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Harold James Ruthven Murray was possibly the greatest and most influential chess historian ever born. His monumental work, "A History of Chess," published in 1913, is still valid and quite useful in its centennial year. While researching for his book, Murray published articles in German and English magazines, particuarly the "British Chess Magazine." His impartial style coupled with his extensive knowledge and understanding cover his articles with an aura of credibility. Here is Murray's article on George Walker.
"Huddersfield College Magazine" 1879
GEORGE WALKER.The story of George Walker's Chess career has been already told; by the Westminster Papers, with much detail, during his life, and by the weekly press, with more or less of that quality, since his death. As the pioneer of newspaper Chess columns, the founder of popular Chess clubs, as Author, Translator, and Editor, the highways of his singularly active life have been mapped, if not measured. So that there would seem to be no incident left unrecorded to provoke a fresh essay upon the subject. Yet it is doubtful if too much can be written of the life of one to whose wholesome influence upon his contemporaries we, who live after him, are chiefly indebted for the spread of Chess in England. The revolution he wrought will be better understood if we look back at the condition of the London Chess world at the time of his birth and during his boyhood. George Walker was born in March, 1803, perhaps the dullest period in the history of London Chess. To the reign of Philidor had succeeded a regime of mediocrities and the game was barely kept alive upon memories of the past. Verdoni, accounted second-rate in Philidor's time, and Sarratt who was never more than Verdoni's peer, were the strongest players of the day. Sarratt, following Verdoui's example, had just bagun to dub himself "Professor of Chess" and was probably then engaged in compiling from unacknowledged sources the Treatise which he published some five or six years afterwards. It was an age of inkshed and not of play, when almost every one of note in the Chess world and many of no note at all contrived to link their names with buried genius by " editing" Philidor's Analysis. The establishment of the London Club in 1807, although it helped to increase the theoretical knowledge and practical skill of the members, exercised little if any influence towards the diffusion of either outside, indeed the organisation had an opposite effect to some extent because it concentrated all the experts within the walls of a clnb-house whose doors were sealed against the many. Nevertheless the prospect was brighter when Lewis and Cochrane superseded Verdoni and Sarratt—Lewis deserves special honour; for his works at this period of his career, the specimens of Oriental Chess, the edition of Stamma, and the translations of Greco and Carrera, all of which appeared in rapid succession between 1817 and 1823, brought the scientific theory of the game within the ken of the student. These works prepared the way for what followed, but they were not popular books as the term is now understood, they were costly as to price, and stilted in style, and they were not likely, nor perhaps intended, to kindle a spark of enthusiasm in the breast of a neophyte. It was in that age of starched neckcloths and formal manners (1823) that young George AValker imbued with the loftiest teachings of the game's traditions but unacquainted with any of its known practitioners made his first appearance in the Chess Arena. Neither the scene of his debut nor the audience that witnessed it can be described as exalted; the first was the public room of a Coffee House then, and I believe now, called the "Percy" in Rathbone Place, and the audience comprised a set of young fellows, who, as Walker described them to me many years afterwards, were more remarkable for exuberance of spirits than for any quality of the mind. To this fortuitous concourse of Caissa's devotees he soon imparted some of his own enthusiasm, and as their numbers increased and their attendance became regular he persuaded them to form a club. A private room was engaged in the same house and the first association of Chess-players founded upon popular principles started into life under the name of the Percy Chess Club. It is unnecessary to follow minutely this phase of his life. It is sufficient to note that the seed sown in Kathbone Place bore good fruit, that men who had never heard of Chess were attracted to the "Percy" and remained there to learn, and that from the ashes of that Society sprang the famous Westminster Chess Club, Simpson's Divan, and subsequently the St. George's of our own day. Through all the varying fortunes of these Societies the most prominent figure was George Walker, cheering them in adversity and reorganising them when their ranks became broken, and one is astounded at the marvellous enthusiasm for Chess which survived the disappointments and obstructive selfishness he encountered in the work.It was inevitable that his love of the game should be impressed upon its literature, and happily so for his writings have attracted more persons to the practice of Chess than any other author. His theoretical works have been described as obsolete, and the description is, of course, correct from the point of view of an analyst of the openings, but they never can become so in the regard of students of the game who are 'capable of being influenced by charm of style. No youth can read the preface to the "Art of Chess Play" without a desire to know more of the game which is there so eloquently described; and beyond the science of the analysis the most prominent feature of the book is an earnest desire to impart instruction the genial expression of which passes description. There need not be much fear of the Philidorian becoming obsolete cither, except indeed through wear and tear and the ravages of time upon such perishable materials as paper fand leather. The Philidorian was a monthly journal, which, like the Huddersfield College Magazine, was not exclusively devoted to Chess, and the bulk of it was written by Walker. Six numbers were published —December 1837 to May 1838—each of forty pages and a supplement embodying the first serious attempt to catalogue Chess books and their authors. For imagination and humour there is nothing superior to this magazine in the periodical literature of our time. "Vincenzio the Venetian" is a good example of the first and the sample chapter on Whist of the second. Of the "Chess Studies" it is hardly necessary to say more than that as the work is so scarce it would probably pay some enterprising publisher to reprint it. It contains over one thousand games played by the greatest players of the period during which games were recorded prior to 1844, all selected with consummate judgment. There is another but less well-known book of Walker's which is brimful of interest to the book collector, the "Games played by Philidor and his Contemporaries." The games were afterwards incorporated in the "Studies" but the notes appended to them and the all too brief description of the players can only be found in the original edition. The last of his books which call for notice hero is the one so pleasantly associated with the early recollections of the present generation of Chess-players, the one destined to keep the author's memory green among ihe men of the next—" Chess and Chess Players." The originality, humour and keen observation of character displayed in this collection of tales are fair evidences that George Walker might have achieved a proud position in general literature if he had been disposed to direct his thoughts beyond the subject of Chess.There is no space within the limits of this sketchy notice of a remarkable career to dwell upon even the important incidents which crowded its course of fifty years. The sketch would be altogether inadequate, however, without some reference be it ever so brief to Walker's connection with Bell's Life to which journal he contributed a weekly Chess article from 1835 to 1872. Here, as in his books, the freshness and originality of his style formed a marked contrast to the stereotyped mannerisms of some of his contemporaries, and his controversies when he engaged in them were pursued in the light of day. As a matter of fact I believe he never had a controversy with any one except Staunton. Both are now gone from among us and we meteors of a lower sky if we cannot emulate their light may well content ourselves with shedding some upon the greatness of their services.
"Westminster Papers" Dec. 1876
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY No. 8.—MR. GEORGE WALKER. In presenting to our readers the following brief auto-biographical sketch of the time-honoured English Chess Writer and Player whose portrait graces our gallery this month, we have been prompted by a desire to gratify the Chess World with the latest production of the pen that has charmed it for nearly half a century. At Mr. Walker's advanced age, and after the many years he has so unselfishly devoted to the game, he may fairly claim exemption from the task of minutely recording his Chess career. Nevertheless that career has been so closely identified with the most interesting period of Chess history in England that we have thought it desirable to supplement Mr. Walker's rough outline with a more detailed narrative of his public life.—mainly derived from his own writings, and from notes of conversations held with him—and this will be found appended. I was born in March 1803, in Great Portland-street, where my father carried on the business of a music publisher. He was favourably known as the author of sundry novels and other works of fancy. My father subsequently removed his business to 17 Soho Square, where he died about 1847. after a residence there of some thirty years, and I went into the Stock Exchange as a stockbroker. I have still the honour of being a member of that honourable corporation, although, owing to the infirmities of age and partial blindness, I have done no business for several years. The same reasons dissolved my connection with "Bell's Life in London," in which newspaper I edited the Chess article for nearly forty years. I may say with pride that I was the originator of weekly chess columns in popular journals, and that the seed bore good fruit. From 1823 to 1847 I was always in the London Chess arena, devoting much time to playing with all comers, though too prudent to cross the line into Bohemia. When I entered the Stock Exchange, in 1847, I gave up serious Chess practice altogether, contenting myself with looking on, and, like honest Locksley, applauding a good shot when I saw one. While in the circle, I may name as players I have contended with. La Bourdonnais, Alexander Macdonnell, Lewis, Cochrane. Harrwitz, Horwitz, Szen, Boncourt, Kieseritzky, St. Amant, Livagnine, Brand, Mercier, &c. As a Chess player. I never was first-rate, although after the death of Macdonnell, Cochrane being in India, and Fraser and Lewis having abandoned the game, there was for a time no stronger player in the field than myself. Players of the force of Morphy, Deschapelles, Macdonnell, or La Bourdonnais, could always have given me the Pawn. I fancy I might have reached the steps to the throne by giving up my business and sending the hat round once a year, but I broke down my Chess-playing faculty through over study of "the books" and writing for the press. If practise on the board can be obtained books should be almost entirely left alone. My chief work on Chess ("Art of Chess Play") having been so successful, my friends have often wondered at my letting it remain out of print for so many years. But when I prepared it I was as green as watercresses, believed in the honesty of the "Row," and have always been ashamed of having been "done." The agreement was, that my publisher should print an edition of one thousand copies only; my wish being to keep up with all new discoveries in the openings, and so forth. The publisher printed two thousand copies of both editions, 1833 and 1846, and then became bankrupt, thus throwing such a heavy remainder upon the book-stalls that it required years to clear them off. During the rest of my career as a Chess author I confined myself almost entirely to scribbling in Bell's Life, and the public has never been edified with certain lucubrations for learners, of which my brain had sketched the outlines. I see nothing in the present style of Chess writers to show improvement over their predecessors. Heavy words are often lumped together, and feeble meanings have to be painfully traced through a ponderous mass of rigmarole. Seeking to impress something on their readers, they often, I fancy, prefer the style of a speech from the throne to the flippancy of my pen in Belts Life. To many of them I can only say with our great satirist,
The midwife laid her hand upon his skull,And said, ' O, happy mortal be thou dull!'
George Walker, 1876
George Walker entered the London Chess arena during what may be called the coffee-house epoch of its history—about fifty years ago. The famous London Chess Club had been established in Cornhill some sixteen years before, but it was the only association of the kind then in the metropolis, and being supported chiefly by city merchants and members of the Stock Exchange, who played Chess in the middle of the day, it was practically closed to amateurs whose occupations were not "of the city," or whose only leisure was to be found in the evenings. It had other disadvantages from a young player's point of view, not the least of which was that the members comprised such names of public note as Brande, Cochrane, Fraser, Lewis, Mercier, Pratt, and a host of others scarcely less expert in the science of Chess, and all giants, in whose company in those formal days the young player was greatly more apt to be awed than edified. At the West end of the town there was no Chess club, but accommodation of a kind was provided for the tyro in numerous coffee-houses where " Monsieur" and "Herr," who since the first French revolution have been always with us, dispensed instruction at such charges as their modest requirements suggested. It was in 1823, while still in his non-age, that our hero perceiving the want of a Chess club at the West end of London, and securing the co-operation of about thirty young amateurs, organised the Percy Chess Club at a coffee-house in Rathbone Place. He has himself told the story of this club's brief career as only George Walker can tell Chess-stories. The members met for Chess at seven in the evening, sat down to a hot supper at ten—it is fifty years since—and broke up at half-past eleven. The first strong player that joined the new club was Murphy, the most eminent miniature-painter of the time, who subsequently introduced Lewis to the fraternity of young enthusiasts. Lewis was then a merchant's clerk, and after the death of Sarratt the strongest Chess-plaver in England. He gained the admiration of the Percyites by beating their best players at the odds of a rook, and being a gentleman of business instincts he lost no time in turning to a good account the mine of enthusiasm for Chess he found in the West. In 1825, soon after his first visit to Rathbone Place, Lewis opened subscription-rooms in St. Martin's Lane, whither he was followed by our hero, and through his influence by the main body of the Percy Chess Club. Man)' members of the London club patronised the new rooms; Alexander Macdonnell, then recently returned from the West Indies. Cochrane, just before he set out on his first visit to the East, Penn, the author of Hints and Maxims for Chess-players and Anglers, Bohn, the bookseller, Brande, Mercier. Popert, Pratt, the author of the funniest Chess-book in our own or any other language, and most of the leading amateurs of the day, with all of whom Mr. Walker found opportunities for practice. The speculation prospered amazingly for some time, indeed until 1827, when Lewis having obtained a patent for the manufacture of pianofortes that nobody would buy, became twice bankrupt in the course of a single year. After a vain effort to reorganise the meetings in Waterloo Place at an entrance fee of ten guineas, the West-end rooms were finally closed, and our hero, then much improved in force and knowledge of the game, became a member of the London Chess Club. In 1831 Mr. Walker produced his first literary work on Chess, a brochure upon the Muzio Gambit, afterwards incorporated in the Art of Chess Play, published in 1833. In the same year (1831) hearing that some Chess-players met at a coffee house in Bedford Street. Covcnt Garden, kept by a Mr. Huttman, he persuaded them to form a club. The old Percyites and St. Martin's Lane men rallied around him, and in the beginning of 1832 the famous Westminster Chess Club was opcned on Huttmann's first floor. The club was enormously successful. Huttman sold cigars wrapped up in paper, containing diagrams of Chess problems, and all the best Chess-players in London gathered daily at the new rooms. These became so crowded that larger rooms were taken in the opposite house, and Huttman obtained nearly 200 subscribers, at two guineas each, in the first few months. In 1834 a match between the Westminster Club and the Paris Cercle was arranged, and begun for a stake of a hundred pounds. It was won bv Paris, as every student of Mr. Walker's works knows, as much through indifference on the part of the London players as from want of skill. In these rooms Labourdonnais played his matches with Macdonnell, and administered many a brilliant mate to the best players of the time. Labourdonnais died in 1840. He was buried at Kensal Green, close to the grave of his famous rival, not from accident, but of the set purpose of our hero, who defrayed all the expenses attending the last illness and death of the great Frenchman. Meanwhile, the Westminster Club had been transferred from Covent Garden to the Strand. Huttmann's success appeared to have turned his head. While the club was in the full tide of success, he inaugurated Sunday night meetings with glee singing, and, as Mr. Walker has described it, "other tomfooleries;" so that the best men ceased to attend the rooms, and Huttmann found himself on the roll of insolvent debtors in 1835. The club was temporarily dissolved, but our hero, whose determination to have a club at the West-end no failure could daunt, reorganised it under the old name, and the meetings were held in Mr. Ries' drawing-room, adjoining the Divan, of which establishment that gentleman was then the proprietor. Here Staunton made his first appearance as a strong player, and here were played some of the games in his match with Popert. In 1840 the Westminster Club once more became homeless, until Staunton, in partnership with Alexandre, revived it as a private speculation, when the meetings were held in Charles Street, off the Haymarket. Mr. Walker and all the old regiment of enthusiasts supported the new venture, and for a time all went well, but the famous " Westminster " was fated to undergo further trials. Dissensions between the proprietors, into the cause of which it is unnecessary to enter here, led to its final dissolution in 1843. Once more our hero came to the rescue, and with a number of amateurs, including Mr. Smith, M.P. for Sudbury, Richard Penn, Mr. Gaskell, and many others, anew club was formed at Beattie's Hotel, in George Street, Cavendish Square, which was baptized after the name of the street in which its meetings were first held. Financial disaster appears to have attended the career of all the West-end Chess associations. The old Club in St. Martin's Lane was dissolved through the bankruptcy of Lewis; the Westminster was first disorganised by the insolvency of Huttman, and when re-formed, it came to grief finally through some monetary disputes between the partners. The St. George's was at first not a whit more fortunate. In less than a year from its opening day Beattie, the hotel keeper, became bankrupt, and once more our hero had to find a place of meeting for a West-end Chess club. This was found at the Polytechnic, where the St. George's Club remained until 1847, when the late Mr. Hampton took it over, and established it in King Street, St. James's, where it has remained and flourished ever since. The same year that witnessed the establishment of the St. George's Club on a firm basis, saw the retirement of Mr. Walker from the practice of the game. He continued to contribute weekly articles to the Chess column of Bell's Life in London (the first that ever appeared in a popular journal) and to the monthly magazines. His chief books upon the game are the Art of Chess Play (1833), Philidor and his Contemporaries (1835;, and the Chess Studies (1844), but he has probably endeared himself to the Chess world more by the series of stories upon Chess and Chess players contributed to the monthlies, than by all the skill and research displayed in his greater works. From his first appearance in the Chess world in 1823, down to his final retirement in 1872, George Walker's career has been distinguished before all his contemporaries for genuine unselfish love of a noble pastime. That he may live long in the enjoyment of his well-earned retirement is the hearty wish of Chess players throughout the world.
You rock, batgirl! Keep on doing your thing. Those of us who are history buffs greatly appreciate it.
thanks batgirl. Cool stuff.
Its a shame they have no information on how or where he learnt his chess, would of been nice to learn of it if that was included.
Thanks for the blog batgirl.
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My Tri-Ex LM354-HDSP has a delay circuit for the up side and one for the downside. As the time is set by a fixed resistor, I'm not sure what the intended delay is, but I'd estimate it to be around two seconds. (Both delays are identical.) My understanding of the delay is that it serves two purposes: 1) To eliminate the possibility of the motor continuing in the original direction if the direction is attempted to be immediately reversed 2) To allow the tower to gently stop before the direction is reversed Although yours is from a different manufacturer, the same theory should apply. Doug K4AC (Running for ARRL Southeastern Division Director- please check out my website at www.k4ac.com) > -----Original Message----- > From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:towertalk- > email@example.com] On Behalf Of Ed Magnuson > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 2:39 PM > To: email@example.com > Subject: [TowerTalk] HDX-555 relay settings > > I am new to this group and hope this is an appropriate question. I acquired > an HDX-555 from a ham's widow and have had a problem with the time delay > relays that control the motor drive. I wish to replace the two plug-in > relays in the control box and have substitutes on hand but am not certain > what the settings should be. The range is .1 to 10 seconds. Does anyone know > what settings I should select and if so, should they be the same in both > relays or different from the left to the right one as I face the box? > > The relays are the Dayton 8-pin 5X828f solid state. A small knob on each > sets the timing. > > I am asking here since US Towers is unresponsive. > > Ed, W1MAG _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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The son of Assemblyman Joseph Cryan has satisfied a judge in New Brunswick that he is participating in a drug rehabilitation program.
John Cryan, 25, brought in proof to Superior Court Judge Jane Cantor that he is enrolled and attending the program, a requirement for him to remain on probation.
Cantor warned Cryan, who was cited for violating his probationary term by testing positive for drugs, earlier this month that one more slip-up would cost him up to five years in prison for assaulting a motorist with a baseball bat in Union County in 2002.


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By now, you've heard about the Heartbleed security flaw. I'll not recap it here other than to pass on the best piece of advice I saw about dealing with this serious security concern.
It comes from Dashlane, one of the online password managers I reviewed last month. Dashlane chief executive Emmanuel Schalit emailed users last week recommending they quickly change passwords to their most critical sites – banks, PayPal and e-mail. Then, 10 days later, go back and change them again to ensure the sites have installed all security patches, he said.
That means you should change those passwords after reading this.
Next, Schalit recommended changing passwords on all of your less-critical sites, if you've not already.
He warned against relying on online tools purporting to identify sites vulnerable to Heartbleed, saying they aren't reliable.
"For that reason, we recommend the two-stage approach ... and ultimately changing 100 percent of your passwords," Schalit said through a spokesperson's e-mail. "More generally, having unique passwords on each and every website is the only action a consumer can take to limit the impacts of events like Heartbleed, which, unfortunately, will happen again."
Changing all passwords takes time and effort. If this doesn't highlight the benefits of a password manager, I don't know what does.
For instance, LastPass, another password manager, provides users who perform its "Security Scan" a list of vulnerable sites where they should change their passwords – as well as links to use to take them there. The password manager then autofills, generates and stores complex new passwords for each site.
If you don't understand how the bug worked, Portland-based Simple, the online banking site, offered a vivid explanation on its blog. Simple, incidentally, was vulnerable and spent a couple days patching its mobile and web apps.
If all this has elevated your heart rate about identity theft in general, I'll be moderating a public forum on the topic at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Tigard Public Library. The panel features four experts on the matter and is sponsored by Financial Beginnings, a Portland nonprofit that promotes financial literacy. Register online or call 800-406-1876. Spots are filling up.
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The New Orleans Police Department's 6th District will not hold its public crime analysis meeting this week in light of St. Patrick's Day. The weekly meeting, which was scheduled for Thursday at the district station, has been postponed due to several daylong events in the district, which encompasses all of Central City, the Irish Channel, Lower Garden District.
Those events include an annual Irish Channel block party at Annunciation Square and a block party at Third Street.
The weekly COMSTAT meeting, in which cops discuss crime trends and strategies, will be held as scheduled next week.


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Sulfur dioxide emissions in St. Bernard Parish have only exceeded the hourly federal health standard once in the past three months, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality said in a recent letter sent to reassure parish officials.
The letter to the parish's Housing Redevelopment and Quality of Life Commission indicated DEQ is doing what it can, working with Rain CII Carbon's Chalmette petroleum coke processing plant to curb its emissions.
Rain CII officials have admitted that the Chalmette plant was responsible for "the lion's share" of the sulfur dioxide emissions in the parish over the past several years.
St. Bernard's Chief Administrative Officer Jerry Graves said that he sees the lowered emissions "as due to the higher amount of public scrutiny and awareness about the S02 releases."
Commissioner Polly Campbell on Wednesday praised Rain CII for partnering with the parish and "making significant progress" towards lowering emissions.
In July, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency informed Gov. Bobby Jindal that St. Bernard officially had been found in violation of hourly sulfur dioxide emission standards adopted in 2010.
St. Bernard is one of only three whole counties in the United States – and the only parish in Louisiana – that will receive such a "nonattainment" designation, meaning it does not meet the sulfur dioxide standard.
The designation will become official on Oct. 4 -- 60 days after the rule was published in Federal Register on Aug. 5.
The Clean Air Act directs Louisiana to develop a plan within 18 months of that Oct. 4 designation to show how the area will meet the sulfur dioxide health standard and get into compliance no later than 5 years from the designation. The EPA must sign off on the state's plan.
This year, air quality in St. Bernard has exceeded the federal one-hour sulfur dioxide health standard 34 times, according to the readings at the DEQ's ambient air monitor in the Chalmette Vista neighborhood.
The last overage was on Aug. 9, when the monitor recorded a reading just slightly over the 75 parts per billion sulfur dioxide standard. The previous overage had been monitored on June 8.
Studies have shown a connection between short-term exposure to sulfur dioxide and respiratory illnesses, particularly in at-risk populations including children, the elderly and people suffering from asthma, according to the EPA. In January, a New Orleans-based environmental group, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, released a nonscientific survey showing 70 people in the Chalmette area had reported respiratory problems, headaches or eye irritation because of the heightened sulphur dioxide levels.
The DEQ letter to the parish commissioners also stated that Rain CII has begun constructing a new 199-foot tall waste heat boiler stack. DEQ and Rain CII entered into a consent agreement in June that states Rain CII will replace its current stack – which is 120 feet high – with the new, higher one. That new stack must be operational no later than Dec. 31, but the recent DEQ letter said the new stack is "expected to be completed sooner" than the deadline.
Raising the stack at the plant will not reduce the amount of pollution released, it simply will change the dispersion of the SO2. In other words, the Chalmette Vista monitoring station isn't expected to pick up as much of the S02 simply because the pollution is expected to spread out more.
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here we go, my top 10 tracks/12" 2011
– i still haven't worked out the exact order, so i might change my mind but it won't matter. Click the albumart pic to have a listen and if you like it buy it. I will also post some favourites from soundcloud (unreleased, snippets whatever I liked there during the year) and my favourite mixes also from this year.
it was an eventful one, starting out in hungary ending in england with some new york city in between the two. DJed once only but based on that set i made my first pubic mixtape yay.
Party of the year is between Ron Trent/Jellybean Benitez in the System (NYC) and Louie Vega/Gilles Peterson in Electric Brixton. But I didn't go to that many. Hope to make up for it in the new year and especially looking forward to the one on 18 February I'm not allowed to say more about.
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Hey there Sam,
We are ok for chat mods at the moment but if anything comes up I will let you know!
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Hey Sam!
How is your grandad doing?
When are you going to come back and give us guys a hand? We have some epic news for you when you do :)
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Hey Sam,
It has been a pain recently, I am on the IRC, http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ClassicCarWiki&uio=OT10cnVlJjExPTEyMyYxMj10cnVl38 if you want to have a chat :)
Nice to hear you will be back here soon!
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Hey Sam,
Here are some pages to add to the wiki.
There will be on Wikipedia:
Batman & Robin Batman Forever Batman Returns
These won't be:
- Armstrong Siddeley 12 HP
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- HRG LeMans
- HRG Twin Cam
- Triumph Bullet
Austin-Healey 4000 - Info here MG 18/100
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The Classic Car Wiki will be 2 years old on the 14th August 2013. On this day, two years ago I came back from a classic car show with my family. I had taken a few photos and decided to find out what the cars were. I was frustrated that after hours of searching there was a lack of a dedicated site that would help me identify my photos. At this moment in time, I didn't really know much about cars. The cars I couldn't identify were those such as a 1968 Dodge Charger and a 1968 Ford Mustang.
After speaking with members of my family, I decided to start a wiki up about classic cars, having previous knowledge founding and building the British Wildlife Wiki. To begin with, they would help me to identify the cars we saw at the car shows we went to and as time progressed, I started to begin identifying cars for them.
Over the past two years I have spent a large chunk of my spare time, along with people like you in the community, building this wiki. We have all done very well and I am proud of you all for helping my dream become a reality. Everyone has their own little place in the community and we run like a well oiled machine (ironically).
To give you my praise, I would like to invite you to a sort of chat party/celebration we are having on Wednesday 14th August on the wiki's second birthday. The time that this starts will be 10pm UTC.
I would like you to come along as I have lots to reveal about new features we are introducing to the wiki and to tell you about some gifts that I have prepared for the whole community.
Hope to see you there.
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Can you unblock the pages of Smith and Andrews? They are filled with errors. Someone's making up shit about how these men died, and that pisses the hell out of me. The TRUTH is that nobody actually knows how Edward Smith and Tommie Andrews died. Both of those men are my heroes--and I think it's disgusting for anyone to turn the last moments of these men's like into a goddamn soap opera.


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Birth control has been in the news a lot lately.
Well, let me rephrase.
Birth control for women has been in the news a lot lately.
Whether it's on the political spectrum or in the entertainment industry, women's reproductive rights have been hotly contested in the past months.
As this is discussed, women themselves are discussed. Are they using birth control for the "right" reasons? This has become one of the key issues.
In a rush not to paint women as "sluts," people are quick to point out the many uses for oral contraceptives. It's beneficial for cramps. It helps with acne problems. It's used to control premenstrual syndrome.
These are all good and true. Most women who use oral contraceptives use it for more than just contraception.
But most women use it for contraception as well. They use it because they want to have sex and not get pregnant.
This is okay.
The discussion about birth control revolves around women because we still have a problem with women having sex just for fun. We have accepted a "boys will be boys" mindset, so insurance covering things like vasectomies or medicine for erectile dysfunction doesn't raise eyebrows, but when it comes to women, we prefer to think that they simply react to men, rather than have sex drives of their own.
And while trying to keep women from enduring name-calling, many have stepped unwittingly into the realm of shaming those who use the pill for no other reason than to avoid pregnancy. When we insist on framing the support for coverage of birth control around things that have nothing to do with sex, we add fuel to the idea that sex is of less importance to women. Unfortunately, this contributes to the culture that insists on labeling a woman who enjoys sex as a slut or whore.
Yes, it's important to cover birth control for issues unrelated to pregnancy. But it's equally important to cover it for women who don't want to have babies but do want to have sex. Trying to soften this truth by ignoring that group hurts all women.
Having sex for enjoyment is okay, even for women.
Well written! When I was in my earl twenties, and was a sexually active young woman, I took the pill for my own safety. You can't always trust that a condom won't break, or that he'll even have one on him in the first place. Even though now I take it more for health than to prevent pregnancy, it angers me that I should have to justify it to *anyone* as to why I want/need them.Reply LizzyBean
I'm so glad you chose this topic, Alise. I was shocked and dismayed to find out that in this day and age, birth control for women is still an issue with anyone. But apparently, Rush Limbaugh and his little blue Viagra pills are just A-okay, and as a superior male being, he has the right to cast judgment on a young lady who explained the medicinal value of the pill and call her a slut and a prostitute and tell her she ought to make a porno tape and let him watch it to pay for her pills. It seemed like we were back in 1972 again to this old feminist.
Rick Santorum, who seemed to be campaigning for high school dance chaperon more than running for president, says he doesn't think birth control is necessary or that it's good for women. And a lot of republicans don't seem to mind as they are thinking about teen sex, and don't realize that this so-called "small government" man wants to control what married people do as well. Scott Walker, good old union buster, has also jumped on the bandwagon against birth control. And again the rightwing seems to be okay with it. Somehow it all seems to come down to the female sex and keeping them under control, yet the GOP as turned this all around and is now calling it "Obama's War on Women." I keep wondering where the republican women's outrage is on all this, but traditionally, republicans seem to be obsessed with sex, especially other people's and what they might be doing, so they see this as an attack on promiscuity, not on women, working women who can't just be pregnant all the time.
The latest has been the so-called attack on Mrs. Romney for being a stay-at-home mom of five. I have just come from a message board where people are saying that President Obama put the lady reporter up to asking her the obvious. But Mitt has sent his wife out to be an ambassador to try and smooth the ruffled feathers of women offended by the whole birth control thing, and he says his wife tells him that women aren't all that worried about contraception, but jobs is their big issue. So if I was that reporter, my question would be just what kind of jobs could women get and hold if they are pregnant all the time? Taking in laundry and babysitting? Can anyone anywhere be sane about this??? Must it be a political issue instead of a woman's issue? I'd love to hear from republican women on this. Thank you.
Great post Alise!
It was great to read some of the same thoughts that I've had loosely roaming through my head recently pulled together into coherent thoughts and sentences. Though personally, my libido is taking a long vacation in a cold tundra somewhere, I get annoyed at the double-standard that exists for men and women.
Write on!
YES! This is so true and so awesome, Alise! Thanks for standing up for women with sex drives (which is nearly all of us :P)
There are some cultural assumptions and influencers in the undercurrent of this issue. Questions about acceptable behavior arise, and it seems expectations play a bigger role than we'd care to admit or believe.
If it wasn't for birth control, my husband and I would probably have 6-10 kids. I have wondered if I've stopped God's blessing sometimes…but I also realize that my plate is full. Planning is a blessing. I live in a time where a lot, even a person's existence, can be shaped by my control. So, I encounter that for a minute….and WOW. That's sobering! It's weighty. I'm not sure I'm ready to absorb what that means.
What happens when we think we can, and we do exert such control?
…much more than we first assume…
Does Provoketive welcome all conversation? And you, Alise?
I think you completely missed the boat on this one. The judgment isn't about behavior at all. If that is what you're hearing, you're listening to the wrong voices. The issue is women taking responsibility for themselves. I am beyond childbearing years now, but I never, ever expected my birth control choice (for me, The Pill) to be free or for taxpayers to pay for it. I worked at a bank as a teller at minimum wage, a single, self-supporting adult. Later it was a family choice. This is what the debate is about, taking responsibility for yourself. Please don't muddy the discussion by making it appear to be anything other than that. Anyone with a cell phone, a computer, and Internet can afford, and should be responsible for, their own birth control. Do you not agree with that? That's the issue. Who cares, really, how much sex women have or want? Or men. Women want to be seen as equals, they need to man-up, act like equals, and learn to self-support w/o whining. Thanks for listening to a different POV.Reply Jo
@Jo – If health insurance didn't regularly cover vasectomies and things like Viagra, I think you would have a point. But I've seen no one who argues against the inclusion of the pill in health insurance plans say that these things should no longer be covered. And those on both side of the discussion seem to downplay women's sexuality. On one side, women who ask to have birth control added to health insurance are called sluts. On the other side, sexuality is completely ignored by focusing strictly on "health" issues. But really, women should be allowed to enjoy sex without justifying it to anyone.
In this I'm not trying to make a comment about the inclusion of female contraceptives one way or the other, but simply to say that in the discussion, let's allow women's sexuality to be equal to that of men's. Right now, I don't believe that's the case.
Working from my iPod… Forgive errors, plese.
Vasectomies are in the same category with tubal options, both covered by insurance. Viagra is a whole different issue, and no company or taxpayer should be forced to pay for Viagra for another, IMO.
The Pill was covered by insurance at one time, as were many scrips now OTC. No one was called a slut then, and they aren't now. (There are those on both sides of the issue who cannot speak with respect.) We let these changes slip by unnoticed and uncaring until we find out–too late–that it affects us, then cry 'foul'.
Been enjoying sex for a long, long time, unimpeded by anyone. I address this lopsided cultural thinking that men have the stronger sex drive when opportunity presents itself, and that they are unable to control their urges as if they are only animals without self-control or a brain, only a penis. Both sexes are so much more than uncontrollable reproductive organs. I can't be boxed in, closed up, and shut down unless I give the key to someone else. I hold my own key. Why I am a political conservative, I have the right to my own key w/o being responsible for yours.
Thx for your response. I have benefited from your pieces on living with an atheist.Reply Jo
I just couldn't let this comment go by, although it's probably old by now. You say you wouldn't want to pay for someone else's birth control, that they should be responsible, right? I bet you would hate even more paying for someone's abortion, and I'd further the bet by saying that you'd resent paying for social programs for someone else's child. Am I pretty close to your feelings? Well, here are mine–we don't live in a perfect world and not everyone is as close to being the wonderful responsible person you are, and some try but slip up. In my mind, people have always had sex whether it was under perfect conditions or not and society has had many ways of dealing with it throughout the ages. We no longer force teenaged couples into shotgun weddings that never seemed to last anyway. We no longer send girls off to visit some faraway aunt and actually give their child up for adoption, or should they decide to keep it be foreced to wear that scarlet letter and their child as well. We do have social programs, and if we have the heart of Christ, we can see that no child asks to be born or gets to choose the circumstances that they are born to. If you really are against abortion and also resent programs to help single moms and poor children along, it would seem to me that you'd be all for free birth control and what as many poor women to have access to it as possible. Unless you think that they should pay for their irresponsible actions with a child. . .that you will ultimately pay for. . .if she doesn't get an abortion. So weigh in the values and as far as I can see birth control for poor women. . .for all woman who want it. . .is a very good thing that everyone with a heart, and a brain, and maybe even a little shot of courage, should stand up and shout for!!! Thanks for listening to yet a different POV.Reply Buddy aka Beverly
@ Jo–
It sounds like you're not considering birth control to be part of medical care– like you're thinking that because it relates to sex-for-pleasure (or even sex in general) it should be considered a recreational cost, not a medical one. I disagree: birth control is something prescribed by a doctor to care for your physical body. That places it within the sphere of the general debate about who should pay for health care, but no more than any other kind of health care. No?Reply Gaudior
Yes, yes, and yes! Preventing unwanted pregnancies is a responsible, just like any proactive health care which is largely covered by health insurance. But even beyond that equal access to birth control benefits our entire society by preventing pregnancies that are not only unplanned, but for which the parents cannot afford. And yes, why is viagra covered by health insurance and contraceptives are not? Just doesn't make sense.
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?et all the days be as joyful as Hangawi,?goes the Korean saying. Hangawi refers to the three-day lunar holiday for annual harvest celebrations, better known as ?huseok.?And like all other festivals in the world, there's music, dance and of course, food. Here are some of the best known culinary delights enjoyed on the occasion of Chuseok and the season of autumn in Korea.
During Chuseok Koreans traditionally cook rice that comes from the newest crop, knead rice flour to make songpyeon rice cakes, season green vegetables, boil taro soup and present all this to their ancestors first to express gratefulness, before dining.
Because it's harvest season, which brings forth various kinds of fruits and crops, the preparation for ancestral ceremonies requires quite an assortment of food items, from fruits and multi-colored rice cakes to assorted vegetables, fish and meat.
This includes such exotic (to western ears) things as taro, chestnut and ginkgo, vegetables like giant radish, taro, fernbrake and balloonflower among others, and dishes like fish, sanjeok, skewered meat and mushroom, either fried or dried, side dishes of fresh kimchi and water kimchi and finally desserts like sikhye (sweet fermented rice drink) sujeonggwa (traditional sweet persimmon punch flavored with cinnamon), hwachae (honeyed juice mixed with fruit), yugwa (oil and honey pastry), apples, persimmons, dates and others.
The point of Chuseok food, whether rice cake, fruits or vegetables is that it has to be newly harvested, or made from newly harvested ingredients.
You can't talk about Chuseok without mentioning songpyeon. One of the typical scenes of Chuseok holiday is a whole family gathered around to make small half-moon shaped rice cakes.
The prettier the rice cake, the prettier your future spouse or your children will be, the saying goes, and you'll see young people working especially hard on its shape.
Once in a while a pregnant woman will insert a pine needle before steaming the cake. The child in her womb will be a daughter if she bites on the leaves' flat side and a son if she bites into the sharp end of the needle.
The newly harvest rice is ground and mixed with water to form dough. Depending on the region it can be made with potatoes, sweet potatoes or acorns. Songpyeon stuffing includes a mixture of mung bean, chestnut, red bean and jujube among other things.
Fried sesame and sweet potato or honey can also be mixed in to add more variety depending on the region. Songpyeon are then placed on pine needles for steaming. After that one can brush them with sesame oil before eating.
In Seoul, songpyeon is made in a dainty size, while northern provinces prefer to make it bigger. Gangwon-do (Gangwon Province) uses potato starch instead of rice to make the dough and adds finger prints to shape it. People of the Wonsan region in Hamgyeong-do (Hamgyeong Province, North Korea) shaped it liked a clam and on Jejudo (Jeju Island), like a spaceship.
Taro soup
Taro, a health-giving vegetable, gets especially nutritious and tastes better in the autumn. Because of the egg-like shape of the roots it is called ?oran?meaning ?gg from the earth.?Taro is peeled and washed with either salt water or rice-rinsed water to get rid of its slippery texture. A drop of vinegar takes care of its natural tartness.
Add it to a thick beef soup with radish, dashima (sea tangle) and marinated meat and boil it until soft and there you have it ?taro soup or ?orantang,?good for health.
The soup is consumed together with big dishes like sanjeok (marinated beef), galbijjim (steamed ribs) and other kinds of grilled and boiled food. This is partly because the soup is especially effective in aiding food digestion and relieving constipation. It is a certainly a lifesaver for those who overeat during Chuseok.
Main dishes
One of the major dishes is dakjjim, or steamed chicken cooked in the Korean way. Chicken was always one of the special dishes to present on holidays to receive elderly and special guests. A mother would greet her son-in-law with a big bowl of chicken. A married daughter would take chicken or at least a dozen eggs when visiting her home.
Autumn is a season to finally taste the chicken that was raised from the spring of the same year. One can boil the chicken together with vegetables or add some dashima or dried pollack with a seasoning made of soy sauce, ginger and hot pepper among others. Once the seasoning is inside the chicken, put it in the frying pan and stew it. That should take care of the raw smell of the chicken and make it chewy and tasty. Garnish it with sliced eggs and the meal is ready.
Nurumi is a meat roasted or fried with lots of spice paste added. Beef, balloonflower, mushroom, egg tofu and some other fish is skewered together to be cooked. The skewered food is then covered with raw egg or starch powder to be fried in a pan. Sauce is put on top after cooking. Depending on the proportion of ingredients there's beef nurumi, egg nurumi, oyster nurumi and more. Some provinces use ginseng instead of balloonflower.
Song-i mushroom (pine mushroom) is a Korean delicacy. Take a soft mushroom, slice it thinly and season it with sesame oil and salt. Hot pepper paste or mustard serves as a nice sauce for dipping in as you eat. There's also song-i sanjeok dish, in which mushrooms cut in thicker pieces get broiled together with beef on a gridiron.
Song-i mushroom broth has the mushrooms slightly heated in a clear soup (seasoned only with soy sauce). Float some shredded small green onions and jidan, a Korean style egg garnish.
Assorted vegetables
Chuseok is also the occasion to hold charye or ancestral rituals. One of the most frequently made vegetable dishes to be presented at ancestral rites is the ?amsaek namul?or three-colored potherbs indicating balloonflower (white), fernbrake (brown) and spinach (green).
The three greens are vegetables unusually rich in protein. Balloonflower, known as ?oraji?in Korea, is good for colds, tonsils and other respiratory diseases; fernbrake for diarrhea, as a diuretic and to bring down fever; and spinach is rich in vitamin C, helping one recover from hangovers and giving a wonderful skin complexion.
Every festival has its own liquor to savor. At Chuseok we have baeksoju, or white liquor brewed with newly harvested rice, from whence it gets its color.
First you wash the glutinous rice, soak it in water until it swells, and then steam it. The steamed version is referred to separately as ji-ae-bab, which needs to be cooled down. Next, mix some with malt powder and put it inside a big jar, but make a hole right in the middle. A day later, scoop up the liquid gathered in the middle, sprinkle it around the jar, then add malt powder and water in the remaining ji-ae-bab inside the jar again and let it ferment for about a week. It's similar to makgeolli (creamy white rice wine) but ferments longer. It is also called sindoju meaning ?ew wine of vigor.?br>
Bae-sujeonggwa (or ?ae-sook? refers to a traditional fruit punch with pear added. A pear is boiled whole and soaked inside honeyed or sugary water. One can adjust the sweetness by adding ginger slices.
The pear is then taken out and cut in about six pieces, and then cut again into triangular shapes, trimmed to take out the core and pepper corns are inserted deep in them.
Bam-dasik, or pressed chestnut sweet in Korean, begins with boiling a chestnut, cutting it in half, digging it out with a spoon and making it into a paste. Add honey and cinnamon powder, mix it together to put it in the press and there you have it. Boil a chestnut in sugar water and fry it with honey and it will be a snack called bam-cho.
By Kim Hee-sung
Korea.net Staff Writer
SOURCE : Korea.net


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But but but but Obama say, "the war on terror is over!" Such presidential asshattery is without peer.
Feds urge vigilance 1 year after bin Laden's death FOX News
In an intelligence bulletin issued late Wednesday, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Northern Command note that terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab in Somalia, Northern Africa's Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and the Pakistani Taliban have called for revenge against the United States for killing bin Laden during the May 1, 2011, raid on his hideout in Pakistan.
The bulletin says Al Qaeda or its affiliates would view an attack "on this anniversary as a symbolic victory," especially in the wake of losses suffered by Al Qaeda through U.S. drone attacks and other efforts overseas.
In addition, according to the bulletin, authorities remain concerned that so-called "lone-wolf" extremists not already identified "will execute attacks with little or no warning on or about the anniversary of bin Laden's death."
Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan issued a warning to Americans in Islamabad, telling them to avoid restaurants and markets for the next two weeks. In a message posted online, the embassy cited "security concerns," but it's unclear if the warning is related to the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death.
A report issued Wednesday by the European Union, looking at how terrorism has changed in Europe over the past year, says the "threat has evolved" since the deaths of bin Laden and other terrorist leaders.
"[L]one actors or small EU-based groups are becoming increasingly prominent, as is the Internet as a key facilitator for terrorism-related activities," Interpol's E.U. Terrorist Situation and Trend Report says. "Al Qaeda's call for individual violent jihad through the execution of small-scale attacks may result in an increase in such attacks. The more Al Qaeda's core is under pressure, and the more difficult it becomes to prepare large scale attacks, the more Al Qaeda will try to recruit individual supporters in the West to plan and execute attacks."
The EU report cites a "solo terrorist" of Moroccan descent, who adhered to Al Qaeda ideology and was arrested in August 2011 for "planning to poison the water supplies of tourist locations in Spain, in retaliation for the death of bin Laden."
As for the U.S. government bulletin issued Wednesday, it cites Al Qaeda's fixation since at least 2010 with launching attacks on symbolic dates. In addition, the bulletin suggests recent controversies over the desecration of bodies in Afghanistan and the burning of Korans could further inflame passions among extremists.
Nevertheless, the bulletin says authorities "continue to assess that operational readiness remains the driving factor behind the timing of Al Qaeda attacks," and authorities do not expect jihadist messages online calling for revenge "to accelerate or motivate attack plotting."
"[W]e have not detected signs of homeland plots by (known) groups in the intervening months" since bin Laden's death, the bulletin reads.
Over the past year, bulletins issued by the U.S. intelligence community near anniversaries or holidays have repeatedly referenced calls to avenge bin Laden's death.


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Two final contestants were winners on the final preliminary night of the Miss Alabama 2014 competition.
Catherine Crosby Long Miss Alabama 2003 served as the emcee.
The final set of contestants, the Alpha group, answered questions about college campus safety, lethal injection, the negative impact of social media, education equality and the missing flight MH-370.
The Sigma group showed off its musical and dancing ability with notes of pop culture including nods to "The Matrix," Disney's "Maleficent" and Alicia Keys.
Miss West Central Alabama Boni Yraguen won for her rendition of "Pirates of the Caribbean "on the piano. She also won a $450 scholarship.
Voting for the pageant's first People's Choice Award ended after the preliminary, with the winner being announced during Saturday's finale.
Miss Alabama 2013 Chandler Champion and Miss Alabama 1997 Beth Stomps Feller once again performed "Happy" before the beginning of the swimsuit competition, complete with Feller's own version of a Pharrell hat.
Miss Leeds Area Caitlin Brunell took home a second prize, winning the swimsuit portion and another scholarship.
Champion, accompanied by her younger sister Zoe', returned to the stage to entertain the crowd with a dance set to Katy Perry's "Roar."
Champion and Miss Alabama 2010 Ashley Davis then presented the recipients of the Duke of Edinburg's Award.
The award is a part of a partnership given to participants of the Duke of Edinburgh's self-development program for young adults between the ages of 14-25.
It is based on community service, physical fitness, special skills and participation in an adventurous journey.
Miss Lake City Alyssa Boyd, Miss Shelby County Holland Brown, Miss Hamilton Janna Carruth, Miss Dekalb-Jackson Lacey Gossett, Miss Chilton County Katie Hilyer, Miss University of North Alabama Erica Kelly, Miss Auburn University Meg McGuffin, Miss Center Point Megan Smith, Miss Samford University Shea Summerlin and Miss West Central Boni Yraguen received a bronze award.
Miss Patriot Caitlin Crowe, Miss Wiregrass Area Amanda Ford, Miss Cahaba Valley Ellen Hardy, Miss UAB Chassidy Sumler and Miss Talladega County Elizabeth Wesson were presented with a silver award.
Miss North Jefferson Area Amanda Whitaker, Miss Point Mallard Katie Malone, Miss Marble Valley Briana Kinsley, Miss Jefferson County Mi'a Callens, Miss Leeds Area Caitlin Brunell and Miss Trussville Hannah Brown won a gold award.
The Miss Alabama 2014 pageant will continue with the finale on Saturday, June 7 at the Wright Center.
Be sure to check back with AL.com with results from pageant.


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A stabbing that occurred this morning about 8:30 a.m. still is under investigation, Jackson Police Department Deputy Chief John Holda said.
Police were dispatched to 707 Homewild Ave. because the 26-year-old man, a Detroit resident, ran to get help there, Holda said. The stabbing happened at the 800 block of Burr Street, he said.
Police have identified a female suspect but are not releasing her name at this time, Holda said. The man was stabbed in the side and back of his head and was treated and released from Allegiance Health, he said.
Holda said police believe the violence was drug-related.
The victim is now lodged at the Jackson County jail and is expected to be charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine, Holda said.
Heather Reed, who lives at 710 Homewild Ave., heard the victim pounding on the door of the house across the street. Reed said she saw the man was bleeding, so she brought towels out to him and called 911.
"I couldn't just let him out there by himself," she said.
The man then asked her to hold a baggie of drugs for him, Reed said. A woman then approached the two and attempted to search the man's pockets, Reed said.


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A new Beryl demo for your pleasure
What you're seeing is Beryl compositing my desktop (1024×768) while playing one chapter of House M.D. in a window. Later you see me dragging the "cube" (I have a triangle setup) with desktop alpha transparency enabled, and the kiba-dock at the bottom. Finally, you see me zooming in (I have the side buttons on my IntelliMouse Explorer mapped to zoom in/out).
As I said before, it's the input-enabled zoom that's keeping me on Beryl instead of moving to Compiz Fusion.
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CAMDEN — A slightly damp crowd of veterans, students and public officials gathered at the Battleship New Jersey Friday morning to remember the attacks on Pearl Harbor 72 years ago, honoring a survivor of the Japanese air strike, as well as a Wenonah man who has dedicated his life to serving fellow veterans.
Friday marked the 23rd annual Pearl Harbor Day commemoration organized by U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1, of Haddon Heights). Addressing those assembled under tents erected on the battleship's deck, Andrews drew parallels between the threats faced by the United States during World War II and those the country faces today from terrorists.
"One of the great problems of World War II was answered by the ship we stand on today," said Andrews. "When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they did grave and substantial damage to the United States Navy because we were unprepared.
"People literally called the first world war the 'war to end all wars.' People thought the victory the allies won over their adversaries, culminating in the Treaty of Versailles, put an end to all the wars in the world. So the United States went to sleep. It didn't build ships. It didn't train men and women as well as it should and we weren't as prepared on that day as we should have been.
"Let's learn from that lesson, and let's be sure that our preparation is always unquestionable, our investment in our ability to defend ourselves is always not doubted, and, most importantly, that we support the men and women who choose to wear the uniform with the highest and best tools and aspirations with which we can give them."
The day's keynote speaker was Alex Horanzy, who volunteered for the Army infantry in July 1939, when he was 17 years old. A year later, he shipped out as part of the 24th infantry division to Schofield Barracks on Oahu, just 15 miles from the naval base at Pearl Harbor.
After the attack, Horenzy, from Northeast Philadelphia, fought in the invasion of New Guinea and the Philippines.
Stating there are now just two remaining Pearl Harbor survivors living in the Philadelphia area, Horenzy described his feelings on the day of the attack.
"A peaceful Sunday was transformed into the day that will live in infamy," said Horanzy. "America was thrust into the greatest of all world conflicts."
"Shock and anger marked that day," he added. "In less than two hours, it was all over."
Horenzy described veterans like himself the "first of the greatest generation."
"We are a unique group of World War II veterans, who survived the Pearl Harbor attack," he said. "We are living witnesses to the extraordinary history that was created on Dec. 7, 1941."
This year's ceremony introduced the Rev. Peter A. Molnar Veterans Service Award, named for one of the initial organizers of the annual commemoration.
"Father Pete was the spiritual guidance for the event, and it wouldn't have happened without him," said Andrews.
The congressman later presented the inaugural award to Herbert Ruble, of Wenonah, who served in the Army from 1948 to 1954, before working as a veteran service officer for the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) for 40 years.
Before retiring in 2002, he worked at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center from 1966 to 1975, helping Vietnam veterans complete claims for benefits.
Now retired, Ruble volunteers one day every week at the Gloucester County Office of Veterans Affairs, and two days at the Philadelphia VA hospital.
Accepting his award, Ruble thanked the veterans present.
"I am truly honored to receive this," he said. "I appreciate it very much."


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Goh, Keng B, Spurgeon, Sarah K and Jones, N Barrie (2003) Higher order sliding mode control of a diesel generator set - performance test and comparison. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part 1: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 217 (3). pp. 229-241. ISSN 0959 6518Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
Diesel engines are used as prime movers and independent power sources in many applications
because of their advantages in terms of fuel e�ciency, robustness and reliability. This paper
presents the results of isochronous speed controller design and experimental analysis of robustness
and e�ciency of a turbocharged diesel generator set (genset). The steady state performance and
transient response of the genset speed utilizing second-order sliding mode techniques with a super
twisting sliding mode control algorithm are assessed. The algorithm does not require the time derivative
of the sliding variable. It only uses the measured genset speed and does not require the use of
an observer. A modi�cation made to the algorithm shows improvement of the genset performance
over a wide operating envelope. The in�uence of this methodology and modi�cation of the algorithm
on overall generator performance, in particular in the presence of large load changes and in terms
of fuel e�ciency, exhaust emissions, starting speed transient response and steady speed variation, are
assessed. An algorithm for tuning the higher-order sliding mode (HOSM) controller for the genset
is established and presented. The robustness of the controller is investigated and the performance is
compared with that obtained by a commercial genset controller and a classical proportional-integral
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On September 12, Cargill, a major commodity trading and processing firm, filed a lawsuit in a Louisiana state court against Syngenta Seeds for selling genetically engineered MIR 162 (also known as "Agrisure Viptera®") seed corn to farmers. China has not yet approved importation of corn containing MIR 162, so U.S. exports to that country of corn and corn products have come to a halt. Demand for U.S. corn has fallen. Cargill believes its losses exceed $90 million.
Syngenta's view? "Syngenta believes that the lawsuit is without merit and strongly upholds the right of growers to have access to approved new technologies …". The company's position is that it has been legally selling seeds containing MIR 162, a trait that provides useful insect resistance, to U.S. farmers since 2010. Other major corn importers – including Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Colombia and the European Union – have approved importation of corn with the MIR 162 trait. Syngenta has been seeking approval in China since March 2010. MIR 162 has not raised any health or environmental safety issues.
Cargill's view is that Syngenta has rendered U.S. corn supplies ineligible for export to China. Corn containing MIR 162 has spread throughout the U.S. marketing system to the extent that it would be expected to be present in any ocean vessel loaded for export:


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"I Love Lucy" was named the Best Television Show of All-Time and Best Television Comedy of All Time on the nationally televised Barbara Walters special "The Best in TV - The Greatest Shows of Our Time."
"I Love Lucy" was voted as Greatest TV Comedy through an online poll conducted by ABC News and People Magazine, in which more than 1 million people voted. "I Love Lucy" won both categories it was nominated for; Best Television Comedy of All Time and Best Television Show of All Time.
The city of Jamestown and the annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival were each included in two different segments during the two-hour Barbara Walters television special. Footage for the special was captured when a team of producers and cameramen from ABC News and People Magazine visited Jamestown, Desilu Studios and the Lucy Desi Museum in August during the 2012 Lucille Ball Festival of Comedy.
"The announcement of 'I Love Lucy' being the best television show of all time really shows why Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are called the 'First Couple of Comedy,'" said Journey Gunderson, executive director of the Lucy Desi Center for Comedy. "'Lucy' revolutionized TV as we know it, and to be recognized by fans from across the world as the greatest television show of all-time is a true testament to the lasting impact of Lucille Ball's legacy."
The Lucy Desi Center is also unveiling a new exhibit at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago on Wednesday. The center loaned an exhibit which will include a variety of memorabilia from the Lucy Desi Museum and Desilu Studios, including one of Lucille Ball's Emmy awards for 'I Love Lucy'.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications is one of only three broadcast museums in the United States. The museum includes interactive exhibit galleries, expanded archives, a media cafe, working radio and television studios, a gift shop and regularly scheduled public programs on historic and contemporary radio and television issues.
The unveiling will take place after the premiere of "I Love Lucy: Live On Stage" at the Broadway Palace at Water Tower Place in Chicago. The show will run through Nov. 11. The same production premiered in Los Angeles last year to sold-out crowds for its initial five-month run. The show, which is staged and directed by Rick Sparks, features performers such as Sirena Irwin (Lucy Ricardo), Bill Mendieta (Ricky Ricardo), Curtis Pettyjohn (Fred Mertz), and Joanna Daniels (Ethel Mertz).


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Organizations, including publications, that have an interest in having their names bandied about by the public are well aware of this phenomenon. So they regularly produce well-publicized lists of rankings based largely on their own subjective criteria because they know these rankings will get people talking.
Last week, for the first time, the highly respected Consumer Reports came out with a survey that rated, of all things, hospitals in the United States.
About 1,100 of the 6,268 hospitals in the country were assigned scores based on what the magazine says was its own "extensive research to bring together reliable, valid and objective information on hospital quality."
This includes information from federal and state government agencies and independent organizations as well as from other sources, including patients, physicians, medical experts and literature in the field.
It focuses on such criteria as hospital-related infections, the rate of re-admissions, communication between patients and staff, the frequency of the use of chest and abdominal scans, and the incidence of serious complications and mortality.
Understandably, the take-away for those paying attention to the Consumer Reports survey in our area has been that not one hospital in New York state made the magazine's Top 10. The average score for 117 hospitals in the Empire States was 42.2 on a scale of 100.
Three hospitals in the state were listed among the 10 worst in the nation and Harlem Hospital Center and Kings County Hospital Center were ranked among the five worst.
The good news for Staten Islanders was that Richmond University Medical Center (with a 50) and Staten Island University Hospital (with a 44) were ranked among the top five in New York City. (NYU-Langone Medical Center got the highest score in the city with a 56.)
So, what does it mean?
For one thing, people in need of hospital treatment generally get it at the hospital that is in their community, without regard to technical criteria that Consumer Reports used.
And even if Consumer Reports has a reputation for thoroughness in its evaluations, hospitals aren't like TVs or foor processors. There are just too many variables that cannot be quantified.
A hospital's size and the relative affluence and health of the population it serves have an enormous bearing on the data measured in the magazine's survey. So do its financial strength, geography and the respective hospital affiliations and recommendations of patients' primary-care physicians.
Richard Murphy the president and CEO of RUMC said, "The measure of a hospital cannot be defined by a limited set of parameters."
As he pointed out, his institution's neonatal intensive care unit has the lowest mortality rate in the metropolitan area, its stroke center has won awards and last year, RUMC recorded "zero site infections for hip replacements."
Similarly, SIUH received good ratings in the infections and scanning categories. But both hospitals lagged in re-admissions and patient communication, according to the report.
Perhaps Staten Island's two hospitals really do need to improve in those areas, or perhaps these evaluations are an anomaly resulting from factors unique to these institutions. As with so much else in this report, it's hard to tell.
The bottom line is that it's unlikely many people are going to use these rankings, interesting as they are to talk about, to influence their thinking on health care. When it comes to getting medical treatment on the level that hospitals provide it, very few patients are truly consumers.