave a simple and logical explanation: the American Government owed him a vast fortune that he couldn't claim the throne without. He hadn't received the fortune because of, you guessed it, President Andrew Jackson. Oh, and he believed that Jackson killed his father in 1832 (truly an impressive feat when you consider Lawrence's father had never been to America and actually died in 1823).
That's right, a man so sinister that he could kill through space and time needed to be stopped, and ol' King Richard had the gumption to do it.
Time-traveling Dad-slayer.
The Attempt:
When Jackson attended a funeral in 1835 Lawrence followed, hoping to kill him and presumably tug his mustache and disappear in a cloud of smoke. He approached Jackson from behind, drew a pistol and fired into his back at near point blank range. The gun misfired.
Naturally, being an undead British king warrants carrying two pistols. He quickly drew and fired his second weapon. Same result. By this point others in attendance caught wind of our caped-crusader and wrestled him to the ground. President Jackson served up some justice with his hickory cane before actual legal justice was served. Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution.
What Went Wrong:
Lawrence's pistols are believed to have misfired due to high humidity and thus he was thwarted by bad weather. Either this means he brought extra-shitty pistols, or wars back then had to be postponed every time it rained.
On top of that, Jackson was an avid duelist so it can be assumed that he had long conquered his fear of guns, bullets and people firing guns loaded with bullets in his general direction. This is not the type of man you try to assassinate on impulse. Not unless you like the feeling of a hickory cane on your ass.


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DEC-14-'96 SAT 09:31 ID: PARKS+REC-FORT ROSS TEL NO:707 847 3601 #508 P02 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAX NO. 408 856 1747 PRESS RELEASE On Wednesday, December 18, 1996, the National Weather Service presented a 25-Year Length of Service Award to the staff at Fort Ross State Historical Park. The award honored the 25 years that the state park has served as a National Weather Service sponsored cooperative weather station. High and low temperature and rainfall is recorded daily at the park. The data is sent to the Weather Service and published as part of the nation's permanent climate record. This cooperative effort has been ongoing with the State Parks Department since September, 1971. The staff at Fort Ross is continuing in a long tradition of weather records that were previously obtained by the Call family. George W. Call first started taking daily precipitation readings here, at what was then the Call Ranch, on November 20, 1874. The station became part of a government sponsored network of cooperative weather stations in 1893. On March 11, 1907, Carlos A. Call, George Call's son, took over the observing responsibilities. After an astounding 65 years of service, Carlos A. Call retired as a cooperative weather observer on September 1, 1971, at which time the state park took over the station. In 1939, George Call's original homemade rain gage - consisting of a six inch in diameter square collector which emptied into a glass jug from which the contents were poured into a measuring tube - was finally replaced by a Weather Bureau standard 8-inch rain gage, which is still in use today. Daily temperature readings were added to the rainfall readings on March 1, 1950. Even the Call family's readings were predated by the first known weather records from Fort Ross, which were taken by the Russians from 1837 - 1840. The readings were taken by I. L. Chernykh (also spelled Tchernikh), an employee of the Russo-American Company's outpost at Fort Ross. These records included measurements of temperature, as well as the number of rainy days, foggy and cloudy days, partly cloudy days, fair days, days with thunder and days with hail each month from 1837-1840, inclusive. He also described the area climate accurately and in great detail in 1841. The weather station at Fort Ross is one of over 8,000 cooperative weather stations across the nation. This network of volunteer observers provides the nation with one of its primary means of obtaining daily weather records and climatic data. From the long term daily weather record provided by these stations, 30 year monthly averages for temperature and precipitation are updated every ten years. The information is published and made available to the public by The National Climatic Data Center, a branch of the National Weather Service.
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KILLEEN (December 18, 2012)—Two suspected burglars led Killeen police on a chase Tuesday that ended in a foot pursuit during which officers used a Taser to subdue one of the men.
The men are suspected in a burglary Monday at a home in the 4500 block of Windcrest Drive in Killeen from which a car, guns and other property were taken.
Investigators were conducting surveillance Tuesday on a house at an undisclosed location where the burglars were believed to be staying when two men emerged at around 11 a.m., got into a Toyota Corolla and drove off, police said.
The officers followed the car, but when they tried to pull it over in the area of FM 439 and North Roy Reynolds Drive, the driver sped off.
The chase ended after the 29-year-old driver pulled into a mobile home park at 101 North Roy Reynolds and he and the 27-year-old passenger jumped out and began to run.
Officers caught one man and used a Taser to subdue the other.
After paramedics checked on the second man, the two were arrested, police said.
A third man, who's 21, was arrested at an undisclosed location in connection with the same burglary, police said.
Officers searched the Toyota and recovered stolen property including two handguns, police said.
The Nissan Xterra that was stolen during the burglary Monday was found in Harker Heights and investigators have recovered items taken in several other burglaries valued at more than $20,000.
Additional arrests are possible, police said.