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Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888 – March 8, 1963) was a 20th-century U.S. historian and author noted for his groundbreaking historical work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas. He is also noted for his early criticism of the water usage patterns in the region.
Born near Carthage in rural Panola County, Texas, Webb was reared on his family farm. After graduating from Ranger High School in Ranger in Eastland County, he earned a teaching certificate and taught at several Texas schools. He eventually attended the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1915 at the age of twenty-seven. He worked as bookkeeper in San Marcos and optometrist's assistant in San Antonio, then in 1918 he was invited to join the history faculty at the University of Texas. He wrote his Master of Arts thesis on the Texas Rangers in 1920 and was encouraged to pursue his PhD. After a year of study at the University of Chicago, he returned to Austin, where he began a historical work on the West. The result of this work was The Great Plains, published in 1931, hailed as great breakthrough in the interpretation of the history of the region, and declared the outstanding contribution to American history since World War I by the Social Science Research Council in 1939. He was awarded his PhD for his work on The Great Plains in 1932, the year after its publication.
From 1939 to 1946 he served as president of the Texas State Historical Association. During his tenure as president, he launched a project to produce an encyclopedia of Texas, which was subsequently published in 1952 as the Handbook of Texas. The world wide web version of the work is a popular Internet reference tool on the state. In all, he wrote or edited more than twenty books. One of those works, The Texas Rangers includes information on the legendary Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald.
Webb was killed in an automobile accident near Austin. He was interred at Texas State Cemetery in Austin on the proclamation of then Governor John B. Connally, Jr.
The University of Texas established the Walter Prescott Webb Chair of History and Ideas. The position is currently held by A.G. Hopkins.
Rundell (1963) has examined Webb's main books to see what inspired and prompted the writing of each, what the purpose and message of each seems to be, and Webb's emergent philosophy of history. The professional reception of these studies is also considered. The message of The Great Plains (1931) is contained in its subtitle, 'A Study in Institutions and Environment.' Its primary purpose was to present representative ideas about the region rather than to write its history. Webb utilized the same approach in The Great Frontier (Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1964) by attempting to put his subject in the context of Western civilization, calling the settled area of Europe 'the Metropolis' and the rest of the world 'the Great Frontier.' Webb's The Texas Rangers (Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1965) was a pungent and learned treatment of a frontier institution. The economic domination of the North, through the tariff, Civil War pensions, and patent monopolies, (over the South and West, which contained the largest share of natural resources) was the theme of Divided We Stand. Another volume, More Water for Texas (Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1954), popularized and vitalized a Federal study of what he regarded as the most serious problem of his state. Environment and his experiences within that environment explain Webb's analyses. He was interested in broad outlines rather than with the weight of documentation.
The Webb thesis focused on the fragility of the Western environment, pointing out the aridity of the territory and the dangers of an industrialized West. O'Har (2006) shows that in his classic interdisciplinary history of the post-Civil War West. Webb develops dominant characteristics of the Great Plains – treelessness, level terrain, and semiaridity – and examines effect on the lives of people from very different environments. To succeed, pioneers made radical readjustments in their way of life, eschewed traditions, and altered social institutions. Webb believed what set the Great Plains apart from other regions was its individualism, innovation, democracy, and lawlessness, themes he derived from the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner. His focus is said to have missed the emergence of a national empire and that he failed to acknowledge the roles played by women, Indians, and Mexicans.
Webb was an esteemed historian when he wrote an article in the May 1957 edition of Harper's entitled "The American West, Perpetual Mirage". In the article, Webb criticized U.S. water policy in the West, stating that the region was "a semidesert with a desert heart", and that it was a national folly to continue to follow the current federal policy (managed through the United States Bureau of Reclamation) of attempting to convert the region into productive cropland through irrigation. Webb's criticism of federal policy was roundly rebuked at the time, but some contemporary critics of U.S. water policy regard him as prophetic in his views.
A one-act play by Steve Moore, Nightswim, about Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb was first produced in Austin in the fall of 2004. Their friendship is narrated in the book Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb by William A. Owens, published in 1969.
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I'm an Australian who is spending the month of December in the USA this year. We have family in San Diego and Baltimore but my 7yr old son and I will be doing a 3-4 day trip up to New York City. Never been to New York before but eager to check out some highlights. I'm a bit nervy in big cities and I guess NY is about as big as it gets, but I don't want this ruining our time there. I figured we would take day trips to check out the sights. I would greatly appreciated any advice you could give. I have put below our interests and likes....
* would love to see Christmas lights/ activities
* not a boat person
* love the idea of a horse-drawn carriage ride
* quite the foodie!!!
* have always wanted to see Hershey Chocolate Factory and Amish Community - is this a possibility from NYC?
* son has poor muscle tone so tires easily with a lot of walking
* would love a chance for my son to see snow
* bit scared to explore the city by myself
* we will be coming in and out via Amtrak
Also, have NO IDEA what area to look at staying. Budget is very limited - $200US per night. Looking for somewhere where tour companies would collect from. Don't need fancy, but clean and safe.
Thanks in advance for your advice!
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What does the tour company sentence mean? If you have a limited budget, you won't want to use them.
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sorry, but doing day trips from baltimore to nyc - esp with a small child and esp for several days just isn't realistic. the train is almost 3 hours each way - which means 6.5 to 7 hours per day just traveling. it really doesn't make sense to do that to spend only 4 or 5 hours there - and that's still a very long day for a 7 year old. ( the acela is slightly faster - but much more expensive.)
i'm afraid if you want to see nyc you will really need to spend a couple of nights IN nyc. -
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Do you mean you want to do day trips and wish the pickup for these trips to be near where you are staying?
We stayed near Times Square when we visited with our kids and loved the location. There is a hop-on hop-off bus pickup in Times Square. Very convenient. I would imagine other tour pickup in that area also.
I was very nervous before our first trip to NYC and literally had a 'death grip' on our kids during our first day walking around. I had heard stories about New Yorkers! Boy was I surprised. We had nothing but very positive interactions with the locals. People stepping out of the way as we approached with the small kids. One day we were studying the bus schedule on a light post and we had a lovely young woman approach us to ask if we needed help. She helped us figure it all out.
Central Park is gorgeous. It is more like many little parks within one big park. You can catch a carriage ride right at the entrance to the park. That would be a fun thing for your son. He would probably also like the castle in the park. There are benches throughout the park and people sitting all over the grass, so when he is tired you can just stop and take a break.
You must be cautious and aware of your surroundings but overall we found it to be a great trip.
The Hershey Chocolate Factory was a bit of a disappointment. The candy is not made there. It is a little ride with some commentary and then the gift shop with candy for sale. We really did enjoy Amish Country though. If you can take a day trip there it would be great. Also, Philadelphia is very close and might make a good day trip. -
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"doing day trips from baltimore to nyc - esp with a small child and esp for several days just isn't realistic."
That isn't what the OP said. She said a 3 - 4 day trip to NYC.
I believe the OP wants to stay for 3 or 4 days. She wants to go on some tours/ make use of a tour company. She would like the tour to start or pick her up near where she stays [hotel] as her son has walking issues. -
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You might not be a boat person, but your son would enjoy the free Staten Island ferry round trip and you would get a good look at the Statue of Liberty from it. He would probably enjoy the Museum of Natural History.
Your hotel budget for NYC is rather low for NYC at holiday time.
Amish Country is too far away to do as a day trip from NYC. -
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Sorry if I misunderstood - see now that the OP want a room for $200 - which is going to be practically impossible that time of year.
And when your budget is limited you will not want to be wasting money on very expensive tours. Instead plan on getting around on foot, as much as possible - on subway - which goes everywhere and runs every few minutes. If you prefer you can take city bus - but there is SO much traffic that time of year it will take forever to get anywhere (but the same is true of tour buses).
I would look - very quickly - to see if you can find something in Long Island City. This is a mixed use area but only about 10 minutes from Manhattan by subway. Not sure, but you may find something for your budget - but don;t delay or places may all be fully booked. -
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From Baltimore, you may want to look at Philadelphia. That would get you a lot closer to Amish country. As for snow, that is totally weather dependent and could or could not happen unless you went to the mountains.
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If you want to see NYC, then I think you should come for a few days. But it's not a day-trip destination from any of the places you are staying. And further, coming into NYC during the holidays can get old on the train or bus, and it's expensive. It's much better to stay in the city even if you aren't a city person. It can be a great adventure for a few days.
The cheaper time to come to NYC will be the week between Christmas and New Year's, but it will not be "cheap" by any means, and a $200 room is a stretch almost any time of the year. Long Island City (try Country Inn & Suites) is a realistic possibility if there are rooms, and there are other hotel options there.
Hershey is several hours driving from NYC and not at all a day-trip, nor is Amish country in Lancaster, which is still a couple of hours from Hershey. And doing either requires a car. If you don't feel you can drive yourself, then these are not options for you. Public transport is simply not enough. -
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If your dates are at all flexible, the dates around xmas (18-26) are MUCH cheaper in hotels than the very beginning of the month or the end near New Year's Eve. I think you're thinking you could stay outside of Manhattan and get a daily tour pick up near your hotel. This is frankly totally impractical. There was a co. That did this (don,t know if it still exists) but it was a LONG tour day totally inappropriate for such a young child with a short attention span. You will also be far more self sufficient if you stay in Manhattan (or mYbe Brooklyn) where you can walk out the hotel door and find restaurants, shops etc. i highly recommend staying on the upper west side which is a family area where NYs actually live. Staying at Milburnhotel.com is like having your own apartment with small kitchenette. NYC is the safest large city in the country. Come and enjoy Xmas in NYC but don't expect snow which rarely shows up when you want it.
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PS I think you should start familiarizing yourself with google maps. Hershey Pa would be much closer to Baltimore than NYC. Maps.google.com. Type Baltimore md to Hershey Pa and see how close. There may be day trips from Balt. to Hershey and Amish country. Do a google search. I know there are bus trips to Amish country from Phil.
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Thanks for the suggestions. A few have misunderstood - I am looking at being in New York City for four days.
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Agree that Manhattan - and esp the upper west side is great for a kid's visit. But the Newton - a reliable budget property - is almost $300 per night between Christmas and New Year's and the Beacon - a little nicer - is more than $350.
These prices will only go up as you get closer to the date - and are lower than they would be earlier in the month
I would definitely do this versus trekking back and forth from LIC (NOT pleasant) or Jersey (time and money consuming) The area is great for kids - mid/upscale residential with a ton of inexpensive places to eat that are kid friendly.
If you want to do this urge you make reservations TODAY before the hotels are completely sold old (the cheapest rooms already are). -
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What is not pleasant about travelling from Long Island City. It takes about ten minutes on the subway to Times Square, we loved it.
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The travel is fine - the neighborhood is mixed use (auto body shops, warehouses, etc) - not what you usually find in a tourist area (other hotels, restaurants, neighborhood or larger shops, cafes, etc.
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Agree $200/night is virtually impossible in NYC during December. Realistically OP has to increase this budget by at least $100/night.
Difficulty with staying outside the city is the commute - OP states 7YO son tires easily so any commute would only add to the level of tiredness. Also, what one saves on room charge get's spent on commuting costs. And don't forget the value of "lost time" plus commuting from the suburbs doing rush hour is stressful and if you wait for non-rush hours you have even less time for seeing the sights. Don't inconvenience yourself, stay in Manhattan if at all possible.
Snow, may or may not happen in NYC during December - no way to predict. If heavy snow, that could curtail any meaningful tourist activities and make things unpleasant - difficult getting around, piles of wet slush, heavier traffic, etc. Chances are good you won't see snow.
Plenty of Christmas lights and decorations in NYC between early December and a few days after Christmas - after that they start to disappear.
No problem doing carriage ride - simply go to area near 5th Ave and 59th Street (Central Park South) - lots of horse/carriage vendors there. Dress warmly if it's a cold day
Hershey & Amish Country (Lancaster area) not a viable day trip from NYC - minimum 3 hour drive each way to each location. It's an hour or so drive between Hershey and the center of Amish Country. Too much driving for short visit.
If son tires easily - you'll need to take subway (economical) or taxis (expensive) to get around the city as most points of interest are spread out. Buses are the least practical way to get around the city.
NYC is a "foodie's heaven" - there are thousands of restaurants - some of which are finest in the world. Careful, though, some restaurants can be outrageously expensive, other very expensive and still other just expensive - you get the idea. Of course you can dine at fast food joints, coffee shops, pizza parlors, etc. but they may not be best choices if you are indeed a "foodie". Need some idea of your food budget to give you any meaningful advice. -
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I took college students to NYC last January. We stayed at the Broadway Hotel and Hostel. It's on the upper west side in a lovely and safe area.
It is a few short blocks to the subway. We had a rooms with 2 twin beds and a tv. In December the room goes for $173 a night including all fees and taxes. The private bathroom was across the hall. We had a sink in our room and access to a fridge and microwave on the first floor.It was plain but clean and quiet and comfortable.
The people at the check-in desk were helpful in providing directions.
Hostels are not to everyone's taste but they do offer inexpensive housing. When I go to NYC that's all I really need.And I am only young in spirit-I was the oldest person staying there and that was okay. -
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Obviously hotels are really expensive, so traveling on your budget would be tough at that time of the year. Hostels are one option, renting rooms is another. Try google with bnb, nyc and help yourself. It's definately doable.
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Despite what air bnb has said subletting apartments in NYC is illegal in almost all cases. Renting a room while the owner occupies the apt can be legal - but I'm not sure that is something you would want to do with a small child. (I wouldn't do it as an adult - but with a child there are many more obvious issues. Who are the people? Would they expect a child to stay in a single room and be quiet the whole time? Is there a private bath or is it shared with the regular tenant?).
Hostels can be inexpensive - but some do not allow small children. And a private rooms is not necessarily much less than a regular hotel. -
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Exact dates are very important for hotel prices, especially in December. Christmas week itself has very affordable rates, especially if you and your son can share a bed. There are lots of options for well under $200
This year, rates jump up the weekend after Christmas in anticipation of an influx of people arriving early for New Year's eve and staying for an extra long weekend.
Since your son has poor muscle tone, the subway will be a big help. Can he walk up and down stairs (necessary for the subway as most stations don't have elevators)? How much walking can he do on flat streets? -
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Actually, the week right before Christmas is a time when less expensive hotel rooms are easily acquired on sites such as quikbook.com, travelzoo, expedia, etc.
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Guys, you have been really helpful, thank you! Also 'christnp' thanks for the heads up on the lack of elevators on the subway.
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If lack of elevators on the subway are a concern, all city buses have lifts to enable wheelchair access. I believe they can be activated for any person unable to climb the stairs, whether or not they are in a wheelchair.
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A few subway stations have escalators or elevators - but they are often not working. And since there are multiple subway lines, sometime crisscrossing under each other, getting from the street down to the actual platform can be 3 double flights of stairs.
Buses can kneel for wheelchairs - don;t know if they will for others. However, often all seats are taken (typically run 100 to 150% full except at odd hours, and around the holidays bus travel is VERY slow compared to subway (walking is often faster than buses). -
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I don't think anyone's mentioned yet how crowded the sidewalks can be during the Christmas period. The week before Christmas is my favourite time in NY -- it's beautiful and exciting, but it is quite a crush. If your son tires easily or is in a wheelchair (you don't say), the sheer volume of people may be a lot for you to deal with.
That said, is it possible for you to do this whole visit through a tour company -- one who will arrange hotels, events and city tours, etc., for a better 'group rate'? I've never done this myself but there must be reputable firms who do it. Perhaps the Fodorites can suggest a few.
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It looks like you're right rb. I should have gone to US dictionaries to confirm my understanding. I'm guilty of inferring a meaning from the context in which I most often find the phrase; and, possibly, of confusing the phrase with "swear a blue streak". In my defence I could say that this context is quite common, as witness the example attached.


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Sykes dominated the opening race en route to his fourth victory of the season and the ninth of his career, pulling away from Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing Aprilia) during the second half of the race.
Giugliano finished second with Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) with Marco Melandri (BWM Motorrad GoldBet) and Michel Fabrizio (Red Devils Aprilia) rounding out the top five.
Sykes led every single lap of race two to cross the line as the winner for the 10th time in his WSBK career and the fifth time this season, equaling his victory total from the previous two seasons combined.
After the disappointment of the first race, Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike) redeemed himself to end up a lonely second ahead of works Aprilia rider Sylvain Guintoli.
Melandri and Chaz Davies (BMW Motorrad GoldBet) filled the top five in the nightcap.


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Jericho. I did not like the middle of the first season. It was canceled for good reason, but they were able to recover, change their direction and close out the season with a decent finish. Everyone with a computer or most people that don't but know someone who does has seen the leaked first three episodes of the second season and it shows promise. Meanwhile, there was a lot going on between the explosions and the attack, and it could be filled in with out takes of the main characters and people we have not yet met. Concentrate on the story. Jericho is not "On the Beach" or "Doctor Strangelove" part II, it's about people.
24. I don't know about you, but I think that 24 died a permanent death in the middle of the last season. His father should have shot him and let the series die a merciful death, However Jack Bauer was not the only CTU agent in the country, and there are plenty of 24 shows that could be done with other agents in other cities. Maybe a set of 4-6 hour miniseries, each of which could encompass a full day.
Babylon 4.5. I would love to see stories about Babylon 5 which did not go off on the strange alien religious bent. I don't really care about the Minbari and the fact the whole time loop culture, we could spend years watching stories about the station and the people on it without them. We don't even need the crew. It could be set before or after the shows we've seen and if the crew we knew were needed, they could be pieced together from out takes. It does not even have to be on Babylon 5 itself, it could be Babylon 1 or even something completely different. In fact, Near Space 1, a combination of the B5 and Star Trek Universes would be a good combination. Place it in time after Enterprise, but before the Original Star Trek, and in space a few hours from Earth by warp (hyper)drive.
Family Guy. Same show, same characters, but make it more "family friendly". Shows that my kids can enjoy without my wife cringing.
House. The shows with him being persecuted by a cop in the third season darn near sunk the series IMHO. They seem to have recovered and this season is much better. Right now they have toyed with him having a girl friend by presenting candidates that don't quite make it. My vote is for the "Virgin Mary". Forget the tension between Cuddy and House, it was fun at first, but it got old. By now, we don't want them to hook up. I would love to see the new improved Amber come back.
CSI. Now that we know that Sara is coming back and Grissom is leaving, it's time for a new guard to take over. Maybe the best thing to do would be promote Grissom to his boss's job. Then he can marry Sara, she can come back as a CSI, and he only needs to show up for a few minutes the entire year. If the fans don't take to it, the undersheriff can always restructure the lab and bring him back working on cases (and showing up each week). While you are at it hook up Wendy and Hodges.
CSI Miami. This is one that is going to get me in trouble. :-) I believe that Delko is really a Jew. His mother is a Converso, one of the descendants of the Jews that went into hiding after the Spanish inquisition, and his father a Russian Jew named Delkowitz. In the series, he claims to be a Catholic, but his parents would not even show up at his sister's wedding to Horatio, who is a good never married Catholic. They did not have the wedding in a Church, and her funeral was off camera. If you look at the graveyard where she is buried, there is not a single cross, statue of the Virgin Mary, or any inscription relating to Christianity on hers or the other graves. From what I can see it's an atheist or a Jewish cemetery. So let's see some shows where Horatio finally finds love, and Delko marries a nice Jewish girl.
CSI New York. Doing fine on its own with the fourth season revamped "look". Get Mac to loosen up, maybe bring back Peyton.
BattleStar Galactica. Why bother? It was a great show, but it always dies in the middle of the season. It would be good to cut the season to half the shows and get rid of the filler.
Torchwood. Not related, it's a BBC series, but come on, everyone liked it better when we thought Captain Jack was bi, and did not have to see it. The season opener would have been much better without the kissing.


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On Friday night, Kevin Pearce came to Newport, R.I., for a screening of a sports documentary about his own young life. That he was even able to conduct a Q&A after "The Crash Reel" is a remarkable story.
Pearce is the professional snowboarder from Hartland, Vt., who was a favorite to medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, only to sustain a devastating crash in his final training days on Dec. 31, 2009, in Park City, Utah.
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The Timberwolves and Pistons met twice a year ago, with Minnesota coming away with victories in games played at Target Center and The Palace of Auburn Hills. But in the six months since their last meeting in April, the Wolves' newly revamped roster has made things look a lot different on the depth chart heading into tonight's preseason matchup in Winnipeg.
Right now, the Wolves are battling injuries to Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love. But Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said when all the pieces are fit in place, opposing teams should have their hands full with Minnesota this season.
"You better hope they miss and then block out," Frank said. "They're going to be a tough team."
Tipoff for tonight's preseason matchup is set for 7 p.m. at the MTS Centre.
The key for Frank is being able to neutralize how the Wolves crash the boards, particularly on the offensive end. Minnesota has a rock at center in Nikola Pekovic, who Frank describes as one of the top three strongest players in the NBA, and his perpetual knack for offensive rebounding and the space he takes up in the paint on both ends of the floor gives the Wolves an anchor at the post.
The Pistons combat that with a talented young center of their own, Greg Monroe, who at 6-foot-11 and 250 pounds averaged 15.4 points and 9.6 rebounds per game a year ago.
Then, with the upgrades Minnesota made on the perimeter, the Timberwolves are better equipped to stretch the floor and pose problems defensively for opposing teams. In particular, Frank said the additions of Andrei Kirilenko and Brandon Roy, if healthy, make the Wolves a better-rounded team.
"I think they've done a really great job," Frank said. "David [Kahn] and Rick [Adelman] and all the people in the front office have got great depth."
At small forward, the Wolves and Pistons have veterans who have more than two decades worth of NBA service under their belts and have played their fair share of games against one another over the past 10 years. Tayshaun Prince and Kirilenko both have length and intangible characteristics that make them valuable assets to their clubs both offensively and defensively.
Prince said at this morning's shootaround that Kirilenko does it all. One night he'll block shots, another night he'll score and the next night he'll impact the game with steals or knock on the doorstep of a triple-double.
"But the things he does most importantly don't even show up in the stats sheet," Prince said. "Hustle plays. He thinks the game out very well, and that's why the Minnesota Timberwolves wanted him, because there are so many things he do on the floor and it shows up every time he plays."
Frank said the thing that has made both so successful during their careers is their size, durability and range of skills.
"That's the beauty of Kirilenko and Tayshaun: They can play multiple positions because of their length," Frank said. "Kirilenko fills up a stat sheet. His ability to not only to score and rebound but block shots, steals, assists, cuts. He's a very, very good player."
Prince said the Wolves always had pieces to be successful, but now they've rounded out their roster and should be a handful this year.
"Obviously we'll see some flashes of that in the preseason," Prince said, "but once the regular season starts they'll be a really great team."
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- Prince is in his 11th NBA season, all of them with the Detroit Pistons. A first round draft pick out of Kentucky in 2002, Prince had the chance to play in six consecutive Eastern Conference Finals to begin his career, including two trips to the NBA Finals in 2004 and 2005 and an NBA title in 2004. But the Pistons have made the playoffs just once since 2008 and have had three straight losing seasons. He's the lone member left from that Larry Brown-led 2004 championship, and he said part of the reason he's still in Detroit is his goal of returning the team to prominence.
"What keeps me going is my love for the game and just trying to win," Prince said. "I had the blessing to win early in my career and, you know, each and every player who's been there and done that, once they get to the other end of the stick they want to get back to that. So I've been blessed to be with the same team for 11 years now, and I just want to get out there and have fun."
- Frank was asked if the Pistons will have the opportunity for a better start since this year is not preceded by a locked out offseason. The Pistons started last year 4-20 right out the gate before going 21-21 the rest of the way.
"You've never arrived just because your players have been able to overcome something like last year," Frank said. "[It] doesn't mean you won't have to overcome it again. You hope not. You can't predict that happens in the future, but by having the right habits you can predict how you are going to react to the highs and lows of the season."
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The bizarre career of "The Turk," an ingenious mechanical chess player that defeated Frederick the Great, George III, and Napoleon (whom it caught cheating) and nearly fooled all America
February 1960 | Volume 11, Issue 2
Every clay during Madame's three-month stewardship of the Turk in New York, Maelzel rolled his combatant into battle with misgivings about the outcome of the contest and scanned the horizon nervously for some sign of Schlimibergcr, whose passage money was sent as soon as lhe show was established as a longterm attraction. The exhibitor's lack ol confidence in his machine's ability was quite obvious. One editor lound it newsworthy enough to devote space to it. "Whoever will watch [Maelzel's] face closely while the game is going on," he wrote, "cannot but observe the anxious workings of his miiitl and the relief lie experiences when the figure says 'Échec!,' especially when the player seems to be almost a match lor the automaton." While Maelzel regarded la Française as merely the least reliable part of the inner workings of the Turk, there were a good many people in New York who took notice of her before and after games too. They took so much notice of her, in fact, that they missed her during the games and began to suggest that she might be the brains behind the Turk, a troublesome notion that Maelzel thought he cotdd combat only with complete candor. He walked over to the office of the Evening Post at 49 William Street, and presented its editor, William Coleman, with the scoop of the year on a silver platter. Maelzel explained the workings of the Turk, identified the operator, and confided that he was in a spot. Coleman, an ardent chess player, realized the effect that the Turk's appearance was having on the popularization of chess by increasing the sale of chess books and chess sets, and was very gratified by it. With a gesture that establishes him as one of the most discreet reporters in the history of American journalism, Coleman not only suppressed the story but loaned Maelzel his own son to train as relief operator of the Turk. When the younger Coleman was ready for public performance, Maelzel stuffed him into the chest, and la Française sat demurely at the opponent's board several evenings in a row, for everybody to see.
If by some chance Maelzel had chosen the editor of the Commercial Advertiser , Colonel William Leete Stone, as his confidante, he might have had to close up shop. Colonel Stone served his readers by following up every clue that might lead to the unveiling of the chess player's mystery.
When Stone dug back into the old von Kempelen days and discovered that the baron used to peek into a square box during the course of a game and claim that the box held the automaton's secret, Maelzel explained why he had discarded this simple deception. His words were calculated to warm the hearts and loosen the purse strings of 120,000 New Yorkers. "The people," Maelzel said, "are now intelligent; then they were superstitious." A writer to the National Advocate guessed that Maelzel controlled the Turk's moves by touching springs when he drummed his fingers on the chest. Colonel Stone dutifully stopped by the National again and reported that this was impossible because Maelzel (who had read the letter too) stayed fifteen to twenty feet away from the automaton while it contemplated its moves.
Though the Frenchwoman proved herself an apt pupil, she was no chess prodigy and had not become a player de la première force in four months of preperformance practice. Therefore, to avoid a disastrous losing streak that would tarnish the Turk's reputation and earning power, Maelzel advertised that the automaton would play only "end games," the critical final moves leading to check and mate of the king, piously explaining that "whole games occupy too much time, and fatigue the attention of those who do not understand the game." In finer print he added a footnote stating that the Turk was available privately for full games with interested amateurs "on application to Mr. Maelzel."
This maneuver allowed Maelzel to limit the risk greatly, because the only end games offered to opponents were plotted out within the covers of a small green morocco-bound book compiled with the help of one of the Turk's illustrious former tenants, a London chessmaster named William Lewis. There were several hundred situations listed, all of which had one characteristic in common: they were set up so that the player making the first move would almost invariably win the game, and the Turk always moved first.
But the footnote to his ad almost tripped Maelzel. A persistent challenger named Greco showed up at the National at least once a week to apply for a complete game, and when he couldn't make it personally sent a couple of chess-playing friends over to torment Maelzel. Expecting a good stiff wind to blow Schlumberger into New York any day, Maelzel stalled them with a list of excuses such as broken machinery, missing parts, and emergency appointments. Greco kept up his assault until Maelzel closed the show in New York and moved to Boston, still without Schlumberger. Greco limited his complaints about misleading advertising to his circle of friends until, by a series of circumstances, it involved his civic and national pride.


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Unlike many other outfits, who take shortcuts wherever they can, e.g, most trades, it has been refreshing to find tradespeople who rigorously defect their own employee's work..... even before you get to it! My new painters, who I have used before on smaller projects, are outstanding! Most days, my new on-site painter gets a visit from someone in the company, for quality assurance of his work. Oh why did sign up for my builder's painter when I should have had you in the first place, Harry Latter and Sons Painters, Morningside, Brisbane? Ask for Nigel. Tell him I sent you!
Thank you Nigel (and Wilfrid) for a beautiful paint job! Paint dust aside.....it's a masterpiece in progress.
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We had to use the builders subcontractors and we have been paying for it every day since. There is not one thing in this house that has not or will not need to be fixed because of the crap job every single sub did. The worst part is we paid for this builders "quality product" , what a joke. You are right, when you find someone who does great work and you like, pay what ever it takes to use them it will save you money and pain in the end. xo, MB
ReplyDeleteJust delighted to hear the sense of relief in your writing voice A-M. I take it it's OK for me to stand down Heckyl & Jeckyl (aka Chris & Mike) here in Adelaide. They've had their bags packed for weeks ready to catch that plane at a moments notice! They will be disappointed, but just between you & me, you've probaly saved yourself a fortune in coffee!
Millie ^_^Am so glad that you have finally the quality of trade that you deserve - I wonder whether they would travel to Melbourne if I ever get the opportunity to build my next "dream" home!! Looking forward to some more photos and glad that I can now access your blog too. Hope little one is feeling ok now, my little darling has had bronchitis for the past week and it breaks your heart seeing them sick. Bye for now, Christine


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Lifting the Veil Over Pricing SecrecyI've always been fascinated by the pricing conundrum sellers and buyers of electronic components face when it comes to figuring out whether they are overpaying for parts, or selling them at a discounted price relative to competitors. That ongoing tussle for clarity between sellers and buyers has long dominated discussion in the electronics industry, but a new tool from Lytica Inc. promises to shed some light on the process. The service, named Component Cost Estimator, was developed by Lytica and is being rolled out this week to the electronics components purchasing community in partnership with UBM Tech, the parent company of EBN, EE Times, and EDN, all of which are helping to bring awareness of the pricing challenges to the industry. Under the agreement, UBM Tech will offer readers a low cost, pay-per-use version of Lytica's supply chain knowledge power tools. CCE is the first in a planned set of applications. It characterizes commercial electronic component market prices by drawing on Lytica's Freebenchmarking.com database, the largest independent database of current electronic component prices in the world. Ken Bradley, CEO of Lytica, said in an interview that CCE is an invaluable tool for anyone trying to assess product cost, cost targets, or pricing. In a statement, David Blaza, vice president, Electronics, at UBM Tech said:
OK, that's the hype. What's the real story? Pricing is a dark hole in the electronics components market. In an industry gripped with often tempestuous conversations about supply chain and pricing visibility, few companies know for certain what rivals pay for similar parts and service. Factors such as volume, timing of purchase, delivery points, strength, and length of business association, and even the nature of the relationship between agents of buyers and sellers, are seen as determinants of pricing. In articles for EBN, Bradley, who was previously chief procurement officer at Nortel Networks Inc., has tried to disprove the connection between pricing and volume. Many still believe there's a link, though. I won't go into why there's so much secrecy in the purchase process, but buyers are often in the dark about whether they are getting a fair deal, and many sellers at component suppliers may not even be sure they are not pricing themselves out of a sales by bidding too high for purchasing contracts. The reverse is that some sellers end up under-pricing against competitors, hurting profit margins. The secrecy is supposed to help OEMs, but even the biggest manufacturers with supposedly huge purchasing power leverage over suppliers cannot be sure they are getting the better pricing for parts. Without enough information, what can they benchmark the pricing they are receiving against? That's where Components Cost Estimator comes in, according to Lytica's Bradley. The product gives OEM, distribution, and EMS companies, as well as suppliers, access to the latest information on the market price of parts they are selling or buying. Additional information about Component Cost Estimator is available in the Component Cost Estimator whitepaper. Bradley goes on to say: Our application is based on a high integrity process. It is a remarkably accurate estimation process; not a quotation. It is supplier independent so there is neither supplier bias nor any follow up to try and sell you components. The data in the reference library is used with permission from clients and is confidentially maintained. Extensive analysis and filtering is applied to the data to ensure matching and distribution integrity. Initial access to Component Cost Estimator is free -- the first 25 components submitted are analyzed for free. (Go to www.componentcostestimator.com for a trial.) Take it for a spin and let me know what you think by posting a comment here. |
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Mon. 2/18/13 6:02am Yair Yona:
Exciting times! Mon. 2/18/13 6:03am fxo:
okay, okay, I'm up! It's a cold, dark morning, here in Jersey City. How 'bout chew? Mon. 2/18/13 6:04am kat330:
Hi, Frank, and for once, *top* o' the morning to ya! I'm listening, but now I'll be busy in the kitchen. Catch you later! Mon. 2/18/13 6:04am fxo:
what time is it, Yair? Mon. 2/18/13 6:06am Esteban (NJ):
I dare not go outside right now, the icy cold wind of death will bite. "Little Voice"...huh? Mon. 2/18/13 6:07am Sigurdur:
were all here frank Mon. 2/18/13 6:08am Yair Yona:
@Frank - it's 13:00 Mon. 2/18/13 6:10am fxo:
kat: you're up! Thanks for lettin' me know.
Esteban: yeah, it's brisk around here, we'll get some warm sounds.
Yair: fxo in the afternoon?
Sigurdur: we're both here. Mon. 2/18/13 6:12am Yair Yona:
afternoon ;) Mon. 2/18/13 6:19am Esteban (NJ):
This track "Cristo..." is nice. I know it's been modernized, sampled, what-have-you, but it is very nice. Mon. 2/18/13 6:19am left:
hey all :) Cozy tunes so far fxo. Good for the soul. Mon. 2/18/13 6:21am Sem Chumbo:
Done diggin' out, now digging FXO. Good day, eh? Mon. 2/18/13 6:23am fxo:
left: thanks.
Esteban: total agreement.
Sem: so far, so cool... Mon. 2/18/13 6:37am Nate:
Thx for the Blues Project this morning! Needed that. . . Mon. 2/18/13 6:41am fxo:
Nate: that's 2 of us. Mon. 2/18/13 7:05am esteban (NJ):
What film was the dialogue from M'lumbo sampled from...specifically, the "how much you charge to play-->NOT play?" It seems very familiar. Mon. 2/18/13 7:07am esteban (NJ):
RANDOM: "what would you charge to drop into an open manhole?" ... "just the cover charge" HILARIOUS. Mon. 2/18/13 7:09am fxo:
random? not sure, but it's a Chico Marx routine. Mon. 2/18/13 7:09am esteban (NJ):
ANSWER: Animal Crackers! Marx Brothers! OF COURSE. Mon. 2/18/13 7:10am abbyinfrance:
you guys owe each other cokes Mon. 2/18/13 7:10am fxo:
esteban: thanks. Mon. 2/18/13 7:12am fxo:
abby:we'll pay it on Tuesday. bonjour. Mon. 2/18/13 7:15am esteban (NJ):
@fxo: I have to watch one of the Marx Bros. films now. ALSO: I never liked the Style Council as much as The Jam.
@abby: Do you prefer one or two shots of espresso in your Diet Coke? I prefer two. Mon. 2/18/13 7:17am fxo:
espresso, por favor.and not Diet! Mon. 2/18/13 7:19am Ken From Hyde Park:
So, do living ex-presidents drink free today? Free breakfasts at Denny's, maybe? Mon. 2/18/13 7:21am esteban (NJ):
@fxo: ahahahahahah. Sadly, I now prefer the horribly bizarre taste of artificial sweeteners (aspartame is the best, saccharin is close second). OK, I have to make breakfast for kids...DJ Spooky supplied a perfect oatmeal mixing tune Mon. 2/18/13 7:21am fxo:
it depends... Which Prez day is it today? Have a free day, regardless. Mon. 2/18/13 7:22am esteban (NJ):
@Ken: I'm certain all Denny's managers role-play this scenario (ex-President as patron) at some point... Mon. 2/18/13 7:24am fxo:
only if Denny's will have counter service. Mon. 2/18/13 7:34am Lumpenproletariat:
I hope Jay Z don't learn "wonder 2" noise lessons, or we will be in a real troubled state of mind Mon. 2/18/13 7:36am fxo:
well, he's now growed up. Go Nets, eh? Mon. 2/18/13 7:54am Lumpenproletariat:
Yeah... but, remember, Hitler one day thought that noise airplanes could help in an attack - You can never predict which bold move is the next on the line from Z, Ass Shakin to 'wonder2' noise 'd be like a bomb! Mon. 2/18/13 7:56am fxo:
Lumpen-dude: You're over my head. Thanks. Mon. 2/18/13 8:12am Wes:
Hi Frank. So good to hear you. You are one of the many reasons I continue to listen since 1974. Keep up the good work. Mon. 2/18/13 8:14am fxo:
Wes, you made my day. Mon. 2/18/13 8:42am upstatesean:
fxo, such an enjoyable morning with you, man. Wes has got me beat, but I been listening since 1992. Recovering from the flu, and your music makes my headache go away. Medicinal Value! Mon. 2/18/13 8:45am fxo:
whether the weather, I appreciate that you're listening now. Mon. 2/18/13 8:50am Jack:
Thanks Frank! Mon. 2/18/13 8:51am abbyinfrance:
bye frank, and others, it was a lovely show! Mon. 2/18/13 8:53am fxo:
lets take this time to appreciate the music, and your bad selves. I'll be back next Monday, same time, etc. The comments were superb.
pax. Mon. 2/18/13 8:57am Marmalade Kitty:
Hi fxo Bedaz - Grimble Wedge and the Vegetations aka Peter Cook psychedelia at its best! Mon. 2/18/13 9:01am fxo:
Marm, under the wire, glad y'all had a goob time.
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Spencer Tunick spent over an hour taking photos of the human form.
-Carolyn French
On Monday famed artist Spencer Tunick managed to convince 5,200 individuals to participate in a nude photo shoot on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House.
Tunick, who refers to his work as 'installations', is known for his naked group photos in public places.
"It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa," Tunick said of Monday's shoot. "So I was very happy that that last set up finally got done and everyone came together (in a) united, friendly kiss, a loving kiss in front of this great structure." (The New York Daily News)


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Casino operator Affinity Gaming grew its net income and revenues in the first quarter, the Las Vegas-based company reported late Monday.
Affinity, which was created after the bankruptcy reorganization of Herbst Gaming, said its net income for the quarter ending March 31 was $4.1 million, compared with $3.4 million in the same quarter a year ago.
The company said overall net revenues grew 4.8 percent, to $112.8 million.
Affinity Gaming is privately held but has publicly traded debt of roughly $400 million.
During the first quarter, Affinity Gaming closed several transactions, including the sale of its Terrible Herbst convenience store slot machine route operations and a casino in Searchlight to Jett Gaming. The company sold the rest of its slot machine routes and its Pahrump casinos to Golden Gaming.
Affinity acquired Golden Gaming's three Colorado casinos, which were leased back to the company pending licensing by Colorado gaming authorities. Affinity said those lease payments accounted for $1.1 million in cash flow.
Affinity said its total cash flow in the quarter was $20.5 million, a 24.1 percent increase.
Following the earnings release, Deutsche Bank gaming analyst Andrew Zarnett initiated coverage of Affinity Gaming's long-term debt with a buy rating. He said the company strengthened its balance sheet when it raised about $435 million through a $235 million credit agreement and a $200 million loan.
"Affinity completed a large refinancing which positions them well for the future," Zarnett said.
Affinity currently operates 12 casinos; nine in Nevada, two in Missouri and one in Iowa. In Southern Nevada, the company operates the off-Strip Terrible's and three Primm resorts.
In Southern Nevada, net revenues grew $3.6 million, of which $2.3 million was due to increased fuel sales at service stations in Primm. Southern Nevada net revenues, excluding fuel sales, grew $1.3 million, or 3.2 percent.
"The first quarter results serve as a testament to the soundness of our operating strategy," Affinity Chief Executive Officer David Ross said in a statement. "We remain focused on keeping our properties on target for the remainder of the year, and we look forward to completing licensing in Colorado so we can begin executing our growth strategy in Black Hawk."
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Internet registries plan an aftermarket for unused IPv4 address space
Hang onto that IPv4 address space you're not using; it might become valuable soon.
The organization that handles North American Internet registries is planning for a sort of yard sale in which unused and slightly used addresses could play the part of old baseball cards that are suddenly in demand. No, there probably aren't any Willie Mays rookie cards in there – they're just addresses, after all – but they'll likely be worth something.
As the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses dries up, an aftermarket for the space is expected to develop among organization that want to continue using IPv4 addresses, even if they have to pay for them.
"We don't expect that to heat up for another six months or so, because we still have IPv4 address space," said John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which handles the distribution of Internet addresses to organizations in the North American region.
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But ARIN and the other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) are making plans for an aftermarket for the addresses, to enable organizations with sizable amounts of unused address space to transfer it — at a price, if they wish — to other organizations.
You won't have to feel guilty about buying up some slightly used addresses.
"It's not a black market," Curran said. "It's a legitimate market," and North American buyers will have to meet ARIN requirements for receiving addresses. It is unlikely any kind of black market could develop because the IPv4 addresses are not physical property; they exist only as entries in registry databases. "If they don't conform to policy, ARIN can't update the directories."
But the aftermarket is only a stopgap measure to help ease the transition from the dwindling pool of IPv4 addresses to the new, almost unlimited supply of IPv6 addresses. Curran said the market could last for years, but he expects it to "drop off very quickly" once the old addresses become scarce and it becomes more cost-effective to transition to the next generation of the Internet Protocols.
IP addresses are the numerical designations that identify end points under the Internet Protocols, the set of rules that govern how computers communicate to form the Internet. The rapid growth of the Internet over the past 20 years has used up most of the addresses specified under the current version of the protocols, IPv4. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority last month allocated the last unused blocks of address space to the regional registries, which now are in the process of doling them out to service providers and other large organizations.
Version 6 of the protocols is being enabled on the Internet, and a much larger pool of IPv6 addresses is available. But because most of the Internet now is running more or less smoothly on IPv4, it is expected that many organizations will want to get all the use they can out of that generation of addresses.
There is believed to be a lot of unused address space out there, in part because distribution was not very efficient, especially in the early days of the Internet, Currant said. The original allocations were made in three classes. The smallest contained 256 addresses. If you needed more than that, you had to take about 65,000 addresses. The next jump up was up to about 16 million addresses. That changed in the early 1990s to allow distribution of address blocks in multiples of 256.
ARIN has always had a policy to allow the return of unused addresses. "We have had addresses that have been returned to us by the Department of Defense," and other organizations, including Stanford University and BBN Technologies, which helped to develop packet switching. "That's the only reason the address pool lasted as long as it did."
In addition to the return of unused addresses, ARIN also has developed a policy for the specified transfer of addresses from one party to another. Recipients must conform to ARIN policies for receiving addresses, which includes demonstrating a need for them and limiting them to one year's supply at a time. The holders of the address are free to charge for them if they want to, Curran said. "ARIN is not a party to that," he said. "That's between you and the recipient."
But it can be a facilitator. ARIN last year set up a listing service for organizations that have made approved requests for address space and for those that might be able to make addresses available for transfer. Brokers could also appear to bring parties together.
To date, this aftermarket has been used very little because there has been no demand for it. Until February, regional registries were handing out a year's worth of addresses at a time. But since the last allocation of IPv4 addresses by IANA, ARIN now is doling out only three months' worth at a time. So it has been only in the last month that organizations needed addresses have started feeling a pinch.
Organizations holding unused addresses can charge to transfer them, because it is not necessarily free to give them away. Addressing schemes often distribute addresses sparsely, as blocks are assigned across an organization and only a few addresses are used from each block. This means that available addresses are in small bunches that would complicate routing tables if reassigned, so that an organization could have to re-architect its addressing scheme in order to consolidate the unused addresses in usable blocks.
Other organizations might be willing to pay for recycled IPv4 addresses rather than get free IPv6 addresses from RIRs because they want to extend the life of their IPv4 investment as far as possible and to buy time for enabling IPv6 in their networks.
Each of the five RIRs has its own policies for transferring unused addresses, but in general they follow the ARIN policy of requiring that transfer recipients meet registry requirements for receiving addresses. Policies are being developed for inter-registry transfers, Curran said.
The amount of IPv6 traffic on the Internet has been minuscule to date, but it is slowly growing, and future growth is expected to increasingly be in the IPv6 space as more addresses are assigned and infrastructure is enabled to use the new protocols.
Because the two protocols are not interoperable, both versions will have to be enabled on the existing Internet infrastructure for the foreseeable future to allow all users to have access to online resources. In September, the Office of Management and Budget directed civilian agencies to upgrade public-facing servers and services to handle IPv6 traffic by the end of fiscal 2012. Internal IP applications and systems must be upgraded by the end of fiscal 2014.
At some point in the not-too-distant future, it will become more cost-effective for most users to acquire and use free IPv6 addresses than to buy legacy addresses, and the bottom will quickly fall out of the IPv4 aftermarket, Curran said.
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I think that we should prevent people selling something that is not actually theirs has no value to them and could help others. It is a shame that people/organisations that are given an address can now sell it. If it was given to you and you don't use it consider giving back! It is helping someone like you have been helped before. Stop seeing money everywhere. In the end it is not about money. It is about adding value. Selling an IP address is not adding value. It is skinning someone for your own benefit. That does not help anyone but yourself.
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Sessler's Soapbox: Adam Sessler's Book Club
Posted: April 8, 2009
Adam takes some time away from games to recommend some of his favorite novels.
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I read the Sun also Rises and The Sheltering Sky after you had this book club. They're both AMAZING books. I liked the Sheltering Sky a little more and you were right about how great the ending was while the Sun also Rises was really a typical anticlimactic classical book but i still loved it all the same. Thanks for the great recommendations and i'll read the Lost Legends of New Jersey once my book stack goes down a little. PLEASE DO ANOTHER BOOK CLUB SOON!!!!!!
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Knowing Your Rights
About the author: Cory Wagner joined EPA's Office of Environmental Information in 2005. He is currently the project manager for the development of the Toxics Release Inventory-Made Easy (TRI-ME) and TRI-MEweb reporting assistance software.
Individual rights have certainly been in the news lately. From the Olympic Torch being doused in France in protest of suspected human rights abuses in China, to the Supreme Court reviewing the DC gun ban in light of the Second Amendment, to the continuing struggle to balance an individual's right to privacy against the safety of the general public in a post-911 world, one can hardly read a newspaper these days without seeing an article about rights. This makes sense as we are a nation built on rights. The rights of the individual are crucial to our way of life and the backbone of democracy.
In 1986, Congress added a new individual right with the passage of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). This act gave local communities access to environmental information about chemical hazards located nearby. You may have wondered "just what is coming out of that smoke stack on that building near my home?"
Well, I currently work in the program that implements part of EPCRA, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). Each year, we collect data on releases and transfers of chemicals from industry and make it available to the public. The answer to the question posed above is readily available to you through the use of on-line TRI data tools such as TRI Explorer, Envirofacts, and the electronic Facility Data Report (eFDR). We are continually making efforts to make the TRI information available to you in easy-to-understand formats and as close to the time that we collect it as possible. The TRI program will continue to work hard to ensure that you are always able to exercise your right to know. |


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Barking and Dagenham cyclists set to join rides to mark Hoy's success
PUBLISHED: 15:14 09 August 2012
Cycling bosses are inviting sports fans to join free rides to celebrate Chris Hoy's Olympic success and Bradley Wiggins' victory in the Tour de France.
British Cycling, which is home to the GB cycling team, is organising rides with free cycle security marking in Barking and Dagenham this summer.
The governing body unveiled the "Sky Rides" after Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France last month and Chris Hoy the most successful British Olympian of all time, with a haul of seven medals including six golds.
British Cycling recreation manager Rob McLean said: "These free, organised rides are the perfect way for family and friends to get out and explore the local scenery from a two-wheel perspective. In this amazing year of cycling, there's really no better time to get out on a bike."
Experienced cyclists trained by British Cycling lead the rides. For more information, log on to goskyride.com/lbbd.


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Higurashi When They Cry takes place during June 1983, at a fictional rural village called Hinamizawa, which has a population of approximately 2000. The main character, Keiichi Maebara, moves to Hinamizawa and befriends his new classmates Rena Ryugu, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hojo. Keiichi joins their after-school club activities, which consist mostly of card and board games (and punishment games for the loser, usually him.) Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful, rural village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro-sama. Keiichi learns that every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival. Keiichi himself soon becomes drawn into the strange events surrounding the Watanagashi Festival and Oyashiro-sama.
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Appendix V. This is a summary of all the action items, indicating an average importance score from the BBMP Team and TAG group (1-5, with one being the highest priority). Timeline (s=short, m=medium, l=long to begin working). Authority indicates if we can do independently (Yes), or need to work through other agencies or get rule/policy changes made before implementing. Cost and man-power indicate if we can divert existing resources to complete the action or need to solicit additional funds or staff (this may be via volunteers, partnerships, donations, grants etc.). Responsisble parties indicates divisions or other groups that must work together to accomplish the action.
Man Power
Responsible Parties
New Opportunities
1. Pursue public access to reservoirs during their planning phase, and develop management plans and agreements with water management districts and the Corps of Engineers (COE) to produce appropriate trophy black bass fisheries.
DFFM, WMDs and COE
2. Make it easy for the public to find places to fish and freshwater public access (e.g., ramps, piers, shoreline access) using electronic and print media.
LE, IT,FWRI and DFFM
3. Formalize partnerships with WMDs, federal, local, and state governmental agencies, and private landowners to enhance public access.
LE, DFFM and FWC Land-use Planning team
4. Help local communities to attract major bass tournaments by enhancing ramps and associated facilities that will benefit local economies and anglers.
5. Implement complete de-water renovations on aging reservoirs and lakes with water control structures to stimulate trophy largemouth bass fisheries.
DFFM, WMDs
6. Create contingency plans to enhance fisheries on water bodies that naturally experience rapid water level changes to provide long-term benefits.
7. Develop a network of special-opportunity trophy bass fishing areas, on water bodies not currently open to the public.
DFFM and Public collaborators
HABITAT Management
1. Prevent habitat degradation in areas of existing healthy habitat in collaboration with other agencies as needed.
2. Manage native plants to create and maintain a symbiotic relationship between plants, fish, and people that will improve and sustain black bass fisheries.
DFFM, HSC, DEP, WMDs
3. Implement FWC's new hydrilla-management position on specific waterbodies to improve largemouth bass fishing.
DFFM, HSC, HGM, COE, WMDs, DEP, some local and county governments
4. Partner with water management districts and the Corps of Engineers to develop new water regulation schedules and to monitor and recommend minimum flows and levels to help maintain healthy black bass populations.
DFFM, HSC, WMDs, DEP
5. Improve bass habitat conditions by manipulating water levels for fisheries enhancement purposes.
DFFM, HSC, WMDs, COE, DEP, and FWS
6. Revegetate lakes where a high probability of successful expansion of native aquatic plants exists.
7. Restore wetlands adjacent to potential fisheries to promote healthy lake waters and protect wetland wildlife communities.
DFFM, DEP, WMDs, HSC
8. Create structural habitat in water bodies to increase/improve fishing opportunities in new water bodies.
DFFM, DEP, COE, WMDs
9. Create a substrate enhancement program that incorporates a FWC/volunteer run project to construct fish attractors to concentrate fish, and improve catch rates and angler satisfaction.
DFFM, DEP, WMDs
10. Adhere to and promote appropriate water quality standards to support black bass species.
11. Identify, protect and repair damaged habitat that is critical to sustain shoal and Suwannee bass populations.
FISH Management
1. Establish customized harvest regulations to manage black bass populations at selected water bodies.
2. Determine the potential effects of bed fishing on black bass populations.
3. Ensure genetic diversity, fitness, and conservation of Florida largemouth bass.
4. Ensure the genetic integrity, fitness, and conservation of endemic black bass within Florida panhandle river systems.
5. Stock fingerling (Phase-I; about 1-inch long) largemouth bass into new reservoirs and into lakes following major fish kills or droughts.
6. Stock advanced-sized (Phase-II, 4-6 inches) largemouth bass fingerlings into water bodies where recruitment is limited.
7. Stock supplemental forage into small water bodies to improve growth rates of largemouth bass.
8. Manage impacts caused by exotic fish species on bass populations in Florida.
PEOPLE Management
1. Implement a trophy fish documentation and release program.
2. Involve stakeholders early in the process of major, resource-specific management actions such as new regulations and major habitat renovations.
3. Design and implement a complete marketing plan for the BBMP and Florida's bass fishing.
4. Build partnerships with bass anglers, other stakeholders, government agencies, institutions, and private industry to complete fishing and lake improvement projects.
5. Cooperate with the bass tournament industry and citizens to effectively manage bass tournaments to minimize negative perceptions.
6. Educate anglers and other stakeholders about where and why bass are stocked by meeting with stakeholder groups, recognizing stocked lakes with news releases and signs at boat ramps, and capitalizing on other promotional opportunities as they arise.
DFFFM, PICs
7. Promote conservation of endemic black bass.
8. Create, maintain and utilize a comprehensive list of freshwater fishing clubs and other anglers willing to volunteer within each region.
9. Promote Florida as a national angling destination for B.A.S.S. Slam opportunities.
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A clean-out fever sometimes strikes my mom. Over the years, I have trained her to wait a tick before tossing or donating, to give me a chance to peruse and scavenge.
But if I saved nothing else over the years, I am glad I got my hands on a treasured ice cream scoop before it disappeared.
This is the ice cream scoop my dad used when we were kids. (Dad is fine by the way; he just got a new scoop.) It's the one he used when he'd make us special sundaes or ice cream cones.
It was an event that made us happy, in part, because, well, it was ice cream, but also because serving ice cream was something my dad got such a kick out of. He'd put joy and creativity into the effort. And he had a system.
I can picture it, clear as day. My dad would be standing at the kitchen counter, looking down at me and smiling. He'd fill a small cup with warm tap water and dip the scoop in the water before digging into the ice cream, explaining, teaching, sharing a secret -- that dip in the water beforehand makes it easier to scoop.
Dad making ice cream sundaes or serving up ice cream cones has always been a tradition in our home in Shaler, and everybody who has ever visited has had at least one of them.
There was a time when Bard's, an ice cream shop up the street, went up for sale, and there was talk in the house that maybe he should take it over. I was much too young to understand about the importance of having a steady job or being the breadwinner or the risks of small business, but it made me sad that he didn't get to serve ice cream for a living.
Even very young humans are astute enough to recognize the things that make other people happy and to feel there's something a little sad -- even if we don't yet know the words regret or sacrifice or their meanings -- about being a grown-up who can't just do whatever gives you the most pleasure.
Flash forward to me as an adult. Thinking of this same ice cream scoop reminds me of when my nephew Alex (now a 6-foot-something 16-year-old) was tiny. My brother was in the Navy and his family was in town for a rare visit. We gathered at my parents' house. It was the first time I'd been around Alex that he could talk and walk. He was about 3 years old.
I walked from the dining room to the kitchen with a promise of getting him some ice cream. He came dashing in behind me, saying, "Wait! Wait! I have to tell you something." I was at the kitchen counter, holding this very same scoop, looking down at him, smiling.
My nephew told me to get a cup of water. He told me that if I dipped the scoop in the water, the ice cream would be easier to scoop. He added, oh-so-proudly, "That's how my dad does it."
It was one of my favorite sweet, funny circle-of-life moments.
So, yeah, things are just things. But some things -- including unremarkable, everyday things -- are more than utilitarian. They are memory triggers.
Every time I use this scoop or even just see it in the utensil drawer, I feel a little jolt of happiness. I also feel a bit covetous and secretly lucky to be the kid who stayed in Pittsburgh and got the best hand-me-downs.
And that is my rationalization for remaining here long after I could make my own sundaes, as well as for eating dessert in the middle of the day. Sometimes, winter doldrums and grown-up worries are easier to bear if you eat a little ice cream on a Wednesday.
Beth Schmidt of Overbrook can be reached at email@example.com.


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