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I posted the message below in the LCD-X forum - I'll be doing the same for my HE6. Cheap and effective. YMMV.
I was getting a pressure point right on the top of my bald pointy head - rather unpleasant after about 30 mins. A seat belt pad, cut to the right length, fixed that. Also made the LCD-X a much firmer fit on my skull so I can move my head around a lot more without feeling like my headphones are going to fall into my lap. Also helps a little in distributing the weight more evenly over my noggin.
I am using these, cut to suit with a sharp pair of scissors. I'll be getting another for my HE6, which is also a little lacking in the comfort and fit departments for my shiny skull.
EDIT - should add - this option looks like hell. It wrecks the nice aesthetics of the headphone - that doesn't bother me one bit as I will take comfort over looks any day - but others might not feel the same.
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The Ibanez LGB30 George Benson Hollow Body Guitar is an exciting instrument designed in collaboration with the one and only George Benson and Ibanez! As the first Signature Model of the Ibanez Artstar Series, the LGB30 is a more affordable version of the LGB300. With a spruce top with Flamed Maple back and sides, and 3-piece Mahogany/ Maple set neck the Ibanez LGB30 hollowbody is both gorgeous and incredibly toneful. Two Ibanez Super 58 Custom pickups really let the LGB30 George Benson signature guitar shine. The Artstar Fret Edge Treatment (for a fast, smooth feel), Ebony fingerboard, Bone nut, LGB300 custom tailpiece and gold hardware round out the features on this incredible instrument from Ibanez. Ibanez LGB30 George Benson Hollow Body Guitar Features

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The members of the Craig Middle School eighth-grade boys basketball A team flex their muscles in celebration of the team's first-place victory at last weekend's district tournament. The team beat Rangely and Steamboat Springs to finish a perfect 14-0 season.
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Another great talent has passed away. Jimmy Ellis, 74, lead singer of the Philadelphia rhythm and blues band the Trammps, whose hit "Disco Inferno" was featured in the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever, died Thursday, March 8, in Rock
Post by Jacqueline Burt Sad news: Jimmy Ellis, who sang the 1970's hit "Disco Inferno" for the Trammps, died yesterday in South Carolina from complications associated with Alzheimer's disease. He was 74 years old. The Grammy-nominated...Show More Summary
Jimmy Ellis, the lead singer of The Trammps, the music group that popularized the 1970s anthem "Disco Inferno," has died. He was 74. Ellis died in a Rock Hill, S.C. nursing home of complications from Alzheimer's disease, his daughter told The New York Times. See other celebs we lost this year Read More >
'Disco Inferno' Singer Jimmy Ellis Dead at 74 | Source: Rickey.org | The X Factor | The Voice | American Idol Another great in music has passed away. Jimmy Ellis, lead vocalist of the Trammps, has passed away due to complications from Alzheimer's. Their biggest hit is "Disco Inferno" which appears on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. From TMZ:
Singer Jimmy Ellis, whose signature dance anthem "Disco Inferno" burned up the music charts in the late 1970s and was immortalized in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever, died Thursday in his hometown of Rock Hill, South Carolina. He was 74. Erika Stinson, the daughter of the former Trammps lead singer, told the New York [...]Show More Summary
Jimmy Ellis, who sung lead vocals for The Trammps on their 1970s classic "Disco Inferno," died yesterday in South Carolina. He was 74.Eliis died from complications due to Alzheimer's disease, his daughter told the NY Times."Disco Inferno" was…
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Jimmy Ellis, the voice behind the dance floor anthem "Disco Inferno," has died. He passed away Thursday in South Carolina at the age of 74. Ellis died of complications from Alzheimer's Disease, his daughter told the New York Times. Ellis...Show More Summary


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Dictionarylim•boPronunciation: (lim'bō), [key] —n., —pl. -bos. 1. (often cap.) Rom. Cath. Theol.a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (lim'bo of in'fants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (lim'bo of the fa'thers or lim'bo of the pa'triarchs). 2. a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date: My youthful hopes are in the limbo of lost dreams. 3. an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place. 4. a place or state of imprisonment or confinement. lim•boPronunciation: (lim'bō), [key] —n., —pl. -bos. a dance from the West Indies, originally for men only, in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each successive pass. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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A few days later, as the men started to put together a pen near the dock, Suzanne and I climbed a hill with Lisa Larsson. She had kept detailed logs of Luna's calls for a research project run by an organization called OrcaLab, which monitors whales near northern Vancouver Island, and specializes, in part, in studying their calls. Larsson joked that after months of listening to Luna, she felt like his nanny. She was strongly in favor of his reuniting with his pod, she said, but she was uncomfortable about the way the DFO was going about it.
The big net trap, the hoist cranes and a plan to bolt a tag to his dorsal fin bothered her. "It would be so much nicer not to cause him any distress," she said. Like almost everyone, Larsson hoped that Luna's pod would swim near Nootka Sound on its way to its summer home, so that he could just be led out to meet his family. Thorburn shared that wish. For weeks, he had been teaching Luna to follow the Rugged Point, so he could take him to a reunion. But the pod didn't swim nearby. So it was decided that Thorburn would have to lead Luna to the pen instead.
The day that the DFO announced plans to go ahead with the capture, I again asked Mike Maquinna if he was going to do anything to oppose it. He gave a faint grin, "We're going to call up a big storm," he said, "so they'll run out of money and go away." It sounded like a joke.
By the morning of the announced capture, June 16, reporters had poured into GoldRiver. The day was sunny, but everyone was on edge. I went down to the docks early, but Thorburn had not yet gone out to lead Luna toward the pen. Then, while I stood there wondering what to do, I heard the sound of singing: a paddlers' chant sung by many voices.
From behind the dock two traditional dugout cedar canoes emerged, lashed together, full of members of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nation, paddling and singing.
They paddled away from the dock. They got a half a mile out in the sound, and suddenly, there was Luna, right beside them, blowing bursts of mist in their faces.
I ran down to my Zodiac and followed.
Everything now seemed to happen in slow motion. The canoes paddled away gradually; Luna followed them. Amorning breeze came down from the mountains. The canoes put up a rectangular sail, and drifted gently before it in the sunshine, the green sail bright against walls of forest. Carried in the gentle wind, the sound of singing filled the narrow fiord.
By the day's end, the natives had taken Luna 30 miles down the sound to a distant bay. "The overall feeling was as long as we keep him occupied, we'd keep him away from that pen," said Eugene Amos, one of the paddlers. "Then somewhere along the line it dawned on us that, my God, we're fighting for his freedom."
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WASHINGTON – CUA scored three 1st inning runs and that was all the Cardinals needed in a 3-2 win over McDaniel (0-1) on Monday in the home opener. Rob Steinkopf earned the win on the mound for CUA (4-0), while Nick Clary drove in two runs to help lead to the win.
CUA put its first two hitters on base in the opening inning, with Brendan Breslin leading off with a single and Eric Scamardella following with a walk.
A one-out walk to Mark Kalokitis loaded the bases and Clary then delivered a two-run double to right. A Chris McCloud sac fly to right then plated Kalokitis and CUA led 3-0 after one.
The Green Terror got on the board for the first time in the 3rd when Pat Christopher singled home Tyler Jackow to make it 3-1.
CUA threatened in the 5th when Breslin reached on an error, but the next batters were retired and the score remained 3-1.
In the 6th, McDaniel put the first two runners on, but Jonah Jimenez struck out the next two hitters and got the third to ground out to end the threat.
One inning later, CUA put two runners on with one out, but was unable to push anyone across.
The Green Terror inched closer in the 8th when James Chiorello doubled home Christopher to make it 3-2. The next two batters were retired though, and CUA held on to the one-run lead.
In the 9th, Chris Nee retired three of the four batters he faced to help lead CUA to its fourth straight win.
Steinkopf threw four innings on the afternoon, allowing just one earned run on four hits. Jimenez then went two innings, before Josh Martin, Dustin Hanley and Nee finished things off.
Zach Jones took the loss for the visitors, after he allowed three runs on three hits in four innings.
CUA is back at home on Thursday afternoon when the Cardinals play host to Messiah. Start time is set for 3 p.m. from Talbot Field.
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Greg Oden and His Injury-Plagued Knee Still Aren't Ready to Return to the Court
September 29, 2010 – 7:45 am by Eric SchmoldtNBA camp is quickly approaching and once again it appears that Greg Oden's knee isn't going to allow him to be on the basketball court. Oden, the highly touted prospect out of Ohio State, has just one full season's-worth of games, 82, in his first three years since joining the professional ranks.
Oden missed the entirety of what was supposed to be his rookie season with microfracture surgery in his right knee. In what turned out to be his rookie season, he averaged nearly nine points per game in 61 games during a season that saw foot and left knee injuries. Last season, it was back to the left knee as he fractured his patella and played just 21 games.
He's still rehabbing his way back from that injury and once he does, it's already time for what could be an interesting contract year.
Greg Oden joined KFXX in Portland with Isaac and Big Suke to discuss his rehab stints, what will be necessary in order for him to return to the court, how he feels right now, what it's like to have the most scrutinized knees on the West Coast, whether he's emotionally and mentally 100 percent and his future in Portland.
On comparing his rehab stints over the last couple years:
"Honestly, I couldn't even compare the two because I don't remember a lot of the stuff that I did with the microfracture. All I can remember with the microfracture is I was in the pool a lot and I am past that stage of being in the pool. This is totally different, the microfracture and this. The microfractures was the tissues and this was the actual bone, so it's kind of tough to compare the two."
On what the doctors need to see before he returns to full-contact:
"First, I need to feel 100 percent. No matter what they see or what happens, they're not in my body. I have to feel 100 percent and feel confident in that I know that I can go out there and be the best that I can be, which is 100 percent. Then I have to be cleared by Dr. Roberts, who's the guy that did my surgery. If he feels that I can do well enough, he'll clear me."
On how he feels right now:
"I'm feeling good, but I'm still not able to do everything that I want to do." Like what? "Like I can't play. … If I just was doing what I feel like I want to do, I would be out there trying to play in a game, but I can't. I physically can't."
On what it's like to have the most scrutinized knees in Portland:
"Haha, that's funny. I don't worry about it. It happened, this is the plate that's been put in front of me, and I have to deal with it. I'm staying positive because I know I'm doing everything I possibly can to get myself back out there."
On whether he's mentally and emotionally 100 percent even though he's not physically there yet:
"I feel in great spirits. I want to do everything I possibly can to bring a good aura to this team and around these guys. If I'm not out there, I want to be right there with these guys, shaking their hand, talking to them, being inside their head. … I want to be a little bit more prepared for when I do finally get out there and start playing."
On whether there has been any discussions about his future in Portland with the new owner:
"No, because right now I need to concentrate on getting healthy. When I get healthy, then I can get on the court and that's when that stuff comes up. Whenever I get on the court and do what I'm supposed to be doing on the court, that's when that's going to come up."
Listen to the interview with Greg Oden on KFXX in Portland here
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Gus Poyet has been sacked as Brighton & Hove Albion manager following his suspension.
The former Chelsea and Tottenham player led Brighton to the Championship play-offs after an impressive 2012-13 season.
But, after losing to Crystal Palace in the semi-finals, he was suspended by the club after an alleged breach of contract.
Reports claimed that the 45-year-old told his players that he was unsure whether he could take the club any further following the loss to Palace, and after weeks of uncertainty he has now finally discovered his fate.
A club statement read: "Gus Poyet has been informed today by Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club's internal disciplinary panel that his employment has been terminated with immediate effect.
"This followed his suspension, an investigation, and a subsequent formal disciplinary process. In line with the club's own procedures, and UK employment law, Mr Poyet now has a right of appeal.
"As such, the club will make no further comment on this matter or recent LMA statements at this time."
Speaking while working as a pundit during BBC Sport's coverage of the FIFA Confederations Cup, Poyet revealed he had not been contacted by the club, meaning the first he knew of the decision was when he was informed by the BBC.
The Uruguayan admitted he was surprised by the decision and said he would appeal.
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Summer is the time for movies about superheroes. Often, after a couple of episodes in a movie franchise come out, the producers make a film about the origins of the protagonist, so the audience can better understand the hero's motivations and origins.
Like a movie superhero, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1 has super powers: it can triple a verdict and generate an attorney-fee award in a single bound. Like a superhero's backstory, the history of section 75-1.1 is key to an understanding of these powers. In honor of the summer blockbusters, here is a brief history of section 75-1.1.
Where did section 75-1.1 come from?
Antitrust concepts have been a part of North Carolina law since colonial times. North Carolina's constitution of 1776 declared that "perpetuities and monopolies" are "contrary to the genius of a free state and ought not to be allowed." In 1889, North Carolina enacted its first antitrust statute.
It was not until the 1960s, however, that the General Assembly enacted a general-purpose statute that promotes litigation (as opposed to competition) as a way of protecting consumers. During that decade, the Federal Trade Commission, seeking to extend its own consumer protection efforts, encouraged states to enact consumer protection statutes. In 1969, section 75-1.1 emerged from those efforts.
For the text of section 75-1.1, the drafters of the statute made an intentional choice to copy the text of section 5 of the FTC Act. Both statutes declare "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" and "unfair methods of competition" to be unlawful.
(As an aside, a direct prohibition of unfair or deceptive acts and practices did not appear in the original FTC Act. Congress added this scope to section 5 in 1938. It added this language in reaction to Supreme Court decisions that had held that a section 5 violation requires an injury to the competitive process. By the time the North Carolina General Assembly copied the text of section 5, the FTC Act's direct prohibition of unfair or deceptive acts and practices was already well known and in active use.)
By enacting statutes like section 75-1.1, states vastly expanded the resources available for consumer protection litigation. Section 5 contains no private right of action. The FTC enforces section 5, but its resources are not unlimited. Section 75-1.1 and most other "Little FTC Acts," in contrast, allow private parties to sue. Indeed, many of these statutes use expanded remedies—like the treble damages and attorney fees available in North Carolina—to encourage private parties to act as private attorneys general.
In 1977, the North Carolina General Assembly broadened section 75-1.1 by deleting the word "trade" from the statutory text and by inserting a statement that the statute covers "all business activities, however denominated."
Neither the original version of section 75-1.1 nor the 1977 amendment, however, offers a definition of what qualifies as an unfair or a deceptive act or practice. That lack of definition is what makes section 75-1.1 so challenging to apply (and so interesting to discuss).
For more detailed histories of section 5 and section 75-1.1, see pages 2037-38 and 2056-70 in Matt Sawchak's and Kip Nelson's 2012 article in the North Carolina Law Review.
How the history of section 75-1.1 affects today's law
What does the history of section 75-1.1 mean for today's law? This history most often comes into play when there is no binding authority on how section 75-1.1 applies to a particular fact pattern. Although there are over 2000 published opinions on section 75-1.1, courts often have to improvise when they apply the open-ended concepts of unfairness and deception.
In these situations, the historical link between section 5 and section 75-1.1 becomes especially important. The North Carolina Supreme Court has recognized this point. As recently as 1997, the court has stated that courts should look to authorities under section 5 "for guidance in construing the meaning of Section 75-1.1."
To be sure, using section 5 standards to help apply section 75-1.1 is not a cure for every problem. Recent commentators, including FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright, have urged the FTC to add detail to its standards for unfairness and deception. But even if this further detail never arrives, the standards under section 5 are still far more developed than the standards under section 75-1.1.
In short, section 75-1.1 has super powers, but it suffers from a lack of predictable standards. The law under section 5 of the FTC Act can come to the rescue for courts that face uncertainty under section 75-1.1.
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*Spoiler* Ending, What choice did you make?
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Friend's Ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hku3je-u3OM http://www.youtube.com/user/HBgameplay?feature=mhee |
I also picked friends, as I imagine the majority of people did. I looked up the Citra ending though: ****SPOILERS**** You slit your girlfriend's throat, I forget her name, and then have sex with Citra. She stabs you in the chest, you die. Fin. |
^the fact that she kidnapped your friends and asks you to kill them ruined the choice imo. it would have been much better if she didn't have you kill the GF and you just decided "you know what, i think i will be a god and stick with citra" and then you turn around and she kills you. sucks to be you, as it is, it was way too obvious that you should not choose her - you killed everyone, freed the rakyat from hoyt and rescued your friends. there really is no reason to stay. |
I chose to save my friends. I thought the entire mood swing from when Jason thinks Riley is dead until he saves him is just stupid. "I'm staying here, there's nothing left for me...except you guys, who I fought through hell to rescue but f*** you guys". Why? Because **** you is why. |
MagicManGreg posted... ****SPOILERS**** That alone made me chose the Citra ending. I hated her. She was a selfish stuck up ***** who deserved to die. GLaDOS 2012 - At least she admits the cake is a lie. |
Dr_Kain posted... MagicManGreg posted...****SPOILERS**** I almost wanted to kill the girlfriend because of these same reasons. I still wanted to save my friends though. PSN: MoHSalim http://www.youtube.com/m0hsalim |
I felt no guilt about offing the 'girlfriend', though felt I should have seen Citra's final reaction coming. Just out of interest, what happens if you save the friends instead? beep |
nordwest posted... I felt no guilt about offing the 'girlfriend', though felt I should have seen Citra's final reaction coming. SPOILERS Dennis gets mad and tries to stab you, but Citra jumps in the way to protect you and ends up dying. Her last words to Jason are "I love you. Please don't leave me." (something like that). Jason says sorry and she dies. Dennis is sad and cries. Jason leaves with the rest of his friends on the boat. Jason has a monologue where he believes hes become a monster and has to find the good in him to be normal again. END SPOILERS PSN: MoHSalim http://www.youtube.com/m0hsalim |
I just beat the game and i choose the save friends option. http://i.imgur.com/qvtbL.jpeg http://i.imgur.com/iS38oyF.png http://imgur.com/SbmhS.jpg http://imgur.com/g8uN6.jpg R3D. |
When they kidnap Jason's friends and murdered Dr Earnhardt, in my mind, that's pretty much a screw you from Citra and the Ratyat to Jason. I was actually expecting the ending of the game to be Jason massacring Citra and her followers for double crossing him but then they gave you a choice to save your friends or kill Jason's girlfriend (I didn't catch why) just to stay with Citra. I'm one of the few people who don't hate the protagonist and his friends just because they're privileged rich kids. They're not the ideal characters I would choose but I never hated them so much that I felt they deserved to die. So... the ending was a easy decision for me play through 1. |
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The Man In The Zoo
October 1992 | Volume 43, Issue 6
At the closing ceremonies in December 1904, the president of the fair asked if the Pygmies wished to stay in America. They shouted no, in unison, and Samuel Verner dutifully escorted them back to the Congo, then stayed on, collecting specimens and making big plans for his own trading post. Meanwhile, Ota Benga remarried, only to have his second wife die of snakebite. Alone again, with neither a family nor a hunting band of his own, and stubbornly fond of Verner despite everything, he eventually demanded to be brought back to America, to start a new life there. If Verner did not take him, he vowed, he would kill himself.
The two men landed at New York in the summer of 1906, along with crates of artifacts and a small menagerie with which Verner hoped to restore his fortunes. Nothing seemed to work out, and with creditors closing in, Verner finally unloaded his animals on the Bronx Zoo and made Ota Benga's extended stay there part of a package deal.
At first the Pygmy simply wandered the grounds unnoticed, wearing ordinary clothes, earning his keep by feeding the primates. But the zoo's director, William T. Hornaday, had a showman's gaudy instincts. His original plans to have a fully peopled American Indian village on the grounds had never quite worked out. Now he made his small guest a big attraction. BUSHMAN SHARES A CAGE WITH BRONX PARK APES, Said The New York Times, and forty thousand people turned out on a single afternoon to see the "wild man from Africa."
Not everyone was pleased. "Our race, we think, is depressed enough without exhibiting one of us with the apes," said the Reverend James H. Gordon, chairman of the Colored Baptist Ministers' Conference. "We think we are worthy of being considered human beings, with souls."
As a black man Gordon objected primarily to the exhibition's naked racism, but as a Baptist he had another agenda: Exhibition of a human being and an orangutan together, with its suggestion that zoo-goers were somehow seeing the missing link, would encourage Darwinism. "This is a Christian country," Gordon explained, "and the exhibition evidently aims to be a demonstration of the Darwinian theory of evolution. The Darwinian theory is absolutely opposed to Christianity and a public demonstration in its favor should not be permitted."
Even some whites began to object. "I lived in the south several years, and consequently am not over fond of the negro," one wrote, "but believe him human. I think it a shame that the authorities of this great city should allow such a sight as...a negro boy on exhibition in a monkey cage."
Director Hornaday could never quite understand what all the fuss was about—after all, he told a reporter, the Pygmy "has one of the best rooms in the primate house"—but he now let Ota Benga out of his cage to wander the grounds. Throngs followed wherever he went, "howling, jeering and yelling," according to the Times. "Some of them poked him in the ribs, others tripped him up, all laughed at him." His keepers teased him too, and one especially hot afternoon, when he started to remove his clothes and got sprayed with a hose for his trouble, he went for one of them with a knife and had to be manhandled back into his cage. BENGA TRIES TO KILL, reported the New York Tribune.
In the end Hornaday decided his prize exhibit had become more trouble than he was worth and turned him over to the Reverend Gordon, who also headed the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn. There, studying alongside children one-third his age, Ota Benga did learn to write a little. But, Howard finally admitted, "his age was against his development. It was simply impossible to put him in a class to receive instructions...that would be of any advantage to him." And he showed an alarming interest in some of the older girls.
In 1910 Ota Benga finally asked to be allowed to attend the Baptist Seminary at Lynchburg, Virginia. There he received Christian baptism, had his name changed to Otto Bingo, even had his filed teeth capped.
He worked at a series of desultory jobs—grounds keeping, feeding chickens, sorting tobacco leaves—but only the forest seemed permanently to hold his interest. In summertime he slept in the hayloft of the seminary's president, fashioned bows and arrows for small boys, and led them into the woods to hunt small game. Sometimes, on his way home in the evening, he would board the bus and pay his fare with a wild bird's egg or a rabbit he'd brought home from the forest.
On the afternoon of March 20, 1916, Ota Benga lit a fire behind the carriage house where he lived in summer. He removed the caps from his teeth. When his small companions asked him to lead them into the woods again, he turned them away. Once they were safely out of sight, he shot himself through the heart.


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The purchase is the latest high-profile investment in the U.S. by a Chinese business this year. Meat processor Shuanghui of Henan Province last month completed the acquisition of Smithfield for $4.7 billion, the largest investment in the U.S. ever by a Chinese company.
Successful reform policies in China during the past three decades have catapulted it into the ranks of the world's richest countries. China had a record 168 billionaires on the latest edition of the Forbes China Rich List announced on Wednesday. Guo ranked No. 31 with wealth of $3.25 billion.
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Vanilla Peaches with Pistachio Crumble
Author Notes: When I was a kid, my dad used to set bananas on fire in the frying pan by pouring alcohol on them. It was a little stunt he had and we were madly impressed every time. We asked him to do it often, even though we actually weren't too fond of the taste of the bananas. Today I have grown to love those flavors. I don't set my peaches on fire, but I think they make a pretty good dessert anyway. -David —Green Kitchen Stories
Serves 5
- 5 ripe peaches
- 4 tablespoons dry vermouth
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1/3 cup shelled pistachios, finely chopped
- Vanilla ice cream, yogurt or mascarpone, to serve
- Preheat the oven to 400° F.
- Cut each peach in half and remove the stone. Place the halves on a baking tray, cut side upwards.
- Put the vermouth and honey in a small bowl. Cut the vanilla pod in half, scrape out the seeds and add to the bowl. Whisk until combined. Add the pistachios to the bowl and stir.
- Scoop a teaspoon of the honey-drenched nuts into the pit of each peach. Drizzle the remaining vermouth mixture over the peaches, until they are all covered.
- Bake for about 20 minutes, or until very soft and slightly golden.
- Serve with vanilla ice cream, yogurt of choice, or mascarpone.
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So much bloodshed! In a place of peace! Jaina has gone too far this time by Rommath
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So much bloodshed! In a place of peace! Jaina has gone too far this time by Rommath
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Calling it right now, after seeing Lor'themar super mad at the alliance and basicly looking for better allies to fight by thier side, im goin to go ahead and say that he will speak with Sylvanas in 5.2 or 5.3. And I cant freaking wait for that D:
I too don't think that neutral is not the best word to describe the Kirin Tor's position. Neutrality, in honestly, is kind of a self preservation move to avoid damaging conflict. The Kirin Tor's politics seem more akin to an overseeing committee more concerned about "fairness", like they don't want any side to have a disproportionate advantage (weapons of mass destruction).
No one is ahead... You just reach revered and buy a token that give u 100% more reputation
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I have updated first post with horde - the purge of dalaran and final Breath of Darkest Shadow.
Credit Goes to RazorclawXCC: http://www.youtube.com/user/RazorclawXCC?feature=watch
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Question for the people who have completed the Shieldwall/Dominance Offensive quest chain: Is there any point to hold off on doing the story quests until Revered or far enough into Honored that you can just get Exalted in one sitting with the reputation commendation, or are you limited to how many story events you can do in a day?
Went to bed shortly after posting, thanks for the speedy reply.
Watching through these, I noticed that the Horde and Alliance Darnassus quests seem to contradict each other. For starters, the Dalaran portal Jaina finds at the end of the Alliance never appears in the Horde-side version at all. The portal there leads to and from Domination Point. Furthermore, Fanlyr Silverthorn is supposed to teleport it to Silvermoon, which is indeed where it shows up next. Nowhere on the Horde-side quests does Dalaran enter into it. Either that's a good sized plot hole or something suspicious is going on.
I noticed that Fanlyr stays behind to "clean up our tracks a bit" while Horde players return to Domination Point. What he did after that isn't shown on either side, but somehow or other we've got a portal to Dalran and a bright blue arcane trail leading right to it. I have to say, it looks an awful lot like Fanlyr set up the Sunreavers (presumably to add their strength to the Horde) and Jaina played right into it.
We've got means, motive, and opportunity, can we convict? Thoughts?
Maybe the "Dalaran Portals" are not stationary, and the "Portal to Darnassus" in Domination point is actually from Dalaran, merely set in another origin point. I mean this, because with Jaina's wards in Darnassus it would have been nigh impossible to create a portal without them detecting it. The portal had to be one that had "clearance" to enter Darnassus. Preventing enemy portals from being summoned had to be one of Jaina's top priorities unless she suddenly became a moron.
There's also another possibility of how Jaina's wards were bypassed; When you arrive at Darnassus, there's a lot of mages creating an invisivility field. How did they got there? Perhaps they they traveled to Darnassus through Dalaran, closed the portal, erected the barrier and then opened a portal to Domination Offensive from their now hidden and secure position.
The point is that Jaina knows that a Portal from Dalaran was used, and unless she is wildly missinformed, she knows something we don't. Another thing is that the Sunreaver involvement isn't a secret, Nazgrim himself tells you that they are Garrosh's agents.


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The extensive industrial interests of the Lloyd family really began with an opportunistic purchase by the first Sir Charles Lloyd during the Commonwealth period following the English Civil War. Percy Herbert the second Baron Powis and Member of Parliament for Wilton found himself caught up in a plot to bring troops over from Ireland to suppress parliament. Forced to support King Charles he later fled to the continent before being summoned back to Parliament to be tried:
He returned to England before the end of May 1649, the deadline stipulated by parliament. Herbert vigorously defended his case, but he was unsuccessful, and his estates were forfeited and sold in 1652-3. These included Hendon manor in Middlesex and several manors in Montgomeryshire. [1]
It was the manor of Caereinion that Sir Charles Lloyd chose to buy, extending his land beyond the family home of Dolobran Hall. Little is known of the first Sir Charles Lloyd, reinforcing the view that before the industrial interests built up by his son the family was simply one of the multitude of minor gentry, although William Rees referred to him as a 'merchant and Alderman of the City of London.' [2] This suggests that he had some status in the city and possibly that he was in a position to benefit from the Commonwealth. Despite his relatively low profile William Rees believed that it was him who founded the Lloyd's industrial interests with the building of a forge on part of his newly bought estate at Mathrafal. This took place shortly after its purchase in 1651 but by 1652 it had been sold to William Fownes, another London merchant who became heavily involved in the iron industry. [3] After this the forge changed hands several times, including coming back under the ownership of the Powis family who recovered their lands after the restoration, being under the control of Sir Thomas Myddelton at the time of his death in 1666 and being passed to his grandsons. [4] It was then rented out numerous times before coming back under the control of the Lloyd family by 1693.
Due to a lack of documentary evidence it is unclear exactly who regained control of the Mathrafal forge and exactly when this happened. William Rees felt that Mathrafal was certainly in the hands of the Lloyd family by 1693 'when the Quaker, Amos Davies, became Clerk of the Forge' but that the lease had been taken out earlier than this by Charles Lloyd the Second. [5] Humphrey Lloyd has disagreed however, and has accredited the venture to his son, Charles Lloyd the Third:
Already since the end of 1697 an air of change had come over Dolobran where the house and estate were now in the hands of the younger Charles...and within six months of his father's departure to Birmingham, the new Charles had made a still more far-reaching move. He had taken the lease of a local iron forge. [6]
Estate record show that Charles Lloyd III took up the lease of the forge at Mathrafal on the 25th of March 1698. As his father died in later in the November of that year it seems to me more likely that this was a new lease for the family rather than one that was inherited. [7] This implies that Charles Lloyd III built up the family's industrial interests from scratch with little prior experience therefore taking a large risk which ultimately failed. It is important to emphasise that Charles did not buy Mathrafal and was instead leasing it from the Powis Estate for the considerable sum of £40 a year. [8] Whilst this saved him a much higher initial purchase cost it gave him no security for his investment in the enterprise which must have been considerable. Although he did not own the forge all of the costs of production would have still fallen to him. There is little information available about the operation of the old forge at Mathrafal during its time under the Lloyd family but from the millrace and support for the wheel that survives at the site it seems to have been a typical water-powered forge of the middle seventeenth century, as described by Humphrey Lloyd:
There was a hearth, with water-powered bellows, for refining the iron and expelling its impurities and a second hearth with power-hammer for drawing out the bars, processes that must have been in operation there for forty years past. [9]
Before the introduction of coal the forge would have been ideally placed for charcoal to be imported from surrounding estates. Large quantities would have been needed as can be seen by a petition from the landowner Lord Percy of Powis to the House of Lords in May 1660 concerning the use of timber by his tenants as fuel 'that a stop may be made of destroying any more timber and the carrying away what is already cut, in order that there may not be total destruction of the estate.' [10] This suggests to me that the original tenancy agreement had included the right to cut timber for use as fuel but the quantities involved were much greater than Lord Powis had expected, leading him to seek an ruling from the House of Lords. It is in the operation of the Mathrafal forge that we first start to see the Quaker influence on Charles Lloyd's business interests as he chose to entrust the running of his new venture to a fellow Quaker, Amos Davies. Davies was appointed clerk of the forge after spending many years as the clerk of the Dolobran Quaker meeting house, starting a tradition of Charles Lloyd appointing fellow Quakers to positions of responsibility, an arrangement that would have given him a higher level of trust and reliance in his key employees. [11]
Taking on the old forge at Mathrafal might have seemed like an odd venture for a minor gentry family to take on, especially in what can be seen to be such a remote location. However, there were a number of advantages. Firstly, the forge itself had by this time been established for over forty years and could be seen as a reliable venture of known quantity that could give a regular return. Secondly, the location provided easy access to charcoal sources from surrounding estates. Also important was the location in relation to local navigable rivers- Mathrafal was located on a tributary of the Vyrnwy, itself a tributary of the Severn, at this time widely used for transportation. This meant importation of pig iron was straightforward, as was the exportation of processed bar iron to the important West Midlands market. Also there would have been an important local market for bar iron produced, due to there being few forges in the surrounding area. However the venture starts to make real sense when it is considered that by the time Charles Lloyd III acquired control of Mathrafal he already had strong family links with the iron industry.
Sampson Lloyd was the second son of Charles Lloyd II, born in 1664 during Charles's imprisonment. After spending some years as a respected gentleman farmer and eventually marrying Mary Crowley who herself had family connection with the iron industry Sampson decided to move on away from the family influence, as described by Samuel Lloyd:
It was at the age of thirty-four, and in the same year as his father's death (1968) that Sampson Lloyd migrated to Birmingham. Like his father he was a Friend; and, like his father, although less severely, he had been continually persecuted in Wales. He was attracted to Birmingham because his brother-in-law, John Pemberton lived there; but he also chose it to escape the harassing and ruthless legal practises of the Conventicle Act. Birmingham, moreover, was always friendly to Dissidents... he soon found scope for his energy and capital. [12]
Although Samuel Lloyd is keen to point out the religious aspect of Sampson's decision to move to Birmingham I feel that there may have been other influences. After all, Sampson's brother Charles III was also a prominent Quaker and he evidently did not feel persecuted enough to leave his home. The timing of Sampson's leaving coincides with the death of his father, meaning that Charles would have inherited the estate. Humphrey Lloyd has put forward the theory that there was little in the way of inheritance for Sampson: 'There is nothing to suggest that his father was well off, unless in land, and Charles Lloyd had been preyed upon too long as a Quaker to have built up much worldly substance.' [13] The comment about being preyed upon could relate to Charles's long imprisonment and persecution or the Quaker tendency towards modesty and charity. With the land passing to his brother it is entirely possible that Sampson felt it was time for him to strike out on his own. After moving to Birmingham it seems that Sampson made the most of his family and religious connections in the iron industry to start a profitable business of his own. Humphrey Lloyd felt that his brother-in-law John Pemberton 'a forward-looking man, more than a mere ironmonger' was particularly influential and that Sampson 'had soon been accepted as a useful addition to the Quaker community.' [14] Humphrey Lloyd has deduced from surviving letters in the Lloyd collection Sampson acted as a supplier to his brother-in-law which could have allowed him to develop business interests of his own and gain valuable experience and contacts in the industry:
These letters show him already, after four years, holding a position of stability and respect, carrying on as an ironmonger on his own account in both iron and in steel, supplying bar iron for his brother-in-law's slitting operations, advising him on candidates for employment, reporting on available mill sites and standing as arbiter in disputes. [15]
An ironmonger in this context did not mean a craftsman but rather a merchant or trader in iron. It is clear that Charles at Dolobran regularly did business with his Birmingham based brother, as can be seen in a letter dated 1721 that Sampson wrote to complain about a delivery of iron:
I did not hear until yesterday that the last parcel of Brother Lloyd's mill iron was come to Bewdley, where I saw Henry Wheelwright who told me. He desired me to write to Brother that if more care be not taken in drawing the mill iron they will not be willing to slit it. He says that he is sure you have changed the hammerman, for the iron was quite drawn different from what has been sent before. [16]
There are several references to past orders in the letter, making it reasonable to assume that Charles regularly sold to Sampson or that Sampson sold on his behalf. The reference to poor quality is interesting, the reference to it possibly being the fault of a new hammer man showing the variables that existed in iron production in this period and possibly showing the greatest change between then and the time of mass production a century later. The human factor has yet to be scaled down in its importance in production. Nevertheless there is nothing to suggest that poor quality is an ongoing issue or indeed that any problems had occurred before. The business appears to have enjoyed some success and by the time of Sampson's death in 1724 items in his will include his house of Edgbaston Street bought for £400, a second residence at Lea in Herefordshire and property in Stourbridge. He also leaves £10 a year to Charles at Dolobran, indicating that a close friendship remained between the two brothers. His estate in total amounts to around £10,000, an impressive achievement amount considering his comparatively humble origins. [17]
The Birmingham branch of the Lloyd family now had a solid foundation on which to build and Sampson's son, Sampson Lloyd the second, made full use of the position he found himself in following his father's death, ultimately giving him the capital to start Taylor's and Lloyd's Bank which flourished in the later nineteenth century and surviving as Lloyds Banking Group, the third biggest UK bank in 2010. Jacob Price felt that Sampson Lloyd II was the catalyst behind this as he 'began to convert his father's quiet business into something much more ambitious, integrating backwards into slitting mills, forges, and ultimately furnaces.' [18] In connection with the Dolobran side of the family however it is the early part of Sampson II's expansion that concerns us. Again the Quaker industrial network is shown in his purchase of the lease of what became known as the Town Mill, the first of Sampson's major expansions, which had 'been for a number of years in the occupation of the Farmer family, Quakers, Ironmongers, gun-makers (oddly), and later to intermarry with the Lloyds.' [19] Its description as a Mill is due to the property previously being a corn mill- however the requirements of a forge in terms of water power were the same and indeed it seems that many mills also supported forges, especially in rural areas. Over time Sampson Lloyd II's business went from strength to strength, particularly during the Seven Years War (1756-1763) when demand for iron and steel, particularly high-quality iron for making cannon barrels and other weaponry. Jacob Price felt that it was the end of the Seven Years War that made Sampson consider going into banking as a departure from his by this time highly successful industrial interests:
The peace in 1763 posed a challenge, as did the need to provide careers for his four sons. The war had made many businessmen conscious of the need and opportunities for private banks in both London and the provinces. Perceiving this, in 1765 Lloyd joined with a rich Unitarian neighbour, John Taylor (c.1711-1775) to found the first real bank in Birmingham, Taylors and Lloyds; the four (equal) partners were Taylor, Taylor's son John, Sampson Lloyd, and his eldest son, also called Sampson. Shortly afterwards, in 1770, Lloyd's son-in-law Osgood Hanbury founded a bank in London...This became the necessary London correspondent and support of the quite prosperous Taylors and Lloyds. [20]
Here then it can be seen how the iron industry provided the means for the Lloyd family to enter the banking sector but also how the uncertainty over its future after the profitable years of the mid-eighteenth century also provided the motive to diversify.
Back in Wales Charles Lloyd III was also looking to expand, perhaps encouraged by the success of his relatives in Birmingham and in the hope of being able to increase his supply to them. Charles eventually made the decision to invest in a major new venture- in 1719 he both gave up the old forge at Mathrafal and made a double investment in a brand new forge at Dolobran itself and in a furnace at Bersham to the south west of Wrexham, a place later to be made famous by John Wilkinson's pioneering ironworks of the late eighteenth century. The motive for expansion at this time was clear, for iron prices had been rising steadily since the start of the eighteenth century, especially after 1717 when there was a trade embargo placed on Swedish imports. The decision to give up Mathrafal is a difficult one to understand, especially as contemporary figures gave the old forge a output of 180 tons annually, with the new forge at Dolobran only being slightly better at 190. [21] One argument is that the old forge at Mathrafal was only leased- by building his own forge Charles Lloyd would have full control over his investment and would be able to call upon his now considerable experience in the industry to design and run his own forge more efficiently. If the contemporary estimates are accurate then little gain seems to have been made in terms of total output and it can be assumed that the costs of construction and equipping would outweigh any savings through efficiency for a good many years. Aside from this however William Rees puts forward an intriguing theory as to why Charles Lloyd may have wished to start a new forge and invest in a furnace- the use of coal as a fuel:
Three years later , in 1724, Charles Lloyd bought from Thomas Meredith (of Pentrebychan) the colliery at Rhos, a mere two miles from Bersham, ensuring for the furnace a regular and constant supply of coal...At the forge at Dolobran, coal from Ruabon was beginning to be used but the main fuel was still charcoal drawn from the park at Llyssin. [22]
The use of coal in blast furnaces had first been experimented with by Abraham Darby of Coalbrookdale- another Quaker ironmaster- and a furnace had been built at Dolgyn near Dolgellau in 1713 using coal. Contact through the Quaker network with Darby's ideas may have been enough to convinced Lloyd that coal fired smelting was a worthwhile investment and the purchase of a colliery shows commitment to the idea. Furthermore, the first clerk of the new operations was to be John Kelsall, a Quaker who was formerly the schoolteacher of Dolobran but had left to be clerk at the new Dolgyn works.
The relationship between Darby, Kelsall and Lloyd will be explored in the next chapter but it seems that between them they had a great effect on Charles Lloyd's future plans. Humphrey Lloyd felt that the experimentations with coal played a significant part in the eventual bankruptcy of Charles Lloyd:
Smelting with coke was in its infancy; it was not at all generally understood and would not be so for another two generations and the Darbys themselves may well have been fortunate in the properties of the coal from which their coke was madeor the nature of the ore and other materials which they used; so that Bersham, even with technical advice from Coalbrookdale, would still be trying to work out its own salvation. [23]
Humphrey Lloyd also argued that this new type of furnace brought with it inherent disadvantages in that 'coal pig did not result in a very saleable type of bar, in fact was disliked, and sold only in a limited market.' [24] The picture that emerges is that of a rash investment into a new type of technology which was not yet understood well enough to make it commercially viable, and indeed Bersham did prove to be the downfall of Charles Lloyd III as costs overtook him and debts appear to have spiralled, eventually owing the sum of £16,000. Writing in his own journal Charles himself felt that he had allowed himself to invest way beyond his means and expertise:
Our great trouble was occasioned by my being very unadvisedly and inconsiderately concerned with some other persons in partnership and in partnership and in more business than I had stock of my own and effects to manage with, which when it was completed and finished instead of being profitable proved a continual loss not only to ourselves but unto many others, which was a cause of great sorrow, grief and trouble unto us. [25]
Charles Lloyd III eventually sold Dolobran to cover his debts and followed the path to Birmingham when he ingratiated himself and his sons into the flourishing business of Sampson Lloyd II before dying in 1748.


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HYDE PARK, Monday—We came back to Hyde Park yesterday morning, just one week from the time we all gathered here for the committal service in our hedge-surrounded garden. My sons and I went to look at the grave. If two soldiers had not been on guard, and the beautiful orchids flown up from the South had not covered the spot where the sod had been put back so carefully, we would hardly have known that the lawn was not as it had always been.
Before very long, the simple stone which my husband described very carefully for us will be in place. But in the meantime the children and the dogs will be quite unconscious that here a short time ago a solemn military funeral was held, and they will think of it as a place where flowers grow and where the hedge protects them from the wind and makes the sun shine down more warmly. And that is as my husband would have it. He liked children and dogs and sunshine and flowers, and they are all around him now.
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We drove over the boundaries of the place yesterday afternoon trying to ascertain, from the maps we had, exactly what the memorandums meant which my husband so carefully wrote out for us. If you have ever tried to reconcile a map and the actual roads through the woods with the descriptions in a memorandum, no matter how accurate it is, you will understand how difficult we found it. Many a time we stopped where two trails ran into each other and wondered just exactly where this road really was on the map.
It was a wonderful day, but very windy and much colder than when we were here two weeks ago. We have had open fires in our living rooms all the afternoon and evening. But the house as a whole is very cold, and I don't dare turn up our heat because we have a very limited amount of oil.
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Miss Thompson looks with despair on three clothes-baskets filled with mail, and so, dear readers, if you don't get any answers to your letters, you will know that eventually they will all be ready. Meanwhile, it is physically impossible to do more than thank you here for your kindness and your real understanding and sympathy.
Today our heavier tasks begin, as trucks arrive from Washington and things are unpacked and made available for the further business of settling an estate. I foresee that we have many long days of work in the big house before it is presentable for government visitors, and many long evenings ahead of us just opening and reading this incoming mail. Someday, however, we will actually find ourselves sitting down to read a book without that guilty feeling which weighs upon one when the job you should be doing is ignored.


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