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Sam and Max, two characters that have garnered a cult following in every facet of media they have appeared, celebrated their 25th anniversary last weekend. That's a pretty big deal for two characters who have danced on the line of fame and obscurity for well over a decade, and with Steam announcing that the entire Sam & Max collection would be slashed in celebration next weekend, I thought now would be a good time to take a look back at this loveable dog and psycho rabbity-thing's illustrious career.
A Sibling Rivalry
The idea of Sam & Max actually developed out of a sibling rivalry between Steve Purcell and his younger brother Dave, who would often leave his unfinished comics laying around the house for Steve to mess with. Steve would often pick up the half-finished stories and create parodies of the characters who appeared at the beginning, often mixing up their names and shooting at each other. Dave was working on concept that had a detective team comprised of a dog and a rabbit, and Steve picked this up and ran with it. Over the next few years he developed the characters into Sam & Max, and started publishing strips in a weekly newsletter called California College of Arts and Crafts.
Freelance Police, LucasArts, Hit The Road & Surfin' The Highway | 1987 - 1993
In 1987 Purcell released Sam & Max: Freelance Police, their debut comic book series, published by Fishwrap Productions. The first comic, Monkeys Violating The Heavenly Temple was Purcell's first full story, establishing many of the elements that stuck with the duo for the next two decades.
Over the next few years Sam & Max continued to show up in comics published by a laundry list of publishers until Steve joined video game studio LucasArts in 1998. While he was working on a number of game projects, Sam & Max appeared in LucasArt's quarterly newsletter, The Adventurer which garnered them much fame and adoration amongst the adventure game crowd of the early 90s.
In 1992 LucasArts offered Purcell the chance to bring his character to life with their very own video game. A year later Sam & Max Hit The Road was released with the new SCUMM engine which powered a number of classic adventure games from that era. Loosely based on the 1989 comic "On The Road." a story that had the Freelance Police travelling across the USA was born, garnering great reviews and a solid following amongst gamers.
In 1995 all the Sam & Max comics, including the strips which appeared in The Adventurer newsletter were gathered together and published in a huge collection known as Sam & Max: Surfin' The Highway. Numbers were limited and these days this collection is a rare collector's item. Since then Telltale games have re-published the collection with a few extra tidbits and art pieces.
Sam & Max on TV | 1997
The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police was an animated TV show created by Purcell and Canadian television studio Nelvana, which ran for 24 episodes in 1997. While aimed at children, the series often had hidden pieces of adult humour in the scenery and dialogue, and despite only last one season the series was seen as a success. While the violence and profanity were kept to a minimum, the series still harboured everything that fans loved about the dynamic duo. The series has since been released on DVD.
Plunge Through Space & Freelance Police | 2001 - 2005
Sam & Max Plunge Through Space began development in September 2001 as an Xbox exclusive. Developed by Infinite Machine, a small company consisting of a number of former LucasArts employees, the story was developed by Steve Purcell and Chuck Jordan, with a plan for the Freelance Police to travel through the galaxy to retrieve a stolen Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately the studio went bankrupt within a year and the game never saw the light of day.
At E3 in 2002, LucasArts announced that after nearly a decade since the release of Sam & Max Hit the Road, the studio was currently in production of a PC sequel titled Sam & Max: Freelance Police. Using a brand new 3D game engine, Freelance Police was shaping up nicely, with regular development updates post E3.
However in March 2004, LucasArts announced that the game had been cancelled due to "current market place realities and underlying economic considerations." This was taken badly by gaming media, Purcell and fans, who pulled together a 32,000 signature strong petition to release the game.
Telltale Games
LucasArts' license with Purcell ended in 2005 which saw Sam & Max head over to Telltale Games. The studio was formed by former LucasArts employees, many of whom worked on the cancelled Freelance Police project.
Released in an episodic format, Sam & Max Save the World was comprised of six episodes which saw the loveable characters return to PCs for the first time in over a decade. The series was a success, and saw a later release on PS3, Xbox 360, iPad and the Nintendo Wii.
In 2007 a second season was developed by Telltale named Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space. The series catapulted the duo into newfound stardom, with gamers buying the series in droves.
Their last outing to date was in 2010 with the release of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, another series that saw the Freelance Police return to the humour stylings of 1992's Hit The Road. A release via Steam ensured even more fans than the previous episodes, with this being their best selling outing to date.
Sam & Max have had a lengthy history full of highs, lows, cancellations and stardom. What will happen next for the Freelance Police? With Purcell working for Pixar, one can only hope that an animated movie is in the works, but at the very least, at least another series from Telltale should be in order. Thanks for 25 years of amazing memories Sam & Max!
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Gantz-Hernley Mennonite Church (Manheim, Pennsylvania, USA)
Gantz-Hernley Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), of the vicinity of Manheim, Pennsylvania, a member of Lancaster Mennonite Conference, worshipped in two meetinghouses. The Gantz meetinghouse, a brick building 40 x 60 ft., located 3.5 miles (six km) northwest of Manheim, was built in 1915 on the site of the first church, which had been purchased in 1880. The Hernley church was built one mile (two km) north of Manheim in 1745 on land contributed by the Penns and was enlarged in 1919. In the early 1950s Sunday school and worship services were held every Sunday alternately in the two churches. The membership in 1955 was 256; the ministers were Abram M. Risser and Clyde L. Metzler; the deacons were Isaac E. Tyson and John R. Nissley; the bishop in charge was Homer D. Bomberger. An early division resulted in a considerable loss into the Church of the Brethren.
Later the congregation became two separate congregations -- Hernley Mennonite Church and Gantz Mennonite Church (by the late 1980s known as Grace Community Fellowship.)
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A Bicycle Country
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With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Cuban economy was headed for disaster. Having been dependent upon Soviet trade and economic aid, the Cuban people endured el período especial from 1991 to 1994: rations of food and supplies were scarce, utilities faltered, and a nation accustomed to automotive convenience took to the streets on bicycles. Seeking an end to their desperation, masses of Cubans braved the open sea on homemade rafts, taking their chances amidst sharks, hostile vessels, and the threat of death by dehydration, in pursuit of Florida's shores.
Such is the world of Nilo Cruz's superb historical fiction A Bicycle Country, and though a knowledge of fiscal models, trade relations, and the fall of European Communism is not essential to appreciate Cruz's play, the current staging by East 3rd Productions, enjoying its New York premiere at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre, benefits from a superb program-included primer by dramaturg Shari Perkins. Without this context, Cruz's story of three balseros plays out as a taut, character-driven survivalist yarn; with Perkins's insights, the production expands into a melancholic meditation on the loss of cultural identity.
Sullen, craggy Julio is recovering from a stroke, and his companion, Pepe, has arranged for Ines to take on the role of his home nurse. Over the course of A Bicycle Country's first act, as Julio regains his strength and mobility, the crushing world outside of Julio's ramshackle home permeates the walls. Times are lean and tenuous, and it becomes increasingly clear to the trio that if they are to survive with any semblance of human dignity, they must flee their native Cuba. Act Two finds our protagonists aboard a raft of driftwood and reconstituted tires, at odds with one another, the sea, and uncertainty.
Director Gil Ron deftly crafts this production to inhabit two very different stylistic worlds. While the brisk, 45-minute first act feels decidedly (and appropriately) kitchen-sink static, Act Two embraces the theatrical, even daring to rub up against the spectral. Almost imperceptibly, the play morphs from the trapped languidity of restlessness—another night by Julio's radio; another day in the dark—to a roller coaster unhinged. Elements of surrealism and cubism (including a savvy nod to Magritte's The Lovers) pervade the staging, culminating in a goosebump-inducing moment of brilliance and ambiguity: days after seeing A Bicycle Country, I am still struck by a final image that is—depending on one's interpretation—bereft of hope, a promise of further adventures, or the sharpest theological allegory ever suggested by a single light cue.
Ron elicits stellar performances from his ensemble. As the affable Pepe, Francisco Solorzano charts the journey of a reserved, charming young man's visceral decent into madness; his transformation by the seas suggests danger and primacy. Lorraine Rodriguez as Ines is a pillar of steadfastness and femininity. As Cruz's lone female voice, Ines demands some heavy lifting—including oft representing by metaphor the female Cuban demographic—and Rodriguez wades into the challenge with courage, sans inhibition; her penultimate scene aches with a tragic, collision-course trajectory.
But it is Luca Pierucci as Julio who is the production's true find. With a bio leaner than his costars' and a playing style that is markedly restrained, Pierucci's performance is a marvel of simplicity and generosity. Ever listening, ever reactive, it is impossible to take one's eyes off of Pierucci; he is our avatar in A Bicycle Country, and a welcome contribution to New York's indie theatre scene.
A Bicycle Country features a devilishly ingenious scene design by Michael Mallard, versatile lighting by Scott Hali, and an evocative sound design by James Bigbee Garver. East 3rd Productions delivers on the production values with spit, sweat, and polish.
The first act of A Bicycle County represents, in many respects, a kaleidoscopic view of Cuban culture circa 1993: the characters sing, dance, and tell tales of other times. However, they are also universally human: they drink, they lust, and they hope for something better. The decision to leave Cuba is all but made for them (necessity being the mother of exodus), though their departure requires the stripping of almost all ties to history and heritage; they must abandon their homes, their lives, and the artifacts that have lived with them and tell their stories. When Act Two finds the trio adrift in an endless sea, removed from all civilization, Cruz's metaphor strikes home; "Our night is almost coming to an end—like everything else," intones one character in a haunting moment of meta-theatre. For New York audiences circa 2009, who feel the ravages of an economy that continues to unravel while standards of living plummet and the employment rate nationwide spills over the 10% flood lines, A Bicycle Country's tale of balseros in search of dry land should prove urgently resonant, and quite possibly prophetic.


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Just yesterday I learned that chloral hydrate, an old, old medicine, will not be made anymore. The one company making it has decided to stop. Although it's an old drug, chloral hydrate still has an important place in the toolkit of doctors like me who sedate infants and small children for procedures. Now we won't have it anymore. Why do we have these shortages? What's going on?
The problem is that the drugs in short supply are virtually all generic, off patent. They are cheap. So the profit margins for the manufacturer is slim. A drug company can make much, much more money by looking for yet another "me too" drug we don't need. The old standby drugs, the injectable ones we need everyday, are cast aside. A related problem is that, for many of these drugs we still can get, only one factory makes them. So if there's a problem at the factory, there is an instant nation-wide shortage.
What's the solution? I see no other way than for some federal authority to subsidize the production of these medicines in a way that allows the companies making them to make a reasonable profit. The totally free market got us into this mess, and it won't get us out. If anything, it will get worse.
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Blaming the free market for this doesn't make sense.
If it was purely a matter of profit, and if this was a true free market, the manufacturer would simply raise the price.
No, there is something else going on here.
Unless I am mistaken, it appears that you are trying to describe the pharmaceutics industry as a "free market".
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Based on the Fund's net asset value ("NAV") of $18.82 and New York Stock Exchange closing market price of $16.61 on May 31, 2012, the $0.24 per share distribution is equal to an annualized distribution rate of 5.10% at NAV and 5.78% at market price, respectively.
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I understand there are 2 ways to get from Siem Reap to Battambang?
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2. Via Battambang, Pailin then Chantaburi.
How do you do both routes, which is the best in terms of cost and time?
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For heading from Siem Reap to Bangkok (as in the title of your post), the quickest and cheapest way is probably via Poipet. The taxis tend to run quite a bit cheaper from Siem Reap to Poipet rather than the other way around. Once across the border and into Thailand, you might even be able to pick up a cheap taxi all the way into Bangkok - one that is trying to make gas money for the return trip back home.
You'll find good additional info on this option in the trip reports section and also in the features section. Give them both a look. Well worth your time.
Depending on your budget, you can also fly from SR to Bangkok as well. Cheers.#2 Posted: 25/4/2008 - 10:30
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Thanjavur, 342 km from Chennai and 56 km from Tiruchirapalli, is very much where Tamil Nadu's cultural heart beats. And not for nothing is its monumental shrine to Brihadishwara called a Great Living Chola Temple. Built by Raja Raja Chola I in 1011 to commemorate the victory of the Chola dynasty, this magnificent architectural gem has not fallen into ruins like other temples but remains a centre of worship where religious fervor and architectural grandeur coexist as they did centuries ago. Photo-editor AZHAR MOHAMED ALI returns enchanted from Thanjavur to share these captivating images.
Note from the Admin : – You will not find architectural marvels like these in any other part of this world's surface. These buildings are extremely complicated in conception, architecture and construction. The beings who helped and inspired the great builders of these timeless monuments were higher dimensional beings from far off other worldly civilizations composing of core central worlds of our Galaxy, always bathed in the Rays of the Great Central Sun of the Milky Way Galaxy and therefore not prone to lower dimensional worlds' entropic energies of degeneration, devastation and decadence in terms of spiritual and genetic substance.
The blueprints were literally inserted as downloads during dream-state and deep sleep in the architect's head and the construction personnel would also see vast improvements and fluidity in their skill sets as synchronicity during the building phase of such projects and endeavours thereby making the construction perfect and swift.
At an even earlier and more primal period of the Great Civilizations that dawned and flourished on this world's surface, the projects would be supervised by beings of pure consciousness manifest in material matter substance bodies manifest temporarily and even by ETs from origins mentioned previously, from their spacecraft in the lower atmosphere at the location of these testaments to Our Divine Origins.
Each of these physical buildings are far from just buildings since they are conceived first at the Astral Level and then drawn down to their physical copies by slowing down matter and changing the type of energy inherent in them. Each has multidimensional and multifaceted purposes, connected not only in exact and unnerving accuracy with constellations and the trajectories from which the Divine Rays of the Great Central Sun coincide with the planet's surface as per the Grand Cycles of Planetary bodies but also match geographically and energetically key energetic nodals and ley line conjunctions of this Planet's Grid Framework pattern of Sacred Geometry. They were also used to stabilise the rotation of the planet on its axis and its revolution around the Sun itself.
Holographically since Sacred Geometry is constant and recurring in all beings and bodies the Temples were not just places of worship of Higher Celestial beings but helped draw, funnel, refine and stabilize the Cosmic energies bombarding our world constantly and thereby alleviating the Consciousness quotient of the beings who partook in ceremonial, cultural, traditional, spiritual and at a later era of our evolution on this world, religious activities in such places at auspicious times as per planetary alignments and even altered their genetic makeup to hold and sustain more Light itself from our Sun within their bodies and suit the elevation of the Awareness of their Consciousness itself.
Each monument is unique in all factors of location, dimension, purpose and structural integrity and are vastly superior to pyramids and other plane, drab, ugly ziggurats built by more primitive, warlike and technologically oriented civilizations prompted by similar off world beings at later times of our history. These were used more to channel energies for power consumption through crystals and genetically modify a physical body in an inorganic and utmost artificial process gimmicking and mocking an organic Ascension process.


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that's a FIRST in san diego!!!
it only took a couple people to be killed, but finally some paint and plastic pylons are on the ground!
however, there's no dashed green paint (the second pic) for the "conflict zone" (WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN DESIGNED AWAY, by the way), and that worries me. it's similar to the current Market St. "clusterfuck" in SF where you're in the protected bike lane, but then you have to merge out to the left lane so drivers can get into the right turn-only lane.
The Genovese Treatment – Cycletracks on (a part of) Montezuma Road. bikesd, 17.05.13.
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Weakening consumer confidence was laid bare today after new figures revealed a much worse than expected October for retailers.
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The shock 0.8% slide in sales volumes for struggling retailers during October was far worse than feared in the City and put a "serious dent" into growth hopes for the fourth quarter, according to City economists.
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Little Jo has always loved Disney's The Little MermaidThe Little Mermaid and Finding Nemo. She's also fascinated by aquariums and loves going to the beach, so it should have come as no surprise to me that she wanted an ocean-themed birthday party this year. However, she was very specific that it would not involve Ariel or Nemo. She wanted ocean animals and plenty of them!
We've already shown you a few of the things we did for the party: the jellyfish banner, the party favor nets and the oh-so-amazing oyster cake. Let me now show you how all of those elements came together in an underwater adventure party that even Ariel would have coveted.
Here's the cake table with all the decorations around it. We covered the wall with giant ocean backdrops and decorated it with lots of fish cutouts. McGeeky wanted me to make sure that I let you all know that it was HIS idea to putting twinkle lights on the wall behind the backdrop. It really looked like the sun filtering through the water, and I will have to admit, it was the best touch ever!
Let's take a closer look at what's on the table. First, I found some inexpensive, glass fish bowls and filled them with blue Jell-o and sea critter gummi candy. One tip here — make the Jell-o out of half blue and half clear so that it isn't too dark. The first time I did it with all blue, you couldn't even see the animals floating inside!
Chica made dolphin cupcake picks with her Silhouette SD when she made the jellyfish banner (download her .studio file to make your own). We simply taped two dolphin shapes together with a toothpick in the middle. Easy as pie!
Kids love a pinata and this crab-shaped pull-string pinata was perfect for the occasion. I also made chocolate suckers shaped like sea animals, and they have a surprise inside! I took a Wilton Sea Creatures candy mold and coated the inside with white chocolate. Then, I added some "cake ball" filling (see our Easter egg cake pops tutorial for details) to the middle and finished it off by filling the mold with additional chocolate. This technique would also work great if you wanted to fill chocolate candies with caramel, nuts, or fruit.
Remember the fishing net party favors I assembled? Well, we used them for a party game where the kids had to to catch hidden sea animal eggs filled with candy. They loved it!
Little Jo had a great time and was so surprised by the hidden necklace inside the chocolate pearl on her cake.
When you're planning your own "Under the Sea" themed party, you might like to add these adorable Sea Life party plates, cups, and napkins, party favor boxes, and Sea Life invitations.


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CHELMSFORD -- The kitchen wall clock stopped at 6:07 p.m.
That was when a tornado, with winds up to 157 mph, whipped through South Chelmsford, leaving in its wake what looked like a pile of toothpicks where the ranch house had stood at 19 Sierra Drive in the Old Stage Estates development.
It was July 21, 1972. In 10 minutes, a twister, categorized as F2 by the National Weather Service, sliced a 7.6-mile-long, 35-yard-wide path from Tyngsboro, along the Merrimack River into North Chelmsford's Vinal Square, over Robin Hill and into South Chelmsford.
"I looked out my window and the trees were falling like pretzels," Donald Drew, a Chelmsford firefighter who lived at 27 Ripley Road near Vinal Square, told The Sun at the time.
Marie (née Sottile) Zorn, who now lives in Medfield, was a teenager sitting on the back porch of her family's home on El Dorado Road reading a book ("probably some smut ... I was in high school") when everything became eerily quiet.
The birds stopped chirping.
"I got up to find out what the heck was going on," Zorn recalled. "Our house faced straight down San Mateo Drive and I saw it coming and said, 'Oh my God, that's a tornado!' "
She called out to her dad, Joseph Sottile, who upon seeing the funnel cloud immediately ushered Marie, her little brother Martin and their mom Jean into the basement.
Later they drove around the neighborhood.
"We saw part of a camper in a tree, trash everywhere
The house destroyed, at 19 Sierra Drive, was owned by Air Force Lt. Col. Vernon LeFouneau, who was stationed in the Philippines. He had been renting the house to the D'Amelio family for a year and a half when the twister struck.
No one was home when the violent winds splintered the house.
Anthony D'Amelio was at Fenway Park with his 11-year-old son, Danny, watching the Red Sox, including Carlton Fisk, Carl Yastrzemski and Tommy Harper, beat the Oakland A's 5-4. Don Newhauser was the winning pitcher.
Marguerite D'Amelio had left the house 15 minutes earlier to bring her daughter Marianne, 15, to Stephanie Moller's house on Alamo Circle for a sleepover.
Donna D'Amelio, 8, was down the street at the Darcys' house.
Mrs. D'Amelio arrived home to destruction.
"Two hours later, the cat was still missing but the guppies, once tucked in their tank under the now-shattered kitchen window, were untouched," The Sun reported. "The one-story ranch style structure, yesterday a handsome complement to the other homes like it in the relatively new residential development in South Chelmsford known as Old Stage Estates was, in a matter of a few moments, transformed into what looked like a demolition contract, half completed."
The welcome mat was on the grass near the mailbox.
"The kitchen window was broken and the inside wall, sporting a yellow and white pattern was ripped from its seam like a torn piece of cardboard," The Sun reported. "Amazingly, a china closet, displaying Mrs. D'Amelio's prized silver collection escaped the debacle."
Perhaps the most devastating loss, at least to a 15-year-old girl, was the long dress Marianne had planned to wear to see Sonny and Cher the following month. It was destroyed. Covered in mud.
Chelmsford police stationed an officer at the property overnight to discourage looters.
The D'Amelios moved to Andover.
Homes on Rio Grande Road and Dewolfe Street lost their roofs and 128 Proctor Road was damaged, but not as badly as 19 Sierra Drive. Town officials later reported 384 homes and several businesses had sustained some damage, totaling more than $1 million. Only four minor injuries were reported.
Bad weather had been in the news earlier that month, but barely caused a ripple, giving no indication of what was on the horizon. Ten days earlier a "baby tornado" hit the backyard of Robert Wallace of 26 Lane St. in Lowell's Highlands neighborhood, lifting his above-ground swimming pool and spilling 6,000 gallons of water. The Sun devoted just a few paragraphs to the incident.
Ed Duffy was working in his auto-body shop on Tyngsboro Road in Chelmsford that day when a fellow visiting from Kansas came in looking for an estimate.
"The sky was getting dark over Tyngsboro and Nashua and the man said, 'If I were at home I'd say we are going to get a tornado,'" recalled Duffy.
"I told him we don't have those here."
The clock at Duffy's stopped at 5:50 p.m. That was when a cinderblock wall came tumbling down and the roof was torn off of the northern end of the building, which Duffy was renting to John Deere dealer Joe Parmoleau.
The roof was tossed across the street into the parking lot of Tony and Ann's Pizza, which sustained no damage.
A 1971 Ford truck with a plow Duffy had just purchased for $4,500 was destroyed, as was a customer's car that had just had body work done following an accident.
A year and a half later the Duffys moved from Berkeley Drive to Locke Road, more than a mile away. Ed Duffy's sons Mark and Ed were running barbed wire along a stone wall to corral their horses. They found a small "shop hours" sign ripped from the auto body shop.
Across the river, it was not a good day on the links for the folks at Tyngsboro's Vesper Country Club.
"The twister transformed one of New England's most picturesque golf course into a shambles of fallen trees and torn turf, damaging at least seven holes very badly and causing more destruction than the Tyngs Isle layout has ever seen in its 97-year-history," The Sun's Rick Harrison wrote.
Grounds Superintendent Bert Frederick told The Sun 250 to 300 trees were knocked down near the clubhouse and first hole and at least 100 pine trees were down along the length of the 15th hole by the river.
"You can tell from the way the trees are snapped off that the velocity of the tornado was highest about 20 feet off the ground. If the intensity had been at ground level it may have taken the clubhouse," Vesper Club Secretary Tom Chadwick, of Lowell, told The Sun at the time. "Lou Stoloff saw the front-end of his car lifted completely off the ground and four other cars were damaged. Bob Mckittrick lost a brand new foreign sports car that he had bought just 10 days earlier."
To cover the $74,000 in damages, the club's 547 regular resident members were assessed a one-time $120 fee. About 140 junior and non-resident members paid $60 each.
The storm lasted less than 10 minutes, but the mess it left in its wake was tremendous. Chelmsford was in desperate need for cleanup help.
The Board of Selectmen declared a state of emergency and soon after received a telegram from U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy's office offering assistance. Walter Hedlund, then deputy director of the town's Civil Defense Unit, called Brigadier Gen. Dewitt Armstrong III, commanding general at Fort Devens, who was eager to send troops and equipment.
"I stood on the overpass bridge and watched the convoy, with a police escort, roll up 495 and off the Route 4 ramp," recalled Hedlund, 91, a World War II veteran who was among the second wave of soldiers to storm Normandy's Omaha Beach on D-Day.
The A Company of the 18th Combat Engineer Battalion arrived in town on July 27, 1972, with 12 dump trucks, three large front-end loaders, several heavy bulldozers, chainsaws and 40 men.
Hedlund and several department heads boarded a chopper with Armstrong to survey the damage and see the path of the tornado from above.
"The soldiers dug a wide trench at the town dump on Swain Road to bury the brush and debris," said Hedlund. "The town only had to provide security for their equipment and lunch for the men."
On Aug. 10, the state of emergency was lifted and the soldiers cleared out. Their work, town officials later estimated, saved the town more than $70,000.
On Friday Sept. 29, the town threw a big party to honor the soldiers and thank them for their efforts.
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Quick picks: They Might Be Giants, Tampa Theatre and the Florida State Fair
Published: Sunday, February 5, 2012
Updated: Sunday, February 5, 2012 23:02
They Might Be Giants
Beyond performing theme songs for shows including "Malcolm in the Middle," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "Courage the Cowardly Dog," They Might Be Giants also have an extensive discography of catchy, quirky songs such as "Birdhouse in Your Soul." Add in "Still Alive" songwriter Jonathan Coulton opening, and you have a perfect nerd rock show Tuesday at the Ritz Ybor.
Time: Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Location: The Ritz Ybor, 1503 E. 7th Ave.
Price: $25.50 for adults
Website: ritzybor.com
Mike Doughty
Super-fans of indie musician and blogger Mike Doughty can plot their stalking routes Wednesday as he makes several stops in the Tampa area. Doughty's songs have been featured in shows such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Bones," as well as the Jack Black film "Gulliver's Travels." He will be signing copies of his compilation book "The Book of Drugs" at 6 p.m. at Inkwood Books, located at 216 S. Armenia Ave. Doughty will then take the stage at the intimate Ybor City venue The Orpheum before heading to State Theatre in St. Petersburg for an 11:30 p.m. show. Tickets for his State Theater show can be purchased at The Orpheum for $15.50.
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: The Orpheum, 1915 E. Seventh Ave.
Price: $16
Website: mikedoughty.com
The Florida State Fair
There are few mid-semester doldrums that can't be cured with deep-fried Oreos and shaky, stomach-twisting thrill rides. The Florida State Fair has brought out Tampa's inner child since 1904. The fair offers kitschy, daily acts such as the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show, Racing Pigs and the Blues Brothers, as well as a smattering of Elvis impersonators and bluegrass acts in Cracker Country.
Time: Thursday at 7 p.m.
Location: The Florida State Fairgrounds, 4800 U.S. Highway 301 North
Price: Free admission for students with a college ID, with the purchase of a $20 Midway Ride Armband.
Website: floridastatefair.com
Greg Proops
He may best known as the glasses-adorned member of the improv show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" but Greg Proops also hosts the podcast "The Smartest Man in the World," where he talks on any subject the audience brings up. Expect plenty of quick-witted, off-the-cuff remarks during his standup set at The Club at Treasure Island.
Time: Friday at 9 p.m.
Location: The Club at Treasure Island, 400 Treasure Island Causeway
Price: $35
Website: theclubti.com
Tampa Theatre ends its several-week-long showing of "The Artist," the silent film homage that was nominated for 10 Oscars, with a final showing Thursday. Replacing it is "Shame," the acclaimed film about a sex addict (Michael Fassbinder) that some critics argue was robbed of Oscar nominations for Fassbinder, Carey Mulligan and director Steve McQueen.
Time: TBA
Location: Tampa Theatre, 711 Franklin St.
Price: $9
Website: tampatheatre.org
"Les Miserables"
Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, this 25th anniversary rendition of "Les Miserables" re-imagines the familiar love story that unfolds during the French Revolution with a new set and a darker tone. The New York Times has called the new take on the classic an "unquestionably spectacular production from start to finish" and Sunday provides your final chance to see the second-longest running musical in the world in Tampa.
Time: 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Location: David A Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place
Price: Tickets start at $55
Website: strazcenter.org


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Summer is almost here, and if you're not quite swimsuit-ready, these utensils might just help you out. The Knife and Fork Lift each weigh in at a pound and a half to remind you that every bite you put in your mouth has to be exercised off eventually. If you're trying to be more conscious of what you put in your body, this silverware will definitely do the trick.
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While England has managed to sign up Brit Insurance as its team sponsor, Twenty20 cricket also continues to be of great interest to brands. This week, for example, saw Indian telco Airtel sign up as title partner of the new Twenty20 Champion's League tournament which starts in October of this year.
Airtel has signed up as title partner for five years in a deal with the event's commercial rights holder ESPN Star Sports. The deal is said to be worth £4.2 million over the five-year period – though this hasn't been confirmed by the rights holders.
The event will involve 12 teams from India, Australia, South Africa, England, West Indies, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. They will play 23 matches in 16 days, competing for £4 million in prize money. Commenting on the deal, Bharti Airtel marketing director Shireesh Joshi said: "We are delighted to announce our partnership with ESPN for the title sponsorship of the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament. We have seen a great synergy between our brand and cricket, since both cater for and connect to a wide spectrum of consumer segments."


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Saturday, April 28, 2012
SATURDAY'S SCOTTISH SINGLE (Part 29)
Between calling themselves Captain America and ripping off the logo from a chain store, it cant come as too much of a surprise that all sorts of injunctions soon forced changes and led to this 1992 single being deleted very very quickly.
Captain America arose from the ashes of The Vaselines, a band that comprised the duo of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee and one that really did fit into the definition of 'cult but largely unknown'. That was until the day that Kurt Cobain started telling all and sundry that they were a huge influence on Nirvana. Indeed the famous MTV Unplugged appearance by Nirvana saw them perform cover versions of two songs originally written and recorded by The Vaselines.
Eugene Kelly performed with Nirvana on stage at the 1991 Reading Festival and then subsequently he was asked to bring his new band on the road as support to the rock superstars as they criss-crossed the globe.
The name Captain America, and the use of the red, white and blue colours, led to Marvel Comics making all sorts of threats against the band, and after just two EPs in November 1991 and April 1992 they decided to avoid further controversy by changing their name to Eugenius.
The Cobain endorsement however, didn't lead to any success, and after two LPs and three singles under the Eugenius moniker, none of which came near the charts, the band called it a day.
I reckon Flame On, which hit the shops for a short time in April 1992, is one of the great lost singles of the era. To my ears, it's the perfect offspring of a breeding exercise involving Seattle grunge and Bellshill harmonic pop. Nirvana meets Teenage Fanclub in other words.....
mp3 : Captain America - Flame On
mp3 : Captain America - Buttermilk
mp3 : Captain America - Indian Summer
This is another song that I first became aware of thanks to Jacques the Kipper shoving it on a compilation C90 cassette tape way back in the days. I never got round to actually buying the thing, but I did pick up a second-hand copy the other day specifically for posting on the blog, which I originally did back in January 2010.
Next up......Champion Doug Veitch
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- Rol said...
Thanks, I've never heard that before but it's an excellent addition to my collection of comic book songs - and timely in the week of The Avengers too.
And as your resident geek reader, I should point out that not only did they use the name Captain America but that 'Flame On' is the Human Torch's catchphrase too. - 9:40 am, May 03, 2012
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This reverts us to the ICS-B4 partition layout. The reason being is that Dell decieded to be different and it causes problems with the sdcard fuse daemon. But switching to this layout, it allowed the sdcard daemon to work correctly and give us more space.
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geramy - Sound and other fixes.
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Cyanogenmod team - for making the port actually pretty easy
geramy - for all your incredible help getting sound going.
snargledorf - basically rebuilding CM9 for the Dell Streak 7 , to which I was able to base my work off of.
DJ_Steve - for teaching me and all the tips and putting up with my annoying questions
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Question 083: TKD for standup fighting
Q3: I would like to combine TKD kicks with a strong upper body style, any suggestions?
Back in my earlier years, I used to visit schools of different styles and spar with them. When sparring karate fighters who used a low guard and mostly hand attacks, I overwhelmed them with Taekwondo's powerful kicks. When sparring Taekwondo fighters or fighters in other styles that concentrated on kicking, I would stay on them as white stays on rice and overwhelm them with hand attacks. When blocking kickers, do not just block; instead, knock and pushing them around with your blocks. Instead of hard blocking a kick, block and push the kick to knock the attacker off balance. When they kick, you rush in and slam into them. Make them feel as though they are being pushed around by a bully. Make them afraid to kick and throw them off their game. When you do use hard blocks, make them attacks. Instead of blocking the kick, attack the leg. The opponent will quickly learn that kicking at you is painful for them, and their kicks will become more tentative.
Q3: Do you have any good stretching advice?
Do it every day. Do not bounce; perform a stretch and hold it for a minute or so. You are not actually stretching anything; you are not making anything thing longer, you are relaxing. When you perform a stretch, the muscles tighten. What you are trying to do is train the muscles to relax when you stretch; so do not concentrate on stretching but instead concentrate on relaxing. Stretch the entire body for overall speed and flexibility, but, to perform better kicks, concentrate on stretching the body and legs in positions that are used when performing the kicks. You can have flexible legs but not enough strength to lift the leg as high, fast, and powerfully as need to be able to score. You can have tremendous strength in your legs but not have the flexibility you need to get a kick to a viable target effectively. If you want to be a good kicker, concentrate on things that will make you a better kicker. Perform many, many, many kicks everyday to a heavy bag while concentrating on using perfect form. Do not worry about speed and power. If you concentrate on perfect form, speed and power will just happen.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- While most of the world has yet to upgrade to Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up to launch the next version of its PC operating system.
Web forums lit up last week with the news that PC manufacturers had just gotten their hands on a new Windows 8 test build. Several analysts reported that equipment makers had received "early beta" test versions of the operating system, after trying out much more rudimentary "alpha" versions earlier in the year.
Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) declined to confirm anything about Windows 8, but it's customary for the software giant to release its future operating systems in multiple test stages.
Considering that Windows 7 has been on the shelves for just 17 months, what's Microsoft's big hurry?
Tablets. Or "slates," as Microsoft likes to call them.
Windows 8 will operate on the ARM microchip architecture, the technology that powers most of the world's smartphones and tablets. In the past, Windows has always required devices to have a processor built on the x86 platform, which Intel (INTC, Fortune 500) or AMD (AMD, Fortune 500) designs.
Analysts expect Windows 8 to feature enhanced graphics, 3-D support, facial recognition, instant-on capability, and a Windows app store.
You know, all things that the iPad and other tablets and smartphones can do now.
Though Windows 7 works on a very small handful of tablets running Intel's Atom processor, ARM compatibility will open up Windows to a far wider range of devices. Getting Windows 8 on ARM-based devices means Microsoft may finally be able to develop some semblance of a tablet strategy.
"Microsoft cannot act fast enough for a tablet," said Neil MacDonald, a Microsoft corporate strategy analyst at Gartner. "They are already two generations behind Apple and Google."
Analysts predict Microsoft will release Windows 8 to the public sometime between this summer and the first quarter of 2012, with a tablet-compatible version likely to come in the summer of 2012. Dell (DELL, Fortune 500), for instance, is rumored to be working on a Windows 8 tablet, codenamed Peju, which won't be ready until the middle of next year.
"Windows 8 could be available as soon as this holiday season, but Microsoft won't be able to get its ARM version out that quickly," said Trip Chowdry, analyst at Global Equities Research.
Though the tablet play is most crucial, analysts note that Microsoft is also desperately trying to get its customers off outdated versions of Windows. About 54% of PCs currently run the 10-year-old Windows XP, and 11% are on the five-year-old Vista, according to Net Applications.
Many businesses skip one cycle between their Windows updates. For those that took the Vista bait but sat Windows 7 out, Windows 8 could entice them to upgrade off the widely panned Vista.
Releasing another version of Windows could also help convince many of those XP laggards to finally update their systems -- not a bad idea, considering they'd be three releases behind after Windows 8's debut.
"Not every customer deploys every release, because some customers may not need the specific new capabilities of that release," said Al Hilwa, analyst at IDC. "So I don't see an issue of having too fast of a development cycle."
Still, Microsoft is being unusually secretive about Windows 8. The company is typically is unafraid to discuss or even release beta versions to the public, but this time it's working quietly. Some experts suspect that that the company doesn't want to impede the success of Windows 7 in any way.
Microsoft hasn't even confirmed that the name of its next Windows iteration will be "Windows 8." Internally, Microsoft refers to it as Windows. Next, but many Microsoft employees on LinkedIn refer to the new OS as Windows 8.
One amusing twist: Windows 8 is likely to actually be Windows 6.2.
Microsoft discontinued naming its operating systems after version numbers following Windows 3.1. But officially, Windows 95 was version 4, Windows 98 was version 4.1, Windows 2000 was version 5, Windows XP was version 5.1, Windows Vista was version 6, and Windows 7 was version 6.1.
Or, as many view it, version "mopping up the Vista mess." That could end up being the best feature of Windows 8: It will move Microsoft one version further away from its Windows nadir.
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