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I can say that Linux on netbook is gaining momentum right now contrary to what others believe. Just take a look at the growing number of Linux distributions that are optimized for netbooks so that you will know what I mean.
For those of you who are interested, I've compiled a list of well-known, netbook-oriented Linux distributions. If you have something to add, please do so via comment later on. So here's the list already:
Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR)
Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) is a Canonical-sponsored netbook-optimized Linux distribution that is (of course) based on Ubuntu. It has been available since Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron". UNR is an optional preinstalled operating system (OS) on some netbooks such as Dell Inspiron Mini 10v and the Toshiba NB100, and also runs on popular models such as the Acer Aspire One and the ASUS Eee PC. Canonical has collaborated with Intel and is working with a number of OEM's to deliver Ubuntu on netbooks in retail. All of the initial Ubuntu Netbook remixes combine optimizations from the Moblin project for Intel Atom processors.
More about Ubuntu Netbook Remix HERE.
Moblin (Mobile Linux) is built around the Intel Atom processor with current builds designed to minimize boot times and power consumption. The netbook/desktop version of Moblin currently supports other chipsets based on the SSSE3 instruction set, such as the Core2 and some Celeron processors. Products built around Moblin 2 include a Foxconn netbook and an InvenTech smartphone. Acer has also announced the replacement of Linpus Linux with Moblin on their Acer Aspire netbooks. More recently, Dell began accepting orders for its Ubuntu Moblin Remix. Mandriva has started to offer Moblin's v2 version to all Mandriva distribution and netbook owners.
More about Moblin HERE
Easypeasy (formerly Ubuntu Eee) is one of the many netbook distros that is based on Ubuntu. It is known to offer proprietary software instead of free and open source software alternatives (e.g. Skype instead of Ekiga) for functionality reasons according to its developers. Easypeasy is specially designed to work well with Asus EeePCs but its most recent versions are known to support other brands of netbooks.
More about Easypeasy HERE
Eebuntu is originally made for Asus Eeepc series of netbooks and works out of the box on ASUS Eee PC 700, 701, 900, 900A, 901, 904HD, 1000, 1000H, 1000HA, 1000HD and 1000HE. However, other nebooks such as the Samsung NC10, Acer Aspire One, and Dell Mini's are supported but with minor issues. Eeebuntu comes in 4 variations: Standard, NBR, BASE and LXDE.
More about Eeebuntu HERE
Linux4One is an Ubuntu based Linux distribution that is specifically designed to offer out-of-the-box functionality for the Acer Aspire One series of netbooks. To achieve this, it incorporates a customized Linux and appropriate drivers, as well as a number of tweaks to system files to improve performance. Linux4One comes in two flavors: The "Standard" release that uses the GNOME environment, and the "Lightweight" version that uses LXDE.
More about Linux4One HERE
CrunchEee is a special version of CrunchBang Linux that's developed for the Asus Eee PC. It is quite similar to that "Lite" edition of CrunchBang, but it includes a full suite of Internet applications and an Eee PC specific Linux Kernel and scripts. Some of the applications installed by default on Crunchee are Transmission, Firefox, VLC, Pidgin, and many more.
More about Cruncheee HERE
Kuki Linux
Kuki Linux is a lightweight Ubuntu based distribution that was developed as an alternative for the Fedora based Linpus OS, which was bundled with the Aspire One. Its main goal is to give users the ability to install an operating system that will be fully hardware compatible with the Acer Aspire One out of the box. Kuki Linux uses Xfce as its default desktop environment.
More about Kuki Linux HERE
Linpus Linux Lite
Linpus Linux Lite is the faster and slimmer version of Linpus Linux and fully supports Acer Aspire One and Northtec Gecko netbooks. Take note that the Linpus system contains not only the free and open source operating system, but also Acer-specific shareware. The fact that the Acer distribution contains this software that is not available in source code prevents the system from being considered a fully free operating system.
More about Linpus Linux Lite HERE
Jolicloud (currently in development and alpha testing) is built upon Debian and Ubuntu 9.04. It utilizes Mozilla's Prism Prism-based packages and Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) to deliver a Web-centric Linux environment that is very user-friendly. Jolicloud is designed to run on relatively low-powered netbook computers and claimed to support all the major netbook manufacturers such as Asus, Acer, Dell, MSI and Samsung.
More about Jolicloud HERE
Google Chrome OS
Though the stable release version of Google Chrome OS will not come out until the second half of 2010, it is showing early signs of someday dominating the netbook market. As demonstrated at a November 19, 2009 news conference, Chrome OS closely resembled the Chrome browser, but with tabs for frequently used Web-based applications.
More about Google Chrome OS HERE
You may also like reading our previous post about optimizing GNOME for netbook display.


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Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
Cornell Law School can send up to two students to the Department of Legal Studies at the Central European University (CEU) in the Fall or Spring.
CEU is an internationally recognized institution of post-graduate education in social sciences and humanities, which operates pursuant to a charter from the Board of Regents of the State of New York. Cornell students study at the Department of Legal Studies, in Budapest, Hungary.
With a population of over two million people (one in five Hungarians live there), Budapest is a cosmopolitan world capital. The center of Hungarian government and business life, Budapest is also a university city and abounds in parks, restaurants and entertainment. It is also an extremely beautiful place. UNESCO has placed Buda Castle and the city's Danube River panorama on the World Cultural Heritage List.
2017-18 academic calendar
Students may participate in exchanges during the Fall or Spring semesters, CEU operates on a "module" system.
Cornell students wishing to attend CEU during the Spring semester should plan to enroll in courses during Modules IV and V
Cornell students wishing to attend CEU during the Fall semester should plan to enroll in courses during Modules II and III.
Within the modules, concentrated LL.M. classes are taught in three different programs: International Business Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; and, Human Rights.
Details for the Department of Legal Studies can be found at the CEU Legal Studies Department website.
For information about the university generally, please see the Central European University website.

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text: Two weeks ago, SendGrid opened a new office in Denver just in time for the first annual Denver Startup Week. In the wake of the successful celebration of Denver's entrepreneurs, people are beginning to ask, could Denver become the next Silicon Valley? With hot start-ups like Uber, Full Contact, iTriage, Pivotal Labs, and ReadyTalk having already set up shop in Denver, SendGrid arrives at a time where the startup community is reaching critical mass. "It's that density that makes places in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, or Boulder or Cambridge work," said SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin. "With Denver, we'd love to see more people come downtown." New co-working spaces like Uncubed and Galvanize are making it easier for tiny startups to put down roots in Denver before they hit it big, and there are more and more experienced entrepreneurs around to provide mentorship and inspiration. Sendgrid's new Denver office promises to bring even more tech minded people to the downtown area, with room for 100 employees and over 30 current job openings. For more information about Denver's startup boom, check out today's Denver Post.


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Amanda Harris
For The Lancaster News
Those who start their Christmas shopping early this year will also be helping children with disabilities work to strengthen themselves.
This year's Lancaster Women's Club Mistletoe Market will support Horse N Around, a nonprofit therapeutic riding program in Lancaster that works to improve the well-being of children and adults with a range of challenges, said market chair Shonda Carlton.
Strange disappearances, tall tales and skeletons buried for years.
The story of Milt Chaney and his infamous tavern near the intersection of U.S. 521 and S.C. 75 (Waxhaw Highway) has been passed down through Lancaster generations for decades.
Many believe Chaney, who was arrested and hanged for stealing a slave, secretly murdered the guests who went missing after spending a night at his inn.
David Kellin
For The Lancaster News
Those who attended the annual horse show and family fun day at Horse N Around Saturday, Aug. 29, were treated to numerous activities, events and food under clear skies and comfortable temperatures.
Horse N Around, 2593 N. Rocky River Road, provides equine therapy to children with special challenges.
Several children got the opportunity to show their riding skills at the event.
Kelly Lessard
For The Lancaster News
INDIAN LAND – Michael Anderson has been on mission since he was a senior in high school.
That is when, Anderson said, he "got saved" and God birthed within him "a desire to be on mission, really, everywhere I am."
The Lancaster County Council of the Arts will host the "Women Artists in Harmony" exhibit in the Springs House Galleries during April.
This spring show is a collaborative exhibit of 13 diverse local women artists. Each is a talented individual with a focus and style unique to their interests and media.
Pattie Schlesner and Shirley Wood will have many of their fine jewelry designs available in a variety of stonework, beading and polymer clay.
Juanita Wood and Melissa A. Lawson have chosen striking works in photography for exhibit.
Amanda Harris
For The Lancaster News
Indian Land native Heather Holben will be hiking nearly 30 miles to help others have a little hope.
On Saturday, Oct. 11, Holben, 38, will participate in the Make-A-Wish Trailblaze Challenge, a hike benefitting Make-A-Wish Central and Western North Carolina, an organization that grants wishes for terminally ill children.
By Nita Brown
For the Lancaster News
You've heard the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words." When it comes to preserving and enjoying history, that proverb is especially true. Fortunately, some of our very own Lancaster artists are doing their part to keep Lancaster's history alive through visual arts. You'll have a chance to see their work and meet some of them in person at the Cultural Arts Center, 307 W. Gay St., Lancaster, from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.
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RICHBURG – For a town that was founded on catastrophe, Richburg is doing remarkably well these days.
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GREAT FALLS – For the first time in his life, Henry "Bubba" Stevenson Jr. can offer a handshake. But it's not your everyday handshake – it's bionic.
Stevenson, 23, was fitted with a "1-limb ultra bionic arm" on Sept. 22.
Stevenson was born without arms. On his right side, his arm stops shy of his elbow and on his left side, there is only a nub below his shoulder.
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The fourth annual National Missions Day will be at the Lancaster Fairgrounds from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 4.
There is still time to register for free tent space and be a part of this large community outreach event.
Founded by apostle Ollie Alexander, ambassador for international missions, the idea of the event is to not only reach out to the community, but foster and encourage a sense of unity between different churches, outreaches and ministries that participate.
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Get the Family Ready for Tour Sioux Falls [AUDIO]
Grab the family, the bikes, and the bike helmets for Tour Sioux Falls, June 29th-30th. The event is designed for all ages and abilities and will utilize the Sioux Falls bike trails and downtown streets.
The Tour Sioux Falls was created after the elimination of the annual Tour De Kota event. Wes Hall, Executive Director of the Sioux Falls Sports Authority, says the decision was made to come up with a family friendly event revolving around the city's bike trails and Live Well campaign.
The Sports Authority's involvement stems from Hall's background in organizing cycling events in Virginia and Iowa.
The two-day event starts Saturday, June 29th, with activities for families and kids at several parks along the bike trail. The designated parks (Pasley Park, Yankton Trail Park, Elmen Trailhead, Sanford Sports Complex, and Falls Park) will provide a place for riders to take a break, grab something to eat or drink, and talk with local organizations about fitness and wellness opportunities throughout Sioux Falls.
There's also lunch provided at Falls Overlook Cafe and a tailgate party at Falls Park. The day finishes with a party on the River Greenway with music, food, and activities.
Sunday, June 30th, it's the first-ever Cyclovia (Spanish for open city streets to bicycles), featuring a route from Falls Park through the downtown business district. The streets will be closed to vehicular traffic giving participants the opportunity to explore downtown by bike. Sioux Falls is one of 30 cities in the nation to close its streets for cyclists.
Activities will include kids bike race, bicycle rodeo, bike tractor pull, and a Sunday Social. There will also be food and beverages available along the route.
Hall says events like this are a natural for the Midwest, where cycling is much more prevalent because of geography.
Registration is $30 for adults and $15 for kids ages 6-17. Kids 5 and under are free. Registration includes and official Tour Sioux Falls backpack, fully supported rest stops, lunch on Saturday, Sunday Ice Cream Social, and prize drawings.
With the departure of the Tour De Kota on the local sports scene, a void has been created for an event that caters to the more 'hard core' cyclists in the Sioux Falls area, something the Sports Authority hopes to fill in the future.


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Exploring a new flavor of single malt with Highland Park's #DarkOrigins
Tomorrow night I'll be shooting some photos for Highland Park's #DarkOrigins launch event in the Mission. Highland Park's newest Dark Origins Single Malt is interesting in its richness, nutty character, and its use of "double first fill sherry casks". This Drink Spirits review does a very good job of describing the flavor experience:
Dark chocolate covered dried cherries literally leap out of the glass, while underneath there is fig, date, honeyed malt, a soft nuttiness, and a touch of smoke. Highland Park Dark Origins' sweet chocolate cherry and honeyed malt entry is well in line with the soft and lush openings of Highland Park 12 and 15, but that's where the similarities end. The opening is actually a little bit of a head fake, and the soft, sweet entry is quickly replaced by a bold, spicy, and smoky midpalate. In the midpalate the honeyed malt moves to a supporting note and the chocolate begins to dissipate. In its place a more acidic and spicy character emerges with green apple, black pepper, and allspice. There's also a fair amount of heat added to the equation, far more than with Highland Park 12 and 15.
At times sipping this whisky I could taste the youth of the malt — almost reminiscent of a Charbay or White Dog that retains a bright, corn-like character. There's a lot going on here, including a "wash" of peaty smoke that doesn't overwhelm but instead adds a desirably gritty tone.
Whatever the case, I'll be taking over Highland Park's Instagram account tomorrow — a first! — and posting moments from my experience. I'm excited to see what comes out of this.


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S&C's Manhole-Style Vista UDS features the standard Vista three-pole load-interrupter switch, completely sealed in a rugged stainless-steel tank and insulated with SF6 gas. The cylindrical tank measures 29.5-inches in diameter to fit through most manhole openings. Cable entrance and exit is via 600-amp bushings or optional 200-amp bushing wells. The unit is available through 15.5 kV at 630-amps continuous.
The quality of Vista's gas-tight SF6-insulated construction is unprecedented. All gas seals have been extensively tested and field-proven, and every part of the unit is fully submersible in the most hostile environmentsl The extremely large viewing window and internal 3-position (closed-open-ground) switch provide a clearly visible open point.
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This photo is taken by turning around the famous Television Tower in Berlin, and is part of my long-term project "Around".
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"Saturday Night Live" guest Samuel L. Jackson said what sounded an awful lot like the F-word during a sketch on the show, but took to Twitter to deny it.
He did, however, acknowledge saying "bulls—."
Also read: 'SNL' Opens With 'Silent Night' to Honor Shooting Victims
During the sketch "What Up With That," the "Django Unchained" actor was repeatedly cut off. (The joke of the sketch is that every guest is constantly interrupted so Kenan Thompson can perform the "What Up With That" theme song.)
Informed that "What Up With That" had run out of time, Jackson, mock outraged, shouted the potentially offending phrases.
Thompson ad-libbed: "Come on Sam… that costs money."
But Jackson took to Twitter to offer a clarification.
"I only said FUH not F&*K! K was sposed to cut off da BULL%^&T, blew it!!" he wrote.
It was a remarkably packed "SNL," featuring a slew of guests, a children's choir honoring the victims of the Connecticut shooting spree, and Paul McCartney playing with the surviving members of Nirvana.
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Are you interested in learning about issues of gender and sexuality in our society? You might consider a minor in gender studies at Aurora University.
This dynamic field provides an opportunity to study gender and sexuality from a variety of academic perspectives. For example, you'll have the opportunity to explore gender issues throughout history, in the workplace, in politics, in literature, and in interpersonal communication.
The flexibility of this program allows you to develop your individual interests with several courses available across disciplines such as anthropology, business, physical education and sociology. The gender studies minor is an excellent complement to majors like criminal justice, psychology, social work, sociology, communication, political science and history.


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Fabolous wants to start the new year off right by eating better and getting his health in check. The veteran rapper revealed that he would like to stop eating pork and fried foods in 2012.
"I'm going to stop eating pork this year," said Fabolous. "I'm trying to move forward in a healthier eating lifestyle. Gradually I want to stop eating fried food."
Check out the video below to see the "breathe and stop" rapper share his New Year's resolutions:


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Sox Stunned Again, Swept By Jays [VIDEO]
Even ace Jon Lester couldn't stop the bleeding. The Red Sox lost 7-2 Thursday afternoon at Fenway. That's a three game sweep by the Jays and that's an 0-6 homestand for the Sox.
Lester gave up 7 runs in the first two innings, them settled down. In fact, the Blue Jays never scored another run.
But the Sox offense did very little - Brock Holt was the only player with 2 hits. Xander Bogaerts hit a solo home run.
The Sox drop to 20-26 and head to Tampa Bay for a weekend series with the Rays.
Check out highlights and manager John Farrell's post game comments...


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26 Oct, Haiti: Parts of Haiti affected by Hurricane Sandy which caused heavy rains and winds, overflowing rivers and flooding homes. About 60 people were killed and 1.8 million people have been affected. Credit: MINUSTAH/Logan Abassi UN agencies and humanitarian partners are working with the Haitian Government to assist families in urgent need of food, water and shelter.
Hurricane Sandy killed more than 50 people and affected hundreds of thousands of people when it swept through Haiti on 25 October. Heavy rains and wind caused rivers to overflow and flood neighbourhoods, damaging roads and buildings, including homes, schools and hospitals.
So far, more than 27,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed by floodwater. Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food, drinking water and shelter. Haiti is still reeling from Tropical Storm Isaac, which hit in August 2012, and the 2010 earthquake.
"The impact of the storm in Haiti is extremely severe but, unfortunately, has received little international attention," said the Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti, Nigel Fisher.
"Water systems have been damaged, cholera treatment facilities have been destroyed - as have many schools. Roads and bridges have been severely damaged. This is a major blow to Haiti's reconstruction effort, while life for the most vulnerable Haitians has become even more precarious."
People who were living in camps judged to be at risk of flooding, especially in Port au Prince, were evacuated before the storm. Now that the floodwater is receding, many of them have started returning to the camps. Nearly 3,000 of them remain in 18 hurricane shelters.
"About 1.5 million people in the most food insecure families are now at heightened risk of malnutrition in the coming months because of displacement, losses of crops and livelihoods during the storm," said Mr. Fisher.
UN agencies and humanitarian partners are working with the Government to provide emergency aid. The World Food Programme and its partners are distributing food supplies, including high-energy biscuits. Other partners are providing drinking water, water purification and hygiene kits. Water pumps are being repaired or replaced.
"In the meantime, international partners' ability to respond has been weakened by dwindling donor financing. Support to meet both immediate humanitarian needs and recovery efforts is urgently required," said the Humanitarian Coordinator.
Aid agencies are finding it hard to reach some communities due to impassible roads and rivers. The effects of the two major storms this year have depleted available stocks and more aid is urgently needed. OCHA is now considering an emergency revision of the 2012 humanitarian appeal for Haiti to accommodate the increased needs.
Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic were also severely affected by the storm before it travelled north to the United States. In the Dominican Republic alone, about 11,000 people have lost their homes and in Cuba, more than 2,000 schools, 370 health centres and several hospitals have been damaged.
UN agencies are working closely with local authorities, donors and emergency organizations to support national efforts, which includes a UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) request and emergency cash grant for hygiene kits, tarpaulins and other relief supplies.


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Call for entries
to the Scars Publications "Sexy Poets" 2010 Wall Calendar
The 2010 Scars Publications Poetry Wall Calendar will include 12 poems from different writers, and 12 images — some of the images will be Scars images (nature images, or images taken from around the world), and some of the photos from poets, either as a portrait or of poets reading poetry.
The premise is that poets would submit photos of themselves (and yes the phrase "Sexy Poets" can be interpreted in any way the poet sees fit, I mean, we don't have to be models to prove we're sexy...) along with poetry for consideration for inclusion in the Scars Publications Sexy Poets 2010 Wall Calendar.
So, we wanna try something new, if there is genuine interest in this plan. Here are the details:
Any poet is allowed to submit not only poetry (up to 20 lines max, but 10 lines or fewer is preferred) for consideration for the Scars Publications 2010 Poetry Wall Calendar. But this time, instead of using our own images for the calendar (12 images for the 12 months of the year), we would like Poet photographs, so we can call this "the Scars Publications Sexy Poets 2010 Wall Calendar."
Go here for full details of how to submit...
My question... Is "sexy poet" an oxymoron? ;-)
Actually, I love it when people get a little playful with poetry. I might have to submit.
"I'm too sexy for this poem, too sexy for this poem, too sexy to roam..."
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my status bar (at the bottom of the page) no longer appears. how do i get it back? i coudn't find anything in internet options or settings.
I know this isn't really a solution to the current problem, but I would switch over to Mozilla, much faster in my experience, and way more secure. IE is full of bugs. (hey, it's M$ after all, can't expect much)
If you are using IE6 you can active it by View-> Status Bar.
(maybe same in earlier versions)
good luck
Have you tried looking in the view menu? Should be an option there for the status bar. Also, it might have something to do with your folder options or simply the size of the window.
btw I don't know if this post belongs in the Microsoft Security Discussions forum. Perhaps another sub-forum would of been better.
And every application has its help file, like IE.
Originally posted here by cyb3rn3tik
I know this isn't really a solution to the current problem, but I would switch over to Mozilla, much faster in my experience, and way more secure. IE is full of bugs. (hey, it's M$ after all, can't expect much)
Oh come on. Microsoft ain't that bad, and beleive me, Linux ain't all it's said to be from my experiences with it. I like Linux for what it does for servers, thats about it. IE is a decent browser for what it does. It's not the best browser, but it does its job fine. On the other hand, Mozilla is one of the crappiest browsers I have ever used. It kept crashing, locking up, and causing random problems on my Red Hat 7.2. As soon as I switched to Opera on *nix, everything ran awsome.
Now all you "i swear by Linux" people, feel free to flame me, but I am just stating my experience.
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I tried Mozilla about a year back, and I had some of the same problems you're mentioning. At the time, I resigned myself to using Netscape even though I didn't like it much either. Here recently, someone I work with told me that mozilla had improved, so I tried it again and was much more pleased with the results this time. If you're happy with Opera, fine - keep using it, but don't give Mozilla a bad review just because it used to suck.
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uraloony: Strange, no one seems to be having these problems. Which release of mozilla? I have Mozilla 1.0 and Mozilla 0.98, both run with stability and pure speed. There was a bench mark of Mozilla VS IE on Cnet. You see why mozilla is hailed very obviously there.
Mozilla is an innovative product with support for the most cutting-edge web standards, unlike IE (this is other than the fact that it's more customisable, prettier, more feature-packed).
There's only one fully W3C-compliant browser... Amaya ! And I'm pretty sure it's faster than Mozilla :/
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Bontrager's Pro Seat Pack makes organizing and accessing your essentials a breeze. Plus, the solid V-Loc mounting system holds everything in place while the taillight tab and reflective trim add an extra measure of safety.
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I'm an avid mountain biker and after my last no-name bag fell apart on the trail after just 2 months, I decided to go with something I thought would be better quality. I bought the medium Bontrager Pro Seat Pack. The features were great. I loved the inside pockets and the size was just right. Unfortunately, it didn't last much longer than my previous cheep-o bag because the zipper broke and I ended up losing my innertube patch kit on the trail. There's no way to repair the zipper and now I'm out more money and back to looking for a better seat pack.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Cheerio
from Minneapolis
About Me Competitive Cyclist
I carried a tube and co2 cartridges I. The seat bag and on one ride the zipper broke so I took it back got a new one easy on another ride it happened again and again and again about 5 times the zipper piece would actually stretch and fatigue cause it was a cheap pile of junk
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By Bikin' PA
from Pittsburgh, PA
It fits my odd-shaped suspension seatpost! The XL looks to be the same size as the large but it's got a zip out extension so it will hold more. In its normal config, w/o zip out, I got 2-700c tubes, patch kit, tire levers, multi-tool, electrical tape, zip ties, pressure gauge, MTB headlight, etc to fit comfortably. And it doesn't look THAT big.
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I removed the internal webbing that keeps the zipper flap from opening all the way. It makes it easier to add and remove the items.
The one I purchased was too small, so I'm probably going to purchase a larger one to fit my tube, tools, and pressure gauge.
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I've big ol' 26X2 tires so I can't jam the tube all the way down into this bag. I have to spend time loading it just so and even then there is space wasted. If only it were 10% bigger...
Otherwise it does what you'd expect and I'm happy with it.
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Scottsta needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 94 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
I am an architural residental designer of 25+ years experience, predominantly working in-house for quality extension & new home builders. Two such builders have won or been shortlisted for awards in the Housing Industry Association & the Master Builders Association awards since 2000 for extensions built to my copyrighted designs. Referral /repeat business is increasing. I prefer to design in consultation with my clients, sometimes using my laptop live utilizing CAD software. Residential extensions of heritage buildings is my forte and is also a major requirement for a lot of local residents in my bayside council, owing to strict local bylaws. However many clients are able to do new homes, usually when the cost of a large extension forces a major rethink on cost effectiveness. Once this occurs some clients wish to look at other design options, usually more contempary and incorporating water tanks/green features, etc. I love designing and wish to do more contemporary work.
Usually a couple with/without kids with the financial clout to afford $200/250k+ to $600k extensions or new houses from $350k to $1m+.
A simple, clear, concise logo that gives the impression of the ability to provide a design, be it heritage or contemporary, extension or new home. The logo would be the basis for the website, business card and stationary. A watermark of a plan blueprint under the logo is a possibility; but don't let that stop an alternative approach. The SM in the coy name are my initials. It is also possible that, if necessary, I could register a new business name(owned by my coy ) more appropriate to your logo. Any typeface should be clear & bold , not too fancy. Use colors as you wish :- that color theme would be used on the website. Heritage colors are a possibility but not a necessity. No clipart or stock images please.
The logo attached was used by myself previously in another business, but obviosly limited opportunities beyond heritage homes. The logo should be available in as many formats as possible to enable printing & downloading; I'm no expert here.
Prefer something classy/elegent too appeal to my type of client. Don't use cartoon house images please.
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The third cycle of the St. Augustine Beach renourishment project starts Monday to put about 2.1 million cubic yards of sand on 2.3 miles of shoreline between Anastasia State Park south to the Bermuda Run development.
The ongoing project is being done to offset the impacts caused by the St. Augustine Inlet to adjacent beaches, the $17 million project being done by the Army Corps of Engineers. The project involves dredging sands around the inlet that would have been carried by ocean currents to the south and carefully laying it on beaches south of the inlet. The project also clears navigational channels.
Public access to areas within the construction perimeter is prohibited and marked with orange fencing. Construction activity will occur 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Public beach access points will be affected throughout the project. The Pope Road access from A1A Beach Boulevard to the beach along with the parking lot and scenic overlook will be closed beginning Monday. Part of the beach driving area will be closed from about Feb 16 to mid-April. There will also be intermittent closure of the 3rd Street beach access throughout construction.


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1909-1911 T206 White Border PSA VG-EX 4 Collection (114)
Starting Bid - $2,000, Sold For - $6,463
Collection of 114 T206 White Border tobacco cards, each graded and encapsulated VG-EX 4 by PSA (except six VG-EX+ 4.5). All have Piedmont or Sweet Caporal advertisements on back unless otherwise noted. This is part of a larger collection of T206 cards, which we have broken down into several smaller lots organized by condition. Naturally, this is an extraordinarily consistent collection in terms of condition, and represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a very substantial group of 114 different classic T206 cards (22% of the entire set!) in an extremely desirable and consistent grade. Consists of the following: Abbaticchio (blue sleeves, VG-EX+ 4.5), Abbaticchio (brown sleeves), Abstein (VG-EX+ 4.5), Adkins, Armbruster, Anderson, Atz, Beck, Berger, Bescher (hands in air), Birmingham, Brain, Burch (fielding), Burke (VG-EX+ 4.5), Camnitz (arms folded, El Pricipe De Gales back), Campbell (Sovereign back), Carr, Casey, Clymer, Conroy (fielding), Conroy (bat), Crandall (no cap, VG-EX+ 4.5), Crandall (cap, Sovereign back), Cravath, Cree, Criger, Cross, Dahlen (Boston), Devlin, Donlin (bat), Doolan (bat, VG-EX+ 4.5), Downey (bat), Downey (fielding), Downs, Doyle (port.), Doyle (bat), Dubuc, Dunn (Balt.), Dunn (Bklyn), Elberfeld (fielding), Engle, Evans, Fletcher, Ganzel, Gibson, Goode, Hahn, Hayden, Hoblitzell, Howard (Chi.), Howell (hand at waist), Howell (port.), Jones (Det.), Karger, Kisinger (VG-EX+ 4.5), Kleinow (bat, Sovereign back), Knight (bat), Krause (port.), Kroh, Lake (NY), Latham, Leach (bending over, Polar Bear back), Leifield (pitching), Lumley, Lundgren (KC), Malarkey, Maloney, Manning (pitching), McGann (American Beauty back), McGinley (Sovereign back), McIntyre (Det.), Merkle (port.), Milligan, Mitchell (Tor.), Mitchell (Cin., Sovereign back), Moeller (Sovereign back), Moriarty, Myers (bat), Oakes, Oberlin, O'Brien, O'Leary (port.), Overall (port.), Parent, Pastorius, Pattee, Pelty (vert., Cycle back), Phelan, Poland, Powell, Powers, Raymond, Reulbach (glove), Ritter, Rudolph, Schirm, Schlei (port.), Schreck, Schulte (front view), Schulte (back view), Seymour (port.), Shannon, Shaw (Prov.), Sheckard (glove), Smith (white cap), Smith (Buffalo), Steinfeldt (port.), Tannehill (L. Tannehill on front), Turner, White (pitching), Wilhelm (bat), Wilson, Wright, and Young (Minn.). Bright and crisp extremely attractive collection, all in uniform grade, from the most popular and classic set of the era. This is a very substantial group, and a tremendous start to a T206 set. The total SMR value for the assigned grades is $7,980. Total 114 cards. Reserve $2,000. Estimate $4,000/$6,000+. SOLD FOR $6,463
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If you smoke, don't bother applying for a job at Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — If you smoke, don't bother applying for a job at Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach.
Starting Jan. 1, the hospital will no longer hire tobacco users.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal (http://bit.ly/1d9QnqK ) reports applicants will be tested for a nicotine byproduct and sign an agreement to remain tobacco-free throughout their employment. The policy doesn't apply to volunteers, medical staff or some 700 employees who are already working at the hospital.
In 2009 the hospital became a smoke-free campus. In January 2012, it started charging $25 per paycheck for smokers who elect to take health insurance.
"We are in the health care business, and we should be a role model," said Nancy Evolga, executive director of human resources for the hospital. "There is 50 years of data that says tobacco use is bad."
If an employee hired after Jan. 1 tests positive for the nicotine byproduct will be subject to disciplinary action up to termination.
A health-risk survey found that about 22 percent of the hospital's employees use tobacco. Evolga said the hospital offers free tobacco-cessation counseling to employees and their families.
The newspaper reports that money collected from tobacco users is pooled to fund a wellness initiative called Fit for Life. Employees are offered yoga classes at the hospital, or they can take healthy meals home, or join walking clubs.
Hospital officials say the decision was made in part because of the high health care costs and lost productivity associated with smoking.
"Our mission is to improve the overall health of our southeast Volusia community, not just treat illness," the hospital's chief executive officer told the News-Journal. "Bert Fish Medical Center sets an example for other businesses to improve the health of their workforce by not hiring tobacco users."
Other area hospitals have taken similar actions, including Florida Hospital Flagler in Palm Coast and Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City. Neither facilities hire smokers.
The newspaper reports that all hospital campuses in Volusia and Flagler counties are smoke-free.


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American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900–1945
Jeffrey Helgeson
Early 20th century American labor and working-class history is a subfield of American social history that focuses attention on the complex lives of working people in a rapidly changing global political and economic system. Once focused closely on institutional dynamics in the workplace and electoral politics, labor history has expanded and refined its approach to include questions about the families, communities, identities, and cultures workers have developed over time. With a critical eye on the limits of liberal capitalism and democracy for workers' welfare, labor historians explore individual and collective struggles against exclusion from opportunity, as well as accommodation to political and economic contexts defined by rapid and volatile growth and deep inequality.
Particularly important are the ways that workers both defined and were defined by differences of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and place. Individual workers and organized groups of working Americans both transformed and were transformed by the main struggles of the industrial era, including conflicts over the place of former slaves and their descendants in the United States, mass immigration and migrations, technological change, new management and business models, the development of a consumer economy, the rise of a more active federal government, and the evolution of popular culture.
The period between 1896 and 1945 saw a crucial transition in the labor and working-class history of the United States. At its outset, Americans were working many more hours a day than the eight for which they had fought hard in the late 19th century. On average, Americans labored fifty-four to sixty-three hours per week in dangerous working conditions (approximately 35,000 workers died in accidents annually at the turn of the century). By 1920, half of all Americans lived in growing urban neighborhoods, and for many of them chronic unemployment, poverty, and deep social divides had become a regular part of life. Workers had little power in either the Democratic or Republican party. They faced a legal system that gave them no rights at work but the right to quit, judges who took the side of employers in the labor market by issuing thousands of injunctions against even nonviolent workers' organizing, and vigilantes and police forces that did not hesitate to repress dissent violently. The ranks of organized labor were shrinking in the years before the economy began to recover in 1897. Dreams of a more democratic alternative to wage labor and corporate-dominated capitalism had been all but destroyed. Workers struggled to find their place in an emerging consumer-oriented culture that assumed everyone ought to strive for the often unattainable, and not necessarily desirable, marks of middle-class respectability.
Yet American labor emerged from World War II with the main sectors of the industrial economy organized, with greater earning potential than any previous generation of American workers, and with unprecedented power as an organized interest group that could appeal to the federal government to promote its welfare. Though American workers as a whole had made no grand challenge to the nation's basic corporate-centered political economy in the preceding four and one-half decades, they entered the postwar world with a greater level of power, and a bigger share in the proceeds of a booming economy, than anyone could have imagined in 1896. The labor and working-class history of the United States between 1900 and 1945, then, is the story of how working-class individuals, families, and communities—members of an extremely diverse American working class—managed to carve out positions of political, economic, and cultural influence, even as they remained divided among themselves, dependent upon corporate power, and increasingly invested in a individualistic, competitive, acquisitive culture.
American Urban Planning Since 1850
Harold Platt
As places of dense habitation, cities have always required coordination and planning. City planning has involved the design and construction of large-scale infrastructure projects to provide basic necessities such as a water supply and drainage. By the 1850s, immigration and industrialization were fueling the rise of big cities, creating immense, collective problems of epidemics, slums, pollution, gridlock, and crime. From the 1850s to the 1900s, both local governments and utility companies responded to this explosive physical and demographic growth by constructing a "networked city" of modern technologies such as gaslight, telephones, and electricity. Building the urban environment also became a wellspring of innovation in science, medicine, and administration. In 1909–1910, a revolutionary idea—comprehensive city planning—opened a new era of professionalization and institutionalization in the planning departments of city halls and universities. Over the next thirty-five years, however, wars and depression limited their influence.
From 1945 to 1965, in contrast, represents the golden age of formal planning. During this unprecedented period of peace and prosperity, academically trained experts played central roles in the modernization of the inner cities and the sprawl of the suburbs. But the planners' clean-sweep approach to urban renewal and the massive destruction caused by highway construction provoked a revolt of the grassroots. Beginning in the Watts district of Los Angeles in 1965, mass uprisings escalated over the next three years into a national crisis of social disorder, racial and ethnic inequality, and environmental injustice. The postwar consensus of theory and practice was shattered, replaced by a fragmented profession ranging from defenders of top-down systems of computer-generated simulations to proponents of advocacy planning from the bottom up. Since the late 1980s, the ascendency of public-private partnerships in building the urban environment has favored the planners promoting systems approaches, who promise a future of high-tech "smart cities" under their complete control.
America's Wars on Poverty and the Building of the Welfare State
David Torstensson
On January 5, 2014—the fiftieth anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's launch of the War on Poverty—the New York Times asked a panel of opinion leaders a simple question: "Does the U.S. Need Another War on Poverty?" While the answers varied, all the invited debaters accepted the martial premise of the question—that a war on poverty had been fought and that eliminating poverty was, without a doubt, a "fight," or a "battle."
Yet the debate over the manner—martial or not—by which the federal government and public policy has dealt with the issue of poverty in the United States is still very much an open-ended one.
The evolution and development of the postwar American welfare state is a story not only of a number of "wars," or individual political initiatives, against poverty, but also about the growth of institutions within and outside government that seek to address, alleviate, and eliminate poverty and its concomitant social ills. It is a complex and at times messy story, interwoven with the wider historical trajectory of this period: civil rights, the rise and fall of a "Cold War consensus," the emergence of a counterculture, the Vietnam War, the credibility gap, the rise of conservatism, the end of "welfare," and the emergence of compassionate conservatism. Mirroring the broader organization of the American political system, with a relatively weak center of power and delegated authority and decision-making in fifty states, the welfare model has developed and grown over decades. Policies viewed in one era as unmitigated failures have instead over time evolved and become part of the fabric of the welfare state.
Angel Island Immigration Station
Judy Yung and Erika Lee
The Angel Island Immigration Station (1910–1940), located in San Francisco Bay, was one of twenty-four ports of entry established by the U.S. government to process and detain immigrants entering and leaving the country. Although popularly called the "Ellis Island of the West," the Angel Island station was in fact quite different from its counterpart in New York. Ellis Island was built in 1892 to welcome European immigrants and to enforce immigration laws that restricted but did not exclude European immigrants. In contrast, as the primary gateway for Chinese and other Asian immigrants, the Angel Island station was built in 1910 to better enforce discriminatory immigration policies that targeted Asians for exclusion. Chinese immigrants, in particular, were subjected to longer physical exams, interrogations, and detentions than any other immigrant group. Out of frustration, anger, and despair, many of them wrote and carved Chinese poems into the barrack walls. In 1940, a fire destroyed the administration building, and the immigration station was moved back to San Francisco. In 1963, the abandoned site became part of the state park system, and the remaining buildings were slated for demolition. Thanks to the collective efforts of Asian American activists and descendents of former detainees, the U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997, and the immigration site, including the Chinese poetry on the barrack walls, was preserved and transformed into a museum of Pacific immigration for visitors.
The Anti-Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles as a Reconstruction-Era Event
Victor Jew
Long regarded as a violent outburst significant mainly for California history, the 1871 Los Angeles anti-Chinese massacre raises themes central to America's Civil War Reconstruction era between 1865 and 1877, namely, the resort to threats and violence to preserve traditionally conceived social and political authority and power. Although the Los Angeles events occurred far from the American South, the Los Angeles anti-Chinese massacre paralleled the anti-black violence that rose in the South during Reconstruction. Although the immediate causes of the violence in the post–Civil War South and California were far different, they shared one key characteristic: they employed racial disciplining to preserve traditional social orders that old elites saw as threatened by changing times and circumstances.
The Asian American Movement
Daryl Joji Maeda
The Asian American Movement was a social movement for racial justice, most active during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, which brought together people of various Asian ancestries in the United States who protested against racism and U.S. neo-imperialism, demanded changes in institutions such as colleges and universities, organized workers, and sought to provide social services such as housing, food, and healthcare to poor people. As one of its signal achievements, the Movement created the category "Asian American," (coined by historian and activist Yuji Ichioka), which encompasses the multiple Asian ethnic groups who have migrated to the United States. Its founding principle of coalitional politics emphasizes solidarity among Asians of all ethnicities, multiracial solidarity among Asian Americans as well as with African, Latino, and Native Americans in the United States, and transnational solidarity with peoples around the globe impacted by U.S. militarism.
The movement participated in solidarity work with other Third World peoples in the United States, including the Third World Liberation Front strikes at San Francisco State College and University of California, Berkeley. The Movement fought for housing rights for poor people in the urban cores of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, and Philadelphia; it created arts collectives, published newspapers and magazines, and protested vigorously against the Vietnam War. It also extended to Honolulu, where activists sought to preserve land rights in rural Hawai'i. It contributed to the larger radical movement for power and justice that critiqued capitalism and neo-imperialism, which flourished during the 1960s and 1970s.
Asian Americans and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots/Uprising
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Although the 1992 Los Angeles riots have been described as a "race riot" sparked by the acquittals of a group of mostly white police officers charged with excessively beating black motorist Rodney King, the widespread targeting and destruction of Asian-owned (mainly Korean) property in and around South Central Los Angeles stands out as one of the most striking aspects of the uprising. For all the commentary generated about the state of black-white relations, African American youths, and the decline of America's inner cities, the riots also gave many Americans their first awareness of the presence of a Korean immigrant population in Southern California, a large number of Korean shop owners, and the existence of what was commonly framed as the "black-Korean conflict." For Korean Americans, and Asian Americans more generally, the Los Angeles riots represented a shattered "American dream" and brought focus to their tenuous hold on economic mobility and social inclusion in a society fraught by racial and ethnic tension. The riots furthermore marked a turning point that placed Asian immigrants and Asian Americans at the center of new conversations about social relations in a multiracial America, the place of new immigrants, and the responsibilities of relatively privileged minorities toward the less privileged.
The Car and the City
David Blanke
The relationship between the car and the city remains complex and involves numerous private and public forces, innovations in technology, global economic fluctuations, and shifting cultural attitudes that only rarely consider the efficiency of the automobile as a long-term solution to urban transit. The advantages of privacy, speed, ease of access, and personal enjoyment that led many to first embrace the automobile were soon shared and accentuated by transit planners as the surest means to realize the long-held ideals of urban beautification, efficiency, and accessible suburbanization. The remarkable gains in productivity provided by industrial capitalism brought these dreams within reach and individual car ownership became the norm for most American families by the middle of the 20th century. Ironically, the success in creating such a "car country" produced the conditions that again congested traffic, raised questions about the quality of urban (and now suburban) living, and further distanced the nation from alternative transit options. The "hidden costs" of postwar automotive dependency in the United States became more apparent in the late 1960s, leading to federal legislation compelling manufacturers and transit professionals to address the long-standing inefficiencies of the car. This most recent phase coincides with a broader reappraisal of life in the city and a growing recognition of the material limits to mass automobility.
The City Beautiful Movement, 1890–1920
John D. Fairfield
The City Beautiful movement arose in the 1890s in response to the accumulating dirt and disorder in industrial cities, which threatened economic efficiency and social peace. City Beautiful advocates believed that better sanitation, improved circulation of traffic, monumental civic centers, parks, parkways, public spaces, civic art, and the reduction of outdoor advertising would make cities throughout the United States more profitable and harmonious. Engaging architects and planners, businessmen and professionals, and social reformers and journalists, the City Beautiful movement expressed a boosterish desire for landscape beauty and civic grandeur, but also raised aspirations for a more humane and functional city. "Mean streets make mean people," wrote the movement's publicist and leading theorist, Charles Mulford Robinson, encapsulating the belief in positive environmentalism that drove the movement. Combining the parks and boulevards of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted with the neoclassical architecture of Daniel H. Burnham's White City at the Chicago's World Columbian Exposition in 1893, the City Beautiful movement also encouraged a view of the metropolis as a delicate organism that could be improved by bold, comprehensive planning. Two organizations, the American Park and Outdoor Art Association (founded in 1897) and the American League for Civic Improvements (founded in 1900), provided the movement with a national presence. But the movement also depended on the work of civic-minded women and men in nearly 2,500 municipal improvement associations scattered across the nation. Reaching its zenith in Burnham's remaking of Washington, D.C., and his coauthored Plan of Chicago (1909), the movement slowly declined in favor of the "City Efficient" and a more technocratic city-planning profession. Aside from a legacy of still-treasured urban spaces and structures, the City Beautiful movement contributed to a range of urban reforms, from civic education and municipal housekeeping to city planning and regionalism.
Company Towns in the United States
Hardy Green
Company towns can be defined as communities dominated by a single company, typically focused on one industry. Beyond that very basic definition, company towns varied in their essentials. Some were purpose-built by companies, often in remote areas convenient to needed natural resources. There, workers were often required to live in company-owned housing as a condition of employment. Others began as small towns with privately owned housing, usually expanding alongside a growing hometown corporation. Residences were shoddy in some company towns. In others, company-built housing may have been excellent, with indoor plumbing and central heating, and located close to such amenities as schools, libraries, perhaps even theaters.
Company towns played a key role in US economic and social development. Such places can be found across the globe, but America's vast expanse of undeveloped land, generous stock of natural resources, tradition of social experimentation, and laissez-faire attitude toward business provided singular opportunities for the emergence of such towns, large and small, in many regions of the United States. Historians have identified as many as 2,500 such places.
A tour of company towns can serve as a survey of the country's industrial development, from the first large-scale planned industrial community—the textile town of Lowell, Massachusetts—to Appalachian mining villages, Western lumber towns, and steelmaking principalities such as the mammoth development at Gary, Indiana. More recent office-park and high-tech industrial-park complexes probably do not qualify as company towns, although they have some similar attributes. Nor do such planned towns as Disney Corporation's Celebration, Florida, qualify, despite close ties to a single corporation, because its residents do not necessarily work for Disney.
Company towns have generally tended toward one of two models. First, and perhaps most familiar, are total institutions—communities where one business exerts a Big Brother–ish grip over the population, controlling or even taking the place of government, collecting rent on company-owned housing, dictating buying habits (possibly at the company store), and even directing where people worship and how they may spend their leisure time. A second form consists of model towns—planned, ideal communities backed by companies that promised to share their bounty with workers and families. Several such places were carefully put together by experienced architects and urban planners. Such model company towns were marked by a paternalistic, watchful attitude toward the citizenry on the part of the company overlords.


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Only two drawings were prepared for this preliminary design proposal; a Lines Plan and a Sail & Deck Plan. I believe the Lines Plan that is shown here is the only one of the two that has survived. That's a shame as it would have been interesting to see her rig.
I always try to do an Internet search for the old customers to see if it might have been someone famous. The plan list gives the name William McCoy. I was more than amused to find that William McCoy was a rum-runner during prohibition and that he ran five different schooners between Bimini and Long Island. Could it be that the firm designed one of them? Probably not since prohibition ended in 1933 in the United States and this design was produced in 1935. Perhaps he just wanted to spend some of his profits on a fancy new boat. Click here to read about him.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Revolution and Sovereign | Santander (NYSE: SAN) today announced their multi-year agreement making Sovereign | Santander the "Official Bank of the New England Revolution." The multi-faceted agreement will focus heavily on the Bank's and the Revolution's joint community involvement and engagement under the tagline, "One Team, One Goal," which will be used in all of Sovereign | Santander's Revolution programs.
Sovereign | Santander's agreement with the Revolution also includes day-of-game sponsorships; on-site game day programs; community clinics run by the Revolution Academy and Revs players; naming rights for the team's official "Man of the Match" award; on-field advertising during Revolution matches; away game trips; as well as television broadcast, radio broadcast, print and digital inventory.
The New England Revolution is Sovereign | Santander's first US-based soccer property and joins Santander's global sporting portfolio that includes sponsorship of Copa Santander Libertardores, as well as the 2011 Copa America Argentina, Copa Sudamericana and Recopa Santander Sudamericana. Santander also sponsors the Ferrari Formula 1 race team, including Spanish driver Fernando Alonso and Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, as well as British McLaren drivers, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton. In addition, Santander sponsors the four most prominent European races of the Formula 1 calendar: the British, German, Italian and Spanish Grand Prixs.
"Sovereign | Santander is a proud and committed partner of the New England Revolution and we carry that commitment to the communities and customers we serve," commented Sovereign | Santander President and CEO Jorge Morán. "Soccer is the world's most-followed sport. We have seen its immense impact through our relationships and existing sponsorships. We look forward to expanding our commitment to the sport in New England to further engage and enrich our community with this significant partnership."
"It is great to partner with a champion in the banking industry like Sovereign | Santander," said Robert Kraft, Chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group, the holding company for the New England Revolution. "Since our inception, the Revolution players and staff have always been champions in the community. The players regularly volunteer their time and resources to the communities that provide so much support for them throughout the year. Customer service is emphasized in everything that we do and teaming up with a company like Sovereign | Santander, which is equally committed to excellence in customer care, is important to us. We believe in the strength of teamwork and look forward to the many opportunities we will have to engage our fans through this new partnership."
A cornerstone of the agreement will be the launch of the Sovereign | Santander New England Revolution Community Clinics. The Revolution and Sovereign | Santander will present a series of free soccer clinics – featuring on-site, interactive and instructional programs – for Boys & Girls Clubs members and children in the Bank's local neighborhoods.
Brazilian soccer legend, Pelé, who is Santander's soccer ambassador since 2008, was present at the announcement to show his support of the bank's new endeavor related to "the beautiful game," with which he is globally associated.
"I have always been a champion of the Santander Group, and Sovereign | Santander's new commitment to soccer and the community in the U.S. is particularly meaningful to me," Pelé said.
About Sovereign Bank, N.A., Santander Holdings USA, Inc. and Banco Santander, S.A.Sovereign Bank, N.A. is among the top 25 banks in the United States with principal presence in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Sovereign has 722 branches, 2,200 ATMs and over 8,700 team members. Sovereign Bank's principal regulator is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Sovereign Bank is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC"). For more information on Sovereign Bank, visit http://www.sovereignbank.com or call 877-SOV-BANK.
Santander Holdings USA, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco Santander, S.A., and parent company of Sovereign Bank, N.A. Banco Santander is a retail and commercial global bank, with a presence in 10 main markets: U.S., Germany, UK, Poland, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Spain and Portugal. Founded in 1857, Santander has more than 102 million customers, approximately 14,700 branches – more than any other international bank – and 193,000 employees. Santander was recently recognized as the Best Global Bank in 2012 by Euromoney magazine. For more information on Santander, visit http://www.santander.com.
About the New England Revolution
The New England Revolution is the Northeast region's premier professional soccer team, owned and operated by the Kraft Family, which also owns and operates the New England Patriots of the National Football League, and Gillette Stadium, the home of the club. A founding member of the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer in 1996, the Revolution has played in the MLS Cup championship match four times in the last decade – including three straight from 2005 to 2007 – while advancing to the Eastern Conference Championship game in an MLS-record six straight years (2002-07). The Revolution also won the 2007 U.S. Open Cup and the 2008 SuperLiga title. The team's roster includes such stars as Benny Feilhaber, Matt Reis, and the up-and-coming talent, Diego Fagundez, just 17 years old from Leominster, Mass. For more information, visit revolutionsoccer.net, or interact with the Revolution on Facebook (facebook.com/nerevolution) or Twitter (@NERevolution).
About Pelé
On October 23, 1940 in Três Corações, a city in the Minas Gerais state of Brazil, a legend was born. Today, in a world of 7 billion people, soccer is the foremost sport and Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) remains at the center of "the beautiful game" - where he is universally recognized, respected and revered. Pelé started his professional career at the age of 16 for Santos Futebol Clube, a club he stayed with for nearly two decades. In 1958, he won his first World Cup for Brazil at age 17 – the youngest winner ever. He went on to win another two World Cups in 1962 and 1970, distinguishing himelf as the only person in the world with three Jules Rimet trophies. Not only is Pelé the all-time leading scorer of Santos FC and the Brazil National Team, but he is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the sport (1282 goals in 1366 matches). In 1974, Pelé left semi-retirement to sign with the New York Cosmos for the 1975-1977 seasons, leading the team to the 1977 NASL championship. After his final career match on October 1, 1977 in front of more than 75,000 fans, Pelé shouted, "Love! Love! Love!" and urged his audience to pay attention to the youth of the world. Named one of the "Top 20 Most Important People of the 20th Century" (Time Magazine) and "Football Player of the Century" (FIFA), Pelé today maintains his commitment to the sport and to society by fulfilling various roles as spokesperson, ambassador and philanthropist.
Sovereign | Santander/ New England Revolution Community Events Calendar
To celebrate Sovereign | Santander's new role as the official bank of the New England Revolution, some very special community-oriented events have been planned.
Fan Appreciation Event
This fun family event offers an opportunity for the public to meet some of their favorite Revs players and get their autographs; sign up to win tickets to Rev's games; and have their picture taken in the photo booth. Kids will love the face painting and the foosball tables. Slyde the Revs mascot will also be on hand to add to the excitement!
When: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Sovereign | Santander, Dedham Branch
929 Providence Highway, Rte 1
Dedham, MA 02026
New England Revolution Community Clinic
Run by the Revolution Academy coaching staff and featuring top instruction, the free clinic will give children the opportunity to interact with professional athletes within their own community.
When: Friday, October 12, 2012, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston's
Blue Hill Club/George Robert White Youth Development Center
15 Talbot Avenue
Dorchester, MA 02124


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Self-Driving Cars May Be Mainstream by 2025
At the dawn of the automobile age, driving a car wasn't a high status activity. By the middle of this decade, cars that can largely pilot themselves through traffic jams will be offered for sale. Joe White reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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ARISS Contact Schedule and Successful school list updated 2005-05-19 03:00 UTC Expedition 11 crew is now on the ISS. John Phillips KE5DRY Sergei Krikalev U5MIR The schedule page has been updated as of 2005-05-19 03:00 UTC. Look for the added frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction. Several schools will be live simulcasted via the world wide web. Check out the instructions for each school on the schedule page to get to the audio streaming. Additional instructions have been added on how to listen in when the streaming audio is provided by MCI. Also, please monitor the IRLP and Echolink webpages for possible upcoming contacts that will be simulcast. IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca This new site will have the links for simulcast contacts that have IRLP and Echolink. The successful school list has been updated as of 2005-05-17 03:00 UTC. Special Event planned. (***) Please read the following from Frank Bauer KA3HDO. (***) ****************************************************************************** * All, On behalf of the ARISS-International team, it is my pleasure to let you know of an exciting school education opportunity. As of a couple of days ago, the ARISS team got permission from the ISS Program Office (US and Russia) to proceed forward with the delivery of the Space Suit satellite project that was discussed at the 2004 AMSAT Symposium. We will be providing you all more details about Suitsat in the near future. In the meantime, have an excellent opportunity for Schools and Students called "School Spacewalk." I have included below a description of this initiative to get the ball rolling. You can also see a word version of this (that can be downloaded) at the following URL: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Papers/School%20Spacewalk%20Suitsat%20Final.d oc Please forward this information on to schools in your area. Most importantly, take some initiative to get these schools interested in the Amateur Radio hobby and amateur space communication. On behalf of the ARISS team, we look forward to some real excitement as Suitsat gets ready for deployment off the ISS this fall. 73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO ARISS International Chairman Attention Schools!! Would your school like to participate in a spacewalk?? Here is an outstanding opportunity!! Background: In the fall of 2005, a Russian spacesuit is expected to be deployed from the International Space Station. This deployment is expected to occur during a spacewalk currently planned in mid-September. Once deployed, the spacesuit will orbit the Earth for several weeks until it burns up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team has received permission to include a special compact disk on-board this spacesuit with school artwork included. As a result, participating schools will have an opportunity to "fly" their artwork as part of the spacewalk. To participate, schools should develop a 1 page piece of artwork that uniquely represents your school. This could be an artist's representation of the school, a list of student names, student signatures, a school science project summary or a school mission patch. This artwork should be primarily developed by the students. The goal is for you to use your imagination and engage your students in the development of the artwork. The page, as delivered, should not exceed 8.5x11 inches ( 216x279 mm) so that it can be easily scanned onto the compact disk. Schools can also take a digital photograph of their art work and send this in. If you elect to take a digital photograph, we ask that this be in jpg format and not exceed 2 megs in size. No other formats can be accepted. Delivery Specifics: All entries need to be received prior to June 15 2005 to be included on the compact disk. The disk will be delivered to Russia in late June, flown to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and launched on the 19P Progress vehicle currently planned for August 2005. 8.5x11 inch page artwork can be mailed to the following address: School Spacewalk c/o AMSAT 850 Sligo Ave. Suite 600 Silver Spring, MD 20910-4703 Jpg images, no greater than 2 megs, using the naming format "schoolname_location.jpg" can be e-mailed to: <mailto:email@example.com>firstname.lastname@example.com The ARISS team looks forward to your artwork and is pleased to provide this opportunity to school students around the world!! ****************************************************************************** * Check out the link on the schedule page to download a video that Mike Fincke KE5AIT and Gennady Padalka RN3DT have produced of life on the ISS. The latest ARISS announcement and successful school list is now available on the ARISS web site. There are several ARISS web sites: English: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ French: http://c.avmdti.free.fr/ariss/index.htm ARISS Europe: http://www.ariss-eu.org/ ARISS Japan: http://www.jarl.or.jp/ariss/ Other locations include: Latest ARISS announcements and news http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Successful school list http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ISS Fan Club website is: http://www.issfanclub.com K1ELA has a website at: http://members.aol.com/k1ela/index.html ON6SAT has a website at: http://on6sat.com/links/ 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to email@example.com
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The Jewish calendar year, which begins with the month of Tishrei (from mid to late September) has certain periods in which gift giving coincides with the particular seasons. During the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur many types of gifts are given, especially gifts of food and wine, as well for the home. As these holidays usually fall during or after the September Equinox, the holidays usher in the Autumn season, and gifts of harvest related items, including paintings, pottery, and other art work are very good gift ideas. These holidays are also deeply tied to religion; and a number of Jewish jewelry gift items, including amulets and Judaica items make excellent gifts.
Almost immediately following the Yom Kippur fast is the eight day festival of Sukkot. Sukkot is a harvest festival, making items dealing with seasonal produce as well as artwork excellent gift ideas. When visiting friends and relatives during this period, especially during the interim Chol Hamoed days, gifts of wine and house wares as well as seasonal fruits are smart gift ideas.
Following Sukkot, the next big gift giving festival is the eight day festival of Hanukkah, occurring during the Hebrew month of Kislev which falls during the month of December. Hanukkah is definitely a children's festival, which means any type of gifts for children, from infants to teenagers, are appropriate. Since Hanukkah is also called "Chag Hanurim" or Festival of Lights, giving gifts such as eight candled Hanukkah Menorahs and Dreidels, both excellent seasonal gift ideas. Some excellent examples of handmade Menorahs can be found in the Judaica gifts section of our site.
Tu-Bishvat is a mid-winter festival following Hanukkah celebrating the new year of the trees and, in fact, Tu-Bishvat is called the Festival of Trees in English and gifts of nuts and dried fruit, as well as seasonal citrus fruit make excellent gifts. Since Tu-Bishvat is actually the "Birthday of Trees" any kind of gift relating to trees, nature and wildlife is an excellent gift ideas.
Purim is the next gift giving festival, and falls on the Hebrew month of Adar (late February to mid-March). Like Hanukkah, Purim is a fun holiday for kids and children often give what is called in Hebrew "Mishloah Manot" which are gift parcels of sweets and small toys.
A month after Purim, in the Hebrew month of Nisan, is the festival of Pesach or Passover. Passover is a very special season for gift giving; especially gift parcels with "Kosher for Passover" foods and wines as well as gifts for the home. Like Rosh Hashanah, Passover is a big gift giving season.
The last important gift giving festival of the Jewish year is the holiday of Shavuot which occurs six weeks after Passover in the month of Sivan, usually early June. Shavuot is a harvest festival as well as a religious one, and is also referred to as "Bikurim" (first fruits), making gifts of seasonal produce and flowers very appropriate; as well as artwork. Gifts of dairy products, such as fine cheese, wines and dairy foods are also very good gift ideas, since many people eat only dairy products during this holiday. Shavuot is the religious holiday that marks the time when the Children of Israel were given the Torah at Mt. Sinai. Gifts with a religious motif, including Jewish Gifts and Judaica are very appropriate.
The last gift giving festival of the Jewish Year is called "Tu-Be Av" which occurs in late summer during the Hebrew month of Av, is actually the Jewish "festival of love". Any kind of gift with a romantic flavor, as found in our sites, including Handmade Jewelry, Heart Jewelry, Gifts for Her and Gifts for Him are a very good place to look.
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