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Tarawa Atoll (CNN) -- United States Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Kurtis S. Witt pulls out a knife and kneels beside a WWII-era Japanese 3-inch projectile. Witt gingerly chips away at corrosion on the still unexploded artillery shell.
As pieces fall off, he gives it several more heart-stopping whacks. Biteti Tentoa, or "Peter," a Betio island native, watches from a safe distance. He jumps back expecting a catastrophic explosion. Nothing happens.
Witt is an explosive ordnance disposal technician with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. This 13-member team has spent the past month on Tarawa, a tiny Pacific atoll straddling the equator, searching for the remains of missing soldiers and Marines from the Battle of Tarawa. Now 67 years later, hundreds of Americans are unaccounted for and buried in mass graves around the island.
The team is digging meticulously, sifting for bone fragments through several meters of sandy soil. Archaeologist Gregory Fox keeps Witt close by. "We do a sweep on a site first to try to locate any ordnance, then he tells us whether or not we can work and keep him real close while we're digging. He's an essential team member for everywhere we work. We don't work in city parks; we work in battlefields."
Meanwhile Tentoa has walked almost 2 miles to the dig site. "We didn't know Marines were coming, just heard over the cocoanut wireless. I go straight to the captain. Do you like to see the body of one man from America?"
Capt. Todd Nordman is the team leader. He drives a small team over to Tentoa's home in the middle of Betio. It's a thatched-roof hut with dirt floors and a hand-dug well. Like most of the Kiribiti villagers, he's poor, barely surviving as a tailor. Once the team arrives, Peter walks Nordman into his home, and his son gently hands Nordman a box containing the remains. Tentoa has kept these remains safe from grave robbers.
"So while we're digging aiming to make a garden," Tentoa says, "we found the body of a Marine soldier from America."
His cap was on his skull, and his teeth were fitted with silver. Tentoa says he found a canteen and an ammo belt next to the bones.
"We're really happy to give the body of the man to the captain of the Marine group because that's our aim, to make the family happy," Tentoa says. He wants to meet the Marine's family.
While Nordman's group is preparing to leave, Tentoa hands over the artillery shell. "We thought only something to play with, only a piece of iron, no use. So when you come and say bomb, we afraid of it. Don't want to leave it in the house" Tentoa says.
Witt examines the fuse of Tentoa's projectile. He estimates it's filled with possibly 2 pounds of high explosive and that an ounce is enough to kill a man.
"This would be like a light artillery piece." Witt says. "It's still in the shell. It's unfired, meaning it's unarmed. This is basically in the same condition the guys that operated this gun system would have picked it up and thrown it into the gun. This one never made it into the gun. So it's safe."
Witt carefully walks the projectile to the back of his truck to "bunker it" in a safe location.
"They're scared of it." Witt says, "They were worried about it. To me this is a simple problem, but to an untrained eye it may be the scariest thing in the world. So bringing my expertise to the table can bring a warm and fuzzy to everybody's minds."
Witt, an Alaska native, comes from a military family. He has a twin brother and two younger brothers also in the service.
His twin Kody is an Army Special Forces diver. His brother Logan is a Marine sergeant in Camp Pendleton, and the youngest, Jesse, is at West Point Army Academy. All have been to Iraq; Kody is serving in Afghanistan.
While all branches of the military participate in the command, Fox specifically asks for as many Marines as he can get.
"Tarawa's pretty much sacred ground in the United States Marine Corps," he says. "It was a telling battle early in the war. The United States learned a lot from this battle, and they've carried on in their traditions."
For Witt it's a highlight of his service. "Being here on Tarawa looking for my Marine brothers does hit a certain spot on the inside. It gives you goosebumps down your spine just thinking about it. Being able to look down that beach and picturing them going through that battle, the intensity of it all.
"It ends up in a mass grave, gets lost, now we're out here. I get to be part of the team that finds them and brings them back to their family, their fellow brothers, and gives them that closure. It's an amazing feeling," he says.
"If one of my brothers went down I'd want them back, too. And it's awesome that we're doing this mission because I now have the confidence when I'm out in combat or one of my brothers is, that no matter what happens, my government's got my back, and whether it takes a year or 60 years, I'm gonna be home...My family is going to get that closure."
Witt secured 20 projectiles at the end of the mission, including 60 mm mortars and several grenades. In several instances, shells were exuding "pitric acid from corroded fuse wells...and this is when stuff can get a little hairy," he said.
When he came across a mortar shell, and high explosive had crystallized, Witt said, "This is when unexploded ordnance is truly in a sensitive state."
The command wraps up its mission in Tarawa this week. While no mass graves were unearthed at six dig sites, they will return with remains that were handed over. Tentoa hopes one day to get a call from a grateful American family.


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of bis englishman's son placed by his mo her scarce weaned on a high cold-stone orefooted before the anvil : there to har m sear and blister its young hands by eating and hammering ragged nail rods or the sustenance her breast can no long r a>pply lord john look at those nails s they lie hissing on the block know ou their meaning use and language ' — lease your lordship let me tell you 1 ve made nails before now — they arc n rclamationpoints which this unletter 1 dwarfish boy is unconsciously arraying jainst you against the british govern ed and the misery of british literature r cutting bim off without a letter ol the nglish alphabet when printing is done steam for incarcerating bim tor no sin ■his or his parent's side but poverty in a dark six by eight prison ol bard la or,a youthless being think of ir an ant hardened almost in its mother's ins into a man by toil that bows the urdiest of the world's laborers who come d manhood through intervening years of anhood the boy's father was at work with his a ck towards me when i entered at my j word of salutation to the lad he turii <* round and accosted me a little bash asif unaccustomed to the sight ol j rai geis in that place or reluctant to let " e rninto t!l ' scene and secret of his pov y isatdown upon one end of his nail cb and told him 1 was an american jj ltt » ! '- v trad *. a l lhat i had come ihjt lir g0t on in llc wor,d • wlie f*c was earning pretty good wages at so that he could live comfort ■iu a send his children to school as the carolina watchman bruner & james ) > " keep a check cton all yocr editors <$• proprietors \ - s safe i •'■*,■■t ' < new series rcleks do tins axd liberty < gen'l harrison ) number 30 of volume iii salisbury n c friday november 2otl844l i said this i glanced inquiringly toward the hoy who was looking steadily at me from his stone stool by the anvil two or three little crook-faced girls from two to five years of a<re had stolen in timidly and a couple of young frightened eyes were peering over the door-sill at me — they all looked as if some task were dai ly allotted them in the soot and cinders of iheir father's forge even to the sharp-eyed baby at the door the poor englishman — he was as much an englishman as lhe duke of wellington — looked at his bushy headed bare-footed children and said soft ly with a melancholy shake of the head that the times were rather hard with him it troubled his heart and many hours -* t-ie night he had been kept awake by the thought of it lhat he could not send his children to school nor teach them him self to read they were good children he said with moist yearning in his eyes they were all the wealth he had and he loved them the more the harder he had to work for them the poorest part of the poverty that was on him was that he could not give his children the letters — they were good children for all the crock of tbe shop was on their faces and their lingers were bent like the eagle's claws with handling nails he had been a poor man all his days and he knew his chil dren would be poor all their days and poorer than he if the nail business should continue to grow worse ii lie could only give them the letters or the alphabet as they call it it would make them the like of rich for then they could read the tes tament he could read the testament a little for he had learned the letters by lire-light lt was a good book was the testament ; never saw any other book ; heard tell of some in rich people's houses but it mattered but little with him the testament he was sure was made for nailers and such like it helped him wondurluily when lhe loaf was small on the table he bad but little time to read it when the sun was up and it took him long to read a little for he learned the let ters when he was old but he laid it be side his dish at dinner time and fed his heart with it while his children were eat ing lhe bread that fell to his share and when he had spealt out a line of the short ; est words he read ihem aloud and his eldest boy the one on the block there could say several whole verses he had learned in this way it was a great comfort to him to think that jeemes could take into his heart so many verses of the testament which he could not read he intended to teach all his children in this way it was all he could do for them ; and this he had to do at meal times at all the other hours he had to be at the anvil the nailing bu siness was growing harder he was grow ing old and his family large he had lo work from four o'clock in the morning till ten o'clock at night to earn eighteen pence his wages averaged only about seven shillings a week ! and there were five of them to live on what they could earn it was hard to make up the loss of an hour not one of their hands however little could be spared jemmy was going on nine years of age and a helpful lad he was and the poor man looked on him doatingly jemmy could work off a thou sand nails a day ol the smallest size — the rent of their little shop tenement and garden was live pounds a year and a few pennies earned by the youngest of them was of great account but continued the father speaking cheerily 1 am not the one to complain — many is the man that has a harder lot of it than i among the nailers along these bills and in tbe valley my neighbor in the next door could tell you something a bout labor you may never have heard the like of in your country he is an older man than i and there are seven of them in bis family and for all that he has no boy like jemmy here to help him some of bis little girls are sickly and their mo ther is not over strong and it all comes on him he is an oldish man as i was saying yet he not only works eighteen hours ev ery day at his forge but every friday in the year he works all night long and ne ver lays oil his clothes till late of satur day night a good neighbor is john stub bins and the only man just in our neigh borhood who can read the newspaper it is not often he gets a newspaper for it is not the like of us that have newspapers and bread in our houses at ihe same lime hut now and then be begs an old one partly torn at the baker's and reads it to us of a sunday night so once in two or three weeks we hear something of what is going on in tbe world — something about corn laws and the duke of wellington and oregon and india and ireland and oilier places in england e b tribute to the tennessee volunteers — the citizens of nashville held a public meeting on the 27th ult and adopted re solutions tendering their thanks to gen'l taylor and his indomitable little army both regulars and volunteers for the glo rious victory they achieved at the siege ol monterey a resolution was also a dopted appointing committees throughout the state to solicit subscriptions to aid in building a monument at nashville to com memorate the deeds of the gallant ten nessee volunteers who were slain on the i battle field taking scalding " coo mr g w reeder recently went from new orleans ' to gen taylor's camp to present medals to certain brave subalterns on his way up to the llio grande he encounterd the wreck of the steamer enterprise one hour after her explosion while passing through the crowd of suf ferers writes he to the delta my atten tion was directed to one whom 1 thought must certainly be dead he was swathed in bandages from head to foot — the blood oozed from his wounds in thick muddy ] streams and his lace was actually burn ed to a crisp at first view i thought his eyes were scalded out but i was mistaken for a moment 1 stopped to view ibis awful specticle of human agony and just as i was about to attend to some other duty i heard a voice saying in a feeble yet res olute tone : " hello ! old feller — what are you got in that are tin cup ?" thinking the question proceeded from some one further aft i turned in that di rection when the same person indignantly said — " yes that's alters the way a feller gits a little hurt and jist like a porpoise that's wounded his feller creeture tries to lull bim to my utter astonishment i found that this was addressed to me by the person described in the above as having been so terribly wounded " what can i do for you my poor friend v " what are ye got in that arc tin cup is it rot gut or melasses " it is whiskey will you have some ?" you're the feller jest open my teeth and pore a little down i can't see well but i think bitters will do nic good 1 did as i was directed and be drank the whole contents ol the cup — about half a pint of raw whiskey — and then said — " thankee old feller ye see i was a sleep and when the bust up took place 1 was on the biler deck and i b'leeve 1 was mowed through one of the flues ; but never mind i ain't much hurt and i'm more used to it than a good many i been blotted up four times afore !" 1 em ale kidnappers an old hag named morris alias henley and her two filthy daughters originally from wake hul fresh rum granville n c were overhaul ed by a mr mirable from the last named coun ty near rocky mount franklin county va a few days ago while wending their way lo ohio with an old poor horse and a craw-fish cart and two of his negro men found lying at full length in the cart covered over head and foot with lied clothes — in which position the negroes say they travelled from granville until overtaken by their masters it seems that these three whelps of sin started with three runaway slaves but one of lliem being quite a young black bird he was caught iu rox borough by the citizens — he showing himself while the other birds passed through snugly ensconsed among the greasy bed clothes in the cart these trolopes we learn upon losing their black companions tacked back to north car olina with the intention of locating in wake and as their object is doubtless to get another load of black birds we would say to the peo ple at large and the people of wake and gran ville particularly be on your guard mr mirabile being a very humane man de clined punishing these individuals with the law because they are very poor and ignorant and have two or three infant children with ihem milton ( hronicle more help to free trade — the farther ad vance of flour in england will no doubt be used by the locofocos to show how well the nrir american tariff works the effect here has been to advance the prices to cents per barrel but we would slate that another advance of to cents is yet to be made before it gets up to lhe price in december 1845 7 und.'r the tariff of 1942 when the price gets over 87 then the locofocos can talk of the rise with more decency than they can now when the lariffof 42 price is larger than the price under the law of lli a y express put's accommodativeness — an irishman be ing about to join a company in lawreneeburg ind forming lo go south was questioned by one of the officers : " well sir : when vou get into battle will you fight or run .'"' in faith replied the hibernian with a com ical twist of his countenance ; '* i'll be afther eoing yer honor as a majority uv ye does 03 if we go down at noon-day to the bot torn of a deep pit we shall be able to see the stars which on the level are invisible even so from the depths of grief — worn wretched and dying — the blessed aspirations and tokens of heaven make themselves visible to our eye from the christian register i*lli3 ltas&^j sweet is the pleasure rest is the fitting itself cannot spoil : i ufseif to its sphere is not tr.ie leisure une with true toil ? i'tis the biook's motion — i ciear without strife ; thou that would'st taste it fleeing ;•> a:i still do thy best j after ns life aluse it not waste it not | else it is no rest deeper devotion i nowhere hath knelt wo ild'st thou behold beauty fuller emotion near thee all round ? ; heart never felt only hath duty \ such a sight found tis loving and serving the highest the bent — rest is not quitting tis onward unswerving the busy career and this is true rest late from europe the steamer britania arrived at boston on saturday morning but the telegraph wires between boston and new york were immediately cut by some of the spec ulators time only being allowed to an • nounce the fact of her arrival she brings dates to the 19ih ult from liverpool six teen days later than those brought by the caledonia the steamer great britian was still in the same position that the caledonia left her and will probably be a total loss she bad twelve feet of water in her hold at tbe latest dates the intelligence from ireland is of the most melancholy character notwithstan ding the assistance rendered by govern j ment in relieving the wants of the people the lamine was increaseing in all parts of the country a malignant disease had also broken out iu some portions of lhe kingdom which was greatly adding to the wretchedness of the people the cambria had arrived out with our minister mr bancroft who would at once enter on his duties the marriages of the queen of spain and her sister have been consummated without any serious effects if we except the protest by england and one or two o ther european powers the intents cor diale between france and england is broken france joins spain for the conquest of the spanish america the money market was greatly depresss ed then was strong anticipations that a heavy shipment of bullion to this coun try would take place on account of the great demand for breadstuff's for the wants of tbe people flour was in brisk demand at an ad vance of one shilling per barrel over the quotations by the last steamer the price of grain was also rapidly advancing in all european ports the advance in cotton was about one farthing over the previous rates yucatan the yucatan schooner ventura arrived at new orleans on the 2nd instant from campeachy and sisal was seized by u s authorities owing to the declaration of yucatan in favor ot mexico the cargo consisted of 7000 in specie and a quan tity of logwood hats etc — the circular from the treasutry i epartment rescinding the privilege granted to the ports of 1 u catan was received tbe same day the ven tura arrived dcr 3 the above prepared lor yesterday's paper was excluded the new orleans bulletin of the lth states that the ventura had not been seized by the u s marshal but that the collector of the port having received a circular from the secretary of the treasury forbidding him to clear a ny vessel for the ports of yucatan he en closed that circular to the district attor ney for his opinion how he should act in the case of the ventura in the mean time he has refused to let ventura enter and we suppose would refuse to let her depart — the new orleans papers sav that energetic representations have been sent on to the department at washington asking a remission of forfeiture on various grounds of which the principle and strong est is that when the yucatan congress agreed to annex that country to mexico the union was brought about by the decep tive assurances of santa anna that the difficulties with the united states had been entirely settled : that within a few weeks past the yucatanese have discov ered the imposition practised upon them and have with much indignation repudi ated the connexion and determined to maintain the seperate and independent sovereignty of their country one of the proofs of this determination adduced is afforded by the arrival of the joaquina the nature of which is given below the yucatan schooner joaquina arrived at new orleans on the 3d instant lrom campeachy whence she sailed on the 26th ultimo she brings a pronunciamento ot campeachy which was concurred in by the garrison there the objects of which are not very clear it recites that the people have derived nought from the ru lers charged with their welfare but a se ries of calamities — it protests against the removal of those officers who have refu sed to give in their adhesion to the new order of things — declares the consti'u'ion of 1641 re-established — and establishes an administrative junta in the city of cam peachy to digest a system of administra tion to be observed until this plan is se conded by all the people of the state the people of campeachy refused com pliance with the act of the yucatan con gress passed on the 25th august.acknowl edging the revolution in mexico and , proclaiming santa anna's ascendency : and it was only by the threats of barba chino that they were induced to acquiesce the picayune suggest that this pronunci amento may be in the same spirit of re sistance to the coalition with the present mexican government the tropic however suggests that this pronunciamento was placed on board the joaquina to prevent her seizure in new orleans — richmond times the mexican party the union having labored for weeks , without effect to fasten on the whigs the charge of abolitionism is now engaged m the hopeful task of proving them to be a mexican party we suppose of course it means to embrace all the whigs gen erals taylor and worth and kearney and two-thi,ds of the officers both of vol unteers and ih p regular army a very large majority of the jirieates too of the former belong we have been informed to the \\ lugs or as the union has it mi , - icon party richmond whig the american review 4 whig journal oj politics literature art «$ science edited by geo h coltos assistfj by c w web ber of kextc k.y the a-anaucan review has bow reach nearly the end of a second year its success so far has ■" ., '■'., lirely unprecedented its subs ription lisi ,,. « numbers about 3,500 with a constant increase tl ui ilu vain of the work is shown by the i the numerous new subscribers whose names have been sent int the office within the last few months number hav ordered the back volumes ami i ar rangements bave been made to add greatly t the mer its ot th work in both its political and literary charac ter ; and ii is c 1 .. i th .: ;..■■patronage ol this review on the pari of the whig party and of tbe literary publi will soon be so large as to ena ble it to pay so liberally for every order of high and fin ished writing n to make it in all respects the mosi able and attractive periodical published in the united slates we earnestly ask lhe continued confidence and support ot ail true minds in lhe country engravings — there will be four engravings fach year carefully executed ; and what is of more impor tance accompanied with ample biographies that may stand as a part oi the history of the country moreem bellishments may be given if the intrinsic calm of thi review nu thereby be enhanced perms tbe review will cofftinne to be published at i ive dollars i a advance there copies however trill be afforded t tieelee dollars ; fire for twenty dnl lars 10 that committees societies clubs 8fc can ob uiu them at a more liberal rate the cash system and payment in advance must be urged on our subscribers it being the only way that a periodical can be efficiently sustained reduction of postage a great item of expense is saved in the reduction of postage the postage on the review i.s not half ihe former amount jnew-york extoesst xo 1 12 broadway new york the new york express isa journal published week ly semi-weekly and daily in the city of new york the weekly express is the largest and cheapest paper in the world containing fifty-six solid columns ot read ing matter at only two dollars a year in advance the semi weekly express published on tuesday and friday is four dollars and the daily published both morning and evening to go out by the latest mai.s is seven i >. >! l.irs in advance th proprietors of the ex ress spare no labor nor ex pense to obtain the earliest intelligence from all parts of the counlry and from all parts of the world theclos esi attention is paid to the mark is r.n i in shori toevery thing lhat can be important to the merchant the tann er the politician and the general reader the ■■nt nts of every weekly express which costs less than i un is . would fill a g i sized volume and iua family are worth in entertainment and instruction twenty tines th asked for the paper persons wishing to subscribe can forward ihr money by mail and we will incur the risk and pay the postage if mailed in the presence of a post master townsend brooks gff notice tj2 y virtue of a deed in tru~t executed jcp to me by james i cowan for pur poses therein menti d i willl expose to p iblic sale on thursday 26th nov ne\t the tavern house and lot in salisbury now occupied by the said cowan ; together with i tl hmti re b house — i road wag gon and gear one one .. aud harness milch cons one horse stuck of illllis with various other articles not mentioned pets sirous of embarking in the business of hotel keeping would do well io ;. •• ; as an opportunity ol obtaining so desirable a an for business isi its offered the sale wi : i made known on the d iy ol -■cyrus w west trustee salisbury oci 25 1846 — j - n b th bought a ; sale if application be made previous to th sale |- vv vv trus valuable lands fob bv virtue ol ad -■•• f equity of rowan c vfas public sale on the preni rday the 2lsi k - vember next i tract of land lying sev n mi es « est of salisbury ■■! henn sl in j hi 17 i acres vv m ■r dee'd well watered and having thereon a dw ing i — . barn and other outhouses a - same day wi sold a k--.v negro boy aged about twi rerms made know a on thi a il i vldwell i.e oct 23 1§46 pr - •-■• 50 notice tnps a - teres i { dani i kirk - raty 10 or 15 valuable negboes n women and children horses hogs cattle sheep corn fod der wheat and oats ty of other e will take | ty n c n^-ar the narrows of ihe ya :. tinue from day to da tef a en be allowed tc purchasers and bond %*.. . james f kirk exr nov 10 is46 29:3i chocolate ' jl 3 !! received a so ; y of fresh ch 1 ii exxiss salil . t 21 1 '•' — ::" it ten cents reward ran away from the subs west ol salis . xa . pers borinir w - — the above reward will be ; aid lor his d very to me 3i29 isaac cowin rowan county november 13 1846 from the raleigh rt^ler mr gales : — i am a stranger to your sheet so far as contributing matter for your readers is ; concerned ; but sir the editorial of lhe stand ard of last week is so fraught with demagogical innuendos so replete with fuse imputations lhat anv one however averse lo political stiife must take pleasure in denouncing it and at temptiog the expose of its true ch truster its ingenuity we acknowledge but ingenuity alone j will not da it is well says the editor for the register t attempt to keep the people ig norant as to the relation existing between the whigs and abolitionists ■** but rc are deter mined that facts shall ■lhe public and w call upon the people as ihey value the union of the states as ibey would pr - tve and trans mit to iutui * generations the fri ■;.•!■' and secu rity which ihey now r lhe constitu tion to give the matter that deep attention it merits the fust of these declarations is om inous indeed while ihe latter i penned with a truly patriotic feeling their style and manner is enough lo arouse our fears and enlisl our par tiality in behalf of the whole article there is such thing as referring to the purview of an in strument to explain anything d luhtful in the body and in this way the editor thicks to ex plain his questions at:il exclamations and to give ihem a really false !";' patriotic appear ance he wis i impress upon the commu nity that there i bein -_ '■•■i:t a union of the whigs ami abolitionists to destroy the union of the states while too lie himself prays in the beginning of his article lhe pres ervation ol lhe i ni ii befi i a be closes he is at tempting to ihrow a firebrand in ils midst and break up thai harmony which is requisite for its existence we are pleased at bis weakness else we dare no predict the consequences he says that the union must be preserved and to be preserved lhe whigs must be defeated — because they are uniting with the abolitionists the first pari of the •! claration we acknowl edge the latter we deny and lhe besl proof that can be had of its f iay be drawn from the people themselves is there a whig in north carolina i there a whig in the union , willing or disposed in ti least to sactitice the principles id tlie whig p-rffy lo those of the ab olitionists i am il.r standard nor any other paper dare hot saj lhat abolitionism is a doc trine of the great whig patty the people of north carolina would denounce him as the vile slanderer of a greal people his own party would stamp him as an i m j - 1 < r and liar in heart we grant that there arc - ime whigs who would he glad that slavery should !>.* abol ished provided it would not disturb the harmo ny of the i ni.iti there may be a few enthu siasts in the cause *.*.!;.. wool i be glad to see it abolished at any risque bui we assert with out the tvar of truthful contradiction lhal such men do not belong exclusively to either partv the standard and all others musl know and if honest will acknowledge such to be the case slavery is not a lest question with either party and il is a question that should not be mooted or at lea.-t not merged into political discussion by continually abusing men v ho arc abolition ists at the north we musl do injury lo the cause f slavery certain lj i they dare not invade our rights here and policy demands that while at home and away from !**-. ihey should he let alone t tin quiet enjoyment of iheir opin ions the standard surely would not exile ihem f.r their opinions and he need n t think to scare them int lis ranks by his tirade and abuse for that will not affect men grounded iu their convictions and we musl saj il.at we be lieve some abolitionists a actuated l.y as thorough convictions as we < :" lhe > j dm p ha i bax-e broken < ff fri m the loci - ■■w bigs there is lhe secret this is whal renders th stan 1 u'.i so uneasy i*.u'i not a • i nion — his party is going down and such struggles to sustain it will be futile not only lhe : yeomanry of the ian i bui men of every grade andcalling of even ind doctrine are getting lired f bis party they have seen iheir hypocrisy anddecepli n and are rebuking them bv their actions we were to bavetex as without a war we are n _' he blessings of both weweretobai ■'.*.* whole of oregon or fight their trembling spirits cowered and they dared not assert whal ihej de clared to be y ' -'- is a consequei ". ' r bat they did to t believe . ■ha1 they did believe to b rs h ' ver agree able lbe inter - ' try oregon has been - os of be whig party and now we are fighting for tex :- as lhe leaders ol th s*ni arty predic ted had tbe gr*at patriot of the west been inspired by the divinity himsi d not truly bave told the consequences of an nexation according lo ihi | rofes sions than he did in bis te xas letter j 1*3 1 i iten '"' trulj it is not nor never can be by the voles of ab nrrs the statesman the orator and patriot of lhe age wa defeated h - ma . now regret that they voted him into - " how many now see dint they wc - pre si ntations of ." lb - v many now mourn ti ' country brought a it by manlike c "' n - but it i r - '■all that we can say i i t r n * in lhe el evation of the present administra lorn ve from your evil ways a ii^g the country tf her pris • hear not the soft tale of i hiup be lieve not the declaration of the 1 a par tv who i looktoyoar country's interest n i th ught : medi um of aspiring - *"*" a ■their success cannot be ks jj it is founded upon an unrea n * ho i not rather be < ' *■•" • lhan polk at washington ? wh w ratherfwde feate i in righl lhan - n wi ■. 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There are thunderstorms. There is a strike. And there is the hackathon to end gender-based violence in Kathmandu, Nepal—all happening on the same day.
On a rainy Sunday, some participants woke up at 5 a.m. to walk more than 8 miles to get to Trade Tower Business Center, Thapathali—the site of the hackathon.
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There was a time when Ramtin Zad would entertain us with his witty and playful subjects where certain motifs had come to be part of his repertoire in bold bright colours. Kebab skewers, watermelons, teapots and turquoise domes with elaborate Persian designs were interspersed with the random people who occupied his world. He seems to have left that place and headed out to nature to hang out with animals.
He has left the day and entered the night. In his 'Nocturnal' series, the night talks of the days. Days we have all been living through. He has forsaken the bright for the deep. He has focused on animals and in the process his random people have become more real.
But Zad's new domain is an unpredictable one where something is lurking even in the seemingly lush and untouched. Here size is an issue both in the imposing nature and the beasts that roam and romp within it. The expanses of some northern unknown place covered in snow are brought into perspective by the jarring presence of monkeys. But it's their dunce hats that define the scale. The explosion of rich autumnal trees, unstable in the distance, hangs over a waterfall where a man with all his might is locked paralyzed, hanging on to his trophy of a giant fish that is struggling to free itself from his clutches. Giant fir trees' spiky needles substitute soft tinsel as they hang over a crowd of merry-makers in a masked ball.
Within this wild oversized nature, humankind is tested against the elements but mainly against himself and his own kind. Where humans are often asses, or wish to seem so for whatever reason. And there are bears, huge, angry bears fighting or are they dancing too in another corner of this mad soiree?
In this seemingly mythical place, if there is nobility it is in the animal and where there is ignobility it is amongst the humans who by turn find themselves omnipotent because of their sudden found size or by virtue of their smallness in what is being done in their name or to them. And then there are the fireworks that convey no sound. The crack of wings of a flock of doves taking off in Imam Reza's shrine are more audible than the fireworks overhead. In Zad's new works fireworks are a sign of silence.
Zad has now abandoned surface motifs and is diving deep within, stripping himself naked in a confessional. That he struggles, that he too struggles and is not immune to what has been on parade at the masquerade we have all been attending.
Ramtin Zad
1984, Tehran, Iran
Art Diploma – Payam Moasser Tehran School, Iran
BA in Graphic from Jahad University 2007
Solo Exhibitions:
• 2012 Etemad Gallery, Resurrection, Dubai, UAE
• 2010 Etemad Gallery, Miniature, Tehran, Iran
• 2009 Total Art Gallery, Backgammon, Dubai,U.A.E
• 2008 Etemad Gallery, Gonbad, Tehran,Iran
• 2007 Golestan Art Gallery, Tehran,Iran
Art Fairs
. 2014 Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
. 2013 Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
. 2011 Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
. 2011 Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
. 2010 Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
Selected Group Exhibitions:
• 2013 Paper Works, curated by Fereydoun Ave, Etemad Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• 2012 International art biennale, International Beijing museum, Beijing, China
• 2011 "Pool", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran,Iran
• 2011 "13X18", Etmad Gallery,Tehran,Iran
• 2011 "1st Modern & Contemporary Visual art auction" ,Tehran, Iran
• 2010 Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2010 "Jungle 3" Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2009 Canvas line gallery, New York,USA
• 2009 "Jungle 1" Hesabi Museum, Tehran,Iran
• 2008 Dar-al Fonoon, Kuwait
• 2008 The Nili Gallery, London
• 2008 Golestan Gallery, Tehran
• 2007 " Collected Memories" Art Space Gallery, London
• 2007 Mah gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2007 June Gallery, Basel,Switzerland
• 2006 "Figures & Portraits" Assar Art Gallery, Tehran
Books & Publications
. 2010 "EYE" No.28,Mahriz Pub. ,Tehran,Iran
نمایشگاه آثار " رامتین زاد " با عنوان " شبانه ها " خرداد 1393 گالری اعتماد
Overview and HistoryTehran is the capital of Iran and the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of fifteen million people living under the peaks of the Alborz mountain range.Although archaeological evidence places human activity around Tehran back into the years 6000BC, the city was not mentioned in any writings until much later, in the thirteenth century. It's a relatively new city by Iranian standards.But Tehran was a well-known village in the ninth century. It grew rapidly when its neighboring city, Rhages, was destroyed by Mongolian raiders. Many people fled to Tehran.In the seventeenth century Tehran became home to the rulers of the Safavid Dynasty. This is the period when the wall around the city was first constructed. Tehran became the capital of Iran in 1795 and amazingly fast growth followed over the next two hundred years.The recent history of Tehran saw construction of apartment complexes and wide avenues in place of the old Persian gardens, to the detriment of the city's cultural history.The city at present is laid out in two general parts. Northern Tehran is more cosmopolitan and expensive, southern Tehran is cheaper and gets the name "downtown."Getting ThereMehrabad airport is the original one which is currently in the process of being replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport. The new one is farther away from the city but it now receives all the international traffic, so allow an extra hour to get there or back.TransportationTehran driving can be a wild free-for-all like some South American cities, so get ready for shared taxis, confusing bus routes and a brand new shiny metro system to make it all better. To be fair, there is a great highway system here.The metro has four lines, tickets cost 2000IR, and they have segregated cars. The women-only carriages are the last two at the end, FYI.Taxis come in two flavors, shared and private. Private taxis are more expensive but easier to manage for the visiting traveler. Tehran has a mean rush hour starting at seven AM and lasting until 8PM in its evening version. Solution? Motorcycle taxis! They cut through the traffic and any spare nerves you might have left.People and CultureMore than sixty percent of Tehranis were born outside of the city, making it as ethnically and linguistically diverse as the country itself. Tehran is the most secular and liberal city in Iran and as such it attracts students from all over the country.Things to do, RecommendationsTake the metro to the Tehran Bazaar at the stop "Panzda Gordad". There you can find anything and everything -- shoes, clothes, food, gold, machines and more. Just for the sight of it alone you should take a trip there.If you like being outside, go to Darband and drink tea in a traditional setting. Tehranis love a good picnic and there are plenty of parks to enjoy. Try Mellat park on a friday (fridays are public holidays), or maybe Park Daneshjou, Saaii or Jamshidieh.Remember to go upstairs and have a look around, always always always! The Azadi Tower should fit the bill; it was constructed to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.Tehran is also full of museums such as:the Contemporary Art Museumthe Abghine Musuem (glass works)the 19th century Golestan Royal Palace museumthe museum of carpets (!!!)Reza Abbasi Museum of extraordinary miniaturesand most stunning of all,the Crown Jewels Museum which holds the largest pink diamond in the world and many other jaw-dropping jewels.Text by Steve Smith.


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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – With All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) honoree Patrick Garrett (Kennesaw, Ga.) leading the way in 12th, the No. 14 Georgia College golf squad took sixth at the Kiawah Island Invitational Tuesday.
The Bobcats started the 2011-12 season with rounds of 296 and 308 to finish at plus-28 on the par-726,875-yard Cougar Point Golf Course.
Garrett was consistent with a pair of 74s for four-over par. Freshman Victor Monte (Chantilly, Va.) was a stroke back in 14th after rounds of 72 and 77.
Junior Taylor Smith (Mansfield, Ga.) shot an 81 today to go with yesterday's 73 for 10-over in 35th. Newcomer Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) shaved five strokes off with a 76 today, finishing 47th at 13 over, while freshman Ryan Trocchio (Norcross, Ga.) shot a 77 and 83 for plus-16 and 60th.
PBC foe Georgia Southwestern State University won the team title at plus-nine, bettering the field and host PBC school USC Aiken by three strokes. USCA's Taylor Welborn won the individual title at five-under par.
GC golf is back in action Monday, Sept. 12 at the SpringHill Suites Intercollegiate in Florence S.C., hosted by Francis Marion University.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Weekly Game Balls: Week 5
What a game! It should have not been as close as it was, but a win is a win. We witnessed some firsts and a record breaking day.
This speedy wide receiver had a record breaking day with 250 yards on 10 catches with 2 game saving touchdowns.
His first score almost won the game for the Cowboys, but the one in overtime counted for the "W".
Austin just might have earned his starting spot. Miles is the game breaking threat the Cowboys need.
He also could have had a few more touchdowns on the day. But he couldn't secure a couple of throws from Tony.
Great job Miles Austin.
This week's defensive/special teams game ball goes to Keith Brooking.
Brooking is the solid linebacker that was needed to compliment the defense.
Brooking finished the game with 8 solo tackles and helped on 3 more. He also recorded a sack on Matt Cassel. He came flying from up the middle to take him down.
With all the pressure the Cowboys gave the Chiefs on Sunday, Keith also had 4 QB hits.
His leadership speaks for itself. You can find the veteran linebacker running up and down the sidelines when he's not on the field. He gets this team pumped up! It feels like Brooking has been a Cowboy all of his life.
Keep up the great work Keith Brooking!
Congratulations to Austin and Brooking for their great contribution to the overtime win.
Honorable Mention: DeMarcus Ware, Tony Romo, Jay Ratliff


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Service providers are responsible for designing and managing among the most complex systems known to man. Mobile networks are a good example of the kind of complexity that exists at scale today, while the cloud represents a new paradigm for computing that is arguably still in its infancy. This talk will provide an overview of current research projects in network management, cloud orchestration and cloud security at AT&T Labs.
Reception to follow.
Charles R. Kalmanek is Vice President-Research, AT&T Services, Inc. He is responsible for research in AT&T on algorithms, communications technologies, large-scale networks, speech and language understanding, machine learning, multimedia technologies, human-computer interfaces, mobile applications, converged services, and software and information systems.
Chuck joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1980. He has extensive experience in network architecture, protocols and distributed systems. His research spans IP network management, access network architectures, wireless networks, voice over IP (VoIP), multimedia streaming, content distribution networks and storage networks, as well as packet-switch and host-interface design.
Chuck received a B.S. degree from Cornell University in Applied and Engineering Physics and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Columbia University and New York University, respectively. He is a recipient of AT&T's Strategic Patent and Strategic Standards awards. Chuck is an IEEE Fellow, and co-edited Guide to Reliable Internet Services and Applications, published by Springer in 2010.


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Marchex is a company that made its name in the domain industry when, in 2005, it purchased the Name Development portfolio (Ultimate Search portfolio) for $164 million. The portfolio consisted of over 100,000 domains created by domain pioneer Yun Ye. This was all part of a plan orchestrated by Marchex CEO Russel Horowitz and domain name investor Frank Schilling. Simply put, they wanted to create a network of websites localized for every city in the U.S. so that customers could find businesses in their area. The domains would logically have the name of a city and a corresponding market term, such as AtlantaShoes.com.
"Everything we do, we look at through the lens of local," Horowitz says. By focusing on technology and user generated content, Marchex has been able to successfully launch more than one billion web pages. The company's strategy thus far has been to provide these sites, which already garner tens of millions of unique visitors a month, with cash generating content. And since advertising is the main way to make money on the Internet, they acquired Enhance Interactive, a pay-per-click company, and TrafficLeader, which ran paid-search ad campaigns.
At first, the sites were merely parked domains filled with pay-per-click ads. So whenever someone clicked on an ad, Marchex got paid. This worked at the time thanks to direct navigation, which is the practice of searching by typing a name directly into the browser. But Horowitz couldn't see that method holding up in the long run, so he decided to focus on turning the domains into consumer friendly websites.
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Ten years ago, there simply wasn't enough traffic on the Internet to expedite the development of local search. But now, the Internet is mainstream in every developed country in the world and high-speed connections are the norm. Businesses are desperate to advertise locally on the Internet and right now, there is no dominant platform to do so, not even via Google or Craigslist. And with online local ad spending estimated to go from $5 billion to $25 billion in the next decade, Marchex is in a prime position to capitalize.
The more traffic their sites generate, the more advertisers they will attract. They're hoping to create a more practical way for people to search for local services than a traditional search engine. For example, their site NewYorkDoctors.com allows you to refine you search for a doctor in several ways on a platform specifically designed to target New York doctors. "We're trying to empower people and local advertisers in underserved markets," Horowitz says. "We have the chance to do something profound."
Obviously local search is a completely different entity from general search because small, local businesses don't want to spend the time and money advertising through a general search engine, especially when their company name is so specific that it likely won't show up in a relevant search query. Marchex's Adhere aims to make local online advertising easier than it's ever been, and because they already have the traffic, businesses have no reason to shy away from such an opportunity.
Along with placement on hundreds of premium publisher websites, with several new locally focused sites yet to be added, advertisers will be showcased on their OpenList network as well. It will benefit national advertisers by allowing them to purchase ads online the same way they do offline, which is all in one lump sum. Smaller businesses can reach local customers through the OpenList search engine and gain a national base through the individual publisher sites. With Adhere, the focus is narrow, but the reach is great.
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The most important aspect of Adhere is that it provides a single source for quality local, national, and vertical traffic. The term vertical is basically synonymous with "specialized" in that vertical traffic, search, or websites focus on a specific kind of service. A vertical search engine, for example, can deliver results that the big search engines can't with some sort of elaborate keyword combination. Large search engines use a proprietary algorithm to create indexes of sites based on the words contained in very large numbers of documents. Vertical search engines, on the other hand, search highly refined databases and create indexes centering around a specific topic.
OpenList is Marchex's vertical search engine designed to gather information on local businesses. It started off as a review site that pulled together reviews for local restaurants, hotels, and attractions before it was acquired by Marchex in May 2006. They then developed software to scour the web for reviews about local businesses and, after sorting out duplicate content, create an overall review that helps users better determine which business to patronize. Obviously, advertisers see vertical search engines, like Open List, as the gateway to users much more intent on buying than the average user of a large search engine.
OpenList can find information on every business in every city, giving advertisers the opportunity to reach any city in America locally. "Many of our clients are increasingly looking to build their brand awareness on a national level while leveraging that brand to drive transactions at the local level," said Michael Lee, Director, Strategic Partnerships, DoubleClick Performics. "The ability to target premium publisher Web sites as well as vertical and local search sites in one source enables us to deliver additional quality traffic, at volume, to our clients in a very cost-effective manner."
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So what exactly is Marchex offering with this Adhere product? Well, for the advertiser, there are many of the opportunities I have already discussed. But specifically, they offer pay-per-click and display ads to go alongside category leading Web publishers. Pay-per-click ads are offered through "site-specific" targeting in which advertisers bid for placement on premium websites. First, they select the site and categories related to their service, then they set multiple bids for what they're willing to pay per buyer click-through. Their ad is then placed based on their bid and ad relevancy.
Display ads are placed on category leading websites on a CPM basis. CPM (cost per mille) is a measurement used in advertising. In Latin, "mille" means thousand, thus, CPM stands for cost per thousand. In this case, advertising is purchased based on what it costs to show the ad on one thousand page views. First, advertisers choose topic categories and ad unit sizes related to their service, then they enter CPM bids for each ad unit under a category. Their ad is then displayed based on the bid (highest bidder is shown).
As for publishers, they can charge a premium for their audience and content. Ads are only placed in targeted content areas on their site and they control what ads appear on their site, once the advertisers go through the ad buying process. Publishers can choose from pay-per-click ads and display ads. Premium publishers have the ability to develop their own pay-per-click marketplace program where they can set categories and minimum bids for advertisers.
And who are these premium publishers? Marchex already had partnerships with BusinessWeek Online, Bankrate.com, and Kiplinger.com before the launch of Adhere. And now they've announced new partnerships with IDG (publishers of PC World, CIO magazine, and MacWorld), Ziff Davis Enterprise, and Banks.com, among others. Simply put, Adhere unites the pay-per-click search engine, Enhance Interactive, with the ad network, Industry Brains to provide a single source for advertisers to reach the local market. It will be competing head to head with Google's AdSense; the question is, can they pull it off?


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This year's 10-day Ionia Free Fair was a quiet one, crime-wise, but for Ionia Department of Public Safety officers, the weekend made up for it.
This year's 10-day Ionia Free Fair was a quiet one, crime-wise, but for Ionia Department of Public Safety officers, the weekend made up for it.
An hour before the fair's close at midnight on Saturday, officers responded to a call from a fair board member complaining about an intoxicated subject driving a golf cart down the middle of the midway crowded with patrons, said IDPS Director Troy Thomas.
"He was belligerent with the fair people when he was asked to leave," Thomas said. "When we made contact, the subject admitted to drinking, he had open intoxicants and he did not have a valid driver's license."
The driver of the cart was arrested for operating while intoxicated (OWI) and lodged at the Ionia County Jail. A passenger on the vehicle was cited for open intoxicants and released at the scene.
Thomas requested a warrant from the Ionia County Prosecutor's Office for an OWI enhancement for the driver, because he has had prior OWI charges, Thomas said. The subject was released on bond and scheduled for arraignment in two weeks in 64-A District Court.
Just after 12 a.m. Monday, IDPS officers were dispatched to multiple reports of a partially clothed woman running down West Main Street screaming. The woman told officers she had been assaulted by her ex-boyfriend at his residence, Thomas said. She was taken to Sparrow Ionia Hospital for observation.
Officers arrested Philip Reuba, 48, of Ionia on charges of assault and battery. He was arraigned Tuesday in District Court and remains in the Ionia County Jail.
Around 7 a.m. Monday, a woman turned herself in to the IDPS, saying she had assaulted her ex-boyfriend in Ionia.
"She stated she had had enough of the subject, drove from her residence to his here and assaulted him in his apartment," said Thomas. "The assault went on for several minutes. After they separated for several minutes, she threatened him with a knife. The subject left the residence and turned herself in to Public Safety."
The male victim sustained minor injuries, Thomas said.
Officers arrested Stacy Moore, 26, of Saranac, on charges of felonious assault and domestic assault and lodged her in the Ionia County Jail, according to Thomas. She was arraigned Tuesday in District Court and released on bond.
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Just one of the many ways community banks build more economically sustainable communities
Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2014)—Community banks keep rural America growing by lending to local farmers and ranchers, said the Independent Community Bankers of America ® (ICBA) and thousands of its community bank members that are celebrating ICBA Community Banking Month this month. Community banks are able to serve as financial first responders to the agricultural community because they operate locally—knowing their marketplace—and putting local deposits back to work in their communities through loans to local farmers, ranchers, residents and small businesses.
"Community banks are pivotal to the overall health and financial success of rural America because they provide an overwhelming share of credit to local farmers," said ICBA Chairman John H. Buhrmaster, president of 1st National Bank of Scotia, N.Y. "Many community banks have been serving farmers for well over 100 years. And because community banks are small business owners—like farmers and ranchers—they are better able to serve their agricultural customers because they know both the local market and have highly specialized expertise in the agriculture business."
Community banks have consistently been the largest provider of agricultural credit within the commercial banking sector and are often the catalysts for new and expanded business opportunities within their communities to ensure long-term economic viability and vitality. In fact, community banks with assets under $10 billion provide more than 75 percent of all commercial bank agricultural loans, and banks with assets less than $1 billion provide nearly 60 percent of all commercial bank agricultural financing.
"Community banks stimulate rural economies in a multitude of ways, including creating off-farm jobs, maintaining the local tax base and facilitating development of the infrastructure and public services necessary to keep rural communities vibrant," Buhrmaster said.
There are more than 6,500 community banks, including commercial banks, thrifts, stock and mutual savings institutions, with more than 50,000 locations throughout the United States. Assets may range from less than $10 million to $10 billion or more. Community banks constitute 96.8 percent of all banks.
To find your community bank, visit ICBA's Community Bank Locator at www.banklocally.org. Simply type in your ZIP code and you will see community banks in your area. Customers can also download the free ICBA bank locator apps on their iPhone, Android or BlackBerry devices.
To follow the conversation on ICBA Community Banking Month, follow the hashtag #BankLocally on Twitter. To learn more about community banks, visit www.icba.org.
About ICBA
The Independent Community Bankers of America®, the nation's voice for more than 6,500 community banks of all sizes and charter types, is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and its membership through effective advocacy, best-in-class education and high-quality products and services. For more information, visit www.icba.org.


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Common names: pipe organ coral, organpipe coral
Difficulty Level: Pipe organs are extremely tolerant and a great choice for beginners.
Common names: Ricordia, mushrooms, button polyps, hairy mushrooms, ricordia
Difficulty Level: Mushrooms and ridordia are some of the best
Common names: leather coral, colt coral, toadstool/mushroom coral, tree coral, etc.
Difficulty Level: Leather corals are some of the best
Common names: pulse coral, anthelia, pom pom coral
Difficulty Level: Anthelia are some of the best beginner corals available. They are usually
Common names: cauliflower coral, birdsnest
Difficulty Level: Stylophora is one of the most forgiving SPS corals.
Feeding: Stylophora
It will be dried out so it doesnt have to be live sand just seeing if anyone here has any laying around before I spends an arm and a leg on sand.
You should use new sand not old sand, not sure what youre looking for exactly though.


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ECS GF9300T-A Review
ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems) has been in the motherboard game since 1987 and currently ranks as one of the largest manufacturers in the industry. They specialize in affordable boards that appeal to the mainstream consumer with low prices and wide availability. Today, I'll be taking a look at their newest creation, the GF9300T-A. This motherboard sports NVIDIA's new GeForce 9300 chipset, a 1333MHz front side bus, PCIe 2.0 x16 compatibility, Hybrid SLI, HDMI, and DDR2-800 memory support. The integrated graphics provides Blu-ray video and 1080p support, which makes it ideal for HTPC purposes. Read on as I show you everything the GF9300T-A has to offer and find out if this motherboard could be the foundation of your next build.
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The packaging reveals ECS' attempt at enthusiast appeal with their new Black Series. The new design is definitely a step in the right direction by providing consumers more attractive packaging and an updated color scheme. Every feature is clearly displayed on the box and gives you a good idea of what the board has to offer.
ECS includes a simple bundle to get you up and running. The user manual is easy to read and the quick install guide may come in handy for new system builders. Four SATA data cables come with the bundle, but I would definitely like to see a couple more included to match the six SATA ports found on the board. The bundle also inlcudes a rear I/O plate and a floppy disk drive cable.