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The 50 greatest westerns
We count down the greatest westerns of all time
High Noon (1952)
Dir Fred Zinnemann (Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges, Grace Kelly)
Lonely are the brave
We join retired sheriff Gary Cooper at the very moment he's tying the knot with pacifist Quaker bombshell Grace Kelly, and as their chariot awaits to taxi them away to a future of dirt farming bliss, news comes down the wire that one of the varmints Cooper sent down is out on a technicality and riding in on the noon train with a debt to settle and a trigger finger that's itchier than a sunburnt leper. As the clock inches towards the deadline, the ever-more fraught Cooper knows that he has to face his destiny and preserve the town he toiled to enlighten. More than a ruthlessly straightforward countdown to violence, screenwriter Carl Foreman made this as much about the strains between community and the all-American ideal of individuality, as Cooper's failed attempts to deputise enough local gunslingers to stand up to this scourge presents a town sullied as much by internal fear as external threat. Remade as 'Back to the Future 3'. DJ
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Dir Marlon Brando (Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson)
The dead man's hand again
A decade before the thespian indulgences of 'The Missouri Breaks' (see 43), Brando wielded his star power to a far greater degree and to even more satisfying effect in this exotic, strange and much-storied revenger. Initially scripted by a young Sam Peckinpah and set to be directed by none other than Stanley Kubrick, it was originally intended as a relatively straight-up account of the short, brutish life of Billy the Kid, and his death at the hands of former compadre Pat Garrett (a story Peckinpah would gloriously revisit). The endless script tinkering and personnel changes that took place during the film's long gestation, however, saw the film become a hobbyhorse for Brando – then on a nature tip – to explore his own themes. The result is hypnotic. Rarely has the internal and external landscape been fused with such artistry within a western, as the film moves from the dust storms of Death Valley to the splendour of the Californian coast and the shifting morality of the characters locks into fatal certainty. It's an old story, but through Brando's eyes, the familiarity becomes elemental. ALD
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Dir Andrew Dominik (Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell)
I coulda been a contender
The western has been declared dead more times than Rasputin, but it keeps on kicking. Even a relatively quiet decade like the last one contained more than its fair share of memorable horse operas: actors' vanity projects like Kevin Costner's under-the-breath romance 'Open Range' (see 47) and Ed Harris's superb, underseen 'Appaloosa', globetrotting genre-benders like 'Shanghai Noon', 'The Proposition', 'Sukiyaki Western Django' and 'The Good the Bad and the Weird', old fashioned throwbacks like 'The Missing' and '3:10 To Yuma' and edge-of-the-genre masterpieces like 'Three Burials…' and 'There Will Be Blood'. But few were more memorable, more stately, more effortlessly iconic than Aussie director Andrew Dominik's take on one of America's most enduring legends. Photographed in stark granite hues and populated by a who's who of young(ish) US talent, including a potentially decade's-best performance from Casey Affleck as the desperately lonely Ford, this is the western as historical document, as social comment, folk ballad and great novel. TH
Red River (1948)
Dir Howard Hawks (John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan)
Take 'em to Missouri, Matt!
'Let's do the "yee haa" scene from "Red River"!' Yes, it's the ultimate cattle-drive movie, as John Wayne's domineering beef baron Dunson decides to take his entire herd north in search of a decent price, taking along Montgomery Clift's rebellious adoptee and a whole host of grizzled character actors for company. Tempers fray, Indians swarm, cows stampede, Clift pouts, Wayne barks, Brennan totters, and Hawks delivers yet another glorious snapshot of unfettered masculinity in action. It may be hard for modern audiences to put aside the fact that cattle barons like Dunson were generally murderous aristocrats making a grab for land, that it wasn't just the Indians who were tortured and slaughtered into submission but the poor smallholders too, and that the Dunsons of yesteryear are the political dynasties of today. But in 1948 America was a country still in need of its own myths, hence 'Red River' and a thousand other tales of gods, men, guns and horses. Just don't believe a goddamn word of it. TH
Forty Guns (1957)
Dir Samuel Fuller (Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Barry, Robert Dix)
Babs's dude ranch
As the archetypal, stogie-chomping man's man filmmaker, it seemed only natural that Samuel Fuller would dabble in the western. His cheap but effective debut, 'I Shot Jesse James' (1949), underscored the subtle homoerotic subtext of the relationship between the eponymous outlaw and his cowardly killer, while the rueful 'Run of the Arrow' (1957) saw Rod Steiger in mad, Irish method mode, going Awol and, erm, joining the Sioux. But the delirious 'Forty Guns' is comfortably his most assured attempt at offering a unique, sexually enlightened and psychologically weighty spin on trad western heroics, its innovative use of expressionist cinematic style as much a storytelling tool as its tortured, gun crazy protagonists. Photographed in crisp monochrome, it presents Barbara Stanwyck on feisty form as a no-nonsense ranch boss backed by 40 hired guns and the (literal) whirlwind of romance she enters into with Barry Sullivan's pacifist lawman. DJ
Unforgiven (1992)
Dir Clint Eastwood (Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman)
Clint's last round-up
For a film so often held up as the epitome of western revisionism, 'Unforgiven' spends an awful lot of time mythologising the reputations of its fabled characters. Clint's William Munny, a former outlaw, and – it is strongly hinted – hired killer, attempts to outrun his reputation by becoming a pig farmer; Gene Hackman's Little Bill Daggett has built on his reputation in order to hold together a small town; Richard Harris's 'English' Bob, meanwhile, revels in his reputation, continuing to farm out his fan-hand to the highest bidder. Saul Rubinek's eastern newspaperman, who has come west to gather stories of thrilling shootouts and gallant gunfighters, gets far more than he bargained for when confronted with these original articles. Hackman, who is – for good or ill – attempting to build and protect a community – is the only one of the three to die in the film, while the two gunmen – one reverted to his old ways, one who never abandoned them – ride on. 'Unforgiven' wants to have its cake and eat it, and that – rather than mere revisionism – is what makes Eastwood's final western such a complex and rewarding experience. ALD
The Wild Bunch
Dir Sam Peckinpah (William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan)
Take your seats for the bullet ballet
It's hard to believe that just seven years had passed between 'Ride the High Country', Peckinpah's daring, heartfelt but still resolutely old-school western masterpiece, and the game-changing hot blast of new-wave revisionism that was 'The Wild Bunch'. In between, he'd faffed about with Charlton Heston in the disappointing 'Major Dundee', done a fair amount of screenwriting and TV work, drank a bit and broodingly plotted his next big move. It's safe to say no one was expecting this. Theses have been written about the meaning of 'The Wild Bunch', its relations to Vietnam and the cultural revolution, the death of censorship and the awakening of social conscience. But, with all of this firmly in the past, what remains is a portrait of desperation, of men so locked into one way of living that the only way out is to die. Peckinpah was undoubtedly a consummate self-mythologiser, and he loved to propagate an image of himself which tallied with the hard-living, hard-drinking characters he wrote about. But it's hard not to see 'The Wild Bunch' as evidence of a man willingly, enthusiastically, foolishly sowing the seeds of his own self-destruction. TH
The Shooting (1968)
Dir Monte Hellman (Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates)
Hellman's finest
Rarely have the rolling hills and pristine flats of the American hinterland (here, Utah) looked as drab and intimidating as in Monte Hellman's mesmerising B-picture quickie, one of the key forerunners of the existential 'acid western'. A grizzled wastrel played by Warren Oates haplessly joins the road to hell when agreeing to a no-questions-asked deal to escort a mysterious, nameless woman (Millie Perkins) to a town called Kingsley. Alongside his naive cohort Coley (Will Hutchins), the trio take to the trail, but it's not long before paranoia sets in as it appears the woman is leaving signs for a mysterious (and, it transpires, sadistically violent) follower, expertly played by Jack Nicholson. Heroism and honour are notable by their absence here, as the film is primarily about the undercurrents of dread and paranoia that come with being forced together with mysterious strangers and the claustrophobia of open spaces. Exceptional, drug-metaphory stuff, and the final mind-boggling, slo-mo showdown is surely one of the reasons that DVD players have rewind functions. DJ
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Dir Michael Cimino (Kris Kristofferson, Jeff Bridges, Isabelle Huppert)
The cost of freedom
I remember feeling a deep sense of disappointment when I discovered that 'Heaven's Gate' was a western. Everyone knows the title and the tale behind it: the money ($44 million, a lot for the time), the egos (namely Cimino's), the drug abuse (alleged), the animal cruelty (all UK prints still have the cockfighting scenes removed), the tell-all tabloid bestsellers (Steven Bach's wonderful 'Final Cut'). The film has become a byword for Hollywood excess. And to spend all that money not on putting armies in the field or setting spaceships on fire but on horses, shacks and quality headwear makes it all seem even more astonishingly wasteful. But then you watch the movie.
And for all its faults, 'Heaven's Gate' feels like $44m: not always in a good way, as sometimes the weight of the production and the intricacy of its construction, undeniably threaten to drag it down. But mostly this is money incredibly well spent, on sets, on costumes, on landscapes, on one astonishing battle scene: the result is perhaps the most all-embracingly authentic of westerns. That this authenticity didn't stop at the visual level was perhaps the film's undoing, at least commercially: this is the tale of how the west was sold, the furious rejoinder to the noble myth-building of 'Red River' and even 'The Wild Bunch', rejecting the legend in favour of a cold, stratified reality where the rich ruled by the gun while the poor ate dirt and died. But it is undoubtedly a masterpiece, albeit a flawed one, and worth $44m of anyone's money. TH
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Dir John Ford (Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature)
Orange county
John Ford's lyrical, definitive take on the none-more-iconic 'Gunfight at the OK Corral' stands as a slow-burn paean to the righteous moral cornerstones of a nascent American society. Henry Fonda plays it satisfyingly low and lazy as Wyatt Earp, the friendly ex-lawman-turned-rancher whose wrath is courted by the no-good Clanton brood, and who decides the best route to revenge would be to pin a tin star on his shirt and take up office as the marshal of Tombstone. Noticeably light on stock western monkeyshines (bar the final, purportedly technically accurate, shoot-out), the film counterpoints the rapid modernisation of Tombstone with the regressive evil of the Clantons, and the encroaching threat of violence is made all the more significant as Earp begins to find his place in the world with the help of religion, patriotism, friendship (Victor Mature, heartbreaking as ailing sharp-shooter 'Doc' Holliday) and a newfound love for Bostonian schoolteacher, Clementine (Cathy Downs). DJ


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Thirteen T-Birds Honored By Big Sky, Browning Named Newcomer of the Year
By SUU Strategic Communication
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The Thunderbirds have two first-team, five second-team and six honorable mention players on the 2012 all-Big Sky team.
Offensive lineman Gavin Farr and defensive lineman Cody Larsen are the first-team selections, while quarterback Brad Sorensen, center Dylan Fox, wide receiver Fatu Moala, fullback Lavell Ika and kicker Colton Cook have been named to the second-team.
Earning honorable mention are WR Mitch Jessop, OL Cody Burgess, TE Henna Brown, DE James Cowser, SS Miles Killebrew and Browning, a linebacker.
Browning, a freshman from Camas, Wash. (Union HS), led the Thunderbirds and the conference with 116 total tackles, and his 11.6 tackles per game average ranked second in the Big Sky and seventh in the nation. He had seven games with 10 or more tackles, including an 18-tackle performance at Montana and 15-tackle tallies against Montana State and Eastern Washington. The 18 tackles are the second-most in a game by an SUU freshman during its NCAA era.
Farr, a junior from South Ogden, Utah (Northridge HS), started every game at left guard for the Thunderbirds after moving over from center last spring. He was a two-time first-team all-Great West Conference selection before the Thunderbirds moved to the Big Sky this season, including the GWC's Offensive Lineman of the Year in 2010 as a redshirt freshman.
Larsen, a senior defensive tackle from Draper, Utah (Jordan HS) led the Thunderbirds with 14.0 tackles for loss and was second on the squad with 6.5 sacks. He ranked second in the Big Sky and 27th in the nation in TFLs, and sixth in the BSC and 45th in the country in sacks while regularly drawing double-teams from opposing offenses. He finished the season with 48 total tackles, including a career-high 11 at Montana. Like Farr, Larsen was a three-time all-GWC selection.
Sorensen, a senior from Grand Terrace, Calif. (BYU/San Bernardino CC/Colton HS) became Southern Utah's career passing and total yards leader in every category this year and he leaves the school with all but two single-season passing and total yards marks as well as many single-game records. This past season he completed 273-of-439 pass attempts for 3,139 yards and 23 touchdowns. The GWC Offensive MVP in 2011, Sorensen finished second in the Big Sky in total yards, passing yards per game and passing touchdowns per game.
Fox, a senior from Cedar City, Utah (Cedar HS) started every game this season at center after moving from fullback in the final game of the 2011 season. He graded out at 96 percent and allowed just one sack in 2012. He was also an academic all-District selection in 2012.
Moala, a junior from Kearns, Utah (Utah/Kearns HS) led SUU and finished fourth in the Big Sky in receiving yards per game (73.6) and receptions per game (three-way tie at 5.9), numbers which ranked 33rd and 38th in the nation. His 65 receptions in 2012 are the 10th-most in a season at SUU and his nine receiving touchdowns are tied for the fourth-most in a season at SUU.
Ika, a senior from Salt Lake City (Bountiful HS), started all 11 games at fullback for the Thunderbirds. Primarily a blocking back, Ika finished the season with 21 yards and three touchdowns on 14 carries.
Cook, a junior from Bountiful, Utah (Viewmont HS) led the Big Sky with 19 field goals, including 13-of-13 inside the red zone where the Thunderbirds scored 36 out of 38 times, 95 percent, which was the best success rate in the nation. He also led SUU in scoring with 87 points. His 1.73 field goals per game were the second-most in the country while his 7.91 points per game ranked 29th. His 19 field goals set the SUU season record.
Jessop (Jr, Providence, Utah/Mountain Crest HS) earned honorable mention despite missing the final four games of the season. He still finished third on the team with 33 receptions for 519 yards and three TDs. Burgess (Jr, Panaca, Nev./Lincoln County HS) missed two games with injury but started the other nine at left tackle. Brown (Sr., Magna, Utah/Cyprus HS) moved to tight end at the beginning of the season and was the starter there and at H-back all year. He was second on the team with 35 receptions, for 414 yards and three TDs, and also carried the ball 25 times for 45 yards.
Cowser (RFr, Fruit Heights, Utah/Davis HS) led the Thunderbirds and was fifth in the BSC in sacks with 7.5 and was tied for third in the BSC (second on the team) in tackles for loss with 13.5, numbers which ranked 25th and 27th in the nation. Cowser tallied 61 total tackles, fifth on the team. Killebrew (Fr., Henderson, Nev./Foothill HS) started every game and finished third on the team with 69 tackles. He was named national Freshman of the Week by the Sports Network after tallying 15 tackles, 11 solo, at Portland State.
Montana State quarterback DeNarius McGhee was named the Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year for the second time in as many seasons, while MSU linebacker Jody Owens earned Defensive Player of the Year honors. Eastern Washington Coach Beau Baldwin and Cal Poly Coach Tim Walsh shared Coach of the Year honors.


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A summary of trading in key commodities markets overseas:
Global oil prices held firm, but shed most of their earlier gains as supply concerns eased following news of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, traders said.
The market won some support from an unexpected slump in US crude inventories, which indicated stronger-than-expected energy demand in the world's biggest oil consuming nation.
In early evening deals in London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for delivery in January added 48 US cents to $US110.31 per barrel, having earlier topped $US111 on worries over the week-long violent conflict in the Middle East.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for January or West Texas Intermediate (WTI), was 31 US cents higher at $US87.06 a barrel.
Gold futures inched into positive territory as some investors stocked up on the haven asset amid anxiety about the Middle East conflict while others were lured to the market by a weaker US dollar.
The most actively traded contract, for December delivery, on Wednesday rose $US4.60, or 0.3 per cent, to settle at $US1,728.20 a troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Gold prices kept earlier gains despite reports of a ceasefire accord between Israel and Palestine that was due to begin Wednesday evening. Gold prices made modest gains earlier in the day, when a resolution to the conflict appeared illusive.
Base metals closed mostly in the red on the London Metal Exchange (LME), weighed by concern over the euro-zone debt crisis.
At the PM kerb close on Wednesdsay, LME three-month copper was down 1.2 per cent at $US7,690 a metric ton. Aluminum fell 1.7 per cent to close at $US1,930/ton.
Base metals lost ground as investors digested news that talks on Greece's next tranche of aid have been adjourned until Monday.
It was hoped that an agreement on the next payment to Greece would be reached at a meeting of euro-zone finance ministers late on Tuesday but differences between them and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resulted in any decision being pushed back.
Economic data from the US also added to the jittery tone with weekly jobless claims matching expectations for 410,000 new claims, while the previous week's reading was revised up to 451,000.
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- Award winner
- 4-speed manual transmission
- Full Marti Report
- Ford 9 inch rear / 3.73 gears
- 428 Cobra Jet V8
- Extensive documentation
Here at RK Motors Charlotte we have a tradition of offering some of the finest Mustangs in the world. This Marti Report documented one of one R code 1970 Mach 1 is an investment grade award winner. It was the ONLY 1970 Mach 1 equipped with a 428 Cobra Jet, painted Bright Gold Metallic and optioned with a close ratio 4-speed transmission, power steering, power disc brakes, a black Mach 1 interior, an AM 8-track radio, a tachometer, tinted glass and F70-14 belted tires with raised white letters. If you seek an investment grade Mustang with unquestionable authenticity, take a look at this unique muscle car.
Fully documented by a Marti Report, this 1970 Mach 1 was manufactured on November 25th of 1969 in Metuchen New Jersey and delivered to Stoltz Motor Company in Patton Pennsylvania. According to Kevin Marti, this car was optioned with a black hood stripe, a 4-speed close ratio transmission, a traction lok differential, power front disc brakes, power steering, F70-14 belted tires with raised white letters, an AM 8-track stereo radio, a tachometer and tinted glass.
Compare that with the original "Mach 1 2-door sportsroof 8 cylinder" window sticker included with the car:
Vinyl hi-back buckets seats (no cost)
Hood scoop (no cost)
Competition suspension (no cost)
Color-keyed racing mirrors (no cost)
Console-mounted shift lever (no cost)
Rim blow-deluxe steering wheel (no cost)
Instrument gauges (no cost)
Rocker panel moldings (no cost)
Rear deck lid tape stripe (no cost)
Deep dish sports wheel covers (no cost)
Color-keyed carpeting (no cost)
Belted tires (no cost)
Bright Gold Metallic (no cost)
428 CID 4V Cobra Jet 8 cylinder engine ($376)
Four-speed manual transmission ($205)
Traction-lok differential ($43)
5 F70x14 wide oval belted tires (no cost)
BSW tires/Raised white letters (no cost)
Power steering ($95)
Power front disc brakes ($65)
Stereosonic tape system ($134)
AM Radio ($61)
Tinted glass-complete ($32)
Tachometer and trip odometer ($54)
With 49,725 actual miles this 1970 Mach 1 retains all of its original body, except the driver's side quarter panel which was replaced during a thorough frame up restoration. The Mach 1 has never been fully disassembled resulting in a body that is factory straight with excellent fit and finish. The Ford Bright Gold Metallic paint looks phenomenal on this Mach 1, especially in contrast to the black accents. At the front of the car, the shaker hood proudly displays a painted flat black Mach 1 stripe which includes "428" on each side of the scoop to boldly announce what lies beneath. At the edge of that hood, factory chrome hood pins that are in excellent shape complement a show worthy chrome front bumper and straight stainless trim around the grille. Crystal clear headlights and chrome trimmed marker lights combine aggressive headlight buckets and ridged front fenders to provide an aggressive look. At the bottom of that ridged fender, finned rocker moldings are capped by stainless trim and run along the bottom of the car to complement the fastback profile. Just behind the front wheels, prominent "Mach 1" emblems are housed within those moldings and positioned below cursive "Mustang" fender emblems that feature showroom fresh black inlays. The "Mustang" and "Mach 1" emblems line up on the arc of the front fender to visually connect with chrome "Cobra Jet" emblems on each side of the shaker scoop. Excellent looking chrome door handles, drip rails and an antenna aligned perfectly at the top of the passenger front fender complement well-kept stainless windshield wipers and window trim around both the front and rear windows. Out back, a pristine Mach 1 tape stripe is divided by a "Mach 1" emblem with black inlay which is centered above a fresh black rear valence with factory fresh segmented Mustang tail lights. Below that valence, original chrome exhaust tips (yes, I said original) are inset from clear reverse lights and complement a show worthy chrome rear bumper. A highly detailed fuel cap with a red white and blue mustang emblem serves as a nice finishing touch, centered at the back of the car. According to the Marti Report included with this Mustang, only 2,539 Mach 1 cars were built in this color combination which means roughly 6% of 40,970 1970 Mach 1s and less than 2% of 190,727 1970 Mustangs were sprayed in this color.
Pop the hood pins and take a look at this cars legendary code R 428 cubic inch ram air Cobra Jet V8. Rated at 335 horsepower by the factory, these engines easily pushed over 400 horsepower on the streets and were designed to beat up lesser cars on the SCCA and NHRA circuits. This balanced and blueprinted 428 is original to the car and features all of its original components with the exception of the hydraulic cam which was swapped out for a solid cam during the restoration. Below the black shaker scoop, a correct Ford Blue air cleaner sits on the cars original Holley carburetor and a correctly painted Ford Blue block with original finned aluminum valve covers. A reproduction battery sits next to a correct radiator that runs water through correct hoses with correct clamps. The exceptionally detailed engine bay features satin black paint with correct Ford decals throughout. The shaker hood is as well finished in Bright Gold Metallic on the bottom as it is on the top… Everything, from hoses to plug wires has been restored to exacting standards and everything is spotless. You'll even find the original emissions control equipment and the original factory rev limiter, which is now unplugged and likely has been since the cars first lucky owner drove it two blocks down the road from the showroom.
The bottom of this car is every bit as nice as its top with expertly detailed, clean, original floorpans, and stainless hardware throughout the original factory optioned competition suspension. The cars original track ready 4-speed close ratio transmission, which was reconditioned in 1998, sends power to the cars original Ford 9 inch limited slip rear end which features a factory optioned traction lok differential that utilizes 3.73 gears to put the power to the ground. Held in by fresh shocks and original leaf springs, that rear end was converted into a 3.73 ratio from the cars original 3.00 ratio during the restoration and rebuilt again in 1998. Up front the cars original coil spring equipped suspension houses factory optioned power disc brakes and factory optioned power steering with correct new hoses and fittings. Original exhaust manifolds flow into a factory replacement exhaust system complete with a crossover, OEM mufflers and original stainless exhaust tips. The car rolls now as it did from the factory on a set of correct factory optioned F70-14 Goodyear Polyglas tires which ride on original steel wheels that are fronted by original full deep dish sports wheel covers.
Inside this Mach 1 you'll find a complete, largely original interior. The original Ford code 3A 'hi back' black Clarion knit and Corinthian vinyl buckets are in spectacular shape both front and back. The original dual cowl dash features excellent looking wood applique and there's no evidence of sun damage or dry rot. The passenger's side cowl features an excellent looking Mach 1 emblem and a factory clock. The driver's side cowl features a factory optioned tachometer, a speedometer, a fuel gauge and a temperature gauge all with clear lenses and no sign of wear. Between the cowls, a correct AM radio with 8 track player and heater controls are surrounded by great looking wood applique. That wood applique can also be found on the center console which houses the original Hurst shifter for the close ratio 4-speed transmission. The original factory optioned Rim Blow deluxe steering wheel matches the dash an console perfectly and features a the same red, white and blue Mustang logo found at the rear of the car. Original door panels look great given their age and use and all kick panels, sail panels and headliner pieces are in excellent shape. About the only thing that has been replaced is the carpet and it is protected by heavy duty Mustang floor mats. The trunk has been fully restored with a correct mat, spare tire and factory decal.
This car comes with a ton of documentation. There's the Marti Report that breaks down the cars options and authenticates it's one of one status. We also have the original Ford Motor Company Broadcast Sheet, the original Window Sticker and the original owner's manual. We have copies of some of the past titles, a folder of detailed receipts from the restoration and maintenance work completed since. We have a copy of the 2006 Mustang Club of America judging sheets and a box of awards from national concours level Mustang Club of America shows including a Lake Erie Mustang Owners Club 2002 Best of Show-Early Model trophy, a Lake Erie Mustang Owners Club 2006 Concours Driven Silver award, a Shelby American Automobile Club 2009 Beaver Run 1964-73 stock Mustang first place plaque and a Greater Pittsburgh Mustang Club All Ford Powered Car Show 1969-70 stock Mustang first place plaque.
This authenticated one of one 1970 Mustang Mach 1 is an investment grade car that will make any Ford collector or classic car collector happy. It's an exceptionally solid, virtually untouched piece that is sure to only appreciate in value and desirability. If you've always wanted to own a rare big block 4-speed Mach 1, now's your chance. Call now!
- Year
- 1970
- Make
- Ford
- Secondary Make
- n/a
- Model Name
- Mustang
- Secondary Model
- Mach 1
- Vehicle Type
- Passenger Car
- Hobby Segment
- Muscle Car
- Mileage
- 49755
Engine / Transmission
- Engine Type
- Gasoline
- Engine Size
- 428 Cobra Jet V8
- Engine Number
- n/a
- Heads
- n/a
- Fuel Specification
- 92/93 Octane
- Fuel Delivery System Type
- Single 4 Barrel
- Transmission Type
- 4 Speed Manual
- Transmission Spec
- Close Ratio
- Transmission Number
- n/a
- Entertainment System Type
- AM Radio
- Battery Location
- RH Engine Compartment
- Battery Shut Off
- n/a
- Battery Charger
- n/a
- Power Steering
- Yes
- Air Conditioning
- Yes
- Interior Color
- Black Clarion
- Seating Type
- Bucket
- Seat Material
- Vinyl
- Shifter Type
- Floor
- Center Console
- Yes
- Body Style
- Coupe
- Doors
- 2
- Safe Body Color
- Bright Gold Metallic
- Paint Type
- n/a
- Stripes
- Yes
- Front Suspension Type
- Coil Spring
- Rear Suspension Type
- Leaf Spring
- Axle Specification
- Ford 9" 3.73
- Front Wheel Specification
- n/a
- Rear Wheel Specification
- n/a
- Front Tire Specification
- Rear Tire Specification
- Front Brakes Specification
- n/a
- Rear Brakes Specification
- n/a
- Spare
- Factory
- Exhaust Type
- Dual Exhaust
- Muffler Type
- Factory Replacement
- Restoration Status
- Restored
- Mileage Since Restoration
- n/a
- Awards Summary
2006 MCA Judging Sheets, 2002 LEMOC Mustang Round-up Best of Show – Early model. Silver – 2006 Flagship National Mustang Show, 1st place SAAC 34 Beaver run (local), 1st place McCrackin Ford show (local)
- Historical Documents Summary
- Original window sticker, Original build sheet, Marti Report, Original owner's manual, copy of some of the past Titles, 2006 MCA Judging Sheets (45 points deducted) Restoraton receipts
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I'm convinced, that there are some applications are the just work perfectly with Dragon and others may be by virtue of how they were created just don't work that well. The kiss of death is when you have the audacity to touch the keyboard mid-dictation. This is when frustration will set in. First you will attempt to corrected through voice commands and it is at this point that will take a document that was mostly correct and insert a pile of incomprehensible text. Eventually you will give up and resort to the keyboard at which point it will no longer know where it is. If you have to resort the keyboard it's all over it a mulligan.
I have not given up yet simply because I'm too stubborn, plus I'm still convinced that if I can get it to work most of the time it will be quicker to dictate then to type.


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I've been reading about exception handling in PHP. The logic of it looks very simple yet I'm confused as to when/how to use it in a website context. From what I can see the advantages are:
However, it seems to be there is little need for this in a website. I can see in a standard desktop application that is running constantly exceptions need to be handled and dealt with. Let's say I connect to a database and program it so separate exceptions are thrown for 1. Can't connect, 2. Can't set charset, 3. Can't select database
If any of these exceptions occur, the website is (usually) useless anyway so why not just do some error logging then and exit() or die()?
A few further questions:
Can someone please help clarify this? Thanks.
In my opinion exceptions are not useless, the following doesn't crash the website:
// Fetch the three most recent pages:
try {
$query = 'Select id, title, content, DATE_FORMAT(dateUpdated, "%e %M %Y") as dateUpdated FROM pages ORDER BY dateAdded DESC LIMIT 3';
$result = $pdo->query($query);
// Check that rows were returned:
if ($result && $result->rowCount() > 0) {
// Set the fetch mode:
$result->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, 'Page');
// Records will be fetched in the view:
} else { // Problem!
throw new Exception('No content is available to be viewed at this time');
} catch(Exception $e) { // Catch generic exceptions

An Error Occurred!

The content is not viewable because of an error occurred. We apologize for any inconvenience. The system administrator has been notified and will correct the problem as soon as possible

Details (not for public consumption): <?php echo $e->getMessage(); ?>

Yes, but why not just go:
// Fetch the three most recent pages:
$query = 'Select id, title, content, DATE_FORMAT(dateUpdated, "%e %M %Y") as dateUpdated FROM pages ORDER BY dateAdded DESC LIMIT 3';
$result = $pdo->query($query);
// Check that rows were returned:
if ($result && $result->rowCount() > 0) {
// Set the fetch mode:
$result->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, 'Page');
// Records will be fetched in the view:
} else { // Problem!
Off the top of my head that you could send (email) the error to the administrator from the exception or an error log, where unless notified by someone or is monitor daily wouldn't know about it. On a small site probably wouldn't be worth it, but on a large site it probably would.
set_error_handler() is often used in frameworks to turn php errors into exceptions.
Exceptions allow you deal with what might otherwise be unrecoverable errors. If a database query fails because of a duplicate id for example, you don't want your end users seeing the error (plus, error messages can often expose details about your app that might be useful to someone trying to hack it) - instead, you can catch the exception, log it, and display a more friendly message and allow the user to take a different course of action.
One good benefit, in my eyes, is that it allows you to deal with the error anywhere in your calling code, not just in the code that directly calls the method/function that throws the exception - the exception will continue up the chain, until it's caught (or not, as the case may be). This gives you more control about where you choose to put your exception handling code - you don't have to manually pass errors back up the stack.
Thanks, I think I'm getting it now. Is this a good case for exception handling?
Try all three and perform only a single catch. Given that I regard all three are enough to kill the script I simply log the error message, code, line number, etc to a file and display a "The database is currently down, please come back later" type message.
My second example, is not one that kills the script. I am trying to write to a file that should already exist.
Again, I only need to catch it once so the code is tidier than if/else. In each case, I can display an error message and insert it into an unwritable database and carry on as usual.
Are these both good use cases?
So from what I can see so far exceptions are good because:
And it shouldn't be used for general validation (form validation, numbers being out of range, etc).
Finally, is set_error_handler() a good idea? Seem a bit lazy in a global kind of way.
I guess also, if you have a bootstrap there might be loads of things that could generate an error that warrants killing the script and you could do it all in a single try/catch.
Yeah I think I'd agree with your use of exceptions in those scenarios.
I think it depends on the context. If you're calling a validate() method on an object, then you could just return true or false for example, but if you're calling a save() or update() method on your object, then you'd probably want to throw an exception if the data is not valid.
There is always the risk that your code might cause php to throw an unexpected error which would kill your script and won't look very professional to the end user (not to mention it might expose information that could compromise your system).
By setting an error handler you can catch these errors and do something about them. It's quite common practice to use this method to convert PHP errors into exceptions which can then be caught locally if you want, but you can also use set_exception_handler to set a global handler to catch any exceptions that you hadn't planned for.
Thanks for that.
This may be a stupid question but if you have something like:
function foo() {
throw new Exception("Whatever");
echo "End of foo function";
try {
catch (Exception $e) {
// Return back here?
Is there any way to return back to where the exception was thrown and get End of foo function to echo?
Not as far as I know. If foo should still return an output or do some work even in the event of an error that occurs in part of foo's code, then I think you don't really want to be throwing an exception in this case. If the error occurs in a sub-function called from foo, then you could just move your try/catch block inside foo.
Great, thanks!


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i did a dual boot install vista/backtrack 4 os shown in the tutorial video.
when i completed step 4/7, the instalation proces directely whent to step 7/7 not letting me give in a login or password
i rebooted my machine
then backtrack asks me for login and password so i typ in
login: root
and when i come to password, i'am unable to typ anything!
so the only option i have is
login: root
wich prompts me as invalid
and asks me to re-enter a login and password wich resulsts again in
login: root
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Hilary Duff Shooting New Music Video
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Hilary Duff is inching closer and closer to comeback. "E! News" says the star was seen on the set of her new music video on a beach in Malibu over the weekend.
The 26-year-old mother was photographed wearing a black bikini while filming with a group of people. She also tweeted out a photo from the location.
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Hilary has been teasing her new music over the past month, telling MTV News recently that British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was the one to pen her upcoming track. It will be Hilary's first release since 2007's Dignity.
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British film director Tony Scott, known for such Hollywood blockbusters as "Top Gun," "Days of Thunder," "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "The Taking of Pelham 123," jumped to his death Sunday from the Vincent Thomas Bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island, according to Los Angeles County coroner's officials.
Scott, 68, climbed a fence on the south side of the bridge's apex and leapt off "without hesitation" around 12:30 p.m., according to the Coroner's Department and port police.
A suicide note was found inside Scott's black Toyota Prius, which was parked on one of the eastbound lanes of the bridge, said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Jennifer Osburn.
Scott directed Tom Cruise in "Top Gun," one of the highest-grossing films of 1986, and worked with the actor again four years later on the hit "Days of Thunder," which also featured his third and current wife, actress Donna Scott. The couple have twin boys.
Known for his trademark red baseball cap, Scott also directed "Beverly Hills Cop II," starring Eddie Murphy, "Enemy of the State," starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman, and "The Taking of Pelham 123," starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta.
Scott and his older brother, producer Ridley Scott, were co-producers on the CBS dramas "NUMB3RS" and "The Good Wife." The pair recently wrapped "Coma," a four-hour, two-night medical thriller starring Ellen Burstyn set for release next month on A&E.
Officers with port police, the Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol joined city firefighters and the Coast Guard in searching the water for his body.
Cargo vessels moved at slow speeds through the east side of the Main Channel during the search, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.
"It's a dolorous task and we're working to treat the deceased with the utmost dignity and respect," Humphrey said.
Authorities used sonar equipment to track the man in the port's murky waters and his body was recovered by a dive team around 4:30 p.m., Alva said. Scott's body was taken to a dock in Wilmington and turned over to the county coroner.
One lane of the eastbound side of the bridge was closed to traffic during the investigation.
Erected in 1963, the 6,060-foot bridge links San Pedro with Terminal Island and rises 185 feet at its highest point above the Main Channel of Los Angeles Harbor. Many have taken their lives by jumping from the span.
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Florida Georgia Line making plans to 'cruise' on their first headlining tour
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Florida Georgia Line is getting ready to head out on their own. The duo is making plans for their first headlining tour. So far they only have one confirmed date set - Lexington, Kentucky's Whitaker Bank Ballpark on October 19th.
But they have a list of 32 dates posted on their Facebook page, indicating the "Here's To The Good Times Tour 2013" will begin on October 3rd, and come to a close on December 14th.
Florida Georgia Line has also lined up Colt Ford, Tyler Farr, and Dallas Smith to open select shows. The duo is promising to reveal all the dates to their fall trek on July 15th.
Florida Georgia Line is spending the summer as an opener on Luke Bryan's "Dirt Road Diaries Tour." Their next stop on that trek is coming up in Birmingham, Alabama on Thursday. The duo's full schedule is posted at FloridaGeorgiaLine.com.
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Benjamin, Melanie. Alice I Have Been.
You may have heard that Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was based on a real life Alice who, while taking a boat ride on a lazy summer day, asked Carroll to tell her a story which then became the iconic children's tale. The daughter of the Dean of Oxford University, Alice lived both a charmed and restrained life next door to Dodgson, a.k.a Carroll, who was a mathematics professor at the university and a close family friend of the Liddells. Melanie Benjamin removes the idyllic lens that covers this myth and reveals the more complicated nature of the relationship between Alice Liddell and Charles Dodgson, one which was speculated to be darker than it appeared.
The book follows Alice from childhood to old age as she struggles against the confines of Victorian culture and her family, naively navigating her strange relationship with Dodgson and the impact it has on the rest of her life; the strained connection she has with her competitive older sister and mother, as well as the opportunities and misfortunes she experiences in the realms of love and family.
If you are looking for a charming tale, you will not find it here. Rather, Benjamin paints a picture of a girl who became entwined in something far more damaging than she imagined; a memory that would come to haunt her for the rest of her life. For historical fiction fans, this is a gem. Benjamin is a wonderful storyteller who balances fact with human feeling very well. Prepare to have your perspective of this children's classic changed forever. Make sure to pick up Benjamin's latest novel, Mrs. Tom Thumb.


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Mariners invite Zunino to spring training
Published: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 11:38 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 11:38 p.m.
Former Gator Mike Zunino was among the 18 non-roster invitees to spring training recently announced by the Seattle Mariners. Pitchers and catchers will report to Peoria, Ariz., on Feb. 12. He had been selected with the No. 3 overall pick in last June's Major League Baseball Draft, the highest selection in school history.
The recipient of the 2012 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award, the Dick Howser Trophy and the Johnny Bench Award, Zunino batted .373 (41-for-110) with 35 RBI, 29 runs, 10 homers and 10 doubles in 29 games for the Everett (Wash.) AquaSox, the Class A short-season affiliate of the Mariners, before hitting .333 (17-for-51) with eight RBI, six runs, four doubles and three homers in 15 games for the Jackson (Tenn.) Generals of the Double-A Southern League.
Playing for Peoria of the Arizona Fall League, Zunino was a key cog in the Javelinas' run to the league title and was named to the AFL's Top Prospects Team. In the championship game, he finished 3-for-5 with a pair of RBI as Peoria edged the Salt River Rafters, 4-3.
Baseball America rated him No. 1 on the Mariners' list of top-10 prospects at the beginning of December and said that he was the best power hitter and the best defensive catcher within the organization.
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PINE RIVER JOURNAL VOLUME I NUMBER XXVII THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL. PINE RIVER, CASS COUNTY. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936 SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year Iv k * ( > NEWS BRIEFS FROM AROUND OUR STATE CHISEL WAY THRU 14 FEET OF SOLID ICE TO WATER Minnesota Lake—It was necessary to chop though 14 feetof solid ice to rescue Minnesota Lake citizens from a water short age when the water supply tank froze over during the cold spell. A crew of six men work steadily chopping and chiseling through 14 feet of solid ice, an.l continuing for almost a week water was again made available to the town Four other towns in northern Io wa and southern Minnesota reported similar occurances and the company from which the Tank was purchased at Minnesota Lake was kept busy trying to loosen up their water supply pipes. Vernon Center, LeCenter and Easton are the towns near Minnesota Lake which related much the same ev-teriences. with probably hundreds more in othe- parts of the country. This is the first year according" to frh-'* manufacturers of the tanks that their tanks have ever been reported frozen over. FAMILY RAVED FROM MONOXIDE GAS TRAP Grand Ramds—A narrow escape from death was chronicled for the A. K. Seckinerer familv when snow blown into a hard drift over the pine which carried off thp fumes from a gasoline en gineand cn^h^n ntonovide eras was forced back into the house. "JTlfi fsr\rn-r\,n /yn~r:a-r.~-"l i\ TlTTO'0 elpC- tric lighting plant _nd ha^V ~>r°s sure from rno o-vTianqt forbad out the vavfcmv in the walls and permitted thp d«_/,r,T pas <~n s^en into the room's . Mrs. Se"Vi-qrer and twn childrpn had retired when thQ voixTi~ipst r\ came violent1" in Seculn<rerre. JUNIOR CLASS PLAY The Junior class play which was presented at the school au- dito-ium Saturday evening was enjoyed by a large crowd. The characters were well cast and all played their parts very creditably; Mildred Wymore. as Lady Spitfire, played her part well, as the vivacious wealthy girl who caused most of the entangling situations which made up the play. Luvem Leef, charming and lovable, the poor Bernice King, who loved to eat and Gla- dv? as the college snob all acted their parts well as students of the school. Kenneth Hutchinson a- Tom Brown the handsome lad •'nd Bud Jones plaved bv Chester Martini, made a hit with every b"ne as helpers on the campus. G'len Leverington was the hick constable we read about, both in looks and manner. Durmont Button was the handsome French gigolo, who proved to be the viFain of the play.Douglas Erick "on as the father.olayed the part of a pleasant rich gentleman "diile Marie Erickson was the Wable owner of the school. The play was under the direction of Mr. Rosen. B---tween acts the audience was entertained by the Glee Club, under the direction of Miss McCart and a1 so a number by the fifth grade boys and girls dressed as old folks and all troubled with the "Plaguity Rheumatiz." STORM COST STATE ALMOST A MILLION NEW CITY HALL PROPOSED AT BU-INESS MEETING It has cost the state highway department approximately $800, 000 to keep its 11,000 mile trunk highway syf'em open to traffic during the J.most continuous storm conditions of the past three and a half weeks, according to an estimate made by N. W m-Mor be-1 Elsberg. 400 state plows and 100 rented ahVed that ^° erah must be pre- emergency trucks have been in sentbut could not -Meet if bv j operation practically day and taste "or odor h-o +Vi_n nniUri open ' night since the latter part of the windows. Had thQ fantSv re Eighteen members w re present at the Business Mens Giub meeting held last Thursday even ing in their Club rooms in the Armory building. The meeting was called to order by pies., D. i_ Triggs after which the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. .Reports were then heard from thevarious committees appointed at the last meeting. The principle discussion of the evening was pertaining to proposed WPA projects for the village of Pine itiver, Arvid Lundin gave a detailed report of the Cemetary project which includes a vault and other necessary improvements and also stated that the moneys for the project had j been alloted and work would be- started soon. The discussion for j a city hall was then brought up. That is a hall that would be sufficiently large to house the fire fighting equipment and also to take care of the rest of the vil-; lage needs. The question was then brought of a lot. It seems that the village owns a lot and then again they don't as the property in question was deeded to Harris Zigmund several years ERADELPHIAN CLUB MET FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 The Eradelphian Club met at the home of Mrs. Dahl last Fri day afternoon at the usual hour. Members responded to roll call by naming their favorite author of music. Esther Conzet gave an interesting paper on the 'History of Music,' after which Mrs. Dahl described the Singing Tower and told of its wondrous beauty. This tower is located on Mountain ; Lake, in Florida. Following this Miss McCart sang three special numbers; in Italian, German and French, all of which were thoroughly enjoyed. ago together with another loti naturalization LEGION FAVORS CLOSING IMMIGRATION TEN YEARS Closing all the immigration into the United States will have the support of the American Legion Auxiliary when the legislation to shut the doors to immigrants comes up in Congress.The Legion and Auxiliary recommen ded that all immigration be stop- ed for ten years in resolutions adopted at their last conventions A bill to bar immigration for this period is now before the committee on immigration and tired a few minutes earlier, would probablv nave been ed. all kill January. The expense has been a severe strain on the highway department maintenance fund. With all 500 units in operation the "ost amounted to about 2,000 j pleted by June and he has been paying taxes on it ever since, however later on the lot question will undoubtedly be ironed out and we will let you know who owns the lot. Everyone seemed to agree that a new hall would be a good thing but seemed a little reluctant about expending the necessary funds in order to sponsor the project Harve Cromett offered the village the use of the building on the dam for a pumping stationto be used in conjunction with the new hall for fire protection, at no cost whatsoever. It seems that a new building and the additional fire protection would be an asset to the town and if possi ble the village should try and sponsor the project. Action must be taken imm°diatelv -v^-rysa-t of this kind as they must be com 1. A committee SPOT IN U. S. FOR WINTER International ^alls—A n-rnr-ont ly a flock of five rlwkg. of the bluebill varietv. cannot ma* the current weather reuor+s: pud are making: their home in th° Rafney River this year. Although Inter national Falls has been set down in reports as being the coldest spot in the United States with temperatures running- as low as 54 degrees below w.vo this ctoup of bluebills mav not subscribe to the paners and are not keening- up with the news. The birds, whenever a part of T?m'n""p Tate opens up, as it frequently does during the winter. wT flv no to the large bodv of onen water. and duriusr (""lo" cvnn-^t —-tn—n?—i<* tc the river just above the dam. which never freezes over. Just why those ducks chose Rain"" River and Rainv T^e as a winter resort has neve- b°an satis faetorily e"XT}lainad. but it is a fact that some of thQ n-^ds sn^n^ each winter tiwo, a<5 ^no o^ito*- remarked, "with a pair of win^s and a g""od sniiawV w~ wml^Vt be hanging around t^as^ prairies this time of the vear." an hour. A lot of the time the -lows have been in oeration 20 \~\,-" a r'av and for every such day the cost is $40,000. This cost includes labor as well as machinery. WAT^T? Arr T»RTI-TTTTT'r AS SUPPLY TANK FREEZES Clinton—Water sold for a nick el a glass in Clinton last week jn the cold weather. whpp thewate** main burst and the citv was with out aqua pura for a few davs workmen labored for davs trying to find the break in the main only to later discover that the supply tank had frozen over. causing too much pressure and the resulting brpak in the main. A crew immediately started chopping into the top layer of ice in the supply tank, and continued for two days before they were able to open it up. Trans'1 for fighting snow in Minnesota this winter hascost the state about $1,000,000 which comes out of a maintenance fund that onlv. totals $6,600,000 for the entire year. The total cost of removing snow all last winter amounted to $900 000. Although the expense seems tremendous, if the highways had mot been opened there would have been a general disruptionof busin°ss and economic life thru- out the state. Without open high wavs the larger cities would I have been cut off from their ! milk suordv and the smaller vill- | ages would have run out of food and other supplies. Tlr's pmereancv illustrates the danger of cutting down highway revenues below levels whichhave taught us are safe. There must h° a maro-jn of funds over and ab™e tontine necessities to meet "-un"'CTdi"tab''e emergencies such or, winter storms and summer floods. Any serious crirjpling of the trunk highway svstem would mp-in famine for hundieds of +ho"sands of persons if continu- •°^ for more than a few days at a time. Even with all that was spent in tha --ast month, there were still isolated cases in which communities did not get as good service as the department would have liked to have given them. Auxiliary women also will sup port measures to exclude and deport aliens who are members of any organization that proposes to change or overthrow the United States government by force or violence, and to deport immediately all aliens who have entered the country illegally. Bills on these subjects also are pending w Congress. Withdrawal of recognition of Soviet Russia is another measure recommended by the Auxiliary an Americanism move. This is being- urged because communist propaganda and activities emana ting from Russia have not been "topped as promised by the sovi- et government but have greatly increased. A resolution calling ■for the withdrawal of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Uni on was introduced by Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts during the last session of Con- was appointed to investigate and also to receive cost estimates to be presented at the next meeting,srress and is stiJl Pending. As yet the membership committee hadn't been out due to inclement weather, which no doubt accounts for the smal1- num ber present. AH members were urged to try and be oresent at the meetings at 8:00 P. M. BIRD'S FEET FREEZE TO PERCH ON WELL PIPE Isle—when Alvin Andrews of Onamia was doing up his chores recently he saw a chickadee sit- j ting on the iron pipe at the well. D. L. Triggs. pres.'hrwOsed a i1* se€nied to be extremely tame luncheon to b° heH in the near future for the n°w business men in Pine River. Further informa ion on this will be g'ven later. The meeting was then adjourned. SHIPMATES FOREVES AT MARLOW SUN. 'Shipmates Forever' will be shown at the Mariow Theatre on Saturday and Sundav. Dick Powell and Rubv Keeler nlay the leading roles, this should need no further intvodn^ti'iri ^ i-ow-or!- knows wha ta g-^qt n° f-"manc- they can expect f*-om this team Remember—two nio-h+s ohlv oh Saturday and Sunday and until further notice shows will be held on W«d. and Tb'vs ("Bank Nites) and Saturday and Sundav. No Matinees or familv nites until further notice Th.p c-o»;ni 'T^.q- ing West,' will continue on Wed. and Thurs. TWt nrss "Shipmates Forever." and did not move when he approached it. he then discovered that its feet were frozen to the pine. A little cold water loosened the bird and it fluttered away probably wishing that Santa Claus had left him some wool socks and overshoes. EDUCATIONAL RADIO PRO- TO BE HEARD OVER WCCO Mr. Otto Haack left on Friday for Minneapolis to attend a meet ing of the radio committee in charge of education of which he is a member. Radio programs planned by this committee will begin in April and will continue indefinitely. This radio committee is the first of its kind and the pro gam will be made up par tly of selections rendered by High Schools and partly of educa tional information of interest to the public school finance .legislation, etc. Mr. Haack, the local Superintendent, is also a member of the publicity committee. These programs will be broad ast once a week over WCCO. A regular time schedule will appear weekly in this paper—watch for it. WORK ON DAMS TO BEGINFEBRUARY26 VALENTINE PARTY AT THE LAKE REGION HOTEL James Skinner was host to twelve young people at a Valentine dinner party at the Lake Re gion Hotel on Thursiav evening. Decorations carried the valentine motif. After partaking in a four course dinner the guests played games and danced. Every one reported a most enjoyable time and a very delicious dinner. Actual work on lakes in Cass county on the $100,000 program to conserve water, under plans' drawn jointly by WPA and the State Conservation Department, will start February 25, it was an nounced this week at Brainerd by J..S. Muir, supervisor of WPA operations. All needed materials have been ordered for the dams at Lake Ada, Bowen and Five Point Lakes, in Cass county and at Hubert, Clark, and Clinker and Black Hoof, in Crow Wing. J. H. Downs has been appointed supervisor of the program, acting for the Conservation Department, sponsor of the program. NEW CONTRACTS TO RELIEVE WPA COST REVISED WPA AS A JOB INSURANCE Paul Gardner took the local basketball quint to Brainerd on Monday afternoon where they did some practising in the gym in preparation for the tournament. Coach Matson accompanied the boys. MRS. J. W. SPRINGER ILL J. G. HAMMER DIES IN ST PAUL THURS. J. G. Hammer passed away at the N. P. hospital in St Paul on T'hu'-sdav afternoon, February 13. after an illness of two weeks. Ruriel was held at Walker Sunday. Mr. Hammer has been a resident of this community for several years having made his home on Whitefish lake. He had acted as station agent at various nlaces for the M&I Railroad for the past thirty years. Mr .Hammer was about 70 years of age fl-t the time of his death. Contracts for roads and other construction, made possible thru the operation of the PWA soon will ease the strain on thepayroX of the WPA. PWA work, scheduled to start in this vicinity as the most loigcal way soon as the advept of spring permits, will give new jobs to 22 per sons in Cass county now working for the WPA. At present there are 725 persons classified as employables and heretofore on the relief rolls of the county, now working for WPA. PWA is the administration's agency for recovery that Was de signed to take up the second phase of the ..program and is concerned with larger projects for which much engineering had to be done. While WPA went into the field to prosecute the smaller undertakings and give immediate employment to those whohad to have work and have it quick, PWA has been doing the prelim- inar work that always is required before large undertakings can begin to create a demand for labor. Where WPA has been paying wages somewhat higher than the amount of the direct relief or dole, PWA will pay established wages. Under the terms of PW A road contracts, the contractors are permitted to employ 20 per cent of the men required as they see fit, but are obliged to take 60 per cent of their personnel from relief rolls and through WPA organization, providing the needed labor is available. If not, and such will be the case in many instances, then WPA's district director will issue exemptions, thereby opening the way to the employment by contractors of manv persons who have notbeen on relief but who are in dire need of immediate jobs. This procee- dure will make a .start toward sol ving the problem of what shall be done with the so-called 'border cases.' When the PWA jobs start, will depend to a great extent, on how early the weather moderates this spring. TRY A WANT AD Mrs. G. E Henderson entertained four ladies at her home Thursday at the first of a series of teas to be given by members of the M. E. Ladies Aid. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Triggs entertained several friends at a Dollahan. arrived dinner party Saturdav evening. Ranids, Mich., and The table was beautifully decorated to bring out the valentine spirit. After dinner the time was spent playing contract bridge with Mrs. Charles Siebel and Ernest Robideau receiving high scores. Mrs. J. W. Springer of Brainerd, who has been ill for some time, is improving. Her daughter, Mrs. L. from Grand is assisting in nursing her mother. Pine River folks will remem ber Mrs. Springer, who often vis ited her daughter, Margaret Springer, who taught in the lo- | cal school a few years ago. VALENTINE PARTY HKT.D THURSDAY EVENING Several young girls were hostesses to fourteen boys and girls at a Valentine Partv Thursday evening at Shill's Hall. Decorations were in keeping1 with St. Valentines Day, making the hall festive and gav appearing". Fortunes were read and stunts and games were played. Marjorie An derson chaperoned the young people and served a delicious lunch at ten o'clock. Victor Christgau, state WPA administrator, last week ended a project inspecting trip in district Nos. 2 and 3. During his visit to these areas, he made several informal addresses before large ga tberings of WPA workers, particularly at Walker, Virginia and Duluth. In all talks, he stressed the following: 1. That WPA workers have nothing to gain by interesting themselves in agitation for a strike, either of local or statewide proportions. 2. That a permanent public works program is the best and in which the country can. protect . itself against periods of business' depression. Obviously having in mind an an effort -that is now being made in scattered parts of the state to induce WPA workers to strike, Mr. Christgau cited the fact that for the first time in government work, the WPA set-up makes ample consideration for the provision on the part of labors thru the employment division. The WPA is operating within certain definite restrictions, said Mr. Christau and theemplqy ment division is made up of men who come from the ranks of labor. They have the laboring man's viewpoint and are in a position to act on any complaint that may be made, providing of course that they are within the restrictions that congress has placed on the program. In such circumstances, nothing more than this could be accomplished through a strike. So. the net re suit of any such drastic action would be additional expense and delays. In all of his addresses, Mr. Christgau went into the background of the WPA and proposed that serious consideration be given to plans for apermanent public . works program which would provide jobs for persons who, at the'beginning- of a business depression should find them selves out of employment thru no fault of their own. Such a program, he said, would some money but the exense would be small in comparison with the social and economic havoc that has followed in the wake of the depression out of which the country is just now emerging. "Four years ago and when un- emplovment was at its highest point," he said, 'there were 15, 000,000 persons in the United States who had no jobs. There men and women found themselves without buying power; unable to pay for their food, fuel and "lothing". The situation grew in magnitude just as a snow ball gathers size as it rolls down hill. While labor sat with idle hands, farmers soon found themselves without a market for their products. "How the present administration met the situation by adopting its recovery policy is well known. Congress authorized (continued on page 4)
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Minnesota Lake—It was necessary to chop though 14 feetof
solid ice to rescue Minnesota
Lake citizens from a water short
age when the water supply tank
froze over during the cold spell.
A crew of six men work steadily
chopping and chiseling through
14 feet of solid ice, an.l continuing for almost a week water was
again made available to the town
Four other towns in northern Io
wa and southern Minnesota reported similar occurances and
the company from which the
Tank was purchased at Minnesota Lake was kept busy trying
to loosen up their water supply
pipes. Vernon Center, LeCenter
and Easton are the towns near
Minnesota Lake which related
much the same ev-teriences. with
probably hundreds more in othe-
parts of the country. This is
the first year according" to frh-'*
manufacturers of the tanks that
their tanks have ever been reported frozen over.
Grand Ramds—A narrow escape from death was chronicled
for the A. K. Seckinerer familv
when snow blown into a hard
drift over the pine which carried
off thp fumes from a gasoline en
gineand cn^h^n ntonovide eras
was forced back into the house.
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I attended a local Audubon talk by Monika Moore on the experiences with her butterfly garden. In 2002 she started transforming the hardscape in her Fullerton backyard into a butterfly haven, particularly for Monarchs.
Below are points from her presentation on how to attract butterflies to your yard.
Research the butterflies you want to attract
"There are more than 25,000 species of butterflies and moths," says Moore. "Each one has a different food source. I like to tell people to research the butterfly you would like to attract, find out it's food source, plant it, and they will come. You must plant what their caterpillars eat to have the whole life cycle."
Plant the butterfly's host plant and nectar plants
For example, the host plant for Monarchs is one of the varieties of milkweed (Asclepias), which is required for the egg-laying and caterpillar food source, while Gulf Fritillaries require passionvine (Passiflora).
Some, such as the many Western Tiger Swallowtails on our property, use several trees such as sycamore, cottonwood or willow as food for their caterpillars.
Nectar plants for butterflies include lantana, butterfly bush, and members of the sunflower family (asters, zinnias, marigold).
We find our native plants such as buckwheat (Erigonium) and the many varieties of wild lilacs (ceanothus) have attracted more butterflies.
Expect predators, especially after a few years.
As Moore puts it, "Raising the butterflies was real easy the first years but predators will show up and want their share of the bounty."
Praying mantis, wasps that lay their larva inside the caterpillar, and lizards are her most common predators.
Avoid pesticides
Pesticide use in the home garden and in local agriculture where the butterflies may feed, are deadly to both the caterpillar and butterfly stages.
Avoid plants treated with pesticides
One attendee shared how a friend's Monarch caterpillars had eaten most of her milkweed so she purchased more from a local Armstrongs Nursery.
Unfortunately, the plants had been treated with a systemic pesticide, which killed all the caterpillars.
Make sure you buy plants from a nursery that does not use pesticides.
Expect your host plants to get eaten quite a bit
Each caterpillar will eat 28 to 38 leaves and will shed their skin four times as they outgrow it - before entering the chrysalis stage.
California Monarchs staying home: Moore has focused on Monarchs and this year her yard is a certified waystation where she helps track monarch movements by placing a small tag on her butterflies.
Research is showing that California butterflies are travelling up and down the coast for their lifecycle, instead of ending in Mexico.
Right now, she's wondering why her older Monarchs are taking awhile to move on.
Four generations are needed to make the migration, with the first three generations living about six weeks.
The last Monarch generation, which delays mating until the journey is over, gets to live a lot longer -- about nine months if it can escape its many predators.
Good references:
The Xerces Society - xerces.org
Butterfly Gardening, Xerces Society
Caterpillars in the Field and Garden, Thomas Allen, et al.
For Southern Californians:
An Introduction to Southern California Butterflies, Fred Heath
Moore has written a book for kids, Monarch Garden Advents
Linda Richards lives in Redlands CA. Her website www.ifnaturecouldtalk.com is dedicated to speaking for our natural world. Contact her at email@example.com


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GSA Posts SmartPay® RFI on FedBizOpps
July 6, 2005
Contact: Viki Reath (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC -- The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced that it is soliciting ideas for the future GSA SmartPay® government-wide charge card services program, the largest program of its kind in the world, which in 2004 supported more than $24 billion in spending by federal agencies and other authorized organizations.
GSA plans to issue a Request for Proposals for the future SmartPay® program in FY 2006 and award contracts in FY 2007. Existing GSA SmartPay® contracts expire Nov. 29, 2008, assuming the remaining contract option periods are exercised.
Responses to the GSA SmartPay® Request for Information (RFI) will be accepted until July 26. The RFI is posted on www.fedbizopps.gov, the Internet site that lists all federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.
"A key goal is to improve charge card purchase data collection and evaluation, which will provide customer agencies additional options for safeguarding the government purchasing process, while also providing additional options for buying smarter," said Neal Fox, GSA Assistant Commissioner for Commercial Acquisition. "The future program will emphasize customer service, using new technology to fulfill unique government purchasing and funds management requirements more effectively and efficiently."
In 2004, GSA SmartPay®:
- Supported 350 federal agencies, organizations and Native American tribes.
- Processed nearly 90 million purchase, travel and fleet transactions.
- Supported more than $24 billion in spending on goods and services, including travel and government vehicle fuel and maintenance.
- Saved the federal government $3.4 billion in administrative and transaction costs.
- Refunded $123 million to agencies.
Government charge card program managers interested in the future GSA SmartPay® program are invited to attend the Seventh Annual GSA SmartPay® Conference, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, in Boston. For conference registration and other opportunities to share ideas for the future program, please visit www.gsa.gov/gsasmartpay.
GSA is a centralized federal procurement and property management agency created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. GSA's 12,000 associates acquire, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services, and provide services and solutions for offices that house more than one million federal workers in more than 8,000 government-owned and leased buildings in 2,000 U.S. communities.


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Echoing Hume, Wash. Times cited skeptic's misleading statistic to suggest global warming "stopped in 1998"
Echoing Brit Hume's recent report that global warming "could ... be in remission," a Washington Times editorial cited a misleading statistic -- recently highlighted by global-warming skeptic Bob Carter -- to suggest that global warming might have "stopped in 1998" because of a "negligible decrease in temperature" since that year. But Hume and the Times neglected to mention why temperatures have slightly decreased since 1998: That year was the hottest on record, according to the Climatic Research Unit, the source of Carter's data.
Echoing Fox News host Brit Hume [1], an April 18 Washington Times editorial [2] cited a misleading statistic to suggest that global warming might have "stopped in 1998" because of a "negligible decrease in temperature" since that year. On the April 10 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Hume cited an April 9 op-ed [3] in The Sunday Telegraph written by global-warming skeptic Bob Carter [4], an adjunct professor of earth sciences at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, to suggest that global warming might "be in remission." Hume stated: "Carter notes that since 1998, average temperatures across the globe have not increased at all, and, in fact, have dropped ever so slightly." While 1998 was the hottest on record [5] according to the Climatic Research Unit [6], the source of Carter's data, an examination of temperature data since 1998 undermines Carter's assertion that global warming "stopped" in that year. For example, neither Carter, the Times, nor Hume mentioned the fact that five different years since 1998 (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005) have seen warmer temperatures than any year preceding 1998, according to Climatic Research Unit figures. Nor did they explain that 2005 was the second-warmest year on record, according to the Climatic Research Unit, and the hottest year on record when analysis of warming in the Arctic is taken into account, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies [7] (GISS).
The Times editorial, which bemoaned the exclusion of global-warming skeptics from the "political discourse," acknowledged that most scientists would "dispute Carter's view." But it did not mention why that might be the case -- because Carter's view is based on a misrepresentation of recent temperature trends:
The same week California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sought to reposition himself on global warming with a proposal for new greenhouse-gas cuts, a funny thing happened: A paleoclimatologist said that global warming actually stopped in 1998.
"For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem," wrote Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia in the Daily Telegraph [sic]. "In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate [sic] Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase."
In fact, according to Mr. Carter, there appears to have been a negligible decrease in temperature over that period. Which is not to say that he disputes the notion that warming happened in the late 20th century. Rather, Mr. Carter is pointing to a recent fluctuation in the climate data which suggests that so-called "anthropogenic" warming could not be a very significant factor -- not if gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles and surging Chinese growth could fail to tip the scales toward warming. Climate seems to vary according to a number of factors, he believes, and the man-made part was probably negligible the last few years. Mr. Carter unloaded on -- among people and institutions -- the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, calling it a "gravy train" to benefit scientists who hew to preferred positions on global warming.
We bring up Mr. Carter's entry into this debate up not to endorse the scientific judgment -- we leave that to the scientists, many or even most of whom would dispute Mr. Carter's view -- but instead to observe that the political discourse often pretends that such voices do not exist.
Hume also parroted Carter's claim that "there was actually a slight decrease" in temperature between 1998 and 2005:
HUME: And could global warming be in remission? Australian geologist Bob Carter thinks so. Carter notes that since 1998, average temperatures across the globe have not increased at all, and, in fact, have dropped ever so slightly. Carter says what he calls "climate scaremongering" is merely a self-created political fiasco, as he put it, writing in the London Telegraph that global-warming devotees ignore the fact that the Earth got warmer between 1918 and 1940 before worldwide industrialization and cooled between 1940 and 1968, during the height of the growing industrial era. His conclusion: The Earth's climate changes naturally and unpredictably in cycles.
However, other data from Carter's own source contradict his assertion that recent annual temperature figures show that global warming "stopped in 1998."
A chart from a December 2005 press release [5] from the Climatic Research Unit:
Optimally averaged temperature relative to the 1961-1990 mean
The press release also noted that 2005 was "the second warmest year on record" at the time:
"2005 is currently the second warmest year on record and 2005 is likely to be among the warmest 4 years in the official temperature record since 1861, but final figures will not be released until February. The last 10 years (1996-2005), with the exception of 1996, are the warmest years on record."
According to a January report [8] by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year on record. NASA explained the difference between its findings and those of the Climatic Research Unit: "The primary difference among the analyses, according to the NASA scientists, is the inclusion of the Arctic in the NASA analysis. Although there are few weather stations in the Arctic, the available data indicate that 2005 was unusually warm in the Arctic."
Further, the Climatic Research Unit stated [9] on its website in January 2006 that the 1990s were "the warmest decade of the millennium and the 20th century the warmest century":
The 1990s were the warmest decade in the series. The warmest year of the entire series has been 1998, with a temperature of 0.58°C above the 1961-90 mean. Nine of the ten warmest years in the series have now occurred in the past ten years (1995-2004). The only year in the last ten not among the warmest ten is 1996 (replaced in the warm list by 1990).
Analyses of over 400 proxy climate series (from trees, corals, ice cores and historical records) show that the 1990s is the warmest decade of the millennium and the 20th century the warmest century. The warmest year of the millennium was 1998, and the coldest was probably 1601.
A graph on the Climatic Research Unit website illustrates the broader context for the warming trend for the "combined global land and marine surface temperature record from 1856 to 2005":
Carter has made other inaccurate statements on climate change, which have been debunked here [10] and here [11]. As Media Matters for America has documented [12], peer-reviewed [13] evidence that human activity is contributing to global warming is embraced by the vast majority of climate scientists.
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- Special Report with Brit Hume [19]


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I've just installed backtrack 4 for VMWare and updated the vmware tools. I wanted to try out the unity feature but I get the error "the guest operating system's resolution cannot be changed".
Does anyone know how to get Unity to work with Backtrack? I know that Unity supports some versions of linux but I'm not very familiar with Unity or Linux. Any help appreciated.


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Give a Dog a Bone Step Stool
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Your son will eagerly step up on this uniquely designed Give a Dog a Bone Step Stool to get things beyond his reach. It is crafted of wood and hand painted with adorable puppies, dog food and of course bones. This sweet step stool is perfect for your little boy who likes to be a man and do things on his own. Personalize it with his name so he can really call it his own!
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